Niederhöchstadt station

Niederhöchstadt
Through station
2018
General information
LocationEschborn, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°09′14″N 8°32′51″E / 50.1538886°N 8.5475564°E / 50.1538886; 8.5475564
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms2
Construction
AccessibleNo
Other information
Station code4500[1]
DS100 codeFNHS[2]
IBNR8004380
Category5[1]
Fare zoneRhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): 6655[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1 November 1874
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Main S-Bahn Following station
Schwalbach Nord
towards Bad Soden
 Eschborn
towards Südbahnhof
Kronberg Süd
towards Kronberg
Location
Niederhöchstadt is located in Hesse
Niederhöchstadt
Niederhöchstadt
Location within Hesse
Niederhöchstadt is located in Germany
Niederhöchstadt
Niederhöchstadt
Location within Germany
Niederhöchstadt is located in Europe
Niederhöchstadt
Niederhöchstadt
Location within Europe

Niederhöchstadt station is a junction station in the Niederhöchstadt district of the town of Eschborn in the German state of Hesse. The stations of Eschborn and Eschborn Süd are nearby. Just north-west of the station the Limes Railway to Bad Soden separates from the Kronberg Railway to Kronberg. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

History

Niederhöchstadt station was opened by the Kronberg Railway Company (German: Cronberger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, using the old spelling of Kronberg) along with the line to Kronberg on 1 November 1874. The station building dates from the turn of the century in 1900 and is a heritage-listed building. It is a two-storey brick building with a shallow hipped roof with a small tented roof covered with dormers. The platform side of the building has a complex structure with a central projection covered by a gable, wall panels and cornices. A polygonal bay window was later added on the ground floor for supervisory personnel and an annex was built on the north side.[4]

On 22 December 1970, the first section of the Limes railway was opened between Niederhöchstadt and the Schwalbach Limes station on the edge of Eschborn and opened as a shuttle service. Almost 2 years later, on 6 November 1972, the gap to Bad Soden was closed. Up to that time Bad Soden only had a rail connection via the Soden Railway to Frankfurt-Höchst, which is now operated as Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund line RB 13.

Since 28 May 1978, line S3 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn has operated over the Limes Railway, and line S4 has operated over the Kronberg Railway, at first running only to Frankfurt Central Station. They were later extended to Langen (S4) and Darmstadt Central Station (S3) but from December 2024 both lines terminate at Frankfurt South.[5]

Services

The station is served by S-Bahn lines S3 and S4, running from Bad Soden (S3) and Kronberg (S4) to Frankfurt Central underground station and Frankfurt South.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 146. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Niederhöchstadt station" (in German). Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  5. ^ Fromm, Marie-Cathérine (19 November 2024). "S-Bahn-Netz in Rhein-Main wird neu sortiert" [S-Bahn network in Rhine-Main will be reorganised]. Hessenschau (in German). Retrieved 16 December 2014.