Offenbach (Main) Hauptbahnhof

Railway station in Hesse, Germany

Offenbach (Main) Hbf

General information
Location| Bismarckstr. 146, Offenbach am Main, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates| 50°5′58″N 8°45′39″E﻿ / ﻿50.09944°N 8.76083°E﻿ / 50.09944; 8.76083
Line(s)|

* Frankfurt–Hanau (south Main) (10.1, KBS 615, KBS 641 km)
* Offenbach–Dieburg–Reinheim (0.0 km)

Platforms| 6 [1]
Construction
Accessible| No
Architect| De la Sauce and Schenk
Architectural style| Renaissance Revival
Other information
Station code| 4742[2]
DS100 code| FO[3]
IBNR| 8000349
Category| 4[2]
Fare zone| : 3601[4]
Website| www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened| 1873
Services
| Preceding station  |  DB Regio Mitte | Following station

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Frankfurt South

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf

|  | RE 50 |  | Hanau Hbf

towards Bebra

Hanau Hbf

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf

|  | RB 51 |  | Hanau Hbf

towards Wächtersbach

Preceding station  |  DB Regio Bayern | Following station
Hanau Hbf

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf

|  | RE 55 |  | Hanau Hbf

towards Würzburg Hbf

Preceding station  |  VIAS | Following station
Frankfurt South

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf

|  | RE 85 |  | Hanau Hbf

towards Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach

Location

Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof is a railway station serving the German city of Offenbach am Main. It is located on the Frankfurt–Göttingen railway between Frankfurt and Hanau on the south bank of the Main. It is also the starting point of the Rodgau Railway, via Obertshausen, Rodgau and Ober-Roden to Dieburg (originally to Reinheim).

## History

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Vogelbrunnen ("bird fountain") by Bruno Schäfer

The station was built from 1872 to 1873 during the construction of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway and was given an entrance building in Renaissance Revival style. It was commissioned by the Königliche Eisenbahndirektion (Royal Railway Division) of Frankfurt. Because of the development of the city around the line which was originally laid on the same level as the roads, the railway was put on an embankment between 1912 and 1926 so that the increasing road traffic could run under it. This forced the rail track field to be elevated. A new station building was out of the question because of the depressed economic conditions. The entrance building was radically restructured in the 1920s with a "conservative-traditionalist” appearance. The entrance building is listed as a monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.[5] There is a fountain by Bruno Schaefer called Vogelbrunnen ("bird fountain") on the platform between tracks 1 and 2.

## Significance

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The station has had no Deutsche Bahn long-distance services since December 2016, although it has been served by FlixTrain since 2022.

The opening of a line of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn through Offenbach in 1995 greatly reduced the station's importance. The new line runs in a tunnel under central Offenbach and bypasses the Hauptbahnhof. On its western side it partly uses the route of the former Frankfurt-Offenbach Local Railway (Frankfurt-Offenbach Lokalbahn). After Deutsche Bahn had stopped investing in the station building for some time, the ticket office was closed in January 2011, so that Offenbach Hauptbahnhof no longer has any rail staff.

## Services

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The following services stopped at the station in 2024:

Line  | Route  | Interval

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FLX 11 | Mainz – Frankfurt-Flughafen – Frankfurt-Süd – Offenbach (Main) – Hanau – Fulda – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Göttingen – Hannover Messe/Latzen – Wolfsburg – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin | 3 times a week
RE 50 | Fulda – Wächtersbach – Gelnhausen – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | Hourly (extra trains in peak)
RB 51 | Wächtersbach – Gelnhausen – Langenselbold – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf  | Hourly (20/40 mins in peak)
RE 55 | (Bamberg Hbf –) Würzburg Hbf – Aschaffenburg Hbf – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf  | 2 hourly (extra trains in peak, some to/from Bamberg)
RE 85 | (Erbach (Odenw) –) Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach – Babenhausen (Hess) –) Seligenstadt (Hess) – Hanau Hbf – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf  | Hourly (2 hourly to/from Erbach)

* Views of the station
* Main entrance

* South side

* View from the station towards the bus station on Bismarckstraße

* The station from the bus station

## Notes

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1. ^ "Station track plan" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
2. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB InfraGO. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
3. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
4. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 153\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
5. ^ Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Vol. 2.1 (Strecke 019). Theiss Verlag Stuttgart. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.

## References

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* Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Vol. 2.1 (Strecke 019). Theiss Verlag Stuttgart. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
* Michael Hofmann (2004). Die Eisenbahn in Offenbach und im Rodgau (in German). DGEG Medien. ISBN 978-3-937189-08-6.

## External links

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* Offenbach (Main) Hauptbahnhof at Structurae. Retrieved 18 November 2011.

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Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany

Geographic|

* Structurae

Other|

* Deutsche Bahn

*[IBNR]: Internationale Bahnhofsnummer