Bad Homburg station

Location
	Bad Homburg Location within Hesse

Bad Homburg
Bad Homburg
Through station
	Reception building
General information
Location	Bahnhofsplatz 4; Bad Homburg, Hesse ; Germany
Coordinates	50°13′12″N08°37′16″E / 50.22000°N 8.62111°E
Line(s)	Homburg Railway (KBS 645.5); Taunusbahn (KBS 637);
Platforms	4 (and a former royal platform)
Construction
Architect	Armin Wegner
Architectural style	Renaissance revival
Other information
Station code	284
DS100 code	FHO
IBNR	8000712
Category	3
Fare zone	: 5101
Website	bahnhof.de
History
Opened	26 October 1907
Passengers
	about 19,000
Services
Location
Location
	Bad Homburg Location within Hesse

Last updated May 14, 2024

Bad Homburg station is located in Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany on the Homburg Railway and was opened on 26 October 1907. It is used by about 19,000 passengers each day.

Historical background

The new through station in Bad Homburg replaced two older terminal stations. One of these stations was at the site of the present town hall and was the terminus of the line from Frankfurt am Main that was opened in 1860 by the Homburg Railways (German : Homburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). In 1895 the Prussian state railways opened another terminus, called Homburg Neu (new) station, for the High Taunus line from Homburg via Friedrichsdorf to Usingen. This second station was between the lower end of the street of Louisenstraße and the current connection to the autobahn. The two stations were separated by a distance of 200 to 300 metres. They were connected via a track that was only used for shunting.

The new station

Homburg was a popular palace of Emperor Wilhelm II. Thus the separation of rail services at Homburg’s two stations was not only operationally unsatisfactory, it also did not meet the Emperor’s ceremonial needs. Therefore, a new through station with a separate building for royalty was built between 1905 and 1907, which connected the two railway lines leading to Homburg to each other. It cost just under 4.7 million marks. It was called Homburg station and renamed Bad Homburg station in 1912 when the town was similarly renamed.

The station building is very representative of Renaissance Revival architecture and has an asymmetric design. The building was designed by government architect Armin Wegner, although the emperor repeatedly intervened in its design.

Operation

Bad Homburg station is now used by S-Bahn S5 services running between Frankfurt South and Friedrichsdorf, and by Hessische Landesbahn-operated RB 15 services running on the Taunusbahn between Frankfurt and Friedrichsdorf and Brandoberndorf. Outside the station building is a bus station used by all Bad Homburg bus routes and most regional bus routes.

Interior
Station
Former separate station building for royalty ("Fürstenbahnhof")

Future

It is planned to extend line U2 of the Frankfurt U-Bahn from Bad Homburg Gonzenheim to Bad Homburg station. A project known as Regionaltangente West (Regional Tangent West) would build a north–south line through Frankfurt Airport Regional station and could connect with the Bad Homburg station.

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References

Footnotes

1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
↑ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.

Sources

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Hager, Bernhard (October–November 2007). "Kaiserliche Machtworte". Eisenbahn Geschichte (in German) (24): 14–21.
Baeumerth, Angelika (1988). "Die Fürstenbahnhöfe von Bad Homburg (The royal stations of Bad Homburg)". In Berg, Ingrid (ed.). Heimat Hochtaunus (Hochtaunus homeland) (in German). Frankfurt am Main. pp. 312–316. ISBN 3-7829-0375-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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[categories-1] 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

[Eisenbahnatlas-2] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.

[3] "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.

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