Bad Rappenau station is the station of Bad Rappenau, a spa town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located at kilometre 27.9 on the Elsenz Valley Railway (Elsenztalbahn) or Neckargemünd–Bad Friedrichshall railway and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]
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| Location | Bahnhofstraße 5, Bad Rappenau, Baden-Württemberg Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°14′16″N 9°06′03″E / 49.23769°N 9.10086°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||
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| Line(s) | Elsenz Valley Railway (km 27.9) | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 320[1] | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | RBRA[2] | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000736 | ||||||||||
| Category | 5[1] | ||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 June 1868 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Rappenau | ||||||||||
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Location edit
Bad Rappenau station is located in centre of the spa town. The otherwise single track Elsenz Valley Railway has three tracks in the station area. The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 5.
History edit
Opening of Rappenau station edit
The Neckargemünd–Meckenheim section of the Neckargemünd–Sinsheim–Bad Friedrichshall line was opened on 23 October 1862 by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway (Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen) as part of the Odenwald Railway from Heidelberg to Mosbach and Würzburg.[5] The section from Meckenheim to Bad Rappenau followed on 25 June 1868.[6] Unlike the neighbouring Bad Wimpfen station, Bad Rappenau station originally had no Bad prefix and was called Rappenau station. The closing of the Bad Rappenau–Jagstfeld (Bad Friedrichshall) gap on 5 August 1869 completed the Elsenz Valley Railway.[7]
Other development edit
After the municipality of Rappenau was designated as a spa town in 1903 (entitling it to the prefix of "Bad"), Rappenau station was officially renamed Bad Rappenau in 1914. In an order of the Baden Ministry of 4 September 1930, the municipality was renamed from Rappenau (Bezirksamt Sinsheim) to Bad Rappenau with effect from 1 October 1930—about 15 years after the renaming of the station.
Station upgrade and inclusion in the Heilbronn Stadtbahn edit
As part of the expansion of Heilbronn Stadtbahn northern branch, the Bad Rappenau–Bad Friedrichshall section was closed for upgrading between 7 January 2014 and 1 May 2015.[8] At the same time, Bad Rappenau station was upgraded to make it accessible for the disabled and given a third platform track. The new Bad Rappenau Kurpark station, which is located next to the Bad Rappenau Kurpark (spa park), was also built for the Stadtbahn.[9]
Entrance building edit
Bad Rappenau station's entrance building is a neoclassical building from around the period of railway's construction in 1868. It now houses the Bahnhofsgalerie ("Station gallery"), which includes a small flower shop, a Schmitt&Hahn bookshop, a customer centre of the AOK health insurance company and a bakery.
Transport services edit
Bad Rappenau is in the area where fares are set by the Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahverkehr GmbH (HNV) transport association. Passengers can also use transitional fares set by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN).
Passenger services edit
Bad Rappenau is located on the Elsenz Valley Railway, running from Bad Friedrichshall via Sinsheim to Heidelberg. RE 10b Regional-Express services coming from Mannheim Hauptbahnhof and S42 Stadtbahn services coming from Bad Friedrichshall normally cross here.
The railway line was extensively renovated between 7 January 2014 and 1 May 2015. At this time, replacement buses ran between Sinsheim, Bad Rappenau and Neckarsulm.[10]
Regionalbahn service RB 74 ran hourly between Sinsheim, Bad Rappenau, Bad Wimpfen and Bad Friedrichshall (some to/from Heilbronn) until the closure of the line in early January 2014. Since the reopening of the line on 1 May 2015, Bad Rappenau has been served by line S42 of the Heilbronn Stadtbahn.
Until early January 2014, the Regional-Express service RE 2 ran between Mannheim, Heidelberg, Sinsheim and Heilbronn every two hours. These mostly crossed RB 74 services in Bad Rappenau. These services were restored in May 2015 and stop in Bad Rappenau.
References edit
- ^ a b c "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. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Tarifzonenplan 2021" (PDF). Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahverkehr. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (1935). "1862/23". Die deutschen Eisenbahnstrecken in ihrer Entwicklung 1835–1935 (in German). Berlin.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (reprinted: Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4) - ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (1935). "1868/11". Die deutschen Eisenbahnstrecken in ihrer Entwicklung 1835–1935 (in German). Berlin.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (reprinted: Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4) - ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (1935). "1869/18". Die deutschen Eisenbahnstrecken in ihrer Entwicklung 1835–1935 (in German). Berlin.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (reprinted: Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4) - ^ "Schienenersatzverkehr (Sinsheim –) Bad Rappenau – Neckarsulm (information leaflet)" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Noch 127 Tage bis zum Start der Stadtbahn". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (in German). 9 August 2014. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ Herbert Kaletta (30 September 2011). "Stadtbahn Nord frühestens 2014 komplett fertig". Stimme.de (in German). Retrieved 26 May 2016.
Sources edit
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf (2001). Eisenbahnen zwischen Neckar, Tauber und Main (in German). Vol. 1: Historische Entwicklung und Bahnbau. Freiburg (Breisgau): EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-766-4.
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf (2001). Eisenbahnen zwischen Neckar, Tauber und Main (in German). Vol. 1: Ausgestaltung, Betrieb und Maschinendienst. Freiburg (Breisgau): EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-768-0.
- Gustav Neuwirth (1978). Geschichte der Stadt Bad Rappenau (in German). Bad Rappenau: Municipality of Bad Rappenau.
External links edit
- "Timetable of 1944, p1" (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- "Timetable of 1944, p2" (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2016.
