Offenburg station

{{Short description|Railway station in Offenburg, Germany}} {{Infobox station | style = Deutsche Bahn | name = Offenburg | native_name = | native_name_lang = de | symbol = rail | symbol2 = | symbol_location = de | type = | image = Bwegt SWEG 563 020 & "Lifttürme" in Offenburg (2024).jpg | alt = | caption = 2024 | other_name = | address = Hauptstraße 1 77652 Offenburg | borough = | country = Baden-Württemberg Germany | coordinates = {{coord|48|28|34|N|7|56|45|E|region:DE-BW_type:railwaystation|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | elevation = {{convert|159|m|abbr=on}} | owned = Deutsche Bahn | operator = {{Plainlist|1= *DB Netz *DB Station&Service }} | line = {{Plainlist|1= * Appenweier–Strasbourg railway ({{Kursbuchlink|Region=700-799|Nummer=719}}) * Rhine Valley Railway ({{Kursbuchlink|Region=700-799|Nummer=702}}) * Black Forest Railway ({{Kursbuchlink|Region=700-799|Nummer=720}}) }} | platforms = 7 | tracks = | accessible = Yes | connections = | code = {{Deutsche Bahn station codes|code=4745|ds100=RO|ibnr=8000290|category=2 <ref name =categories >{{DBCatsURL}}</ref>}} | zone = TGO: 5<ref>{{cite web |title=Tarifzonenplan des Tarifverbund Ortenau |url=https://www.ortenaulinie.de/site/OrtenaulinieRoot/get/documents_E-509341847/ortenaulinie/Dateien/Download/Tarifzonenplan%20TGO%202021%20V2.pdf |publisher=Tarifverbund Ortenau |accessdate=11 December 2021 |date=1 November 2021 |archive-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211222652/https://www.ortenaulinie.de/site/OrtenaulinieRoot/get/documents_E-509341847/ortenaulinie/Dateien/Download/Tarifzonenplan%20TGO%202021%20V2.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> | architect = | architectural_style = | opened = {{Start date and age|1844}} | closed = | passengers = | pass_year = | website = [https://www.bahnhof.de/en/Offenburg www.bahnhof.de] | mapframe = yes | mapframe-custom = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=300|frame-height=180|zoom=15|type=point|marker=rail}} | services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=DB Fernverkehr |line1=ICE 12|left1=Baden-Baden|right1=Freiburg|to-left1=Berlin Ostbahnhof|to-right1=Brig, Chur or Interlaken Ost |line3=ICE 20|left3=Baden-Baden|right3=Freiburg |line4=ICE 43|left4=Baden-Baden|right4=Freiburg |line5=ICE 60|left5=Baden-Baden|right5=Freiburg|to-left5=Munich|to-right5=Basel Baden |system11=SNCF |line11=TGV inOui|type11=Paris–Freiburg|left11=Strasbourg-Ville|right11=Lahr (Schwarzw) |system12=ÖBB |line12=NJ Amsterdam-Zürich|left12=Bonn|right12=Freiburg |line13=NJ Hamburg-Zürich|left13=Karlsruhe|right13=Freiburg |line14=NJ Berlin-Zürich|left14=Baden-Baden|right14=Freiburg |system21=DB Regio Baden-Württemberg |line21=RE 2|left21=Appenweier|right21=Gengenbach |line22=RE 7|left22=Appenweier|right22=Lahr (Schwarzw) |line23=RB 26|right23=Friesenheim (Baden) |system31=SWEG |line31=RS 1|right31=Offenburg Kreisschulzentrum |line32=RS 2|left32=Appenweier|to-left32=Bad Griesbach |line33=RS 3-Ortenau|left33=Appenweier|to-left33=Ottenhöfen |line34=RS 4|left34=Appenweier |line35=RS 12|right35=Offenburg Kreisschulzentrum }} | other_services = }}

'''Offenburg station''' ({{langx|de|Bahnhof Offenburg}}) is a railway station in Baden-Württemberg and has seven tracks on four platforms. Offenburg used to be a railway town and the station was of major economic importance to it. In recent years the maintenance facilities and much of the rail freight yards have been closed. The station is very centrally located within the city and is easily accessible by 18 different bus routes from the central bus station, 50 metres from the railway station.

==Rail services== The station was served by the following services in 2026:<ref name="services">{{Cite web |title=Departures: Offenburg |url=https://www.bahnhof.de/downloads/schedule/Regeltafel_4745.pdf|access-date=8 April 2026|date=14 December 2025|publisher=Deutsche Bahn}}</ref> ===Long-distance passenger services=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Train class ! colspan="3" | Route ! Frequency |- |rowspan=3| {{Ric|DB Fernverkehr|ICE 12}} | rowspan=3 | Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin – Braunschweig – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – '''Offenburg''' – Freiburg – Basel – |rowspan=2| ''Liestal – Olten – Bern – Thun – Spiez –'' | '' {{nowrap|Interlaken West – Interlaken East}}'' |rowspan=7| Every two hours |- | ''{{Stnlnk|Visp}} – {{Stnlnk|Brig}}'' |- |colspan=2| '' Zürich – {{Stnlnk|Sargans}} – {{Stnlnk|Landquart}} – {{Stnlnk|Chur}}'' |- | align=center|{{ric|DB Fernverkehr|ICE 20}} | colspan=3 |Hamburg – Hanover – {{stn|Göttingen}} – Kassel – Frankfurt am Main – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Baden-Baden – '''Offenburg''' – Freiburg – Basel |- | align="center" rowspan="3" |{{ric|DB Fernverkehr|ICE 43}} | colspan=2| {{stn|Hamburg-Altona}} – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Düsseldorf – | rowspan="3" | Cologne – {{nowrap|Frankfurt Airport –}} Mannheim – Karlsruhe – '''Offenburg''' – Freiburg – Basel Bad Bf – Basel SBB |- | colspan=2 |Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Wuppertal – |- | colspan="2" | Amsterdam – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – |- | align="center" |{{ric|DB Fernverkehr|ICE 60}} ''Baden-Kurier'' | colspan="3" | Basel SBB – Basel Bad Bf – Freiburg – '''Offenburg''' – Karlsruhe – Bruchsal – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich |One train pair |- | rowspan="2" | {{Bahnlinie|ICE||TGV inOui}} | colspan="3" |Paris-Est – Strasbourg-Ville – '''Offenburg''' – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Ringsheim/Europa-Park – Freiburg | One train pair |} InterCityExpress services operate through the station every two hours between Berlin, Frankfurt and Basel and between Cologne, Frankfurt Airport and Basel.

== Regional services==

{| class="wikitable" |- ! Train class!! Route !! Frequency !! Operator |- | style="text-align:center" |{{ric|DB Regio Baden-Württemberg|RE 2}}|| Karlsruhe – {{stn|Baden-Baden}} – {{stn|Achern}} – '''Offenburg''' – Haslach – Hausach – Villingen – Singen – Radolfzell – {{stn|Konstanz}} || 60 min || DB Regio |- | style="text-align:center" |{{ric|DB Regio Baden-Württemberg|RE 7}}|| (Karlsruhe –) '''Offenburg''' – Lahr – {{stn|Emmendingen}} – Freiburg – {{stn|Bad Krozingen}} – Müllheim – {{stn|Weil am Rhein}} – Basel Bad Bf (– {{rws|Basel SBB}}) || 60 min (staggered intervals) || DB Regio |- | style="text-align:center" |{{ric|SWEG|RS 1}}||'''Offenburg''' – Biberach – Hausach – Hornberg / (– Alpirsbach – Freudenstadt)|| 60 min || SWEG |- | style="text-align:center" |{{ric|SWEG|RS 2}}|| '''Offenburg''' – Appenweier – Oberkirch – Bad Griesbach|| 60 Min || SWEG |- | style="text-align:center" |{{ric|SWEG|RS 12}}|| '''(Offenburg''' –) Biberach – Zell am Harmersbach – Oberharmersbach-Riersbach|| 2 pairs of trains on weekdays || SWEG |- | style="text-align:center" |{{ric|SWEG|RS 3-Ortenau}}|| '''(Offenburg''' – Appenweier –) Achern – Ottenhöfen || 2 pairs of trains on weekdays || SWEG |- |style="text-align:center" |{{ric|SWEG|RS 4}}|| '''Offenburg''' – Appenweier – Kork – {{stn|Kehl}} – Strasbourg|| 30/60 min || SWEG |- |style="text-align:center" |{{ric|DB Regio Baden-Württemberg|RB 26}}|| Freiburg – {{stn|Emmendingen}} – {{stn|Riegel-Malterdingen}} – Lahr – '''Offenburg''' || 30/60 min || SWEG |} (as of 15 December 2024)

Regional rail services are operated as the Ortenau-S-Bahn, by Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft, a company owned by Baden-Württemberg.

==History== The station was designed by the architect, Friedrich Eisenlohr (1805–1855), as a smaller version of the old railway station in Karlsruhe, opened in 1843 and closed in 1913.<ref>{{cite web|first=Peter|last=Pretsch|title=Friedrich Eisenlohr - Architekt der badischen Eisenbahn(Friedrich Eisenlohr - Architect of the Baden railway)|publisher=Karlsruhe City|url=http://www.karlsruhe.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/blick_geschichte/blick67/eisenlohr|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805002653/http://www.karlsruhe.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/blick_geschichte/blick67/eisenlohr|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 August 2012|language=de|access-date=28 February 2010}}</ref> During World War I several attacks were carried out on the station. The most serious of these took place on 22 July 1918 with four direct hits leading to the collapse of the entire central part of the station entrance building.<ref name=badischen >{{cite book| first=Albert |last= Kuntzemüller |title= Die badischen Eisenbahnen 1840−1940 (The Baden mainline 1840−1940) |publisher= Selbstverlag der Geographischen Institute der Universitäten Freiburg i. Br. und Heidelberg |place=Freiburg im Breisgau |year=1940 |page= 129 ff. |language=de }}</ref> During the Occupation of the Ruhr in February 1923, Offenburg and Appenweier were also occupied, disrupting the Rhine Valley Railway. Therefore, until 12 December 1923 trains on the Baden Mainline had to be diverted on the route through the Black Forest towns of Donaueschingen, Hausach, Freudenstadt, Hochdorf towards Pforzheim.<ref name=badischen/>

==See also== * Rail transport in Germany

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

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