Dietzenbach station

Geschichte

Dietzenbach station is the terminus of the Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway in the German state of Hesse. The station is now used exclusively by line S 2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. The entrance building is protected as a monument. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.HistoryDietzenbach station was established on 1 December 1898 together with the opening of the Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway, a branch line of the Rodgau Railway (Rodgaubahn). From the beginning all passenger services on the line started here. Labourers and craftsmen used the line to commute to their jobs in Offenbach am Main and Frankfurt and local farmers benefited from having faster transportation to the markets of the major cities.Traffic to Dietzenbach flourished in the period after the Second World War. In 1959 there were still 25 daily trains to Offenbach, but in 1978 there were only five. On 18 June 1982, passenger services were closed to Dietzenbach; this was followed a few years later by the abandonment of express freight and baggage traffic. The tracks were retained and preserved.From the 2003/2004 timetable, introduced on 14 December 2003, the station, which until then had been called Dietzenbach (Hess), became part of S-Bahn line S 2 (Niedernhausen–Dietzenbach) of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. The station had been modified to give barrier-free access for the disabled. The station is now the starting point for trains to Niedernhausen via the Offenbach and Frankfurt city tunnels, Höchst and Hofheim.