Dietzenbach-Steinberg station is a station in the

Dietzenbach Dietzenbach is the seat of Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany and lies roughly 12 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main on the waterstream Bieber. Before the Second World War, the current town was ...

district of Steinberg in the German state of

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Dar ...

. It is served by line S2 of the

Rhine-Main S-Bahn The Rhine-Main S-Bahn system is an integrated rapid transit and commuter train system for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes the cities Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Darmstadt. The network compris ...

History

Steinberg station was opened on 1 December 1898 as a single-track ''Haltepunkt'' (halt) along with the Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway, a line that branches off the Rodgau Railway (''Rodgaubahn'') in

Offenbach-Bieber Bieber is a village in Hesse, Germany, with a total population of 16,137 as of 2020. Since 1938 it has been a ''Stadtteil'' of Offenbach am Main. Geography A small river, a tributary of the Rodau called '' Bieber'' flows through the villag ...

. Trains ran on this line between Dietzenbach (Hess) station and

Offenbach Hauptbahnhof Offenbach am Main Hauptbahnhof is a railway station serving the German city of Offenbach am Main. It is located on the Frankfurt–Bebra railway/ South Main line between Frankfurt and Hanau on the south bank of the Main. It is also the starting ...

. Passenger services on the line were discontinued on 18 June 1982, because traffic on it had been significantly affected by increasing car ownership. The line was then used only for a small amount of freight traffic and the rail passenger services were replaced by buses. Services on line S2 of the

commenced at the 2003/2004 timetable change on 14 December 2003. In the course of the development of the line for the S-Bahn, the track layout at the station was altered and the line was double-tracked and electrified. The station received an island platform for S-Bahn operations from 2001 to 2003 and the entrances were rebuilt to be barrier-free for the disabled.

Infrastructure

The station has 2 platforms tracks around an island platform. The tracks towards Dietzenbach station and towards Offenbach run at ground level. There is a set of points on the track towards Offenbach that connects to a siding that until the autumn of 2008 was still regularly used by so-called "Banana Express" to supply a local vegetable wholesaler. The track is still there, but it is closed to traffic.

Operations

Today, the station is served exclusively by services on S-Bahn line S2. These run to

Niedernhausen Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Niedernhausen lies in the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park in the west ...

via

Heusenstamm Heusenstamm () is a town of over 18,000 people in the Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Heusenstamm is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district. The town li ...

, Offenbach, Frankfurt and Hofheim. In the opposite direction, the S2 runs to

Dietzenbach station Dietzenbach station (''Dietzenbach Bahnhof'') is the terminus of the Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway in the German state of Hesse. The station is now used exclusively by line S2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. The entrance building is protected ...

. The S-Bahn trains run on a basic cycle of 30 minutes. During the peak, services run every 15 minutes.

Bus services

Dietzenbach-Steinberg station is served by Dietzenbach municipal bus routes OF-56 and OF-57.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dietzenbach-Steinberg Railway stations in Hesse Railway stations in Germany opened in 1898 Buildings and structures in Offenbach (district) Rhine-Main S-Bahn stations