Dreieich-Buchschlag station is a railway station on 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 ...

in the town of

Dreieich Dreieich () is a town in the Offenbach district in the of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. The town is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area and is located roughly south of downtown Frankfurt am Main. With a population of more than 40,000 i ...

in the German state of

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

. It was opened in 1879 on the

Main-Neckar Railway The Main-Neckar Railway (german: Main-Neckar–Eisenbahn, MNE) is a main line railway west of the Odenwald in the Upper Rhine Plain of Germany that connects Frankfurt am Main to Heidelberg via Darmstadt, Bensheim and Weinheim. It was opened in 18 ...

. The station is classified by

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as a category 4 station.

History

The station was opened in 1879 with the name of ''Buchschlag-Sprendlingen'' on the Main-Neckar Railway line. It opened up a forest district in the municipality of Mitteldick. In order to stimulate the development of the surrounding communities, it was decided on 1 April 1905 to build the

Dreieich Railway The Dreieich Railway (''Dreieichbahn'') is a single-track, non-electrified branch line in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area in the German state of Hesse. It connects Dreieich-Buchschlag on the Main-Neckar Railway with Rödermark-Ober Roden on the Ro ...

(''Dreieichbahn'') between Buchschlag-Sprendlingen and Ober-Roden. Buchschlag-Sprendlingen station was renamed ''Dreieich-Buchschlag'' on 1 January 1977.

Location

The station is located on the western edge of Buchschlag on Buchschlager Allee (continuing to the west as Wald am Mitteldicker Weg) on the Main-Neckar Railway, connecting

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

and

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

. Shortly south of the station, the Dreieich Railway branches off to

Rödermark Rödermark is a town in the Offenbach (district), Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt (region), Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, southeast of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and northeast of Darmstadt. Geography Location The town ...

-Ober Roden.

Connections

Today, the station is in the territory of the

Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) is a transport association that covers the public transport network of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area in Germany. Its head office is located in Hofheim im Taunus. Organisation and area covered The RMV ...

(Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV), with S-Bahn services operated by the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and regional services operated by

. In addition, it has two bus stops, a taxi stand and park and ride facility.

Infrastructure

The entrance building of Dreieich-Buchschlag station has been sold off and now houses a restaurant. There is still a sign reading ''Buchschlag-Sprendlingen'' on the station building. Immediately next to the entrance building, there are 5 tracks passing over a level crossing over Buchschlager Allee. Since many trains pass over the crossing, the barriers sometimes remain closed for a long time.

Public transport services

Rail

The station is served by the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and

DB Regio DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. DB Regio AG, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and there part of the DB Regio bus ...

services. S-Bahn lines S3 and S4 each stop at the station every half-hour on weekdays, which together provide services every 15 minutes. On Sundays, both lines operate every hour, together providing a service every half-hour. The Regionalbahn RB 61 service (

) runs from Monday to Friday three times in the morning from Dieburg to Frankfurt and three times in the afternoon from Frankfurt to Dieburg on the line, stopping in Dreieich-Buchschlag and

Neu-Isenburg Neu-Isenburg is a town in Germany, located in the Offenbach district of Hesse. It is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area and has a population of 38,204 (2020). The town is known nowadays mainly for its regionally used shopping centre, th ...

.Deutsche Bahn timetable

Bus

Some bus routes stop at the station, including city bus line OF-64. During the summer months (May 1 to September/October) each year, ''Waldseebus'' (OF-Line 65) runs to and from Langener Waldsee, a popular ''Baggersee'' (lake established in an abandoned quarry) used as part of the

Ironman Germany The Ironman Germany is a triathlon race, part of the Ironman series. It is owned and organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). In 2005, Frankfurt became the new site of the Ironman European Championship. __TOC__ History The first Iro ...

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competition.

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* * {{Authority control Rhine-Main S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Hesse Buildings and structures in Offenbach (district) Railway stations in Germany opened in 1879