Hattenheim is a station in the town of

Hattenheim Hattenheim is a ''Stadtteil'' in Eltville am Rhein, Hesse, Germany. It lies within the Rheingau wine region. Points of interest * Burg Hattenheim * Eberbach Abbey (Kloster Eberbach) * Schloss Reichartshausen * Steinberg, Kloster Eberbach ...

in the German state of

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on the

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History

The Hattenheim station entrance building was built in 1884-85, replacing a building built for the

Nassau Rhine Railway The East Rhine Railway (German: ''Rechte Rheinstrecke'', literally 'right (of the) Rhine railway') is a major, double-track, electrified railway line, running along the right bank of the Rhine from Cologne to Wiesbaden. The -long line forms two D ...

(''Nassauische Rheinbahn''), which was opened on 11 August 1856 from

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to Rüdesheim and later extended to Oberlahnstein. The two-storey building was probably designed by the architect Paul Rowald. The building had a

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on the ground floor as well as various function rooms; on the second floor there was an apartment for the station master. The almost symmetrical brickwork in the styles of

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with a

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and an impost, which is flanked by two pillars. The end of the columns is formed by two sandstone coats of arms: one with the Prussian eagle, the other with the coat of arms of Hattenheim, but the martyr palm of the church patron Vincent of Saragossa is incorrectly represented as a feather. The arch windows of the ground floor have circular mullions and enclosing stones. A

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frieze with wine rack reliefs surrounds the whole building. An annex that was completed around 1900 extended the building to the east. Another entrance building of this type, probably also designed by Rowald, can be found in

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. At the time of

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, trains arrived on platform 4 with extra carriages with children to be "dealt with" under the euthanasia program. These were transferred to the "Children's Department" (''Kinderfachabteilung'') of the nearby ''Landesheilanstand Eichberg'' (Eichberg mental hospital, now ''Vitos Rheingau'', near Eberbach Abbey) to be used for "scientific purposes" and mostly murdered. Adult patients also came to the Eichberg hospital via Hattenheim station, where they were either killed or transferred to the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre.

Operations

The railway station has a platform next to the entrance building for traffic towards Wiesbaden and Frankfurt and an island platform for tracks 2 and 3. Track 2 is used for traffic towards Koblenz and Neuwied, while the disused track 3 was formerly used for overtaking operations. Track 4 was formerly used for freight, but was demolished in 2015.

Regional traffic

Hattenheim station is located in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). The station is served every hour by Regionalbahn service RB 10 (''RheingauLinie''). In the peak hour an extra service reduces intervals to every half hour. The station is served by bus route 181 of Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe'', running towards

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