Holzkirchen station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the

Munich S-Bahn The Munich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn München) is an Railway electrification system, electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany. "S-Bahn" is the German abbreviation for ''Stadtschnellbahn'' (literally, "urban rapid rail"), and the Munich S-Bahn ...

in the district of Holzkirchen in

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. It is served by the

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line and

Bayerische Regiobahn Transdev Germany is the largest private operator of passenger buses and trains in Germany. It is a subsidiary of Transdev. History In 1997, Aktiengesellschaft für Industrie und Verkehrswesen was purchased by a CGEA Group (60%) EnBW (40%) cons ...

Location

Holzkirchen station is a

junction station ''Junction station'' usually refers to a railway station situated on or close to a junction where lines to several destinations diverge. The usual minimum is three incoming lines. At a station with platforms running from left to right, the minimum ...

where the

Munich–Holzkirchen railway The Munich–Holzkirchen railway is a continuously-electrified, double-track, railway in the German state of Bavaria. It runs from Munich Central Station, Munich to Holzkirchen, Upper Bavaria, Holzkirchen via Deisenhofen station, Deisenhofen. Hist ...

Mangfall Valley Railway The Mangfall Valley Railway (german: Mangfalltalbahn) () is a single-tracked, electrified railway that runs through the Mangfall valley in Bavaria, Germany, between Holzkirchen and Rosenheim. It is exclusively used by regional services. However i ...

(to

Rosenheim Rosenheim is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is an independent city located in the centre of the district of Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), and is also the seat of its administration. It is located on the west bank of the Inn at the confluence of the ...

), Holzkirchen–Lenggries railway and Holzkirchen–Schliersee railway join together.

History

Holzkirchen station was opened on 31 October 1857 together with the section Großhesselohe-

the

Bavarian Maximilian Railway The Bavarian Maximilian Railway (German: ''Bayerische Maximiliansbahn'') was as an east–west line built between the Bavarian border with Württemberg at Neu-Ulm in the west via Augsburg, Munich and Rosenheim to the Austrian border at Kufstein a ...

. The entire Maximilian Railway Ulm-

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was completed on 1 August 1860. On 23 November 1861 a route to

Miesbach Miesbach () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is the capital of the Miesbach district. The district is at an altitude of 697 metres above sea level. It covers an area of approximately 863.50 km² of alpine headlands and in 2017 had a popul ...

was opened so that Holzkirchen became a railway junction. In 1862, the

was double-tracked due to the increasing volume of traffic. In 1868 the Holzkirchen-Miesbach line was extended to

Hausham Hausham is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. Geography geographical classification Hausham is located approximately 45 km south of Munich, between Miesbach and Schliersee. It is surrounded to the south by moun ...

and in 1869 to Schliersee. On 15 October 1871, the

Munich–Rosenheim railway The Munich–Rosenheim railway is a 65 kilometre-long double-track main line of the German railways. It connects Munich Hauptbahnhof with Rosenheim station, where it connects with the Rosenheim–Salzburg railway, which connects with the line to ...

(

Grafing Grafing bei München (officially: Grafing b.München) is a town in the district of Ebersberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Geography Grafing is in the Munich Region, about southeast of the state capital, where the Urtelbach and Wieshamer Bach both e ...

) was opened, which made the previous detour of the Maximilian Railway over Holzkirchen unnecessary. Since most of the trains went via

, the

and the Holzkirchen station lost their traffic. On 1 June 1874 another outgoing line from Holzkirchen route to

Bad Tölz Bad Tölz (; Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Däiz'') is a Town#Germany, town in Bavaria, Germany and the administrative center of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district. History Archaeology has shown continuous occupation of the site of Bad Tö ...

was opened. On 24 November 2009, there was a motor fire in an train of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn.

Gallery

File:BOB und Meridian im Bahnhof Holzkirchen.jpg,

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(left) and Bayerische Oberlandbahn (BOB) (right) at track 5 and 4 in 2016 File:Holzkirchen Bahnhofsgebäude.jpg, Reception building in 2011

References

{{Munich transport network Munich S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Bavaria Railway stations in Germany opened in 1857 1857 establishments in Bavaria Miesbach (district)