Neulußheim is the only station in the municipality of

Neulußheim Neulußheim is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, with about 7,100 inhabitants. Larger cities in the surrounding area include Speyer, Mannheim and Heidelberg. It was founded in 1711 at a crossroads by Julius ...

in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It was re-built during the construction of the

Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway The Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway is a 99 km long railway line in Germany, connecting the cities of Mannheim and Stuttgart. The line was officially opened on 9 May 1991, and InterCityExpress service began on 2 June. The Hanover–W ...

in 1986. (28-page brochure) It lies on the

Rhine Railway The Rhine Railway (german: Rheinbahn) is a railway line in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, running from Mannheim via Karlsruhe to Rastatt, partly built as a strategic railway and formerly continuing to Haguenau in Alsace, now in France. I ...

and is classified by

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(DB) as a category 5 station. Trains on the Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway run next to the station without stopping.

History

Neulußheim station was built during the construction of the Mannheim-Stuttgart high-speed railway in 1986, replacing an earlier station that was further west. The Rhine Railway ( Karlsruhe– Mannheim) and the high-speed line have been bundled together in this area to reduce environmental impacts, as they have also been at the neighbouring Hockenheim station. During the construction of the new high-speed line, the Rhine Railway was realigned for a length of between Hockenheim and Neulußheim. Between Hockenheim and

the new line runs parallel with the old Karlsruhe–Mannheim line, which in this area was moved by approximately to the east, and with Bundesstraße 36 (federal highway 36). Architect Gottfried Böhm, a native of Offenbach, was commissioned for the construction of the new station in Neulußheim. Böhm is the only German architect to have received the prestigious

Pritzker Architecture Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produ ...

. A new island platform was built on the Rhine Railway under his direction. However, since the new station was built to the east of the old line, a new pedestrian overpass or underpass had to be built to cross the new line. It was decided to build an overpass over the tracks of the two railway lines, which accordingly is very long with a length of . The construction lasted from 1984 to 1987. From 1986, with the assistance of the architect Wolfgang Pehnt, Böhm designed the station, which used the typical Böhm materials of concrete, steel and glass. On 14 September 1986, the station was finally opened during the celebration of the 275th anniversary of the town. Deutsche Bahn invested around €135,000 in the renovation of the bridge during 2010 and 2011 and the municipality spent about €50,000 on measures to improve the station environment. As part of the 2nd stage of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, lifts were installed in the station up to 2015 to give it step-free access.

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