| Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld | |
| Native Name Lang: | de |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Symbol Location: | de |
| Type: | Through station |
| Borough: | Edingen-Neckarhausen, Baden-Württemberg |
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 49.4487°N 8.5804°W |
| Platforms: | 5 (formerly 7) |
| Zone: | VRN 104 and 115[1] |
| Passengers: | ca. 20,000 daily |
| Website: | www.bahnhof.de |
| Map Type: | Baden-Württemberg#Germany#Europe |
Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld station (formerly Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld) is a separation station in the Mannheim district of Friedrichsfeld on the border with the municipality of Edingen-Neckarhausen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. All rail tracks are in Mannheim, only the station building is located on the territory of the Edingen-Neckarhausen hamlet of Neu-Enghien. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. It has been served by the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn since December 2018.
In 1838 the Main-Neckar Railway was planned to connect Frankfurt to Mannheim and Heidelberg. The Bensheim–Heidelberg section was opened together with the branch from Mannheim and thus the whole length of the Main-Neckar Railway was completed on 1 August 1846 in Friedrichsfeld. In order for both cities to be treated equally, a break-of-gauge station had to be built by the Main-Neckar Railway and the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway.
On 1 June 1880 the line from Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld to Schwetzingen was put into operation, which is almost exclusively used by freight traffic. In preparation for it, the station was substantially rebuilt in 1879/80. Electric lighting was installed in Friedrichsfeld station in 1896. In 2016, Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld station was renamed Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld.
Friedrichsfeld station has an extensive system of tracks. Five of the seven platform tracks that were previously available for passenger services are still in use at the “home” platform and two island platforms.
The numbering begins on the east side of the station building.
The former island platform between tracks 6 and 7 has been largely removed.
The platforms of the Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld station are not barrier-free for the disabled. To get to the platforms of tracks 2 to 5, it is necessary to use an underpass from platform 1. A door of the entrance building leads to a staircase leading to the pedestrian underpass to the platforms.
Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld station belongs to the fare zone of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN). The first continuous test run from Frankfurt to Heidelberg took place on 27 July 1846.
Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld station is now (2013) used by Regionalbahn trains from Mannheim towards Bensheim in preparation for the future operations of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn as well as Regionalbahn services (designated as Stadt-Express services) from Heidelberg to Frankfurt am Main. The station is also the starting point of Regionalbahn services via Mannheim to Mainz, which in the weekday peak hour occasionally begin or end in Bensheim. From Monday to Friday, in the morning a Regional-Express service from Frankfurt to Mannheim stops at the station and in the evening a Regional-Express service from Frankfurt to Heidelberg stops at the station.
| Line | Route | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual services | |||
| Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Weinheim – Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld – Heidelberg Hbf (coupled with RB67 from Frankfurt to Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld) | 60 mins | ||
| Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bickenbach – Bensheim – Heppenheim – Weinheim – Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld – Heidelberg (–) (coupled with RB68 from Frankfurt to Neu-Edingen/Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld) | 60 mins | ||
| Every 60 minutes |