Mainz Römisches Theater station

Mainz Römisches Theater S
Junction station
View of the station from above the Mainz Railway Tunnel
Location	Holzhofstr. 1a, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
Coordinates	49°59′36″N 8°16′40″E / 49.99333°N 8.27778°E / 49.99333; 8.27778Coordinates: 49°59′36″N 8°16′40″E / 49.99333°N 8.27778°E / 49.99333; 8.27778
Line(s)	Mainz–Darmstadt–Aschaffenburg (KBS 651) Mainz–Frankfurt (KBS 645.8/655 Left Rhine line (KBS 470) Mainz–Ludwigshafen (KBS 660)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	3900
DS100 code	FMS
IBNR	8000139
Category	3
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1884
Previous names	Mainz Süd
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Mainz Hbf toward Koblenz Hbf RE 2 Left Rhine Railway Mainz-Bischofsheim toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Mainz Hbf Terminus RB 44 Mainz–Ludwigshafen railway Mainz-Laubenheim toward Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld Mainz Hbf toward Wiesbaden Hbf RB 75 Rhine-Main Railway Mainz-Bischofsheim toward Aschaffenburg Hbf Preceding station   Rhine-Main S-Bahn   Following station Mainz Hbf toward Wiesbaden Hbf S8 Mainz-Gustavsburg toward Hanau Hbf

Mainz Römisches Theater station is a station in the city of Mainz, the capital of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the Main Railway from Mainz to Frankfurt am Main. It is the most important station in the city after Mainz Hauptbahnhof. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. The station is served by S-Bahn and regional trains.

Mainz Römisches (Roman) Theater is the third name of this station. Until the timetable change in December 2006, it was called Mainz Süd. It was opened as Mainz-Neuthor station on the Rhine-Main Railway from Mainz to Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg. The railway between Mainz and Darmstadt was opened on 1 August 1858 and used a train ferry to cross the Rhine until 1862 when the South Bridge was put into service. The Mainz-Ludwigshafen line opened later. In 1884 a bypass of central Mainz was opened along with Mainz Hauptbahnhof with its southern end near the original Mainz-Neuthor station.

A new station building was opened in 1884 on the north side of the platforms, but it was largely demolished in 2006. It was a brick building, designed by Johann Philipp Berdellé. The ground floor had Rundbogenstil rounded portals that continued into the windows of the lower eastern arcade. The main building had two storeys, with rectangular windows of bunter sandstone in a renaissance revival style. After the redesign and construction of commercial buildings at the station, only the listed facade of the old building has been preserved near the rail tracks. This facade has been integrated into the new building.