page_title: Soden Railway
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Soden Railway / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Region Frankfurt, 1893: Sodener Bahn. Die 1847 eröffnete Strecke zwischen der Stadt Höchst und dem international bedeutenden Kurort Soden im Taunus war eine der ersten Nebenbahnen in Deutschland. English: Frankfurt region, 1893: Soden railway. The short connection between Höchst, an old town with growing industry, and Soden, a spa quite fashionable among Europe's 19th-century upper class, was one of Germany's first minor rail lines.
context_page_description: The Soden Railway is a line in the western suburbs of Frankfurt am Main and was one of the oldest railways in Germany, opened in 1847.
context_section_description: The line was opened on 22 May 1847 and is might be described as the first German branch line. In Höchst it connects with the Taunus Railway opened in 1839 from Frankfurt to Wiesbaden. It was built to connect the emerging spa town of Soden to the new rail network. The builder and owner of the line was the Soden Company (German: Sodener Actien-Gesellschaft). The line was managed from the beginning by the Taunus Railway Company.
  Since 1972, there has been a connection in Bad Soden to the Limes Railway to Niederhöchstadt, which connects Bad Soden with the Rhine-Main S-Bahn network.
caption: In 1893 the line ran largely through open fields.
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