Gelnhausen station
| Gelnhausen | |
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 Reception building at night
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | FGEL |
| IBNR | 8000117 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | May 1, 1867 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Gelnhausen |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neo-Romanesque |
| architect | Paul Rowald |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Gelnhausen |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 11 '48 " N , 9 ° 11' 22" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 129 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Gelnhausen Station is the station of the district town of Gelnhausen on the Kinzig Valley Railway in Hessen .
history
The station was set up as part of the Frankfurt-Bebra Railway for the then district town of the Gelnhausen district . Operations began on May 1, 1867. In the course of time, another three railway lines were connected here:
- on November 30, 1870 the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line . It is still in operation today.
- On December 15, 1895, the narrow-gauge Spessart Railway began operating to Bieber . On July 23, 1951, the Spessart Railway was stopped. Due to the different gauge , it had its own operating facilities, including its own reception building, which was south of the "State Railway Station" Gelnhausen.
- On October 15, 1904, the Gelnhausen – Langenselbold small railway finally followed . Their facilities were also located south of the state railway tracks. It had its own platform for passenger traffic in the Gelnhausen station of the state railway . Since this small railway was built in standard gauge , there was a connecting track to the state railway so that freight wagons could pass between the two railways. In 1963 - after a section had already been abandoned - the last section of the small railway starting from Gelnhausen was shut down.
At the end of the 1990s, Gelnhausen station was one of the “pilot stations” in which the dark blue station signs with white lettering - also currently used by DB Station & Service - were tried out.
At the end of December 2019, the Gelnhausen flood bridge was renewed, and auxiliary bridges that had been in use for several years were expanded. The station can then be driven again at 160 km / h. The auxiliary bridges used in the north end of the station were passable at 90 km / h.
building
The station building and the other high-rise buildings of the station are today mostly cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Reception building
The entrance building was built in neo-Romanesque style from red sandstone and thus refers on the one hand to the history of the city of Gelnhausen, a Hohenstaufen foundation , and to the most famous Romanesque building in the city, the Pfalz Gelnhausen , but also, for example, the Romanesque House . The architect Paul Rowald also planned the Bad Hersfeld train station with the same floor plan and used similar styles in both buildings.
The building was erected in 1882/83, so it is a “second generation” building on the route. The reception building is designed symmetrically on an H-shaped floor plan. On the street side, the facade is dominated by three pointed gables, while the middle gable is omitted from the facade design on the track side. A “ prince's pavilion ” with three window axes is attached to the west of the main building ; to the east of the main building, there is a freestanding toilet that is also neo-Romanesque.
More buildings
The buildings in the station area also include a railway maintenance office from 1868, i.e. a “first generation” building on the line, a goods handling facility from around 1870 that was demolished in 2011, and a water tower - architecturally to the towers of the Gelnhausen city wall ajar - from 1937.
traffic
The station has a house platform and an island platform. In addition to the house platform, there is a head track in its western area, which serves the trains of the Lahn-Kinzig railway to and from Büdingen and Gießen that start and end there . The remaining three platform edges are only used by trains of the Kinzig Valley Railway, which has been expanded from here to Hanau- Wolfgang for 200 km / h. The Gelnhausen station is therefore often used to overtake local trains by ICE and IC trains. Gelnhausen train station itself is now served by local and regional traffic and is of great importance for commuter traffic from Vogelsberg and Spessart to the Rhine-Main area .
Gelnhausen station used to be served by two additional routes:
- The standard gauge Gelnhausen – Langenselbold railway of the Gelnhausen district railways began and ran here from 1904 to 1963.
- The narrow-gauge Spessart Railway began and ran here from 1895 to 1951.
The railway systems of both railways were located immediately south of the Gelnhausen "State Station". Since 1930, both railways had a common platform, which was connected to the platforms of the state railway by an underpass. Structural structures are no longer preserved, parking spaces are located here today.
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| Langenselbold |
 RE 50 Kinzigtalbahn |
Waechtersbach | ||
| Hailer sea wood |
RB 51 Kinzigtalbahn |
Haitz-Höchst | ||
| Loveless |
 RB 46 Lahn-Kinzig Railway |
The End | ||
| Start of the route |
closed down Freigerichter Kleinbahn |
Meerholz (district station) | ||
| Start of the route |
shut down Spessartbahn |
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Furthermore, the central bus station in the immediate vicinity offers local transport connections to surrounding villages and communities as well as a long-distance bus connection on the Frankfurt-Berlin route.
| Bus route | path | operator |
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| 054 | Long-distance bus : Frankfurt - Hanau - Gelnhausen (only if required) - Fulda - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Berlin | Flixbus |
| 374 | (Nidda - Ranstadt - Effolderbach - Stockheim - Bleichenbach - Büches -) Büdingen - Vonhausen - Mittel-Gründau - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Lieblos - Roth - Gelnhausen (additional rail traffic for RB46) | Frieda Gass travel service |
| FROM 30 | (Schöllkrippen - Westerngrund - Großenhausen - Geislitz - Altenhaßlau -) Gelnhausen - Lützelhausen - Bernbach - Altenmittlau - Somborn | Kahlgrund Verkehrs-GmbH |
| MKK-60 | Gelnhausen - Hailer - Meerholz - Niedermittlau - Neuenhaßlau - Langenselbold | Straw Bus Verkehrs GmbH |
| MKK-61 | Höchst - Haitz - Gelnhausen - Hailer - Meerholz (city bus) | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig |
| MKK-62 | Roth - Gelnhausen - Hailer - Meerholz (city bus) | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig |
| MKK-63 | (Lützelhausen - Großenhausen) - Geislitz - Eidengesäß - Altenhaßlau - Gelnhausen | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig |
| MKK-64 | Gelnhausen - Höchst - Wirtheim - Kassel (MKK) - Lanzingen - Bieber (- Flörsbachtal) | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig |
| MKK-66 | Breitenborn - Hain-Gründau (- Gettenbach) - Middle-Gründau - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Lieblos - Roth - Gelnhausen | Regional traffic service Gründau |
| MKK-67 | Breitenborn - Hain-Gründau - Mittel-Gründau - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Niedermittlau - Meerholz - Hailer - Gelnhausen | Regional traffic service Gründau |
| MKK-68 | Langenselbold - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Lieblos - Roth - Gelnhausen | Regional traffic service Gründau |
| MKK-82 | Gelnhausen - Höchst - Wirtheim - Bad Orb (school bus) | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig |
future
As part of the planned four-track expansion of the Kinzig Valley Railway between Hanau and Gelnhausen, it is planned to rebuild the station. In addition, an electronic signal box (ESTW-UZ) is being built in this context .
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .
- Railway Atlas Germany. Edition 2009/2010 . Schweers + Wall, no location information 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
- Thomé: Guide over the lines of the district of the Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main) . Ed .: Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt [Main]. Frankfurt 1926, p. 25 .
Web links
- Representation of the railway system and individual permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office: Railway…. P. 397.
- ↑ State Office: Railway…. P. 759.
- ↑ a b Thomé: Guide over the lines of the district of the Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main).
- ↑ State Office: Railway…. P. 895.
- ↑ Hesse . In: Bahn-Report . No. 2 , March 2020, ISSN 0178-4528 , p. 54-56 .
- ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (204).
- ↑ a b State Office: Railway…. P. 337.
- ↑ State Office: Railway…. P. 336 ff.
- ^ Reinhard Domke: 9th meeting of the Hanau - Gelnhausen working group. March 14, 2017, accessed April 4, 2020 .
- ↑ DB Netz AG: 11th meeting: Status of implementation and planning. August 22, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 .