Mainz-Bischofsheim train station
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Reception building of the
Mainz-Bischofsheim train station |
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | FMB |
| IBNR | 8000241 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1904 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Mainz-Bischofsheim |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| architect | Architectural office Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Heidacker (renovation from 2002/03) |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Bischofsheim |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 59 '25 " N , 8 ° 21' 45" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Mainz-Bischofsheim station is the station of the Hessian community Bischofsheim . Since Bischofsheim was a district of Mainz between 1930 and 1945 and the station was not renamed afterwards, the addition "Mainz-" has been retained.
In passenger traffic , Bischofsheim is served by S-Bahn and regional trains, its importance for freight traffic is much greater : Mainz-Bischofsheim is the largest marshalling yard in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region .
history
Station facilities
The station was set up by the Hessische Ludwigsbahn (HLB) for the Rhein-Main-Bahn (Mainz – Darmstadt – Aschaffenburg), which went into operation here in 1858. After the opening of the Mainzer Südbrücke over the Rhine in 1862, Bischofsheim was the first stop after Mainz, as the Mainz-Gustavsburg train station to the west (then: Gustavsburg-Kostheim) was not set up until 1888. At the beginning of 1863 the Mainbahn (Mainz – Frankfurt) started operating. It branches off the Rhein-Main-Bahn in Bischofsheim. Bischofsheim thus became the HLB's first railway junction . The station, the lines and the HLB itself were merged into the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community in 1897 . The Royal Prussian State Railways built the Mainz bypass line by 1904 , the southern connection of which to the existing railway network was made at Mainz-Bischofsheim station. The importance of the station for rail traffic was greatly enhanced and a large freight station was created. Freight and passenger traffic were spatially separated from each other by relocating the passenger station 500 meters to the west. In 1900 the station received electrical lighting for 85,000 marks .
Reception building
The original reception building erected by the HLB has been preserved, but not identical to the present one. It stands about 500 m to the east and is now used by the freight yard. It is a three-storey, eaves-standing central building made of sandstone. The five-axis facade on the street side is divided in the middle by a three-axis central projectile with a gable. The two single-storey side wings were added later, around 1870. There is also a historic water tower nearby . Both buildings are cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
As part of construction work on the station facilities in 1904 was a new reception building built, which is still in operation today. It has an approximately T-shaped floor plan, which combines a gable part (restaurant) and an eaves part (waiting room). Due to the hillside location, it is one-story on the street side and two-story on the platform side. This was used right from the start to create a pedestrian overpass to the island platform . The plant was modernized in the 2000s.
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The new station building was built on a hillside as a massive two-story building in contemporary Art Nouveau style. The brick floors are plastered, the gables of the transverse structure are half- timbered. Access to the train station is on the 1st floor. From there, the platforms can be reached via a footbridge.
After numerous structural changes, the building was dismantled and modernized by the community of Bischofsheim in 2002/03, based on the historical original. A sculpture by the Bischofsheim artist Ludwig Gutzkow has been placed on the station forecourt .
designation
The station was put into operation under the name Bischofsheim and renamed Bischofsheim (Hesse) in 1904 . Since January 1, 1931, it has had the name Mainz-Bischofsheim, which is still used today .
Marshalling yard
The Mainz-Bischofsheim marshalling yard is now one of the most important stations for the formation of freight trains in the Rhine-Main area . South of the passenger station, south-west parallel to the Main-Rhein-Bahn in the direction of Darmstadt, there are 34 tracks for train formation . This makes Bischofsheim the largest marshalling yard between Mannheim and Cologne . In addition to the Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station, Bischofsheim also took on the role of the Frankfurt main freight station, which was closed in 1996 .
Around 400 people, mostly shunters and train drivers, work at the marshalling yard. 500–600 wagons are put together to form freight trains every day. The marshalling yard is operated by DB Schenker Rail .
The Bischofsheim water tower , built in 1912, is located at the northern end of the marshalling yard . Directly south of it (as an extension of Bahnhofstrasse), a 110-meter-long iron pedestrian walkway connected the core town of Bischofsheim with the settlement on the other side of the marshalling yard from 1900 to 2013. Only remnants of the former depot are left, including the ruins of a roundhouse for 23 steam locomotives .
The marshalling yard was expanded to its present size in 1900–1904 and was temporarily the second largest in southern Germany . The facilities are part of the route of the Rhein-Main industrial culture ( section Mainspitze ).
traffic
In the event of construction work and operational disruptions, trains of long-distance passenger rail services also stop at the station as a replacement stop for Mainz main station.
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Hessen. Railway in Hessen . 3 volumes. Hg: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , Vol. 2.1, pp. 236f.
- Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main , Local route guide No. 12: Mainspitze (Bischofsheim / Ginsheim-Gustavsburg) (PDF)
- New train station information board at the reception building
Web links
- Location of the railway system, with individual permissible speeds and signals on the OpenRailwayMap
- Pictures of the history of the Mainz-Bischofsheim train station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Querying the course book route 651 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 471 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 645.8 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b Query of the course book route 645.9 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes from August 4, 1900. Volume 4, No. 35. Announcement No. 327, p. 241.
- ↑ Schomann, p. 236.
- ↑ Schomann, p. 236.
- ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of February 27, 1904, No. 10. Announcement No. 96, p. 131f (132).
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of October 25, 1930, No. 51. Announcement No. 712, p. 325.
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
- ↑ Manfred Köhler: Terminal Frankfurt-Ost - train station with checker. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 25, 2015, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Janek Rauhe: Everyday life at the freight yard. The matchmakers from Bischofsheim . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 7, 2013.
- ↑ Bischofsheim: Melancholy on the tracks . Echo Online , undated (2014)
- ^ Frankfurt Rhine-Main cultural region: Route of industrial culture. Industrial history in Bischofsheim