Frankfurt Hanau train station

Hanau train station
Entrance building around 1900
Data
Design	Terminus
Platform tracks	3
opening	September 10, 1848
Conveyance	April 1, 1913
location
City / municipality	Frankfurt am Main
Place / district	Ostend
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 6 '48 "  N , 8 ° 42' 8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '48 "  N , 8 ° 42' 8"  E
Railway lines
Hanau Railway
Railway stations in Hessen

The Hanauer Bahnhof was a terminus in Frankfurt am Main . The station in the Ostend district was the starting point of the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line operated by the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (FHE) and existed from 1848 to 1913.

history

Hanau passenger and freight station (Ravenstein 1895). The urban connecting railway runs from south to east. The large freight yard is located between this and the passenger station.

The FHE has operated between Frankfurt and Hanau since September 10, 1848 . Together with the line, the Hanau station was built as the Frankfurt terminus. The terminus in Hanau was the former Hanau train station (today: Hanau West) on Philippsruher Allee .

The Hessische Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HLB), headquartered in Mainz in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, took over the management of the FHE for the period from January 1, 1863 to December 31, 1872. The railway then became their property, including Hanau Railway station in Frankfurt. On February 1, 1897, the HLB was again taken over by the Prussian State Railways . Now the station was part of their inventory.

On April 1, 1913, the FHE was extended from the new Ostbahnhof with the Deutschherrnbrücke over the Main to the Südbahnhof . The old Hanau train station was given up, which as a terminal station had become an operational obstacle and also too small. In terms of traffic, it was replaced by the Ostbahnhof, a through station, located a little further south-east . Its location was due to the ascent to the Deutschherrnbrücke.

location

Location of the train station on Hanauer Landstrasse (Delkeskamp 1864)

Hanau train station with horse cabs around 1900, Röderbergweg on the left, Hanauer Landstrasse on the right with tram tracks

The Hanauer Bahnhof was in the Ostend near the zoo , between Hanauer Landstrasse and the Röderbergweg branching off from it . The gusset between these two streets formed a small forecourt. From here the Windeckstraße led south and north to the zoo, today's Zobelstraße , named after the railway engineer Johann Peter Wilhelm Zobel , who built the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line. The square was built over after 1913 - including the confluence of the Röderbergweg and Hanauer Landstraße.

Station complex

The passenger station was a modest, three-track system, with an external platform each for arriving and departing passenger trains and a central track so that locomotives could be shunted to the other end of the train . The reception building was also modest. Structural remains have not been preserved.

On the north side of the passenger station were the parking facilities for the vehicles and the workshops of the FHE as well as some goods and warehouses. To the south of the passenger station was the extensive freight station , which the Hanauer Landstrasse opened up on the street side.

Connection in the urban transport network

The Frankfurt – Hanau railway was initially an island operation without a rail connection to Frankfurt's western train stations . Travelers who wanted to change trains in Frankfurt had to make their way through the city on foot or by cab .

In 1854 the Hanauer Bahn was extended in the east to the Bavarian border, where it was connected to the Ludwigs-West-Bahn and thus for the first time to another railway company. The trains continued to run via Aschaffenburg in the direction of Bavaria .

From 1859, at the end of the Frankfurt line, the municipal connecting line enabled continuous train traffic to the western stations. It led from the Frankfurt – Hanau railway south past the Hanau train station to the banks of the Main and from there further west.

From 1875 the Hanau train station was served by the horse-drawn tram, which made it much easier to change trains or to reach inner-city destinations. From 1899 the electric tram went from here to the new Centralbahnhof , which opened in 1888 .

literature

• Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss Verlag Stuttgart, 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, 1,448 pages, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , vol. 2.1, p. 119ff (route 007).