Frankfurt local train station

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The historic Frankfurt local train station served the Frankfurt-Offenbach local railway from 1848 to 1955 . It was north of Heisterstrasse on Darmstädter Landstrasse .

The local train station, here still as Offenbacher Bahnhof, on a city map from 1893.
The Frankfurt local train station around 1900
The station before the Bebraer Bahn was built

The station was built as the terminus of the Frankfurt-Offenbacher local railway between 1843 and 1846 and opened as Sachsenhausen station. Its name changed several times: in 1876 it was named Offenbacher Bahnhof , from 1900: Sachsenhausen-Lokalbahn , in 1910 it was called Frankfurt (M-Lokalbahnhof) -Offenbach , from 1920: Frankfurt (M-Lokalbahnhof) .

history

Since there were difficulties when the Frankfurt-Offenbacher local railway started operating, the system was initially rented to the Main-Neckar-Bahn , which used the station as the end point of its route coming from Heidelberg as long as the first Main-Neckar bridge (at the site of today's Friedensbrücke ) and thus the access to the Main-Neckar train station in the north of Main was not yet completed. In order to reach the local station from the Main-Neckar-Bahn, however, the Mainspitze depot , a hairpin , had to be crossed. This provisional solution lasted until November 15, 1848, when the old Main-Neckar bridge went into operation.

Before that, from March 9, 1848 - after long delays - regular traffic between Offenbach and Sachsenhausen was started. Initially, four pairs of trains ran according to a provisional timetable. Officially, operations began on April 16, 1848, with ten pairs of trains per day, with eleven running on Sundays and public holidays.

First of all, trains of the local railway, coming from Offenbach, also continued into the adjoining network, especially to the Main-Neckar station. Due to the opening of the Frankfurt-Bebraer Railway, however, traffic from the local train station has been limited to the connection to Offenbach since the end of 1875. The track continuing to the west was demolished. The station became the terminus . The station was only of local importance and hardly changed.

During the Second World War , bombing raids destroyed the station building. Due to the war, operations were suspended from August 28, 1944 to December 2, 1946. The Deutsche Bundesbahn decided to shut down the route, which had become completely unprofitable due to the parallel Bebra Railway and the municipal tram, on October 1, 1955. In the summer of 1956, the station building was largely demolished.

In 1970 the former station area was built with a high-rise building. In addition to offices on the ground floor, this currently contains a few shops. Simultaneously with the construction of the skyscraper, the tram tracks of the tram line leading to Oberrad and Offenbach were removed from Offenbacher Landstrasse and relocated to the former track field of the local train station. A track triangle was created at the new tram station, but it is no longer used as planned today, as there are no more equipment cars in regular service in Frankfurt .

An S-Bahn station of the same name has existed south of the former local train station since 1990 .

literature

  • Jens Freese: From the steam car to the S-Bahn. 144 years of railways in Frankfurt am Main-Sachsenhausen. Schweers u. Wall, Aachen 1990, ISBN 3-921679-32-X .
  • Jens Freese, Michael Hofmann: The Abbelwoi Exbress. On the trail of the local railway from Frankfurt to Offenbach. Verlag Wolfgang Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 1995, ISBN 3-928786-32-6 .
  • Ferdinand von Rüden: Frankfurt am Main transport hub. From the beginning until around 1980 . EK-Verlag GmbH 2012. ISBN 978-3-88255-246-1 , p. 10.
  • Bernhard Hager: From the history of the Main-Neckar Railway. In: Yearbook for Railway History. Vol. 36, 2004, ISSN  0340-4250 , pp. 5-32.

Remarks

  1. ^ According to von Rüden: (Alt-) Sachsenhausen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From males.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 10.4 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 29.4"  E