Bad Homburg train station

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bad Homburg
Bad Homburg station from south-west 1.jpg
Reception building and track systems from the southwest
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 4 (and 1 former special platform)
abbreviation FHO
IBNR 8000712
Price range 3
opening October 26, 1907
Architectural data
Architectural style Neo-renaissance
architect Armin Wegner
location
City / municipality Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 13 '12 "  N , 8 ° 37' 16"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '12 "  N , 8 ° 37' 16"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
i16 i16 i18

The Bad Homburg railway station is located at the Homburg Railway and was put into operation on October 26, 1907th It is used by around 19,000 travelers every day.

Historical situation

Old Frankfurt train station in Bad Homburg

The new through station in Bad Homburg replaced two older stations. Homburg vor der Höhe (Alt) , one of these terminal stations , was located on the site of today's town hall and was opened as the terminus of the route from Frankfurt am Main in 1860 by the Homburg Railway Company (HEG). In 1895, the Prussian State Railroad built another terminal station for the route from Homburg via Friedrichsdorf to Usingen , Homburg vor der Höhe (new) . This second station was between the lower Louisenstrasse and today's motorway slip road. Both stations were separated by a distance of 200 to 300 meters. They were only connected by a track that enabled shunting traffic.

The new train station

Reception building

Homburg vor der Höhe was a popular summer residence of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The situation with two train stations was not only unsatisfactory from an operational point of view, it also did not meet the imperial need for representation. For this reason, a new through station was built between 1905 and 1907 , which connected the railway lines leading to Homburg . It cost just under 4.7 million marks. The name of the station "Homburg vor der Höhe" has been "Bad Homburg" since January 10, 1913, after the addition "Bad" was added to the name of the city in 1912.

Entrance building from the street side
Main hall after the restoration (2013)

Station field

The track field of the station is about four meters above street level, the reception building is thus at ground level from the street side, and the platforms are accessed through a pedestrian and baggage tunnel . The station received an extensive track field, which is now greatly reduced, facilities for local freight traffic and a roundhouse with 14 stands. The locomotive shed was sold, renovated in accordance with the preservation order and now houses office space.

Reception building

The reception building is very representative in neo-renaissance and asymmetrically designed. The architect , government and building councilor Armin Wegner played a decisive role . It may have been based on preliminary work by the secret building councilor Louis Jacobi . But the emperor himself also repeatedly intervened in the design. After the city of Bad Homburg was able to acquire the building at the end of 2007 after long negotiations, the clocks that had been standing still for years were set in motion. When a sales stand caught fire on July 4, 2009, the station concourse - especially the plaster and windows - was severely damaged by the high levels of soot and was initially closed. At the end of July 2009, a pedestrian tunnel was built inside the hall, which replaced a temporary access to the water tower .

On August 23, 2013, the station was reopened after the repair work was completed. In addition to the repair of the damage, this included remedial work that had already been pending for a long time to the value of 22.4 million euros. In addition to a bakery and a kiosk, there is for the first time a branch of a fast food restaurant and an ATM in the station building. Since the train station - especially the catering area in the western section and the upper floor - was converted into a cultural train station , it can now also be used as a venue for concerts .

Platform hall

Two platforms with two tracks each are available for passenger traffic , and baggage platforms were also available until the Second World War . As a roofing two aisles served Gleishalle (twice 90 × 12 meters). This platform hall was demolished in 1961; the roof caught fire.

Fürstenbahnhof

Fürstenbahnhof (right) with a view of Bad Homburg station

Similar to other royal residence or spas the new station got a Fürstenbahnhof  - that is a separate reception building - for "highest and supreme lords" to track first

Freight hall

The former goods hall , a half-timbered building , was converted into an event hall.

business

ATM (2013)
Travel center and McDonald’s branch (2013)

After the Berlin - Bad Nauheim - Bad Homburg - Wiesbaden express train, which ran on the Bäderbahn , was discontinued in 1939, scheduled long-distance trains only rarely used the route on the edge of the Taunus. Today the station is only used for local transport . From 23 May 1954 did pull trains in a rigid half-hourly interval timetable , pulled and pushed by tender locomotives of the 78 series , diesel locomotives type V 80 and later V 100 . From about 1966 the train operation was carried out with the wine-red railcars of series 624 , which until the electrification were used. After electrification was completed on September 26, 1970, the push-pull trains were mostly hauled by class 141 and 140 electric locomotives. From the summer timetable in 1978 - with the introduction of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main - multiple units of the ET 420 series , and since 2003 also the newer ET 423 series, were used, with multiple switches between pure operation of a series and mixed operation until 2006 (each time the timetable changed ).

Since 1993 Bad Homburg station has been operated by the S5 ( Frankfurt Süd –Bad Homburg– Friedrichsdorf ) line of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn and line 15 (Taunusbahn) ( Frankfurt am Main -) Bad operated by the Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (HLB) Homburg – Friedrichsdorf– Grävenwiesbach - Brandoberndorf , approached. The trains of the Taunusbahn end and begin (excluding the continuous ones to Frankfurt) and during the week the S5 runs every half hour in Bad Homburg; the two lines are coordinated in the timetable.

The remaining two tracks, which have no platforms, are used to park some S-Bahn units (BR 423) and, during the 2008 timetable, also by the Taunusbahn (VT 2E).

There is a bus station in front of the station building , which is served by all Bad Homburg city bus routes and most regional bus routes. The station forecourt including the bus station has been redesigned since 2014 . The city of Bad Homburg planned to reorganize the bus platform. The new bus station was inaugurated on December 12, 2017.

Lines
Seulberg Hessian state railway RB 15
Taunusbahn
The End
Friedrichsdorf (Taunus) Hessian state railwayRB 15
Taunusbahn
Oberursel (Taunus)
Rhein-Main S-Bahn
Previous station line Next station
Seulberg
←  Friedrichsdorf (Taunus)
S5 Oberursel (Taunus)
Südbahnhof  →

future

It has been planned since 2007 to let the trains of the U2 line of the Frankfurt subway begin and end on the so-called Fürstengleis (track 1) in the station. At today's terminus of the U2 in Gonzenheim, the route is to be lowered into a 350-meter-long tunnel and parallel to Frankfurter Landstrasse to cross under the Bad Homburg – Friedrichsdorf railway line . Then it should be brought up to the embankment and cross the long mile and the motorway slip road parallel to it and at its level .

The plan approval procedure was originally supposed to begin in June 2010, and in March 2011 the Darmstadt Regional Council started the consultation procedure. The Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main planned to start construction in July 2013 with commissioning in December 2015 in February 2012. In July 2013, the city administration assumed a plan approval by 2015 and implementation by the end of 2017; After the city parliament, at the request of Mayor Alexander Hetjes, decided in early May 2018 to let the citizens of Bad Homburg vote in a referendum on the U2 extension, the issue is still open at least until the vote on October 28, 2018. Meanwhile, Minister of Economic Affairs, Tarek Al-Wazir, promised in writing that the State of Hesse would provide a financing quota of 80%. The first information meeting took place on June 7, 2018. [outdated]

Trains of the planned Regional Tangent West (RTW) could also stop here. The track is currently no longer passable due to vegetation that has grown up and points that have been removed. Most recently, at the end of 2007, part of the vegetation around the Fürstenbahnhof was removed. In 2014, most of the vegetation on the track in the station area was removed.

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939 , 3 volumes, 1st edition. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 . Vol. 2.1, p. 259 ff.
  • Bernhard Hager: Imperial Power Words . In: Eisenbahngeschichte No. 24 (October / November 2007), pp. 14–21. (With further literature).
  • Angelika Baeumerth, "Die Fürstenbahnhöfe von Bad Homburg", in: Ingrid Berg, "Heimat Hochtaunus", Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pages 312-316.
  • Magistrate of the city of Bad Homburg vd Höhe and the historical working group Gonzenheim e. V. - Issue 16 (Ed.): 100 Years of the Bad Homburg Central Railway Station in front of the height 1907–2007.
  • Walter Söhnlein, Gerta Walsh: Clear the way! - Railways in the Taunus 1860 - 1910 - 2010 . Frankfurt 2010. ISBN 978-3-7973-1223-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Korwisi and Wolter open Bad Homburg station , bad-homburg.de, August 20, 2013, accessed on March 2, 2014
  2. Bernhard Biener: Fresh fish on the plate instead of in the box . In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. November 26, 2009.
  3. Güterbahnhof Bad Homburg ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: Location Agent. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.locationagent.de
  4. Anke Hillebrecht: Inauguration of the bus station: the hub in Bad Homburg is fit for the future . In: Taunus newspaper . December 13, 2017 ( taunus-zeitung.de [accessed March 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Further construction of the subway in Bad Homburg on signalarchiv.de
  6. Martina Propson-Hauck: From Gonzenheim to the Kaisergleis. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 21, 2010, accessed March 23, 2014 .
  7. RP Darmstadt starts the hearing process. (No longer available online.) Darmstadt Regional Council, March 11, 2011, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved February 9, 2013 (press release). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; For the documents on the procedure, see rp-darmstadt.hessen.de ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-darmstadt.hessen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-darmstadt.hessen.de
  8. Presentation of information for citizens Extension of the U2 tram line to Bad Homburg station . April 4, 2011, archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; Retrieved February 9, 2013 .
  9. Bad Homburg building project. Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main, February 2012, archived from the original on March 5, 2012 ; Retrieved February 9, 2013 .
  10. 2017 City is waiting for the OK  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Frankfurter Neue Presse from July 15, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
  11. Weigelt, Torsten: Bad Homburg citizens should vote on U2. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 2, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  12. ^ Kolbe, Marc: Bürgerinfo: Stadt informs about the modalities of the underground extension. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. June 9, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Bad Homburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files