Bad Kissingen train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | NBKI |
| IBNR | 8000714 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1874 |
| Website URL | stationsdatenbank.bayern-takt.de |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bad Kissingen |
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| City / municipality | Bad Kissingen |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 11 '30 " N , 10 ° 4' 47" E |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
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The Bad Kissingen train station was opened in the spa town of Bad Kissingen in 1874 and, despite originally planned differently, is a terminal station . The station building is a listed building . The “Fürstenzimmer” is probably the only one of its kind that still exists in Bavaria .
The " German War " of 1866 revealed serious logistical deficiencies in Bad Kissingen due to the lack of a railway connection, so that on January 9, 1867, King Ludwig II approved the connection of the place to the rail network.
Train traffic
Originally the station was planned as a through station , through which the trains between Gemünden am Main and Schweinfurt should have continued to Bad Neustadt an der Saale . But these plans were not implemented. The station has remained a terminus to this day. It is used for regional freight and passenger transport and is served by the Franconian Saale Valley Railway and the Erfurt Railway with Unterfranken-Shuttle - railcars on the unchanged route between Hammelburg and Schweinfurt. Regional Express trains run every two hours via Schweinfurt to Würzburg .
railway station
Reception building
When Bad Kissingen was connected to the Bavarian railway network in 1871 and the Schweinfurt-Bad Kissingen line opened in October 1871, international spa guests were finally able to reach the spa town directly by rail. At that time, however, the station building was still under construction. It was not until May 1874 that the new building in neoclassical style was opened - just in time for Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's first stay in Bad Kissingen, which began on July 4th .
The building plans came from the royal Bavarian building officer and general director Friedrich Bürklein (1813–1872), a student of Friedrich von Gärtner , who was often required to build train stations from 1843 onwards. After his death, the royal Bavarian district engineer Ambros Trient (1827–1900) took over the construction management.
Today, the station building is one of the few in Bavaria that has survived two world wars and the attempts at modernization by subsequent generations and is therefore still almost unchanged. The façade is in the neo -renaissance style, and sandstone from Burgpreppach ( Haßberge district ) was used as the building material . The rectangular building has been given its typical profile with strongly protruding central and corner buildings.
The listed station building was renovated in 2008/2009 after 135 years in a period of nine months. This renovation cost DB Station & Service AG , the railway subsidiary responsible for train stations, almost half a million euros .
Princely room
For the passengers there were the usual waiting rooms I., II. And III. Class . For the “very highest gentlemen” from families of ruling houses there was a “ prince's room ”, also known as the “royal salon”, in the train station of the royal state bath in Kissingen . Here, the members of the nobility , shielded from the rest of the train passengers, could wait for their saloon cars in comfortably furnished rooms with their own toilets . Arrival and farewell receptions were also held in this salon.
The prince's room was decorated in the style of its time, historicism . The order was given to the decorative painter Joseph Schwarzmann (1806–1890) , who was once sponsored by the Bavarian King Ludwig I and is now busy . However, as was customary at the time, he too had to make a deposit of 680 guilders before he was allowed to carry out the painting and decorating work (costs: 6,356 guilders) and stucco work (costs: 500 guilders). Schwarzmann, who had often worked with Friedrich von Gärtner, had already painted the Conversation Hall (today: Rossini Hall) in the arcade building in Bad Kissingen in 1838 and in the Protestant Church of the Redeemer in 1847 . In 1850 he decorated the Speyer Cathedral .
Schwarzmann covered the rectangular salon with stucco and painting decoration in the classical style, thus taking up the style form planned by the station architect Bürklein. Pilasters with subsequent entablature , which merge into a field ceiling , are attached over a base zone . The stencil painting shows typical classical motifs such as palmettes and spiral tendrils. The royal coat of arms is included in the ceiling painting , and four swan motifs can be found in the rosette . Schwarzmann may have wanted to take a favorite motif of Ludwig II with the swans. When Prince Regent Luitpold came to Bad Kissingen from Bavaria in 1894 , the local Saale newspaper reported : "The entrance to the King's Salon is decorated with coats of arms and flags, the interior of this richly furnished reception room is adorned with groups of precious plants."
Several reigning or no longer reigning rulers as well as members of the European aristocracy used the pleasant luxury of this princely room before and after their spa stay in Bad Kissingen. These guests included a. the German Empress Auguste Victoria , Queen Marie of Hanover , Queen Sophie of the Netherlands , Franz II. of Naples (until 1861 King of the Two Sicilies ) and Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary .
When the waiting rooms were converted into a restaurant in the 1970s, some changes were also made in the Prince's Room. For example, the door to the platform was replaced by a window, the toilets were removed and the whole salon was completely renovated. Today it is probably the only original salon of this type still in existence in Bavaria. The old bell cord for calling the service personnel still hangs near the door to the main restaurant. However, this room is mostly closed today, serves as a storage room for the station restaurant and is only made accessible to the public on the Open Monument Day .
War memorial
On the side of the station forecourt opposite the station, on the decline into the city, there is a war memorial designed in 1900 by the sculptor Balthasar Schmitt (1858–1942) to commemorate those who fell in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. The monument was ceremonially unveiled in 1904. The well built into it has been dry for many years.
literature
- Gerhard Wulz: Separée for “the very highest gentlemen”. The story of the prince's room in Bad Kissingen train station. In: Saale-Zeitung , 2002; - Where the “very highest lords” were received. In: Frankenland , Volume 55, 2003, pages 454–458 (see here: History → Highlights → Königssalon )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 803 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801-2001, facets of a city history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name, p. 96
- ↑ Denis A. Chevalley and Stefan Gerlach Monument Topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Bavaria. City of Bad Kissingen. Munich 1998, p. XLIX
- ↑ The continuation of this line from Bad Kissingen to Gemünden could only be put into operation in 1884.
- ↑ Denis A. Chevalley and Stefan Gerlach Monument Topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Bavaria. City of Bad Kissingen. Munich 1998, pp. 22-24.
- ^ Sigismund von Dobschütz: Old train station in new splendor , in: Main-Post from March 21, 2009
- ↑ Gerhard Wulz: Separée for “very highest gentlemen” In: Saale-Zeitung 2002; - Where the “very highest lords” were received. In: Frankenland 55 (2003), pp. 454–458.
- ↑ Both works no longer exist today.
- ↑ Brochure Bad Kissingen train station, Königssalon , text: Gerhard Wulz ( PDF file )