Bad Orb train station
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 Narrow gauge locomotive Emma in Bad Orb station
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| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | FOR |
| opening | May 23, 1901 |
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| City / municipality | Bad Orb |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 13 '43 " N , 9 ° 20' 55" E |
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The Bad Orb station was the terminus of the Bad Orb Light Railway and now serves in the same capacity of a tourist narrow-gauge railway .
railway station
The station was 1901-1911 and 1921-1995 terminus ( terminus ) of the standard gauge light railway from Wächtersbach to Bad Orb . In the intervening years, when the line led to the " Wegscheide " military training area , it was a through station .
After the operation had been set on the track in 1995, it was a few years ago to 600 mm narrow gauge umgespurt and put back into operation in 2001 along with the station.
Railway systems
Reception building
The reception building of the railway station Bad Orb was 1925/1926 from the local red colored sandstone of the Spessart designed by the Frankfurt architect Franz Thyriot and probably under construction management built by district architect Eduard Goepfert. It suggests a three-wing system on an H-shaped floor plan . Stylistically it is a mixture of Expressionist and the home style committed elements. The building is dominated by a central clock tower. The interior of the station hall (today's ballroom of the restaurant) was decorated by the painter Hans Brasch with murals. The large-scale paintings on all four sides of the hall symbolically represent the seasons, the Orber mineral springs and the typical professions of the Orber citizens . The entrance building is connected to the neighboring houses for railway employees via an arcade .
The building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . It is now used as a restaurant. A small park extends in front of the building.
Locomotive shed
The former two-tier locomotive shed is now used by the museum railway. The steam locomotive “Emma” and a saloon car are stored here .
Freight depot
The Bad Orb freight station is a curiosity: Since not all tracks in Bad Orb station were renewed with the re-gauging of the entire route, there is now a mixture of normal and narrow-gauge tracks in the once extensive track field of Bad Orber station.
Tracks and operations
In Bad Orb station, only the main platform on platform 1 is available for museum traffic . In the summer months between Easter and the end of October each year, the narrow-gauge railway "Emma" runs three times on Sundays and public holidays between Bad Orb and Wächtersbach station through the idyllic Autal valley.
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 "Emma" Bad Orber small train |
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Connection to urban transport
The bus routes 84/85, MKK-80, MKK-81, MKK-82 and MKK-83, which connect to Bad Soden-Salmünster , Flörsbachtal , Jossgrund and Wächtersbach, leave the Bad Orber bus station .
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Volker Rödel, Heinz Schomann: Railway in Hessen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , Volume 2.2, p. 847.
- Hans Brasch. 1st chairman from 1948–1949. In: Association of Visual Artists Württemberg. 70 years of VBKW. The chairmen since 1914. 14 artist portraits. VBKW, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-929419-02-5 , pp. 32-37
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thyriot, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 124 .
- ↑ Peter Georg Bremer: Orb Chronicle. 2001, p. 64.