Wiesbaden-Dotzheim train station

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Wiesbaden-Dotzheim train station
Wiesbaden-Dotzheim train station in September 2018
Wiesbaden-Dotzheim train station in September 2018
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation FWD
opening November 15, 1889
location
City / municipality Wiesbaden
Place / district Dotzheim
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 4 '35 "  N , 8 ° 12' 13"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '35 "  N , 8 ° 12' 13"  E
Height ( SO ) 195  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Wiesbaden-Dotzheim station is a through station in the district Dotzheim the Hesse state capital Wiesbaden . It is located east of the old town center of Dotzheim on Wiesbadener Strasse , which crosses the Aartalbahn line almost orthogonally .

history

The station was opened on November 15, 1889 together with the section of the Aartalbahn from Wiesbaden Rheinbahnhof to Langenschwalbach (later Bad Schwalbach ) under the name Dotzheim . An initially erected barrack-like half-timbered building was not able to cope with the increasing traffic for long, so that in 1905 today's station building was inaugurated. On October 7, 1928, the station was renamed Wiesbaden-Dotzheim .

On September 25, 1983, passenger traffic on the Wiesbaden – Bad Schwalbach section was discontinued. In 1986 passenger traffic with museum trains was resumed by the Nassauische Touristik-Bahn (NTB), which is based in Dotzheimer Bahnhof. A year later, the buildings and technical systems on the line and the station were listed as a historical monument . The operation of the museum railway has been suspended since 2009 because a truck destroyed a bridge immediately north of the station.

The station forecourt , named after the planner of the Aartalbahn Moritz Hilf , served as a bus station and between 1948 and 1961 as the end of the trolleybus connection via Dotzheimer Strasse to the then Boseplatz , the German Unity Square, and on to Biebrich . The city buses ESWE stop today at the nearby Wiesbadener Straße. As part of the " Citybahn Wiesbaden " project, a resumption of passenger traffic between Bad Schwalbach and Wiesbaden has been under discussion since 2016, as it was between 1998 and 2001 and between 2011 and 2013 , with the train coming from the Taunus on its own route in front of the Dotzheimer station Wiesbaden city area would branch off. There were also plans to reactivate the Aartalbahn as a light rail or regional train , whereby the museum could be maintained.

building

renovated level crossing with the dispatcher's house

The listed station building , built in 1905, is covered by a half-timbered gable beneath crooked trees. To the south, the “summer station”, built from exposed timber framing , was built. To the north is a modern goods shed . The reception building is now used by the NTB as a ticket office and clubhouse and is decorated with historic railway posters from the 1950s and working bathroom scales. Photos and documents on the history of the railway line are exhibited in the former restaurant . The station facilities are used by the Nassau Tourist Railway to park and maintain its vehicles and to handle operations.

Aar Valley Railway Museum

The railway association, which also offers the museum trips, has set up the Aartalbahnmuseum in the listed entrance building of the station. In February 2011, the permanent exhibition "The Aartalbahn as a prince and spa railway" was opened. The museum shows exhibits and multimedia presentations from the heyday of the Aartalbahn between 1889 and 1914 in the Wilhelmine era , when it connected the world spa town of Wiesbaden and the women's spa in Langenschwalbach . A separate area has been set up for children under the title " Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver ".

literature

  • Philipp Dembach (Ed.): Dotzheim in words and pictures . Unchanged reprint of the 1912/13 edition. Wiesbaden-Dotzheim, self-published by Dembach 1979.
  • Winfried Barth; Andreas Christopher: Feldbahnen in Hessen , 2nd edition, Verlag ArGe Drehscheibe, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-929082-22-5
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Wiesbaden-Dotzheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical description of the train station ( Memento from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), ich-bin-dozzemer.de
  2. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of October 6, 1928, No. 44. Announcement No. 547, p. 276.
  3. ^ NTB: The history of the Aartalbahn
  4. ^ Nassauische Touristik-Bahn: Everyone wants the bridge again , Frankfurter Rundschau , February 10, 2010
  5. ↑ Chronicle of events relating to the future of the Aartalbahn  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on nassauische-touristik-bahn.de, accessed on June 21, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nassauische-touristik-bahn.de  
  6. ↑ Turntable Online: The trolleybus, not the Wiesbaden residents' favorite child , accessed on July 7, 2011
  7. ↑ 125 years of Wiesbaden public transport, Chapter 18 , on eswe-verkehr.de
  8. ^ NTB: The Wiesbaden-Dotzheim train station
  9. ↑ Elisabeth Böker: https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/wiesbaden/museum-mitmachen-11410676.html . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 15, 2011. Accessed June 23, 2011
  10. ↑ NTB: The permanent exhibition "The Aartalbahn as a prince and spa railway"