Frankenberg (Eder) station

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Frankenberg (Eder)
The station during the Korbach – Frankenberg opening celebrations on September 12, 2015
The station during the Korbach – Frankenberg opening celebrations on September 12, 2015
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation FFRK
IBNR 8000104
Price range 6th
opening July 1, 1890
location
City / municipality Frankenberg
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '16 "  N , 8 ° 47' 22"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '16 "  N , 8 ° 47' 22"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The entrance building of the Frankenberg train station, the extension on the right has since been demolished and the forecourt (left) has been extensively redesigned
Station forecourt , from Marburger Straße seen from

The Frankenberg (Eder) Station is a transit station on the railway line Warburg Sarnau . In the past, the Nuttlar – Frankenberg ( Ruhr-Eder-Bahn ) railway branched off from here, followed by the Bad Berleburg – Allendorf ( Obere Edertalbahn ) railway . Track systems and the area around the station were renewed by mid-2015; In April 2013, the city of Frankenberg presented a project sketch for the renovation of the reception building and the large-scale redesign of the station forecourt.

history

Frankenberg station was inaugurated in 1890 with the opening of the Burgwaldbahn , the southernmost section of the Warburg – Sarnau railway . In 1900, with the opening of the Untere Edertalbahn , another section of the Warburg – Sarnau line, a connection to Korbach was put into operation. From there you could travel on to Kassel , Brilon-Wald , Warburg and Bad Wildungen . On December 1, 1908, the Nuttlar – Frankenberg railway was opened, which led from Frankenberg via Allendorf and Winterberg to Bestwig . On November 17, 1910, Frankenberg was connected to Bad Berleburg by the Upper Edertal Railway, which began in Allendorf . There were also plans for the Wohratalbahn , which connected to the Kellerwaldbahn in Gemünden (Wohra) , to build a connection to Frankenberg. The route had already been measured and the substructure was partially finished, but the First World War prevented further construction.

Former connections for passenger transport

route PV set on annotation
Ruhr-Eder Railway May 28, 1967 The section to Allendorf is still used for
freight trains and occasional special trains to Battenberg ;
2005–2007 regular special trips
Upper Edertal Railway May 31, 1981 Freight traffic to Hatzfeld until 1995 ,
today only to Battenberg;
isolated special trips in the summer months
Lower Edertal Railway May 30, 1987
(reopened September 11, 2015) 		Freight traffic until 1991;
1997, 2005–2007 and 2011–2013:
special traffic to Herzhausen am Edersee

Frankenberg was a stop on the Heckeneilzug Hamburg – Paderborn – Brilon – Marburg – Frankfurt, which was discontinued in 1979 .

Due to the strong competition from the emerging private transport , the station recorded a sharp decline in travelers on some connections. First, the middle section of the Nuttlar – Frankenberg railway line was completely shut down and dismantled in 1967. The southern section was only served by trains to Bad Berleburg . These were discontinued in May 1981. Passenger traffic on the Lower Edertal Railway (Frankenberg – Korbach) was suspended from 1987 to 2015.

There is still freight traffic on a remnant section of the Upper Edertal Railway to Battenberg (Eder) .

Railway systems

Track side 2006, before renovation
Track side 2015, after the modernization
Steam locomotive special train in October 2010

Reception building

The reception building includes a waiting room , an agency with ticket sales and a train station restaurant that is currently empty . The current station building dates from the 1930s and is a listed building. A planned renovation has not taken place to date (as of 2019).

Track systems

The station originally had five platform tracks. However, until the track system was rebuilt in 2015, only the two tracks on the first central platform were used. Since then, Frankenberg station has had three platform tracks on a house platform and an island platform, as well as a platform-less track for parking trains. A newly designed square was created between the station building and the new house platform.

The former five platform tracks were connected by an underpass that is now filled. A level , barrier-free rail crossing on the north side of the platforms has served as a replacement since 2015 .

  • The former house platform on track 1 was used as a siding for trains on the Warburg – Sarnau line . Today freight trains are parked there. Originally it was built for the trains on the planned route to Gemünden (Wohra) .
  • The platform on tracks 2 and 3 also served the trains on the Warburg – Sarnau line. It was renewed in August 2010 and replaced by the new house platform five years later.
  • The platform on tracks 4 and 6 served the trains to Bestwig and Bad Berleburg . It has not been used since passenger traffic on the Upper Edertal Railway was discontinued in 1981. Today's central platform 2/3 is partially located on its area.
  • Most of the freight tracks are still in use today and are located south and west of the platforms . The industrial trunk line that branched off from here is now shut down and partially dismantled.

Depot

Until the 1960s , the station had its own depot , which was dismantled in the 1980s after serving as a branch of the Marburg station .

Signal box

The Frankenberg signal box has not been used since the Burgwaldbahn switched to electronic signal box technology in autumn 2010. The signal boxes in Friedensdorf and Sarnau have been setting the course for the Burgwald Railway since then, and operations are controlled from Kassel.

Goods shed

The goods shed is no longer in use and has been demolished; there is now a green area. In the past there were many systems that were used for freight transport . Today most of them have been demolished or dilapidated. The last systems were in use until the 1990s .

Service offer

Local transport

Until mid-September 2015, Frankenberg was the end point of the trains from Marburg , since then every two hours they run through Korbach to Brilon or Bestwig . There is usually an hourly service to Marburg from Monday to Saturday. The trains are operated as line RB 42 by the DB subsidiary Kurhessenbahn . Come mostly used railcars of the 628 series .

According to the 2011 timetable, 28 passenger trains served the station from Monday to Friday, 25 on Saturdays and 14 on Sundays.

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Birch Bringhausen RegionalRB 42
railway line Warburg – Sarnau 		Frankenberg-Goßberg

Special traffic

From 2005 to 2007 there were special trips on Sundays and public holidays from May to October on the (at that time) not regularly traveled route to Herzhausen am Edersee and to Battenberg -Auhammer.

From 2011 to 2013, passenger trains again ran along the Eder in the summer months . They did not end in Frankenberg, but were used continuously from Marburg to Herzhausen. It was not possible to continue to Korbach , however, as the section had been closed to all train traffic since 1998 and overgrown with bushes . The route to Battenberg has only been in operation for certain events since 2007 (including the Eder Bike Tour in mid-June every year), as there was still no local rail transport.

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Röddenau Regional
individual special trips 		The End

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City wants to buy train station - work is to start in 2014. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . June 19, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2013 .
  2. ↑ http://www.eisenbahnfreunde-paderborn.de/heckeneilzug-bremen---frankfurt/
  3. ↑ Tracks in service facilities (FFRK) , DB Netz AG (PDF)