Frankfurt-Eschersheim train station

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Frankfurt-Eschersheim
Frankfurt-Eschersheim train station.JPG
View from the Maybachbrücke to Eschersheim station
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation FFES
IBNR 8002045
Price range 5
opening 1850
Profile on Bahnhof.de Frankfurt-Eschersheim
location
City / municipality Frankfurt am Main
Place / district Eschersheim
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 9 '30 "  N , 8 ° 39' 18"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '30 "  N , 8 ° 39' 18"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Frankfurt-Eschersheim station is a stop on the Main-Weser-Bahn and serves the Eschersheim district of Frankfurt of the same name .

Reception building

The station building from 1877/1913 was originally built in a neoclassical style. A special structural feature is its extreme hillside location: the street side is two storeys high above the platform level. Passenger services are no longer offered in the reception building. The facility makes a neglected impression, as Deutsche Bahn has for years refrained from any maintenance with reference to the planned expansion of the line.

The original condition of the reception building has been structurally changed significantly since the beginning of the 20th century, so that it is not classified as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act, like numerous older station buildings further north on the Main-Weser Railway. Opponents of a four-track expansion of the Main-Weser-Bahn between Frankfurt West and (initially) Bad Vilbel have now suggested that the station building should be listed as a historical monument in order to make it impossible to close two more tracks with the status of a cultural monument created in this way embarrassed.

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railroad

Today the station is served exclusively by the S6 S-Bahn line of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn . The pedestrian overpass that leads through the station building to the street and connects the two outer platforms with each other was closed in autumn 2008 because it was dilapidated; the last coat of paint was in 1965. In the summer of 2016, the steel structure was removed and only the concrete components on both sides remained. The stairs from this overpass to the platform in the direction of Friedberg had already been closed several years earlier and replaced by a simple short staircase on the slope to Thielenstraße further north. At the north end, along the Eschersheimer Landstrasse, there is a footbridge over the tracks. There are also ground-level accesses to the platforms, which are to be omitted in the planned expansion of the railway line to four tracks. There will then only be one central platform with access from the Maybachbrücke with stairs on both sides of the bridge and only one elevator on the northeast side (i.e. in the direction of Heddernheim).

Rhein-Main S-Bahn
Previous station line Next station
Frankfurter Berg
←  Friedberg (Hesse) 		S6 Frankfurt West
Südbahnhof  →

Public transport

Eschersheim station, together with the nearby Weißer Stein underground station, forms a link in Frankfurt's public transport system . Weißer Stein is on the A route and is served by the underground lines U1, U2, U3 and U8 as well as three bus lines. The bus stop Eschersheim Bf in front of the reception building is served by bus line 60.

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Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Frankfurt (Main) Eschersheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Location, track systems and some signals and permitted speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
  • Current photos of the train station. [1]

References and comments

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau v. December 30, 2008, p. F11.
  2. ↑ This is based on several misunderstandings: According to the Hessian Monument Protection Act , it is not possible to create a cultural monument by administrative act . Rather, the ipso-jure principle applies here: an object that meets the criteria listed in Section 2 of the Hessian Monument Protection Act is a cultural monument - if the criteria are not available, it is not one. Even a cultural monument does not necessarily prevent the four-track expansion: if there is a cultural monument, the public interest in maintaining the cultural monument is weighed against other public and private interests in the planning approval procedure under railway law that precedes such an expansion of the line. If these other interests (such as the public interest in improved local transport) are rated higher than the preservation interest in preservation, the reception building (also as a cultural monument) would be released for demolition. On the other hand, there is enough space for four tracks under the Maybach Bridge , and the station building does not protrude beyond it, so that it is not necessary to demolish it for the expansion to four tracks.