Frankfurt-Rödelheim train station

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Frankfurt-Rödelheim
Platform tracks 3, 2 and 1 (from left to right), view to the north (2014)
Platform tracks 3, 2 and 1 (from left to right), view to the north (2014)
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation FRH
IBNR 8002052
Price range 3
opening 1860
Profile on Bahnhof.de Frankfurt-Roedelheim
location
City / municipality Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 7 '28 "  N , 8 ° 36' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '28 "  N , 8 ° 36' 26"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Frankfurt-Rödelheim train station is on the Homburg Railway in the Rödelheim district of Frankfurt . The railway system to the west of the town center was built at a distance of 6.6 to 99.6  m above sea level. NHN erected. The Kronberger Bahn also begins in the station in a northerly direction and the connecting curve of the Bäderbahn to the south . The category  3 station has transfer options to several bus routes.

history

old trainstation

first reception building from 1860

As a replacement for the horse-drawn bus line that has been in service since 1850, the Homburg Railway was opened in 1860 after several failed attempts and ran from Frankfurt to Bad Homburg , which gave it its name. Rödelheim was given a train station on this route. Originally the line ran from the Main-Weser train station over the Rebstock site to Rödelheim; the connection to the Main-Weser-Bahn from Bockenheim station (now Frankfurt Westbahnhof ), which still exists today, did not replace the route until 1884. As early as 1874, the Cronberger Bahn was opened, which initially ran on a single track via Eschborn to Kronberg im Taunus . The old station building was closed and the station moved to its current location.

New train station

Entrance building (street side) from 1874

In 1901 the Homburg Railway was expanded to include the Friedberg – Friedrichsdorf route . It brought an advantage, as in order to increase capacity and at the personal request of the emperor, the entire route from Frankfurt via Friedrichsdorf to Friedberg was expanded to two-track between 1907 and 1910. At the same time, in 1905, a connecting curve was built from Rödelheim to the Taunus Railway to Höchst station and opened for passenger traffic in 1908, from which another branch - similar to the original route of the Homburg Railway - branched off towards the main station from 1927. The lines were part of the Bäderbahn , an imperial connection from Wiesbaden via Rödelheim to Bad Homburg and on to Bad Nauheim . Each of these lines was double-tracked, only the branch line to Kronberg remained single-track. With the incorporation to Frankfurt, the station also changes its name to Frankfurt-Rödelheim . The extension of the already electrified tram reached Rödelheim station in 1911.

From the summer of 1954 on the routes to Kronberg and Bad Homburg there was a tight schedule with a cycle of up to half an hour. Since the imperial connection was obsolete, the connection to Höchst was demolished in 1963 with the construction of the A5 . This also reduced the section from the station to the Niddabrücke junction from four to two tracks. The actual tracks to Höchst were kept, in the area of ​​the eastern tracks there are now allotments. The connecting curve is now single-track.

On September 27, 1970, both Homburger Bahn and Kronberger Bahn were electrified .

In 1974, when it was accepted into the Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund (FVV), an S-Bahn -like advance service from the main train station to Bad Soden , Kronberg and Friedrichsdorf began under the line names R3 to R5 . This laid the foundation for the S-Bahn service that began in 1978 and continues to operate under the line names S3 to S5 that are still preserved today . With the expansion of the S-Bahn, the Kronberger Bahn also had two tracks. Since joining the Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund in 1993, Taunusbahn trains have also run to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, which stop in Rödelheim. These run over the remaining connection to the main station ( Rebstock curve ), while the S-Bahn - apart from operational disruptions - only run via Frankfurt West. On the grounds that there was parallel traffic, tram operations were also discontinued in 1978 and replaced by bus route 34.

During this time, Rödelheim was connected to the newly built relay interlocking Wf in the Frankfurt (Main) West train station. In addition, the two level crossings on Westerbachstrasse (south of the platforms) and Eschborner Landstrasse (north of the platforms) were closed. An underpass not far from the northern crossing was added as a replacement.

Between 1972 and 1975 there was another operational peculiarity in the Frankfurt area. The D 257 coming from Paris East was continued on the Homburger and Taunusbahn to Grävenwiesbach and also stopped in Rödelheim. Before that, the E 792/793 hedge cable train also ran from Frankfurt via Rödelheim and Grävenwiesbach to Cologne .

Todays situation

Buildings and facilities

The old Rödelheim train station is now used as an office by a consulting company. The reception building of the new Rödelheim train station has also been preserved. There is a small café inside. However, the building is partially covered by the massive platform roof of platform 1. On the island platform next to it there is a structurally older platform roof.

To the south of the reception building there are several smaller buildings that house public toilets, a kiosk and a fruit seller. One of the buildings was demolished as part of the modernization work.

A train destination indicator is installed for each track .

Tracks

In Rödelheim, three of the previous six tracks have been preserved. Tracks 1 to 3 are used for passenger traffic.

  • Track 1 is the main line of the Homburg Railway, Kronberger Bahn and Bäderbahn with the main platform at the reception building . All lines out of town stop here. The platform has a height of 96 centimeters and a length of 210 meters.
  • Track 2 shares a central platform with track 3 , which can only be reached via the pedestrian underpass at the southern end and is also 96 centimeters high and 210 meters long, which corresponds to a long S-Bahn train. The trains of the S-Bahn line S5 to Frankfurt Süd and the trains of the Taunusbahn (line SE 15) to the main station stop at platform 2 .
  • The S-Bahn lines S3 and S4 to Darmstadt and Langen stop at platform 3 .

In addition to the tracks that were still in use, there were other tracks west of track 3, which ended in the four-track section up to the Niddabrücke junction. To the east of platform 1 there was still a head rail.

Remodeling work

The station has been completely barrier-free since 2011 . The work was originally supposed to start in 2007, but the preparatory work did not actually begin until 2008. The conversion includes new platforms at S-Bahn height (96 centimeters) and modernization of the pedestrian underpass with ramps or lifts. In 2008, green cuttings were already carried out on the previous tracks and some of the signaling technology that was no longer used in the form of blocking signals and track closures was dismantled, and a kiosk was demolished. In March 2009, the lease for container construction with fruit sales expired and was dismantled shortly afterwards. The bus stops and Baruch-Baschwitz-Platz in front of the reception building are also to be modernized.

In 2011, after three years of construction, tracks 1 to 3 were put back into operation. In the summer of 2014, the renovation work on the entire station area was largely completed.

Connection

On the west side there is a small bus station, where the Frankfurt bus routes 55, 60 and 67 end or start. In addition, lines 34 and 72 - separated by the railroad tracks - run on Baruch-Baschwitz-Platz to the east. There is no longer a connection to the tram there, the tracks could only be guessed by the remains of paving.

←
 Lines
→
Frankfurt Central Station Hessian state railwayRB 15
Taunusbahn 		Oberursel (Taunus)
Rhein-Main S-Bahn
Previous station line Next station
Eschborn South
←  Bad Soden (Taunus) 		S3 Frankfurt West
Darmstadt Hbf  →
Eschborn South
←  Kronberg (Taunus) 		S4 Frankfurt West
Langen  →
Weißkirchen / Steinbach
←  Friedrichsdorf (Taunus) 		S5 Frankfurt West
Südbahnhof  →

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rödelheim on weiltalbahn.de
  2. ↑ Can still be seen on aerial photographs
  3. ↑ Friedrichsdorf on weiltalbahn.de
  4. ↑ Network map from 1974 on stadtregion.org ( Memento from December 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ DB press releases on the reconstruction of the Frankfurt-Rödelheim train station ( Memento from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 45 KiB)
  6. ↑ Resolution of the Frankfurt City Council on the conversion (PDF; 30 KiB)