Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station

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Frankfurt (Main) East
Station building of the Ostbahnhof
Station building of the Ostbahnhof
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks
  • 2 long-distance railway tracks
  • 2 subway tracks
abbreviation FFO
IBNR 8002039
Price range 4th
opening March 10, 1913
Profile on Bahnhof.de Frankfurt__Main__Ost
Architectural data
architect Karl Radlbeck
location
City / municipality Frankfurt am Main
Place / district Ostend
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 6 '46 "  N , 8 ° 42' 29"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '46 "  N , 8 ° 42' 29"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
i11 i16 i16 i18

The Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station serves regional traffic in Frankfurt's Ostend . In freight transport by rail , it is one of the two remaining large freight stations in the city (the other is located in the Höchst industrial park ) after the much larger main freight station was closed. The Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station has a container terminal operated by the Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße (DUSS). Immediately to the east of the marshalling yard are the urban connection line and the port station of Frankfurt's east port .

history

Location of the former Hanau train station

Until the Ostbahnhof went into operation, the trains from the direction of Hanau drove to the Hanau station , a terminal station located between Röderbergweg, Zobelstrasse and Hanauer Landstrasse south of the zoo . This was opened on September 10, 1848 by the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company together with the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line and came to the Prussian State Railways via the Hessian Ludwig Railway .

Today's Ostbahnhof was opened by the Prussian State Railways on March 10, 1913. However, freight traffic did not begin until April 1 and passenger traffic on May 1 of the same year.

In World War II the Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station and its train yard goal from the air raids of the Allies , for that. B. May 28, 1944 and February 17, 1945. 640 tons of bombs were dropped on the latter  . The drop spread to Fechenheim , Offenbach am Main , Rumpenheim and Mühlheim am Main . The original entrance building from 1914 with the huge entrance hall burned down after an air raid in World War II and was demolished in the post-war period . A temporary low-rise building served as a replacement, in which 10,000 commuters and 16 tons of express goods were handled every day.

Reception building

Entrance building of the Ostbahnhof - right: the steel frame for supporting

architecture

In 1961 a sober functional building in the style of the 1960s was built, the corridors and cellars of which are based on the old building. The design comes from Karl Radlbeck , a design that broke the tradition of previous years in station construction. Instead of opening the building and the main hall invitingly to the square, there is a strict, rather forbidding bar in front of the square. The slightly recessed ground floor had a circumferential band of skylights so that the large cube on the upper floor seemed to float above the ground floor. Its facade and entire wall surface is a windowless wall. Only a clock above the entrance doors in the middle of the facade and the large logo of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the upper right corner set accents. Both have since been removed.

A bowling alley was set up in the basement , the snack bar was given a mosaic by the artist Lina von Schauroth and the entrance hall was decorated with glass windows with animal motifs, as the Frankfurt Zoo is only a few minutes' walk away.

Current state

When the reception building was built, savings were made on the architecture and later on the maintenance. This has devastating effects on the functionality and appearance of the station. For several years now, only a steel structure has saved the building from collapsing. The reception building was extremely neglected, as was Danziger Platz in front of it. Nothing has been preserved from the original architectural statement and furnishings. The building presents itself as a decaying ruin. The few doors and windows were largely boarded up or walled up after unauthorized persons had broken into the ruins of the reception building. The German Bahn AG wanted before the completion of the planning approval procedure for the Nordmainische train not invest more here. For a long time, the only intact part of the building was the bowling alley, which is used by the Railway Sports Association (ESV).

In November 2014, the seat of the European Central Bank was relocated to the new building on the site of the former wholesale market hall . This made the ruinous situation of the neighboring Ostbahnhof so embarrassing that the railway took renovation measures: At the end of 2014, the platform of tracks 3/4 was renewed and adapted to the appearance of modern stations. The platform for tracks 1/2 and the platforms for baggage handling were removed, and the associated staircases and shafts for the goods lifts were filled. The platform underpass was given fresh paint and then some artistic graffiti that had meanwhile been destroyed by vandalism as decoration. The fact that it now goes under the ruins of the reception building and then tracks 1 and 2 without opening and only opens again on the platform for tracks 3 and 4 is very long compared to the underpasses of other stations.

The reception building was sold to the project developer evoreal in summer 2016 . The new owner initially intended to demolish the building. The city also considered commercial use possible. However, the property is still a railway operating facility . And since the access to the platforms runs across the property, it can probably not be exempted from it entirely .

In June 2018, an application from DB Station & Service for the dismantling of the reception building, the administration building and the baggage platform was approved by the Federal Railway Authority .

Station forecourt

The Danziger Platz in front of the station building was used for road works in connection with the new building of the European Central Bank at the wholesale market hall as a building material warehouse. The Frankfurt Garden , an urban gardening project, is currently located there . According to the will of the City of Frankfurt, the urban neglected square is only to be renovated for the Nordmainische S-Bahn after the work that has not yet begun has been completed.

business

New platform (2016) - in the background the European Central Bank

passenger traffic

The importance of the station for passenger traffic has decreased significantly . Today regional trains run here to Hanau , Laufach and Aschaffenburg as well as individual regional express trains to Würzburg and Bamberg . In the opposite direction, the trains run to the Südbahnhof or the main train station and via Frankfurt Airport to Rüsselsheim Opelwerk. In addition, a pair of VIAS GmbH trains to and from Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach in Frankfurt Ost stop on weekdays .

In 2004, the station was also served by the MainLinie , which connected Hanau with Frankfurt Airport and the Opel plant in Rüsselsheim am Main . Since the timetable change in 2019/2020, the connection has been served again by line RB 58, operated by the Hessische Landesbahn .

Until the early 1990s , the Ostbahnhof was an important station for the US armed forces . Their military trains drove from here to Berlin in particular and were parked here in the apron when they were not needed.

line Line course Tact
RE 54 Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau - Aschaffenburg - Würzburg - Schweinfurt  - Haßfurt  - Bamberg 120 min
RE 59 Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau (- Aschaffenburg) 120 min (Mon-Fri)
RE 85 Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau - Babenhausen - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach a pair of trains
RB 58 Rüsselsheim Opelwerk - Frankfurt Airport (- Frankfurt Stadium) - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau - Aschaffenburg (- Laufach ) 60 min
RB 58 Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau 120 min

←
 Lines
→
Frankfurt South Regional RE 59 RE 85 RB 51
Frankfurt – Maintal – Hanau 		Main valley east
Frankfurt South Regional RE 54 RB 58
Frankfurt – Maintal – Hanau 		Frankfurt-Mainkur
Change: tram Frankfurt tram
Frankfurt subway
Previous station line Next station
Zoo
←  Hausen 		U6 final destination

future

In the coming years, a new line for the Rhine-Main S-Bahn is to be built parallel to the north Main line to Hanau . An underground train station is to be built for this purpose.

Freight transport

DUSS container terminal Frankfurt (Main) Ost

After the closure of the main freight station and the Frankfurt Main 2 depot there, what was then Railion Deutschland (now DB Cargo ) relocated its freight transport activities to the Ostbahnhof and set up a staff base there.

The freight yard has been expanded into a container transshipment point since around 2003 . For this purpose, large areas east of the Ostbahnhof to Kaiserlei Bridge (area of ​​the former Frankfurt Main Ost railway depot) were converted into storage areas for containers and transport vehicles, as well as access and departure routes to the street.

The Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße (DUSS) has had a full-train transhipment terminal on the premises of the Frankfurt (Main) Ost station since 2004 . The handling of the containers from trucks to trains to be assembled in the container terminal and vice versa is carried out with two portal cranes . The gantry cranes can handle containers over a length of 660 meters on four tracks each. The gantry cranes handle an average of 70,000 containers per month (slightly more than 2,300 containers per day).

From the Ostbahnhof, full freight trains for the automotive and mining industry are mainly driven, and container trains to the seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven.

Connection

Until 1993, the Ostbahnhof was accessed directly by tram line 11 . This was then relocated to the neighboring Hanauer Landstrasse due to the redesign of Danziger Platz, originally with the intention of relocating it back to the station forecourt in a modified form after the construction work was completed .

For cost reasons and because the current stop is closer to the headquarters of the European Central Bank on the site of the former wholesale market hall , the city council decided in 2002 to leave the tram in its current position permanently.

Subway station

Ostbahnhof underground station
Subway next to the train station
Covered, open shaft over three levels

On May 29, 1999, the Ostbahnhof underground station on the U6 line went into operation. For this purpose, a short branch line was created, which branches off the C-line (U7) leading through the Ostend at the Zoo underground station, passes under the zoo and finally flows into the new station under the Ostbahnhof.

The subway station is partly under Danziger Platz, partly under the track of the Ostbahnhof, south of the reception building. The axis of the subway station runs perpendicular to that of the railroad. In the long term, this opened up the option of crossing under the railway embankment and flowing into Hanauer Landstrasse east of the railway line .

Here, for the first time in Frankfurt, an underground station was built with daylight through a glass pyramid. The design concept for the station comes from Willy Orth. On the platform level, the color gray dominates, complemented by black and white photographs on the walls that illustrate the history of the Mainbrücken. The Frankfurt skyline is indicated by colored wall tiles on the intermediate level.

The platform was initially not in the in the Frankfurter underground expanded usual 105 meters. Because of the long unclear layout of the planned underground S-Bahn station, the underground station could initially only be completed over a length of 75 meters, which is why the trains had to enter the station at 10 km / h due to the lack of a slip path.

It was not until June 26, 2007 that the platform could be extended to 105 meters. This part was pushed under the DB tracks as a concrete box while the railway was in operation (pre-pressed construction). There is no turning system behind the train station. With the expansion of the station, a new pedestrian connection was created between Danziger Platz and Hanauer Landstrasse. At the east exit there is now a better way to change to tram line 11, for which a new stop has been set up, which is called "Ostbahnhof / Honsellstraße".

literature

  • Martin Schack: New stations: the station building of the German Federal Railroad 1948–1973 . 1st edition. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-49-3 .

Web links

Commons : Frankfurt (Main) Ostbahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : U-Bahnhof Ostbahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939–1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1 , p. 134
  2. ↑ Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939-1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. 978-3-935395-22-1, p. 314
  3. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Frankfurt-Ostend: Schandfleck Ostbahnhof. In: fr.de. October 14, 2018, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Project presentation on the evoreal homepage , accessed on February 8, 2018
  5. ↑ a b Boris Schlepper: Ostbahnhof in new hands . In: Frankfurter Rundschau v. August 4, 2016, p. F11.
  6. ↑ Planning approval by the EBA dated June 13, 2018
  7. ↑ Christoph Manus: Life on Danziger Platz . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of January 22, 2017, p. F8.
  8. ↑ Timetable change: New Gateway Gardens S-Bahn station and numerous additional trips. Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, accessed on December 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Deutsche Bahn course book. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  10. ^ A b Manfred Köhler: Terminal Frankfurt-Ost - train station with checker. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 25, 2015, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b c DUSS Terminal Frankfurt / Main-Ost - The city-center CT location for the Rhine-Main area. Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße , May 2015, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
  12. ^ VerkehrsGesellschaft Frankfurt ( Memento from June 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )