Fulda train station
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 Entrance building of the Fulda train station
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 10 |
| abbreviation | FFU |
| IBNR | 8000115 |
| Price range | 2 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Fulda |
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| City / municipality | Fulda |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 '14 " N , 9 ° 41' 5" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 281 m |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Fulda station is a central transport hub of the rail network in Germany in osthessischen Fulda . It is frequented by around 20,000 travelers every day.
Network connection
Existing routes
Fulda, as at the North-South line designated Bebra-Fulda railway , the south in the Kinzigtal path merges and the flieden-gemünden railway . The high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg also runs in a north-south direction . The Vogelsbergbahn from the west and the Rhönbahn from the east end in Fulda .
New line
When planning the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg, a western bypass from Fulda was originally planned, whereby the city was to be linked to the new line by means of links to the existing line at Maberzell and Kerzell . This so-called variant I had already been discarded in the mid-1970s. In the continuation of which began in February 1974 regional planning process for the section Körle - Bavarian / Hessian border two other variants were in June 1976 introduced into the discussion: in the so-called Variant II , the new line would also have avoided the Fulda station west and would in Neuhof with the existing route has been linked. As variant III (which was later essentially implemented in this way), a bundling of the new line with the existing line was proposed between Niesig and Bronnzell . In 1976, the DB planned to implement this third variant. With the completion of the regional planning procedure in the Fulda area in July 1978, the route through Fulda was determined along the existing routes (original variant III).
The operating concept envisaged running the tracks of the new line and the north-south line in regular service, whereby it should be possible to change between the two lines at one platform each in the same direction. The tracks of the new line were routed through the center of the existing station, with the corresponding directional track of the north-south line connected on both sides. For this work, all existing tracks had to be changed as well as the bridges of the roads and waterways crossing the facilities. Between 1984 and 1991 (planning status: approx. 1988), a total of 89 construction stages with 28 intermediate security-related stages were planned, whereby operation in the passenger and freight station had to be fully maintained. In 1985 a new central signal box went into operation. In December 1986 the track of the north-south route to Frankfurt went into operation in a new location, and in October 1987 the track to Göttingen followed. At the end of 1987, track construction began on the new line to Kassel.
In the planning phase, the Fulda area (from the south portal of the Dietershan tunnel to the south end of the 240 meter long Fliedetal bridge) was part of planning section 17 of the central section of the new line.
The construction costs of the new line at the Kassel junction were put at 40 million DM per kilometer. On the free stretch between Kassel and Fulda, DM 32 million per kilometer was incurred.
Reception building
When the Bebra – Hanau Railway opened in 1866, Fulda only had an operating building but no reception building. This followed on April 1, 1875. At the time of construction, the site was a few hundred meters away from the city area, which was still bounded by the city wall approximately at the height of today's Rabanusstrasse. It was appropriate in size for the circumstances at the time, and was architecturally conventional in the arched style. Two one-story wings were connected to a two-story middle section, each ending in a two-story corner pavilion. This building was largely destroyed in the Second World War during the first major air raid on Fulda on September 11, 1944. Another air raid of the Allies to the railways took place on 4 December 1944th
Immediately after the end of the war there were plans to rebuild the reception building. The new building was based on the plans of the architects Schiebler and Helbich on the previous foundation walls. As the first construction phase, the northern wing with the restaurant and waiting rooms was built between 1946 and 1949 (left in the pictures). This was followed by the construction of the southern section with the counter hall, baggage handling and office space. The middle, centrally located reception hall was only built and equipped in 1954, completing the building in its existing form in 2016.
The building consists of two elongated wings with the slightly raised central wing. Both wings are three-story with a low upper floor. The plastered wing sides are faced in the cornice with stone slabs. The lattice windows on the upper floor have simple frames and a flat hipped roof with a pronounced, multi-profiled eaves was chosen. The middle wing is an 11 m high hall in steel frame construction . This is illuminated by 5 m high windows on both sides. The interior furnishings of the central wing and the counter hall are still largely in their original condition.
The two-storey transformer station planned by Helbich in 1952 is connected to the building on one side and the track diagram interlocking planned by Heinrich Möller in 1960 on the other . The latter is typically designed as a pulpit with a cantilevered extremely thin concrete ceiling, flat copper roof and windows running around the corners.
The Fulda train station building was one of the first to be rebuilt after the Second World War. The wings still show the influence of monumental buildings during the National Socialist era, while the middle section in particular, drawing on the architectural style of the 1920s, is already characterized by the playfulness and lightness typical of the 1950s. It is considered a special example of planning and building in the immediate post-war period and is a monument within the meaning of the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
In 1964 a design competition for the station forecourt took place, from which the design by Sep Ruf emerged as the winner. The design provided for the three sides of the square facing the city to be surrounded by modern buildings, including two high-rise buildings , but this was not implemented.
In the course of the construction of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg in the 1980s, the Fulda train station was also redesigned: The rising Bahnhofstrasse leading to the reception building was lowered to basement level and a new entrance area was created so that the pedestrian tunnel under the tracks was now reached at ground level. By lowering the station forecourt, the station building looks higher and even more monumental than when it was built. A central bus station was built at platform level to the southwest of the reception building.
Railway systems
Tracks
The passenger station has ten continuously passable tracks ; seven of them are used for passenger traffic and two more as through tracks. Track 10 serves as a siding for the high-speed line's rescue train stationed in Fulda . There are also three stump tracks (tracks 36 to 38) that can only be reached from the north and are primarily used by the Vogelsbergbahn regional trains to and from Gießen and Limburg .
To the south of the passenger station there is a freight station , which used to be important for express freight traffic . Today there is little freight traffic. Some wagons are collected for potash loading in Neuhof . Until the end of the 1990s, container traffic was also handled here. Until 1979 Fulda had the status of a marshalling yard . Since Fulda is a node station to the shunting yard Bebra assigned.
Two platform tracks of the new line were built between the tracks of the north-south line. A passing track is located in the middle between the new tracks. While the house platform 1 is reserved for regional traffic, the two western central platforms 2 and 3 each accommodate a new track and an old track in one direction of travel. The railway system was converted into a train station with one-way operation.
Narrow arches (600 and 675 m radius) connect to the south-west and north-east of the station. As a result, the speed of passage is limited to 100 km / h. Due to spatial bottlenecks, this speed could not be increased in the course of the construction of the new route.
On September 30, 1961, the electrification of the Hanau – Fulda section was celebrated in Fulda.
In the summer of 2021, two points are to be relocated to enable parallel entries from the direction of Neuhof and Gersfeld. Up to 12 additional timetable routes per day are to be created by the 4.3 million euro measure.
Signal box
The central signal box (type SpDrS 600) is located between the passenger and freight station on Petersberger Straße, which runs the high-speed route from Mottgers (exclusively) to Langenschwarz (exclusively) and on the north-south route from the former Kerzell train station to Burghaunden train station Controls train traffic. In addition, the route to Gersfeld is monitored in signaled train control. The Hünfeld signal box is usually remotely controlled from Fulda.
After nine and a half months of construction, the topping-out ceremony for the five-story, 30 m long and 11 wide signal box building was celebrated in mid-1983 . The signal box was put into operation in 1985 and made the reconstruction of the station system, which was carried out between 1983 and 1990, considerably easier. After its commissioning, the signal box was later equipped as a remote control center as well as a control center for line train control.
In 1983, a total of 32 million D-Marks was estimated for the overall measure, including signals, telecommunications technology, traction power supply, superstructure, signal box and outdoor facilities.
As part of the electrification of the Kinzigtalbahn, a pushbutton interlocking had already been set up in Fulda station.
Railway depot Fulda
Fulda used to have its own depot at the freight yard. In the spring of 1954, the first rail buses were located in Fulda. They initially operated in the direction of Hilders , later also on the "second Rhönbahn" to Gersfeld and on the Vogelsbergbahn .
From September 1967 Fuldaer VT 98 were also used further north between Bebra and Obersuhl after the GDR had banned the turning of the locomotive-hauled trains in the Gerstung train station . During this trip, the trains crossed the inner-German border twice . With the winter timetable 1975/76, the home of the rail buses ended in Fulda, all vehicles were handed over to the Gießen depot.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the BW was dissolved and continued as a deployment location for train drivers (DB Regio / Nahverkehr). In the mid-1990s, all activities were relocated from the old BW with roundhouse and turntable to the repair shop , where the locomotive management has been based ever since. With the 2006/2007 timetable change on December 10, 2006, cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft took over the train services in the direction of Bebra and Kassel from DB Regio AG.
In 2011, a furniture store was built on the site of the former depot.
Transport links
Long-distance transport
Due to its location on the north-south route (often with traffic stops ), numerous express trains (including well-known trains from the post-war period such as the “ Blaue Enzian ”) have passed Fulda station for many decades .
In 1977 there were up to 320 trains a day.
Most long-distance trains that use the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg stop at Fulda station. Only the trains on the ICE lines 20 and 22 (Hamburg – Frankfurt – Stuttgart / Basel) and the ICE sprinters on the Berlin / Hamburg – Frankfurt line pass through it without stopping.
| line | Train run | Clock frequency |
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| ICE 11 | Berlin - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Munich | one train a week at night |
| ICE 11 | Hamburg-Altona - Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Fulda - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich | Every two hours |
| ICE 12 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Wolfsburg - Hildesheim - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel Bad - Basel SBB | Every two hours |
| ICE 13 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Braunschweig - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt Airport | Every two hours |
| ICE 20 | ( Kiel -) Hamburg-Altona - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Frankfurt - Wiesbaden | individual trains |
| ICE 25 | ( Lübeck -) Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt - Munich (- Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) | Hourly |
| ICE 91 | Hamburg-Altona - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Plattling - Passau - Wels - Linz - St. Pölten - Vienna | a pair of trains |
| ICE 41 |
( Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Mainz - Wiesbaden - Limburg South - Montabaur - Siegburg / Bonn - Cologne / Cologne Messe / Deutz - ) Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Bochum - Dortmund - Hamm - Soest - Lippstadt - Paderborn - Altenbeken - Warburg - Kassel -Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Munich |
a pair of trains |
| ICE 50 | Dresden - Riesa - Leipzig - Erfurt - Gotha - Eisenach - Bad Hersfeld - Fulda - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Mainz - Wiesbaden | Every two hours |
| IC 26 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Augsburg - Munich-Pasing - Rosenheim - Freilassing - Berchtesgaden | individual trains |
| NJ Nightjet | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - / Berlin Ostbahnhof - Berlin - Magdeburg - / Göttingen - Fulda - Frankfurt South - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel SBB - Zurich | a pair of trains |
| FLX 10 | Stuttgart Hbf - Heidelberg - ( Weinheim (Bergstrasse) ) - Darmstadt - Frankfurt (M) Süd - (Fulda - Eisenach - Gotha ) - Erfurt - Halle (Saale) - Berlin Südkreuz - Berlin Hbf (deep) | 1 pair of trains by March 20, 2020 : FLIXTRAIN |
Local transport
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| RE50 | (Bebra - Bad Hersfeld - Hünfeld -) Fulda - Neuhof - Flieden - Schlüchtern - Wächtersbach - Gelnhausen - Hanau - Offenbach - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt | DB Regio | |||
| RB5 | Kassel - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Melsungen - Bebra - Bad Hersfeld - Hünfeld - Fulda | cantus transport company | |||
| RB7 | [Göttingen - Eichenberg - Eschwege - Bebra (- Bad Hersfeld - Hünfeld - Fulda) | cantus transport company | RB45 | Fulda - Großenlüder - Bad Salzschlirf - Lauterbach - Alsfeld - Grünberg - Gießen (- Weilburg - Limburg) | Hessian state railway |
| RB52 | Fulda - Eichenzell - Gersfeld | Hessian state railway |
(As of 2020)
Others
The 110 kilovolt traction power lines that run along the railway line through the Fulda city area are likely to have the largest number of consecutive guy masts of all overhead lines in Germany, possibly even worldwide , because 30 guy masts follow one another on this line. Of these, the mast 9108 is remarkable: It is in a storage shed.
The Fulda district of Bronnzell used to have two train stations. In addition to the station in the district itself, at which the line in the direction of Gersfeld (Rhön) branched off, Bronnzell had the "Bronnzell-Bad" station at the former Rhönbad. Bronnzell station was integrated into Fulda station as part of the "Fulda-Bronnzell" station when the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg was expanded.
literature
- Thomas Heiler , Beate Kann: Fulda railway junction . Erfurt 2011.
- Michael Mott : Playing on the “Pärrong” station . Fulda train station and its history: from idyll to ICE stop. Schnurbezelt driving and the imperial court train. In: Fulda newspaper . Series: Fulda then and now. January 7, 1998, p. 16 .
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway history and building types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and lines 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 322 .
Web links
- Representation of the railway system as well as some signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of course book route 615 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 610 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 351 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 616 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 635 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Fulda main station: In the middle of life. (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Rundschau, archived from the original on May 29, 2010 ; accessed on December 22, 2017 .
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Hessen area, Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (M): New Hanover-Kassel-Würzburg line: Information 1 . Brochure, 12 pages, approx. 1975, p. 10.
- ↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (Main), Department 42N (Ed.): New line Hanover – Würzburg: Fulda area. Information. , Brochure (16 pages, A4 half format), approx. 1976.
- ↑ a b Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group H / W Mitte of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New line Hanover - Würzburg, planning area central, planning section (PA) 17: city area Fulda , Frankfurt am Main, no year, six A4 pages (landscape format)
- ^ A b Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group NBS Frankfurt of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): Fulda - conversion of the station facilities . Brochure (6 A4 pages), Frankfurt am Main, approx. 1988.
- ↑ Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): new lines Hanover – Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the area of the directorate . Leaflet with 12 pages (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984).
- ↑ Dieter Goebel, Klaus Marten: The new line in the Fulda station - planning and implementation of the intersection structures in the middle and north . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 60 , no. 10 , 1984, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 739-746 .
- ↑ Thomas Heiler : Basic lines of Fukda industrial history in the 19th and 20th centuries in Gregor Stasch (ed.), Thomas Heiler: Maschinenbau in Fulda - Klein & Stiefel (1905–1979) (book accompanying the exhibition in the Vonderau Museum from January 20th - April 2, 2006), Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 3-86568-067-4 , p. 8
- ↑ Heiler u. Can: Railway junction , p. 11ff.
- ↑ Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939-1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1 , p. 220.
- ↑ a b c d State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.) Dieter Griesbach Maisant: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - Hesse - City of Fulda , Friedrich Vieweg & Son, 1992, ISBN 3-528-06244-4 , p. 245
- ↑ Heiler u. Can: Railway junction , p. 33.
- ↑ Dr. Lutz Münzer: Single wagon load traffic: New trends for the problem child . In: That was the DB: 1979–1980 . GeraMond Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86245-002-2 .
- ↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hannover – Würzburg center of the Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (ed.): The new line Hannover – Würzburg. The Kassel – Fulda section , brochure (46 pages), as of October 1984, p. 13 f.
- ↑ Helmut Weber, Walter Engels, Helmut Maak: The new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: Railway technical review . 28, No. 10, 1979, pp. 725-734.
- ↑ a b Start of electrification of the north-south line . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 35 , no. 22 , 1961, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 1069-1072 .
- ^ KBS 615 Frankfurt - Fulda: Fulda train station . In: turntable . No. 295 , 2019, ISSN 0934-2230 , ZDB -ID 1283841-X , p. 81 .
- ↑ a b c Topping-out ceremony for the new central signal box in Fulda . In: Die Bundesbahn , 7/1983, p. 469.
- ^ Friedrich Kießling: Electrical engineering on the new routes . In: Gerd Lottes (Ed.): On new rails through Spessart and Rhön . Hans-Christians Druckerei, Hamburg, 1992, without ISBN, ( Nature and Technology , Volume 6) pp. 95–102.
- ^ Jürgen-Ulrich Ebel, Josef Högemann and Rolf Löttgers: Rail buses from Uerdingen. Volume 2 - Mission History . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-222-0 .
- ↑ Engine shed ready by August: Buhl opens in summer ( Memento from April 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Fulda newspaper from April 23, 2011.
- ^ Peter Goette: Light F-Trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-729-9 .
- ↑ SPD parliamentary group for variant III . In: Fulda newspaper . November 12, 1977, No. 264, p. 13.
- ↑ ICE 90/91
- ↑ http://fahrplan.oebb.at/bin/traininfo.exe/dn/927831/531353/408824/104865/181?trainname=en471&stationFilter=&backLink=ts&
- ↑ The Rhönbad Bronnzell has been slumbering for 60 years. February 16, 2017, accessed April 17, 2020 .