Giessen railway station

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Reception building and station forecourt (February 2015)
Reception building and station forecourt (February 2015)
Data
Design Wedge station
Platform tracks 11
abbreviation FG
IBNR 8000124
Price range 2
opening August 25, 1850
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Architectural data
Architectural style Neo-romance
architect Building councilor Ludwig Hofmann
location
City / municipality to water
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 34 '45 "  N , 8 ° 39' 43"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '45 "  N , 8 ° 39' 43"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The station casting is a Keilbahnhof in the city of Giessen . It is assigned to station category 2 and, with around 375 trains and 28,000 passengers daily, forms the most important public transport hub in Central Hesse .

history

The first provisionally set up station in Gießen was built for the Main-Weser Railway in 1850 in the Oswaldsgarten area . This provisional facility was replaced in 1853/54 by a new, south-facing station on the present site with a corresponding station building.

Between 1869 and 1871 that drove Upper Hessian Railway Company of casting from the Vogelsberg Railway towards Fulda and Gießen-Gelnhausen railway ahead. Their railway systems in Gießen were opposite the main-Weser railway station building, on the other side of the station forecourt. This meant that access to the reception building was only possible via Liebigstrasse (then called Universitätsstrasse ). It was not until 1893 that a bridge connection to the Alten Wetzlarer Weg and the staircase called the “mausoleum” were built over the tracks of the Vogelsbergbahn and the Gießen – Gelnhausen line.

During World War II , the station was the target of air raids by the Allies , for example on December 4, 1944 in connection with the major attack on Gießen on December 6, 1944, on December 11, 1944 and on February 17, 1945 (109 tons of explosive bombs ). This caused severe damage.

Reception building

First station building

The first station building of Gießen train station from 1854 was built in the style of romantic classicism strictly symmetrically on an E-shaped floor plan made of red sandstone , set off with plastered surfaces. The building was two-story and 72 meters long. A clock tower was set up on the central pavilion. Offices and five apartments were located on the upper floor. In the northernmost part of the building there was a prince's room .

Second reception building

The current station building was built from 1904 to 1911 by the Herborn architect Ludwig Hofmann . He included the first station building of the Main-Weser-Bahn in the new building. The cast-iron pillars of the platform roof also come from the system from 1854. The station building was now pushed as a wedge between the Main-Weser Railway and the east-branching tracks from the Vogelsberg Railway and the line to Gelnhausen. Urban planning, it represents the vanishing point of the visual axis of the city expansion from 1880. Built was there in historicist Neo-Romanesque style as a three-story, in red sandstone kept Neo-Romanesque building with a distinctive clock tower . On asymmetrical floor plan Martin Walser wrote in his diary on May 12, 1976 during a reading tour of the Gießen train station: “When the train stations were built, you obviously didn't know what to think about a train station. Most of the time you got into a mixture of church and castle. You can see that particularly clearly in Giessen. A red sandstone church with a nave and a tower, which was, however, placed a little crazy to disrupt the nave. "

During the Second World War , the building was damaged, the northern wing destroyed and no longer rebuilt. In November 1968 the station vestibule was renovated and the station building was expanded to the area where the northern wing once stood. The facade was renovated in the early 1970s.

The reception building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

In the station concourse there is a DB information center , a travel center , a station bookshop and sales points for food and travel supplies. The station management and train announcement, the station mission and DB Services facilities are still located in the reception building.

Signpost in normal and blind script on the handrail of a staircase (February 2015)

Between 2008 and 2010, the facilities were converted for passenger traffic. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 16, 2008. The main objective of the work was a new pedestrian underpass and barrier-free access to all platforms . The new pedestrian tunnel was opened on July 21, 2010. Due to remaining work, the facility was officially inaugurated in autumn 2010.

service

passenger traffic

Track systems of the Main-Weser-Bahn and reception building from the pedestrian overpass perspective (March 2014)

The Giessen train station has ten platform tracks in its two parts of the station:

  • The Main-Weser train station west of the reception building has tracks 1 to 5 running towards Kassel. Three ICE platforms on the Karlsruhe - Frankfurt am Main - Hamburg (- Stralsund ) route, regional express trains on the RMV route 30 stop here ( Kassel- Giessen-Frankfurt, Main-Weser-Express, RE 30 and RE 98) and 40 ( Siegen- Giessen-Frankfurt, Main-Lahn-Sieg-Express , RE 99), which together form an hourly service towards Frankfurt and Marburg and from Kassel or Siegen in Gießen. There are also trains of the Mittelhessen-Express on the Treysa - Marburg - Giessen (RB 41) and Dillenburg - Wetzlar - Giessen (RB 40) routes, which also run together to Frankfurt am Main from here. The regional trains to and from Hanau Hbf (RB 49) and Marburg also stop here .
  • The Upper Hessian Railway Station , the eastern part of the station, has tracks 11 to 15. The trains from the Vogelsberg and Lahn-Kinzig Railway (RB 45 and RB 46) as well as the Lahntalbahn trains to Limburg (RE 25 and RB in a south-westerly direction) run here 46) and a few trains on the Dill route in the direction of Dillenburg (RB 40).
  • Between the two parts of the station, at the tip of the wedge with track 9, is the only butt track of the station that has a platform. Almost all the trains of the Lahntalbahn to Limburg and Koblenz (RE 25 and RB 46) begin and end here .

In addition, unscheduled ICE trains on other lines run on the Main-Weser-Bahn in the event of operational disruptions on the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt am Main high-speed line , but these do not stop in Gießen.

Long-distance transport

In long-distance passenger rail traffic , the station is served every two hours by the ICE 26 line from Karlsruhe to Stralsund. A pair of trains runs as an Intercity to Westerland .

Between December 2009 and December 2011, a daily pair of EuroCity trains also ran from Siegen via Gießen and Frankfurt to Klagenfurt am Wörthersee . This train carried three through cars to Zagreb.

line route Clock frequency
ICE 26 ( Stralsund  - Rostock  -) Hamburg  - Celle  - Hanover  - Göttingen  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Gießen  - Frankfurt  (- Darmstadt  - Heidelberg  - Karlsruhe ) Every two hours
IC 26 Karlsruhe  - Heidelberg  - Darmstadt  - Frankfurt  - Gießen  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Göttingen  - Hanover  - Celle  - Hamburg  - Hamburg-Altona a pair of trains daily

Local transport

Regional Express to Frankfurt in the Gießen train station

Various regional express lines and regional trains stop in Gießen for local rail passenger transport . These are the connections Frankfurt - Siegen ( Main-Sieg-Express, RE 99 ) and Frankfurt– Kassel ( Main-Weser-Express, RE 98 ). In addition, all the regional train connections with Friedberg, Marburg and Dillenburg have their start and end points here.

The station casting is also support for the Lahn-Express and the Central Hesse Express , which here towards Treysa and Dillenburg winged is. Gießen station is served by trains from / to Gelnhausen (via Nidda), Fulda (via Grünberg and Alsfeld) as well as Limburg and Koblenz (via Wetzlar and Weilburg), which start or end in Gießen. The regional railways in the Lahntal and on the Vogelsberg have been operated by the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) since December 11, 2011 .

line route Station part Tact
RE 25 Giessen  - Wetzlar - Limburg - Bad Ems - Koblenz Dead end Every two hours
RE 30 Kassel - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Treysa - Marburg - Gießen  - Friedberg - Frankfurt Main-Weser train station Every two hours
RE 98 Kassel - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Treysa - Marburg - Gießen  - Friedberg - Frankfurt Main-Weser train station Every two hours
RE 99 Siegen - Dillenburg - Wetzlar - Gießen (- Friedberg - Frankfurt ) Main-Weser train station (Two) hourly
RB 40 Frankfurt  - Friedberg - Butzbach - Gießen  - Wetzlar - Herborn - Dillenburg Main-Weser train station Hourly
RB 41 Frankfurt  - Friedberg - Butzbach - Gießen  - Marburg - Stadtallendorf - Treysa Main-Weser train station Hourly
RB 45 Limburg - Weilburg - Wetzlar - Gießen  - Fulda Upper Hessian train station Hourly
RB 46 Giessen  - Lich - Nidda - Gelnhausen Upper Hessian train station Hourly
RB 49 Giessen  - Butzbach - Friedberg - Nidderau - Hanau Main-Weser train station Every two hours
  • RE98 / RE99 will be merged in Gießen in the direction of Frankfurt and separately in the direction of Kassel / Siegen.
  • RB40 / RB41 will be merged in Gießen in the direction of Frankfurt and separately in the direction of Treysa / Dillenburg.

Freight transport

To the southwest of the passenger station is the freight station , which until December 2006 was the central train formation station for goods traffic in Central Hesse. From here, various train stations in the area (e.g. Frankenberg (Eder) , Dillenburg and Nidda ) were finally served by local freight traffic. The majority of these train formation tasks have meanwhile been relocated to the Wetzlar freight yard .

Signal boxes

While the signals and points of the freight station and the Gießen-Bergwald section of the station are still operated by several electromechanical interlockings on site, the passenger station has been equipped with an electronic interlocking since December 2004 and is remotely controlled from the operations center in Frankfurt am Main.

Connection

Reception building with bus station (2015)

The bus station for regional and local bus lines is right in front of the train station, and the stops for the Mitbus city ​​bus lines are on platform 1 . There is also a taxi stand on the station forecourt and 20 short-term parking spaces on Bahnhofstrasse . Further short-term parking spaces are located on Lahnstrasse . The local car sharing provider has a parking space in front of the train station. For longer parking, there is a Park & ​​Ride car park with 480 spaces on Lahnstrasse and a car park on Zur Alten Post . The multi-storey car park on Lahnstraße is connected to platforms 1 to 5 by an overpass, stairs and elevators, so that there is already barrier-free access. There are 380 covered bicycle parking facilities on Lahnstrasse and Alten Wetzlarer Weg . There are 400 bicycle parking spaces at the station forecourt, 180 of which are covered and 36 in bicycle boxes that are subject to a charge.

The outside staircase from 1893, which leads from the station forecourt to the bridge over the tracks of the Vogelsbergbahn and to the Alten Wetzlarer Weg , is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . It was in need of renovation, the historical foundation had become unstable, and moisture penetrating it also endangered the structure. After a demolition was initially discussed, the stairs were specifically dismantled in 2019, most of the individual parts renovated - some also replaced - and the stairs then rebuilt on a new substructure.

Planning

Since the renovation of the station, there has been discussion about the extension of the station tunnel to Lahnstrasse , which was not carried out at the time . A space surrounded by buildings on two sides with additional short-term parking spaces, a long-distance bus terminal and additional bicycle parking spaces is to be created there on the former freight yard.

In the long term, the barrier-free conversion of the staircase between the station forecourt and the old Wetzlarer Weg is aimed at.

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Railway construction and routes 1839–1939 . 1st edition. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , vol. 2.1, p. 172ff.
  • Hugo Merk: The railway in Giessen and the Giessen depot . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3-88255-577-7 .
  • Rudolf Metzger: History in words and pictures about the Giessen train station. New information from old photo documents . In: Oberhessischer Geschichtsverein Gießen (Ed.): "Old Gießen" lives on in pictures. History and stories from Gießen . Giessen 1996, ISBN 3-9805492-0-8 , pp. 89-93.
  • Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939–1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Lemper: "At the limit of stress": Federal police at Gießen train station are massively lacking in personnel . In: Gießener Anzeiger, October 26, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2017
  2. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 220f.
  3. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 227.
  4. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (203).
  5. ^ 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. 174 .
  6. ^ 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. 172 .
  7. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (209).
  8. ^ Auf Durchreise , Gießener Allgemeine, Saturday, April 17, 2010, number 89, p. 72.
  9. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 314.
  10. ↑ denkmalpflege-hessen.de: Entry of the entirety of the Gießen train station
  11. ^ Gießener Allgemeine: The underpass at the train station has been opened
  12. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger: Gießen's train station finally gets a new underpass ( memento from October 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Local Association of Local Passenger Traffic Westphalia-South: Direct connection Siegen - Austria starts traffic on December 13th . Press release of August 24, 2009 (PDF; 116 kB). Retrieved September 13, 2009.
  14. ↑ Eurocity for Siegen ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Sauerlandkurier , article from May 27, 2009
  15. ↑ Katharina Benak: Renovation through dismantling and reconstruction . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Monument Preservation and Cultural History 4-2019, p. 21f.
  16. ↑ Franz Maywald: "Very early stage" . In: Gießener Anzeiger, June 24, 2016, accessed on February 5, 2020
  17. ↑ "Handle stairs carefully" . In: Gießener Anzeiger, October 19, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2020