Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach station
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Platforms in Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | FWH |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | December 27, 1870 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Gross_Umstadt-Wiebelsbach |
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| Architectural style | historicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Groß-Umstadt |
| Place / district | Wiebelsbach |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 49 '59 " N , 8 ° 56' 27" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach station until 2005 Wiebelsbach-Heubach , is located at the Hessian Odenwaldbahn and belongs to the train station Category 5. Here, the direction of branches Erbach coming Odenwaldbahn in the route branches to Darmstadt and Hanau . The station is in the network area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).
history
The station went into operation on December 27, 1870 with the opening of the branch to Babenhausen (continued to Hanau in 1882). The connection to Darmstadt followed on July 15, 1871, and the line to Erbach was opened on December 24, 1871 ( extended to Eberbach in 1882 ). All these lines and the train station were built and operated by the Hessian Ludwig Railway .
The station was originally called Wiebelsbach-Heubach . Wiebelsbach and Heubach have been districts of Groß-Umstadt since 1972 and 1977 respectively . However, the station was far away from the two eponymous villages and "stands in the middle of a green meadow". When the continuous trains from Frankfurt to Stuttgart ran as D-trains between 1984 and 1988 , the Wiebelsbach-Heubach station was considered the "loneliest express train station in Germany".
Strictly speaking, the "Bauhütte am Zipfen" was the first reception building, a relatively simple single-storey wooden construction. This was replaced around 1884 by a two-storey half-timbered building with a rectangular floor plan, wooden cladding and a single-storey extension, east of the tracks, on the Heubach side, where the low-rise building for the RSTW stands today.
The third station building was built between 1905 and 1910, also east of the tracks. It was built in an eclectic mix of styles from neo-renaissance , youth and homeland styles . The half-timbered building from 1884 was dismantled and the upper floors of two residential buildings were built using the demolition material, which can still be seen in the historic center of Wiebelsbach. The station office, the command post, the ticket office, the waiting rooms and the station restaurant were located in the new reception building, which is still almost unchanged from the outside today. There were three apartments on the upper floor, including that of the station master. From 1976 the track plan signal box with the control panel was also installed there, for which additional relay rooms had to be made available in a low-rise building north of the reception building. The reception building and the overnight building are - like the entire Odenwaldbahn - cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
The overnight building, west of the tracks, can be found for the first time in the site plan from 1902. To the north of it stood the water tower, the south signal box (Ws), a two-tier engine shed, a turntable (16 m diameter), a slag pit and a coaling system. During the steam locomotive era, the overnight building served mainly social purposes for the staff as part of the locomotive station. On the ground floor there was a kitchen or canteen with lounge, office, bathtubs, showers and toilets. The office was also used by the locomotive management personnel to organize the locomotive schedule. There was also a telephone there for the registration and deregistration of the locomotive and train staff. The overnight rooms with beds were on the first floor.
The Wiebelsbach-Heubach railway maintenance office was housed in this overnight building. It was dissolved in 1974 and integrated into the Darmstadt Hbf train station. The overnight building survived the large demolition campaign. It still stands today and is still actively used for various purposes of rail operations.
The Wiebelsbach-Heubach station was an independent office until 1978. From 1978 to 1983 it was assigned to the Reinheim station, and from October 1, 1983 to the Darmstadt Hbf station.
On September 10, 2005, the station was given its current name - at the same time as numerous other stations of the Odenwaldbahn.
Technical Equipment
There is an electronic signal box (ESTW) in the station, which controls the entire Odenwaldbahn. The EStw headquarters in Wiebelsbach was inaugurated on October 22, 2007. The west branch Darmstadt Ost to Wiebelsbach was electronically controlled from this point on. The north branch from Wiebelsbach to Hanau without Babenhausen went into operation on March 29, 2008. The south branch from Eberbach to Wiebelsbach was switched on October 16, 2008. All stations of the Odenwaldbahn and since December 2010 also the Weschnitztalbahn Weinheim – Fürth are remotely controlled from here. For this purpose, a new low-rise building was erected west of the tracks.
Up until 1976, the points and signals were operated by two mechanical Stahmer type end interlockings. With levers and weights, points and signals were set over wire ropes. There were two mechanical lever interlockings in Wiebelsbach for this purpose. One at the northern end of the station towards Groß-Umstadt Wn and one at the southern end towards Höchst next to the water tower Ws. Both lever signal boxes were two-story. The tensioning mechanism was located on the ground floor and used weights to compensate for changes in length caused by temperature fluctuations in the wire ropes. The levers were on the first floor. Even then, routes could already be switched. Routes are technically secured routes for journeys over tracks and switches.
In 1976 electric light signals and points with electric drives were put into operation. For this relay interlocking (RSTW), a single-storey low-rise building was built next to the reception building, in which the electrical control Lorenz 60 (Sp Dr L 60) was housed. Relays that set points and signals electrically were controlled via push buttons on a track diagram control panel. In October 2008 this RSTW was taken out of service.
vehicles
The Odenwaldbahn is not electrified, so that trains of the Bombardier Itino (BR 615) type are used here. Since December 2017, Coradia LINT 54 vehicles have also been used on the section between Wiebelsbach and Hanau . VIAS GmbH operates all lines . Freight traffic no longer takes place.
traffic
| line | Train run | Clock frequency | Surname |
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| RE 80 | Darmstadt Hbf - Darmstadt North - Reinheim (Odenw) - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach (Odenw) | 60 min | Odenwaldbahn
Odenwaldnetz |
| RE 85 | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Offenbach (Main) Hbf - Hanau Hbf - Babenhausen (Hess) - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach (- Erbach (Odenw) ) | 60 min | |
| RB 81 | Darmstadt Hbf - Darmstadt North - Reinheim (Odenw) - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach (Odenw) - Eberbach | 60 min | |
| RB 82 | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Darmstadt North - Reinheim (Odenw) - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach (Odenw) | 60 min | |
| RB 86 | Hanau Hbf - Seligenstadt (Hess) - Babenhausen (Hess) - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach | 60 min |
Some trains on the RB 81 line continue from Darmstadt Hbf as the RB 66 line via the Main-Neckar Railway and the Pfungstadt Railway to Pfungstadt .
literature
- Volker Rödel, Heinz Schomann: Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Vol. 2.1. Edited by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , pp. 437-459
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Utz von Wagner: The Odenwaldbahn. A romantic train journey from Darmstadt to Eberbach = Eisenbahn-Bildarchiv 15. Freiburg 2005. ISBN 3-88255-354-5 , p. 8
- ↑ Rödel, p. 445