Baunatal-Guntershausen station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Wedge station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | FGTH |
| IBNR | 8000140 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | December 29, 1849 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | romantic classicism |
| architect | Julius Eugen Ruhl |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Baunatal |
| Place / district | Guntershausen |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 13 '48 " N , 9 ° 28' 2" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Baunatal-Guntershausen Station is a Keilbahnhof where the two of itself, Kassel Hauptbahnhof coming railway lines of the Main-Weser Railway and the railway line Bebra-Baunatal-Guntershausen called "Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn" branch. Today it is the train station in the Guntershausen district of the city of Baunatal and a small railway junction south of Kassel .
location
The station is on the high bank of the Fulda . It was originally called "Guntershausen". Immediately to the south is the bridge over the Fulda, built in 1848, which was the largest railway bridge in Germany at the time of construction . In World War II, the seven central arches were destroyed. In 1952 it was rebuilt in its current form. To the north, towards Kassel, the route has a gradient of 10 ‰. During the period when steam locomotives were in operation, the lead and push services from the station had to be performed here again and again .
history
The Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn (Kassel - Guntershausen - Bebra ) was opened in 1849, the first section of the Main-Weser Railway from Kassel via Guntershausen to Wabern on December 29, 1849.
Until the 1860s, the lines leading south were single-track . At that time, the two house platforms that were used in directional operation were sufficient and the routes were only branched in the southern area of the station. At that time Guntershausen station was an island station . After both lines had been expanded to double tracks, this was no longer possible and the station was given more platforms. In 1905 the station was given a pedestrian tunnel to some of the platforms and the track plan was redesigned for line operation : The two branches to Bebra and Frankfurt were now separated in the north end of the station, so the island station became a wedge station. It is still in this form today.
In the Guntershausen railway accident on November 5, 1973, the D 453 and DC 973 express trains collided at Guntershausen station . 14 people died and 65 others were injured. Today (2014) there are only two through tracks left, all side tracks have been removed. The platform tracks are numbered 1 to 4 from east to west.
Reception building
The station building was built from 1846 according to plans by Julius Eugen Ruhl . Because of the location of the station in mountainous terrain, on the steep bank of the Fulda, it was created in the middle between the two branches to Bebra and Frankfurt am Main . It was made of brick in the style of romantic classicism with two single-story wings. In the middle there was originally a two-and-a-half-story gable-independent central building, which was crowned by a clock tower . In 1941 the building was rebuilt: the middle section was removed down to the ground floor: today the building is covered by a continuous hipped roof . The original outline is through the arcades articulated facades still be read, the axes of a ratio of 10: 10 form:. 3 The window bars in the arcade arches are partially preserved. In these wings there were formerly waiting rooms and station restaurants . The reception building also had a princely room .
The reception building can no longer be used today due to its disrepair. It is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
In spring 2012, Deutsche Bahn AG auctioned the station building to a private person for 1,500 euros. It is not yet known (since 2012) whether the new owner has precise plans for using the station building. The city of Baunatal had already shown no interest in buying the ailing building in advance , as the estimated renovation costs would significantly exceed the purchase price of one euro.
business
As a branching station , the station also had a certain importance in long-distance traffic until the middle of the 20th century. Today only connections by local rail transport stop here . With the RT 5 line, Kassel city center and the Auestadion can be reached without having to change trains . Bad Wildungen can also be reached with the RB 39 line and Frankfurt am Main with the RE 98 . The station is in the area of the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV).
For several years, the barrier-free expansion of the station has been discussed again and again . Deutsche Bahn renewed the station a few years ago, but as the operator, saw no need to expand the station so that it was handicapped accessible because the company believes that the daily passenger numbers are too low. In February 2016, Deutsche Bahn, the NVV and the city of Baunatal, which had been calling for the expansion for years, agreed on initial plans to convert the station. The renovation costs should be around 1.5 million euros. However, due to structural planning errors, the expansion can only begin with a delay in 2020. In March 2020 it was announced that the renovation should be completed within a year. The costs were increased to 2 million euros.
In 2011 the three mechanical interlockings were replaced by an electronic interlocking .
literature
- Siegfried Lohr : Plans and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982].
- Klaus-Peter Lorenz: Guntershausen - from the “station of a thousand doors” and its village . In: Lutz Münzer (Ed.): From the dragon to the RegioTram. Railway history in the Kassel region . Kassel 2014. ISBN 978-3-933617-56-9 , pp. 143–151.
- Lutz Münzer: Selected examples for the development of smaller main railway stations around 1900. In: Yearbook for railway history. 44 (2012/2013), pp. 85-104.
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Volume 2.1, Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 126ff, p. 149.
Web links
- Track layout and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Remarks
- ↑ Schomann assigns him - incorrectly - to the community of Fuldabrück .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station category list 2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service AG, December 16, 2016, archived from the original on February 15, 2017 ; accessed on February 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . (= Manual of the German railway lines ). Berlin 1935. (Reprint: Mainz 1984, p. 28f (No. 17); Münzer, p. 86, names 1848 differently)
- ↑ Lohr (1982), p. 339.
- ↑ Lohr (1982), p. 340.
- ↑ Schomann.
- ↑ So now: Guntershausen train station auctioned for 1500 euros . In: https://www.hna.de . January 16, 2012 ( hna.de [accessed January 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Guntershausen station: 20 minutes to the city . In: https://www.hna.de . July 21, 2010 ( hna.de [accessed January 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Guntershausen station will soon be barrier-free . In: https://www.hna.de . February 4, 2016 ( hna.de [accessed January 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Barrier-free renovation of Guntershausen train station is to begin in 2020 . In: https://www.hna.de . September 23, 2017 ( hna.de [accessed January 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Barrier-free expansion of the Baunatal-Guntershausen traffic station in less than a year. Deutsche Bahn AG, March 16, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ stellwerke.de, accessed on June 15, 2019
