Halsdorf train station

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Halsdorf
Halsdorf station before the line is closed.jpg
Halsdorf station before the line was closed
Data
Design Through station
abbreviation ?
opening April 30, 1914
Conveyance 1972
location
City / municipality Wohratal
Place / district Halsdorf
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 54 '42 "  N , 8 ° 56' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '42 "  N , 8 ° 56' 26"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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West view of Halsdorf station before the line was closed
Today's use of the station building as a residential villa

The Halsdorf station is a former stop of the Wohratalbahn in Central Hesse , which was inaugurated on April 30, 1914. With the cessation of passenger traffic in 1972, the Halsdorf station lost its importance. In 1981 the freight traffic was stopped and in 1982 the line was dismantled. Today, the Hessian long-distance cycle route 6 , which runs from Diemelstadt in North Hesse to Lampertheim in South Hesse, runs right past the former station building.

The type building at Bahnhofstrasse 1, completed in 1914, on the south-western edge of the village based on the design by Alois Holtmeyer , is a cubic plastered building under a hipped roof . The former railway line ran west of the station building. The property has a separate half-timbered toilet house located a little to the north , which is also still standing.

In 1935, the Halsdorf station at route kilometers 11.4 was of particular importance when it was expanded as a branch station for the airfield railway to Bracht . Because of the transport of petrol and bombs in World War II, which took place from Halsdorf in the direction of the Bracht airfield, the Halsdorf train station was also under fire. In January 1945, three bombs were dropped on the station, which caused considerable damage to the building.

Ten years after the cessation of passenger traffic, freight traffic was also discontinued and the former station building was converted into a residential villa, which is now privately owned. The station logo was retained on the west side of the former station, but the rails have given way to the park-like gardens.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Working group on village culture and village history in Halsdorf (ed.): 1200 years of Halsdorf. A book from the village . Working group on village culture and village history in Halsdorf, Wohratal 2002, ISBN 978-3-8311-3529-5 .
  2. ↑ Gemünden: Wohratal-Kellerwald-Bahn was opened 100 years ago . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . May 13, 2014 ( online [accessed December 24, 2017]).
  3. ^ Wohratal / Halsdorf: train station. In: Volker Rödel, Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hessen ). Volume 2, part 2, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-8062-1917-3 , p. 967.
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Töpfer: Halsdorf train station. On the left the former toilet house. In: myheimat.de. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Schweers, Hans,: Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  6. ^ Volker Rödel: Railway history and construction types 1829-1999 . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .
  7. ^ The Wohratalbahn - Halsdorf station. In: geocaching.com. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .