Hanau West train station
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 Hanau West train station, direction Frankfurt
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| Operating point type | Station part |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | FHW |
| IBNR | 8002573 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1848 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Hanau_West |
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| Architectural style | Historicism / Neo-Renaissance |
| architect | Julius Eugen Ruhl |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Hanau |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '56 " N , 8 ° 54' 31" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Hanau West Station was the first station in Hanau . It was put into operation in 1848 and is located at line kilometer 17.9 of the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line . The place of business was in the 1970s, only one stop , one operationally connected breakpoint with branching point . In the meantime, Hanau West is operationally a station part of Hanau Hauptbahnhof .
history
Hanau Westbahnhof was opened in 1848 as the eastern terminus and terminus of the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company and the first station in Hanau. At that time it was on the western edge of the Neustadt Hanau , directly on the Philippsruher Allee leading from there to Philippsruhe Castle . The station building , like that of the Wilhelmsbad station next to the west, was designed by the architect Julius Eugen Ruhl . It was on the city side, north of the railroad tracks. The platform tracks were covered with a wooden platform hall .
When the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway was extended in the direction of Aschaffenburg and connected to the Bavarian Ludwigs-West Railway in 1854, the station had to be converted into a through station . In the run-up to this expansion, Elector Hesse suffered a government crisis in 1852 because Elector Friedrich Wilhelm expected a bribe of 100,000 thalers from the Bank Bernus du Fay, which was financing the expansion , before he signed the corresponding concession. The leading minister, Ludwig Hassenpflug , then offered to resign, but the elector refused to resign. Later, an iron footbridge over the railway facilities was parallel to the avenue Philippsruher built, which allowed pedestrians, even in the often closed gate of the level crossing of Philippsruher Avenue to cross the tracks.
After 1862 the Hessische Ludwigsbahn took over the operation and in 1872 also ownership of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway and thus also of the Hanau (West) station. In the eastern station area, east of Philippsruher Allee and the former Main Canal , they built a workshop building south of the tracks that still existed between the world wars, but was already rented to third parties at that time. On the other hand, Hanau West station did not have a reloading facility for local freight traffic and a locomotive shed northeast of the tracks: the so-called "Wiener Spitze" (Vienna tip ) (even if it was often thought to be a relic of the first Hanau station) . The area was used as a parking facility for rail buses and later for buses of the regional traffic Kurhessen .
Until 1873, today's Hanau West stop was under the name "Hanau" - without any additional name - the "main station" of Hanau. This only began to change when the Steinheim Main Bridge, a separate crossing of the Main for the Frankfurt-Bebra Railway , was created that year. The crossing point between Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn and Frankfurt-Bebraer Eisenbahn was (at that time) far east of the city. The station built there, "Hanau Ost" (today: Hanau Hauptbahnhof ), was now the more important station for rail operations, albeit quite remote for travelers from Hanau. That is why Hanau West retained its connection to long-distance transport for many years , even if the operating facilities were increasingly being outsourced. In 1902, the auxiliary storage facility for operating materials and the workshop were abolished and the auxiliary equipment vehicle stationed there until then was moved to Hanau-Ost. In the Reichs-Kursbuch from 1914, the last peace edition before the First World War , the station is referred to as "Hanau West (city)".
From 1908 to 1928, the Hanau West station was on the tram the HSB approached. Since 1928 only buses have been running at today's stop.
During the Second World War , the "Westbahnhof" was the target of air raids by the Allies , for example on November 11, 1940 ( duds ) and also during the air raid on Hanau on March 19, 1945 . The station building survived the war with severe damage, which was temporarily repaired. During the construction of the underpass for Philippsruher Allee in the 1970s, the building and the goods shed were demolished. Instead, a simple stop with a central platform was built, which also bridges the underpass.
present
At the moment, the Hanau West stop is only served by a regional train line operated by DB Regio (RB 58) within the framework of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV ). There are also individual trains on the Regional Express line RE 54. Since December 14, 2008, a train on the Regional Express line RE 85 ( VIAS ) on the way from Frankfurt to Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach has stopped at Hanau West in the afternoon . There is a link with buses operated by Hanauer Straßenbahn AG , which also belongs to the RMV. The equipment of the stop is rather minimalist and, especially in bad weather, not suitable to encourage travelers to use it.
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| Hanau-Wilhelmsbad |
 RE 54 Frankfurt – Maintal – Hanau |
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| Hanau-Wilhelmsbad |
RB 58 Frankfurt – Maintal – Hanau |
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RE 85 Frankfurt – Maintal – Hanau |
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future
In the course of the planned north- Main S-Bahn from Frankfurt via Maintal to Hanau Hauptbahnhof, two new tracks will be introduced from the west into the Hanau West stop and laid south of the current tracks. The east exit in the direction of Hanau Hauptbahnhof will only have three tracks, since there is not enough space between the existing buildings and the street for a four-track expansion. In the course of upgrading the western inner city of Hanau, the Hanau West train station is to gain importance again. In the political arena, people already speak of the Hanau “City-Bahnhof”, which is primarily due to the location of the stop near the city center.
literature
- Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939–1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1
- Thomé / Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main) (Hrsg.): Leader over the lines of the district of the Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main) . Frankfurt 1926, p. 21f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 640 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 641 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Siegfried Lohr : Planning 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], p. 359; Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.), Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , Vol. 2.1 (route 007), p. 127.
- ^ Rüdiger Ham : Ludwig Hassenpflug: statesman and lawyer between revolution and reaction. A political biography = studies on historical research of the modern age 50. Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-2764-5 , p. 385f with further references
- ↑ Thomé, p. 21.
- ↑ Thomé, p. 21
- ^ Reichs course book . Berlin 1914. Reprint 1974. [Last peace edition before the First World War], Table 242
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Hrsg.): Collection of the published official gazettes of September 20, 1902. 6th year. No. 48. Announcement No. 418, p. 358, and of October 4, 1902, No. 55. Announcement No. 442, p. 467.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 392
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 361