Hartmannshain station
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| Location in the network | Connecting station | ||
| Platform tracks | 6th | ||
| abbreviation | FHMH | ||
| opening | April 1, 1906 | ||
| Conveyance | 1980s | ||
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| architect | Ludwig Hofmann | ||
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| City / municipality | Grebenhain | ||
| Place / district | Hartmannshain | ||
| country | Hesse | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 ′ 16 ″ N , 9 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ E | ||
| Height ( SO ) | 572 m above sea level NHN | ||
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The Hartmannshain station was a junction station between than today Oberwald railway designated Vogelsberg Railway (Railway Glauburg-Stockheim Lauterbach Nord) and Vogelsberger Southern Railway (Railway Wächtersbach-Hartmannshain).
Geographical location
The station was in the Hartmannshain district of the East Hessian community of Grebenhain in Vogelsberg . It was on the south-eastern outskirts of Hartmannshain, parallel to today's federal highway 275, on the saddle between the 733 m high Herchenhainer Höhe and the 607 m high White Stone . The L 3338 comes perpendicular to the station from the direction of Schotten .
The Hartmannshain station was 572.45 m above sea level. NN the highest station in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .
history
State train station
According to the original planning of the Gedern - Grebenhain-Crainfeld railway line of the then Vogelsberg Railway , it would not have led via Hartmannshain, but via Völzberg . Because the topography was more favorable for railway construction , after a review of the planning, the route variant via Hartmannshain was finally built for cost reasons. Hartmannshain station was opened as a three-track through station along with the line on April 1, 1906. This section connected the section from Stockheim to Gedern in the south, which was opened in 1888, and the section from Grebenhain to Lauterbach in the north, which was opened in 1901 . This meant that the railway was continuously passable.
Before the First World War , the station received a mechanical signal box and the structural systems were supplemented by a residential building for the railway foreman on the northern head of the station.
District station
The station was expanded to connect the Birstein – Hartmannshain small railway line operated by Vogelsberger Südbahn AG . According to the schedule, this new line went into operation on December 23, 1934. Although they were right next to each other, there were two operational stations: the Hartmannshain state train station and the Hartmannshain Kreisbf private train station . The latter also received three station tracks, so that the system now had six tracks. The connecting switches between the small and state railways belonged to the small railway, but were operated by the dispatcher of the state railway. The remaining points in the private train station Hartmannshain Kreisbf had to be set by hand by its staff. The two stations were separated by a fence. Passengers who used the small train received tickets and luggage service from the officials of the state railway and then had to cross the state railway tracks and pass through a gate in the fence to reach the small railway: the small railway was not financially enough for its own reception building. From the state railway engine shed one was bought second-hand, according Hartmannshain translocated and at the eastern exit Hartmannshain Kreisbf connected. In addition to a workshop, the building also had two overnight rooms for staff.
business
Hartmannshain station developed into an important station in tourism, as the Hohe Vogelsberg was easy to reach from here in summer and the Herchenhainer Höhe ski area opened up in winter . Since the 1920s, accelerated passenger trains have been running regularly for day trippers on Sundays and public holidays in summer and special trains for skiers from the Rhine-Main area to Hartmannshain in winter when snow conditions allow . After the Second World War , the Deutsche Bundesbahn took up this tradition again from 1950.
But as early as the end of the 1950s, the volume of traffic in Hartmannshain station began to decline due to the general motorization. On September 28, 1958, the section of the Völzberg – Hartmannshain district railway was closed. This made Hartmannshain a through station again. The tracks were dismantled in the second half of 1959, the locomotive shed - the last remaining evidence of private railway operations - demolished in 1967.
In the 1960s, operations on the line were increasingly thinned out and simplified. Hartmannshain station became an unoccupied train station. On September 28, 1975, passenger traffic between Stockheim and Lauterbach ceased, and goods traffic between Oberwald and Ober-Seemen station was suspended for the next timetable change on May 29, 1976. Hartmannshain station was closed.
Relics
The still existing station building station is cultural heritage after the Hessian Denkmalschutzgesetz . It was built between 1933 and 1934 according to a modified plan by the architect Ludwig Hofmann .
literature
- Stefen Eigner: Hartmannshain - once the highest station in Hesse . In: Oberhessische Vertriebsbetriebe AG (OVAG) (Ed.): Connection to the wide world: On the changeful development of the railroad in Oberhessen , Friedberg 2014 (2015), ISBN 978-3-9815015-5-1 , pp. 62–67.
- Reinhold Winter, Joachim Volz: Vogelsberger Südbahn. History of a lovable small train in the Hessian low mountain range . History Association Birstein, Birstein 1994, ISBN 3-9804078-0-2 , p. 224 .
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 8: Hesse . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-88255-667-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Owner: Hartmannshain , p. 64: Reproduction of a station plan of the Reichsbahndirektion Kassel v. August 30, 1945.
- ↑ Owner: Hartmannshain , p. 62.
- ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Theiss publishing house. Stuttgart, 2005. Vol. 2.2, p. 664. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
- ↑ Owner: Hartmannshain , p. 64f.
- ↑ Owner: Hartmannshain , p. 65f.
- ↑ Owner: Hartmannshain , p. 66.
- ↑ Owner: Hartmannshain , p. 66.
- ^ Heinz Schomann: Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Theiss publishing house. Stuttgart, 2005. Vol. 2.2, p. 670. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6