Hilders station
| Hilders (Rhoen) | |
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 Hilders station, reception building, former side of the track
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| Location in the network | former separation station |
| opening | 1891 |
| Conveyance | 1993 |
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| City / municipality | Hilders |
| Place / district | Hilders |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 ′ 10 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 19 ″ E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The former Hilders train station is located in Hilders in the Fulda district in Hesse . It was once the junction of three routes to Götzenhof , Vacha and Wüstensachsen .
history
On December 12, 1890, the Bieberstein - Hilders section of the Götzenhof-Hilders railway, known as the "Rhönbahn", was officially opened. Half a year later, on June 1, 1891, the extension of the route in a northerly direction along the Ulster valley to Tann (Rhön) was opened to traffic. In 1909 the gap was closed with the Ulstertal Railway between Geisa and Tann. This provided a continuous connection to the Werra valley , which had developed into a focus of the potash industry ( Werra potash district ).
From 1907 there were plans to build a line from Hilders to Wüstensachsen in order to connect the local lignite shaft St. Barbara near Melperts and the basalt mining near Seiferts to the rail network. Despite the outbreak of World War I , the railway project was implemented from 1914 to 1916 because there was a need for the raw materials mentioned, although the coal mine did not bring the hoped-for yield. In the course of the construction work, the Hilders station was considerably expanded and expanded, and transfer options between the Ulstertal and Rhönbahn were created. The line from Hilders to Wüstensachsen went into operation on February 1, 1916.
After the end of the Second World War , which Hilders station survived largely undamaged, the Ulstertal Railway was interrupted from July 1945 on the zone boundary between Günthers and Motzlar and the line in Ulstertal from Hilders via Tann to Günthers lost its importance accordingly. For Hilders station, this meant a sharp decline in transport services.
Due to the constantly deteriorating condition of the track system, a passenger train from Hilders to Wüstensachsen drove for the last time on September 25, 1966, and this section was then operated as a replacement rail service . On March 1, 1970, the rail replacement service ended, at the same time as freight traffic between Seiferts and Wüstensachsen. On September 27, 1986, passenger traffic from Götzenhof to Hilders was finally stopped. Freight traffic continued until the end of 1992 to Seiferts, the complete shutdown of the entire Götzenhof – Seiferts line took place on July 31, 1993. The remnants of the once extensive track systems of Hilders station were dismantled in November 1995.
Reception building
The station building, which went into operation in 1891, is identical in construction, but is a mirror image of that of the Tann (Rhön) station. The brick building is provided with numerous oriels and battlements. The building is privately owned. It was renovated after 2002 and is used as a residential building. A rail bus of the VT 98 series is parked on one of the remaining pieces of track , as it was in use in passenger traffic to Hilders until the line was closed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Knauf, Markus Schmidt: The history of the Ulstertal Railway 1981-1996; Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-3-95966-295-6 , page 79ff.
- ↑ Michael Knauf, Markus Schmidt: The history of the Ulstertal Railway 1981-1996; Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-3-95966-295-6 , pages 135
- ↑ Michael Knauf, Markus Schmidt: The history of the Ulstertal Railway 1981-1996; Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-3-95966-295-6 , page 246f.
- ↑ Pictures of the unrenovated station building in 2002 on vergierter Bahnen.de, accessed on August 3, 2020
literature
- Michael Knauf, Markus Schmidt: The history of the Ulstertalbahn 1981–1996 ; Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-3-95966-295-6