Kassel-Bettenhausen train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| abbreviation | FKBH |
| opening | December 1, 1879 |
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| City / municipality | kassel |
| Place / district | Bettenhausen |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '22 " N , 9 ° 31' 28" E |
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The Kassel-Bettenhausen station is a station in the Kassel district of Bettenhausen , which has only served as a freight station since 1985 . The station has several continuous and electrified tracks as well as individual butt tracks .
history
According to a law of June 17, 1874 and a decree of September 8, 1874, the Kassel – Waldkappel (Lossetalbahn) line with a connection in Waldkappel to the Kanonenbahn was built at state expense. The Bettenhausen – Waldkappel section was opened on December 1, 1879, and the connection to Kassel Central Station followed on March 15, 1880. In 1880, four passenger trains ran between Kassel and Waldkappel, one of them only to Helsa .
Söhrebahn AG , founded in 1910 by three municipalities and two entrepreneurs, opened the standard-gauge Söhrebahn on August 21, 1912 from Kassel-Bettenhausen station to Wellerode Wald , where mainly lignite was loaded.
The branches of numerous industrial and trading companies shaped the face of the district as an industrial area . Bettenhausen station was of particular importance for the freight traffic . Port and Söhrebahn provided additional freight transport.
On September 30, 1966, passenger traffic on the Söhrebahn was stopped. Until December 16, 1970, the line from Bettenhausen to Lohfelden and from there to Kassel-Waldau was used to transport goods from Bettenhausen to the AEG plant in Waldau, among others. In the following years, however, this freight traffic was transferred to newly constructed connecting railways. Since then, a cycling and hiking trail has been running on the former railway line .
On May 31, 1985, passenger traffic on the Kassel – Waldkappel – Eschwege connection ended, including in Bettenhausen. Freight traffic on the line that has been electrified since May 1971 to Bettenhausen continues.
After Hurricane Kyrill knocked down countless trees, including in northern Hesse's forests, in January 2007 , Bettenhausen station served as a large-scale transhipment point for logs for months.
There is still a lot of freight traffic in the Bettenhausen train station . On the other hand, only the signs for tracks 1 and 2 as well as the partially overgrown house platform and the overgrown intermediate platform remind of passenger traffic . In a westerly direction, a 1.5 km long connecting line branches off to the port on the Fulda . The connection to the tram depot Sandershäuser Straße is overgrown and closed today.
Reception building
The reception building of the station Bettenhausen including freight shed was opened with the start of the section Bettenhausen Forest Kappel 1879th An abortion was added in 1880 . In 1921, an auxiliary building, a signaling office and individual storage buildings were added to the station building ; In 1929 a post for handling goods followed . In 1950 a social building was added. Since 1958 there were plans to demolish and modernize the red three-story brick building of the Bettenhausen train station, which was badly damaged in World War II . The reception building with the second class waiting room in the east wing was replaced by a new building in several construction phases. In December 1961, part of the new service area was opened, in April 1962 the western part of the station was completed; the eastern part was removed. The second reception building has now also been torn down. In 1960 a railway maintenance depot was opened in Bettenhausen train station . Nowadays only the signal box and an administration building are left.
Connection to urban transport
The Kassel-Bettenhausen train station is connected to local public transport via the tram and RegioTram stops at Sandershäuser Straße (in the northwest) and Kirchgasse (in the southeast). The tram lines 4 and 8 as well as the RegioTram lines RT 5 and RT 9 operate here and provide direct connections to Kaufungen , Helsa , Hessisch Lichtenau , Kassel city center, Kassel main station , Wilhelmshöhe station , Borken , Wabern , Treysa and Melsungen . There is no stop at Bahnhof Bettenhausen .
literature
- Wolfgang Koch and Ralf Schmidt: From Kassel. Verlag Vogt GmbH, Hessisch Lichtenau 1993, ISBN 3-9800576-9-0
- Volker Rödel, Heinz Schomann: Railway in Hessen. Monument topography, 3 volumes, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
Web links
- Information on Kassel-Bettenhausen train station
- Information about Kassel-Bettenhausen train station
- Railway area development in Kassel - Perspectives for the Bettenhausen freight yard (PDF; 547 kB)