Kelkheim train station
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 Train crossing in Kelkheim station
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | FKE |
| IBNR | 8007161 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1902 |
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| City / municipality | Kelkheim (Taunus) |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 8 '15 " N , 8 ° 26' 52" E |
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The Kelkheim Station is the most important intermediate station on the Königsteiner Bahn from maximum to Koenigstein on the western outskirts of Frankfurt am Main . This is where the scheduled train crossings on the single-track route take place. It is the middle of three stations in the Kelkheim (Taunus) area and serves the Kelkheim-Mitte and Fischbach districts .
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When the route was planned, a common train station for Kelkheim and Münster was originally planned in the middle between the two locations. However, the Fischbach community also demanded a connection to the railway line and threatened to refuse the construction of the line towards Hornau across their area. Ultimately, a building site outside of what was then Kelkheim an der Straße nach Fischbach was selected. The station was called Kelkheim-Fischbach accordingly .
The station was put into operation together with the Königsteiner Bahn on February 24, 1902. It had two tracks for passenger traffic and a third for goods loading, with two platforms in between. As an extension of Poststrasse (today Friedrichstrasse), a brick passage with a clear width of 1.50 m was passed under all three tracks. A water crane was able to refill the uphill steam locomotives. Right from the start there was a considerable amount of general cargo , mainly due to the loading of furniture produced in Kelkheim and the delivery of the wood required for it. In 1905, a siding to the Heinrich Müller ring kiln brickworks was built immediately north of the Fischbacher Strasse level crossing . The track was dismantled in 1952; The Berliner Ring housing estate is now located on the brickworks site.
In 1928, the track system was expanded, mainly because there was a lack of storage space for timber transports. At the southern end, another siding was planned through today's Mittelweg to the company Dichmann, but it was not realized until 1948 as a narrow-gauge ( gauge 600 mm ) light rail . A gantry crane was erected for loading in 1944 , which was replaced by a successor in 1959. Although the light railroad was abandoned in the 1960s, the crane was still standing until 1980. Today, Wilhelmstrasse and the station car park are located there.
After Hornau and Münster were incorporated in 1938 and the neighboring town of Fischbach, which was still independent until 1977, renamed the Kelkheim-Fischbach station immodestly to Kelkheim Hauptbahnhof , the decision was made to use the name Kelkheim, which is still valid today . After the Second World War, there were further modifications, including an additional siding on which the trains coming from Höchst could park wagons so that they no longer need a second locomotive on the steep route to Königstein . In 1950 an extension of the reception building with a kiosk, toilets and ticket office was built. Until the construction of the central signal box in Hornau station in 1989, Kelkheim was also the headquarters of the transport service provider.
At the end of the 1970s, there were considerations to end the line from Frankfurt at Kelkheim station; the decision in favor of the renovation of the entire route was made in 1984. A conversion for the S-Bahn-like operation took place in 1981, in which the current configuration was created, with a 76 cm high central platform and two sidings.
Reception building
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The reception building is a two-storey half - timbered structure with a side risalit and a wooden canopy facing the platform. The design is exactly the mirror image of the reception building at Münster train station. There is a goods shed built on the side in brickwork. The reception building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . A few years after the opening, the half-timbered facade was protected on the southwest and northwest side by a slate cladding , which was reversed in the 1990s. After the railway's own use came to an end, the building housed a beverage store; today it is a restaurant.
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The station now has two sidings with a common central platform as well as two butted sidings in the north without a platform. The only access to the platform is via a barrier-secured pedestrian crossing on the eastern track at the northern end of the platform, directly opposite the bus stop. There is a car park to the south-east and a considerable footpath is required to access the platform in the north-east.
The Hessische Landesbahn operates the Königsteiner Bahn both as a transport company in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund as RMV line 12 and as an infrastructure company and is therefore responsible for maintaining the station. To make the line more attractive, it now also runs on the Taunus Railway between Frankfurt-Höchst and Frankfurt Central Station . It is now an important addition to the Rhein-Main S-Bahn . The Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund (FVV) ran the line between 1989 and 1995 under the name K-Bahn .
The trains going to Königstein and Frankfurt usually meet at the Kelkheim train station. The trains run every half hour on weekdays, only every hour on Sundays and public holidays.
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bus
There are bus bays on the north side of the reception building. The regional bus routes 263 and 804 of the Hessische Landesbahn connect the station with Königstein, Glashütten, Liederbach, the Main-Taunus-Zentrum in Sulzbach, Frankfurt, Kriftel and Hofheim. Since the 2009/2010 timetable change on December 13, 2009, the night bus line n83, which runs between Konstablerwache in Frankfurt and Eppstein train station, has also stopped at Kelkheim train station .
Web links
- Station board of the Kelkheim station: Current departures
- Station plan (PDF; 260 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Jochen Fink: Frankfurt-Königstein. A century of local transport in the Taunus . GeraMond, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7654-7196-8 , pp. 134-139 .
- ↑ Rudolf Schäfer: Chronicle of Höchst am Main . Waldemar Krämer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0293-9 .
- ^ Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of Hessische Landesbahn GmbH . Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-929082-26-5 , pp. 76 .
- ↑ Monument protection Hessen: Kelkheim train station (Taunus)
- ↑ RB12: New timetable from July 16 , 2016 ( Memento from July 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )