Kirchhain railway station (Bz Kassel)
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Reception building of the Kirchhain train station (street side)
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| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | FKIH |
| IBNR | 8000435 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | March 4, 1850 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Kirchhain__Bz_Kassel_ |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Late classicism |
| architect | Julius Eugen Ruhl |
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| City / municipality | Kirchhain |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 49 '26 " N , 8 ° 55' 17" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Kirchhain train station (Bz Kassel) is a connecting station on the 89.2 kilometer route of the Main-Weser-Bahn and is located in the tariff area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). It is very centrally located in the inner city of the Hessian town of Kirchhain . The train station used to be the starting point for the Ohm Valley Railway to Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden and the Wohratal Railway to Gemünden (Wohra) . The 2020 timetable: (DB) RB41-Between Frankfurt am Main Hbf and Treysa, in the direction of Treysa always at minute 19 (every 2 hours) and in the direction of Frankfurt always at minute 34 (every hour).
(DB) RE30 between Kassel Hbf and Frankfurt Hbf runs in the direction of Kassel Hbf always at minute 29 (every 2 hours and always at minute 25 to Frankfurt Hbf).
(HLB) RE98 between Kassel Hbf / Wilhelmshöhe and Frankfurt Hbf the train arrives at minute 24 and 29 (every 2 hours)
history
The station was opened at the same time as the Main-Weser Railway on March 4, 1850. The continuous connection from Kassel to Frankfurt was opened on May 15, 1852. Before that, the trains only ran between Kassel and Gießen .
On April 1, 1900, the northern section of the Ohm Valley Railway ( Kirchhain - Nieder-Ofleiden ) was opened as the Kirchhainer Kreisbahn by the Prussian State Railways . Exactly one year later, the extension to the Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station on the Giessen - Fulda state railway ( Vogelsbergbahn ) took place. On May 31, 1980, passenger traffic on the Ohm Valley Railway was discontinued. The line between Nieder-Ofleiden and Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden was closed on September 28, 1991 and finally dismantled in 1999. Between Kirchhain and Nieder-Ofleiden there is still freight traffic and individual special trips in passenger traffic.
On May 1, 1914, the Wohratalbahn to Gemünden (Wohra) via Rauschenberg was opened. The line crossed the Main-Weser Railway on an overpass west of the station. On May 28, 1972, passenger traffic, which had previously fallen sharply, was completely stopped. Freight traffic continued until December 19, 1981. On December 31, 1981, the entire Wohratalbahn was dismantled except for a 200 m long section in Kirchhain, which today serves as a siding .
From 2013, the reception building and the area around the station were extensively renovated. A large parking lot and a new bus station have been created on the site of the former freight yard east of the building . To the west of the train station there is again a Park + Ride car park and stops for taxis. In the main building there have been several medical practices, shops and a restaurant since 2015.
Railway systems
Reception building
The station building of the Kirchhain train station was built in 1849 as a station and administration building for the Kurhessische Staatsbahn. The symmetrical main wing with a three-storey center at the gable and a two-storey framing made of brick in the arched style is adorned with terracotta . The symmetrical main wing was also extended to the east with two floors. The single-storey extensions were added around 1900. The late classical building was built by the Kassel court architect Julius Eugen Ruhl and is a listed building.
Between 2013 and 2015, the reception building was extensively renovated and the entrance area with kiosk (right) and bakery sales point (left, opened in 2016) redesigned. In addition to the entire facade, practice and office rooms were also prepared on the upper floor. The work came to an end with the installation of a new clock based on the historical model on December 12, 2015.
Tracks and platforms
Kirchhainer Bahnhof now has a central platform with platform tracks 1 and 2 (main tracks of the Main-Weser-Bahn) opposite the station building, two platform-free through tracks 3 and 4 and another platform track 5 on the former central platform 2, which was replaced by the expansion of the former platform track 7 can be reached at ground level from the station building as a house platform . Nowadays, this platform is only used by the morning pendulum to and from Gießen and the occasional special trains on the Ohmtalbahn. In Kirchhain, contrary to the usual practice at Deutsche Bahn, the counting of the tracks begins on the side of the track facing away from the reception building, because this is where the main tracks of the Main-Weser Railway run.
Signal box
Kirchhain station had two signal boxes : the dispatcher signal box "Kf" was located at the level of line kilometer 89.4 of the Main-Weser-Bahn on the side of the reception building, the signal box "Kn" at line kilometer 88.6 of the same route between tracks 4 and 7 in the middle of the railway facilities. Both signal boxes were mechanical, Kf had 25 levers and one signal crank, Kn had 34 levers and two signal cranks.
In 1978 these interlockings were replaced by the newly built push-button interlocking "Kf" of the type Sp Dr S60 at the height of the cattle loading ramp .
Long-distance transport
No long-distance trains stop in Kirchhain.
Local transport
Kirchhain is served every hour by the Mittelhessen-Express (RB 41). This runs between Treysa and Frankfurt (M) Hbf and is winged in Gießen with the train part from Dillenburg . There are also two-hour direct connections by Regional Express to Frankfurt am Main and Kassel , as well as to Stadtallendorf and towards Marburg with the HLB's Main Sieg Express .
Lines
(the following table is not complete)
| line | route |
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| RE 30 (RegionalExpress) | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Friedberg (Hess) - Gießen - Marburg (Lahn) - Treysa - Wabern (Bz Kassel) - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Kassel Hbf |
| RE 98 (RegionalExpress) | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Friedberg (Hess) - Gießen - Marburg (Lahn) - Treysa - Wabern (Bz Kassel) - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Kassel Hbf |
| RB 41 (RegionalBahn) | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Friedberg (Hess) - Butzbach - Gießen - Marburg (Lahn) - Kirchhain (Bz Kassel) - Stadtallendorf - Neustadt (Kr Marburg) - Treysa |
(As of 2019)
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| Marburg (Lahn) |
 RE 30 Main-Weser-Express |
Stadtallendorf | ||
| Marburg (Lahn) |
RE 98 Main-Sieg-Express |
Stadtallendorf | ||
| Anzefahr |
RB 41 Mittelhessen-Express |
Stadtallendorf | ||
Bus transport
The bus station to the east of the train station provides transport connections to the districts of Kirchhain, the surrounding villages, including those along the no longer served Ohmtalbahn and to the comprehensive school in Kirchhain (AWS).
Freight transport
Kirchhain is an important train station for the transport of gravel . Often gravel trains wait here and are shunted to drive to the loading station of the Central German hard stone industry in Nieder-Ofleiden or to be transported away. In addition, there is a timber loading area for Deutsche Bahn AG in Kirchhain .
See also
Web links
- Extensive information on the station in the dossier on the project development of the Kirchhain station building (PDF; 10.4 MB)
- Presentation of the framework concept for Kirchhain station “Entree to the city” (PDF; 2.6 MB), 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Project development for the Kirchhain station building. (PDF; 10.4 MB), accessed on October 7, 2011.
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen. P. 968.
- ↑ Article on the insertion of the clock , accessed on April 18, 2016.
- ↑ Track plan of Kirchhain train station (PDF; 161 kB) on deutschebahn.com, accessed on October 7, 2011.
- ↑ Site plan of the Kirchhain train station with sketches of the signal boxes as of November 26, 1970.
- ↑ Erich Preuss , Oliver Strüber (ed.): The large archive of the German railway stations. Gera Mond Verlag GmbH, 1996-2016, ISSN 0949-2127 , single article Bahnhof Kirchhain (Bz Kassel), p. 3.
- ↑ List of signal boxes on stellwerke.de , accessed on March 19, 2016.
- ^ Alfred Wegener School
- ↑ Timetables of the bus routes in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district ( Memento from February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )