Mücke (Hess) railway station

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Reception building (2016)
Data
Design Through station; 1903–1964: Inselbahnhof
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation FMCK
IBNR 8004100
Price range 6th
opening July 29, 1870
Profile on Bahnhof.de Muecke__Hessen_
location
City / municipality mosquito
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 37 '1 "  N , 9 ° 1' 45"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '1 "  N , 9 ° 1' 45"  E
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Railway stations in Hessen
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The station Mücke (Hess) is next to the station Nieder Ohmen one of two railway stations in operation in the central Hessian community of Mücke . The former Island Station is located between the two districts Mücker Flensungen and Merleau at kilometer 28.9 of of casting by Fulda leading Vogelsberg Railway . Earlier chain here about Laubach and Hungen by Friedberg leading railway Friedberg mosquito from.

history

The Mücke station was opened with the second section of the Vogelsbergbahn from Grünberg to Alsfeld on July 29, 1870.

On November 1, 1903, with the Laubach – Mücke section, the Friedberg – Mücke railway line was completed and has been used continuously since then.

Plans dating back to 1905 in connection with the Marburger Kreisbahn envisaged an extension of this route to the Mücke train station; a track plan from 1906 has been preserved in the Marburg State Archives , showing the planned extensions for this case.

In mid-March 1945 there was an anti-aircraft train with 10.5 centimeters of anti-aircraft gun, a two-centimeter quadruple flak, and crew and ammunition cars on one track at Mücke train station, and a concentration camp prisoner transport on another track. 16 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers attacked the station and the parked trains. The station was largely destroyed, the ammunition wagons of the flak train exploded, four flak soldiers and four concentration camp prisoners were killed.

On May 31, 1958, traffic on the Freienseen – Mücke section was stopped. When passenger traffic between Hungen and Freienseen was initially discontinued on May 31, 1959 and goods traffic between Laubach and Freienseen in 1960 , this section was subsequently closed and dismantled.

Since the 2011/2012 timetable change on December 11, 2011, passenger traffic has been handled by Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (HLB) using LINT 41 diesel multiple units.

Railway systems

Reception building

Today which is still in operation reception building of Mücker station is a two-story building, which was built in 1890 and is the second reception building of the station. Today it houses a signal box as well as service rooms, from here the operational processes in the train station Mücke and Reiskirchen are controlled. The original building was on the opposite side of the current one and was demolished in 2013.

Tracks and platforms

In its largest expansion phase, Mücke station had five tracks on the western and three on the eastern side of the station. The station building was located between tracks 1 w and 1 o in an island location, as the eastern tracks were also connected to the Vogelsbergbahn in such a way that trains could travel from Gießen and Fulda to and from track 2 o . The points of connection between the eastern part of the station and the Vogelsbergbahn were the former switch 1 at route kilometers 28.6 (still west of the level crossing over Bahnhofstrasse in the direction of Gießen) and switch 25 at route kilometers 29.15 (approximately at the height of today's exit signal in the direction of Fulda) . Part of the remaining track is still there, but completely overgrown.

The main platform on the Vogelsbergbahn side was 245 meters long, the intermediate platform on track 2 w was 242 meters long. On the east side there was only one platform on track 1 o , which was 167 meters long.

Today, two platform tracks on a house platform and an intermediate platform are sufficient for operation. Due to the lack of crossings to this intermediate platform (platform 2), all trains today run from the main platform (platform 1). Next to track 2 there are two partially overgrown tracks without platforms.

Freight traffic and locomotive treatment system

The track plan of 1959 shows the western railway station side opposite the reception building a Holzverladerampe on track 3 w , in which a weighbridge with a weighing load of 40 tons was built. Track 4 w was a stump track only 86 meters long that led from the direction of Gießen to this ramp, which was designed as a head and side ramp in the area of ​​the buffer stop . The continuation of track 3 w in a northerly direction led to the Mücke steam sawmill, which had a private connection here.

The connection established in 1936 to the Mücke ore processing plant belonging to the Louise trade union ensured extensive freight traffic. This branched off the track of the Vogelsbergbahn before switch 1 of the station and had two tracks parallel to the route. Operation of this facility ended in 1957, after which a high ramp was set up on the former timber loading ramp on track 3 w , from which the freight wagons were loaded using a truck dump. This type of ore loading ended in 1968, but the ramps on tracks 3, 4 and 5 continued to be used for freight traffic. The handling of general cargo was given up in 1970.

The south Attached to the reception building goods shed was from the existing until winter 1988/89 track 5 w served, here was a short side ramps in the extension of the shed.

A separate engine shed was in the southern part of the station on track 2 o in the fork of the track towards Friedberg and Gießen. The site plan from October 1959 shows the locomotive shed already without a track connection.

After the cessation of passenger and freight traffic on the line to Friedberg and the dismantling of the necessary switches in the eastern part of the station, the tracks there were retained for a certain period of time: the former tracks 1 o and 2 o were now given the new numbers 6 and 7 and remained connected on both sides, so that the station building remained in an island location and train journeys on track 7 could run in both directions. According to the plan from 1962, this track had in the meantime also received a short platform. The former track 3 o was retained as a 131 meter long butt track with the new number 8, only used from the north.

In the mid-1960s, tracks 6 and 7 in the Gießen station head were cut off from the Vogelsbergbahn, track 7 was completely removed and a buffer stop was installed in track 6 in front of the former level crossing over the station entrance. This meant that it could only be served from the direction of Fulda. In this form, this track was still used as a loading track until the early 2000s .

Signal boxes

With the opening of the line to Friedberg, the Mücke station received two signal boxes : The Ms signal box (Mücke Süd) was located in 28,662 of the Gießen – Fulda railway line on the southern side of the tracks. It also served the barrier systems for the level crossings over Bahnhofstrasse and the access road to the reception building. The signal box Mn (Mück Nord) was located in km 29.104 of the above-mentioned railway line east of the tracks. Both signal boxes were mechanical. After the commissioning of the new Mf signal box, they became superfluous in a front part of the reception building and were later demolished. This is a switchboard of the type Sp Dr L60.

traffic

Mücke is in the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

The Mücke station is served daily by hourly regional trains on the Limburg (Lahn) - Weilburg - Wetzlar - Gießen - Alsfeld (Oberhess) - Fulda route. In the weekday rush hour additional regional trains the relation Gießen- come Grünberg (Oberhess) -Mücke (Hess) added. This means that during the rush hour mentioned above, except for one connection (the end of the line is Grünberg), you can travel between the Gießen and Mücke stations at almost 30-minute intervals.

Since the 2016/2017 timetable change on December 11, 2016, the trains of the Vogelsbergbahn and the subsequent Lahntalbahn have been running continuously as RB 45 instead of the previous RB 25 (Lahntalbahn) or RB 35 (Vogelsbergbahn).

line route Clock frequency
RB 45 Vogelsbergbahn
( Limburg (Lahn) - Weilburg - Wetzlar -) Gießen - Grünberg (Oberhess) - Mücke (Hess) - Alsfeld (Oberhess) - Lauterbach (Hess) north - Fulda 		Hourly
(+ individual reinforcement trains at rush hour)

←
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→
Lehnheim Hessian state railwayRB 45
Vogelsbergbahn 		Low ohmen

Several bus lines stop at the Mücke train station, providing access to both the community and the individual districts, all on behalf of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Oberhessen (VGO).

The following bus lines start at the train station: VB-75, VB-76, VB-78 and VB-79, but are mainly bus lines that only operate by calling in advance (on-call bus). Solo-Kom buses only run during school time to handle school traffic.

In addition, the VB-92 line of the Vogelsberger Vulkan-Express leisure line runs from May 1st to the end of October every year from Grünberg, Schloß, Mücke, Bahnhof, Ulrichstein , Lindenplatz to Hoherodskopf .

literature

  • Dieter Eckert: 100 Years of the Hungen - Laubach Railway , Lok-Magazin 29, No. 164, Stuttgart, 1990
  • Erich Preuß , Oliver Strüber (ed.): The large archive of the German train stations. Gera Mond Verlag GmbH, 1996–2020, ISSN  0949-2127 , individual article Mücke station (Hess)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ abbreviation
  2. ^ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways - Part 8: Hessen , p. 274
  3. ↑ as a sketch printed in Erich Preuß , Oliver Strüber (ed.): The large archive of German railway stations. Gera Mond Verlag GmbH, 1996–2020, ISSN  0949-2127 , single article , Bahnhof Mücke (Hess), p. 4.
  4. ↑ 65 years ago, bombing raid on Mücke Alsfelder-Allgemeine station on March 26, 2010, accessed on June 6, 2020.
  5. ↑ Premiere at Vogelsbergbahn: New trains started for test drives today (Osthessen-News from October 31, 2011)
  6. ↑ Information board 1a of the ERZWEG Mitte to the Mücke train station , accessed on June 6, 2020.
  7. ↑ Track plan from 1936 on information board 1a of the ERZWEG Mitte to the Mücke train station , accessed on June 6, 2020.
  8. ↑ Site plan of the Mücke (Hessen) (sic!) Station of the Deutsche Bundesbahn as of October 1959
  9. ↑ a b c Erich Preuß , Oliver Strüber (ed.): The large archive of the German railway stations. Gera Mond Verlag GmbH, 1996–2020, ISSN  0949-2127 , single article , Bahnhof Mücke (Hess), p. 3.
  10. ↑ Site plan of the Mücke (Hessen) station of the Deutsche Bundesbahn as of May 1962, printed in Hugo Menk: Die Eisenbahn in Gießen and the Bahnbetriebswerk Gießen , EK-Verlag 1993, p. 47
  11. ↑ This condition existed at least until October 1964, since the next changes in the change history of the track plan as of October 1966 are only noted for this point in time.
  12. ↑ List of signal boxes , accessed on June 6, 2020.