Mainz-Kastel train station
| Mainz-Kastel | |
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | FMK |
| IBNR | 8000615 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1840 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Mainz-Kastel |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Wiesbaden |
| Place / district | Mainz-Kastel |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 0 '25 " N , 8 ° 16' 57" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Mainz-Kastel station is a railway station in the Hesse state capital Wiesbaden . It is on the Taunus Railway . S-Bahn lines S1 and S9 of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn and regional trains line RB10 stop here as planned .
history
The Kastel train station came to be in the area of the Mainz fortress , which resulted in a number of structural requirements. All the buildings that were erected within the defenses had to be made of stone, while those in front of them had to be made of wood so that they could be torn down within 24 hours in order to have a clear field of fire. On October 19, 1838, the route through the fortress was approved after the construction was completed on August 30, 1838. The station went into operation on April 13, 1840, when the line driven from Frankfurt to this point was completed.
In addition to the station building for passenger traffic, there were three wagon sheds, a locomotive shed , a water reservoir and cranes. The complex was placed between fortifications, including the reduit . The workshop was outside the station area.
Initially the station was called Kastel am Rhein . With the city of Mainz on the other bank of the Rhine, there was initially only a road connection over the ship bridge to Mainz .
The station facilities were expanded as early as 1843. Luxury hotels and a brisk business life developed around the train station and Mainzer Strasse.
In 1861 tracks were led right up to the banks of the Rhine and the Mainz – Kastel trajectory was set up, which was discontinued as early as 1863 after the Mainzer Südbrücke was opened. The ships continued to operate as passenger ferries . At the end of the 1860s, the railway facilities were enlarged again.
Before the First World War , the station in Kastel had the function of a second main station in Mainz, as many trains ran via Kastel instead of the main station. In the winter of 1910/11, for example, there were direct connections to Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Vienna, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hoek van Holland and Verona.
In the 1950s, in addition to regional trains, there were still numerous long-distance connections that shrank until 1970 when Celle, Bremerhaven or Mönchengladbach were still served.
In the past, local trains (today's name regional traffic) also ran regularly from Wiesbaden via Kastel to Darmstadt. In the course of the introduction of the integral clock timetable after the establishment of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund , these journeys were made uniformly via Mainz Hbf. Nevertheless, there were repeated memories of those times when, due to construction work (2008 and 2009 on the Mainzer Südbrücke, 2013 new construction of a flyover in the run-up to the Mainz main station), the reinforcement trains were again led via Kastel during rush hour, in 2008 and 2009 Mainz-Kastel was even an ICE train station for several weeks (route Stuttgart - Cologne).
Reception building
First station building
The first station building stood on the side of the tracks facing the Rhine and was one of the buildings that, out of consideration for military concerns, could only be built in wood. The architect was Ignaz Opfermann . It was a flat-roofed pavilion with a porch supported by pillars . The counters were located in the middle section, and in the corner pavilions there was a waiting room for travelers with first and second class tickets on the one hand and third class on the other. The station building was in an unusual position: the main street-side front was parallel to the street that led to the ship's bridge and crossed the railway tracks at a right angle . The station building was turned by 90 degrees compared to the tracks. The tracks were spanned by a wooden platform hall , which rested on four rows of pillars that stood next to and parallel to the three tracks running through them. A bell tower adorned the roof ridge. It was not until 1843 that the station building and the platform hall were connected by a covered corridor.
During a flood in 1845 and during the revolution in 1848 , the railway systems and the station building were damaged.
Second reception building
Around 1854 a new, second reception building was built in the same place as the first. It is not certain whether Ignaz Opfermann was the architect here as well. This building was also one story. It was again a wooden structure. An open vestibule led into the middle section, with a clock tower above it. The outer walls were designed with pillars and a pronounced entablature zone.
Third station building
A new station building was built between 1889 and 1891, now on the side of the tracks facing away from the Rhine and parallel to them. It was an asymmetrical, two-story two-wing complex with a large reception hall in the middle part, the hipped roof of which towered over the eaves roofs of the wing buildings. The southern wing ended with a pavilion, which also had a hipped roof. The building was kept in a somewhat idiosyncratic arched style reminiscent of train stations in Russia . This station building was completely destroyed in an air raid on September 8, 1944 during World War II. From this construction phase of the station only a goods hall is left.
Fourth reception building
After the Second World War, wooden barracks took over the function of the destroyed reception building. Then the Deutsche Bundesbahn erected a new station building on the spot that the previous building had occupied, in the shape typical of the 1950s, but which has since been abandoned for tourist traffic: in 2002 the waiting room and the restaurant were closed. A photo studio is currently housed in the former counter hall - the panes have been darkened for this purpose - while the former restaurant area is home to a kebab restaurant and a kiosk.
Depot
In Mainz-Kastel there was also a railway depot of the Deutsche Reichsbahn for the maintenance of steam locomotives with round sheds and turntable . It was between Rampenstrasse and the railway line. In addition, the Mainz-Kastel (Mz K) electrical works of the Mainz Railway Directorate , which was assigned to the Wiesbaden Machine Office, was located here. In the course of the boycott measures due to the occupation of the Rhineland on October 23, 1923, equipment in the electrical workshop was damaged.
On May 15, 1926, the BW was dissolved, its facilities can only be guessed at, the site is largely fallow today. However, two buildings have survived to this day. The more striking of the two is a residential building with extensive advertising for a Mainz newspaper on a fire wall directly at the bridgehead, the former administration building, on the top floor of which the water tank for supplying the steam locomotives was located.
present
Today the Mainz-Kastel station is, after the Wiesbaden main station, the stop in Wiesbaden with the highest number of passengers. In the summer of 2009, the station became a long-distance station again for almost two months, because a regular stop for a pair of trains on the ICE connection Stuttgart-Heidelberg-Mannheim-Wiesbaden-Cologne was set up due to construction work . In August 2013, the Kastel station became a replacement stop for the Mainz main station , as it was closed due to a lack of staff in the signal box. The lack of accessibility at Mainz-Kastel train station is criticized.
traffic
Mainz-Kastel is in the tariff area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).
Due to the particularly heavily used railway lines that run through Mainz-Kastel station, a half-standard spacing was introduced around Mainz-Kastel station .
Regional traffic
The station is served every hour, more frequently during rush hour, by two offers on the RheingauLinie , the RB10 line from Frankfurt am Main via Wiesbaden Hbf and Rüdesheim to Koblenz and Neuwied. A new express connection with the RE9 line was introduced for the 2018/2019 timetable change , which leaves Wiesbaden's main train station and runs the direct route between Kastel and Biebrich and begins or ends in Eltville. A train runs in the morning from Frankfurt to Mainz-Kastel and is separated there. The front part runs as RE 9 to Eltville, the rear part as RB 10 to Wiesbaden Hbf.
| line | route | Tact |
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| RE 9 | Frankfurt (Main) - Frankfurt-Höchst - Mainz-Kastel - Eltville | Approximately half-hourly intervals during peak hours with a focus on the main traffic direction |
| RB 10 | Frankfurt (Main) - Frankfurt-Höchst - Mainz-Kastel - Wiesbaden - Eltville - Rüdesheim - Koblenz - Neuwied | Hourly approximate half- hourly intervals during peak hours with a focus on the main traffic direction |
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| Wiesbaden-Biebrich |
 RE 9 RheingauExpresss |
Frankfurt-Höchst | ||
| Wiesbaden Central Station |
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Frankfurt-Höchst | ||
Train
Am Bahnhof Mainz-Kastel hold S1 and S9 of the S-Bahn , which provide connections to Wiesbaden, Rüsselsheim, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt Airport, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Rodgau.
| Rhein-Main S-Bahn | ||
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Wiesbaden Ost ← Wiesbaden Hbf |
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Hochheim (Main) Rödermark-Ober-Roden → |
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Wiesbaden Ost ← Wiesbaden Hbf |
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Mainz-Bischofsheim Hanau Hbf → |
bus
Immediately in front of the exit from the platform is the “Kastel Bahnhof” bus stop, which is served by buses from the Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG, currently active under the brand name Mainzer Mobility), ORN and ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft (ESWE Verkehr). On the nearby bridgehead of the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke there is also a bus stop where other buses of the MVG and ESWE Verkehr stop; the short distance is covered by many people changing to and from the train station on foot.
See also
Web links
- Station board of Mainz-Kastel station: Current departures
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .
- Silvia Speckert: Ignaz Opfermann (1799–1866): Selected examples of his construction work in the vicinity of the city of Mainz = housework to obtain the academic degree of a Magister [!] Artium. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1989. Typed. Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Tables. Mainz City Archives: 1991/25 No. 11.
Remarks
- ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 19th ff . (Route 001). P. 41, gives the years 1890/91.
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 19th ff . (Route 001). P. 19.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Speckert, p. 67.
- ↑ a b Speckert, p. 68.
- ↑ a b c Fritz Diehl: Magnificent buildings at the old train station . In: Allgemeine Zeitung, October 29, 2009
- ↑ From Kastel to the big, wide world - for decades, even large long-distance trains stopped at the train station / direct to Trieste, Ostend or Vienna by Michael Bermeitinger on Allgemeine-zeitung.de of December 11, 2012
- ^ Course book of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1970.
- ↑ a b c Michael Bermeitinger: With the new building everything got one size smaller . In: Allgemeine Zeitung, December 12, 2012.
- ↑ See: Lichthammer: About some railway stations in western Germany and Belgium . In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung 7 (1842). Vienna, pp. 354-363 (359f); Speckert, p. 67f, fig. 185–187.
- ↑ Speckert, p. 68, figs. 185–187.
- ↑ Speckert, p. 68, fig. 188.
- ^ A b Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 19th ff . (Route 001). P. 41.
- ^ Regionalgeschichte.net: The train station in Kastel , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ^ Overview of the offices of the DR in 1939
- ^ Klaus Kemp: Regiebahn. Reparations, occupation, war against the Ruhr, Reichsbahn. The railways in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area 1918–1930 . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-8446-6404-1 , p. 299.
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of May 8, 1926, No. 21. Announcement No. 364, p. 202.
- ↑ Allgemeine-zeitung.de Retrieved on July 26, 2018, 6:44 am
- ↑ reiseauskunft.bahn.de viewed on July 9, 2009.
- ↑ Kasteler station becomes a substitute stop for Mainz main station ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Wolfgang Wenzel on August 10, 2013 Wiesbadener Kurier
- ↑ Wolfgang Wenzel: With a critical look through Kastel . In: Allgemeine Zeitung, July 23, 2012.
- ↑ Wolfgang Wenzel: Accessibility: Wiesbaden wants to look for more equality with an action plan . In: Allgemeine Zeitung, January 16, 2013.
- ↑ RheingauLinie - RE9 + RB10 timetable download (valid from December 15, 2019 - December 12, 2020) , PDF file 0.829 MB
