Usingen train station

Usingen
Reception building
Data
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	2
abbreviation	FUSI
opening	October 15, 1895
location
City / municipality	Usingen
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 19 '51 "  N , 8 ° 31' 40"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '51 "  N , 8 ° 31' 40"  E
Height ( SO )	299  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Taunusbahn (km 17.7) ( KBS 637 )
Railway stations in Hessen

The station Usingen is the train station of the city of Usingen and the operation center of the Taunusbahn of Brandoberndorf about Grävenwiesbach and Usingen to Bad Homburg . The station building is a listed building .

history

On October 15, 1895, the Usinger Bahn , the section of today's Taunusbahn from Bad Homburg to Usingen, was opened as an extension of the Homburg Frankfurt – Bad Homburg Railway , which had been in operation since 1860 . This gave Usingen a connection to the railroad.

Until June 1, 1909, Usingen was the end of the trains from Bad Homburg. Then the extension of the Usinger Bahn via Grävenwiesbach to Weilmünster was put into operation and the Usingen station became a through station . Because of its profile in Grävenwiesbach had to drive to Weilmünster and later to Weilburg a hairpin be installed.

On November 1, 1912, the Solmsbachtalbahn from Grävenwiesbach to Albshausen and on to Wetzlar was opened as an extension of the Usinger Bahn . In addition to the connection to Frankfurt, Usingen also received a connection to Wetzlar.

According to a plan from 2005, the central platform in Usingen station was extended to such an extent that train units of four VT 2E multiple units or three LINT 41 were possible. In November 2007, two additional train destination displays were installed on the platform . The freight to and from Usingen was set November 5 2000th

Investments

Reception building

Entrance building around 1900

The reception building of the Usingen train station is now a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . The renovated train station houses a bakery branch and a sales kiosk with an RMV advance booking point. The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 32 .

The reception building consists of a two-story main building to which a slightly recessed single-story auxiliary building is attached. The axially arranged arched openings and hipped roofs are striking . The building is emphasized vertically by corner pilasters . The facade is divided horizontally by the base zone, belts on the parapet and fighter level and a German band . It is a type construction, corresponding to the Friedrichsdorf train station .

On the north side there was originally another extension and a goods hall. This hall was destroyed in a fire.

Other plants

The central signal box of the Taunusbahn is located in Usingen. Trains are parked, reinforced, shortened and also refueled on the total of four platform-free tracks.

There used to be a loading point for the 4 km long narrow-gauge railway to the Geyseritwerk (today Bremthaler Quarzitwerk ) and a siding of the Raiffeisen .

Behind Usingen, the Taunusbahn section begins with the steepest gradient (up to 21.47 ‰), the end of which, at 390 meters above sea ​​level, is the neighboring Wilhelmsdorf station .

traffic

train

Usingen station is the operating center of the Taunusbahn and is located in the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). The traffic is operated by HLB Basis AG .

The Usinger Bahnhof has two platform tracks on a central platform . The Taunusbahn trains (RMV line 15) to Brandoberndorf via Grävenwiesbach and to Bad Homburg via Neu-Anspach , Wehrheim and Friedrichsdorf run on both tracks . As a rule, the trains to Brandoberndorf use platform 1, the counter-trains to Bad Homburg use platform 2. Most of the time, the train crossings also take place here. Individual trains start or end in Usingen.

The Taunusbahn runs every half hour from Grävenwiesbach to Bad Homburg on weekdays; In addition, additional pairs of trains are used Monday to Friday mornings and afternoons during rush hour , which run from / to Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof and, for operational reasons, mainly run as RMV line 12 from / to Königstein . On Saturday, apart from a break in the morning, there is also a half-hourly service between Grävenwiesbach and Bad Homburg until around 4 p.m. afterwards and on Sundays, the Taunusbahn runs every hour on the entire route. The timetable is designed so that trains that end in Bad Homburg are always connected to the S5 S-Bahn line from / to Frankfurt.

←	Lines			→
Hausen (Ts)		RB 15 Taunusbahn		Wilhelmsdorf

bus

On the opposite side of the reception building there are three bus stops, which are designated as bus platform 1 , bus platform 2 and bus platform 3 . The regional bus routes 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 82 and FB-35 depart there and connect the Usingen train station with the towns and villages of the Hochtaunuskreis and the town of Bad Nauheim in the Wetteraukreis (route FB-35 ). A late ride on bus route 59, which runs from Grävenwiesbach via Usingen to Friedrichsdorf, where there is a connection to the S5 to Frankfurt, complements the evening rail traffic .

future

→ Main article : "Future" in the article Taunusbahn (Hochtaunus)

The current considerations and investigations for the expansion of the Taunusbahn envisage electrification of the line to Usingen by the end of 2020 and thus the extension of the S5 S-Bahn line from Friedrichsdorf to Usingen.

literature

• Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 590 .
• Andreas Christopher, Walter Söhnlein: Taunusbahn success story . Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-929082-31-9
• Kurt Eckert: Small and branch lines in the Taunus . Rösler + Zimmer Verlag, Augsburg 1978, ISBN 3-87987-147-7
• Walter Söhnlein, Gerta Walsh: Clear the way! - Railways in the Taunus 1860-1910 - 2010 . Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-7973-1223-5

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Usingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Hochtaunus transport association about the Taunusbahn
• The Taunusbahn on the private website weiltalbahn.de via railways in the Hochtaunus
• Video of the entire route in fast motion with explanations on YouTube
• Usingen Videos: The train station of the city of Usingen shines in new splendor . on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ abbreviation
2. ↑ Query of course book route 637 at Deutsche Bahn.
3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen
4. ↑ Information about the Usingen train station on the homepage of the Hochtaunus Transport Association (VHT)
5. ↑ Andreas Christopher: The works railway of the Geyseritwerk Usingen of the Melzingen union. Retrieved May 19, 2015 (private website). 
6. ↑ Matthias Pieren: Hope for the long line. (No longer available online.) In: Taunus-Zeitung. November 19, 2014, archived from the original on June 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ "Electrification is feasible". (No longer available online.) In: Taunus-Zeitung. December 31, 2013, archived from the original on April 22, 2016 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Matthias Pieren: Hope for the long line. (No longer available online.) In: Taunus-Zeitung. November 19, 2014, archived from the original on June 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.