Wächtersbach station
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.jpg) Train of the Bad Orb – Wächtersbach steam train in the Wächtersbach station
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 (and 1 special platform) |
| abbreviation | FWAE |
| IBNR | 8006132 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | May 1, 1867 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Waechtersbach |
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| City / municipality | Waechtersbach |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 15 '18 " N , 9 ° 17' 47" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Wächtersbach station is the station of the city of Wächtersbach on the Kinzig Valley Railway in Hesse . Due to its geographical location, it opens up as a transfer station, parts of the Spessart to the south and the eastern Vogelsberg to the north . Here, the called "Bad Orb Light Railway" branches railway Wächtersbach-Bad Orb from earlier normalspurig today schmalspurig umgespurt . In the past, the Vogelsberger Südbahn route branched off here via Birstein to Hartmannshain .
history
A Hessian association for iron road construction was founded as early as 1833. It then took 30 years until the electoral Hessian town council decided to build the Hanau - Bebra railway in 1863 . The Wächtersbach station was built as a station on the Frankfurt-Bebraer Eisenbahn / Kinzigtalbahn. When the section Hanau Ost (today: Hanau Hbf ) –Wächtersbach began operating on May 1, 1867, traffic began here.
The Wächtersbach – Birstein section of the Vogelsberger Südbahn was opened on June 30, 1898 by the Wächtersbach-Birsteiner Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft . The Birstein – Hartmannshain section was only opened on December 23, 1934. The Vogelsberger Südbahn was shut down on May 27, 1967.
As part of the electrification of the Kinzig Valley Railway, which was completed in 1961, the 4,000th electrified route kilometer in the network of the Deutsche Bundesbahn was reached near Wächtersbach and a memorial plaque was unveiled in the station on this occasion.
The railway line Wächtersbach – Bad Orb was originally a standard gauge railway line that began in Wächtersbach and led to Bad Orb . It opened on May 23, 1901, and ceased operations on March 4, 1995. On May 26, 2001, the first section went into operation again as a 600 mm narrow-gauge railway , which since October 29, 2006 has also been running the entire route to Wächtersbach. Seasonal operation takes place on Sundays and public holidays from Easter to the end of October. At the Wächtersbach train station, the former Wächtersbach Kleinbahnhof station is approached, which has the (unofficial) track number 21.
Infrastructure
The reception building of the Wächtersbacher Bahnhof is today a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
The station has a house platform and an island platform . The house platform (platform 1) is used by the regional express trains on the Fulda - Frankfurt Hbf (RE 50) route. Track 2, which shares a central platform with track 3 , is the track in the opposite direction. Track 3 serves the regional trains to Frankfurt Hbf (RB 51) starting in Wächtersbach .
In 2015, the station was expanded to be handicapped accessible.
A station store and bistro provides passengers with culinary delights, press and travel equipment.
2 large parking spaces, one urban and one owned by the railway complete the infrastructure of the station.
traffic
Wächtersbach is in the tariff area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). There is a regional express , a regional train and, in the summer months from Easter to the end of October, a tourist train twice a day on Sundays and public holidays.
train
The regional express from Fulda to Frankfurt (RE 50) stops at the train station every hour. There is also an hourly regional train (RB 51) that runs every day. During the rush hour on working days , individual regional trains continue to or from the neighboring Bad Soden-Salmünster.
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| Gelnhausen |
 RE 50 Kinzigtalbahn |
Bad Soden-Salmünster | ||
| Wirtheim |
RB 51 Kinzigtalbahn |
End (7 times a day in Bad Soden-Salmünster ) |
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"Emma" Bad Orber small train |
Aufenauer Berg (demand stop) |
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shut down Vogelsberger Südbahn |
Wächtersbach swimming pool | ||
Train lines
| Line type of train |
Train run | Clock frequency |
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| RE 50 |
KinzigtalExpress ( Bebra -) Fulda - Neuhof (Kr Fulda) - Flieden - Schlüchtern - Steinau (Straße) - Bad Soden-Salmünster - Wächtersbach - Gelnhausen - Langenselbold - Hanau Hbf - Offenbach (Main) Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) Süd - Frankfurt ( Main) Hbf |
Hourly (+ individual reinforcement trains at rush hour) |
| RB 51 |
Kinzigtalbahn ( Bad Soden-Salmünster ) - Wächtersbach - Wirtheim - Haitz - Höchst - Gelnhausen - Hailer - Meerholz - Niedermittlau - Langenselbold - Rodenbach (b Hanau) - Wolfgang (Kr Hanau) - Hanau Hbf - Offenbach (Main) Hbf - Frankfurt (Main ) South - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf |
Hourly (7 times a day from / to Bad Soden-Salmünster ) |
| "Emma" |
Bad Orber Kleinbahn Wächtersbach - Aufenauer Berg - Bad Orb Aumühle - Bad Orb |
Sundays and public holidays from Easter to the end of October |
bus
At the Wächtersbach bus station, which is located on the station forecourt, there are mainly regional buses from the Main-Kinzig region, which provide connections to Flörsbachtal , Jossgrund and Bad Orb , among others . The usual BahnCards 50 and 100 are not valid on these routes . Lines 71 and 72 provide connections to Brachttal and Birstein . These are supplemented by the Vogelsberger Vulkan-Express (line VB-95), a bicycle bus that commutes between Bad Orb and the Hoherodskopf via Wächtersbach along the Vogelsberger Südbahnradweg . This runs from the beginning of May to the end of October on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The tariffs of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund apply .
| Bus route | path | operator | comment |
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| MKK-71 | (Wächtersbach Friedrich-August-Genth-Schule) - train station - Brachttal - Birstein | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig | |
| MKK-72 | Express bus Wächtersbach train station - Brachttal - Birstein | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig | |
| MKK-73 | Wächtersbach - Waldensberg - Spielberger Platte | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig | |
| MKK-81 | Wächtersbach - Bad Orb | Regional traffic Main-Kinzig | |
| VB-95 | Vulkan-Express: Bad Orb - Wächtersbach - Brachttal - Birstein - Grebenhain - Hoherodskopf | Phillipi Travel | on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from May 1st to the end of October; the RMV tariffs apply |
wheel
Today the Vogelsberger Südbahnradweg is on the disused railway line Wächtersbach – Hartmannshain . This begins or ends at the Wächtersbach train station. Bicycles can be taken on the regional trains, and there is also a bicycle shuttle bus (see section Bus).
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 336 ff .
Web links
- Photos of the train station on vergierter-bahnen.de 1 2
- Track systems and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Electricity through the Kinzigtal next year”, Wächtersbacher, local newspaper for Kinzigtal and Vogelsberg, No. 3, August 1960
- ^ Beginning of electrification of the north-south route . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 35 , no. 22 , 1961, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 1069-1072 .
- ↑ Rail transport brings an upswing for the spa town. ( 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. In: Gelnhäuser-Tageblatt.
- ^ Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co KG: Wächtersbach understands the station . ( gelnhaeuser-tageblatt.de [accessed on January 13, 2017]).
- ↑ Birstein community - the pearl of the Vogelsberg. In: www.birstein.de. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
