Waldstrasse station
| Waldstrasse station | |
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 Former reception building Waldstrasse 2010
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | FWW |
| opening | October 15, 1905 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Wiesbaden |
| Place / district | Biebrich |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 3 '39 " N , 8 ° 13' 56" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Waldstraße station was a station of the Aartalbahn in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden . It was opened on Tannenstrasse in the Biebrich Waldstrasse district.
history
In the course of the new construction of the Wiesbaden main station , the Aartalbahn was re-routed and the Biebrich district of Waldstrasse was redeveloped. The tree nursery owner Pawlitzki suggested the construction of a station and since the Waldstrasse district was growing rapidly at this time, the city of Biebrich and the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz agreed. The station, built in 1904, was opened on October 15, 1905. Due to the unfavorable location on the edge of the district, the station was not of great importance for passenger traffic , but it was an important operating point for the operation of the Wiesbaden West freight station . On September 25, 1983, the last passenger train ran at Waldstrasse station, shortly before the freight yard had already been closed. As part of the " Stadtbahn Wiesbaden " project and the reactivation of the Aartalbahn , a new construction of the station is not planned because of the low utilization.
Railway systems
The Aartalbahn runs from Wiesbaden-Dotzheim station in the northwest through Waldstrasse station to Wiesbaden main station . Immediately north of the station, the branch line to the freight yard and the Lindsey Air Station branched off , but ran parallel for about 1.3 km before it swings away to the right behind the bridge over Schiersteiner Straße . In a southerly direction, the route of the connecting curve opened in 1907 to Wiesbaden Ost train station branches off . Only after 1.2 km (behind the Landesdenkmal railway station ) did the local separation of the routes take place. Until the 1960s, the station had three tracks, then it was dismantled on one track and a small lounge for the dispatcher was created on the platform . This now led to the curious structural situation that the Waldstrasse train station only had a single track with a platform, but had four entry signals . In terms of rail operations, it was more or less a stopping point between two junctions . At last there was an electromechanical interlocking of the type E 43. Today the parallel lines are mostly combined on one track.
Reception building
The station building was built in 1904 in Art Nouveau style and was located below the elevated railway embankment . During the Second World War , the building was significantly destroyed and increasingly neglected. Since the 1960s, it has been in changing private ownership and is now a Siedle training center . A simple building directly on the platform, which also contained the signal box , was used as a replacement .
Web links
- Drehscheibe-online.de: Waldstrasse station, 1981–1983
Documents
- Joachim Seyferth: The Waldstrasse station . Audio CD , 30 min. Joachim Seyferth Verlag, Wiesbaden.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Clärle Fuhr: Between Biebrich and Wiesbaden: The Waldstraßenviertel . Wiesbaden 1998 ( specknet.de ).
- ^ Biebrich, City of Wiesbaden. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 7, 1905, No. 51. Announcement No. 519, p. 430.
- ^ Jorg Hamm: Standstill on the Aartalbahn. (No longer available online.) Wiesbadener Kurier , May 10, 2011, archived from the original on July 17, 2011 ; Retrieved September 18, 2011 .
- ^ Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme: Map Wiesbaden , 1: 25,000, with a three-track train station.
- ^ Klaus Kopp: The Aartalbahn . Ed .: Heimat- und Verschönerungsverein Dotzheim e. V., Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-924401-06-3 , pp. 112-115.
- ^ Bahnhof Waldstrasse, 1981–1983 , accessed on September 18, 2011.
- ↑ List of German signal boxes , accessed on September 18, 2011.
- ↑ ERCO Lichtbericht 25: Training at the Siedle train station in Wiesbaden (page 30) (PDF; 200 kB).
