Wetzlar railway station
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 Station forecourt / bus station and station building
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Wedge station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | FWR |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 1862 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Wetzlar |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Modern |
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| City / municipality | Wetzlar |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 '54 " N , 8 ° 30' 13" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Wetzlar Station is a Keilbahnhof in the central Hessian town of Wetzlar , where the Lahn Valley Railway in the Dill Railway opens. Together with the adjacent central bus station (ZOB) , it is the most important public transport hub in Wetzlar.
history
Wetzlar station was opened with the Deutz-Giessener Bahn , which opened from 1859 to 1862, and the Lahntalbahn , which was completed from 1860 to 1863 .
In 1878 the Lollar – Wetzlar railway line was added. Passenger traffic on this route ceased in 1980, the last freight traffic in 1990.
The first station building in Wetzlar was built in 1863 in an island location between the tracks of these two lines in the Niedergirmes district. The tracks of the Lahntalbahn were south of the reception building, those of the Deutz-Giessener Bahn north. With the renovation of the station in 1909/1910, this condition was eliminated and all platforms were relocated to the north side of the building. This first reception building has been rebuilt to this day.
An Art Nouveau reception building completed in January 1917 was erected in front of the first station building. This was badly damaged in 1944/45 and could only be restored temporarily. In the course of the modernization of the interlocking technology, it was demolished around 1985. It was replaced by a modern functional building which, in addition to a waiting room and the travel center, mainly includes the relay interlocking ( SpDrS 600 type ) that was put into operation in 1986 .
meaning
The Wetzlar passenger station has five platform tracks. It is a station for regional and regional express trains.
The running trains stop at the platforms as follows:
| track | Direction of travel | comment |
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| 3 | RB 45 to Giessen / Fulda, RE 25 to Giessen | |
| 4th | RB 45 to Limburg, RE 25 to Koblenz | |
| 5 | Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40) to Gießen / Frankfurt, RE 99 to Gießen / Frankfurt | |
| 6th | Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40) from / to Frankfurt (individual trains, if Wetzlar is the terminus) | mainly passing and overtaking track |
| 7th | Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40) to Dillenburg, RE 99 to Siegen |
To the east of the passenger station and the Lahn , in the Garbenheim district, lies the Wetzlar marshalling yard , which has been the most important of its kind in Central Hesse since December 2006 . West of the station, between the two lines, there is a siding to the Buderus premises .
Local transport
Wetzlar train station is served by several regional lines. The Regional Express trains Frankfurt Hbf - Siegen ( Main-Sieg-Express ; RE 99) and Gießen - Koblenz Hbf (Lahntalexpress; RE 25) stop here . Wetzlar train station is also served by the Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40). Individual regional trains on the Dillenburg – Gießen route (RB 40) also stop in Wetzlar. On the Lahntalbahn there is an hourly regional train from Wetzlar in addition to the Lahntalexpress on the Limburg – Weilburg – Wetzlar – Gießen – Fulda route (RB 45).
Regional traffic
| line | route | Tact |
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| RE 25 | Giessen - Wetzlar - Limburg - Bad Ems - Koblenz | Every two hours |
| RE 99 | (Frankfurt -) Giessen - Wetzlar - Dillenburg - Siegen | Hourly |
| RB 40 | Frankfurt - Friedberg - Gießen - Wetzlar - Herborn - Dillenburg | Hourly |
| RB 45 | Fulda - Gießen - Wetzlar - Weilburg - Limburg | Hourly |
(As of 2019)
Long-distance transport
In the 1980s and before, there were many daily express train connections from Wetzlar station to distant destinations such as B. Oberstdorf and Monday to Friday the express connection Dortmund – Frankfurt with D 810/811, which only stopped in Siegen-Weidenau and Wetzlar. At the beginning of the 1990s, a regular express train connection was set up every two hours to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and Münster (Westf.) Hbf . From 1993 these trains ran as Interregio line 22 Frankfurt – Münster, (most recently Frankfurt – Düsseldorf). Once a day there was a direct connection from Wetzlar to Norddeich Mole (IR "Norderney"). However, the InterRegios on the Dill route were gradually thinned out until 2001. The IR "Norderney" was last deleted in December 2002. In 2003 the InterConnex long-distance train stopped temporarily in Wetzlar once a day on the way from Neuss via Cologne to Halle (Saale) - Berlin - Rostock . Between December 2009 and December 2011, the Wetzlar train station was re-connected to the long-distance network after a six-year interruption. In the morning a Eurocity drove from Siegen via Wetzlar, Gießen, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and Munich to Klagenfurt am Wörthersee . There was also a direct connection to Ljubljana and Zagreb via a through car . The return train reached Wetzlar in the evening and drove on to Siegen. The offer was discontinued for the 2011/2012 timetable change on December 11, 2011.
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| Weilburg |
 RE 25 Lahntal Express |
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| Albshausen |
 RB 45 Lahntalbahn |
Dutenhofen (Wetzlar) | ||
| Herborn (Dillkr) |
RE 99 Main-Sieg-Express |
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| Asslar |
RB 40 Mittelhessen-Express |
Dutenhofen (Wetzlar) | ||
service
Immediately adjacent is the ZOB for the regional and local bus routes as well as the city bus routes and the city bus . There is also a taxi rank and short-term parking spaces on the station forecourt. A park-and-ride car park is available at the bus station for longer parking, but this will soon be given up for the newly built park-and-ride car park on the north side of the train station. The Forum Wetzlar shopping center and the Rittal Arena with a large parking garage are located directly at the train station .
modernization
After the current reception building went into operation in 1986, no further modernizations were carried out at the Wetzlar train station. Therefore, the entire appearance of the station has noticeably deteriorated in recent years and is in enormous contrast to the Forum Wetzlar , which opened in 2005 , the largest shopping center in Central Hesse , which is being built on the freight depot facing the city, which had been closed since the 1990s has been.
In 2007, a cooperation agreement between the city of Wetzlar, Deutsche Bahn and the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund was approved, in which it was declared that the station would be extensively modernized and made accessible to the disabled. However, the plans only became concrete when Wetzlar was named Hessentagstadt 2012 and it was recognized that the expected visitors could not be greeted with the current train station environment in the city. As a result, the existing contract between the three cooperation partners was extended to a planning contract and a planning office was commissioned to create a concept for a complete modernization of the station area.
At the beginning of 2010, the preliminary draft with the specific measures for the barrier-free redesign of the Wetzlar train station area was presented. The draft concept includes the following three core measures:
- Reconstruction of the bus station and the station forecourt, the commissioning took place in May 2012. The old bus station was completely abandoned and relocated to the site of the previous station forecourt in order to provide easy access from the city center to the forum, the central bus station (ZOB) and the train station enable. Park-and-ride parking spaces will be dispensed with in the future immediate station apron, instead a so-called kiss-and-ride zone has been set up between Forum Wetzlar and ZOB , which only provides a few short-term parking spaces for dropping off and picking up travelers. The new central bus station has twelve bus platforms and several parking spaces for buses. The entire area is covered and equipped with video surveillance and a bike-and-ride system with 18 bicycle parking spaces and 10 bicycle boxes.
- Modernization of the station from summer 2011. As early as February 2011, Wetzlar station was equipped with dynamic train destination displays. This measure also includes the following projects:
- The construction of all platforms (for tracks 3 and 4 over a length of 170 meters, for tracks 5 to 7 over a length of 280 meters) with a simultaneous increase in the boarding height to 55 centimeters.
- The demolition of the old platform roofs and the construction of new roofs on platforms 4/5 and 6/7, albeit only 70 meters in length.
- The complete overbuilding of the dismantled tracks 1 and 2 to enable a level and therefore barrier-free connection of the platform for track 3 as well as the construction of a direct pedestrian path to the Rittal-Arena .
- The renovation of the platform entrances including the installation of an elevator to platforms 4/5 and 6/7 as part of the disability-friendly expansion.
- The renovation of the platform underpass, including the extension of the underpass to the north side of the station, in order to enable continuous access and the connection of the park-and-ride car park. The barrier-free access is guaranteed at both ends of the underpass by generous ramps.
- Direct connection of platform 4/5 to the stair tower to the road bridge on Hermannsteiner Strasse by means of a paved walkway.
- Equipping all platforms with benches and information boards as well as carrying out work on paving, greening and surface design.
- Expansion of the previous gravel parking lot on the north side of the station to a paved park-and-ride parking lot with approx. 200 parking spaces as well as 48 bicycle parking spaces and 13 bicycle boxes. Connection to the pedestrian underpass to the platforms and to the south side of the station, in order to fulfill the function as a commuter parking lot and to compensate for the loss of park-and-ride parking spaces on the old station forecourt.
All these measures should be completed by the start of the Hessentag on June 1, 2012 at least to the extent that all systems are available and an attractive appearance can be created. The construction costs for all three sections will amount to approx. 21.8 million euros and will be borne proportionally by the respective partners involved (City of Wetzlar, State of Hesse, Deutsche Bahn and Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund) via a realization and financing contract. However, the city of Wetzlar alone bears the costs for the commuter parking space.
The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the start of the work by representatives of the city, the state, Deutsche Bahn and the Rhein-Main transport association took place on January 14, 2011.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the former platform 1 of Wetzlar station with the last special trip on the cannon train to Lollar (June 1990)
- ↑ Erich Preuß / Oliver Strüber: The large archive of German train stations , contribution Wetzlar . GeraMond Verlag GmbH, ISSN 0949-2127, p. 6.
- ↑ Erich Preuß / Oliver Strüber: The large archive of German train stations , contribution Wetzlar . GeraMond Verlag GmbH, ISSN 0949-2127, p. 7.
- ↑ Local passenger traffic association Westphalia-South: Direct connection Siegen - Austria starts traffic on December 13th (PDF; 116 kB) Press release of August 24th, 2009. Accessed: September 13th, 2009.
- ↑ Eurocity for Siegen ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Sauerlandkurier , article from May 27, 2009.
- ↑ Extract from a DB press release from 2009 on "Wetzlar-aktuell"
- ↑ Article in: Gießener Allgemeine January 16, 2011.
- ↑ Article (PDF) In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung January 14, 2011.