Frankfurt Süd – Aschaffenburg railway line

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Frankfurt (Main) Süd – Aschaffenburg Hbf
Route number (DB) : 3660
Course book section (DB) : 640
Route length: 43.2 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 6.2 
Top speed: 160 km / h
Dual track : (continuous)
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from Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
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from Darmstadt
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from Frankfurt (Main) Stadium
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0.000 Frankfurt (Main) Süd (formerly Bebraer Bf)
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to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (tief) (S-Bahn)
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Hanau – Frankfurt (Main) Schlachthof (S-Bahn)
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to Hanau (South Main)
   
B 43
   
1.726 Deutschherrnbrücke (since 1913), Main
   
Urban connecting railway
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Hanau train station (until 1912)
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2.378 Frankfurt (Main) Ost (since 1912)
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Road bridge
3.163 Schwedlerbrücke (pedestrian bridge)
Station without passenger traffic
3,250 Frankfurt (Main) Ost Gbf
   
3.600 to the north Main S-Bahn (planned)
Station without passenger traffic
3,900 Frankfurt (Main) Ost Ubf
Road bridge
4,132 Ratswegbrücke ( B 8 , B 40 )
Road bridge
4,180 A 661
   
Urban connection line to Osthafen
   
5.180 Lahmeyerbrücke (today a pedestrian bridge)
Station without passenger traffic
5.250 Frankfurt (Main) Ost Gbf Vbf
Station, station
7.243 Frankfurt-Mainkur
Stop, stop
10.145 Maintal West (formerly Bischofsheim - Rumpenheim )
Station, station
12,349 Maintal Ost (formerly Hochstadt - Dörnigheim )
Stop, stop
15.648 Hanau-Wilhelmsbad (formerly Bf)
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
17.750 Kinzig (bridge from 1926)
Station, station
18,034 Hanau West (Bft, formerly Hanau Bf )
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from Frankfurt (Main) slaughterhouse
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Hanau Main Bridge (Bft)
from Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
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19,946 Hanau south side / Hanau north side
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to Göttingen
   
to Friedberg (Hess)
   
Hanau port railway
   
to Eberbach
Stop, stop
21,800 Großauheim (Kr Hanau)
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from Hanau Rauschwald
(from routes from Friedberg and Göttingen)
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Staudinger power plant
Station, station
25,348 Großkrotzenburg
   
26,824 State border Hesse / Bavaria
Road bridge
Bundesstrasse 8
   
to Schöllkrippen
Station, station
27.4 Bald (Main)
   
Bald (river)
   
Kahl nuclear power plant
Station, station
31.8 Dettingen (Main)
Road bridge
Federal motorway 45
Stop, stop
34.7 Rückersbacher Schlucht (abandonment planned)
Station, station
36.8 Kleinostheim
Road bridge
Federal motorway 3
   
Mainaschaff Nord (planned)
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
38.9 Steinerts ( Abzw )
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40.6 from / to Darmstadt
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Mainaschaff Hp
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Aschaff
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43.2 Aschaffenburg Hbf 131  m
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to Miltenberg Hbf
Route - straight ahead
to Würzburg Hbf

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The Frankfurt Süd – Aschaffenburg railway is a standard-gauge , continuously double-track , electrified main railway line in southern Hesse and Bavaria . It begins today in the Frankfurt Südbahnhof and runs from the Frankfurt Ostbahnhof on the right bank of the Main via the Hanau Hauptbahnhof to Aschaffenburg Hbf .

history

After the construction of the Taunus Railway in 1839–1840, starting from Frankfurt am Main down the Main to Wiesbaden , there were plans for a railway up the Main to Hanau soon afterwards . The Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was constituted in 1844. In the same year it received the two necessary concessions from the Free City of Frankfurt and the Electorate of Hesse , the two states over whose territory it exclusively managed. Construction began in 1845. It is somewhat unclear whether Paul Camille Denis was involved. Files record his "supervision" over the building. The opening took place on September 10, 1848 under the name "Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn" colloquially also called "Hanauer Bahn" or "Frankfurter Bahn" depending on the location.

The route began at Hanau station in Frankfurt's Ostend , the end of the route after 16.4 kilometers was today's Hanau West station near Hanau city center. The route was initially a pure island operation .

That changed six years later when the line to Aschaffenburg was extended in 1854 and a connection to the Ludwigs-Westbahn of the Bavarian State Railways was established, which led via Würzburg to Bamberg. The Hessian section from Hanau to the then state border near Kahl am Main was built by the Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and was based on a Hessian concession and a state treaty between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Electorate of June 7, 1850. The remaining part of the route was built by the Bavarian State Railways as part of the Ludwigs-Westbahn. After completion, however, the entire route from Frankfurt to Aschaffenburg was operated by the Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , the Bavarian part was leased to them.

The construction of the line turned out to be not entirely unproblematic: In Hanau, a level crossing was necessary over Philippsruher Allee immediately east of the previous Hanau terminus. With the argument that the avenue leading to his Philippsruhe Palace would be disturbed, Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I expected a bribe of 100,000 thalers from the Bernus du Fay bank, which was financing the expansion of the railway . His leading minister, Ludwig Hassenpflug , then offered to resign, but the elector refused to resign. Since the Hanau Railway, with its connection to the Kingdom of Bavaria , advanced to become a route of supraregional importance, it was connected to the Frankfurt West Railway Stations and thus to the rest of the Frankfurt railway network from 1859 onwards via the Frankfurt am Main municipal connecting railway.

On January 1, 1863, the private Hessian Ludwigsbahn leased the entire railway operations of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company, including the Frankfurt – Aschaffenburg railway line. Ten years later, the Hessian Ludwigsbahn bought the Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and took it over on December 31, 1872. With the nationalization of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn, which was largely transformed into the new Mainz Railway Directorate, the line arrived on April 1, 1897 the Frankfurt Railway Directorate . On April 1, 1898, the line between Frankfurt and Hanau and the Odenwald Railway connected there was provided with a telegraph long -distance line , referred to internally as "Telecommunication line no. 7".

Telegraph trunk line No. 7
railway station Callsign Commissioning day
Frankfurt (Main) Ostbahnhof Fo April 1, 1898
Hanau West Ha May 7, 1898
Hanau Ostbahnhof Han April 1, 1898
Seligenstadt August 27, 1898
Babenhausen Ba April 1, 1898
Groß-Umstadt August 27, 1898
Wiebelsbach-Heubach W. April 1, 1898
Michelstadt Wed April 1, 1898
Hetzbach August 27, 1898
Eberbach Ea April 1, 1898

Since the connecting line was in the long run unable to handle all passenger and freight traffic between the east and west of Frankfurt, the Hanauer Bahn was connected to the Frankfurt-Bebraer railway via a 1911–1913 built cross bar over the Main and the Deutschherrnbrücke . This made the Hanau train station , a terminus station , superfluous and closed in 1913. Operationally, it was replaced by the Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station further east, a through station .

In 1937 the connecting curve between the Steinerts junction and the Mainaschaff junction on the Rhein-Main-Bahn was put into operation.

In World War II the route as an important traffic route was also target of air raids of the Allies . The route was the target of attack z. B. on the night of April 1st to April 2nd, 1942.

Route

The line begins at Frankfurt (Main) Süd station on tracks 7 and 8 as an extension of the original Mainbahn line . A ramp from Seehofstraße is first followed by a flyover structure over the southern Main line to Hanau, and immediately afterwards federal highway 43 is crossed. The route continues in an elevated position to and over the Deutschherrnbrücke .

After crossing the Hanauer Landstrasse in front of the Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station, the railway line and Hanauer Landstrasse run parallel. To the north-east of the Frankfurt-Mainkur train station , both run for a good kilometer in a wide arc directly parallel to the Main. Then the route again runs completely straight to the east through the town of Maintal, formed in 1974, with the West and East stations until shortly before the Hanau-Wilhelmsbad stop , which it reaches after crossing the motorway slip road to federal motorway 66 . The station building at Hanau-Wilhelmsbad is the only one on the route that has been preserved from the time the railway was built. There follows a further arc from the northwest towards Hanau city center. The Kinzig and its foreland are crossed on bridges made of steel solid wall girders on brick pillars and abutments from 1926.

The temporary terminus of the line and today's Hanau West station is located on the edge of Hanau city center. Immediately after the present part of the station , a single-track line branches off the main line, which initially runs parallel to it. South of the city center, the routes first pass under federal highway 45 and then split up. While the main line crosses under the tracks of the south main line from Frankfurt and then leads to the southern part of the Hanau main train station , a former island train station , the branch line runs without crossings to the northern part of the main train station with a connection to the Kinzig valley railway towards Fulda. Between this division and the south side of Hanau's main train station, another track branches off the main line, which , like the first branch, also leads through an allotment garden to the north side of the main train station.

From Hanau's south side, the route continues south. It leads right to the Main to Aschaffenburg Hbf .

service

passenger traffic

At the beginning of the 2010s operate regional rail and regional express in rail transport all intermediate holding the railway line.

In long-distance traffic, the section between Aschaffenburg and Hanau is part of the connection between Würzburg Hbf and Frankfurt (Main) Hbf . Between Hanau and Frankfurt, Intercity and Intercity Express trains use the south Main route via Offenbach, which is about a kilometer shorter , but can in principle also use the route via Maintal without stopping.

The lines RE 54 Frankfurt Hbf – Bamberg and RE 55 Frankfurt Hbf – Würzburg run every two hours on the route and together form an hourly service between Hanau and Aschaffenburg and on the Aschaffenburg – Würzburg line . While the RE 55 line travels along the southern Main Line, the RE 54 line travels the entire length of the Frankfurt Süd – Aschaffenburg railway line. Between Frankfurt and Hanau it runs every hour together with the RB 58 line, but there is no connection in Hanau from the regional train to the RE 55 line. The RB 58 line also runs every hour from Frankfurt Süd via Aschaffenburg to Laufach and, in contrast to the regional express, serves all stops between Hanau and Aschaffenburg.

Individual regional express trains are designated as RE 59, which run every two hours from Monday to Friday via the Südbahnhof to Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof . These stop between Hanau and Frankfurt Süd mostly only in Maintal Ost and Frankfurt Ost .

During the rush hour , individual trains of the Odenwaldbahn and the Kinzigtalbahn run over the route between Frankfurt and Hanauer, but they only stop in Maintal East , Frankfurt East and partly Hanau West .

The regional trains consisted of a class 143 or class 111 locomotive and five n-cars until the end of 2015 . The use of the 110 series gradually ended until December 2012. The material used in the Regional Express trains varies between class 111 and 146 locomotives as well as Modus cars and various types of double-decker cars . Since December 13, 2015, the RB 58 and RE 59 lines have only been operated by class 425 multiple units .

Since July 2018 the Hessische Landesbahn has been operating the connections Frankfurt Süd – Hanau – Aschaffenburg – Laufach (RB 58) and Frankfurt (Main) Airport Regionalbahnhof –Hanau (RE 59) with Alstom Coradia Continental railcars .

Freight transport

After the demolition of the Frankfurt main freight station , Frankfurt (Main) Ost is the largest freight station in Frankfurt. It includes a container station and connections to Frankfurt's east port . Through freight trains mainly use the north Main line, as this can be reached without crossing from the bypass line via the original route of the Main line from Frankfurt am Main Stadion station.

Planning

There are concrete plans to connect a tunnel section to the Ostbahnhof at a junction already installed as a precaution in the Frankfurt City Tunnel . This is to come to light again in the area of ​​the Osthafen container station and then continue parallel to the existing line on the same route in a separate, further double-track railway line for the Rhine-Main S-Bahn to Hanau main station.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frankfurt Süd – Aschaffenburg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. Originally: fs.

Individual evidence

  1. Plan approval documents North Main S-Bahn Plan approval section 1 Annex 1 "Explanatory report", Chapter 7.1
  2. DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
  3. Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  4. ^ Concession of August 6, 1844, see: The development of the German railway lines 1835–1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 24f (No. 16).
  5. Werner Schreiner : Paul Camille von Denis - European transport pioneer and builder of the Palatinate railways . Ludwigshafen 2010. ISBN 978-3-934845-49-7 , p. 76.
  6. H.-W. Dumjahn (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German railway lines, opening dates 1835-1935. Route lengths, concessions, ownership structure . Complete, unchanged reprint in 1984 of the publication published by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. With an illustrated introduction by Horst-Werner Dumjahn (=  documents on railway history . Volume 29 ). Horst-Werner Dumjahn Verlag, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 , p. 435 f .
  7. ^ Rüdiger Ham: Ludwig Hassenpflug: statesman and lawyer between revolution and reaction. A political biography = studies on historical research in modern times 50. Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8300-2764-5 , pp. 385f.
  8. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 24f (No. 16).
  9. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1897, Announcement No. 48, p. 99.
  10. a b Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 15 of April 2, 1898, p. 93, Announcement No. 154.
  11. a b Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 20 of May 7, 1898, p. 155, Announcement No. 203.
  12. a b c Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 39 of August 27, 1898, p. 267, Announcement No. 342.
  13. Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of July 17, 1937, No. 39. Announcement No. 465, p. 230.
  14. Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939-1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1 , p. 39.

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 24 "  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 49.2"  E