Hanau – Frankfurt railway line
The Hanau – Frankfurt railway line is a double-track and electrified main railway line in Hesse . It runs along the Main and connects the cities of Hanau and Offenbach am Main with the metropolis of Frankfurt am Main .
The railway line was built as a continuation of the originally "Bebra-Hanau Railway" or "Bebraer Railway" for short, which was renamed the " Frankfurt-Bebraer Railway " in this context .
history
The "Bebra-Hanau Railway" was a Hessian railway project that was intended to open up the south of the country in the second half of the 19th century. The state capital Kassel had previously been connected by the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft with the north-west of the country (transition to the route network of the Royal Westphalian Railway Company in Warburg ) and the east (transition to the Thuringian Railway Company in Gerstungen ). The project competed with the Main-Weser Railway , which had connected Kassel with Frankfurt am Main since 1852 . However, this route only ran as far as Marburg over the Kurhessian area, from Giessen the Grand Duchy of Hesse was crossed.
With the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia in the Peace of Prague on August 23, 1866, the Prussian State Railways took over the Bebra – Fulda section of the route, which was about to be completed , as well as the already planned and routed extension through the Kinzig valley to Hanau . There was a connection to the Frankfurt Ost – Hanau railway line built and operated by the Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (called “Hanauer Bahn”) and its extension to Kahl and Aschaffenburg (called “Maintalbahn”).
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In 1864, the former Free City of Frankfurt had prevented the “Bebraer Bahn” from continuing and also refused to approve the use of the “Hanauer Bahn” tracks, even though they ran over the territory of the Electorate of Hesse. After Prussia had also annexed Frankfurt in the Peace of Prague, the trains of the “Bebraer Bahn” were directed to the Hanau station via the “Hanauer Bahn” . However, since this was in the east of Frankfurt and thus far away from the Frankfurt Westbahnhof and the railway lines ending there, the trains were tied through from 1869 via the Frankfurt connecting line to the Main-Neckar station .
This north Main connection had several disadvantages, it meant a detour and thereby bypassed the city of Offenbach am Main , and last but not least, the capacity of the connecting line was limited. As early as 1868 there were plans for a Main Bridge south of the Hanau train station at that time in Hanau and a south Main line that was to meet the Frankfurt-Offenbacher local railway in Offenbach . The planned route ran through the Grand Duchy of Hesse, which was the only one of the Hessian states to still exist after the Peace of Prague, but had also been on the loser's side in the German War .
However, the tracks of the local railway were not designed for the conditions of long-distance rail traffic, so a new long-distance railway line was built on the embankment, and the inner cities of Sachsenhausen and Offenbach were bypassed to the south. In Hanau, a new large island station (then: Hanau Ost ) was built southeast of the former Hanau train station (today: Hanau West ) and the Steinheim Main Bridge to the west of it . The opening of the new route was delayed until the Main Crossing was completed. On November 15, 1873, the line was initially taken to the "Bebraer Bahnhof" (today's Frankfurter Südbahnhof ).
Re-routing
Exactly one year later, on November 15, 1874, the "Bebra-Hanau Railway" was officially renamed the "Frankfurt-Bebra Railway". It then took another year until the line via the former Mainspitze station and the Friedensbrücke to Frankfurt Main-Neckar station was built and opened on December 1, 1875.
The new Main-Neckar bridge was built from 1881 and was initially only opened for freight traffic on August 1, 1885. After the closure of the Frankfurt West Railway Stations and the opening of today's Frankfurt Central Station on August 18, 1888, the old route over the Friedensbrücke was abandoned and replaced by the current route, a good one kilometer further south-west.
Construction of the S-Bahn
When the S-Bahn connection between Frankfurt and Hanau via Offenbach was built at the end of the 20th century, a large part of the existing track infrastructure was also included. Since then, the platforms of Offenbach (Main) Ost station have only been served by the S-Bahn, the old railway line has been relocated to a new route north parallel to the old route.
In the case of the former Steinheim (Main) station, the station building to the south of the old line was torn down and replaced by a platform north of the new S-Bahn line.
The reception building of the former train station in Mühlheim am Main from 1873 has been preserved as a cultural monument. The platform near the house was closed; today the main line trains run through here without stopping. A central platform was retained for the S-Bahn, which is double-tracked from here to the Mühlheim (Main) -Dietesheim stop.
business
The Hanau – Frankfurt line is now the most heavily used section of the former “Frankfurt-Bebraer Eisenbahn”, both in long-distance and local traffic.
Long-distance passenger rail transport
There are various Intercity Express lines, three regional express lines and one regional train line, as well as (at least in individual sections) four lines of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn . At rush hour there are some intercity trains and many regional trains as repeaters. With nine ICE lines running at least every two hours, the route is the most frequented route in Germany by Intercity Express trains - purely every 12 minutes in each direction (without amplifiers and trains running outside of regular traffic).
In long-distance passenger rail traffic , the main route is used by four two-hour ICE lines, with lines 12 and 13 or 20 and 22 each condensing at hourly intervals and traveling on two of the three sections of the former "Frankfurt-Bebraer Eisenbahn".
The ICE lines 11 and 50 condense each other to an approximate hourly cycle, with line 50 running six minutes later and stopping more frequently on the route to Leipzig. There is also the ICE Sprinter Line 15, which runs from Frankfurt via Erfurt and the Erfurt – Halle high-speed line to Berlin. The last three lines mentioned now run almost the entire route of the former "Frankfurt-Bebraer Eisenbahn".
All other IC (E) lines only use this section and then continue on the Frankfurt Süd – Aschaffenburg railway and continue towards Würzburg.
| line | Line course | Tact |
|---|---|---|
| ICE 11 | Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Munich | 120 min |
| ICE 12 | Berlin - Braunschweig - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Basel SBB (- Interlaken Ost) | 120 min |
| ICE 13 | Berlin - Braunschweig - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt Airport | 120 min |
| ICE 15 | (Binz - Stralsund -) Berlin - Halle - Erfurt - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt (- Darmstadt - Stuttgart) | 120 min |
| ICE 20 | (Kiel -) Hamburg - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Basel SBB (- Zurich - Chur) | 120 min |
| ICE 22 | (Kiel -) Hamburg - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Stuttgart | 120 min |
| ICE 31 IC 31 |
Kiel - Hamburg - Dortmund - Duisburg / Wuppertal - Cologne - Koblenz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Hanau - Nuremberg - Regensburg / Munich | individual trains |
| ICE 41 | (Dortmund -) Essen - Duisburg - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Hanau - Nuremberg - Munich (- Garmisch-Partenkirchen) | 60 min |
| ICE 50 | Dresden - Leipzig - Erfurt - Bad Hersfeld - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Wiesbaden (or Darmstadt - Mannheim - Kaiserslautern - Saarbrücken) | 120 min |
| ICE 91 | (Dortmund - Duisburg / Wuppertal - Cologne - Koblenz - Frankfurt Airport -) Frankfurt - Hanau - Nuremberg - Passau - Wien Westbf | 120 min |
| Stations without stops in italics | ||
Local rail transport
The following trains operate in local rail passenger transport:
| line | Line course | Tact |
|---|---|---|
| RE 50 | Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Wächtersbach - Schlüchtern - Fulda | 60 min |
| RB 51 | Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Gelnhausen - Wächtersbach (- Bad Soden-Salmünster) | 60 min |
| RE 55 | Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Aschaffenburg - Würzburg (- Nuremberg) | 120 min |
| RE 85 | Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach | 120 min |
|
Wiesbaden - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Frankfurt-Mühlberg - Offenbach Leather Museum - Offenbach Ost - Hanau | 30 min |
|
Wiesbaden - Mainz-Kastel - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Frankfurt-Mühlberg - Offenbach Leather Museum - Offenbach Ost - Hanau Hbf | 30 min |
Accidents
- On November 8, 1900 , a serious railway accident occurred between the stations of Mühlheim am Main and Offenbach am Main , when a passenger train caught an express train in thick fog - both were heading for Frankfurt - and partially burned out. Twelve dead and four injured were the result.
- Another accident occurred on April 13, 2012 , in which three people died: at a construction site in the area east of the Mühlheim (Main) –Dietesheim S-Bahn stop - here the S-Bahn line runs parallel to the main line - confused a site manager, the track and gleiste on a railway crossing a road vehicle accidentally on an unlocked track on. The RB 15640 Frankfurt (Main) Central Station to Wächtersbach drove her bunk - control car on the construction vehicle. The driver of the regional train and the two men on the construction vehicle died.
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 309 ff . (Route 019).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Long-distance traffic route network plans. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
- ^ S-Bahn Rhein-Main: We about us ( Memento from July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Serious train accident in Hesse . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 6, June 2012, p. 280 .
- ↑ Investigation report. File number 60uu2012-04 / 00061. In: eisenbahn-unfalluntersprüfung.de. Federal Railway Office - investigation center of the Federal Railway Accident Investigation Office , July 15, 2014, archived from the original on April 16, 2016 ; accessed on July 6, 2018 .