Darmstadt Ludwigsbahnhof

Ludwigsbahnhof in Darmstadt (1875-1912)

The Ludwig railway station in Darmstadt was a railhead and served the Hessian Ludwig Railway as the end of their two emanating from Darmstadt route branches of the Rhine-Main Railway after Mainz and Aschaffenburg , as well as the Riedbahn of Worms and the Odenwaldbahn .

topography

The Ludwigsbahn station was to the east of the Main-Neckar station on the north side of today's Steubenplatz . The Main-Neckar-Bahnhof, on the other hand, was a through station . The fronts of the reception buildings were at right angles to each other.

history

Track plan of the Main-Neckar-Bahnhof 1870. Below the four tracks that were used by the Hessian Ludwigsbahn for the Rhein-Main-Bahn .

The Rhein-Main-Bahn was opened in 1858 and initially used four tracks in Darmstadt in the north-eastern area of ​​the Main-Neckar train station and the reception building of the Main-Neckar-Bahn . It was not until 1873 to 1875 that the first reception building was built here in the neo-renaissance style based on a design by Philipp Johann Berdellé due to the increasing traffic . It opened on October 15, 1875. Since it was one of the most important railway stations of the Ludwig Railway and served the capital and residence of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , it was particularly well equipped. With the transfer of the HLB to the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community , the station came under the administration of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz.

In 1899 there was a telegraph workshop in the Ludwigsbahnhof, which has now been renamed "Telegraphenmeisterei I" and supplemented by a "Telegraphenmeisterei II". At that time there were two more telegraph offices in Mainz and one that was also newly set up in Bingerbrück train station .

At the beginning of the 20th century, both the Ludwigsbahnhof and the Main-Neckar-Bahnhof could no longer cope with the growing traffic. They were also too close to the city center to be able to expand. That is why they were replaced by the new Darmstadt main station in 1912 . This was about 800 meters to the west and at the time of construction it was still outside the city. The station was closed for freight traffic on April 27, 1912. On May 1, 1912, most of the passenger traffic was moved to the new main station. The exception was initially the traffic of the Odenwaldbahn including the traffic to Groß-Zimmer , because some construction work in connection with the new main station could not be completed in time. It was not until May 15, 1912 that these connections were also introduced into the new main train station and the old train station closed.

The platform roofing of the Ludwigsbahnhof was dismantled after the First World War and reused in the Buchschlag-Sprendlingen and Langen stations , where they can still be seen today as the last remaining structural remnant of the former Ludwigsbahnhof. They are cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . In Langen, the roof structure is supported by the pillars of the platform hall of the Main-Neckar-Bahn.

During the First World War, the station building was used as accommodation for the II. Replacement Battalion of the Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 115, which was dissolved in mid-1917 . In the years between the two world wars, it served various municipal offices as an official building. After it was destroyed by the Allied air raid on Darmstadt in World War II , the ruins were demolished in 1955.

See also

• List of train stations and stops in Darmstadt

literature

• Karl Assmann and Wolfgang Bleiweis: Darmstadt railway junction through the ages. 1987.
• Ferdinand Scheyrer: History of the Main-Neckar Railway. Memorandum for the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Main-Neckar-Bahn on August 1, 1846. 1896, reprinted in 1996.
• Heinz Schomann: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Hessen. Railway in Hessen . Volume 2: Railway Buildings and Lines 1839–1939 . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Darmstädter Zeitung 1875 , digitized by the Darmstadt University Library
2. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes from March 4, 1899. Volume 3, No. 10. Announcement No. 85, p. 68.
3. ^ Stephan Hoffmann: Darmstadt's train stations. The development to the South Hessian hub . In: Railway courier . No. 490, July 2013, p. 59.
4. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 16, 1912, No. 14. Announcement No. 161, p. 82.
5. ↑ Schomann, Vol. 2.1, p. 57ff.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '22.9 "  N , 8 ° 38' 32.1"  E