Darmstadt Main-Neckar train station

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The station 1846: Left the depot , the right reception building
The Hessische Ludwigsbahn used these tracks in the Main-Neckar-Bahn station until 1875 , here with staff from HLB 1867
In the left foreground the Main-Neckar-Bahnhof, in the background the Ludwigsbahnhof (before 1900)
Track plan 1870. Below the four tracks that were used by the Hessian Ludwigsbahn for the Rhein-Main-Bahn .

The Main-Neckar-Bahnhof in Darmstadt was completed in 1846 and served the Main-Neckar-Bahn . In 1912 it was replaced by Darmstadt Central Station , which took over the increased traffic.

topography

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

development

The Main-Neckar-Bahnhof was the largest station on the Main-Neckar-Bahn with the most magnificent reception building , an expensive building . The administration of the Main-Neckar-Bahn and the central workshops were also housed here. The station also had two car halls and a “convoy hall” in which trains could be put together in a protected manner. The station went into operation on June 22, 1846 and was continuously expanded in the following years: In 1861 the platform hall, originally made of wood, was replaced by an iron and glass construction. In 1871 the station was expanded to the west, in 1873 an official residence was built and in 1877 a floor was added above the waiting rooms and the pavilions of the reception building. In addition, a new engine shed was built in the 1870s. In 1885 the station received electrical lighting . The freight yard was greatly expanded in 1890. On May 17, 1891, a pedestrian tunnel was opened under the railway facilities.

On October 1, 1902, the MNB was dissolved, its part in Hesse fell to the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community and the Mainz Railway Directorate , which, after nationalization on April 1, 1897, already included the former Hessian Ludwig Railway and thus also the one directly next to the Main -Neckar-Bahnhof belonging to Ludwigsbahnhof . The management in Mainz now combined both train stations to form Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof . To avoid confusion among travelers, the two parts of the station kept separate names: Hessischer Ludwigsbahnhof and Main-Neckarbahnhof .

Decommissioning and reuse

At the beginning of the 20th century, both the Main-Neckar-Bahnhof and the Ludwigsbahnhof 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 in 1912 by the new Darmstadt main station , 800 meters further west . 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 pillars of the platform hall were used again after 1912 for a platform roofing of the Langen train station, where they are still preserved today. They are cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . During the time of National Socialism , the old station building of the Main-Neckar-Bahn was renamed Jakob-Sprenger -Haus. After the damage from air raids in World War II , the building was still used by the Masada Jewish Vocational School from 1947 to 1948 , but was demolished in 1955.

literature

  • Karl Aßmann, Wolfgang Bleiweis: Darmstadt railway junction through the ages . Rossdorf 1987, DNB 920455174 .
  • Fritz Paetz: Data collection on the history of the railways on the Main, Rhine and Neckar . Bensheim-Auerbach 1985, DNB 880649224 .
  • 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. (Reprint: Verlag Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 1996, ISBN 3-928786-46-6 )
  • Heinz Schomann : State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .
  • Herbert Wambold: The Main-Neckar Railway . In: Georg Wittenberger (Ed.): The railway and its history. (Series of publications by the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, 2). Darmstadt 1985, DNB 881028320 , pp. 20-26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On June 22, 1846, operations on the Langen - Heppenheim section began, and the entire Main-Neckar Railway began operations on August 1, 1846 (F. Paetz: Datenammlung zur Geschichte der Eisenbahnen ... 1985, p. 36).
  2. ↑ a b Stephan Hoffmann: Darmstadt's train stations. The development to the South Hessian hub . In: Railway courier . No. 490, July 2013, pp. 56-60.
  3. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Hrsg.): Collection of the published official gazettes from December 6, 1902. 6th year. No. 68. Announcement No. 579.
  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: Railway in Hessen. Vol. 2.1, 2005, p. 57.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 19.6 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 26.2"  E