Mainspitze train station

Operational situation 1846–1848

		Main-Neckar train station
		Friedensbrücke ( Main )
		Mainspitze
		Sachsenhausen to Offenbach
		to Darmstadt and Heidelberg

The station Mainspitze was a depot of the Main-Neckar-Bahn in Frankfurt - Sachsenhausen . It was located directly in front of the future approach to the first Main-Neckar bridge , for example in the area of today's tram stop Stresemannallee / Gartenstraße .

history

business

He served in the time between the opening of the Main-Neckar Railway in 1846 and the completion of the first Main-Neckar railway bridge over the Main in 1848 to the coming from Heidelberg and from Darmstadt Main-Neckar station coming and after moving there trains the To enable entry into the Sachsenhausen train station (later: local train station ). In this phase, the Sachsenhausen station served as the provisional terminus of the Main-Neckar Railway and was leased from the Frankfurt-Offenbacher Lokalbahn . The facilities required for handling the passengers were available there.

The Mainspitze station provided the turning point required for the journey from the main line to Sachsenhausen station. This cumbersome procedure was necessary because, without the completion of the Main crossing, the Main-Neckar-Bahn could not yet reach its Frankfurt terminus, the Main-Neckar-Bahnhof , north of the Main. This temporary solution lasted until November 15, 1848, when the first Main-Neckar bridge went into operation. The Mainspitze depot was then abandoned and was the first station to suffer this fate in Frankfurt am Main.

Accidents

The railway accidents of August 16, 1846

The need to change the direction of travel at Mainspitze station resulted in two major accidents:

On the morning of August 16, 1846, the driver of the Darmstadt local train braked himself and drove past the end of the line. The locomotive got stuck in the gravel.

In the afternoon of the same day, another engine driver braked himself. His train also drove past the end of the line without braking, albeit with a more dynamic pace: it broke through the site fence, the locomotive and some wagons crashed on the first bridge pillar. The engine driver was able to save himself by jumping off the vehicle , the heater was crushed by a car. A passenger broke his foot as he fell down the bank.

literature

Bernhard Hager: From the history of the Main-Neckar-Bahn , in: Yearbook for Railway History 36 (2004), pp. 5-32.
Jens Freese: From steam car to S-Bahn, 144 years of railways in Frankfurt am Main-Sachsenhausen , Aachen 1990
Jens Freese, Michael Hofmann: The Abbelwoi Exbress. On the trail of the local railway from Frankfurt to Offenbach. Verlag Wolfgang Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 1995, ISBN 3-928786-32-6

Individual evidence

^ Bulletin October 15, 1921 (supplement), in: Zeitschriftensammlung der Frankfurter Universitätsbibliothek ; Herbert Wambold: The Main-Neckar Railway . In: The railway and its history = series of publications of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg 2. Ed .: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg. Darmstadt 1985, pp. 20-26 (23f.).
^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 67.

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[1] Bulletin October 15, 1921 (supplement), in: Zeitschriftensammlung der Frankfurter Universitätsbibliothek ; Herbert Wambold: The Main-Neckar Railway . In: The railway and its history = series of publications of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg 2. Ed .: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg. Darmstadt 1985, pp. 20-26 (23f.).

[2] Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 67.