Hanau railway accident in 1884

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Accident photo of Severin Schroeder

In the Hanau railway accident on November 14, 1884 at around 11:30 a.m., a passenger train collided with a freight train in the northeast entrance of the Hanau Ost station (today: Hanau Hauptbahnhof ) and a third train crashed into the rubble. 22 people died.

Starting position

Passenger train 21 from Berlin and Bebra was on the Kinzig Valley Railway . The train was manned by numerous travelers from the Hanau area who wanted to visit a trade fair in Hanau .

the accident

Due to a mistake by a dispatcher - a telegraphic train report was omitted - the said train drove onto the shunting freight train 304 at the entrance in Hanau . Both locomotive personnel managed to jump off before the collision. Both trains derailed, the approaching locomotive and eight passenger and freight cars wedged together. The rubble also blocked the neighboring tracks. The 511 freight train coming from Frankfurt am Main and traveling in the opposite direction drove into the rubble. The surviving injured were admitted to the Hanau hospital , where some also died.

consequences

22 people died, including a conductor as the only railroad worker . 26 people were also injured. The survivors obviously had to go to court for compensation, which was existential for some victims. The guilty telegraph operator was sentenced to two years in prison .

Web links

literature

  • Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 68.
  • Erwin Rückriegel: Railway accident on November 14, 1884 near Hanau and its consequences for those involved . In: Grindaha [Zeitschrift des Geschichtsverein Gründau] 15 (2005), pp. 13-16.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to the Niedergründau Book of the Dead 1830-1885, quoted in: Rückriegel: Eisenbahnunlück , p. 16, on the other hand, a signal is said to have been set too early to “free travel”. Since the guilty party was convicted of a telegraph operator who telegraphs to the railway and does not present it, this representation is probably incorrect.
  2. ↑ Rückriegel: Railway accident , names a number of the victims.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From: Werner Kurz: "Now please keep still!" - Hanau and photography 1839 to 1914. Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-93539-524-3 , p. 62.
  2. ↑ NN: A terrible railway accident .
  3. ^ Ritzau: Railway disasters .
  4. ^ Backbolt: Railway accident .
  5. ↑ NN: A terrible railway accident .
  6. ^ Ritzau: Railway disasters .
  7. ↑ Rückriegel: Eisenbahnwlück , p. 16.


Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 10.7 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 6.6 ″  E