Frankfurt (Main) main freight station

Main freight station (above) and Hauptbahnhof on a city map from 1893

The Frankfurt (Main) Hauptgüterbahnhof (Hgbf) station was the largest freight and marshalling yard in Frankfurt am Main .

location

It was located close to the center north of the main station for passenger traffic, was designed as a terminal station and was used for general cargo handling . The railroad access was from the west from the Taunus Railway from Wiesbaden at route kilometers 6.1 and via two connecting curves in a north and south direction to the Main-Weser Railway at route kilometers 1.6 and 2.5. These access routes had route numbers 3631 (western and southern entrance) and 3632 (western and northern entrance). On the street side, the train station was reached from the east, where the city center was located. The area was about 70 hectares. To the west of the Emser Bridge was a marshalling yard .

history

The Frof signal box of the former main freight station: The picture of the last commemorative monument of the main freight station was taken one day before the demolition work on the signal box building began at the end of November 2013. Around the signal box you can see new buildings in the Europaviertel , which is being built on the former tracks.

Western part of the former station area in September 2009

As the “Central Güter-Bahnhof” it was built together with the new main train station for passenger traffic in the Gallus district in the 1880s. The two train stations replace the Frankfurt West train stations , which had become too small and were given up. The main freight station went into operation on August 1, 1888 - 18 days before the main station for passenger traffic. A separate depot (Bw Frankfurt (M) 2) operated on the premises of the freight yard and maintained the freight train and shunting locomotives .

During the Second World War , the station was also the target of air raids on Frankfurt , for example on December 11, 1944 and December 29, 1944.

With the relocation of industry to commercial areas on the outskirts and the relocation of general cargo traffic to the road, the main freight station was abandoned. The dismantling of the first sections began in 1998: the superstructure and some of the buildings were removed. The street name “ Güterplatz ” is reminiscent of the location of the terminal building of the station. Operation on the remaining tracks finally came in the mid-2000s.

The site was part of the plans for Frankfurt 21 .

Today, parts of the exhibition grounds and the Europaviertel, which is under construction, are located on the site .

literature

• Railway Atlas Germany (Edition 2009/2010). Eupen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0
• Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main) : Guide over the lines of the district of the Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main) . Frankfurt 1926, p. 6.
• Ferdinand von Rüden: Frankfurt am Main transport hub. From the beginning until around 1980 . EK-Verlag GmbH 2012. ISBN 978-3-88255-246-1 , pp. 92-94.

Web links

• Photos from the former site (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ von Rüden, p. 92.
2. ↑ Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939-1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1 , pp. 227, 268.
3. ↑ Meinhard von Gerkan : Renaissance of the railway stations as the nucleus of urban development . In: Renaissance of the railway stations. The city in the 21st century . Vieweg Verlag , 1996, ISBN 3-528-08139-2 , pp. 16-63, especially p. 62.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 14.9 ″  E