Frankfurt (Main) Süd train station

Frankfurt (Main) South
Reception building
Data
Operating point type	Passenger station
Location in the network	Crossing station
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	9
abbreviation	FFS
IBNR	8002041
Price range	2
opening	November 15, 1873
Website URL	www.bahnhof.de
Architectural data
Architectural style	Art Nouveau
architect	Armin Wegner
location
City / municipality	Frankfurt am Main
Place / district	Sachsenhausen
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 5 '58 "  N , 8 ° 41' 10"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '58 "  N , 8 ° 41' 10"  E
Railway lines
Frankfurt (Main) Süd – Aschaffenburg Hbf (km 0.0) (KBS 640, 641) Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Göttingen (km 4.4) (KBS 615, 641) Frankfurt Stadion – Frankfurt Süd (km 36.6) (KBS 471, 645.8, 645.9) Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (deep) –Frankfurt (Main) Süd (km 55.0) (KBS 645.3 ~ 6)
Railway stations in Hessen

The Frankfurt (Main) Süd train station (colloquially: Frankfurter Südbahnhof ) is one of four long-distance train stations in Frankfurt am Main . In contrast to the main train station , it is not a terminus , but a through station and has nine tracks on five platforms . He is stop for trains of long-distance passenger traffic ( Intercity Express , Intercity , Nightjet , Euro Night ), the rail passenger transport ( S-Bahn , Regional Express , City Express and regional rail ) and public transport ( metro , tram and bus ).

Geographical location

The station is located in the southern Main district of Sachsenhausen-Nord in a metropolitan area of ​​the Wilhelminian era . From the station forecourt, Diesterwegplatz, five streets run in a star shape into the surrounding area: Hedderichstrasse to the southwest and northeast, Diesterwegstrasse to Schweizer Platz to the northwest , Stegstrasse (to the Eiserner Steg ) to the north and Brückenstrasse to the northeast (to the Old Bridge ). A weekly market takes place on Diesterwegplatz on Tuesdays and Fridays .

Schweizer Straße , the main axis of the Wilhelminian style Sachsenhausen, runs one block west of the train station . Immediately northeast of the station forecourt, between Hedderichstrasse and Textorstrasse , is the old Sachsenhausen tram depot , which was closed in 2003 and has since been gutted and rebuilt. A large supermarket chain and a branch of the Frankfurt City Library have found a new home in the formerly converted halls.

The south exit of the station leads to Mörfelder Landstraße .

history

Surroundings of the then Bebra train station, 1893

Today's Südbahnhof was opened on November 15, 1873, at the same time as Offenbach Central Station . The Hessian state railway, then Prussian state railway from Bebra via Fulda and Hanau to Frankfurt, the Bebraer Bahn , opened its southern Main line between Hanau and Frankfurt that day, giving Sachsenhausen and Offenbach a direct connection to this line. It is still one of the three rail connections between Frankfurt and Hanau today. Previously, the trains from Bebra in northern Main had to use the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway and the urban connecting railway to reach the Frankfurt West Railway Stations.

The station was originally called Bebraer Bahnhof . Later the designation in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen and on May 1, 1909 ( timetable change ) in Frankfurt a. M. South changed. The station building of this first south station was an elongated, two-storey half - timbered building with gable wings at both ends. In front of it was a large terrace with an outside staircase. A management building and a residential building for the management president were built next to it.

In 1914 the reception building , which has been preserved to this day, was opened. In its reduced Art Nouveau forms , it is somewhat similar to the Frankfurt-Höchst train station that opened in the same year . When the subway was built under the station building (completed in 1984), it was almost completely dismantled and then rebuilt. It houses since then also a community center and cultural center . The originally existing iron platform hall was demolished in the mid-1960s.

In 1996 and 1997 there were two very similar railway accidents in the area of ​​the station. But consequences have only been drawn since the second accident and since then there has been a ban on trains with loaded tank wagons transporting dangerous goods.

→ Main article : Railway accidents in Frankfurt (Main) Süd

Plaque in memory of the Frankfurt Jews deported after the November pogrom in 1938

Since 2011, a plaque next to the main portal has been commemorating the fate of the 3,155 Jewish men who were deported from the Südbahnhof in the days after the pogrom night in November 1938 .

Planned expansion

An ICE T on the way to Frankfurt Airport

The Rhein-Main S-Bahn uses the two northern platforms, while regional and long-distance transport uses the three southern platforms.

As part of the Frankfurt RheinMain ^plus concept , the capacity of the station is to be increased with various measures.

The east head is to be upgraded for parallel entrances and exits to and from the north and south Main lines, tracks 9 and 10 are to be expanded to 750 meters of usable length and better connected to the Frankfurt Stadium.

Between the train station and the Main-Neckar bridge , a four-track expansion is also planned with the segregation of long-distance and regional traffic, with a change from right to left operation in order to make it easier to change the direction of travel in the main train station.

Furthermore, the Main-Neckar-Bahn from Darmstadt is to be connected at no elevation.

service

Long-distance transport

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In long-distance passenger rail transport , the Südbahnhof is only served by individual trains from various Intercity Express and Intercity , Nightjet and EuroNight lines. From August 24, 2017 to March 20, 2020, the private long-distance train Flixtrain with the FLX 10 line stopped two to four times a day:

line	Line course	Cycle (min)
ICE 13	Berlin Ostbahnhof - Berlin Hbf  - Berlin-Spandau  - Braunschweig  - Hildesheim  - Göttingen  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Fulda  - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt Airport	120
ICE 22	Hamburg-Altona  - Hamburg  - Hanover  - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt South - Darmstadt  - Heidelberg  - Stuttgart	a train (Fri)
IC 16	Heidelberg - Weinheim  - Heppenheim  - Bensheim  - Darmstadt - Frankfurt Süd - Fulda - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Göttingen - Berlin-Spandau - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Gesundbrunnen - Eberswalde  - Prenzlau  - Pasewalk  - Anklam  - Greifswald  - Stralsund	a train (Fri)
IC 50	Leipzig  - Weißenfels  - Naumburg  - Apolda  - Weimar  - Erfurt - Gotha  - Eisenach - Fulda - Frankfurt South - Darmstadt - Bensheim - Weinheim - Heidelberg - Wiesloch-Walldorf  - Karlsruhe-Durlach  - Karlsruhe	a train (Sun)
EN	Moscow  - Minsk  - Brest  - Warsaw  - Poznan  - Frankfurt  - Berlin - Erfurt - Frankfurt South - Saarbrücken  - Paris Est	a pair of trains, EN 452/453
NJ	Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich - Kufstein - Wörgl - Innsbruck	a pair of trains
NJ	Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg - Passau  - Linz  - St. Pölten - Vienna Meidling - Vienna	a pair of trains
FLX 10	Stuttgart Hbf - Heidelberg - ( Weinheim (Bergstrasse) -) Darmstadt - Frankfurt Süd - ( Fulda - Eisenach - Gotha -) Erfurt - Halle (Saale) - Berlin Südkreuz - Berlin Hbf	1-2 train pairs (until March 20, 2020 )
ASN	Alpen-Sylt night express: Westerland (Sylt)  - Husum  - Hamburg  - Frankfurt South  - Würzburg  - Nuremberg  - Augsburg  - Munich  - Salzburg	two pairs of trains a week

The Nightjet trains from Düsseldorf to Innsbruck or Vienna run as a train to Nuremberg and are winged there as well as combined with the Nightjet trains from Hamburg-Altona to Innsbruck and Vienna, which also run to Nuremberg as a train. There are four direct connections with two train pairs.

In the event of construction work and / or disruptions, the Frankfurt (Main) Süd train station is a regular substitute stop for Frankfurt Central Station.

Regional and S-Bahn traffic

In rail transport , including the following hold regional express - and regional train -lines at South Station:

line	Line course	Tact
RE 50	Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Fulda	60 min
RE 54	Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau - Aschaffenburg - Würzburg - Schweinfurt  - Haßfurt  - Bamberg	120 min
RE 55	Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Aschaffenburg - Würzburg - Schweinfurt  - Haßfurt  - Bamberg	120 min
RE 59	Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Maintal East - Hanau (- Aschaffenburg)	120 min
RE 85	Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Babenhausen - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach (- Erbach -  Eberbach )	120 min
RB 51	Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Offenbach - Hanau - Langenselbold - Gelnhausen - Wächtersbach (- Bad Soden-Salmünster)	60 min
RB 58	Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Main Valley East - Hanau	120 min
RB 58	Rüsselsheim Opelwerk  - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Maintal East - Hanau - Aschaffenburg -  Laufach	60 min
	Bad Soden - Frankfurt (deep) - Frankfurt South - Langen - Darmstadt	30 min
	Kronberg - Frankfurt (deep) - Frankfurt South - Langen (- Darmstadt)	30 min
	Friedrichsdorf - Bad Homburg - Frankfurt (deep) - Frankfurt South	15 minutes
	Friedberg - Groß Karben - Bad Vilbel - Frankfurt (deep) - Frankfurt South	15 minutes

←	Lines			→
Frankfurt		50, 51, 55, 85 Frankfurt-Offenbach-Hanau		Offenbach
Frankfurt  / Airport		54, 58, 59 Frankfurt – Maintal – Hanau		Frankfurt East

Rhein-Main S-Bahn
Previous station	line	Next station
Local train station ←  Bad Soden (Taunus)		Stresemannallee Darmstadt Hbf  →
Local train station ←  Kronberg (Taunus)		Stresemannallee Langen  →
Local train station ←  Friedrichsdorf (Taunus)		final destination
Local train station ←  Friedberg (Hessen)		final destination

Local transport

Line 16 at the Südbahnhof

The Südbahnhof plays a particularly important role for local public transport .

Located at the intersection between the city center and the southern suburbs, the lines S3 to S6 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main , the subways of the A route (lines U1 to U3 and U8) and the tram lines 15 intersect here in addition to the aforementioned regional trains , 16, 18 and the Ebbelwei Express .

Some buses stop at the south exit on Mörfelder Landstrasse.

Subway

Track plan
from Schweizer Platz Südbahnhof Turning system

Walls of the subway station with historical pictures, including the old reception building

The Frankfurt A-line ends at the Südbahnhof underground station . That is why there is a transfer point in the tunnel in front of the train station and behind it a three-track, approx. 200 meter long turning system , which consists of three individual tubes.

The station itself has two main tracks and a central platform .

Every two to five minutes there is a connection to the U1, U2, U3 and U8 lines towards the city center and on to Ginnheim , Heddernheim , Oberursel , Riedberg and Bad Homburg .

Frankfurt subway
Previous station	line	Next station
Schweizer Platz ←  Ginnheim		final destination
Schweizer Platz ←  Bad Homburg-Gonzenheim		final destination
Schweizer Platz ←  Oberursel-Hohemark		final destination
Schweizer Platz ←  Riedberg		final destination

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Frankfurt (Main) Süd  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tracks in service facilities (FFS) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 281 KiB)
• Location of the railway system as well as some permissible speeds and signals on the OpenRailwayMap
• State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Südbahnhof In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

Remarks

1. ↑ Hedderichstrasse 55–57, today a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act ( Heinz Schomann : Eisenbahn in Hessen . Railway history and construction types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Kulturdenkmäler in Hesse. monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. band 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 126 . ).
2. ↑ Hedderichstrasse 63, today a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act ( Heinz Schomann : Eisenbahn in Hessen . Railway history and construction types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. band 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 126 . ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of June 5, 1909, No. 29. Announcement No. 398, p. 296.
2. ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway history and building types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and lines 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape  2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 126 .
3. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (201).
4. ↑ moest: Offenbach Gbf reactivated . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 2/2019, p. 108.
5. ↑ Remembrance of the Frankfurt Jews deported from the Südbahnhof
6. ^ Deutsche Bahn AG: Frankfurt RheinMain ^plus . The project. The railway junction. The rail infrastructure. (Status 2009) ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). 32-page brochure dated June 2009, (PDF; 1.6 MiB), p. 13.