Frankfurt (Main) West train station

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Frankfurt (Main) West
Mk Frankfurt S-Bahn Wbf.jpg
Elevated railway section
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation FFW
IBNR 8002042
Price range 3
opening 1848
Profile on Bahnhof.de Frankfurt__Main__West
Architectural data
architect Julius Eugen Ruhl
location
City / municipality Frankfurt am Main
Place / district Bockenheim
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 7 '9 "  N , 8 ° 38' 22"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '9 "  N , 8 ° 38' 22"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
i11 i16 i16 i18

The Frankfurt (Main) West train station is a regional and S-Bahn train station on the Main-Weser-Bahn in the west of the city center of Frankfurt am Main ( Bockenheim district ), near the Frankfurt Trade Fair and the Bockenheim campus of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe- University of Frankfurt am Main .

history

Frankfurt (Main) West around 1930 with the reception building of Julius Eugen Ruhl

The station was built in 1848 as Bockenheim station on the Main-Weser Railway (Frankfurt – Kassel). The then independent city Bockenheim was until 1866 on kurhessischem territory. It was important in the context of the electorate, which intended to build a particularly magnificent train station here. But that prevented the other partners who were involved in the Main-Weser-Bahn, a condom line . According to a design by Julius Eugen Ruhl, the reception building was furnished relatively elaborately in the neo-renaissance style , including a special lounge area for the elector . This aspect continued in front of the train station with the Kurfürstenplatz, which still exists today, as a city gate to Bockenheim.

The first fundamental change in the railway system occurred when the Frankfurt West Railway Stations were replaced by the new Centralbahnhof (today: Hauptbahnhof ) in 1888 . In this context, the connection of the Homburg Railway to the Main-Weser Railway in the Westbahnhof succeeded on May 10, 1884 - which had failed fifteen years earlier at the time of construction due to small states .

The entry of the Main-Weser-Bahn into the new central station also required an entry curve that extended far to the west. The abandoned old route, which led in a straight line from today's Westbahnhof to the Am Hauptbahnhof square and then turned westwards, following today's Kaiserstraße , to the Main-Weser-Bahnhof , was converted into a street. This was initially called Bahnstraße and is still traced in the cityscape today by Hamburger Allee , Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and Düsseldorfer Straße .

Today's train station

Platform 3 (line S6), direction of travel downtown
House platform (platform 3), looking towards Friedberg
The main hall of the station

Since 1913, this station has been known as Frankfurt aM-West in official rail, postal and commercial traffic . The historic station building was destroyed in the Second World War during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . As a replacement, a contemporary purpose-built building with two floors was built in 1961. At the same time, a people tunnel was created under the tracks . The reception building was equipped with fast catering and on the first floor with offices and classrooms. As an additional source of lighting, the hall was connected to the upper floor corridor with a round ceiling opening, in the middle of which hung a modern chandelier. Also noteworthy were the curved staircase with brass-colored railings and a two-story wall mosaic showing a railway scene. The mosaic is no longer preserved.

During the expansion of the S-Bahn in the 1970s, the first floor was demolished, later almost all other parts of the building, so that almost nothing of the former building is left. The result is a simple structure that seems to be wedged under the elevated S-Bahn line.

The station now consists of two levels: the regional trains and the S6 S-Bahn trains going into the city stop on platforms 3 to 5. Use the S-Bahn lines S3, S4 and S5 as well as the S6 in the direction of Friedberg the approximately one kilometer long elevated railway section with the double-track elevated railway station (tracks 1 and 2) above the actual track field.

The platforms to tracks 4 and 5: This is where regional and long-distance trains stop

Mainly in rush hour some consider regional express trains of the lines RE 30 Kassel - Marburg - Gießen - Frankfurt (Main-Weser-Express) and RE 99 victories - Gießen - Frankfurt ( Main-Sieg-Express ) and all to Frankfurt main station by bound Trains of the Niddertalbahn (RB 34) and Horlofftalbahn (RB 48). In addition, the Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40/41) generally stops at this station. In addition, individual long-distance trains on the way from Hamburg ( ICE 26 ) or Berlin to Frankfurt Central Station and vice versa stop here in the afternoon and late evening . Other ICE trains also stop in the event of construction work and operational deviations .

At the end of 2008, a service store with lounge was opened in the station . It contains a small shop and a small café. Tickets are also available there. It represents the pilot project for a new franchise system, of which around 25 are to be opened each year in additional train stations.

Connection

An amplifier ride on tram line 16 stops at Frankfurt (Main) West train station.

Line 17 of the Frankfurt am Main tram, opened in 2003, touches the southern end of the Westbahnhof (stops at Nauheimer Straße and Kuhwaldstraße ). The tram stop on the forecourt of the Westbahnhof was last used by tram line 16 in July and August 2019 due to construction sites in the light rail network.

The bus line 32 runs from the Westbahnhof via the Frankfurt Nordend and Bornheim to the Ostbahnhof. The bus line 36 connects the Westbahnhof with the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and the city center and the line 73 with the districts of Hausen , Praunheim and Nordweststadt . The planned ring tram is to have a stop called Westbahnhof in the neighboring Schloßstraße .

Individual ICE trains in the direction of Kassel – Hamburg or Heidelberg – Karlsruhe stop at the station as scheduled .

Lines
Friedberg (Hess) RegionalRB 40, RB 41
RE 30, RE 99 (individual trains)
Main-Weser-Bahn
Frankfurt Central Station
Bad Vilbel RegionalRB 48
Horlofftalbahn
Frankfurt Central Station
Bad Vilbel RegionalRB 34
Niddertal Railway
Frankfurt Central Station
Friedberg (Hess) Remote ICE 26 Frankfurt Central Station
Rhein-Main S-Bahn
Previous station line Next station
Rödelheim
←  Bad Soden (Taunus)
S3 Messe
Darmstadt Hbf  →
Rödelheim
←  Kronberg (Taunus)
S4 Messe
Langen  →
Rödelheim
←  Friedrichsdorf (Taunus)
S5 Messe
Südbahnhof  →
Eschersheim
←  Friedberg (Hesse)
S6 Messe
Südbahnhof  →

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Railway construction and routes 1839–1939 . 1st edition. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 197 (3 vol.).
  • Martin Schack, Ulrich Langner: New stations: the station building of the German Federal Railroad 1948–1973 . 1st edition. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-49-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Lohr : Planning and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982], p. 357.
  2. DB world. Central Region. January 2009, p. 21.
  3. dkd Internet Service GmbH: Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main mbH - Construction project 2019. Accessed on July 14, 2019 .