Frankfurt Main-Weser train station

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Main-Weser train station after expansion (1889)

The Main-Weser-Bahnhof was the beginning and end of the Main-Weser-Bahn until 1888 , which has connected Frankfurt am Main with Kassel since 1852 . Since 1860 the Homburg Railway Company also used a side wing there. Structurally nothing is left of it.

history

The Main-Weser-Bahn was the fifth railway line on the territory of the Free City of Frankfurt . The Main-Weser train station went into operation in 1850. Together with the Taunusbahnhof, opened in 1839, and the Main-Neckar-Bahnhof from 1848, the three adjacent train stations formed an ensemble as Frankfurt West Train Stations . The Hotel Westendhall was located between the Main-Weser train station and the Taunus train station .

The station building of the Main-Weser-Bahnhof was on the western edge of the ramparts at the Gallusanlage between the Taunustor and the Gallustor , near the parallel Taunusstraße . It received the cheapest solution from the three western train stations: The Frankfurt city architect Karl Friedrich Henrich converted the existing villa of the Blittersdorf family for this purpose. The two-story building, which was relatively small, had only five window axes, of which the middle three were access doors on the ground floor. The building was crowned by a clock tower in the middle. The platform hall probably consisted of a wooden structure. After the introduction of the Homburg Railway in 1860 and the Kronberger Railway in 1874, the building was expanded by two side wings.

The Main-Weser-Bahnhof in Frankfurt and its neighboring stations

In 1888, the three Westbahnhöfe were replaced by the new Centralbahnhof , about one kilometer further to the west, today's Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof . Their superfluous facilities were torn down. The Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel was built on the remaining railway wasteland . The Bahnstrasse (today Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and Hamburger Allee ) was laid out on the former northern feeder line of the Main-Weser-Bahn .

See also

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  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Railway buildings and routes 1839-1939 , 3 volumes, 1st edition. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200–215 (200f).
  2. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (201).

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 16 ″  E