Frankfurt West Train Stations

The Frankfurt West Train Stations around 1860

The West Railway Stations on a steel engraving by Delkeskamp , 1864

The Frankfurt Westbahnhöfe were an ensemble of three train stations on the western edge of the ramparts in Frankfurt am Main between today's Willy-Brandt-Platz , then Gallustor , and the Taunustor .

investment

For the three railway lines leading to Frankfurt from the west , the Taunus Railway from Wiesbaden (1839), the Main-Neckar Railway from Heidelberg (1846) and the Main-Weser Railway from Kassel (1850), were built on the then outskirts of Frankfurt the three adjacent west train stations (from north to south):

The Hotel Westendhall was still located between the Taunus train station and the Main-Weser train station .

This ensemble of three train stations was replaced in 1888 by the main train station located about half a kilometer further west . The routes of all three railway companies were connected to the west of the respective station facilities by two connecting curves until the main station opened . The “ Am Hauptbahnhof ” square is located exactly on the former connecting curve of the Main-Neckar and Main-Weser trains.

Todays situation

The now superfluous facilities of the western train stations were demolished. The International Electrotechnical Exhibition took place in 1891 on the wasteland created in this way . The station district was built on the site until the First World War .

The former access routes to the western railway stations have been redesigned into streets and squares. The Bahnstrasse (today Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and Hamburger Allee ) was laid out on the former northern feeder line of the Main-Weser-Bahn .

The Main-Neckar bridge was converted into a road bridge, then Wilhelmsbrücke , now called Friedensbrücke , its southern approach to Stresemannallee .

Worth knowing

In the novel by Nikola Hahn , the detective , a historical detective story , which plays in 1882, is the constellation of three neighboring stations a crucial moment.

literature

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
E. Grüttefien: The conversion of the western train stations to Frankfurt am Main to a central train station. German construction newspaper from 1880 (see commonslink)

Web links

Commons : The conversion of the Westbahnhöfe to Frankfurt am Main to a central train station. 1880. - scan from the Deutsche Bauzeitung

50.109444444444 8.6713888888889Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 34 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 17 ″ E

Remarks

↑ Between 1846 and 1848, the Mainspitze and Sachsenhausen train stations south of the Main were initially used, as the (old) Main-Neckar Bridge was late in being completed.

Individual evidence

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

[1] Between 1846 and 1848, the Mainspitze and Sachsenhausen train stations south of the Main were initially used, as the (old) Main-Neckar Bridge was late in being completed.

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