Stop Frankfurt (Main) Fahrtor

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Stop Frankfurt (Main) Fahrtor
The Frankfurt (Main) Fahrtor stop on a postcard from 1912
The Frankfurt (Main) Fahrtor stop on a postcard from 1912
Data
Operating point type Passenger station
Design Through station
location
City / municipality Frankfurt am Main
Place / district Old town
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 6 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 56"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 56"  E
Railway lines

Municipal connection line Frankfurt am Main

Railway stations in Hessen
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The Frankfurt (Main) Fahrtor stop was on the Frankfurt am Main urban railway .

designation

The name of the stop was derived from the former driving gate in the medieval Frankfurt city fortifications towards the Main and the alley named after it, which leads from the Römerberg to the Main at this point and continues in the Eiserner Steg .

history

The stop was either put into operation as early as 1859 or only after the Hessische Ludwigsbahn (HLB) had taken over the Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (FHE) and its operation - including on the connecting railway - in 1872 . From 1880, the HLB had trains from its main network transferred from the Main-Lahn-Bahn from the direction of Limburg via the connecting line to the newly acquired route of the former FHE. The Fahrtor stop had its own reception building. The middle part was an open hall, which was surrounded by two gabled buildings . Passenger traffic ended here on April 1, 1913, when the Frankfurt – Hanau railway was connected to the south station via the newly built Ostbahnhof and Deutschherrnbrücke .

When all the railway bridges over the Main were destroyed in 1945, the connecting line regained importance for regional traffic: It was the only connection between the western and eastern railway systems in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt-Königstein small railway ran here from July 13th to September 30th, 1945 Trains from Frankfurt-Höchst station and the revived Fahrtor stop to Frankfurt-Mainkur station .

Worth knowing

In the area of ​​the former breakpoint, in front of the former Fahrtor and the Eiserner Steg, there is now a breakpoint in the museum operation of the Frankfurt Historical Railway (HEF), which is offered several weekends a year . This, however, was named after the bridge, "Eiserner Steg".

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Andreas Christopher and Gerd Wolff, German small and private railways. Volume 8: Hesse. Freiburg 2004. ISBN 3-88255-667-6
  • Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, 1,448 pages, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .
  • Railway Atlas Germany - Edition 2005/2006, Vlg. Schweers + Wall, o. O. 2005, ISBN 3-89494-134-0
  • Heinz Hirt: 1877–2002 - 125 years of the Main-Lahn-Bahn Höchst-Limburg. Eppstein (Taunus) 2002, ISBN 3-00-010714-2
  • Ferdinand von Rüden: Frankfurt am Main transport hub. From the beginning until around 1980 . EK-Verlag GmbH 2012. ISBN 978-3-88255-246-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So: Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (201).
  2. ↑ So: from males.
  3. ↑ From males.
  4. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (201).
  5. ↑ Timetable printed in: Andreas Christopher u. a., p. 71.