Hauptwache

A main station was the headquarters of a city police or military force. Main guard buildings were built in central places in some cities, especially during the Baroque period. By far the best-known example is in Frankfurt am Main.

Well-known main guard buildings are or were:

• Hauptwache (Frankfurt am Main) (inherited 1729–30),
  • synonymous for the surrounding square An der Hauptwache , the center of the city,
  • and the Frankfurt (Main) Hauptwache train station
• Hauptwache (Bamberg) (inherited 1772–74)
• Hauptwache (Fulda) (inherited 1757–59)
• Hauptwache (Wetzlar) (inherited in 1861)
• Alte Hauptwache am Neumarkt, Dresden (destroyed 1760/66)
• Old town main guard on Theaterplatz, Dresden
• Former main guard at Kléberplatz in Strasbourg, see Aubette
• Hauptwache Haarlem
• Hauptwache at Place d'Armes (Metz)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.