Main-Weser Railway
| Kassel – Frankfurt | |
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 Main-Weser Railway at Niederweimar Hp
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| Route number (DB) : | 3900 |
| Course book section (DB) : | 620 (Kassel – Gießen) 630 (Gießen – Frankfurt) 645.6 (S-Bahn to Friedberg) until 2015: 614.9 (RegioTram to Treysa) |
| Route length: | 199.8 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Route class : | D4 |
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ |
| Top speed: | 160 km / h |
| Dual track : | (continuous) |
The Main-Weser-Bahn is a main railway line from Kassel via Wabern , Treysa , Marburg , Gießen and Friedberg to Frankfurt am Main , which was named after the railway company that built the line and operated it until 1880.
Route
The route is 199.8 kilometers long. It is double-tracked and has overhead lines . The maximum line speed is 160 km / h, but this is only reached sporadically on the southern section. The Main-Weser-Bahn is a very important line in local rail passenger transport . It is also used by an ICE line and an IC connection in long-distance passenger rail transport .
history
development
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The 1838 balanced construction of the Main-Weser Railway as a link from Kassel in the Rhine-Main area was initially as an exclusively Kurhessisches leading territory web between the largest cities of the electorate, Kassel and Hanau , about Fulda thought. This failed with the technical means available at the time on the thistle lawn , the watershed between Fulda and Kinzig , which was only overcome in 1868 with the Frankfurt-Bebraer railway and a hairpin in Elm .
Negotiations on the construction of the Main-Weser Railway began in 1841. After several interruptions in negotiations, a state treaty was concluded on February 6, 1845 between the Free City of Frankfurt , the Grand Duchy of Hesse- Darmstadt and the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel common state railway, a condominal railway . This created the legal prerequisites for a railway via Marburg , Gießen and Friedberg , which used terrain that was topographically simpler, but crossed national borders several times. The southern section took the following course: After exiting the Frankfurt Main-Weser train station , the route ran roughly parallel to Taunusstrasse , which was then under construction , via today's Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and Hamburger Allee to the town of Bockenheim in the Electorate of Hesse , and on over the Frankfurt District near Hausen and the Hessian Eschersheim , in the Frankfurt Bonames . After leaving today's Frankfurt city limits, the route ran, with the exception of the Frankfurt Dortelweil , over the Grand Ducal Hessian area to Friedberg and Gießen. Between these two cities, Bad Nauheim, an electoral Hessian enclave in the grand-ducal Upper Hesse, is crossed. The State Treaty obliged the governments involved to acquire the necessary land on their territory. The construction of the line was influenced by the civil revolution of 1848 and a financial crisis in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
Work began on August 6, 1846 on the Electoral Hesse area. The Belgian engineer Frans Splingard and his colleague Eduard Hacault were responsible here. From Frankfurt, the route was driven forward under Remigius Eyssen. The reception building along the route originated in the Hessian sections almost all of Julius Ruhl , the first Director General of the Hessian railways.
The Frankfurter Zeitung wrote in its October 1, 1849 edition:
“On October 18th the Main-Weser-Railway from Frankfurt to Friedberg will open. Two locomotives have already arrived from Karlsruhe from the Kessler factory. "
The first section between Kassel and Wabern was opened on December 29, 1849. The first continuous train from Kassel to Frankfurt ran on May 15, 1852, after the northern and southern construction sections had been connected with the connection between Gießen and Langgöns .
The second track was added in 1865 after twelve years of negotiations. The cooperation between the states involved had not improved despite the brilliantly developing rail transport services. The second track then made the Prussian troop transport much easier in the war of 1866 , a war that made two of the states involved in the Main-Weser Railway - Kurhessen and Frankfurt - disappear from the political map. Your shares went to Prussia. On May 30, 1868, it concluded a state treaty with the Grand Duchy of Hesse, which transferred the operation of the entire railway to Prussia on August 1, 1868.
The branch lines of the Wohratalbahn and the Ohmtalbahn used to branch off at Kirchhain station .
Until the completion of the Bebraer Bahn in 1866, all express trains between Frankfurt and Berlin ran over the Main-Weser-Bahn. These trains changed direction in Guntershausen , where the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn made the connection to the Thuringian Railway . D-trains from Frankfurt to Berlin - via Kassel - continued to run until the end of the Second World War . Also in the following years, trains of the American occupation forces, which went under the generic abbreviation "DUS", took this route.
The Treysa - Lollar section had been part of the Berlin- Metz cannon line, built as a strategic line , since 1878/79 .
In the 1960s , the Frankfurt - Gießen section was first electrified, and the route was continuously electric from March 20, 1967.
In preparation for the construction work on the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg , the route in the Kassel area was laid in the second half of the 1980s . The construction work began in July 1985. With a construction cost of 24.0 million D-Marks, 420,000 m³ of soil was to be excavated over a length of 5.7 kilometers and then reinstalled. A continuous double-track operation was maintained.
In September 1990 the Lindwurm campaign also took place on the route .
Accidents
On November 5, 1973, the express trains D 453 and DC 973 collided at Guntershausen station . 14 people died and 65 others were injured.
On July 5, 1997, the cargo of a freight train slipped near Neustadt and damaged an oncoming regional express . Six people died.
Other occurrences
In the 5th calendar week of 2017, rail operations in the southern section of the Main-Weser Railway were severely affected by two major disruptions in direct succession. On February 5, the electronic signal box in Friedberg (Hessen) station was shut down for several days due to a short circuit. Only after the repair work was completed four days later was the scheduled train service between Gießen and Frankfurt am Main possible again. On the following day, a truck loaded with an excavator got stuck on the steel construction superstructure of an overpass of the Main-Weser-Bahn over the federal highway 3 near Nieder-Wöllstadt . Since the risk of the bridge collapsing could not be ruled out at first, the railway line had to be completely closed again. However, experts were able to give the all-clear on the same evening and the route was cleared again after about three hours. A negative outcome of this test would have meant a long-term full closure of the entire Friedberg – Groß-Karben section and thus the complete suspension of direct train traffic between Friedberg and Frankfurt.
service
Long-distance passenger rail transport
On the Main-Weser-Bahn, the ICE 26 runs from Stralsund or Hamburg-Altona via Kassel and Frankfurt am Main to Karlsruhe every two hours. From December 2009 to December 2011, the EuroCity line 62 also ran the Giessen - Frankfurt section. Until 2014 there were trains to Constance, but these were canceled when the timetable changed at the end of 2014. There was also a direct connection in the direction of Berlin-Südkreuz until the end of 2015 , this train was the first intercity service from Monday to Saturday. Since then, this IC has been going to Hamburg like everyone else.
Even earlier there were direct long-distance trains from Frankfurt via Gießen and Siegen to Hagen and beyond to Münster and the North Sea . A train even went as far as Copenhagen .
Local rail transport
It operate regional express trains between Frankfurt and Kassel (Main-Weser-Express) and between Frankfurt and Siegen ( Main-Sieg-Express ). The latter leave the route in Gießen and change the direction of travel. The Main-Weser-Express runs hourly and is operated alternately by DB Regio as line 30 and by the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) as line 98, although the latter does not always go through to Kassel and has more stops. The Main-Sieg-Express is operated exclusively by the Hessische Landesbahn as line 99 and runs every two hours in the Frankfurt – Giessen section, mostly in multiple traction, together with line 98 with train division in Giessen. Regional trains operated by DB Regio also run between Marburg and Gießen as well as Gießen and Hanau via Friedberg. The Mittelhessen-Express has been running since December 2006 , on which the two regional trains coming from Treysa and Dillenburg are coupled in Gießen and then travel together accelerated to Frankfurt. Conversely, the separation also takes place in Gießen, both trains then continue as regional trains to Treysa and Dillenburg. There is also an S-Bahn service between Friedberg and Frankfurt's Südbahnhof via the city tunnel there .
The Treysa – Kassel section was part of the RegioTram Kassel until December 2015 and was designated as the RT 9 line. The RegioTram but initially came from the end of May 2007, only on weekends used later she also has on weekdays regional railways replaced. Since December 14, 2014, two out of three trips on weekdays have been made by the Kurhessenbahn with class 628 railcars . Since the 2015/2016 timetable change on December 13, 2015, Hessische Landesbahn's FLIRT multiple units have replaced the RegioTrams on the RT 9 line.
Numerous trains on the side lines branching off in Bad Vilbel, Friedberg, Gießen, Cölbe and Wabern also have a certain lead or lag on the main line.
There are also many freight trains on the route, such as numerous container block trains or the transport of brand-new agricultural machinery (tractors, combine harvesters). Military trains also run regularly.
Vehicle use
Rush hour
Talent 2 railcars operated by DB Regio Mitte are used for the hourly Mittelhessen Express between Frankfurt and Treysa . On the Gießen – Friedberg– Hanau regional train line, which has now been continuous since December 2012, Talent 2 multiple units have also been running since March 2013, replacing Hessian state railway n-wagons or GTW 2/6 trains with class 143 locomotives .
The regional express trains on the DB between Frankfurt and Kassel are almost exclusively to pull trains of double-deck coaches , with the series 146 are covered .2. With the 2010/2011 timetable change, the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) took over part of the transport services between Frankfurt am Main, Marburg and Siegen on behalf of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe as Main-Sieg-Express . Newly purchased three- and five-part railcars of the Stadler Flirt type are used. They partially replace double-decker push-pull train sets and converted Silberlinge from Deutsche Bahn AG. In Giessen the trains are usually winged towards Marburg and Siegen .
Up in December 2015 between Kassel and Treysa circulating RegioTram consisted of low-floor tram railcars of series 452 . Class 423 S-Bahn railcars operate on the S-Bahn section (S6) south of Friedberg .
The ICE trains on line 26 consist of ICE T multiple units ; the intercity sets are the usual push- pull trains consisting of intercity and former interregio cars with electric locomotives of the 101 series or alternatively the 120 series . Occasionally, during construction work or operational disruptions on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg , Intercity Express trains on other lines between Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof and Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe are diverted, which then do not stop in Fulda and Hanau.
Freight traffic also takes place in the form of continuous trains from different railway companies.
| line | course | Traffic times | Vehicles used | operator | |||
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| Peak hours | NVZ | SVZ | |||||
| ICE 26 | Hamburg-Altona - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe -Wabern (Bz Kassel)- Treysa -Stadtallendorf -Marburg (Lahn)- Gießen -Friedberg (Hess)- Frankfurt (Main)- Karlsruhe | 120 | 120 | 120 | 411 | DB Fernverkehr AG | |
| Main-Weser-Express RE 30 | Kassel - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Wabern (Bz Kassel) - Treysa - Stadtallendorf - Marburg (Lahn) - Gießen - Friedberg (Hess) - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | 120 | 120 | 120 | 146.2 , 114 , 111 (isolated) + 6 to 7 DoSto | DB regional center | |
| Main-Sieg-Express RE 98/RE 99 | Siegen - Haiger - Dillenburg - Wetzlar - | Giessen - Friedberg (Hess) - Frankfurt (Main) | 60 | 60 | 60 | 429 , 427 | HLB |
| Kassel - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Wabern (Bz Kassel) - Treysa - Stadtallendorf - Marburg (Lahn) | 120 | 120 | 120 | 429, 427 | HLB | ||
| Mittelhessen-Express RB 41/RB 40 | Treysa - Stadtallendorf - Marburg (Lahn) - | Giessen - Butzbach - Friedberg (Hess) - Bad Vilbel - Frankfurt (Main) | 60 | 60 | 120 | 442 , 425 | DB regional center |
| Dillenburg - Herborn (Dillkr) - Wetzlar - | 60 | 60 | 120 | 442 | DB regional center | ||
| RB 49 | Giessen - Friedberg (Hess) - Hanau | 30th | 60 | 60 | 442, 425 | DB regional center | |
| RB 48 | Nidda - Beienheim - Friedberg (Hess) (- Bad Vilbel - Frankfurt (Main)) | 30th | 60 | 120 | 646 / 245 + Doppelstockwagen (4 x MF) | HLB / DB regional center | |
| RB 34 | Glauburg-Stockheim - Bad Vilbel - Frankfurt (Main) | 30th | 60 | - | 642 / 245 + 4 to 5 DoSto (6 x MF) | DB regional center | |
| RB 39 | Kassel - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Wabern (Bz Kassel) - Fritzlar - Bad Wildungen | 120 | 120 | 120 | 642 | Kurhessenbahn | |
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Friedberg (Hess) - Bad Vilbel - Frankfurt Hbf (deep) - Frankfurt Süd | 15th | 15th | 30th | 423 1 - 3 | DB regional center | |
Feeder traffic
The coatings which Glauburg-Stock home and Nidderau on the Niddertalbahn connect Frankfurt, as well as that of Nidda about Friedberg to Frankfurt, in the rush hour with diesel locomotives of the series 245 covered otherwise be railcars of the 642 series (Desiro) used. Between Cölbe and Marburg, in some cases as far as Gießen, you can find class 628 diesel multiple units, which serve the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway to Erndtebrück and the Burgwaldbahn to Frankenberg (Eder) . Most of the trains on the Ederseebahn ( Bad Wildungen –Wabern) continue on the Main-Weser-Bahn to Kassel Hbf.
Planned expansion
New stop in Marburg
In Marburg, a new regional train stop “Marburg Mitte” is to be built in the medium term at the level of the university skyscrapers. This has been in planning for decades and has been taken into account in the new timetable concept ( Mittelhessen-Express ). The start of construction has not yet been announced. In addition, a stop in Gießen Nord north of Oswaldsgarten station is conceivable in the Central Hesse S-Bahn concept .
Four-track expansion between Frankfurt and Friedberg
Between Frankfurt (M) West and Friedberg, the S-Bahn, regional, long-distance and freight traffic share the two tracks of the Main-Weser Railway. In order to equalize operations, the line in this area is to be expanded in two sections to four tracks over the next few years , after which two separate tracks will be available for the S-Bahn in regular service . The line speed will be increased to 140 km / h for both the S-Bahn and long-distance lines.
The two tracks for the S-Bahn will be located east and south of the tracks on the 3900 line and will be given the new route number 3684. While the 3900 "Main-Weser-Bahn" route is from Kassel in a north-south direction the new route for the S-Bahn from Frankfurt main station in a south-north direction.
The planning approval procedure for the first expansion section from Frankfurt West to Bad Vilbel (planned construction time four years) was completed on May 13, 2004, but not implemented, but supplemented by a plan change in accordance with Section 76 (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act . The corresponding public announcement was made in July 2009. Thereafter, the route will largely be provided with two to six meter high noise protection walls, as a compensatory measure, an old arm of the Nidda is to be renatured.
The citizens' initiative 2statt4 made up of some residents of Eschersheim and Ginnheim tried to prevent the expansion by taking legal action altogether. Building rights already existed in the Bad Vilbel area, so that the city of Bad Vilbel was able to build the new underpass under the platforms.
In November 2011, the Hessian Administrative Court (VGH) dismissed complaints from residents and the citizens' initiative 2statt4 against the planning approval decision; an appeal was not permitted. The railway had previously promised to make improvements.
At the end of January 2013, the Federal Administrative Court rejected the complaint of non-admission filed by the Bahnane citizens' initiative and a private plaintiff in various judgments. Thereby there was finally building permission for the first construction phase. The initiatives 2statt4 and Bahnane continue to try to prevent the 2nd phase of construction Bad Vilbel-Friedberg and to withdraw funding from the 1st phase of construction.
In May 2015, Deutsche Bahn announced the start of construction work for the second half of 2017. In addition to the construction of 12.6 kilometers of new tracks, 5 stops will be rebuilt and a new stop will be built. The cost of the project is given as 323 million euros. The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction section between Frankfurt West and Bad Vilbel officially took place on December 19, 2017. The completion of the expansion, originally planned for December 2022, has now been delayed by one year to December 2023.
New construction of the Frankfurt-Ginnheim station
In the course of the construction of the S-Bahn route along the Main-Weser-Bahn, a new Frankfurt-Ginnheim stop for the S-Bahn could be created between Frankfurt West and Frankfurt-Eschersheim , which would enable a change to the U1 and U-Bahn lines U9 should enable. There is no building permit yet.
The Ginnheim depot existed here until 2016 with an overhaul track in the direction of Kassel from km 194.0 to 193.2, which was abandoned when construction began. In 1989 there was a temporary stopping point for visitors to the Federal Horticultural Show 1989 in what is now the Niddatal Park .
Historical lore
The written records of the management of the Main-Weser-Bahn are now kept in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg . The holdings run from 1832 to 1868, are fully indexed and can be researched online via Arcinsys Hessen . There are documents on the more recent history of this railway line in the holdings of the Federal Railway Directorate Kassel, which was dissolved in 1974 (duration: 1851–1967). Most of this inventory has also been developed and can be researched online via "Arcinsys Hessen".
See also
literature
- Ludwig Brake: Via Fulda or via Gießen - the creation of the rail connections between Kassel and Frankfurt in the 19th century . In: Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte 32 (2000), pp. 5–16
- Andreas Hedwig: On iron rails, as fast as lightning. Regional and national aspects of railway history , Marburg 2008
- Günter Krause: The locomotives of the Main-Weser Railway . In: Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte 32 (2000), pp. 17-27.
- 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 , vol. 2.1, p. 142 ff. (Route 010)
- Lutz Münzer: traffic and facilities of the northern Main-Weser-Bahn . In: Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte 32 (2000), pp. 28–60.
- Lutz Münzer: From Condominium to the Prussian State Railway - from the history of the Main-Weser Railway between 1866 and 1880 . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History 107, pp. 291–314
- Lutz Münzer: From the Main-Weser Railway between 1866 and 1880 . In: Yearbook for Railway History 36 (2004), pp. 91-104
- Dankwart Sieburg: On the development of railroad development in the Treysa / Neustadt area . In: Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte 32 (2000), pp. 61–84
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Hessisches Regierungsblatt 1845 No. 17, p. 161
- ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 28f (No. 17)
- ↑ Prussian Law Collection 1868 No. 49, p. 689
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group H / W Mitte of the Bahnbauzentrale (ed.): Relocation of the Main-Weser-Bahn in Kassel . Six-page leporello, Frankfurt, approx. 1986
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 41 .
- ↑ DB press release from March 7, 2013 ( Memento from April 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Expansion of the Frankfurt-West section to Bad Vilbel. In: db.de
- ^ DB Projektbau GmbH: Explanatory report on the planning approval procedure for the S-Bahn Bad Vilbel-Friedberg . In: S-Bahn Rhein-Main, S 6, 2nd construction phase Bad Vilbel - Friedberg . March 31, 2011. Accessed April 2, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Federal Railway Office, Frankfurt / Main branch: Public announcement regarding the adjustment of the noise protection measures as well as the dissolution of the reservation for the complete compensation of the nature conservation deficit for the four-track expansion of the 3900 Kassel - Frankfurt-West line, from railway km 186.630 to railway km 195.369 in the city Frankfurt am Main. . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 8, 2009, pp. 10 + 11 Frankfurt local section. File number 55100-06-0024.
- ↑ Jürgen Schultheis: Expansion of the S6 route: Free travel to Vilbel. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 7, 2009, accessed April 3, 2013 .
- ^ Expansion of the Main-Weser line - four tracks to Bad Vilbel. ( Memento from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 25, 2010
- ↑ S-Bahn Frankfurt-Vilbel may be expanded. ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , November 17, 2011. Accessed on November 17, 2011.
- ↑ Main-Weser Railway. Hessian Administrative Court. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ↑ Fear of thundering freight trains. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 24, 2012.
- ↑ Judgments of the Federal Administrative Court BVerwG 7 B 18.12 from January 17, 2013, BVerwG 7 B 20.12 from January 22, 2013 and BVerwG 7 B 21.12 from January 25, 2013
- ↑ Bahn is expanding the S6 route for more than 320 million euros. ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Darmstädter Echo , May 15, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Bahn expands line to Bad Vilbel . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 15, 2015. Accessed May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Expansion of the S6 begins. Frankfurter Rundschau , December 6, 2017, accessed on June 13, 2018 .
- ↑ a b January Klauth: plans for the stations. New station in Ginnheim remains controversial . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 24, 2017, p. F4.
- ↑ mpu: Rail commuters have to be patient . In: Wetterauer Zeitung , June 9, 2020, p. 17
- ^ Thomé: Guide over the lines of the district of the Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main) . Revised 1926. Ed .: Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main). P. 49.
- ↑ Overview of the inventory "Directorate of the Main-Weser-Bahn (railway directorate)" HStAM inventory 60 a. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), accessed on September 21, 2011.
- ^ Reichsbahn or Bundesbahndirektion Kassel (1847-ca. 1985) HStAM inventory 605/1. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), accessed on September 21, 2011.
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