Mainbahn

Mainz – Frankfurt

Route number (DB) :

3520 (Mainz – Frankfurt Hbf)
3650 (Frankfurt Stadion – Frankfurt Süd)
3538 (third Gl. Gustavsburg – Bischofsheim)

Course book section (DB) :

471, 645.8, 645.9

Route length:

37.5 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Route class :

D4

Power system :

15 kV 16.7 Hz ~

Top speed:

160 km / h

Dual track :

(continuous)

Legend

		Left Rhine route from Cologne
		from the bypass train , Wiesbaden Hbf
		Route from Alzey
		from the port of Mainz
	0.000	Mainz main station S 6
		Tunnel Mainz Hbf (direction north)
		New Mainz tunnel (direction south)
		Mainz Süd tunnel (north direction)
	1,800	Mainz Roman theater
		Route from the first main station in Mainz
		Line to Ludwigshafen S 6
	3.076	Mainzer Südbrücke , border RLP / Hessen
		Originally the terminus of the Mainz – Gustavsburg train station
	4,580	Mainz-Gustavsburg
	5.600	from Mainz-Gustavsburg Hafen (Anst)
		Bypass railway , from Taunus Railway
	7.780	Mainz-Bischofsheim Pbf
		to Mainz-Bischofsheim Gbf
		Rhein-Main-Bahn to Darmstadt
	9,560	Mainz-Bischofsheim Ültg II (Bft)
	11.206	Rüsselsheim- Opel factory
	12,220	Ruesselsheim
	15.875	Raunheim
	17.373	Raunheim Mönchwald (Abzw)
		Connection route to Raunheim-Mönchhof
		A 3
		High-speed route from Frankfurt Airport to Cologne
	19.100	Raunheim Caltex & Ticona (Anst)
		Link from Raunheim to Caltex
	19,349	Raunheim fountain lane (Abzw)
		Industrial sidings
	23.812	Kelsterbach
		Frankfurt airport loop
	26.900	Frankfurt-Schwanheim
		Frankfurt airport loop
	29.096	Frankfurt-Schwanheim long-distance railway (Abzw)
		A 5
		Riedbahn from Riedstadt-Goddelau
	31,375	Frankfurt am Main Stadium
		original route via Forsthaus (see below)
		Connection route from Forsthaus
	33.192	Frankfurt-Niederrad
		Alte Niederräder Bridge / Neue Niederräder Bridge
	34,250	Frankfurt-Niederrad Bridge
		Municipal connection line Frankfurt
		to the Main-Lahn-Bahn to Frankfurt-Höchst
		Main-Lahn-Bahn from Frankfurt-Höchst
		to the Taunus Railway to Frankfurt-Höchst
		Line from Frankfurt-Griesheim
		Taunus Railway from Frankfurt-Höchst
	35.358	Frankfurt (Main) Gutleuthof ( Abzw )
		Homburg dam from Mainzer Landstrasse
		Frankfurt Kleyerstr. (Abzw)
	35,360	Frankfurt (Main) outer station
		to Galluswarte
		Main-Neckar Railway from Darmstadt
		Frankfurt-Bebraer-Bahn from Offenbach
	36,444	Frankfurt (Main) High / Low ( Bft )
		Main-Weser Railway from Giessen
		Homburg Railway from Westbf
		former route from the Friedensbrücke (see below)
	37.508	Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (since 1888)
		Frankfurt (Main) Hbf deep (since 1978)
		to Frankfurt (Main) Süd (S-Bahn)

		or.

		Frankfurt West Train Stations (until 1888)

original route (today bypass)

Legend

		Line from Mainz (see above)
	31.4	Frankfurt am Main Stadium
		today's route via Frankfurt-Niederrad (see above)
	33.2	Forsthaus (Frankfurt) (Abzw., Former Bf)
		Connections to Darmstadt, Frankfurt
		Main-Neckar Railway from Darmstadt
		Today's routes to the Main-Neckar Bridge (see above)
		former local railway , Main-Neckar railway
	36.6	Frankfurt (Main) South
		to Göttingen (South Main)
		to Aschaffenburg Hbf (north Main )
		to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (tief) (S-Bahn)
		Friedensbrücke (old Main-Neckar Bridge)
		Originally the Main-Neckar Railway
		today's routes (see above)
		Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (since 1888)
		Frankfurt (Main) Hbf deep (since 1978)
		City tunnel to the Südbahnhof / Offenbach

		or.

	??,?	Frankfurt West Train Stations (until 1888)

Swell:

The Mainbahn is a continuous double-track and electrified main railway line in the south of Hesse , which connects the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz with Frankfurt am Main along the southern bank of the Lower Main . It was opened in 1863.

history

Mainbahn in the Schwanheimer Wald, seen from the footbridge "Am Hinkelstein"

Immediately after the opening of the Rhein-Main-Bahn from Mainz to Aschaffenburg by the Hessische-Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , the Hessische-Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft tried to get a connection to Frankfurt. For this purpose, the project was created for a railway branching off from the Rhein-Main Railway at Bischofsheim and following the course of the Main on the left bank of the river to Frankfurt. It entered into competition with the Taunus Railway , which runs parallel on the right bank of the Main. The concession to build and operate the railway was granted by the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt on August 15, 1861, and by the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt on January 17, 1862.

It only took a year and a half to build the line. The test drive took place on December 20, 1862, the opening on January 3, 1863. In Frankfurt, the route originally led from "Bahnhof Goldstein " (later "Bahnhof Sportfeld", today Bahnhof Frankfurt Stadion ) further east to the former "Bahnhof Forsthaus" (only branch today). After crossing the Main-Neckar Railway , the line swung in a wide arc to the north and merged with the Main-Neckar Railway at about the height of today's S-Bahn stop Stresemannallee and ran together with it over today's Friedensbrücke to the Main-Neckar- Train station .

This entrance was replaced from January 16, 1882 by the route over the Frankfurt-Niederrad station and the Niederräder Mainbrücke . From 1888 on, the new “Centralbahnhof” took over the tasks of all three Frankfurt West Train Stations . The original end of the line was swiveled to the east to the Sachsenhausen train station (now Frankfurt (Main) Süd train station), which opened in 1873, and has since served as a bypass route to Frankfurt Central Station.

With the Hessische-Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, the route was transferred to the Prussian-Hessian Railway Association on February 1, 1897 . On August 1, 1906, the automatic route block between the railway stations Bischofsheim (Mainz-Bischofsheim) and Goldstein (Frankfurt am Main Stadium) went into operation.

The line has been electrified since December 15, 1958.

One of the most serious railway accidents in the Rhine-Main area occurred near Rüsselsheim on February 2, 1990 , in which an S-Bahn from Frankfurt am Main collided with an S-Bahn from Wiesbaden . 17 people died and over 80 were injured, some seriously.

Since 1999, the Raunheim Mönchwald – Raunheim Mönchhof connection has made it possible to connect to the Cologne – Rhine / Main high-speed line .

Buildings

The following buildings have been preserved and some cultural monuments according to Section 2, Paragraph 1 of the Hessian Monument Protection Act :

place	Building	Construction year	km	monument
Mainz-Bischofsheim station	Reception building	1958	08.25	*
Ruesselsheim	Line keeper's house	1863	12.80	*
Raunheim station	Reception building	1863	15.87	*
Raunheim	Line keeper's house	1863	17.39	*
Kelsterbach	Railway bridge	1863	21.75
Kelsterbach	Line keeper's house	1863	23.60	*
Kelsterbach station	Reception building	1863	23.81	*
Frankfurt (Main) Stadium Bf	Reception building	1879	31.37	*
Frankfurt-Niederrad station	Reception building	1882	33.19	*
Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen	Railway bridge	1864	34.47

service

Trains for long-distance and local rail passenger transport , as well as freight transport , run on the Mainbahn .

Long-distance transport

ICE 1 on the connecting curve of the Mainbahn in Frankfurt-Louisa station

The route is used by individual trains of the ICE lines 20, 31, 50 and 91 as well as the IC line 31.

Long-distance trains come from Mainz main station from the Raunheim Mönchwald junction via the connecting line to the high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main to the long-distance station at Frankfurt Airport .

From there the trains continue without stopping via Frankfurt am Main Stadion station and either via the original route to Frankfurt (Main) Süd station or via the current route to Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof . A few trains continue to Mannheim Hauptbahnhof via the Riedbahn .

Local transport

S8 in Mainz-Bischofsheimer Bahnhof on the way to Hanau Hbf

Regional trains and the Rhein-Main S-Bahn run between Kelsterbach station and the “Frankfurt-Schwanheim Fernbahn junction” via the airport loop .

line	Line course	Tact
RE 59	Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau	individual trains
RB 75	Wiesbaden - Mainz - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Darmstadt	60 min
RE 2 (from Koblenz) and RE 3 (from Saarbrücken)	Koblenz or Saarbrücken - Mainz - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt	60 min
	Wiesbaden - Mainz - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Kelsterbach - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt (deep) - City-Tunnel Frankfurt - City-Tunnel Offenbach - Hanau	30 min
	Wiesbaden - Mainz-Kastel - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Kelsterbach - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt (deep) - City-Tunnel Frankfurt - City-Tunnel Offenbach - Hanau	30 min

literature

Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 302 ff . (Route 018).

Web links

Commons : Mainbahn - collection of images, videos and audio files

Route, operating points as well as some signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap

Individual evidence

↑ The Schwanheim stop was given up on November 15, 1901 (Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the official gazettes published on November 9, 1901. Volume 5, No. 53, Announcement No. 508, p. 372), later However, it was put back into operation, because in 1904 it received exit signals (Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from March 5, 1904, No. 11. Announcement No. 113, p. 138). On October 7, 1928, it was renamed Frankfurt-Schwanheim (Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of October 6, 1928, No. 44. Announcement No. 547, p. 276).
↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 4, 1906, No. 41. Announcement No. 458, p. 392.

[1] The Schwanheim stop was given up on November 15, 1901 (Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the official gazettes published on November 9, 1901. Volume 5, No. 53, Announcement No. 508, p. 372), later However, it was put back into operation, because in 1904 it received exit signals (Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from March 5, 1904, No. 11. Announcement No. 113, p. 138). On October 7, 1928, it was renamed Frankfurt-Schwanheim (Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of October 6, 1928, No. 44. Announcement No. 547, p. 276).

[2] DB Netze - Infrastructure Register

[3] Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .

[4] Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 4, 1906, No. 41. Announcement No. 458, p. 392.