Mainz main station
| Mainz Central Station | |
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 Mainz main station, reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Junction station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 9 (1-6, 8, 11, 13) |
| abbreviation | FMZ |
| IBNR | 8000240 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | October 15, 1884 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Mainz_Hbf |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Philipp Johann Berdellé |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Mainz |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 0 ′ 5 ″ N , 8 ° 15 ′ 31 ″ E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
Mainz Hauptbahnhof is a railway junction in the western Rhine-Main area .
The most important train station in the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz is located on the southwestern edge of Neustadt , was frequented by around 60,000 travelers and visitors every day in 2011 and belongs to the second highest category of DB Station & Service .
history
Today's main station was built in 1882–1884 as the new central station according to plans by Philipp Johann Berdellé as part of the city expansion after the Franco-German War .
initial situation
Due to the Rhine Shipping Act of 1831, Mainz lost its stacking rights and was avoided by shipping because of its silted up port and high interim tariffs. On April 13, 1840, the Taunus Railway between Frankfurt am Main , Mainz-Kastel and Wiesbaden was opened and withdrew transit and tourism from Mainz.
Mainz was the largest city in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and traditionally a strong trading center thanks to the Chamber of Commerce . This made the city an attractive hub in the emerging railway network. The Mainz-based Ludwig Railway Company therefore obtained concessions for the construction of railway lines that started from Mainz.
In 1845 it received the concession for the railway line to Worms and the border of the Palatinate (Bavaria) , construction began in 1847. The completion of the line was delayed due to the political events of 1848/49 until March 23, 1853, and the first Mainz train station even became only opened in August 1853.
Planning
In the course of the next few years the number of passengers increased as Mainz developed into a hub for the lines to Darmstadt, Aschaffenburg and Bavaria , Ludwigshafen and France , Bingen and Cologne and to Frankfurt . The space on the banks of the Rhine, between the river and the fortress, was very limited. The railway systems could not be expanded there. As early as 1858, the Mainzer Zeitung reported on plans to relocate the station.
The interests of urban development, bank expansion and design as well as railway development required a high degree of coordination in order to create a meaningful perspective. City architect Eduard Kreyssig , who succeeded the late city architect Joseph Laské in 1865 , proposed in 1873 that the station be relocated to the west side of the city. The independent Mainz writer and newspaper reviewer Philipp Wasserburg , who was to be elected to the city council assembly for the People's Party in 1877 and 1880 , correctly stated in 1874 that the state fortress expansion was making progress, but municipal urban planning was not, because the city of Mainz was not doing enough Funds would be available.
Where the Münsterschlag used to stand after the Münstertor with the main path into the garden field, a new central station was to merge the previous track systems. The financing of the land purchases in the interplay of urban expansion and the construction of a new train station was organized by the Lauteren merchant family from Mainz, which in turn was financially involved in the Ludwig Railway. The city alone could not buy all the land it needed. About 50% was intended as a site for general development and 25% each for streets and squares as well as for the railway systems.
In order to implement the project at the intended location, the access tracks had to be laid in a large arc around the city to the west. This also required a tunnel under the citadel . It was started in 1876. A legendary Mainz institution, the Pankratiusbrünnchen , from which all newborn Mainz residents are said to come, fell victim to the new building. It was on the side of today's railway underpass to Mombacher Strasse.
execution
The Mainz architect Philipp Johann Berdellé (1838–1903) created the reception building of the new main station in light Flonheim sandstone in an Italian neo-renaissance with baroque and classicist elements. A prominent central building is framed by two lower side wings with arcades, which in turn end in risalits . The building was officially opened on October 15, 1884.
architectural art
Berdellé placed the focus of the pictorial decorations on the central entrance building. Allegorical representations refer to the function of the building.
On both sides of the entrance, reliefs, created by the Mainz sculptors Valentin Barth and Anton Scholl , show antique-clad putti arriving and departing by train in a playful way:
The exit picture is on the left of the main building: In the top left corner you can see the word Billet . It shows scenes that revolve around the subject of departure and farewell at the train station. This also includes a heavy suitcase.
The arrival picture is on the right main part of the building: Here the putti get off the train again and the joyful arrival can be seen. The heavy suitcase is carried away.
The station clock on the roof was crowned by the winged genius of steam and electricity. There are also figures above the three main entrance doors. The figures are shown in the order (from left to right) in the same order as they are attached to the building.
Allegory of Labor (more likely: Allegory of Industry)
Allegory of Blessings (more likely: Allegory of Agriculture)
Coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
Bahnhofplatz
The original design of the station square was dominated by a roundabout . This was greened with trees, lawn and flowers. The rails of the horse-drawn tram ran all around . Numerous cabs and hotel buses supplemented the transport offer.
Station concourse
The entire railway technical systems were built under the supervision of the secret construction councilor J. Kramer .
The passengers were protected by what was then Europe's longest station concourse, which was built by the MAN Gustavsburg plant. She had also built the railway bridge over the Rhine. With a length of three hundred meters and a width of 47 meters, the structure made of cast and wrought iron, glass and corrugated iron covered around 14,000 square meters. The roof structure was divided into 29 fields and supported by sixty wrought iron pillars. The front sides were closed with glass aprons up to the entrance height of the trains. The highest point of the roof was provided with a glazed, laterally open attachment for the extraction of smoke and steam. Another two glass fields interrupted the cover, which was otherwise made of corrugated iron.
Freight depot
In 1900 the freight yard had electrical lighting for 90,000 marks .
extension
After 1884, traffic continued to increase rapidly, which pushed the station to the limit of its capacity. The commissioning of the Mainz bypass in 1904, which largely relieved the station of passing freight trains, brought significant relief . A little later, the "Wiesbadener Bahnsteig" was added to the east of the track field and north of the reception building, the head tracks of which started local traffic to Wiesbaden .
During the period of operation (1923/1925) Mainz Hbf belonged to the Regiebahn operated by the French occupying forces. When the situation between the German Reich and the occupying power eased in the course of 1924, the station was one of the few stations in the occupied area where the Deutsche Reichsbahn was allowed to open a ticket office and sell connecting tickets there for travelers traveling to the unoccupied area .
The first renovation
The first hall was in service until 1935. In a fire in the roof structure of the reception building on December 23, 1934, it was affected. In the reception building, the storage rooms and bedrooms of the station management staff fell victim to the flames. Despite the minor damage to the hall, the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz decided to completely replace it as part of job creation programs.
The outer facade remained largely unchanged, but the station roof lost its statue of genius and the central clock flanked by allegories. The closing domes of the corner projections survived until the end of the war. Baggage and counter halls have been refurbished.
The platform hall was rebuilt by MAN in 1939. It was only 140 meters long. During the Second World War it was severely damaged in air raids on Mainz . As a traffic junction, Mainz was in the field of vision of the military strategists. Bombs kept falling on the train station. In September 1944, units of the Royal Air Force and the US Army Air Force launched attacks on the main train station in Mainz within a few days . The station and its forecourt were badly damaged. Offices, dispatch buildings, warehouses and the wine hall burned out completely. 1,767 meters of track , six signal boxes and 198 points were destroyed. The Reichsbahndirektion registered damage of around 180 million marks in 1945. Despite everything, the train service was maintained with brief interruptions.
War damage
During the Second World War , the station was severely damaged by bombing raids : 1,767 meters of track and 198 switches were destroyed. The same applied to six signal boxes. As a result, all security and telecommunications systems failed .
On September 10, 1945, most of the main railway station's tracks were usable again. In 1946 the electromechanical signal boxes could be put back into operation.
The second modification
With the permission of the American and French occupiers , traffic was resumed on individual routes and reconstruction began in 1945. In 1947 the restoration of the station square and the reception building began. The outer walls and the basic concept were retained, the floor plan improved.
The main station was subsequently enlarged, modernized and adapted to technical progress. The Mainz depot was one of the first to be “steam-free” when the last steam locomotive left the Mainz locomotive shed in 1959 . This was preceded by the electrification of the station.
The landmark of the station was now the large Kupferberg window in the apron of the platform hall and the window of Blendax toothpaste.
The third modification
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In the 1990s a fourth narrow through platform was built for regional traffic. For this purpose, the two underpasses were lengthened at great expense.
By the end of 2003, the station was extensively rebuilt for around 114 million marks (around 58 million euros) in a five-year construction period. The large cast-iron station hall from 1939 was completely demolished and replaced by a reinforced concrete superstructure, the curved roof of which is architecturally reminiscent of the former platform halls.
The renovation of the main facade of the historic reception building led to the approximate restoration of the old appearance. However, the roof towers are missing. Everything has been redesigned inside. The platform entrances (tracks 2 to 8) now lead over a wide high walkway with side shop galleries, which can be reached barrier-free via stairs, escalators and elevators from the reception hall and from the platforms. It spans four platforms (platform area 16,906 square meters) and seven tracks . Three more butt tracks are accessible to the right of platform 1, but only platform 11 is used for passenger traffic. The area for shops and restaurants has been expanded to 3,800 square meters. The two underground underpasses and platform entrances only serve as escape routes. Four internal stairs were bricked up.
In the course of the redesign, a new entrance was created on the south-west side of the station, which primarily allows private cars to be approached. At the train station there are 2138 parking spaces for individual traffic ( park and ride / park and rail ). The station square has been completely redesigned and is now reserved for local public transport and taxis .
In order to comply with fire protection regulations, the ceiling in the reception hall was broken through so that smoke - additionally extracted by fans - can escape. In the basement there is an extinguishing water storage tank with a usable capacity of 170 cubic meters. This is fed by the abundant groundwater that comes from the Hartenberg and Taubertsberg and flows towards the Rhine.
In 2003 the train station in the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital was one of the most modern train stations in Germany, according to Deutsche Bahn .
Mainz tunnel
The tunnel between the main and south stations (today: Mainz Römisches Theater station ) connects directly to the south end of the main station. From here the route to the Römisches Theater station runs under the Kästrich . The original tunnel from the 1880s was partially "slotted" in the mid-1920s due to damage from acidic smoke gases, i.e. opened to the surface, creating two tunnels. The largest renovation in the area of Mainz main station in recent years was the construction of a parallel, second, double-track tunnel tube and the renovation of the old tunnel tube. The track systems in front of the tunnel portals were completed in 2011.
North head
In order to increase the efficiency of the Mainz railway junction, preparatory work began in August 2010 for the construction of a 600-meter-long flyover structure for the Wiesbaden track over the left Rhine route at the north head of Mainz. The lines from Wiesbaden, Bingen / Bad Kreuznach and Alzey to the main train station converge at the northern head, which forms the southern part of the Mainz track triangle . The north head lies at the intersection of the Mainz districts Neustadt, Mombach , Gonsenheim and Hartenberg-Münchfeld. This rail hub is frequented by over 240 trains on working days.
The overpass structure officially went into operation at the end of January 2015. This means that around 100 trains a day from the stretch on the right bank of the Rhine from the direction of Wiesbaden should thread their way through without crossing. The aim is to increase the performance of the Mainz railway junction from almost 300 trains per day. So the trains from Wiesbaden can without crossing (that is without equal level intersection of West Rhine Railway), enter the Mainz main train station in the western tracks. The work was supposed to start in 2004, but had to be canceled due to a lack of federal funds from the truck toll , which could not go into operation on August 31, 2003 due to technical problems. Because of the economic stimulus package of the German government, the measure is implemented.
The tenders were issued in 2010. Construction of the structure began in summer 2010. According to a railway spokesman in the Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung on January 6, 2011, federal funds of 48 million euros were approved for the expansion . The construction work took place while the train was in operation. Large areas of the Mainz freight yard on Mombacher Strasse had been cleared and sold by the end of 2013, and demolition work began. The structure, which is now 680 meters long, went into operation in November 2014. A total of 4100 meters of track and 38 points were removed as part of the new construction of the North Head in Mainz, while 2500 meters of track and eleven points were rebuilt. 5,500 cubic meters of concrete and 800 tons of reinforcing steel were used during construction .
The increased performance is also required because the Gotthard Base Tunnel was opened in Switzerland in 2016 and freight traffic between the North Sea and the Mediterranean will almost double to 40 million tons. The costs of around 50 million euros were shared by the federal government (35 million euros), Deutsche Bahn (14.4 million euros) and the state (600,000 euros). The project takes into account a platform that can be retrofitted later.
From January to April 2017, a direct, crossing-free exit option from platform 2 in the direction of Wiesbaden is to be created for five million euros.
Traffic importance
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Mainz main station was used by around 60,000 travelers a day in 2011. He is the beginning of the Main Railway to Frankfurt Central Station and stop on the line S 8 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn , since "small change of timetable" on June 10, 2018 and end of the line S 6 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn . In addition, 311 local trains ( S-Bahn , Regional-Express and Regionalbahn ) and 104 long-distance trains ( Intercity , Eurocity , Intercity-Express and CityNightLine ) stop here every day (as of 2009).
The train station is a major inner-city tram and bus - hub and starting point for the regional bus lines in the Rheinhessen communities. The hub is served by the inner-city MVG , for the community lines to Wiesbaden (6, 9) also by the ESWE and for the surrounding area by the regional company ORN .
Together with Wiesbaden, Mainz forms the Mainz-Wiesbaden transport association (VMW), which has concluded cooperation agreements with the adjacent RMV and RNN transport associations. While Mainz and Wiesbaden are part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV), the joint tariff with the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (RNN) applies to traffic in the Rheinhessen municipalities .
With the release of long-distance bus traffic in Germany , some long-distance bus routes have been operating near the main train station since 2013 . There was already a shuttle bus to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport in the Hunsrück before that .
The Munzinger Express also ran from Zweibrücken to Mainz from 1965 to 1979 .
Long-distance transport
In long-distance passenger rail transport , the following connections exist from Mainz main station:
| line | route | Clock frequency |
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| ICE 11 | Wiesbaden - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich-Pasing - Munich | Indent |
| ICE 20 | Kiel - Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Mainz - Wiesbaden | Indent |
| ICE 31 | Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Hanau - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt - Munich | a pair of trains |
| Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt | two pairs of trains | |
| ICE 41 | Munich Hbf - Nuremberg Hbf - Würzburg Hbf - Fulda - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Hamm - Dortmund - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Hbf - Cologne Messe / Deutz - Wiesbaden Hbf - Mainz - Frankfurt (Main) Airport - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | One train (Mon-Fri) |
| ICE 42 | Munich Hbf - Augsburg Hbf - Ulm Hbf - Stuttgart Hbf - Mannheim Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) Airport - Mainz - Wiesbaden Hbf | A train (Sun) |
| ICE 45 | Stuttgart Hbf (- Vaihingen (Enz)) - Heidelberg Hbf - Mannheim Hbf - Mainz - Wiesbaden Hbf - Limburg Süd - Montabaur - Siegburg / Bonn (- Cologne / Bonn Airport ) - Cologne Hbf | A pair of trains |
| ICE 45 | Mainz - Wiesbaden main station - Limburg South - Montabaur - Cologne main station | Indent |
| ICE 50 | Dresden - Leipzig - Erfurt - Fulda - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Mainz - Wiesbaden | Every two hours |
| ICE 91 | Dortmund - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau - Linz - Vienna | two pairs of trains |
| IC / EC 30 | Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Vaihingen - Stuttgart EC from Mannheim further Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - ( Zurich - Chur or Bern - Interlaken Ost ) |
Every two hours (EC: two pairs of trains) |
| IC 31 | (Kiel -) Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt (- Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau) | Every two hours |
| IC / EC 32 | (Münster - Recklinghausen - Gelsenkirchen -) or (Dortmund -) Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Vaihingen - Stuttgart (- Reutlingen - Tübingen ) or ( Ulm - Friedrichshafen - Lindau - Bregenz - Innsbruck ) or (- Ulm - Kempten - Oberstdorf ) or (Ulm - Augsburg - Munich - Rosenheim - Salzburg - Villach - Klagenfurt ) | Every two hours |
| IC 35 | Norddeich Mole - Münster - Recklinghausen - Gelsenkirchen - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Offenburg - Constance | individual trains |
Local transport
There are the following connections in local rail transport from Mainz main station:
| line | Line route | operator | Vehicles in regular operation |
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| S 6 | Mainz - Mainz Roman Theater - Oppenheim - Worms - Bobenheim-Roxheim - Frankenthal - Ludwigshafen - Mannheim (- Weinheim - Bensheim ) | DB regional center | 425 |
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Wiesbaden Hbf - Wiesbaden Ost - Mainz North - Mainz Hbf - Mainz Roman Theater - Mainz-Gustavsburg - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Rüsselsheim Opelwerk - Rüsselsheim - Raunheim - Kelsterbach - Frankfurt (Main) Airport - Frankfurt (Main) Gateway Gardens - Frankfurt am Main Stadium - Frankfurt-Niederrad - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf deep - Frankfurt (Main) Taunusanlage - Frankfurt (Main) Hauptwache - Frankfurt (Main) Konstablerwache - Frankfurt (Main) Ostendstraße - Frankfurt (Main) Mühlberg - Offenbach-Kaiserlei - Offenbach Leather Museum - Offenbach Marktplatz - Offenbach (Main) Ost (- Mühlheim (Main) - Mühlheim (Main) Dietesheim - Steinheim (Main) - Hanau Hbf ) | DB Regio | 430 |
| RE 2 | Koblenz - Boppard - Oberwesel - Bingen - Ingelheim - Mainz - Rüsselsheim - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt | DB regional center | 429 |
| RE 3 |
Nahe-Express : Saarbrücken - Türkismühle - Idar-Oberstein - Bad Kreuznach - Mainz - Rüsselsheim - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt |
vlexx | 620, 622 |
| RE 4 | Frankfurt - Frankfurt-Höchst - Hochheim - Mainz - Worms - Frankenthal - Ludwigshafen - Germersheim - Karlsruhe | DB regional center | 429 |
| RE 13 | Mainz - Nieder-Olm - Saulheim - Wörrstadt - Armsheim - Alzey (- Wahlheim - Freimersheim - Kirchheimbolanden ) | vlexx | 620, 622 |
| RE 14 | Frankfurt - Frankfurt-Höchst - Hochheim - Mainz - Worms - Frankenthal - Ludwigshafen Mitte - Mannheim | DB regional center | 429 |
| RE 15 | Mainz - Bad Kreuznach - Hochspeyer - Kaiserslautern | vlexx | 620.622 |
| RB 26 | Cologne-Dellbrück - Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz - Boppard - Sankt Goar - Oberwesel - Bingen - Gau-Algesheim - Ingelheim - Mainz | Trans regio | 460 |
| RB 31 | (Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Rüsselsheim -) Mainz - Mainz-Gonsenheim - Klein Winternheim-Ober Olm - Nieder-Olm - Saulheim - Wörrstadt - Armsheim - Albig - Alzey (- Wahlheim - Freimersheim - Kirchheimbolanden) | vlexx | 620, 622 |
| RB 33 | Idar-Oberstein - Bad Kreuznach - Ingelheim - Mainz (- Rüsselsheim - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt) | vlexx | 620, 622 |
| RB 75 | Wiesbaden - Mainz - Groß-Gerau - Darmstadt - Dieburg - Aschaffenburg | Hessian state railway | 1440 |
Incidents
- On October 24, 1924, 14 people died in a rear-end collision in the Mainz railway tunnel .
- On August 1, 2013, a few hours after a malfunction in the signal box, two S-Bahn trains almost collided in the main station. On September 24, 2013, the Federal Railway Authority announced that the cause was too much brake sand on the tracks. This led to a contact in the track vacancy detection system being disturbed and an occupied track being incorrectly displayed as free.
Signal box Mainz Hbf
On August 5, 2013, companies informed the DB that "due to restricted operations in the Mainz Hbf signal box", according to press reports as a result of a lack of staff, there would be fewer stops in Mainz until August 11, 2013 in the evening and night hours. From August 12th, there were also daytime restrictions; the S-Bahn journeys only took place every hour instead of half an hour. S-Bahn trains diverted to Mainz-Kastel station , canceled regional train journeys and canceled ICE and IC stops in Mainz main station, the latter partially with replacement stops in Mainz-Bischofsheim station or Frankfurt am Main airport long-distance station , are affected . On August 8, 2013, DB Netz announced that the restrictions will probably continue until the end of August. Several thousand commuters in the Rhine-Main area were affected by the impairments. Deutsche Bahn announced that it would compensate holders of season tickets for the weeks of impairment according to the circumstances of the individual case. The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund stated through a spokesman that they wanted to take recourse against the railway for the damage that occurred. The RMV put the number of commuters affected at 150,000 passengers.
In addition, in the summer of 2013 there were around 15-minute occupational safety breaks for the signal box employees from June 18 , during which operations in the signal box at Mainz main station were stopped. Between May 22, 2013 and June 22, 2013, rail traffic was suspended from around midnight to 4.30 a.m. due to a lack of personnel in the interlockings at DB Netz in Bodenheim, Nierstein and Oppenheim , as there were no dispatchers. By decision of August 12, 2013, the Federal Railway Authority reprimanded DB Netz AG. The company is in breach of statutory operating obligations . The Federal Network Agency threatened a fine of 250,000 euros should the DB not be able to resume regular operations. The 18 employees at the signal box had accumulated an average of 120 overtime hours in mid-2013 and had 28 days of remaining vacation time.
In the Mainz signal box, 18 employees work in shifts around the clock (as of 2013). In August 2013, seven employees were missing, three due to vacation and four due to illness, which is why DB Netz was only able to fully staff 40 instead of 50 shifts per week. Deutsche Bahn announced that it would employ nine additional employees on the signal box from November 1, 2013. In 2014, 22 dispatchers worked on the signal box.
particularities
Depot
In 1958, the depot at the main station was one of the first in the German Federal Railroad to be “steam-free”.
Photo search project of the BKA
The Federal testing of October 2006 bis January 2007 in a research project, the biometric facial recognition (photo search ) in the entrance hall of the Mainz main train station.
On July 11, 2007, the BKA presented the final report of the project at a press conference. With the technology available at the time, the probability of detection under optimal lighting conditions with daylight was 60%. However, this fell down to 10% during the night ; thus the photo search was not practical.
Platform lengths
According to information from DB Station & Service, the platforms to tracks 4 and 5 in Mainz main station are the second longest platforms of a German train station: They are 627.5 meters long. According to Stredax from DB Netz, the usable length is only 450 meters. At these platforms, two shorter trains can stop on the same platform and then depart in different directions. This is why these platforms are called “4a” and “4b” as well as “5a” and “5b”.
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Franz Dumont, Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz (Hrsg.): Mainz - The history of the city . 2nd Edition. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2000-0 .
- M. Kraus: Mainz Central Station (1884-1894) . In: Yearbook for Railway History 18 (1986). ISSN 0340-4250, pp. 7-48.
- 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. 231 ff . (Route 014).
- Rosel Spaniol: Early railway systems in Mainz (then and now). A contribution to the city's history and archeology . DGEG , Karlsruhe 1979, ISBN 3-921700-29-9
- Otto Westermann: Young Railway in 2000-year-old golden Mainz. From the good and bad days of the Mainz Railway . Federal Railway Directorate Mainz, Mainz undated [after 1962].
- Heinrich Wohte (Ed.): Mainz - A home book . Publisher Johann Falk III. Sons, Mainz 1928
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (FMZ) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 7.81 MiB)
- Track system as well as some permissible signals and speeds on the OpenStreetMap
- Historic Mainz: The main station on mainz.de
- Pictures of the history of Mainz main station
- Station board of Mainz main station: Current departures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data & facts. Profile on bahnhof.de ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ See: Nebeljungenstreich
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes from August 4, 1900. Volume 4, No. 35. Announcement No. 327, p. 241.
- ^ Otto Westermann: Young Railway in 2000-year-old golden Mainz. From the good and bad days of the Mainz Railway . Federal Railway Directorate Mainz, Mainz undated [after 1962], p. 46.
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of 23 August 1924, No. 35. Announcement No. 745, p. 422.
- ↑ a b Local route guide No. 2 Mainz, object 1 . (PDF) Route of industrial culture Rhine-Main
- ^ Max Schweinitz: Ten years of reconstruction at the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate . In: Bundesbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): The Bundesbahndirektion Mainz. Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Mainz Railway Directorate . Carl Röhrig, Darmstadt 1956 = special print from Die Bundesbahn 22/1956, pp. 53–57 (53).
- ↑ Westermann, p. 56.
- ^ Max Schweinitz: Ten years of reconstruction at the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate . In: Bundesbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): The Bundesbahndirektion Mainz. Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Mainz Railway Directorate . Carl Röhrig, Darmstadt 1956 = special print from Die Bundesbahn 22/1956, pp. 53–57 (57).
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: New overpass structure: Report on bahn.de )
- ↑ Mainzer Nordkopf railway overpass structure ( Memento from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ DB construction site in Mainz: CEMEX supplies flyover structure
- ↑ DB celebrates the completion of the flyover structure on the Mainzer Nordkopf on Friday , January 28, 2015
- ↑ Ute Granold: But start of construction for "Nordkopf" in Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz on February 27, 2010.
- ↑ a b Trains now pass through the Mainz Nordkopf without crossing . In: Netznachrichten . No. 1 , 2015, ZDB -ID 2548162-9 , p. 6 ( online , 1.7 MB [PDF; accessed on March 10, 2018]). online ( Memento from March 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Oliver Schumacher: Press release - Free travel in Mainz main station. Deutsche Bahn, January 30, 2015, archived from the original on May 31, 2015 ; accessed on May 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Mainzer Nordkopf: 48 million for smooth rail traffic ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Article in the Mainzer Rhein Zeitung from January 6, 2011.
- ↑ a b FH professor: Completion of the Gotthard base tunnel has consequences for rail noise in Mainz ( memento from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by Michael Erfurth in Rhein Main Presse, Allgemeine Zeitung, from June 16, 2012.
- ↑ Further structural improvements in the Mainz railway junction. In: deutschebahn.com. January 4, 2017, archived from the original on January 5, 2017 ; Retrieved January 5, 2017 .
- ↑ 60,000 travelers and visitors every day ( memento of February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Information on bahnhof.de , accessed on March 18, 2011.
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