Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt / Main

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The Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

history

prehistory

The Bebraer Bahn was originally an Electorate Hesse project that was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia after the annexation of the Electoral State as a result of the German War of 1866 . The railway was managed by the direction of the Bebra-Hanauer Bahn in the former Hessian capital Kassel . On November 15, 1873, coming from Hanau Ost , it took up its last section as far as the Bebra train station in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen .

As a result, the laid Prussian state railways the headquarters of the railway management on April 1, 1874 after Frankfurt and named it in Royal Railway Directorate at Frankfurt am Main has to offer.

Railway Directorate

development

In 1879 it became one of the 11 railway directorates of the Prussian State Railways, which were then reorganized as part of the nationalization wave. As a result, there was an extensive expansion of responsibility in 1880 when the previous administrative districts of Wiesbaden and Saarbrücken were dissolved. Another restructuring took place in 1897 with the establishment of the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community . In the course of this, the private Hessian Ludwigsbahn was nationalized and in 1902 the condominium Main-Neckar-Eisenbahn was taken over into the railway community, but at the same time the Royal Prussian and Grand-Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate Mainz had to be founded as a political concession to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . On January 1, 1914, ownership of the Kronberger Bahn passed to the Prussian state, and the line became part of the Prussian State Railways and the Frankfurt Railway Directorate. In addition to the above-mentioned restructuring, there were always minor changes in the area of ​​responsibility with regard to neighboring directorates.

On March 9, 1914, numerous new "double light pre-signals " were put into operation in the directorate's district, which corresponded to the form signal model that is still in use today . Almost the entire management was thus equipped with the new signals.

Service building

The office building of the Frankfurt headquarters was in today's Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage (then: Hohenzollernplatz ) and was built in 1908. The architect was Armin Wegner . It was badly damaged in the Second World War , then rebuilt in a simplified manner and demolished in 2007.

Reich Railway Directorate

In 1920 the Prussian State Railways went into the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The names of the directorates changed accordingly and the directorate was now called "Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt / Main".

When the Deutsche Bundesbahn was founded , the management changed its name again. The new name was now "Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt / M.".

Administrative district

The area of ​​responsibility of the Reich Railway Directorate extended (until the end of the Second World War ) over the southern Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau and the province of Upper Hesse of the People's State of Hesse : north to Dillenburg , Marburg and Bebra ; northwest to Siegburg , west to Oberlahnstein , north of the Main to Aschaffenburg and Gemünden am Main , south of the Main but hardly beyond the Frankfurt city limits. The eastern border ran over the Rhön . Significant routes within the management were:

In 1925, the Reichsbahndirektion managed 2036 km of railway lines (1938: 2101 km) with 530 stations and stops and was responsible for 28,603 employees. It was divided into 22 offices and 116 railway maintenance depots and owned 18 railway depots .

President

  • Honest (1874–1875)
  • Hendel (1875–1887), previously a member of the Ducal Nassau Railway Directorate, after 1887 President of the Wiesbaden Railway Directorate
  • Heinrich von Guérard (1887–1895)
  • Mug (1895–1899)
  • Thomé (1899–1908)
  • Reuleaux (1908-1919)
  • Stapff (1919-1925)
  • Roser (from 1925)

literature

  • Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer Edition Eisenbahn, Stuttgart a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-17-007466-0 .
  • Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt am Main (Ed.): Official pocket timetable for Frankfurt (Main). Annual timetable 1943. Frankfurt am Main 1943. (as reprint : Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2005, ISBN 3-937135-96-0 .)
  • Ferdinand von Rüden: Frankfurt am Main transport hub. From the beginning to around 1980. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-246-1 , p. 40 f.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the literature there is also the indication April 7, 1874.
  2. ↑ Only the Main-Lahn-Bahn ( Frankfurt-Höchst - Limburg (Lahn) ) and the Elm – Gemünden line were still missing.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Rüden, p. 40.
  2. ↑ Klee, p. 179.
  3. ↑ Von Rüden, p. 40.
  4. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from August 1, 1914, No. 38. Announcement No. 448, p. 264.
  5. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 14, 1914, No. 13. Announcement No. 147, p. 91.
  6. ↑ von Rüden, p. 41.
  7. ↑ von Rüden, p. 40.
  8. ↑ von Rüden, p. 40.
  9. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of September 18, 1937, No. 50. Announcement No. 621, p. 306.