Rheinbahnhof Biebrich

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Rheinbahnhof Biebrich (before 1902)

The Rheinbahnhof Biebrich was a terminus in Biebrich (today: Wiesbaden-Biebrich), in which the Curve – Biebrich line of the Taunus Railway , which served the local Rhine port, ended.

designation

The station is not to be confused with today's Wiesbaden-Biebrich station on the right-hand Rhine route . However, this already happened at the time when both stations were in operation, so often that the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz repeatedly instructed its employees to only accept freight shipments with clearly and correctly completed bills of lading for these two stations.

Originally the station was called Biebrich , later: Biebrich Rheinbahnhof and since March 1, 1927 Wiesbaden-Biebrich Rheinbahnhof , which in turn should not be confused with Rheinbahnhof Wiesbaden , the former terminus of the right-hand Rhine route in Wiesbaden.

history

On August 3, 1840, the 1.5 km long Curve – Biebrich railway opened . It led from Biebrich Curve (today: Wiesbaden Ost) to Biebrich train station without any further stops. The Biebrich station was particularly important for freight traffic in the early days of the railway . It was just across the Nassau border. The neighboring port of Kastel , which was also served by the Taunus Railway, was abroad, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The economic consequences of the new train station, located in Nassau, triggered the so-called Nebeljungenstreich in 1841 . The station was in the immediate vicinity of the Nassau customs office on the banks of the Rhine.

Passenger traffic was stopped even before 1908 and in that year the route was shortened by almost a kilometer, the station relocated accordingly and the original station on the banks of the Rhine abandoned. The new building at today's Wilhelm Kalle Street ⊙ today by the Health Insurance Fund of the chemical factory Kalle used. In 1930 the train station - then called "Wiesbaden-Biebrich Rhein" - was closed as an independent operating point, placed under the Biebrich-Ost train station and continued to be operated as a "dispatching aid point".

building

In addition to a reception building , the first train station was equipped with a horse stable. The designs for this came from Ignaz Opfermann . It was rather simple: a two-story building on a rectangular floor plan with a clock tower on the ridge. It resembled the central buildings of the terminal stations in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt , which had also been planned by Ignaz Opfermann. This first station building of the Rheinbahnhof in Biebrich was demolished in 1908.

literature

  • Lichthammer: Over some train stations in western Germany and Belgium . In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung 7 (1842). Vienna, pp. 354-363.
  • Silvia Speckert: Ignaz Opfermann (1799–1866): Selected examples of his building activity in the vicinity of the city of Mainz = housework to obtain the academic degree of a Magister Artium. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1989. Typed. Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Tables. Mainz City Archives: 1991/25 No. 11.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of July 9, 1927, No. 29. Announcement No. 415, p. 196; Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of October 1, 1927, No. 43. Announcement No. 569, p. 270.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of March 5, 1927, No. 9. Announcement No. 140, p. 53.
  3. ^ 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. 19th ff . (Route 001). P. 19.
  4. ↑ Contemporary description of light hammer, S. 360th
  5. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 28, 1908, No. 19. Announcement No. 166, p. 201.
  6. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz from February 1, 1930, No. 7. Announcement No. 70, p. 34.
  7. ↑ See: Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of May 26, 1934, No. 26. Announcement No. 320, p. 121.
  8. ↑ Incidentally, this station differs from the others [the Taunus Railway] in that instead of a locomotive hall there is a stable for horses, as the convoy [train] is only transported by horses on the branch line to Bieberich (Lichthammer, p. 360 ); According to Speckert, p. 69, there is said to have been a locomotive shed and an elevated tank for filling the steam locomotives from the beginning , but this does not make any sense when operated exclusively with horses.
  9. ↑ Speckert, p. 68.

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 19.8 ″  E