Heddernheim underground station
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The subway station Heddernheim in the district of Heddernheim is the northern end of the main line south station-Heddernheim the Frankfurt U-Bahn . Immediately north of the station is the Heddernheim depot . Out of town, the main route branches into the connecting route A2, which is used by the U2 in the direction of Gonzenheim , and the connecting route A1 / A3, on which the lines U1, U3 and U8 run.
business
Heddernheim has been served regularly by the four lines U1, U2, U3 and U8 since 2010. For operational reasons, some trains run early in the morning in Heddernheim or end here late in the evening. During construction work on Eschersheimer Landstrasse , Heddernheim often serves as the northern starting and end point for rail replacement services , while the trains turn the connecting lines in Heddernheim . Every year on Shrove Tuesday, special trains run for the carnival parade through Klaa Paris .
The station has three tracks: the two through tracks with side platforms and a stump track on the east side of the platform out of town, which can only be accessed from the direction of the depot and has no connection to the city center.
| Frankfurt subway | ||
| Previous station | line | Next station |
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Zeilweg ← Ginnheim |
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Weißer Stein Südbahnhof → |
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Sandelmühle ← Bad Homburg-Gonzenheim |
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Weißer Stein Südbahnhof → |
| Zeilweg ← Oberursel-Hohemark |
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Weißer Stein Südbahnhof → |
| Zeilweg ← Riedberg |
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Weißer Stein Südbahnhof → |
history
Tram junction for city trams and local trams
After the municipal tram took over the Frankfurt– Eschersheim steam-powered tram from the Frankfurter Lokalbahn AG (FLAG) in 1901 , the line was expanded to two tracks and electrified in 1908. On October 1, 1909, the extension went into operation over a newly built Niddabrücke to Heddernheim. The route expansion was necessary because Eschersheim and Heddernheim were incorporated into Frankfurt on April 1, 1910 and the growing suburbs were to be connected to Frankfurt's local public transport .
On May 10, 1910, the FLAG opened the regional tram line 25 from Heddernheim to Bad Homburg . At the same time, the city tram opened the Heddernheim depot on Nassauer Strasse. On May 31, 1910, line 24 to Oberursel also went into operation. The two so-called “Taunusbahnen” were not licensed as trams , but rather as a small railway similar to a branch line . They were operated with specially equipped electric trams of the V series , which among other things had air brakes . The FLAG owned 18 railcars and 21 trailer cars of this type, which were stationed in Bommersheim and Bad Homburg. The 7 largely identical railcars and 12 sidecars of the city tram were based in Heddernheim. The trains of the FLAG lines 24 and 25 used together with the city tram lines 8 and 23, which only ran to Heddernheim, the route into the city via the Eschersheimer Landstraße to their final stop at the Schauspielhaus .
Freight trains also ran on the Taunusbahnen between Oberursel , Heddernheim and Bad Homburg. For this, the FLAG owned the two tank locomotives No. 1 "Oberursel" and No. 2 "Hohemark" of the type Bn2t, built by Hagans in 1899 and 1900, as well as 22 covered and open freight cars . In 1911, the FLAG put the electric freight railcar No. 19 with a wooden structure for general cargo traffic into operation.
World War II and post-war period
From January 8, 1944, trolleybuses took over the operation on line 60, which had existed since 1930, between the tram stations "Heddernheim" and "Praunheim / Brücke". The electrification was a result of increasing fuel shortage during the war, however, could flow from the line at both ends substations tram fed be. The bus was for the rush necessary as there were in Heddernheim important war operations, including the VDM plant in which pitch propellers for aircraft of the Air Force were produced.
During the air raids on Frankfurt am Main , the station remained undamaged, but the hall for the trolleybuses was destroyed. On January 8, 1945, the trolleybus had to be stopped, and on March 24, 1945, the tram operation as well. From the end of May 1945, the tram and the Taunusbahn were able to resume operations, but initially only in island operation from Dornbusch . There the Eschersheimer Landstrasse was interrupted because of a restricted area of the US armed forces. From October 1, 1945, Line 23 was able to return to the main station via a provisionally built diversion route in Marbachweg . It was not until June 1948 that the Eschersheimer Landstrasse was open to trams again. At the same time, the trolleybus line 60 resumed electrical operation. In 1960 it was converted to buses .
On January 1, 1955, the urban tram took over the FLAG and incorporated staff, vehicles and facilities into its operations. In the same year, the use of large capacity trams began. The trains of the substructure type Lv / lv used on the Taunusbahnen had double headlights and wider wheel tires.
Subway operation
In June 1963 the underground construction began in Frankfurt. The first new line was to connect the north-west town with the main guard . At the same time Taunus tracks should be considered as forward mode 24 and 25 of lines 23, with converted tramcars on the railway line U-A operate. In addition, the Heddernheim underground station received two elevated platforms with a height of 56 centimeters above the upper edge of the rails, where both the 2.65 meter wide U2 railcars and the tram cars of the Mt / mt series could stop. The old wooden wagon hall in the Heddernheim depot was demolished. In addition, a new car wash was built, the track system was fundamentally changed and the signal box was modernized.
The subway went into operation on October 4, 1968. In 1971 the freight traffic to Heddernheim ended. On December 19, 1971, the line to Bad Homburg switched to U2 railcars, and on May 27, 1978 the line to Oberursel as well. Since then, only underground railcars on the U1 to U3 lines have been running in Heddernheim, and the U8 line to Riedberg since 2010 . In 2003 the subway station was completely modernized, the platforms were raised to 80 centimeters and the underpass was equipped with a ramp . Since then, the underground station has been barrier-free .
literature
- Jens Krakies, Frank Nagel: Stadtbahn Frankfurt am Main: A Documentation . 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-923907-03-6 .
- Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany . 2nd Edition. 1: Hessen. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9 .
- Horst Michelke, Claude Jeanmaire: 100 years of Frankfurt trams: 1872–1899–1972 . 1st edition, Villigen AG, Brugg / Switzerland 1972, ISBN 3-85649-018-3
- Walter Söhnlein, Jürgen Leindecker: The Frankfurter Lokalbahn and its electric Taunus-Bahnen. GeraMond, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-932785-04-5
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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 40.7 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 0.3 ″ E