Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof

• Main-Spessart -Bahn
• Rhine -Main Railway ( 77.7 km )
• Main Valley Railway (km 0.0 )

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The Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof is located on the high-volume rail axis Ruhr -Frankfurt ( Main) -Nürnberg-München/Wien. The German railway maps the Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the category 2. It forms the border between the inner city and the suburb dam.

History

At the passenger station was a day mostly broken yard. The main railway station was opened in 1854 with the commissioning of the Bavarian Ludwig - west railway time on the "green meadow ". The station building from the origin time was destroyed near the end of World War II by bombing in 1944 and replaced in the first half of the 1950s at the same place by a new building by Hans core in a functional style. The new station had an elegant, continuous glazed entrance hall with a shed roof and an extension to the station restaurant.

The main railway station was renewed from 2004 with an increase of the platforms and the installation of elevators in sections. For this, the old station building was demolished and a new, built with large retail space and a parking garage with about 400 spaces. The new building was opened on January 29, 2011. End of February 2012 has been opened in the dam area an extension of the new platform underpass. Here's another car park was opened in April 2012, in which are provided on two of the six levels about 200 P & R parking. On the South and on the north side of the station platforms were redesigned traffic justice of the city of Aschaffenburg.

In October 2010, a reduced copy of the previously attached to the outer wall Hermes mosaic on the east side of the new station building was attached. The old art was applied as digital photo printing on four aluminum panels. The majority of the original tiles were rescued without authorization by the owner of the station shortly before the demolition of the station building and composed by the graphic artist Udo Breidenbach for reproduction again.

Infrastructure

The passenger station has seven tracks and a passage of railway siding in Ostkopf the station. The north following six tracks ( tracks 101 to 106 ) are priority to freight. The trackage of Aschaffenburg Hbf were controlled until 1974 by a number of decentralized mechanical and electro-mechanical interlocking. Since 1974, this task is performed by a push button signal box, which was built on Ostkopf the station, perceived.

Transport links

From 1891 to the late 1950s, there was the so-called Main -country train that branched below the Bisch mountain in the former raft and trading port. Between 1911 and 1974 there was also a train people on the Bachgaubahn by Hochst. Currently, there are efforts, at least until Großostheim allow this connection resurgence, to relieve the road link in the Bachgau, especially at peak times.

Others

Underpass to the district Dam

The district dam is since end of February 2012 to reach via the underpass and the tracks. The underpass connects the city center with the district and a landscaped promenade " Dammer Tor". The construction project cost 3.7 million euros.

Breakpoints in Aschaffenburg town area

Furthermore, Aschaffenburg is by the rail breakpoints Obernau tethered (since 1876) and Aschaffenburg South ( since 1906) to the regional rail network, and since the timetable change in 2007/2008 which is situated in close proximity to the University of Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg College Station. There are plans in the gold Straße ( the viaduct ) setting up a further rail stop.

Office of the transport company " Westfrankenbahn "

Aschaffenburg is the seat of the public transport company of the new Westfrankenbahn. This is the fifth regional transport network under the umbrella of Deutsche Bahn. The jurisdiction of the regional community concerns extending mainly in the Main- Tauber valley axis and Aschaffenburg -Wertheim - Crailsheim and the connections Miltenberg - Seckach, Würzburg - Lauda and Crailsheim -Heilbronn. With this decentralization measure, the German railway wants more attention again to the customers in the region and to better adapt to the local needs. It is expected that in order to return 250 jobs, which were removed in the course of centralization back to the Bavarian Lower Main.

Award

• Station of the Year 2012 in the category of small town station.