Bad Hersfeld station
- Bebra - Fulda - Bad Hersfeld (km 153.2 )
- Knüll Forest Railway (km 0.0 )
- Hersfelder orbit (km 0.0 )
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The Bad Hersfeld station is a privy to its present location in 1883 through station in Bad Hersfeld. He is assigned to the train station category 3, is an ICE and IC support and forms a public transport node in northern Hesse.
Since 2006, the cantus traffic mbH operates in regional transport line Fulda - Bad Hersfeld - Bebra - Kassel.
Station building
At the opening of the section Bebra - Bad Hersfeld on 22 January 1866, only built as a temporary reception building, called the " shack ". Later extended this holzverschindelte building still exists, south of the present station building. The temporary restoration was obviously built for the German war. The subsequent inclusion of Hesse-Cassel in the Prussian state led to this temporary served as Station 17 years.
The current station building was therefore opened in 1883 and designed by architect Paul Rowald who worked at that time in the civil engineering office of the Frankfurt railway management.
The building is a two-storey sandstone building in the style of Neo-Romanesque. The floors are separated by a cornice that runs around the entire building. The sandstone for the station came from a quarry near Jossa. The station building has a rectangular central block, which has in its long front, back to the station forecourt, a buttress. He runs out in a transverse gables, which is toned by a cornice. In the pediment of a station clock is installed. In the buttress is the ground-level main entrance, which has the shape of a circular arc, the "typical distinguishing feature " of Romanesque buildings. This form reappears in all ground floor windows and windows in the gables. On both sides of this central block, two mirror-like wings that protrude slightly on both the front and at the back in front of the central building levy. Here, the architectural style elements from the Mittelbau continued and have high gables on.
Rowald adopted the Roman style elements, the architecture of existing medieval buildings in the old town of Hersfeld again, without that he has individual elements, for example, copied from the Romanesque abbey ruins (which is also of Rowald with the same floor plan planned Station Gelnhausen for this reason similar style forms such as the train station in Bad Hersfeld ). The neo-Romanesque style should refer to the Romanesque abbey ruins. With the window shapes on the ground floor, the windowsill with half-columns and their capitals and arched tiles on the gables Rowald took on heavy Romanesque style models. The tops of the gables are decorated with finials, these are borrowed from the Gothic period.
On the south side of a one-story building was built in 1908 still grown, which was stylistically matched to the main building. This building was rebuilt in 1957 as a pavilion with a hipped roof. In this building until 2005, the station restaurant was housed.
The exterior of the station has been preserved largely unchanged, only inside the building was rebuilt several times and changed the layout. This happened least between 2005 and 2008. During this time, the station square and the pedestrian underpass has been upgraded and redesigned. To this were 2008, the participating builders, the town of Bad Hersfeld, the Nordhessische Transport Association (NPT), the German Bahn AG and the architects involved in the architectural prize, " Simon -Louis -du- Ry - badge " from the Association of German Architects ( BDA) awarded.
Service
South of the station forecourt is the Bad Hersfeld ( FBHFU ) bus station for regional and local bus lines. Five overland lines are operated by the ÜWAG Bus GmbH. Six other interurban lines are served by the RKH. A line of seven city buses guarantees connection to any other city buses that run on the width of road. Furthermore, there is in front of the station forecourt is a taxi rank and short term parking. Park & Ride facilities exist on the opposite side of the railway tracks. It is connected by an underpass with the platforms and the station building. Track 1 is at ground level. The underpass, which tracks 2 and 3 and the Park & Ride car park have been provided in 2008 with lifts so that wheelchair access is possible. In the concourse there is a service point and since the end of 2008 DB Service Store. Another service provides the web with the rental bikes (since autumn 2009).
North of the station building is the building for station management, 3 - S Centre, interlocking and Zugansage. The mission station is housed in a flat, wood shingles building south of the station building.