Bad Homburg station

  • Homburger Bahn ( KBS 645.5 )
  • Taunusbahn ( KBS 637)

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The Bad Homburg station is located on the Homburger Bahn and was put into operation on 26 October, 1907. It is used by about 19,000 travelers daily.

Historical situation

The new transit station in Bad Homburg replaced two older stations. Homburg (Alt ), one of the terminal stations, was located on the site of the present town hall and was opened as the terminus of the route Frankfurt am Main in 1860 by the Homburg Railway Company. 1895 another railway terminus for the route of Homburg Friedrichsdorf Usingen was by the Prussian state railways built, Homburg ( New). This second station was between the lower Louis Street and today's feeder road. Both stations separated a distance of 200 to 300 meters. They were only connected by a railway which shunting enabled.

The new station

Homburg was a favorite summer residence of Emperor William II example, the situation with two stations was not only operationally unsatisfactory, they also did not correspond to the imperial desire for representation. Therefore, a new through station was built in 1905-1907, connected the railway lines leading to Homburg each other. It cost just under 4.7 million marks. The name of the station " Homburg " is since January 10, 1913 "Bad Homburg " after the words " Bad" was added in 1912 the name of the city.

Station field

The track area of the station is about four meters above street level, the reception building is single storey from the street side, the platforms accessible by a pedestrian and a baggage tunnel. The station received an extensive track area, which is now greatly reduced, plants for the local freight, and a roundhouse with 14 stalls. The engine shed is to be sold, but retained.

Reception building

The station building is designed very representative in Renaissance and asymmetric. Decisive involved was the architect, government and Baurat Armin Wegner. Maybe he was based on previous work of the secret building advice Louis Jacobi. But even the emperor himself kept reaching into the design. After the city of Bad Homburg could acquire the building in late 2007, after long negotiations, which for years stationary clocks were initially set in motion. In case of fire vegamatic on July 4, 2009, the concourse was - especially the plaster and the window - badly damaged by the high soot and initially blocked. End of July 2009, a pedestrian tunnel was built inside the hall, replacing a temporary access to the water tower.

On August 23, the station was re-opened after repairs are completed. These included, in addition to dealing with the damage already longer upcoming repair works worth 22.4 million euros. In addition to a bakery and a kiosk to find the first time, a McDonald's restaurant and an ATM in the station building. Since the station was converted to a " culture station " he can henceforth be used as a venue for concerts.

Bahnsteighalle

For passenger transport are two platforms with two tracks available, in addition to the Second World War were also luggage platforms available. As a roofing served a two-aisled hall track (twice 90 × 12 meters). This platform hall was demolished in 1961; it got the roof on fire.

Fürstenbahnhof

Similar to other residence or spas got a Fürstenbahnhof the new station - so a separate reception building - for " highest and supreme lords " to track 1

Operation

After setting the trains running on the resort railway express train Berlin- Bad Nauheim, Bad Homburg -Wiesbaden in 1939 used scheduled intercity trains rarely the route on the edge of the Taunus. Today the station is only used for local transport. As of 23 May 1954 did pull trains in a rigid half-hourly interval timetable, pulled and pushed by tender locomotives class 78 diesel locomotives of the type V 80 and later V 100 From about 1966, the train operation with the wine-red railcars of Class 624 to electrification were used. After completion of the electrification on 26 September 1970, the push-pull trains were usually strung with electric locomotives of the series 141 and 140. From the summer timetable 1978 - with the introduction of the S- Bahn Rhein -Main - Multiple units of the ET 420 series, even the newer series ET used since 2003 423, which was changed to 2006 several times (at the timetable change ) between pure operation of a series and mixing operation.

Today (2012 ), the station Bad Homburg on the line S5 ( Frankfurt Süd -Bad Homburg Friedrichsdorf ) of the S - Bahn Rhein -Main and operated by the Hessian Bahn GmbH line 15 ( Taunusbahn ), ( Frankfurt am Main ) bath Homburg Friedrichsdorf - Gravenwiesbach - Brandoberndorf, approached. This end and start the trains of the Taunus Railway (without the continuous to Frankfurt ) and during the week half-hourly trips to the S5 to Bad Homburg; the two lines are matched in the timetable.

The remaining two tracks that have no platforms are used for parking some railcars of the S -Bahn (BR 423 ) and during the schedule year 2008, the Taunus Railway (VT 2E).

Front of the station building is a bus station, Homburger of all Bath city bus lines and most of the regional bus is approached.

Future

Is planned for 2007, which features the U2 subway Frankfurt on the so-called Prince track (track 1) start at the station and to let it end. The route is to be lowered to the present terminus of U2 in Gonzenheim in a 350 meter long tunnel and underpass parallel to the Frankfurter Landstraße the railway track Bad Homburg Friedrichsdorf. It will then be introduced to the railway embankment and cross parallel to and on the level of the Long Mile and the feeder road.

In June 2010, the plan approval process should begin originally, in March 2011, the Darmstadt Regional Council launched the consultation process for this purpose. Stadtwerke transport company Frankfurt planned in February 2012, the start of construction in July 2013 with a start-up in December 2015 The city council went in July 2013 of a plan approval in 2015 and a realization by the end of 2017Vorlage. Tomorrow / in 3 years from.

Also the trains also planned regional tangent West ( RTW) could stop here. Can be driven on the track is due to grown up vegetation and degraded turnouts currently no more. Last end of 2007 a ​​part of the vegetation has been removed by the Fürstenbahnhof.

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