Frankfurt South station
- Frankfurt- Main valley Hanau (km 0.0) ( KBS 640, 641 )
- Frankfurt -Offenbach - Hanau ( 4.4 km ) ( KBS 615, 641 )
- Frankfurt stadium Frankfurt Süd (km 36.6 ) ( KBS 471, 645.8, 645.9 )
- Frankfurt slaughterhouse ( Abzw ) Frankfurt Süd (km 55.0 ) ( KBS 645.3 ~ 6)
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Frankfurt ( Main) Süd station ( colloquially: Frankfurt South Station ) is one of three railway stations in Frankfurt am Main. In contrast to the main train station, he is not a head, but a through station and is one of nine tracks on five platforms. He is holding station for long-distance trains ( InterCity Express, Intercity, City Night Line), for regional transport (S -Bahn, Regional-Express, City Express and regional trains ) and for local transportation (metro, tram and bus ).
- 3.1 Highway
- 3.2 Regional Transport
- 3.3 transport 3.3.1 Metro Station
Environment
The station is located in südmainischen Sachsenhausen -Nord in a large urban district influenced founding time. From the station forecourt, the Diesterwegplatz, run five blocks in a star shape in the area: the southwest and northeast of the Hedderichstraße, to the northwest the Diesterwegstraße to Schweizer Platz, to the north the ridge road (for Eisernern bridge) and North East ( the Old Bridge ), the bridge road. On the Diesterwegplatz Tuesdays and Fridays, a weekly market takes place.
One block west of the station runs the Schweizer Straße, the main axis of the founders temporal Sachsenhausen. Immediately northeast of the station forecourt, between Hedderichstraße and Textorstraße, the old tram depot in 2003 closed Sachsenhausen, which has now been gutted and rebuilt lies. In the former converted warehouses a large supermarket chain and a branch of the Frankfurt City Library have found a new home.
The south exit of the station leads to the Mörfelder highway.
History
Today's South Station was opened Bebra railway station on November 15, 1873 under the name, coinciding with the Offenbach Hauptbahnhof. The to 1866 Electoral Hesse, then Prussian State Railway of Bebra in Northern Hesse on Fulda and Hanau to Frankfurt, the Bebra railway, took on that day their new südmainische distance between Hanau and Frankfurt in operation, which Sachsenhausen and Offenbach direct connection received on this route. She is still the most important rail link between Frankfurt and Leipzig, on the one hand, Berlin, Hannover, Bremen and Hamburg on the other. Previously, you had nordmainisch use the Frankfurt- Hanau railway and urban railway connecting the coatings of Bebra.
The old train station Frankfurt -Sachsenhausen at the Darmstadt road served since 1873, only the shuttle to the Frankfurt- Offenbach Local Railway, for him the name of the local railway station, a naturalized.
1914, the station building survived until today was opened. In its reduced Jugendstil forms it resembles something which opened in the same year Bahnhof Frankfurt- Höchst. When the underground subway connection was built (completed in 1984), almost the entire reception building was demolished and rebuilt by the end of the tunnel work. It houses since then also a community center and cultural center. The original existing iron train shed was demolished in the early 1960s.
Planned expansion
As part of the concept FrankfurtRhineMain plus the capacity of the station is to be increased with various measures. So the Ostkopf for parallel entrances and exits to and from the upgraded North and südmainischen track and the tracks 9 and 10 expanded to 750 m working length and better direction Frankfurt stadium will be connected. The corresponding platform will be expanded for additional traffic. Between the station and the Main-Neckar bridge a four-track expansion is planned with segregation of long-distance and regional traffic in addition to be being switched from right-hand to left-hand operation. In addition, the Main- Neckar line is to be connected height free from Darmstadt.
Operation
Long-distance traffic
Regional Transport
In rail transport have the following regional express and regional train lines that stop at South Station:
Transport
A particularly important role is played by the South Railway Station for the transport. At the interface between the inner city and southern suburb area, the lines S3 intersect here with the mentioned regional trains to S6 S-Bahn Rhein- Main, the subways, the A - line (lines U1 to U3 and U8), the tram lines 14, 15, 16, 19 and the Apple Wine -Express. Line 19 starts at South Station, as well as numerous city and regional bus lines that lead mainly to the southern countryside and to the airport. Some buses stop at the southern end of the Mörfelder highway.
Subway station
Under the South Station is the subway station Frankfurt South Station A- line. The station has two main lines and a central platform. There is every 2-5 minutes for the lines U1, U2, U3 and U8 Ginnsheim, Heddernheim, Oberursel, Ried and Bad Homburg. At South Station, the A- line ends. Therefore, there is front of the station over- control center and rear of the station a three-pronged, about 200 meters long perfecting system, which consists of three separate tunnels.