Frankfurt West station
- Main- Weser Railway (km 196.4 ) ( KBS 630 / 645.6 )
- Homburger Bahn ( 3.3 km ) ( KBS 637 / 645.3 / 645.4 / 645.5)
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Frankfurt ( Main ) West Bahnhof is a regional and suburban railway station on the Main- Weser Railway in the west of the city center of Frankfurt am Main ( Bockenheim ), close to the Messe Frankfurt and the campus Bockenheim the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe- University of Frankfurt am Main.
History
The station was built in 1848 as Bock Home Station, on the Main - Weser Railway (Frankfurt -Kassel). The then independent town Bock home was on kurhessischem territory until 1866. She was significant in the context of the electorate and their station was based on a design by Julius Eugen Ruhl has a relatively complicated reception building in neo-Renaissance style, including a special time range for the electors, equipped. This sat in front of the station on to the still existing and designated as Elector place as Stadtentree by Bock home.
A first fundamental change in rail facilities arose when the 1888 Frankfurt West train stations by the new Central Station (now Hauptbahnhof) were replaced. In this regard, initially succeeded May 10, 1884 - Fifteen years earlier, failed at the time of the construction of small states - Connection of Homburger Bahn to the Main -Weser -Bahn in West station.
Next required the entrance of the Main- Weser Railway in the new central station a ausholende far west entrance curve. The abandoned old route that straight from today's Westbahnhof to "Am Hauptbahnhof" and led thence in a westerly direction, the present Emperor road following, turned off to the Main-Weser station was converted to a road. This initially had the name way street and is still traced by Hamburger Allee, Friedrich- Ebert-Anlage and Düsseldorf street in the city.
Today's Train Station
Since 1913, this station transmits in the official railway, post and trade the name Frankfurt -West. The historic station building was destroyed in World War II during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main. To replace a contemporary purpose built two storey was built in 1961. At the same time a pedestrian tunnel under the tracks was created. The station building was equipped with a fast food restaurants and first floor with offices and classrooms. As an additional source of illumination the hall with a round cavity was connected to the corridor of the first floor, in the center of which hung a modern designed chandeliers. Also notable was the sweeping staircase with brass- railing and a two -story wall mosaic, which showed a railway scene. The mosaic is no longer maintained.
During the expansion of the S -Bahn in the 1970s, initially the first floor has been canceled, and later almost all other parts of the building, so that the former building almost nothing is available. Result is a simple building, which seems to be tucked under the elevated S- Bahn tracks.
The train station is so today of two levels: Single storey keep the regional trains as well as into town driving S -Bahn trains on the line S6 use on the tracks 3 through 5, the S -Bahn lines S3, S4 and S5 and S6 in direction Friedberg the approximately one kilometer long elevated railway section with the double-track elevated railway station ( tracks 1 and 2) on the actual track field.
Mainly in the rush hour hold some regional express trains of the lines RE 30 Kassel - Casting - Frankfurt (Main -Weser- Express), and ( more rarely) RE 40 victories - Casting - Frankfurt (Main -Sieg- Express ) and all to Frankfurt Hbf bound trains through the Niddertalbahn (SE 34) and Horlofftalbahn (SE 32). Moreover, in principle, the Central Hesse Express stops ( SE 30 /40) as well as individual regional express trains of the relation Frankfurt Hbf - Marburg at this station. In addition, in the afternoon and late at night keep individual intercity trains on the way from Hamburg or Berlin to Frankfurt Main Station and vice versa here. In construction and operational deviations also hold ICE trains.
The end of 2008 a service store opened with lounge in the station. It contains a small shop and a small café. Tickets are to be had there too. It represents a pilot project for a new franchise system, to be opened by the year about 25 in other stations.
Connection
Opened in 2003, line 17 tram Frankfurt touches the southern end of the Western Railway Station (stops Nauheim road and Kuhwaldstraße ). The tram stop at the forecourt of the Western Railway Station was hit between December 2010 and December 2011 from each amplifier drives the tram 16.
The bus line 36 connects the West Railway Station by Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University and downtown and the line 73 with the districts Hausen, Praunheim and the North West town. The proposed ring tram to get into the neighboring castle street a stop named Westbahnhof.