Friedberg station
- Main- Weser Railway (km 165.9 )
- Railway Friedberg- Hanau ( 0.0 km )
- Railway Friedberg- Friedrichsdorf ( 40.1 km )
- Railway Friedberg- mosquito ( 0.0 km )
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The station Friedberg (Hessen ) is a separation station east of the Hessian town of Friedberg. It is located at kilometer 165.9 of the Main- Weser Railway.
- 3.1 Reception Building
- 3.2 Prince pavilion
- 4.1 Highway
- 4.2 transport
- 4.3 Connection Overview
History
First station
With the opening of the stretch of the Main- Weser Railway from Frankfurt am Main to Friedberg, the first station of Friedberg went on 10 May 1850 in operation. On 9 November 1850, the section was followed by Butzbach. The entire stretch of Main - Weser Railway between Kassel and Frankfurt is frequented since 15 May 1852. The station was designed as a through station. This first station of Friedberg was at kilometer 165.4. On the site of the former station building today is a parking garage.
In Friedberg more routes were connected to the Main- Weser Railway: here the railway line Friedberg- Hanau was put into operation on 15 September 1881 after there since December 1, 1879 been to the station Heldenbergen wind corners (now Nidderau ) driven could be. On October 1 In 1897 the railway line Friedberg- mosquito and on 13 July 1901, the railway line Friedberg- Friedrichsdorf -Bad Homburg, the latter was also known as car pools. Friedberg became a hub for travelers and goods.
Second station
On the night of the 9th to the 10th of August 1913, the second Friedberger station was put into operation, which is about 500 meters further south - and thus away from the city - was built, replacing the first station.
Since 28 May 1978, the Friedberg Station is served by the S6 S-Bahn Rhein- Main.
Railway facilities
The station Friedberg (Hessen) has two houses and four island platforms, making a total of ten platform edges. The one main platform (track 1a ) is a railway siding south of the station building, which is used exclusively for local trains in Friedrichsdorf. The tracks 2 and 4 are on the first island platform through the main tracks of the Main- Weser Railway. The S-Bahn uses mostly the tracks 5 and 7 on the second island platform. Trains in the direction of Hanau main station is usually the penultimate island platform ( tracks 8 and 10) from. At the furthest eastern platform ( tracks 11 and 12), the trains of the railway line Friedberg- mosquito drive in the direction of Nidda or Woelfersheim - Södel. The island platforms are accessible via an underpass, but elevators are missing. The baggage conveyor belts at the stairs were removed.
At the station, three electro-mechanical interlockings are ( Dispatcher interlocking east of the northern railway station head guards interlocking for the southern entrance of the people part west of the Südkopfes, guards interlocking for the southern entrance of the freight section between this and the entrance to the passenger section).
To the east of the platforms is a larger track area that serves the freight and has another 12 track axles. Previously, the station had seasonally a very substantial sugar beet traffic from the surrounding growing region, the Wetterau, on, which led to a working sugar mill here. These goods and equipment are hardly used today. The northern station exit the Main- Weser Railway led directly to the Rose Valley Viaduct, which was replaced in 1982 by a modern concrete bridge a few meters east location.
Buildings
The buildings of the first railway station was built in the classical style, the station building could have originated by Julius Eugen Ruhl. It was demolished in 1983.
The current station building and the other buildings of the station are predominantly cultural monuments after the Hessian Monument Protection Act.
Reception building
The current station building was built in 1912-1913 in a mixture of Neoclassicism and neo-Renaissance of the Darmstadt Regierungsbaurat Krause under the influence of Armin Wegner. In the vestibule original ceramic cladding and crafted glass windows are obtained which are influenced by the Art Nouveau style.
As part of the economic stimulus programs the reception building was energetically renovated in 2010 by DB Station & Service AG for € 600 thousand and repainted.
In Friedberg station there is a train station restaurant whose dining room can be accessed from the street and provides the audience with running food and beverages to the concourse out by a breakfast bar. Furthermore, there is a tourist center of the DB, a book and magazine shop, a kiosk, and - since February 2011 - a McDonalds in the former Expressgutbereich.
Prince pavilion
North of the station building is a prince pavilion. It is designed as half-timbered and was already south of the reception building of the first railway station built in 1897 /98 and later shifted here.
Traffic
Long-distance traffic
In Friedberg Station (Hessen) holds in 2 -hour intervals an Intercity train from Hamburg to Karlsruhe. On weekends, two Intercity trains will head to Westerland and Berlin Suedkreuz.
Additionally Between December 2009 and December 2011 reversed a daily Euro City train pair of victories over casting to Klagenfurt.
Transport
The station Friedberg ( Hessen) hold a series commuter trains. Here keep the regional express trains Frankfurt Hbf - Siegen ( Main -Sieg- Express) and Frankfurt Hbf -Kassel Hbf ( Main- Weser- Express). All regional trains connections Friedberg- Giessen and individual regional express from Frankfurt Hbf to Marburg also keep in Friedberger station. The Friedberg station is also support for the Central Hesse Express. The Friedberger station is beginning and end of the HLB Trains to / from Friedrichsdorf, Hanau Hbf, Woelfersheim - Södel and Nidda.