Gelnhausen station

  • Kinzig Valley Railway ( 69.7 km )
  • Pour - Gelnhausen ( 44.1 km )
  • Gelnhausen - Langenselbold (km 0.0) ( decommissioned)
  • Spessart Railway (km 0.0) ( decommissioned)

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The Gelnhausen railway station is the county town of Gelnhausen in the Kinzig Valley Railway in Hesse.

History

The station was built as a station of the former county town of the district of Gelnhausen at the Frankfurt- Bebra railway. The start-up of the section Hanau East Waechtersbach on May 1 In 1867 began the traffic.

Building

The station building and the other buildings of the station are today predominantly cultural monuments after the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

Reception building

The station building was built in neo-Romanesque style of red sandstone and so firstly takes up the history of the town of Gelnhausen, a Stauffer period foundation, as well as the most famous Romanesque buildings of the city, the Palatine of Gelnhausen, but also about the Roman House, reference. The architect Paul Rowald also planned to Bad Hersfeld station with the same floor plan and used at both buildings similar styles.

The building was built in 1882 /83 is therefore a construction of the "second generation " of structural engineering at the track. The station building is designed symmetrically on an H-shaped floor plan. Street side facade of the three pointed gables is dominated at track side eliminates the middle gable in façade design. West built onto the main building is a " prince pavilion " with three window axis, east of the main building, detached, there is a also neuromanisch held outhouse.

Other buildings

Among the buildings in the station area further includes a Bahnmeisterei of 1868, ie a structure of the "first generation" of structural engineering at the track, a clearance of goods from the period around 1870, which in 2011 was demolished, and a water tower - architecturally to the towers of the Gelnhäuser city wall inspired - from the year 1937.

Traffic

The station has a house and an island platform. In addition to the main platform is available in its western region, a head rail that serves the starting there and ending trains of the Lahn- Kinzig- train to and from the direction Büdingen and casting. The remaining three platform edges are approached only by trains of the Kinzig Valley Railway, which is extended from here to Hanau -Wolfgang for 200 km / h. The Gelnhausen station therefore also frequently used for overtaking the local trains with ICE and IC trains. The Gelnhausen station itself is now served by local and regional traffic and has a great importance for the commuter traffic from the Vogelsberg and Spessart in the Rhine- Main area.

Previously, the Gelnhausen station through two other routes were served:

  • The standard gauge railway line Gelnhausen Gelnhausen Langenselbold the orbits started and perverse HERE FROM 1904 until 1963.
  • The narrow- Spessart Railway began and perverse HERE FROM 1895 until 1951.

The railway systems of both tracks were removed immediately south of Gelnhäuser " State railway station ". Since 1930, both tracks had a common platform, which was connected by an underpass with the platforms of the state railway. Structural systems are still not received, here are today parking.

German railway station categories Architectural style Hanau Hauptbahnhof Kulturdenkmal Buntsandstein House of Hohenstaufen Romanesque art Architecture Langenselbold station
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