Gießen station

• Main- Weser Railway (km 134.0 )
• Dill Distance (km 166.0 )
• Vogelsberg Railway (km 0.0 )
• Pour - Gelnhausen ( 0.0 km )

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The Gießen Train Station is a key station in the city of Giessen. He is assigned to one of the largest railway stations in Hesse without ICE port, the train station category 2 and forms with more than 20,000 travelers every day the main public transport nodes means Hessen.

History

The first provisionally appointed station in Giessen was built for the Main- Weser Railway in 1850 in the area Oswaldsgarten. This provisional was 1853/54 is replaced by a new, more southerly station on the present site with an appropriate reception building. This was built in the style of Romantic Classicism strictly symmetrical on an E - shaped plan. Between 1869 and 1871, the Upper Hessian Railway Company of casting from the Vogel cable car in the direction of Fulda and the railway line casting - Gelnhausen pushed ahead. Their railway facilities in Giessen were compared to the reception building of the Main- Weser Railway, on the other side of the station forecourt. Thus, the access to the reception building only nor the Liebig Street (then called University Street ) was possible. Only in 1893 a bridge connection to the old way of Wetzlar and the " Mausoleum " called staircase over the tracks was built by the Vogel cable car and the track - Gelnhausen Giessen.

Martin Walser wrote on May 12, 1976 during a book tour on the casting station in his diary: "When the stations were built, they obviously had no idea what one should think of a train station. Usually you then got into a mixture of church and castle. This can be seen particularly clearly in Giessen. A red sandstone church with nave and tower, which was, however, sat down a little bit crazy to disrupt the nave. "

Reception building

The current station building was built from 1904 to 1911 including the old station building of the Main- Weser Railway in historicist neo-Romanesque style as the vanishing point of the line of sight of urban expansion from 1880. The cast- iron columns of the platform roofing still come from the plant from the year 1854. In the "new" station building is a three-storey, held in red sandstone building with a distinctive clock tower on an asymmetrical floor plan. Charged with planning and execution was the Herborner architect Ludwig Hofmann. The station building is now pushed as a wedge between the Main- Weser Railway and the branching eastward track of the bird mountain railway and the distance casting - Gelnhausen.

During the Second World War the building was damaged, destroyed in the northern- wing Fürstenbahnhof 1944. In November 1968, the station was renovated lobby and the station building to the north, extended to the area of ​​the former princely station. In the early 1970s the façade was renovated.

The station building is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

In the concourse there is a service point, a travel center, a train station bookstore and retail outlets for food and travel needs. In the reception building, the station management and Zugansage, the railway mission and facilities of DB Services are still housed.

Between 2008 and 2010 the facilities were converted for passenger traffic. The groundbreaking ceremony for this was held on 16 July 2008. The main objective of the work was a new pedestrian underpass and barrier-free access to all platforms. After delays due to the long and severe winter, the new building on 21 July 2010 were approved after previously the tracks were within 12-15 only on the new underpass. Because of remaining work, the plant was officially inaugurated in the fall of 2010.

Operation

Passenger

The Giessen train station has in its two parts eleven station platform tracks:

• The Main-Weser station west of the reception building has the Kassel running lines 1-5. Here hold on three platforms InterCity the relation ( Konstanz ) Karlsruhe- Frankfurt -Hamburg ( Stralsund ), regional express trains of the RMV lines 30 (Kassel - Giessen- Frankfurt, Main- Weser- Express ) and 40 ( Siegen- Giessen- Frankfurt, Main -Sieg- Express), together form an hour from Frankfurt, as well as the features of Central Hesse Express the relations Treysa - casting and Dillenburg - Wetzlar - casting, the drive from here together to Frankfurt am Main. Furthermore, home to the regional trains to and from Friedberg ( Hessen).
• The Oberhessische station, the eastern railway station part, owns the tracks 11 to 15 Here the trains of Vogelsberg and Lahn- Kinzig -Bahn, as well as in southwestern direction the trains of the Lahn Valley Railway to Limburg and scattered lines of dill route toward Dillenburg.
• Between the two parts of the train station is located in the tip of the wedge with platform 9 the only railway siding of the station, which has a platform. Here begin and end almost exclusively on the features of the Lahn Valley Railway to Limburg and Koblenz.

Casting not one of the system holding in the German ICE network, but operate on the Main- Weser Railway sporadically ICE trains with malfunctions on the high speed line Kassel- Wilhelm height - Frankfurt am Main.

Long-distance traffic

The station is served by inter-city cross-country skiers from Karlsruhe to Stralsund in 2 -hour intervals. Furthermore, every weekend takes ( with a few exceptions Saturday and Sunday), an IC train pair price to Westerland. This train was introduced on schedule 2010/2011.

Additionally Between December 2009 and December 2011 reversed a daily Euro City train pair of victories over Giessen and Frankfurt to Klagenfurt.

Transport

In casting station stop in 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 - Marburg and Giessen have their beginning and end here. Individual regional express from Frankfurt Hbf to Marburg also keep in Giessen train station. The casting station is also support for the Lahn Valley Express and the Central Hesse Express, which is winged here towards Treysa and Dillenburg. The Giessen train station is beginning and end of the trains to / from Gelnhausen ( about Nidda ), Fulda ( about Grünberg and Alsfeld ) and Limburg and Koblenz ( about Wetzlar and Weilburg ). The regional trains of the Lahn Valley Railway and the bird mountain railway operated since the timetable change 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011 by the Hessian State Railways ( HLB).

Connection Overview

Freight traffic

South-west of the passenger station is the freight station, which was the central Zugbildungsbahnhof for the central Hessian freight until December 2006. From here, yet different stations of the environment (eg, Frankenberg ( Eder), Dillenburg and Nidda ) were approached at the local freight last. The majority of these Zugbildungsaufgaben however, has been now shifted to the freight station Wetzlar.

Interlockings

While the signals and switches the freight station and the railway station part casting - mountain forest are still operated by several electro-mechanical signal boxes on site, the passenger station has since December 2004 with an electronic signal box and is controlled remotely from the control center in Frankfurt am Main.

Connection

Directly in front of the station there is the bus station for regional and local bus routes on platform 1 the stops for the city bus lines of the Stadtwerke Gießen (now MitBus ). Next there on the station forecourt a taxi stand and the Bahofstraße 20 short term parking. Other short-term parking are located on the Lahnstrasse. The local car-sharing provider has a parking space in front of the station. For a longer Parking Park & ​​Ride car park with 480 places on the Lahn road and a parking garage at the street stalls to Old Postzur available. The parking garage at the Lahnstraße is connected by an overpass and stairs and elevators with the tracks 1 to 5, so that here there is already a barrier-free access. 380 covered bicycle parking facilities are located on the Lahn Street and the Old Wetzlar way. At the station forecourt the 400 bicycle parking are vorhandenan, which are covered 180 and 36 in paid bike boxes.

Planning

By 2020, the extension of the station tunnel is scheduled to Lahnstrasse. Is to be built on the former goods station one to two pages edged Building space with additional short-term parking, Fernbussterminal and other bicycle parking. Also, another car park with 700 car parking spaces is included in the General Plan.

In the long term barrier-free reconstruction of the stairs between the front of the station and the Old Wetzlar path is sought.