Mainz-Bischofsheim station

  • Rhine -Main -Bahn (km 7.4) ( KBS 651 )
  • Main railway (km 7.4) ( KBS 471 / KBS 645.8 / 645.9 )
  • Ring line Mainz (km 15.1 ) ( 645.9 KBS )

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The train station Mainz Bishop home is the station of the Hessian church bishop 's home. As Bishop home a district of Mainz was between the two world wars and the station was subsequently not rückbenannt, the words " Mainz " has received.

History

In the course of the building to relieve the Mainz main station at the beginning of the 20th century, the then Bishop of Mainz suburban home next to Wiesbaden and Mainz became the third node of the Mainzer Ring line. After the establishment of the Main Bridge in Hochheim met here the branching off shortly after Mainz -Kastel branch of the Taunus Railway to the Hessian Ludwig Railway, the connection between Mainz, Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg. Next here branches off the Main train to Frankfurt am Main from the Ludwig Railway.

The Prussian - Hessian be operated railway community built home from Bishop into a nationally significant node. As a result, freight and passenger were spatially separated. The old station building at the water tower, both cultural monuments after the Hessian Monument Protection Act, was now used for cargo handling, passenger in 1904 was a few hundred meters to the northwest built a new reception building.

Description

The new station building was built on the hillside as a massive two-story building in the contemporary Art Nouveau style. The brick floors are plastered, the gables of Querbaues are carried out in framework. Access to the station is upstairs. From there, the platforms of a web can be achieved.

After numerous structural changes in the building in 2002/ 03 was based on the historic original, dismantled and modernized.

The marshalling yard Mainz Bishop home is now one of the most important stations for the formation of freight trains in the Rhine- Main area.

Traffic

For construction of the railway station and intercity trains is approached as a replacement grip for Mainz Hauptbahnhof.

Pictures of Mainz-Bischofsheim station

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