Wetzlar station

• Dill Distance (km 153.4 ) ( KBS 445 )
• Lahn Valley Railway (km 0.0) ( KBS 625 )

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The Wetzlar train station is a through station in the central Hessian town of Wetzlar, where the dill route opens into the Lahn Valley Railway. Together with the adjacent central bus station (ZOB ), he is the most important public transport nodes Wetzlar.

• 2.1 transport
• 2.2 Highway 2.2.1 Connection Overview

History

The first Wetzlar train station was built in 1862 as the island station between the tracks in the district Niedergirmes. His building still stands.

Reception building

The completed in January 1917 Art Nouveau station building was demolished as part of the modernization of interlocking technology in 1985, which the citizens of the city of Wetzlar one of their culturally and architecturally most significant buildings were robbed. He was replaced by a modern functional building, in addition to a waiting room and the travel center mainly the 1986 went into operation signal box (design SPDRs 600) includes.

Importance

The Wetzlar passenger station has five platform tracks. He is a station for regional train and regional express trains.

The train runs hold as follows on the platforms:

East of the passenger railway station, in Garbenheim district, is the Wetzlar train yard, which is since December 2006, the most important of its kind in Central Hesse.

Transport

In Wetzlar Bahnhof hold a series commuter trains. Here keep the regional express trains Frankfurt Hbf - Siegen ( Main -Sieg- Express) and casting -Koblenz Hbf ( Lahn Valley Express). The Wetzlar train station is also support for the Central Hesse Express. Also keep individual regional trains of the relation Dillenburg - casting in Wetzlar. On the Lahn Valley Railway hourly stops next to the Lahn Valley Express, a regional train to the relation Limburg -Weilburg, Wetzlar - casting.

Long-distance traffic

In the 1980s and before has there been from Wetzlar Bahnhof many daily express train connections to remote destinations such as Oberstdorf. Early 1990s was a regular D- train connection every two hours to Frankfurt ( Main ) Hbf or Münster (Westphalia ) Hbf furnished. From 1993, these trains of inter-regional line were assigned 22 Frankfurt -Münster. Once a day, there was a direct connection from Wetzlar to the north dike Mole ( IR " Norderney" ). The inter -regional trains on the route were dill but thinned out gradually until 2001. Most recently, in December 2002 of IR " Norderney " is deleted. In 2003, cities such as Rostock, Berlin, Halle ( Saale), Cologne and Neuss were temporarily from Wetzlar train station by express train InterConnex once a day approached.

Between December 2009 and December 2011, the Wetzlar train station was again tied after six years of disruption to the long distance network. Morning drove a Euro City of victories over Wetzlar, Giessen, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich to Klagenfurt. By a through car also was a direct connection to Ljubljana and Zagreb. The return from Croatia, Slovenia and Austria reached Wetzlar evening and went on to win. The offer was set the timetable change 2011/2012 on December 11, 2011.

Connection Overview

Service

Immediately adjacent is the central bus station for regional and local bus routes and the city bus lines and the city bus. There is also on the station forecourt is a taxi rank and short term parking. For longer parking is a Park - and-ride car park at the bus station is available, which should be but soon abandoned for the newly built park - and-ride car park on the north side of the station. Immediately at the station located near the shopping center and the Rittal Arena Wetzlar Forum with a large car park.

Modernization

After start-up of today's reception building in 1986, no further upgrades were made to the Wetzlar train station. Therefore, the overall appearance of the station in recent years is increasingly dilapidated and is thus in enormous contrast to the opened in 2005, the Forum, the largest shopping center in Central Hesse, which on towards the city located, disused since the 1990s, part of the freight station was built.

In 2007, a cooperation agreement between the city of Wetzlar, Deutsche Bahn and the Rhine- Main Transport Association was adopted, in which it stated to want to modernize the station extensively and disabled expand. Specifically, however, the plans were only when Wetzlar was nominated and recognized for Hessentagsarena city in 2012 that the anticipated visitors might not be greeted with the current station environment in the city. Then, the existing cooperation between the three partners contract was extended for a planning contract and commissioned a planning office with the development of a concept for a complete modernization of the railway station premises.

In early 2010, the preliminary draft was presented with the concrete measures for accessible redesign of the Wetzlar train station environment. The concept design includes the following three key measures:

• Reconstruction of the bus station and the railway station forecourt, commissioning took place in May 2012. The old bus station was completely abandoned in this form and relocated to the site of the former station forecourt to allow easy access from downtown to the Forum, the central bus station (ZOB ) and the train station alike. On Park - and-ride parking station ahead is omitted in the immediate future, instead, is a so-called kiss- and-ride zone established between the Forum and the central bus station, which provides for only a few short-term parking for dropping off and picking of travelers. The new bus station has twelve platforms No. and several spaces for coaches. The entire area is covered and with a video surveillance and a bike - and-ride facility with 18 bicycle parking spaces and 10 bicycle lockers equipped.
• Modernization of the station ( planned start: Summer 2011). In February 2011, the Wetzlar train station was equipped with dynamic train destination indicators. Furthermore, this measure includes the following projects: The new all platforms ( for track 3 and 4 on a length of 170 meters, for the tracks 5-7 on a length of 280 meters ) with a concomitant increase in access height to 55 inches.
• The demolition of the old platform roofs and the installation of new roofs on the platforms 4/5 and 6/7, albeit with only 70 feet in length.
• The complete redevelopment of the dismantled tracks 1 and 2 to provide a level equal and therefore barrier-free access of the platform for track 3 and the construction of a direct pedestrian route to the Rittal Arena.
• The redevelopment of the platform accesses including the installation of an elevator in each case to the platforms 4/5 and 6/7 in the context of disabled expansion.
• The redevelopment of the platform underpass including the extension of the underpass to railway station north side to allow a continuous foot traffic and the connection of the park-and -ride car park. The barrier-free access is guaranteed at both ends of the underpass by generous ramps.
• Direct connection of the platform 4/5. Stairs to the tower to the road bridge of Hermann Steiner road by a paved walkway
• Equipment in all platforms with benches and information boards as well as carrying out work to paving, landscaping and surface design.

All these measures are to be completed by the beginning of Hesse 's Day on June 1, 2012, at least to the extent that all facilities are available and an attractive appearance can be made. The construction costs for all three sections will amount to approximately EUR 21.8 million and worn over an implementation and funding agreement proportionately by the partners involved in each case ( City of Wetzlar, Land Hessen, German track and Rhine- Main Transport Association ). However, the cost of commuter parking lot carrying the city of Wetzlar alone.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the commencement of work by the representatives of the city, the country, the Deutsche Bahn and the Rhine -Main Transport Association took place on January 14, 2011.