Frankfurt Frankfurter Berg station

Frankfurt Frankfurter Berg
Through station
Location Frankfurt, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°10′12″N 8°40′38″E / 50.17000°N 8.67722°E / 50.17000; 8.67722Coordinates: 50°10′12″N 8°40′38″E / 50.17000°N 8.67722°E / 50.17000; 8.67722
Line(s)
Platforms 3
Other information
Station code 1869
DS100 codeFFBS
Category4 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1850

Frankfurt Frankfurter Berg station (German: Bahnhof Frankfurt-Frankfurter Berg) is a railway station located in the Frankfurter Berg district of Frankfurt, Germany. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station[1] and part of the Main–Weser Railway. The station was called Bonames until 1996.

History

The station was built near the former independent village of Bonames, which is 1,500 metres away. Bonames became part of Frankfurt in 1910. The station building was built between 1911 and 1914 and is oriented towards the northwest and the village. It is a neo-baroque building and is listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act.[2] In 1996 parts of Bonames, Eschersheim and Berkersheim were merged into a new city district (Frankfurter Berg) and the station was renamed.

The station also formerly handled freight. It was also connected by a siding to a leather dye works.[3]

Services

The station is now solely served by line S6 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. Between the two tracks of the main line there is a passing track. In addition to the platform next to the entrance building, there is a central platform, which can only be reached by a pedestrian underpass from the home platform. To the south the newly created district of Frankfurter Berg is accessible to pedestrians by a second pedestrian underpass, but it cannot be directly accessed from the platform. This has only limited accessibility for the disabled and will be eliminated in the course of the upgrading of the Main-Weser Railway from two to four tracks between the stations of Frankfurt West and Bad Vilbel.[4]

Preceding station   Rhine-Main S-Bahn   Following station
Frankfurt-Berkersheim
toward Friedberg
S6
toward Südbahnhof

Planning

There are plans to extend the line U 5 of the Frankfurt U-Bahn along Homburger Landstrasse to the station,[5][6] but this would first require the conversion of the existing tram track section to operations with high platforms.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). 2.1.. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. p. 195. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
  3. ↑ Thomé (1926 (revision)). Reichsbahndierektion Frankfurt (Main), ed. Führer über die Linien des Bezirks der Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt (Main) (in German). p. 50. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ Jürgen Schultheis (8 July 2009). "Freie Fahrt nach Vilbel". Frankfurter Rundschau – Frankfurt local section (in German). p. F 5.
  5. ↑ "Stadtbahnverlängerung von Preungesheim zum Frankfurter Berg" (in German). City of Frankfurt. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  6. ↑ "Frankfurt/Main, Streckenverlängerung U5, Frankfurter Berg" (in German). TransTecBau GmbH. 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/24/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.