Frankfurt Mainkur station

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Frankfurt Mainkur
Logo Deutsche Bahn.svg
Through station
Bahnhof Frankfurt-Mainkur Haus 0520.JPG
Station building
Tickets are available only from ticket machines
Location Fechenheim, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°8′3″N8°46′2″E / 50.13417°N 8.76722°E / 50.13417; 8.76722 Coordinates: 50°8′3″N8°46′2″E / 50.13417°N 8.76722°E / 50.13417; 8.76722
Owned by DB Netz
Operated by DB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms3
Other information
Station code1874 [1]
DS100 code FFMK [2]
IBNR8002048
Category 5 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened10 November 1848
Services
Preceding station  DB Regio Franken  Following station
RE 54
Main-Spessart Railway
toward  Bamberg
Preceding station  DB Regio Mitte  Following station
RB 58
Main-Spessart Railway
toward  Laufach
Location
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Frankfurt Mainkur
Location within Hesse

Frankfurt-Mainkur station is located on the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway between Frankfurt East station and Hanau Central Station in the Frankfurt district of Fechenheim in the German state of Hesse. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station. [1]

Frankfurt East station railway station in Frankfurt, Germany

Frankfurt (Main) East station serves regional rail services in the Ostend district of Frankfurt, Germany. Its container terminal is one of the two remaining freight yards in the city, after the much larger Frankfurt central freight yard (Hauptgüterbahnhof) was closed. The freight yard of Frankfurt's eastern river port also lies to the east.

Fechenheim Stadtteil of Frankfurt am Main in Hesse, Germany

Fechenheim is a city district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Ost and is subdivided into the Stadtbezirke Fechenheim-Nord and Fechenheim-Süd.

Hesse State in Germany

Hesse or Hessia, officially the State of Hesse, is a federal state (Land) of the Federal Republic of Germany, with just over six million inhabitants. The state capital is Wiesbaden; the largest city is Frankfurt am Main.

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View of the station from the east from Omega bridge over the B 40, rail tracks and Kilianstadter Strasse Mainkurbahn006.jpg
View of the station from the east from Omega bridge over the B 40, rail tracks and Kilianstädter Straße
The platforms with Regional-Express service running to Wurzburg Hbf Bahnhof Frankfurt-Mainkur Bahnsteig-mit-RE 0509.JPG
The platforms with Regional-Express service running to Würzburg Hbf
Greenery on the approach to the platform. In background: signal box and road bridge Bahnhof Frankfurt-Mainkur Pflanzenpracht-01.JPG
Greenery on the approach to the platform. In background: signal box and road bridge

Location

The station is located on the northern edge of the historic town of Fechenheim, on a street called An der Mainkur, which connects to a set of traffic islands on the Hanauer Landstrasse (“Hanau highway”) at the site of the former Main Cur customs house on the border between Frankfurt and the Electorate of Hesse (and earlier the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel). This location now has a tram stop of the Frankfurt network. Main Cur is now spelt as Mainkur. The Vilbeler Landstraße (“Vilbel highway”) runs north from the station. It formerly crossed a level crossing immediately west of the station, which is now closed. An underpass, however, allows pedestrian and bicycle traffic to pass under the line.

Hanau Place in Hesse, Germany

Hanau is a large town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its station is a major railway junction and it has a port on the river Main, making it an important transport centre. The town is known for being the birthplace of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and Franciscus Sylvius. Since the 16th century it was a centre of precious metal working with many goldsmiths. It is home to Heraeus, one of the largest family-owned companies in Germany.

Electorate of Hesse state elevated by Napoleon in 1803 from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel

The Electorate of Hesse, also known as Hesse-Kassel or Kurhessen, was a state elevated by Napoleon in 1803 from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. When the Holy Roman Empire was abolished in 1806, the Prince-Elector of Hesse chose to remain an Elector, even though there was no longer an Emperor to elect. In 1807, with the Treaties of Tilsit, the area was annexed to the Kingdom of Westphalia, but in 1814, the Congress of Vienna restored the electorate.

Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel state of the Holy Roman Empire in 1567–1803

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, spelled Hesse-Cassel during its entire existence, was a state in the Holy Roman Empire that was directly subject to the Emperor. The state was created in 1567 when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half of the Landgraviate and the capital of Kassel. The other sons received the Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Rheinfels and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt.

History

The original station building was opened in 1847 during the construction of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway. Until the end of the War of 1866, when the Electorate of Hesse and the Free City of Frankfurt were annexed by Prussia, the station was a border station on the border between the two countries with customs clearance. The current station building and freight shed were created between 1913 and 1918. [3]

Free City of Frankfurt

For almost five centuries, the German city of Frankfurt was a city-state within two major Germanic entities:

Prussia state in Central Europe between 1525–1947

Prussia was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and de jure by an Allied decree in 1947. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organised and effective army. Prussia, with its capital in Königsberg and from 1701 in Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany.

Infrastructure

Frankfurt-Mainkur station is managed by DB Station&Service. The station building has been closed for years. The main hall is used by the L'Etoile restaurant for art exhibitions. Tickets are available only at the Rhine-Main Transport Association (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, RMV) machines.

DB Station&Service

DB Station&Service AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, responsible for managing over 5,000 train stations on the German railway network.

The station has three platform tracks at two platforms, connected with each other by an underground passage. The station is served by Regionalbahn services and less often by Regional-Express line 55 of the RMV from Frankfurt Central Station via Frankfurt South and Frankfurt East to Hanau Central Station, Aschaffenburg Central Station and Würzburg Central Station.

Regionalbahn train service in Germany

The Regionalbahn is a type of local passenger train in Austria and Germany.

Regional-Express type of regional train in Austria, Germany, and Luxembourg

In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h as it calls at fewer stations than Regionalbahn or S-Bahn trains, but stops more often than InterCity services.

Frankfurt South station railway station in Frankfurt, Germany

Frankfurt (Main) Süd or Frankfurt Südbahnhof is one of three railway stations for long-distance train services in Frankfurt, Germany. Unlike Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof it is not a terminus but a through station, and has nine tracks with five platforms. It is a stopping station for some long-distance routes and for regional traffic. It is also one of the major rapid-transit railway hubs in the city with S-Bahn and U-Bahn services.

Future

As part of Deutsche Bahn's extensive station modernisation program (supported by the economic stimulus package), Frankfurt Mainkur station is to be completely renovated and developed.

Operations

South of the station on the Mainkur roundabout on the Hanauer Landstrasse are the Mainkur Bahnhof tram and bus stops. North of the station are the Birsteiner Straße, Meerholzer Straße and Fuldaer Straße bus stops, which are accessible through the pedestrian underpass that has replaced the Vilbeler Landstraße at this point.

The Mainkur Bahnhof stop is served by tram line 11 and bus routes F-41, 44 (operated by traffiQ, the Frankfurt municipal bus company), 551, 560 (regional services) and N64 (a night bus route). Birsteiner Straße bus stop is also served by bus routes F-41, 44 and 551; it is also served by routes MKK-23, MKK-25 and MKK-28 of Stadtverkehr Maintal (the Maintal municipal bus company).

The tickets of the RMV can be used on all rail services at Mainkur station. There are several parking lots in front of and next to the station building.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2019" [Station price list 2019](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN   978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). 2.1 (line 007). Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. p. 126. ISBN   3-8062-1917-6.
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