Frankfurt West station

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Frankfurt (Main) West

Frankfurt Westbahnhof
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Through station
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General information
LocationKasseler Str. 7, Frankfurt, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°07′09″N8°38′22″E / 50.11917°N 8.63944°E / 50.11917; 8.63944
Line(s)
Platforms
  • 3 main line
  • 2 S-Bahn
Construction
Architect Julius Eugen Ruhl
Other information
Station code1858
DS100 code FFW
Category 3
Fare zone Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund logo.svg : 5001 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1848
Services
Preceding station Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg DB Fernverkehr Following station
Friedberg
towards Hamburg Hbf
ICE 26 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
towards Karlsruhe Hbf
Bad Nauheim IC 34 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Terminus
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Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Terminus
RB 34 Bad Vilbel
Preceding station Hessische Landesbahn Following station
Friedberg
towards Dillenburg
RB 40 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Terminus
Friedberg
towards Treysa
RB 41
Preceding station Rhine-Main S-Bahn Following station
Rödelheim
towards Bad Soden
Frankfurt S3.svg Messe
towards Darmstadt Hbf
Rödelheim
towards Kronberg
Frankfurt S4.svg Messe
towards Langen
Rödelheim Frankfurt S5.svg Messe
towards Südbahnhof
Eschersheim Frankfurt S6.svg
Location
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Frankfurt (Main) West
Location within Frankfurt
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Frankfurt (Main) West
Hesse
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Frankfurt (Main) West
Location within Germany
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Frankfurt (Main) West
Location within Europe

Frankfurt (Main) West station (German : Bahnhof Frankfurt (Main) West or Frankfurt Westbahnhof) is a railway station for regional and S-Bahn services in Frankfurt, Germany, on the Main-Weser Railway, in the district of Bockenheim, near the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds and the Bockenheim campus of the Goethe University Frankfurt.

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History

Platform for S6 city-bound services Westbahnhof-2010-ffm-014.jpg
Platform for S6 city-bound services
Platforms for regional and S6 city-bound services, looking north Westbahnhof-2010-ffm-015.jpg
Platforms for regional and S6 city-bound services, looking north
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Platform 1 on upper level

The station was opened as Bockenheim station in 1849 during the construction of the Main-Weser Railway from Frankfurt to Kassel. The then independent city of Bockenheim was until 1866 in the territory of the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel. The station building was built in a relatively elaborate Renaissance Revival style to a design by Julius Eugen Ruhl.

Elevated section with S-train-Electric multiple unit DB Class 420 in its original design Mk Frankfurt S-Bahn Wbf.jpg
Elevated section with S-train-Electric multiple unit DB Class 420 in its original design

The first major change in the railways to affect Bockenheim station occurred in 1888 with the opening of the new Frankfurt Central Station. As part of this project a connection was opened on 10 May 1884 from Bockenheim to the Homburg Railway, a connection that could not be built fifteen years earlier during the Homburg line's original construction because the various small states involved failed to come to an agreement.

In addition, a sweeping curve was built for the Main-Weser line's northern approach to the new Central Station. The old ran from the old Main-Weser terminus to Am Hauptbahnhof (the square in front of the Hauptbahnhof) along the current Kaiserstraße and then turned north. Its abandoned path to Bockenheim was turned into a street, which was initially called Bahnstraße, and it is now a series of streets: Hamburger Allee, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and Düsseldorfer Straße.

Modern station

In 1913, the station was renamed Frankfurt West. The historic station building was destroyed in World War II. A modern functional building was built in 1961. During the building of the S-Bahn in the 1970s most of this station was demolished and replaced by a simple building, which seems to be tucked under the elevated S-Bahn line.

The current station has two levels. The ground level is used by regional trains and S-Bahn S6 trains towards the city on platforms 3, 4 and 5. The S-Bahn lines S3, S4 and S5 and S6 towards Friedberg use an approximately one kilometre long elevated section with a two-track elevated station (platforms 1 and 2).

Services

Line 17 of the Frankfurt tramway, which opened in 2003, touches the southern end of the Westbahnhof (Nauheimer Straße and Kuhwaldstraße stops). The tram stop on the forecourt of Westbahnhof was last served by the extended tram line 16 in July and August 2019 due to construction work on the tram network.

The M32 bus line runs from Westbahnhof via Frankfurt Nordend and Bornheim to Ostbahnhof. The M36 bus line connects Westbahnhof with Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University and the city centre, and the M73 bus line connects the districts of Hausen, Praunheim and Nordweststadt. The planned ring tram will have a stop called Westbahnhof in the neighbouring Schloßstraße.

The regional express trains RE 30 Kassel - Marburg - Gießen - Frankfurt (Main-Weser-Express) and RE 99 Siegen - Gießen - Frankfurt (Main-Sieg-Express) as well as all through trains of the Niddertalbahn ( RB 34 ) to Frankfurt Hbf stop mainly during rush hours. In addition, the Mittelhessen-Express (RB 40/41) always stops at this station.

Some ICE and IC trains in the direction of Kassel-Hamburg or Heidelberg-Karlsruhe ( ICE 26 / IC 26 ) stop at the station as scheduled. Double-decker IC trains serve Frankfurt Westbahnhof every two hours ( IC 34 ).

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References

  1. "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 132. Retrieved 8 April 2021.