Friedberg station

Friedberg
Friedberg; Friedberg (Hess) ;
	Through station
	Former royal reception building
Location	Hanauer Str. 44, Friedberg, Hesse ; Germany
Coordinates	50°19′55″N8°45′39″E / 50.331916°N 8.760878°E Coordinates: 50°19′55″N8°45′39″E / 50.331916°N 8.760878°E
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Main-Weser Railway (165.9 km); Friedberg–Hanau railway (0.0 km); Friedberg–Friedrichsdorf railway (40.1 km); Friedberg–Mücke railway (0.0 km);
Platforms	10
Construction
Architect	Krause
Architectural style	Neoclassicism / Renaissance Revival
Other information
Station code	1868 [1]
DS100 code	FFG [2]
IBNR	8000111
Category	3 [1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	10 August 1913
Traffic
Passengers	about 17,500 [3]
Services
Location
	Friedberg Location within Hesse

Last updated September 02, 2019

Friedberg station is the station of Friedberg, Germany, on the Main-Weser Railway.

Friedberg is a town and the capital of the Wetteraukreis district, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 16 miles north of Frankfurt am Main. In 1966, the town hosted the sixth Hessentag state festival, in 1979 the 19th.

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north and the Alps, Lake Constance and the High Rhine to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

History

First Station

The first Friedberg station was opened on 10 May 1850 with the opening of the section of the Main-Weser Railway from Frankfurt am Main to Friedberg. On 9 November 1850 the next section to Butzbach was opened. The entire route of the Main-Weser line from Kassel to Frankfurt was opened for traffic 15 May 1852.^[4] The station was at the 165.4 kilometre mark (from Kassel) and was designed as a through station. There is currently a parking garage on the site of the old station building.

Kassel is a city located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 200,507 inhabitants in December 2015. The former capital of the state of Hesse-Kassel has many palaces and parks, including the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kassel is also known for the documenta exhibitions of contemporary art. Kassel has a public university with 25,000 students (2018) and a multicultural population.

Additional lines were connected to the Main-Weser Railway in Friedberg. On 15 September 1881, the Friedberg–Hanau railway was fully opened, following the commencement of services to Heldenbergen-Windecken (now Nidderau) station on 1 December 1879. On 1 October 1897 the Friedberg–Mücke Railway opened. On 13 July 1901 the Friedberg–Friedrichsdorf–Bad Homburg line opened; this was part of a line from Bad Nauheim to Wiesbaden, also known as the Bäderbahn (Spa Railway). Friedberg became a hub for passengers and freight.

The Friedberg–Hanau railway is a 32.2 km long double-track, electrified mainline in the German state of Hesse. It connects Friedberg and Hanau. The line has the timetable number of 633 and it is integrated in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund as Regionalbahn service RB 49.

Nidderau is a town in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km north of Hanau, and 20 km northeast of Frankfurt. Nidderau was created in the merger of the municipality of Heldenbergen with the town of Windecken on January 1, 1970. Eichen and Erbstadt joined Nidderau on January 1, 1972 and Ostheim merged with Nidderau in July 1974.

The Friedrichsdorf–Friedberg railway is a single-track, non-electrified branch line in the German state of Hesse. It is listed as timetable route 636 and integrated in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund as line 16.

Second Station

On 10 August 1913 the second Friedberger station was opened at the 165.9 kilometre mark, about 500 metres further south. On 28 May 1978 the station became the terminal of line S6 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn.

The S6 service of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main system bearing the KBS number 645.6

The Rhine-Main S-Bahn system is an integrated rapid transit and commuter train system for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes the cities Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Darmstadt. The network comprises nine S-Bahn lines, eight of which currently travel through the cornerstone of the system, an underground tunnel through central Frankfurt. The first section of this tunnel was opened on May 28, 1978. Further tunnel sections were opened in 1983 and 1990, before its completion in 1992. The system belongs to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and is operated by DB Regio, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.

Railway

Friedberg station has two platforms next to the main station building and four island platforms, that is ten platform faces. One of the main platforms is a bay platform used only for local trains to and from Friedrichsdorf. The trains to Hanau depart from the easternmost platform. East of the platforms is a freight yard with another 12 tracks. Previously, the station handled a large amount of seasonal sugar beet traffic from the surrounding region, the Wetterau. The freight yard is hardly used now. The northern exit from the station led directly on to the Rosental Viaduct (built from 1847 to 1850), which has been replaced since 1982 by a modern concrete bridge, located a few metres to the east.

In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines. It is normal for bay platforms to be shorter than their associated through platforms.

Friedrichsdorf is a town of the Hochtaunuskreis, some 20 km (12 mi) north of Frankfurt am Main 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.

Buildings

The original buildings were built in a neoclassical style; the entrance building could have been designed by Julius Eugen Ruhl. It was demolished in 1983.^[5]

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form, it is a style principally derived from the architecture of classical antiquity, the Vitruvian principles, and the work of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio.

The current station building and other buildings of the station are mostly classed as cultural monuments under the Hessian Heritage Act. The current station building was built in 1912-1913 in a mixture of neoclassical and Renaissance Revival architecture to the design of a government architect from Darmstadt, Krause, who was influenced by Armin Wegner.^[6] In the vestibule are original ceramic tiles and stained glass windows, which are influenced by Art Nouveau.

North of the station building is a former royal reception building, which was constructed in 1897-98, south of the original station and later moved to the new station.^[7]

Train services

Long distance

Every two hours, an ICE service from Hamburg to Karlsruhe stops in Friedberg station. Two train pairs go to/from Schwerin. One train pair on this line runs as an Intercity to Westerland.

Line	Route	Interval
ICE 26	(Stralsund –) Hamburg – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Marburg – Friedberg – Frankfurt – Heidelberg – Karlsruhe	Every two hours
IC 26	Karlsruhe – Darmstadt – Frankfurt – Friedberg – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Hannover – Celle – Hamburg – Westerland	One train pair on Sunday

Regional services

The following services currently call at Friedberg:

RE 98/RE 99 Main-Sieg-Express Siegen – Dillenburg – Gießen – Friedberg – Frankfurt (every 2 hours)
RB 40/RB 41 Mittelhessen-Express Dillenburg – Gießen – Friedberg – Frankfurt (every hour)

Series	Operator	Route	Frequency
RE 30 Main-Weser Railway	DB	Kassel Hbf – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Wabern – Treysa – Neustadt – Stadtallendorf – Kirchhain – Marburg – Gießen – Friedberg – Frankfurt Hbf	Every 2 hours
RB 16 Friedberg–Friedrichsdorf railway	HLB	Friedberg – Friedrichsdorf	Every 30 minutes
RB 47 Friedberg–Mücke railway	HLB	Friedberg – Wölfersheim-Södel	Hourly
RB 48 Beienheim–Schotten railway	HLB	Friedberg – Nidda	Hourly
RB 49 Friedberg-Hanau railway	DB	Friedberg – Nidderau – Hanau Hbf	Every 30 or 60 minutes

Notes

1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2019" [Station price list 2019](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
↑ Artikel der Frankfurter Rundschau
↑ Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 143
↑ Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 189
↑ Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 189
↑ Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 188

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References

Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (State Conservation Hesse), ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Railways in Hesse. Cultural sites in Hesse. Monumental topography of the Federal Republic of Germany) (in German). 2.1. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag. pp. 188f. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2007/2008 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9.
Alfred Kerber & Wolfgang A. Keil (1979). Friedberg - Deine Bahn (Friedberg - Your railway) (in German). Friedberg (Hesse).

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[categories-1] 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2019" [Station price list 2019](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

[Eisenbahnatlas-2] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

[3] Artikel der Frankfurter Rundschau

[4] Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 143

[5] Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 189

[6] Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 189

[7] Eisenbahn in Hessen, p. 188

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