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==Crime==
==Crime==
In 2019, the [[Federal Police (Germany)|Federal Police]] recorded 4,787 crimes at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, more than at any other German train station.<ref>[https://faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/frankfurter-hauptbahnhof-mit-den-meisten-straftaten-16668149.html Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof mit den meisten Strafthaten]</ref> They include the [[murder in German law|murder]] [[Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof murder|of an eight-year-old boy]] on 29 July.<ref>[https://bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53833863 Germany train incident: Eritrean on trial for boy's death]</ref><ref>[https://bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53948058 Frankfurt rail attack: Boy's killer given life in psychiatric ward]</ref>
In 2019, the [[Federal Police (Germany)|Federal Police]] recorded 4,787 crimes at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, more than at any other German train station.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof mit den meisten Straftaten|language=de|work=FAZ.NET|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/frankfurter-hauptbahnhof-mit-den-meisten-straftaten-16668149.html|access-date=2023-02-04|issn=0174-4909}}</ref> They include the [[murder in German law|murder]] [[Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof murder|of an eight-year-old boy]] on 29 July.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-08-19|title=Germany train incident: Eritrean on trial for boy's Frankfurt death|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53833863|access-date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-08-28|title=Frankfurt rail attack: Boy's killer given life in psychiatric ward|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53948058|access-date=2023-02-04}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 14:57, 4 February 2023

For the station in Frankfurt (Oder), see Frankfurt (Oder) station.

Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn
Terminal station
General information
LocationFrankfurt, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°6′25″N 8°39′45″E / 50.10694°N 8.66250°E / 50.10694; 8.66250
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms
  • 24 mainline (26 tracks on one level)
  • 4 S-Bahn (
    Tiefbahnhof
    )
  • 4 U-Bahn (3 for passengers)
  • 3 × 2 Tram
Connections
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof underground
Construction
ArchitectHermann Eggert and Johann Wilhelm Schwedler
Architectural style
Other information
Station code1866
DS100 code
FF
Category1
Fare zoneRhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): 5001[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened18 August 1888; 135 years ago (1888-08-18)
Passengers
493,000 daily
Services
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Map
Location
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is located in Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Location within Frankfurt
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is located in Hesse
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Location within Hesse
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is located in Germany
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Location within Germany
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is located in Europe
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Location within Europe

Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, also called Frankfurt Central Station and Frankfurt Main Station, is the busiest

railway station in the German state of Hesse.[2] Because of its location near the middle of Germany and usage as a transport hub for long and short distance travelling, Deutsche Bahn
refers to it as the most important station in Germany.

Name

The affix "Main" comes from the city's full name, Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the River Main") and is needed to distinguish it from Frankfurt (Oder) station on the River Oder in Brandenburg. In German, the name is often abbreviated as Frankfurt (Main) Hbf.

History

Station-Shield - Frankfurt - International Trade Fair City

19th century

Main article: Frankfurt western stations

In the late 19th century, three stations connected Frankfurt to the west, north and south, the

Those three stations were placed beside each other on the then Gallustor (today: Willy-Brandt-Platz).

Building the new station

A postcard image of the Hauptbahnhof circa 1915

This situation was considered impracticable due to rising passenger figures in the 19th century, so plans were laid out as early as 1866. At first, a large scale station with up to 34 platforms was considered, then the number got reduced to 18. Post and baggage handlings had their own underground facilities, and the city council demanded the station to be moved further away from the city. In the end, in 1881, the German architect Hermann Eggert won the design contest for the station hall, his runner-up in the contest, Johann Wilhelm Schwedler was made chief engineer for the steel-related works. The new station was placed about 1 km to the west of the first three stations. The platforms were covered by three iron-and-glass halls.

The station opens

View through the platform hall of the station
Railway station platform 18

The station was built by the contractor Philipp Holzmann with construction starting in 1883.[3] The Central-Bahnhof Frankfurt was finally opened on 18 August 1888. Right on the evening of the opening day, a train ran over the buffer stop and the locomotive was damaged. Over the course of the next few years, the area to the east of the new station, the Bahnhofsviertel, was built; it was completed around 1900. Until the completion of Leipzig Hauptbahnhof in 1915, Frankfurt station was the largest in Europe. As of 2014, the 24 platforms with 26 tracks on one level probably make it the world's largest one-level railway hall.

Later extensions

The 1957 signal box

In 1924 two

signal box was commissioned, which, having been built in a contemporary style of the time has now become a listed building
.

Starting with the construction of the B-Tunnel for the

cut and cover
method, which involved the demolition of the second northern hall and rebuilding it after the stations were completed.

Between 2002 and 2006, the roof construction, which is a listed building, was renovated. This involved the exchange of aged steel girders, reinstallation of windows that were replaced by panels after World War II and a general clean-up of the hall construction.

The operational part of the station is being remodeled as well; the old signal box has been recently replaced with an electronic signal box. This was vital to improve capacity of the station. The new signal box became operational in late 2005 and will allow faster speeds into the station (up to 60 km/h) after the remodelling of the tracks.

Architecture

Façade
Inside and outside Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof in 2014
Architectural detail on the front of Frankfurt Am Main Hauptbahnhof

The appearance of the station is divided into perron (track hall) and vestibule (reception hall). Dominant in those parts built in 1888 are

Deutsche Bahn
logo are situated.

The roof of the front hall carries a monumental statue of Atlas supporting the World on his shoulders, in this case assisted by two allegorical figures representing Iron and Steam.

Operational usage

The station's

terminal layout has posed some unique problems ever since the late 20th century, since all trains have to change directions and reverse out of the station to continue on to their destination. This causes long turn-around times and places the passengers in the opposite direction of where they had been sitting. There have been several attempts to change this. The last project, called Frankfurt 21, was to put the whole station underground, connect it with tunnels also to the east, and so avoid the disadvantages of the terminal layout. This would be financed by selling the air rights over the area now used for tracks as building ground for skyscraper
, but this soon proved unrealistic, and the project was abandoned.

Frankfurt is the third-busiest railway station outside Japan and the second-busiest in Germany after Hamburg Hauptbahnhof.[citation needed]

Long distance services

As for long-distance traffic, the station profits greatly from its location in the heart of Europe; 13 of the 24

Frankfurt (Main) Süd
instead of Hauptbhanhof.

Line Route Interval
ICE 4
ICE-Sprinter 		Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg – Hannover – Frankfurt – Darmstadt One train pair
ICE 11 Hamburg-Altona – Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Frankfurt – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Augsburg – Munich Every two hours
ICE 12
Basel (– Interlaken Ost
) 		Every two hours
ICE 13 Berlin Ost – Braunschweig – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt Individual services
ICE 15
ICE-Sprinter 		Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Frankfurt Every two hours
ICE 20 (Kiel –) Hamburg – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Freiburg – Basel – Zürich (– Chur) Every two hours
ICE 22 (Kiel –) Hamburg – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart Every two hours
ICE 22 (Munich East – Nuremberg – Würzburg – Hanau –) Frankfurt – Fulda – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Göttingen – Hannover – Bremen – Oldenburg (Oldb) One train Sun – Fri
ICE 26 (Stralsund –) Hamburg – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Gießen – Frankfurt – Heidelberg – Karlsruhe Every two hours together with IC line 26
ICE 31 Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt – Hanau – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich Individual services
ICE 41 (Dortmund –) Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln Messe/Deutz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Munich Hourly
ICE 49 (Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen –) Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Montabaur – Limburg Süd – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt Individual services
ICE 50 Dresden – Leipzig – Erfurt – Eisenach – Fulda – Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport – Wiesbaden Every two hours
ICE 78
Arnhem
 – Duisburg – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt 		Every two hours
ICE 79 Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid – Liège-Guillemins – Aachen – Köln – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt Every two hours
ICE/TGV 82 Frankfurt – Mannheim –
Strasbourg – Paris Est
 Every two hours
TGV 84 Frankfurt – Mannheim – Karlsruhe –
Marseille-Saint-Charles
 One train pair
ECE 151 Frankfurt – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Baden-Baden – Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf – Basel Bad Bf – Basel SBB – Olten – Lucerne – Arth-Goldau – Bellinzona – Lugano – Chiasso – Como – Monza – Milan One train
ECE 52 Milan – Stresa – Domodossola – Brig – Visp – Spiez – Thun – Bern – Olten – Basel SBB – Basel Bad Bf – Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf – Karlsruhe – Mannheim – Frankfurt One train
ICE 91 (Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport –) Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nürnberg – Regensburg – Passau – Linz – Vienna Every two hours
IC 26 Westerland – Hamburg – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Gießen – Frankfurt – Heidelberg – Karlsruhe One train pair
IC 31 (Kiel –) Hamburg – Osnabrück – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – Wuppertal – Cologne – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt (– Würzburg – Nuremberg – Regensburg – Passau) Every two hours together with ICE line 31
IC 34 Frankfurt – Wetzlar – Siegen Hbf – Dortmund/Unna – Hamm – Münster – (Emden – Norddeich Mole) Every two hours
IC/EC 62 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Augsburg – München – Salzburg – Linz or – Graz or – Villach – Klagenfurt Four train pairs
RJ 63 Frankfurt – Munich – Salzburg – Linz – Vienna –
Budapest
 Sat and Sun
RJ 66 Budapest – Vienna – Linz – Salzburg – Munich – Frankfurt Fri and Sat

Local services

With regard to regional traffic, Frankfurt Hbf is the main hub in the

Siegen, Fulda, Gießen, Aschaffenburg, Würzburg, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Dieburg, Eberbach, Worms and Saarbrücken
with fifteen regional lines calling at the main station.

Line Route
RE 2 Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport – Rüsselsheim – Mainz – Bingen (Rhein) – Koblenz
RE 3 Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport – Rüsselsheim – Mainz – Bingen – Koblenz/Bad Kreuznach – Saarbrücken
RE 4 Frankfurt – Frankfurt-Höchst – Mainz – Worms – Ludwigshafen – Germersheim – Karlsruhe
RE 9 Frankfurt – Frankfurt-Höchst – Mainz-Kastel – Wiesbaden-Biebrich – Wiesbaden-Schierstein – Niederwalluf – Eltville
RE 14 Frankfurt – Frankfurt-Höchst – Mainz – Worms – Ludwigshafen Mitte – Mannheim
RE 20 Frankfurt – Frankfurt-Höchst – Niedernhausen (Taunus) – Limburg (Lahn)
RE 30 Frankfurt –
Kassel
RE 50 Frankfurt –
Hanau – Fulda
RE 54 Frankfurt – Maintal – Hanau – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg – Bamberg
RE 55 Frankfurt – Offenbach – Hanau – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg/– Bamberg
RE 60 Frankfurt –
Mannheim
RE 70 Frankfurt –
Groß Gerau-Dornberg – Riedstadt-Goddelau – Gernsheim – Biblis
– Mannheim
RE 85 Frankfurt – Offenbach – Hanau – Babenhausen – Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach (– Erbach (Odenw))
RE 98 Frankfurt – Friedberg – Gießen – Marburg – Treysa – Wabern – Kassel
RE 99 Frankfurt – Friedberg – Gießen – Wetzlar –
Siegen
RB 10 Frankfurt – Frankfurt-Höchst – Wiesbaden – Rüdesheim (Rhein) – Koblenz – Neuwied
RB 12 Frankfurt – Frankfurt-Höchst –
Königstein (Taunus)
RB 15 Frankfurt – Bad Homburg – Friedrichsdorf – Wehrheim – Neu-Anspach – Usingen – Grävenwiesbach – Brandoberndorf
RB 22 Frankfurt – Frankfurt-Höchst – Niedernhausen (Taunus) – Limburg (Lahn)
RB 34 Frankfurt –
Altenstadt (Hess) – Glauburg-Stockheim
RB 40 Frankfurt – Friedberg (Hess) – Butzbach – Gießen – Wetzlar –
Herborn (Dillkr)
– Dillenburg
RB 41 Frankfurt – Friedberg (Hess) – Butzbach – Gießen – Marburg (Lahn) – Cölbe – Kirchhain (Bz Kassel) – Stadtallendorf – Neustadt – Treysa
RB 48 Frankfurt– Friedberg (Hess) – Beienheim – Reichelsheim (Wetterau) – Nidda
RB 51 Frankfurt – Offenbach (Main) Hbf – Hanau – Langenselbold – Gelnhausen – Wächtersbach (– Bad Soden-Salmünster)
RB 58 Frankfurt – Frankfurt South –
Frankfurt East – Maintal Ost
– Hanau – Aschaffenburg
RB 61 Frankfurt – Dreieich-Buchschlag – Rödermark-Ober Roden – Dieburg
RB 67 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Heppenheim (Bergstr) – Weinheim (Bergstr) – Mannheim
RB 68 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Bensheim – Heppenheim – Weinheim (Bergstr) –
Heidelberg
RB 82 Frankfurt –
Reinheim (Odenw)
– Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach – Erbach (– Eberbach)
Main article:
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof underground

The subterranean S-Bahn station is the most important station in the S-Bahn Rhein-Main network, used by all Frankfurt S-Bahn lines, except line S 7, which terminates at the surface station.

Line Route
Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Walldorf (Hess) – Mörfelden – Groß Gerau-Dornberg – Riedstadt-Goddelau
In brief
Total number of tracks: 120
Number of passenger tracks
above ground: 		25 main tracks, 2 branch)
3 tram stops (2 tracks each)
below ground: 4 S-Bahn tracks,
4 U-Bahn tracks (3 in use)
Daily trains:
(excluding Stadtbahn & tramway) 		342 long-distance
290 regional
Passengers (daily): 460,000

Other services

Tram connections are offered by TraffiQ, with tram lines 11 and 12 (station Hauptbahnhof/Münchener Straße), 14, 16, 17, 20, 21 and the Ebbelwei-Expreß. The lines U4 and U5 call at the subterranean Stadtbahn stop.

Preceding station Frankfurt U-Bahn Following station
Festhalle/Messe
towards Bockenheimer Warte
U4
Willy-Brandt-Platz
towards Enkheim
Terminus
U5
Willy-Brandt-Platz
towards Preungesheim

Future expansion

Construction of a railway tunnel with four platforms below the existing station was proposed in 2018 under the project name Fernbahntunnel Frankfurt am Main (Long-distance railway tunnel Frankfurt am Main).[4] As being listed as "urgent need" in the Federal Infrastructure Plan 2030, government funding for the scheme is secured. A study to determine feasibility of construction is expected to be completed by early 2021.[5]

Crime

In 2019, the Federal Police recorded 4,787 crimes at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, more than at any other German train station.[6] They include the murder of an eight-year-old boy on 29 July.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 137. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Getting here & travelling around: Rail". Frankfurt.de. City of Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt central station is the most important rail transport hub in Germany.
  3. ^ Groß 2012, p. 50.
  4. ^ "Das Ende des Kopfbahnhofs, so wie wir ihn kennen". fnp.de. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Knoten Frankfurt; Fernbahntunnel inkl. Station unterhalb des Hbf Frankfurt/Main, Machbarkeitsstudie". ted.europa.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  6. ISSN 0174-4909
    . Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Germany train incident: Eritrean on trial for boy's Frankfurt death". BBC News. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Frankfurt rail attack: Boy's killer given life in psychiatric ward". BBC News. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

Sources

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