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Gießen railway station (German: Bahnhof Gießen) is the main railway station in Gießen, Hesse, Germany. The station is a Category 2 station is used by 20,000 passengers daily. The station was opened on 25 August 1850 and is located on the Main-Weser Railway (Kassel – Frankfurt (Main)) and Dill railway (Siegen – Gießen). The current station reception building was built between 1904 and 1911. The main original station building is a historic landmark and has been protected. Outside the station is a bus station and a taxi rank . Parking garages are located nearby.

Gießen
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Gießen railway station
General information
LocationBahnhofstraße 102, 35390, Gießen, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°34′44″N 8°39′44″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
  • Main-Weser Railway (km 134.0) (KBS 620, 630)
  • Dill Railway (km 166.0) (KBS 445, 625)
  • Vogelsberg Railway (km 0.0) (KBS 635)
  • Lahn-Kinzig Railway (km 0.0) (KBS 631)
Platforms11
Construction
ArchitectLudwig Hofmann
Architectural styleNeo-romantic
Other information
Station code2120
DS100 codeFG[1]
IBNR8000124
Category2[2]
Fare zone: 1501[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened
  • 1853–1854
  • 1904–1911 (rebuilt)
Passengers
20,000 per day [4]
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Marburg
ICE 26
Friedberg
towards Karlsruhe
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station
Wetzlar
towards Koblenz Hbf
RE 25
Terminus
Marburg
towards Kassel Hbf
RE 30
Friedberg (Hess)
Dutenhofen
towards Dillenburg
RB 40
Großen-Linden
Gießen Oswaldsgarten
towards Treysa
RB 41
Terminus
RB 49
Großen-Linden
towards Hanau Hbf
Preceding station Hessische Landesbahn Following station
Gießen Oswaldsgarten
towards Kassel Hbf
RE 98
Friedberg (Hess)
Wetzlar
towards Siegen Hbf
RE 99
Dutenhofen
RB 45
Gießen Licher Straße
towards Fulda
Terminus
RB 46
Gießen Erdkauter Weg
towards Gelnhausen
Location
Gießen
Location within Hesse
Gießen
Location within Germany
Gießen
Location within Europe

History


Staircase of the bridge to Alten Wetzlarer Weg
Staircase of the bridge to Alten Wetzlarer Weg

The first Gießen station was a temporary station built in 1850 on the Main-Weser Railway at Oswaldsgarten. This temporary arrangement was replaced in 1853/54 with a new station further south at the present site with an appropriate station building. This was built in a neoclassical style with a symmetrical E-shaped plan. Between 1869 and 1871, the Upper Hessian Railway Company (Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) built the Vogelsberg Railway from Gießen towards Fulda and the Lahn–Kinzig Railway towards Gelnhausen. Its railway facilities in Gießen were on the other side of the station forecourt to the station building of the Main-Weser Railway. The only entrance to the station building was on Liebigstraße (then called Universitätsstraße). It was not until 1893 that a pedestrian bridge was built over the tracks leading to the Vogelsberg Railway and the Lahn–Kinzig Railway to Alten Wetzlarer Weg.


Station building


The current station building was built from 1904 to 1911, reconstructing the old station building of the Main-Weser Railway in a romanesque revival style. It is built at a focal point on the visual axis of the urban extension of 1880. The cast-iron pillars supporting the platform roof were part of the station precinct of 1854. The "new" station building is a three-story building made of red sandstone with a distinctive clock tower and built on an asymmetrical floor plan. The Herborn architect, Ludwig Hoffmann was in charge of planning and executing the station. The station building is now built in the wedge between the Main-Weser Railway and the branch to the east towards the Vogelsberg Railway and the Lahn–Kinzig Railway.[5]

During the Second World War the building was damaged and the Fürstenbahnhof (princely station) located in the northern wing was destroyed in 1944. In November 1968, the station lobby and the north wing of the station building were renovated, extending to the area of the former princely station. The facade was renovated in the early 1970s.

The station building is listed as a historic landmark under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.[5]

At the station there is a ServicePoint, a ticket office, a station bookshop and retail outlets for food and travel needs. The station building still houses the station management including the 3-S-Zentrale office of DB Station&Service and the train announcement office, a Bahnhofsmission (a charity operating at major German stations) and the equipment of DB Services.

Between 2008 and 2010, the facilities for passenger service were rebuilt. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on 16 July 2008. The main objective of the work was the building of a new pedestrian underpass and the provision of barrier-free access to all platforms. After delays due to the long and severe winter, the new building was opened on 21 July 2010, when platform tracks 12–15 could be reached by the new underpass. Because some work was still not finished it was not officially inaugurated until the autumn of 2010.[6]


Layout


The Giessen train station has eleven station platform tracks in its two sections:

Giessen is not part of the German Intercity-Express network, but ICE trains sometimes operate on the Main-Weser Railway during disruptions on the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe–Frankfurt am Main high-speed route.

Southwest of the passenger station is the freight yard, which was the central marshalling yard for freight for central Hesse until December 2006. At that time local freight trains operated from here to several stations in the area (e.g. Frankenberg (Eder), Dillenburg and Nida). The majority of these freight operations have now, however, been relocated to Wetzlar freight yard.


Rail services


The following services currently call at Gießen:


Long distance


The station is served every two hours by services on the ICE 26 line from Karlsruhe to Stralsund. However, one train pair of this line runs as an Intercity to Westerland due to the lack of overhead line in Schleswig-Holstein.

Line Route Interval
ICE 26 (Stralsund –) Hamburg Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Marburg Gießen – Friedberg Frankfurt Heidelberg Karlsruhe Every 2 hours
IC 26 Karlsruhe Darmstadt Frankfurt – Friedberg Gießen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Hannover – Celle Hamburg – Westerland One train pair daily

Local services

Line Route Interval
RE25 Gießen – Wetzlar – Limburg Bad Ems – Koblenz Every 2 hours
RE30 Kassel – Marburg Gießen – Friedberg – Frankfurt Every 2 hours
RE98 Kassel – Treysa – Marburg Gießen – Frankfurt Every 2 hours
RE99 Siegen – Dillenburg – Wetzlar Gießen (– Frankfurt) Every 1 or 2 hours
RB40 Frankfurt – Friedberg – Butzbach Gießen – Wetzlar – Herborn – Dillenburg Hourly
RB41 Frankfurt – Friedberg – Butzbach Gießen – Marburg – Stadtallendorf – Treysa Hourly
RB45 Limburg – Weilburg – Wetzlar Gießen – Fulda Hourly
RB46 Gießen – Lich – Nidda – Gelnhausen Hourly
RB49 Gießen – Friedberg – Nidderau – Hanau Half-hourly/Hourly

Notes


  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. "Stationspreisliste 2022" [Station price list 2022] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 137. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. "In einem Zug zur Bahn". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 31 March 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  5. "Sachgesamtheit Hauptbahnhof" (in German). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  6. "Unterführung am Bahnhof ist freigegeben". Gießener Allgemeine (in German). 21 July 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2012.

References



На других языках


[de] Bahnhof Gießen

Der Bahnhof Gießen ist ein Keilbahnhof in der Stadt Gießen. Er ist der Preisklasse 2 zugeordnet[1] und bildet mit circa 375 Zügen und 28.000 Reisenden täglich[2] den wichtigsten ÖPNV-Knoten Mittelhessens.
- [en] Gießen station



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