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Frankfurt-Zeilsheim Station
Frankfurt-Zeilsheim station (german: Bahnhof Frankfurt-Zeilsheim) is a railway station located in the Sindlingen (Frankfurt am Main), Sindlingen district of Frankfurt, Germany, on the Main-Lahn Railway. It is served by S2 (Rhine-Main S-Bahn), line S2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. The station opened on 13 May 2007 and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a German railway station categories, category 5 station. Name and location The station is located on an embankment of the Main-Lahn Railway (''Main-Lahn-Bahn''), which marks the border between the districts of Sindlingen and Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main), Zeilsheim. Thus, the platform serving trains towards the inner city and Dietzenbach station, Dietzenbach is in Sindlingen, while the platform serving trains towards Niedernhausen station, Niedernhausen is in Zeilsheim. Two streets, Sindlinger Bahnstraße to the north and West-Höchster-Straße to the south, pass through an underpass to the east of the station. There are entrances from h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietzenbach Station
Dietzenbach station (''Dietzenbach Bahnhof'') is the terminus of the Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway in the German state of Hesse. The station is now used exclusively by line S2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. The entrance building is protected as a monument. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. History Dietzenbach station was established on 1 December 1898 together with the opening of the Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway, a branch line of the Rodgau Railway (german: Rodgaubahn). From the beginning all passenger services on the line started here. Labourers and craftsmen used the line to commute to their jobs in Offenbach am Main and Frankfurt and local farmers benefited from having faster transportation to the markets of the major cities. Traffic to Dietzenbach flourished in the period after the Second World War. In 1959 there were still 25 daily trains to Offenbach, but in 1978 there were only five. On 18 June 1982, passenger services were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhine-Main S-Bahn Stations
The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: ''Rhein-Main-Gebiet'' or ''Frankfurt/Rhein-Main'', abbreviated FRM), is the second-largest metropolitan region in Germany after Rhine-Ruhr, with a total population exceeding 5.8 million. The metropolitan region is located in the central-western part of Germany, and stretches over parts of three German states: Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Bavaria. The largest cities in the region are Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Darmstadt, Offenbach, Worms, Hanau, and Aschaffenburg. The polycentric region is named after its core city, Frankfurt, and the two rivers Rhine and Main. The Frankfurt Rhine-Main area is officially designated as a European Metropolitan region by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and covers an area of roughly . Subdivisions Although Rhine-Main is considered to be a polycentric metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt-Griesheim Station
Frankfurt-Griesheim station (german: Bahnhof Frankfurt-Griesheim) is a railway station located in the Griesheim district of Frankfurt, Germany. The station is part of the Main-Lahn Railway. It is at the beginning of the western approach to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, which runs for about five kilometres and is up to 600 metres wide. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. Today it is served only by lines S1 and S 2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. History The station was built in 1877 by the Hessian Ludwig Railway (''Hessische Ludwigsbahn'') along with the Main-Lahn railway to the north of the town centre of Griesheim. The current station building was built in 1968. The station is now served only by S-Bahn lines S1 (Wiesbaden–Rödermark-Ober-Roden) and S2 (Niedernhausen–Dietzenbach). The station has an island platform and a side platform, three platform tracks altogether. Just east of the station, the Frankfurt City Link Line (''Städtische Verbindungsba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Höchst (Frankfurt)
Hoechst, Hochst, or Höchst may refer to: * Hoechst AG, a former German life-sciences company * Hoechst stain, one of a family of fluorescent DNA-binding compounds * Höchst (Frankfurt am Main), a city district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany ** Frankfurt Höchst station, its railway station ** SG 01 Hoechst, German association football club * Höchst im Odenwald, a community in Hesse, Germany * Höchst, Austria, a municipality in Vorarlberg, Austria * Nicole Höchst (born 1970), German politician for the Alternative for Germany *''Hochst.'' taxonomic author abbreviation of Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787–1860), German botanist * Battle of Höchst The Battle of Höchst (20 June 1622) was fought between a Catholic League army led by Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly and a Protestant army commanded by Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, close to the town of Höchst, today ... (1622), fought between Catholic and Protestant armies * Battle of Höch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt Sindlingen Station
Frankfurt-Sindlingen station is a suburban station on the network of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn in the district of Sindlingen in the German city of Frankfurt. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. Location The S-Bahn station is located in the centre of the Frankfurt district of Sindlingen in the state of Hesse. The station is located where the main street of the suburb, Sindlinger Bahnstraße, passes under the Taunus Railway (german: Taunus-Eisenbahn). To the north of the platform is a municipal building called the ''Haus Sindlingen'' ("Sindlingen House"), which is used as a community centre and library. It was used for a trial of members of the Red Army Faction, including Astrid Proll, in 1973–74. History In the 19th century the northern and central parts of Sindlingen were undeveloped. The rural town had just 750 inhabitants. The Taunus Railway, which was opened between Höchst and Hattersheim on 24 November 1839, ran through this area and cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internationale Schule Frankfurt Rhein-Main
The ISF International School Frankfurt Rhein-Main is a private school in Sindlingen, a borough of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Accredited by the Council of International Schools, the school offers IGCSE, International Baccalaureate and AP examinations. The International School of Frankfurt Rhein-Main was founded in 1995 as a public-private partnership in schools within Germany by the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce, the State of Hesse, the Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH and with financial support of international companies in the region. The school opened in September 1995 with 65 students enrolled in Kindergarten throughout Grade 8. 10 years later it had an enrolment of around 900 students from 49 nations from preschool up through grade 12. Academic Program ISF uses the SABIS Educational System since 1995. SABIS is a global school network that dates back to 1886 and currently educates over 70,000 students. The school offers external examinations such as the Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niedernhausen Station
Niedernhausen station serves the municipality of Niedernhausen in the German state of Hesse. It is the most important station on the Main-Lahn Railway between the stations of Frankfurt-Höchst and Eschhofen in Limburg an der Lahn. It is the terminus of the Ländches Railway running from Niedernhausen to Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof and of line S2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn from Frankfurt. History Niedernhausen station was opened by the Hessian Ludwig Railway (german: Hessische Ludwigsbahn) with the Main-Lahn Railway (''Main-Lahn-Bahn'') from Frankfurt to Limburg in 1877. The last section of the route between Frankfurt-Höchst and Idstein was opened on 15 October 1877. This completed the link between the Rhine-Main area and the Limburg Basin. With the opening of the Ländches Railway (''Ländchesbahn'') between Niedernhausen and Wiesbaden in 1879, Niedernhausen became the main station between Höchst and Eschhofen in Limburg, where the Main-Lahn Railway connects with the Lahn Valley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeilsheim (Frankfurt Am Main)
Zeilsheim is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the ''Ortsbezirk West'' and is subdivided into the ''Stadtbezirke'' Zeilsheim-Ost, Zeilsheim-Süd and Zeilsheim-Nord. As the westernmost district of Frankfurt, Zeilsheim is somewhat rural in character and the surrounding fields can give a clear view of the Taunus mountains. Geography Zeilsheim borders Kriftel in the west, Liederbach am Taunus in the north, the district of Unterliederbach in the northeast, Höchst in the east, and Sindlingen in the southeast. In the north and west, it is bordered by the Bundesautobahn 66 Wiesbaden-Frankfurt. Infrastructure The main street of the district is the ''Landesstraße 3018'' that lead through the ''L 3016'' from Kelkheim through Unterliederbach, through Zeilsheim until Hofheim am Taunus. It is sometimes nicknamed the ''Pfaffenwiese'' or the ''Hofheimer Straße'' (Hofheim Street). It is also a major street used in public transport. Zeilsheim is linked by bus to the obser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
