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Main-Lahn Railway
The Main-Lahn railway (german: Main-Lahn-Bahn), also called the Limburg railway (''Limburger Bahn''), is a double-track, electrified main railway line in Germany. The long line extends from Frankfurt Central Station (''Hauptbahnhof'') to Eschhofen, a borough of Limburg an der Lahn. From Frankfurt to Niedernhausen, it operates as Rhine-Main S-Bahn S-2 and carries Deutsche Bahn route number 645.2. From Frankfurt Central Station to Frankfurt-Höchst, it also carries S-Bahn S-1 (which then follows the Taunus railway to Wiesbaden). From Niedernhausen to Eschhofen, it takes over Route number 627 from the Ländches Railway (''Ländchesbahn''). From Eschhofen, the line leads into the Lahntal railway (''Lahntalbahn''). History A middle route through the Taunus between the Main and Lahn river valleys had been considered since 1850. However, construction was only begun under Prussian rule on 25 March 1872. The concession was awarded to the Hessian Ludwig Railway (''Hessische Ludwigsbahn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passenger Rail Terminology
Various terms are used for passenger railway lines and equipment; the usage of these terms differs substantially between areas: Rapid transit A rapid transit system is an electric railway characterized by high speed (~) and rapid acceleration. It uses passenger railcars operating singly or in multiple unit trains on fixed rails. It operates on separate rights-of-way from which all other vehicular and foot traffic are excluded (i.e. is fully grade-separated from other traffic). It uses sophisticated signaling systems, and high platform loading. Originally, the term ''rapid transit'' was used in the 1800s to describe new forms of quick urban public transportation that had a right-of-way separated from street traffic. This set rapid transit apart from horsecars, trams, streetcars, omnibuses, and other forms of public transport. A variant of the term, ''mass rapid transit (MRT)'', is also used for metro systems in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Though the term was almost alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niederbrechen Station
Niederbrechen station is a station on the Main-Lahn Railway, which runs from Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof to Limburg (Lahn), in the Brechen suburb of Niederbrechen in the German state of Hesse. With Oberbrechen station, it is one of two stations in Brechen. The station is in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station and has three platform tracks. History A ''Haltepunkt'' (halt) was built in Niederbrechen with the construction of the Main-Lahn Railway in 1875 and the entrance building was opened in 1879. The construction of a bridge for Bahnhofstraße began in 1913 and the level crossing at Jahnstraße was closed after its completion. A signal box was also opened in 1913 with the duplication of the line. An unloading track was built in 1937 for building material for the construction of the A3 and was dismantled after the completion of the highway. A goods shed, which was connected to the station was removed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kriftel
Kriftel is a municipality in the Main-Taunus district, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated 16 km west of Frankfurt (centre). It has about 11,000 inhabitants. Kriftel is also commonly known as "Fruit Orchard of the Anterior Taunus" (''Obstgarten des Vordertaunus''), because of the fields around it which are mainly used for producing strawberries. History In July AD 754, the track which carried the dead Saint Boniface rested in the village over night. To the honour of the saint, the Bonifatiuskapelle (chapel of Boniface) was built. Kriftel was first mentioned documentary in 790. The Thirty Years' War damaged Kriftel including the chapel, which was not rebuilt until 1755. It took so long because a big fire destroyed almost the entire village (34 houses out of 38) in 1661. From 1945 up until the oil crisis in 1973, Kriftel experienced a population explosion due to massive immigration from urban sprawl and workers of the Hoechst-AG, who were offered cheap land to build their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hofheim (Taunus) Station
Hofheim (Taunus) station is a station in the city of Hofheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main-Lahn Railway. The station opened on 15 November 1877, and is served by line S2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and regional services operated by Deutsche Bahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. Location The station is located on the boundary between the town’s centre and the district of Marxheim on Marxheimer Weg about one kilometre from the centre of the town. It is on the Main-Lahn Railway (german: Main-Lahn-Bahn), which connects the regional station of Limburg (Lahn) with Frankfurt Central Station. Entrance building The station building was built in 1906 and has three storeys. It was built in the ''Heimatschutzstil'' (“homeland defence style”) in a pragmatic baroque form. It is a stucco building with striking embossing in Taunus quartzite of its lower storey and on the outsides of its upper widow jambs. It is classified as a monument under the Hess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hofheim Am Taunus
Hofheim (; officially known as Hofheim am Taunus) is the administrative centre of Main-Taunus-Kreis district, in the south of the German state of Hesse. Its population in September 2020 was 39,946. Geography Location The town is located on the south side of the Taunus hills, 17 km west of Frankfurt and 17 km east of both Wiesbaden and Mainz; Frankfurt Airport is 12 km to the southeast. Hofheim is located in the Rhine Main Area, one of the fastest-growing regions in Germany in terms of population and also in regard to economic productivity. Unemployment is the second lowest in the state of Hesse and one of the lowest in Germany. It is mainly surrounded by forest and open country. As well as being the administrative centre of the district, Hofheim is the economic hub of the ''Main-Taunus-Kreis''. History Settlements in the region can be traced back to the Old Stone Age. In the first century AD, the Romans built a fort near today's town centre, which was probably mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eppstein Station
Eppstein station is a station in the town of Eppstein in the German state of Hesse. The station opened during the construction of the Main-Lahn Railway (german: Main-Lahn-Bahn) by the Hessian Ludwig Railway (''Hessische Ludwigsbahn''), initially with a temporary entrance building. The line was opened over its whole length on 15 October 1877. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station, and is served by line S2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn 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 compris .... Rail tracks The line is located in the narrow Lorsbach valley and the resulting topographical limits, set in particular by the Eppstein tunnel, meant that the station was located on the opposite side of the Schwarzbach from the town of Eppstein and had to be connected by a bridge. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eppstein Tunnel
Eppstein is a town in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. Eppstein lies west of Frankfurt am Main, around 12 km north east of the state capital Wiesbaden, and is at the edge of the Taunus mountains. The ruins of the Eppstein castle is a prominent landmark, and houses a museum. Geography Neighbouring municipalities and areas To the north, Eppstein borders the city of Idstein (Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis) and the municipality of Glashütten (Hochtaunuskreis). To the east is the city of Kelkheim, to the south the city of Hofheim, and to the west the city of Wiesbaden and the municipality of Niedernhausen. City arrangement Eppstein consists of five areas: Bremthal, Ehlhalten, Eppstein, Niederjosbach and Vockenhausen. Bremthal Bremthal has a rapid-transit railway stop on line S2. With approximately 5000 inhabitants, Bremthal is the most populous quarter of Eppstein, and is the economic and cultural centre. Bremthal has several associations e.g. a brass band, Germania singi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ländches Railway
The Ländches Railway (''Ländchesbahn'') is a single-track non-electrified branch railway line between Wiesbaden and Niedernhausen, in the German state of Hesse. The long line was opened in 1879. It is now Deutsche Bahn List of scheduled railway routes in Germany, route 627 and route 21 (RB 21) of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. History The Hessian Ludwig Railway (''Hessische Ludwigsbahn'') opened the Main-Lahn Railway, which passes through Niedernhausen, in 1877. The Ländches Railway was built to provide a connection from Niedernhausen to Wiesbaden, where the Taunus Railway and the East Rhine Railway, Right Rhine Railway ended. It was opened together with the Ludwig station (Wiesbaden), Ludwigsbahnhof (Ludwig station) on 1 July 1879. The line's approach to Wiesbaden was rebuilt over more than six kilometres to enable the construction of Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof. This new section went into operation in 1904 and a link was opened to the ''Wiesbaden Süd'' express freight yard in ... [...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] |
Niedernhausen
Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Niedernhausen lies in the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park in the west of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region north of Wiesbaden. The main centre of Niedernhausen (which alone is home to more than half the community's inhabitants) and the outlying centre of Königshofen stretch along the slopes of a dale. The heart of the community is found in the bottom of the dale. The community is surrounded by mixed forest covering 60% of the municipal area. Niedernhausen lies on the south flank of the Taunus low mountain range, a fold range that stretches from the Niederwald ("Lower Forest") near Rüdesheim am Rhein towards the northeast, on into the Wetterau near Bad Nauheim. This range is subdivided by two gaps, namely the Idstein Basin and the Saalburg Basin, into three parts: the Rheingau-Taunus, the High Taunus and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idstein
Idstein () is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Because of its well preserved historical Altstadt (Old Town) it is part of the ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'' (German Timber-Frame Road), connecting towns with fine fachwerk buildings and houses. In 2002, the town hosted the 42nd Hessentag state festival. Geography Location Idstein lies in the Taunus mountain range, about north of Wiesbaden. The town's landmark is the ''Hexenturm'' (Witches' Tower), a 12th-century bergfried and part of Idstein Castle. The Old Town is found between the two brooks running through town, the Wolfsbach in the east and the Wörsbach in the west, on a high ridge reaching up to above sea level. This comes to an end in the Old Town's north end with the castle and palace crags, behind which the two brooks run together. On the Wolfsbach, remnants of the like-named, now forsaken village can still be made out. The estate a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wörsdorf (Idstein)
Idstein () is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Because of its well preserved historical Altstadt (Old Town) it is part of the ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'' (German Timber-Frame Road), connecting towns with fine fachwerk buildings and houses. In 2002, the town hosted the 42nd Hessentag state festival. Geography Location Idstein lies in the Taunus mountain range, about north of Wiesbaden. The town's landmark is the ''Hexenturm'' (Witches' Tower), a 12th-century bergfried and part of Idstein Castle. The Old Town is found between the two brooks running through town, the Wolfsbach in the east and the Wörsbach in the west, on a high ridge reaching up to above sea level. This comes to an end in the Old Town's north end with the castle and palace crags, behind which the two brooks run together. On the Wolfsbach, remnants of the like-named, now forsaken village can still be made out. The estate a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
