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Wetzlar Station
Wetzlar station is a through railway station in the city of Wetzlar in the German state of Hesse. The station, which serves Deutsche Bahn's Dill and Lahntal lines, constitutes (together with the adjacent bus station) Wetzlar's most important public transport node. History The first Wetzlar station, built in 1862 in the district of Niedergirmes, was an "island station" (german: Inselbahnhof), with the main station building built between the tracks. This building still stands. The current station was originally completed in January 1917 in the Art Nouveau style, but it was demolished in 1981 and rebuilt in the Modern style. Train services The following services currently call at Wetzlar: *'' Main-Sieg-Express'' Siegen - Dillenburg - Gießen - Friedberg - Frankfurt (Main) *'' Mittelhessen-Express'' Dillenburg - Gießen - Friedberg - Frankfurt (Main) Operations Wetzlar station has five platform tracks, served by Regionalbahn, Regional-Express, and EuroCity trains. Trains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetzlar
Wetzlar () is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the twelfth largest city in Hesse with currently 55,371 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019 (including second homes). As an important cultural, industrial and commercial center, the university town is one of the ten regional centers in the state of Hesse. A former free imperial city, it gained much of its fame as the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court (''Reichskammergericht'') of the Holy Roman Empire. Located 51 kilometers north of Frankfurt, at 8° 30′ E, 50° 34′ N, Wetzlar straddles the river Lahn and is on the German Timber-Frame Road, which passes mile upon mile of half-timbered houses. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis on the north edge of the Taunus. Tourists know the city for its ancient town and its medieval Catholic/Protestant shared cathedral of St. Mary. Notable architectural features include the Eisenmarkt and the steep gradients and tightly-packed street layout of a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limburg (Lahn) Station
Limburg (Lahn) station is a station in the city of Limburg an der Lahn in the German state of Hesse. It is on the Lahntal railway (german: Lahntalbahn), running between Koblenz Hauptbahnhof, Koblenz and Gießen station, Gießen. Infrastructure The only section of line that is electrified in the Limburg area is between Limburg freight yard and Eschhofen station. At the west end of Limburg station a two-track branch line branches off towards Staffel, where it separates into two single-track lines to Siershahn (the Lower Westerwald Railway, ''Westerwaldbahn'') and to Au (Sieg) station, Au (Sieg) (the Upper Westerwald Railway, ''Oberwesterwaldbahn''). East of Limburg, in Eschhofen, the double track, electrified Main-Lahn Railway (''Main-Lahn-Bahn'') branches off to the southeast towards Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof, Wiesbaden (via the Ländches Railway (''Ländchesbahn''). Until 2005, there was also a Deutsche Bahn maintenance depot at the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockhausen Station
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance ( aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization. He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, later studying with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School, his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential, not only on composers of art music, but also on jazz and popular music. His works, composed over a period of nearly sixty years, eschew traditional forms. In addition to electronic music—both with and without live performers—they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Löhnberg Station
Löhnberg is a municipality north of Weilburg in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Löhnberg lies between Wetzlar and the district seat of Limburg an der Lahn. Neighbouring communities Löhnberg borders in the north on the community of Greifenstein, in the east on the towns of Leun and Braunfels (all three in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis), in the south on the town of Weilburg, and in the west on the communities of Merenberg and Mengerskirchen (all three in Limburg-Weilburg). Constituent communities Löhnberg's ''Ortsteile'' are Löhnberg (administrative seat), Niedershausen, Obershausen and Selters. History All three constituent communities had their first documentary mention in the late 13th or early 14th century, although in Selters's case it is rather unclear as the village has the same name as both Selters in Rhineland-Palatinate and Selters in the Taunus. A document from 1317, however, can unequivocally be said to refer to Selters an der Lahn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fürfurt Station
Weinbach is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Weinbach lies on the Lahn and the Weil between Wetzlar and Limburg an der Lahn. Neighbouring communities Weinbach borders in the north on the town of Weilburg, in the east on the community of Weilmünster, and in the west on the community of Villmar and the town of Runkel (all in Limburg-Weilburg). Constituent communities Weinbach is made up of eight ''Ortsteile''. The main centre is also called Weinbach, and the outlying centres are Blessenbach, Edelsberg, Elkerhausen, Freienfels, Fürfurt, Gräveneck and Kleinweinbach. History Fürfurt was mentioned in a document from sometime between 1148 and 1154, thus making it the first part of the community to have its first documentary mention. Elkerhausen’s first documentary mention came in 1191. The knightly family who lived there was heavily involved in a feud in the 14th century with the landlord, the Archbishop of Trier. The '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aumenau Station
Aumenau is a station in the German state of Hesse on the Lahn Valley Railway (''Lahntalbahn''). It is located opposite the village of Aumenau, in the municipality of Villmar on the banks of the Lahn. History Like the majority of the stations on the line, the station building, which was built in 1862 with windows on seven vertical axes, was built to a standard design. The storage sheds were built around 1900. However, the signal box lodge situated to the west of the station tracks, which was probably built around 1950, is built in the same style. The entire complex has heritage protection. The station served primarily mineral traffic. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there has been an almost continuously-operated station restaurant. Rail services Deutsche Bahn operates Regionalbahn services on the Lahn Valley Railway between Limburg and Gießen, some continuing to Alsfeld and Fulda. Since the timetable change of 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011, the RB services on this s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arfurt Station
Arfurt (Lahn) is a station (classified as a halt) in the Runkel district of Arfurt in the German state of Hesse on the Lahn Valley Railway (''Lahntalbahn''). History Originally, Arfurt did not have a station on the Lahn Valley Railway. Between 1860 and 1862, however, a track attendant’s house (''Streckenwärterhaus'') was built at the bottom of the village with the opening of the section of the railway between the stations of Limburg (Lahn) and Weilburg on 14 October 1862. The two-and-a-half-storey building with a flat gable roof consists of plastered brickwork, which has been partly altered. There are windows on two vertical axes with cornices. The associated stables has a knee wall made of wood. Both buildings, which are now privately owned, are heritage-listed; the reason for this includes its location at the foot of the village. Arfurt (Lahn) station is located about one kilometre away from Arfurt and also serves Seelbach, which is a district of Villmar. It can only be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villmar Station
Villmar is a market village and municipality in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. The community is the centre for quarrying and processing the so-called Lahn Marble. Geography Location Villmar lies in the Lahn River valley between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some ten kilometres east of Limburg. In terms of the natural environment, the southwestern part of the municipal area comprises the eastern part of the Limburg Basin (this part known locally as the Villmar Bay or ''Villmarer Bucht''), a nearly even two- to three-kilometre-wide plain that opens to the west lying at elevations of 160 to 180 m into which the Lahn's winding lower valley has cut a channel about 50 metres deep. Conditioned by the mild climate and the extensive loess soils, intensive crop production prevails here. To the north, the somewhat higher (220–260 m), more richly wooded ''Weilburger Lahntalgebiet'' ("Weilburg Lahn valley area") joins up with the ''Weilburger Lahntal'' ("Weilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runkel Station
Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg. Neighbouring communities Runkel borders in the north on the community of Beselich and the town of Weilburg, in the east on the communities of Weinbach and Villmar and in the south and west on the town of Limburg. Constituent communities The town consists of 9 ''Stadtteile''. History The town's first documentary mention came in 1159 in an ''enfeoffment'' document in which a nobleman named Siegfried von Runkel had his name appear as a witness. It is believed that this Siegfried was the one who built Runkel Castle. In 1191 Siegfried married a countess of Katzenelnbogen. This high noble family forced Dietrich of Runkel to open his castles Runkel and Dehrn. No later than 1230, the castle had a chapel, thereby giving Runkel its first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerkerbach Station
The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). It has its source in the Rothaargebirge, the highest part of the Sauerland. It meets the Rhine at Lahnstein, near Koblenz. Important cities along the Lahn include Marburg, Gießen, Wetzlar, Limburg an der Lahn, Weilburg and Bad Ems. Tributaries to the Lahn include the Ohm, Dill, the Weil and the Aar. The lower Lahn has many dams with locks, allowing regular shipping from its mouth up to Runkel. Riverboats also operate on a small section north of the dam in Gießen. Source area The Lahn is a -long, right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). The Lahn originates at the Lahnhof, a locality of Nenkersdor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eschhofen Station
Eschhofen station lies on the Lahn Valley Railway (german: Lahntalbahn) in the town of Limburg an der Lahn in the German state of Hesse. In addition, just east of the station, the Main-Lahn Railway (''Main-Lahn-Bahn'') branches off to Frankfurt. The station was opened in 1863. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. History Eschhofen station was opened on 10 January 1863 with the inauguration of the Lahn Valley Railway. The first section of the Main-Lahn Railway was opened to traffic between Eschhofen and Niederselters on 1 February 1875 and the rest of the line was completed to Frankfurt on 15 October 1877. The current station building was probably built in 1896 and is classified as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. Infrastructure The station is only served by regional services. It has three platform tracks. Track 1 (the “home” platform, next to the station building) is used for trains running towards Limburg and Koblenz. Track 2 and track 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
