Großen Buseck Station
Großen Buseck is a station in Buseck in the German state of Hesse. The station is on the Vogelsberg Railway (Gießen–Fulda railway) and has two platforms. History The Gießen station, Gießen–Grünberg (Oberhess) station, Grünberg section was opened on 2 December 1869 by the Upper Hessian Railway Company (''Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''). The entrance building was built in ''Heimatstil'' (literally "home-style", related to the Swiss chalet style) and is now protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act (''Hessisches Denkmalschutzgesetz'') for historical and urban reasons.Lang, p. 67; Schomann, p. 383 During an air raid on Großen-Buseck station on 18 March 1945, a construction train carrying forced labourers was hit. Four men on the construction train died. One of the forced labourers was hanged on a burnt-out carriage for alleged theft. A memorial stone in front of the station building commemorates this incident. Transport serv ...
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Buseck
Buseck is a municipality in the district of Gießen, in Hessen, Germany. It is situated 7 km northeast of Gießen Giessen, spelled in German (), is a town in the German state () of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students. Th .... The villages in this municipality include Großen-Buseck, Beuern, Alten-Buseck, Oppenrod, and Trohe. Großen-Buseck is the largest village, with 5.768 inhabitants. Trohe is the smallest, with 753 inhabitants. References Giessen (district) {{Hessen-geo-stub ...
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