Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt/Main – Wikipedia

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The Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt/Main was an administrative district of the German Reichsbahn.

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The Bebraer Bahn was an originally spa hessian project that was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia after the annexation of the course state as a result of the German War of 1866. The train was from the Direction of Bebra-Hanauer Bahn managed in the former Kurhessian capital Kassel. On November 15, 1873, she took up her last section to the Bebra train station in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, coming from Hanau Ost.

As a result, the Prussian state railways moved the seat of the railway directorate on April 1, 1874 [Note 1] to Frankfurt am Main and named them in Royal Railway Direction in Frankfurt am Main one. [first]

Railway directorate [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Development [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In 1879 it became one of the 11 railway directors of the Prussian state railways newly organized as part of the wave of nationalization. [2] As a result, an extensive expansion of responsibility took place in 1880 when the previous management district Wiesbaden and Saarbrücken were dissolved. [3] A renewed restructuring took place in 1897 when the Prussian-Hessian railway community was founded. In the course of their private Hessische Ludwigsbahn, the condom-Main-Neckar railway was taken over to the railway community in 1902, but at the same time the royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian railway directorate Mainz had to be founded as a political concession to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. As a result, the scope of the management district was redefined on April 1, 1897. [4] On January 1, 1914, ownership of the Kronberger Bahn passed to the Prussian state, the route was subordinate to part of the Prussian State Railways and the Frankfurt railway management. [5] In addition to the restructuring mentioned, there were always minor changes to the area of ​​responsibility compared to neighboring directors.

On March 9, 1914, numerous new “double -layer anti -signals” were put into operation in the directorate district, which corresponded to the model of the shape signal that is still used today. So was almost [Note 2] The entire management equipped with the new signals. [6]

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The Frankfurt Directorate Office was in today’s Friedrich Ebert facility (then: Hohenzollernplatz ) and was built in 1908. Armin Wegner was an architect. It was badly damaged in the Second World War, then rebuilt heavily and demolished in 2007.

Reichsbahn directorate [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In 1920 the Prussian state railways in the German Reichsbahn went up. The management names changed accordingly and the management was now called “Reichsbahndirung Frankfurt/Main”.

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With the founding of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the management reacted again. The new name was now “Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt/M.”.

The area of ​​responsibility of the Reichsbahn directorate extended (until the end of the Second World War) over the southern Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau and the province of Upper Hesse of the Volksstaat Hesse: north to Dillenburg, Marburg and Bebra; Northwest to Siegburg, west to Oberlahnstein, north of the Main to Aschaffenburg and Gemünden am Main, south of the Main hardly beyond the Frankfurt city limits. The eastern border ran over the Rhön. Significant routes within the management were:

In 1925, the Reichsbahndirection managed 2036 km of railway lines (1938: 2101 km [7] ) with 530 train stations and holding points and was responsible for 28,603 employees. It was divided into 22 offices and 116 railway masters and had 18 rail operations. [8]

  • Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer Edition Railway, Stuttgart and 1982, ISBN 3-17-007466-0.
  • Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Official pocket timetable for Frankfurt (Main). Annual timetable 1943. Frankfurt am Main 1943. (As reprint: Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2005, ISBN 3-937135-96-0.)
  • Ferdinand von Rüden: Traffic node Frankfurt am Main. From the beginning to around 1980. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-246-1, p. 40 f.
  1. ↑ In the literature there is also a April 7, 1874.
  2. ↑ Only the Main-Lahn-Bahn (Frankfurt-Höchst-Limburg (Lahn)) and the Elm-Gemünden route were still missing.
  1. ↑ von Rüden, p. 40.
  2. ↑ Klee, S. 179.
  3. ↑ Von Rüden, p. 40.
  4. ↑ Announcement, the determination of the Mainz railway directors and the other delimitation of the railway directors Frankfurt a. M. regarding of March 24, 1897. In: Grand Ducal Hessian government sheet No. 11 of March 31, 1897, p. 58f.
  5. ↑ Mainz railway directorate (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from August 1, 1914, No. 38. Announcement No. 448, p. 264.
  6. ↑ Mainz railway directorate (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 14, 1914, No. 13. Announcement No. 147, p. 91.
  7. ↑ von Rüden, p. 41.
  8. ↑ von Rüden, p. 40.
  9. ↑ von Rüden, p. 40.
  10. ↑ Official Journal of the Reichsbahndirection Mainz , No. 50 of September 18, 1937, announcement No. 621, p. 306.

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