Hanau West station
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Hanau West station
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| Through station | |
Hanau West station, looking towards Frankfurt
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| Location |
Hanau, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°7′56″N 8°54′31″E / 50.13222°N 8.90861°ECoordinates: 50°7′56″N 8°54′31″E / 50.13222°N 8.90861°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
| Construction | |
| Architect | Historicist / Neo-Renaissance |
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| Station code | 2539 |
| DS100 code | FHW |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1848 |
Hanau West station is the oldest station in the city of Hanau in the German state of Hesse. It was opened in 1848 and is located on the 17.9 kilometre mark of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway. Operationally, since the 1970s it has been classified as a Haltepunkt (“halt”). The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.
The Hanau West Station was opened in 1848 as the eastern end and terminus of the Frankfurt-Hanau railway by the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (German: Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, FHE) and was the first station opened in Hanau. It was then on the western edge of Neustadt Hanau (Hanau "new town", a district built from 1597 to house Calvinist refugees from France and the Spanish Netherlands) and was connected directly to Philippsruhe Palace by Philippsruher Allee. The entrance building was designed by the architect Julius Eugen Ruhl, like the station to its immediate west at Wilhelmsbad. The station building stood north of the tracks. The platform tracks were covered with a wooden train shed.
The extension of the Frankfurt-Hanau railway towards Aschaffenburg and its connection to the Ludwig Western Railway in 1854 involved the rebuilding of the station as a through station. Before the building of the line there was a government crisis in Hesse in 1852, because Elector Frederick William expected a bribe of 100,000 thalers from the Bernus du Fay bank before he would sign the appropriate license for the extension of the railway towards Aschaffenburg. The Chief Minister, Ludwig Hassenpflug, offered his resignation, but the elector refused to accept it. Later an iron bridge was built over the railway lines parallel to Philippsruher Allee, which allowed pedestrians to cross the tracks, even when the gates of the Philippsruher Allee level crossing were closed, as was often the case.
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