Frankfurt-Höchst station
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Frankfurt Höchst station
 
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| Location |
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°6′9″N 8°32′33″E / 50.10250°N 8.54250°ECoordinates: 50°6′9″N 8°32′33″E / 50.10250°N 8.54250°E |
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| Platforms | 7 |
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| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
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| Station code | 1872 |
| DS100 code | FHOE |
| IBNR | 8000106 |
| Category | 3 |
| Website | www.bahn.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1839 (current station building opened 1914) |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | 22,500 |
The Frankfurt-Höchst station is an important station in the Frankfurt district of Höchst and is the second largest station in the city with twelve tracks. It is currently mainly used by S-Bahn, suburban and regional services. It is the most important public transport node in western Frankfurt.
The first Höchst station was built as part of one of the oldest railways in Germany. On 26 September 1839, four years after the opening of Germany’s first railway from Nuremberg to Fürth, the first section of the Taunus Railway opened from the Taunus station in Frankfurt, running nine kilometres west to Höchst. The first Höchst station was not at the current location, but 400 metres east of it at Königsteiner Straße.
At the time the line was an international route, connecting the Free City of Frankfurt and the Duchy of Nassau. On 19 May 1840, the line was completed via Hattersheim, Flörsheim and Mainz-Kastel (then in the Grand Duchy of Hesse) to Wiesbaden, the capital of Nassau. The entire route from the current S-Bahn station of Taunusanlage to Wiesbaden is now part of the busy S-Bahn S1 line.
A second line was connected to Höchst in 1847 with the opening of the short Soden Railway—Germany's oldest branch line. It linked the major spa of Bad Soden with the rest of the world. In 1877 this was followed by the much more important Limburg Railway, which provided a connection between Frankfurt and the Lahn Valley Railway (running between Gießen and Koblenz) across Nassau, which had been annexed by Prussia as a result of the 1866 War.
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