Wiesbaden Central Station
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Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof
 
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Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof (2013)
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| Location | Bahnhofsplatz 1, Wiesbaden, Hesse Germany |
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| Coordinates | 50°4′15″N 8°14′38″E / 50.07083°N 8.24389°ECoordinates: 50°4′15″N 8°14′38″E / 50.07083°N 8.24389°E | |||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Architect | Fritz Klingholz | |||||||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Neo-baroque | |||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 6744 | |||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | FW | |||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000250 | |||||||||||||||||
| Category | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1906 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers | ~ 40,000 | |||||||||||||||||
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Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Wiesbaden, the state capital of the German state of Hesse. It is a terminal station at the southern edge of the city centre and is used by more than 40,000 travelers each day, so it is the second largest station in Hesse after Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station.
The current station replaced three stations in the city centre, which were next to each other near the fairground (Rhein-Main-Hallen) and the Wiesbaden Museum. These were:
A fourth railway line was added in 1889, connecting to the Rheinbahnhof, with the opening Langenschwalbach Railway (now the Aar Valley Railway—Aartalbahn) from the Rheinbahnhof in Wiesbaden to Bad Schwalbach (then called Langenschwalbach) and later extended to Diez on the Lahn.
The new station building became necessary to handle the growing number of passenger visiting the spa city at that time. It was built from 1904 to 1906 according to the plans of Fritz Klingholz in a flamboyant neo-baroque style that corresponded to an international style of architecture adopted for spa towns. It was also intended to welcome Kaiser Wilhelm II on his visit to the spa every May and a platform was established for him and other aristocrats. The first train ran into the new station on 15 November 1906 around 2:23 a.m. In the station building the relics of the former images of crowned heads, with the faces removed, can still be seen in many places.
The new Hauptbahnhof was located outside the town at the time of its building at the south-eastern end of the then newly constructed ring road (the Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring and the Bismarckring), which runs in an arc to the west of the historic pentagon (Historische Fünfeck) at the centre of Wiesbaden. During the period up to the First World War the town developed towards the new station.
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