Marburg (Lahn) Station

Marburg (Lahn) station is a through station at the 104.3 km mark of the Main-Weser Railway in the north-east of the city of Marburg in the German state of Hesse and is used daily by about 12,000 people. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 3 station.

History

The station was completed with the construction of the Main-Weser Railway in 1850 and was built outside the built up area of the city on the other side of the Lahn.

Since 1903, the Marburg tramway has ended at the station. Initially it was a horse-drawn tram, which was converted to electric operation in 1911. After the Second World War, it was decided against continued operation and the tram ceased operations in 1951. A short time later, the Marburg trolleybus, which replaced the tram, opened. This was finally discontinued in 1968.

In 1945, the station was severely damaged several times by air raids and dropped bombs, and in some cases it was completely destroyed. The main goals for the railways here were to maintain the through tracks and the locomotive depot. Nevertheless, until the arrival of American forces on 28 March 1945, a makeshift train service was maintained.

On 20 March 1967, the station was electrified and the railway facilities modernised. The pushbutton signal box, completed in 1969, was also put into operation. It replaced the two mechanical interlockings in the station and is still in operation today.

The entrance building, the rollingstock depot and the area surrounding the station were redesigned between 2009 and 2015 for a total of €11m. Among other things, the station forecourt was traffic-calmed and traffic between the toen centre and Neuer Kasseler Strasse no longer flows directly in front of the station building, but instead uses Ernst-Giller-Strasse. Service facilities were built on the upper floors of the station. Construction work on the entrance building began on 3 December 2009. The groundbreaking ceremony for the work on the station forecourt took place in October 2010 and the routing of traffic was changed in the first construction phase up the end of 2011. The overall project was completed in spring 2015, and the official inauguration took place on 22 May.

Entrance building

The first station building was designed by Julius Eugen Ruhl. In 1907 it was replaced during an expansion of the station with an entrance building designed by the architect Alois Holtmeyer. The station building was severely damaged in the Second World War and its Baroque Revival exterior form was largely restored after the war.

In 2004, the station was equipped with digital information displays on the platforms and in the entrance building and was declared to be a smoke-free station.

The entrance building and the rest of the station buildings are now mostly listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. In the eastern area of the station is the former—now abandoned—operations depot. These include several in brick buildings built in 1890, including a roundhouse.

Infrastructure

Marburg station is managed by DB Station&Service

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