Friedrichshafen Hafen station

Friedrichshafen Hafen
Terminus
Former entrance building (nowZeppelin Museum)
General information
Location	Eisenbahnstraße 1,Friedrichshafen,Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	47°39′02″N9°28′59″E
Line(s)	Friedrichshafen Stadt–Friedrichshafen Hafen(km 7.8)
Platforms	2
Construction
Architect	Karl Hagenmayer
Architectural style	Bauhaus
Other information
Station code	1945
DS100 code	TFH
IBNR	8002110
Category	5
Fare zone	bodo:10
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1850(1850)
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Baden-Württemberg Following station Friedrichshafen Stadt towardsBasel Bad Bf IRE 3 Terminus Friedrichshafen Stadt towardsRadolfzell RB 31 Preceding station Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn Following station Friedrichshafen Stadt towardsAulendorf RB 91 Terminus
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Friedrichshafen Hafen station(Friedrichshafen Port station; German:Bahnhof Friedrichshafen HafenorHafenbahnhof Friedrichshafen) is a station inFriedrichshafenin the German state ofBaden-Württemberg.It was opened on 1 June 1850 and served as a port station for thetrain ferryoverLake ConstancetoRomanshornuntil 1976 and is still used for passenger services byDeutsche BahnandBodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn(BOB). Today Friedrichshafen Hafen station is administered as a part of theFriedrichshafen Stadt station(Stadtbahnhof), to which it is connected by theFriedrichshafen Stadt–Friedrichshafen Hafen railway.

History

After Friedrichshafen became the first city onLake Constanceto have a railway connection in 1847, theWürttemberg Southern Railwaywas extended by 1849 from thecity stationto the port to allow the direct transhipment of goods from the boats onto trains, significantly reducing transport costs. In 1850, the first harbour terminal was added to the east pediment of the former salt warehouse (Salzstadel) and customs office. Atrain ferryservice was established to the east of the port station in 1869 to connect with therailway from Romanshorn to Zürich,which was opened in 1855. A new building with a half-timbered facade and bay windows facing the lake was built in place of the first simple station in 1885/86. Upstairs in the new building was a restaurant with a terrace and, until 1909, a post office.

The quarter around the port station was substantially rebuilt from 1929 to 1933. The freight yard was relocated to the northern part of the city and then a new entrance building was built in theInternational Styleto the plans of Karl Hagenmayer of the Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart (Stuttgartrail division). This building was badly damaged in air raids in 1944, but was rebuilt after the Second World War in its original form. After Friedrichshafen had increasingly lost its importance as a railway location after the Second World War, the rail ferry service to Romanshorn was closed in 1976. The track and ancillary equipment lying to the east of the entrance building that had served the ferry has been removed in the subsequent years.The station building has retained its function and was sold to the city in 1988. After a new terminal building for the railway, customs and ferry operations was built on the ferry plaza, the former station building was rebuilt from 1993 to 1996 as theZeppelin Museum.The track layout has been considerably simplified since the mid-1970s.

In addition to changes to the layout of the entrance building and the station's track layout, there have been repeated changes over the years to the adjacent port.Today numerous other ports on Lake Constance can be reached by ferry and the car ferry to Romanshorn.

Rail services

The station now has two platform tracks (tracks 2b and 3b) on an island platform and a platform-free siding (track 4b). The 38 cm-high platform is 353 metres long, of which, however, only 133 m is usable.All other sidings and platform track 1b have been dismantled.

Services run over the line between Friedrichshafen Hafen station and Friedrichshafen Stadt station every 30 minutes. This is made up mainly of hourly IRE 3 services to Friedrichshafen Stadt (half of which continue to Radolfzell) and the hourly trains of theBodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn(BOB) from Friedrichshafen Hafen via the Ulm–Friedrichshafen railway to Aulendorf. TheRBservices are part ofBodensee S-Bahn.

Train class	Line	Interval
IRE 3	Friedrichshafen Hafen–Friedrichshafen Stadt– Überlingen – Radolfzell –Singen–Basel Bad	Some trains
RB 31	Radolfzell – Überlingen – Markdorf (Baden) – Friedrichshafen Stadt –Friedrichshafen Hafen	Hourly
RB 91	Friedrichshafen Hafen– Friedrichshafen Stadt –Ravensburg–Aulendorf	Hourly

Gallery

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  Port station in about 1900 (from the south)
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  Port station in about 1900 (from the east)
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  Platform of the port station

References

Sources

• Wilde, Hans Jürgen (1984). "Bahnhof am See - der Hafenbahnhof Friedrichshafen".Eisenbahn-Magazin(in German) (8): 22ff.
• Bihlmeyer, Ritter; Knaus, Kuhn.Der neue Hafenbahnhof 1933 -1983. Wahrzeichen und Baudenkmal der Stadt. Aus der Geschichte des Friedrichshafener Schiffsverkehrs und Eisenbahnwesens(in German). Friedrichshafen: Verlag Robert Gessler.