Gelnhausen station

Geschichte

Gelnhausen station is the station of the town of Gelnhausen on the Kinzig Valley Railway in the German state of Hesse.HistoryThe station was built by the Frankfurt–Bebra railway as the station of the former county town of the district of Gelnhausen. Services commenced on the Hanau Ost–Wächtersbach section on 1 May 1867.BuildingsThe station building and the rest of the station buildings are now mostly classified as cultural monuments under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.Entrance buildingThe entrance building was built in a Romanesque Revival style of Buntsandstein (coloured sand stone) and so added to the historic buildings of the Hohenstaufen town of Gelnhausen, which include the most famous Romanesque building in the city, the Gelnhausen Palace (Pfalz Gelnhausen), but also the Romanesque House (Romanisches Haus). The architect Paul Rowald also designed Bad Hersfeld station with the same layout and both buildings are built in the same style.The building was built in 1882/83 and is therefore a structure of the "second generation" of structural engineering on the line. The station building is symmetrically designed on an H-shaped floor plan. On the street side the facade is dominated by three pointed gables, the middle gable is omitted from the design of the facade on the track side. A "princely pavilion" (Fürstenpavillon) was built to the west of the main building with three bay windows; there is also a detached toilet block built in the Romanesque Revival style east of the main building.