Friedrichshafen Hafen station

Friedrichshafen Hafen station (Friedrichshafen Port station; German: Bahnhof Friedrichshafen Hafen or Hafenbahnhof Friedrichshafen) is a station in Friedrichshafen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It was opened on 1 June 1850 and served as a port station for the train ferry over Lake Constance to Romanshorn until 1976 and is still used for passenger services by Deutsche Bahn and Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn (BOB). Today Friedrichshafen Hafen station is administered as a part of the Friedrichshafen Stadt station (Stadtbahnhof), to which it is connected by the Friedrichshafen Stadt–Friedrichshafen Hafen railway.

Friedrichshafen Hafen
Terminus
Former entrance building (now Zeppelin Museum)
Location	Eisenbahnstraße 1, Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	47°39′02″N 9°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[1]
DS100 code	TFH[2]
IBNR	8002110
Category	5[1]
Fare zone	bodo: 10[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1850
Services
Preceding station   Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn   Following station Terminus RB Südbahn Friedrichshafen Stadt toward Aulendorf Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station Terminus RB Bodensee-Gürtelbahn Friedrichshafen Stadt toward Lindau Hbf Terminus RB Bodensee-Gürtelbahn selected trains only Friedrichshafen Stadt toward Radolfzell Terminus RB Friedrichshafen Stadt Terminus
Location
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History

After Friedrichshafen became the first city on Lake Constance to have a railway connection in 1847, the Württemberg Southern Railway was extended by 1849 from the city station to 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. A train ferry service was established to the east of the port station in 1869 to connect with the railway 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 the International Style to the plans of Karl Hagenmayer of the Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart (Stuttgart rail 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.[4] 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 the Zeppelin Museum.[5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8] All other sidings and platform track 1b have been dismantled.

Services run over the line between Friedrichshafen Hafen station and Friedrichshafen Stadt station every 20 minutes. This is made up of the Friedrichshafen Hafen–Radolfzell and Friedrichshafen Hafen–Lindau–Aulendorf Regionalbahn services, which operate every hour via the Lake Constance Belt Railway, the hourly Regionalbahn services from the port station to the city station and the trains of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn (BOB) from Friedrichshafen Hafen via the Southern railway to Aulendorf. About 50 trains serve the port station daily.

Train class	Line	Interval
RB	Friedrichshafen Hafen – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Überlingen – Radolfzell (– Singen (Hohentwiel))	Every two hours
RB	Friedrichshafen Hafen – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Lindau – Hergatz – Kißlegg – Aulendorf	Every two hours
RB	Friedrichshafen Stadt – Friedrichshafen Hafen	Hourly
BOB	Aulendorf– Ravensburg – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Friedrichshafen Hafen	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

Footnotes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Zonenplan" (PDF). Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
4. Wilde, Hans Jürgen (1984). "Bahnhof am See - der Hafenbahnhof Friedrichshafen". Eisenbahn Magazin (in German) (8): 22ff.
5. "Historischer Geschichtspfad - Der Hafenbahnhof (Tafel 1.16)" (PDF) (in German). City of Friedrichshafen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
6. "Friedrichshafen fährt mit Dampf in eine neue Ära". Schwäbische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2018.
7. "Die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Württ. Bodenseedampfschiffahrt" (in German). hafenbahnhof.de. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
8. "Platform information for Friedrichshafen Hafen station". Deutsche Bahn. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

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.