Wabern (Bz Kassel) station explained

Wabern (Bz Kassel) is a railway station in the municipality of Wabern, in the German state of Hesse. It is on the Main to Weser railway from Frankfurt to Kassel. The station is a stop for ICE trains with connections towards Hamburg and Karlsruhe. It was once an important railway junction, as the Wabern to Brilon Wald railway branched off here with a connection to the Ruhr area. Today this branch line ends in Bad Wildungen.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The station opened in December 1849, at the same time as the railway line from Kassel. The extension to Treysa opened a few days later. The station has a main building designed by .^{[4] [5]}

In 2018 the station was modernized to be barrier-free, involving the construction of a new underpass, three elevators and raised platforms. The work cost €15 million.^[2]

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51.103°N 9.3583°W

Notes and References

1. Book: Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) . 2009/2010 . Schweers + Wall . 2009 . 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. News: Umbau für 15 Millionen: Bahnhof Wabern ist jetzt barrierefrei . de . HNA . Anke . Laumann . 2018-12-01 . 2024-02-23 . 2024-02-24 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224160136/https://www.hna.de/lokales/fritzlar-homberg/wabern-ort79909/umbau-fuer-15-millionen-euro-bahnhof-wabern-ist-jetzt-barrierefrei-10775917.html.
3. Web site: Wabern (Bz Kassel) . DB InfraGO AG . 2024-02-24 . 2024-02-24 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224160538/https://www.bahnhof.de/en/wabern-bz-kassel.
4. Book: Lohr, Siegfried . Planungen und Bauten des Kasseler Baumeisters Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. Ein Beitrag zur Baugeschichte Kassels und Kurhessens im 19. Jahrhundert . Masch. Diss. . Darmstadt . de . 1982 . 347.
5. Book: Volker . Rödel . Heinz . Schomann . Eisenbahn in Hessen. Eisenbahnbauten und -strecken 1839–1939 . 2 . Theiss Verlag. Stuttgart . 2005 . 3-8062-1917-6 . 142.