Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is the busiest railway station in the German state of Hesse and the second busiest in Germany, opened on August 18, 1888 after five years of construction. Its entrance building was designed by Hermann Eggert, winner of the project's architectural competition, while the three great iron train sheds behind it, with barrel vaults 28 meters high, were engineered by the Berlin steel specialist Johann Wilhelm Schwedler. The entrance facade is built in a Renaissance Revival style, with Neoclassical extensions added in 1924, and the whole structure spans 270 meters with three central bays recalling the three separate railway companies that originally used it. A bronze sculptural group by Gustav Herold crowns the roofline, showing Atlas bearing a globe among figures representing steam, electricity, trade, agriculture, industry and shipping; the station briefly ranked as the largest in Europe until Leipzig Hauptbahnhof surpassed it in 1915.
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Building Type LocationFrankfurt, Hesse, Germany 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
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Name section, first sentence (building type)
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (short Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, in English Frankfurt Central Station) is the busiest train station in the German state of Hesse
Name section, first sentence (location)
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (short Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, in English Frankfurt Central Station) is the busiest train station in the German state of Hesse
Realisation section, inauguration
On 18 August 1888, after five years of construction, the Centralbahnhof Frankfurt (Frankfurt Central Station) was inaugurated.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is the busiest railway station in the German state of Hesse and the second busiest in Germany, opened on August 18, 1888 after five years of construction. Its entrance building was designed by Hermann Eggert, winner of the project's architectural competition, while the three great iron train sheds behind it, with barrel vaults 28 meters high, were engineered by the Berlin steel specialist Johann Wilhelm Schwedler. The entrance facade is built in a Renaissance Revival style, with Neoclassical extensions added in 1924, and the whole structure spans 270 meters with three central bays recalling the three separate railway companies that originally used it. A bronze sculptural group by Gustav Herold crowns the roofline, showing Atlas bearing a globe among figures representing steam, electricity, trade, agriculture, industry and shipping; the station briefly ranked as the largest in Europe until Leipzig Hauptbahnhof surpassed it in 1915.
In Style: Renaissance Revival architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Renaissance Revival architecture in Germany
In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Neoclassical architecture in Germany
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