Railway Station

The Wiesbaden Railway Station, a prime example of Historicism, was dedicated on 13 November 1906. It replaced the three previous stations, Taunusbahnhof, Rheinbahnhof and Ludwigsbahnhof. Professor Fritz Klingholz, an architect from Aachen, was responsible for the planning which the spa guest Emperor Wilhelm II regularly supervised. Like the previous stations, the new Wiesbaden station was designed as a terminal station to avoid the noise of trains crossing the city and to show consideration for the spa guests who had no stairs to climb in the new station. As an appropriate reflection of the need for prestige of a cosmopolitan Kurstadt and its guests, the decision was made to use red sandstone as a building material. The characteristic feature of the station is its 40 metre high clock tower. The original imperial reception hall, destroyed in the Second World War, was not reconstructed.