Hof Hauptbahnhof German for Hof main station ; sometimes translated as "Hof Central Station" [ 3 ] or described as "Hof central station" [ 4 ] [ 5 ] in English is the main railway station in Hof in southern Germany and is situated at the intersection of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line Magistrale and the Munich โ Regensburg โ Leipzig โ Berlin line.
After the old Hof station north of the city centre was no longer able to handle the growth in traffic, the Bavarian and Saxon railway administrations built a common, large-scale, through station between and west of the city, which was both the boundary and border station between the Royal Bavarian State Railways K. The new Hauptbahnhof was connected to the city centre through the new Hof tramway system, which appeared in Today buses have replaced the trams. The station comprised two halves, each of which had all the necessary operating facilities locomotive shed , coal bunkers, locomotive depot Betriebswerk , storage sidings, etc.
The station building was designed in by the architect, Georg Friedrich Seidel โ , for the Royal Bavarian State Railways and was, like the entire station, laid out perfectly symmetrically.
The border between the two railway administrations ran exactly through the middle of the station building, along the axis of symmetry.
The symmetry of the station was given up on the founding of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The superfluous and duplicated buildings were knocked down over time or used for other purposes. Above the entrance on the station forecourt and in the main hall on the track side the royal coats of arms of Bavaria and Saxony are still to be found today. The royal waiting room has been fully preserved and restored.
