The little Palm Express has been making its rounds through Frankfurt’s Palmengarten since 1972. Forty years later, the train finally gets its own station and now commutes every day from April to October through Frankfurt’s most beautiful green space.
The origin of the station type was the greenhouses of the nineteenth century, above all the impressive Crystal Palace at the London World Exhibition of 1851. Today, the special feature of the station buildings still lies in the differentiated treatment of the interior and their external appearance.
This difference is also noticeable in the small new building in the Palmengarten.
The atmosphere of a train station hall, characterized by lightness, filigree and daylight, is created inside with the help of a standard greenhouse construction and continuous roof glazing. The exterior shows a largely closed facade, made from vertically laid larch boards. A raised canopy and a station clock are the long-distance symbols of the public house.
The twelve openings to the platform, arranged along the long side of the building, are alternately designed at two different heights. The intensive use of the train station by children is expressed here by the fact that little visitors have their own entrances.
