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Darmstadt District

Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe

Former Saalburgbahn Terminus and Beekeeping Station

Darmstadt District

Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe

Former Saalburgbahn Terminus and Beekeeping Station

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Former Saalburgbahn Terminus and Beekeeping Station

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Location: Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Hochtaunuskreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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March 12, 2021

This historic building from 1938 and the surrounding area are owned by the Obertaunus Beekeeping Association and are used as mating stations.
A mating station is a place where young, unmated queen bees and drones of the same breed of bee are set up for the targeted breeding of honey bees.
At a mating station, small mating colonies are set up in so-called mating boxes, each with around 1000 workers and a young, unmated queen bee - but without drones. From here, the queen bee is supposed to make her nuptial flights to drone gathering places over a period of two to three weeks, where up to 20,000 drones gather at a height of around ten meters. There, each queen bee is mated by around 15 drones.

For this purpose, father colonies of the same breed of bee are set up at some distance, which, with their many pure-bred drones, are supposed to ensure the paternal genes. A high density of drones at the mating site shortens the flight distance and duration of the queens during mating flights and thus has a positive effect on the mating result.

To ensure that mating does not occur through unwanted drones of a different breed of bee, the mating sites are located in an area isolated from other honey bees. Ideally, the mating sites are protected by a bee-free protective belt with a minimum radius of 7 kilometers. In addition, the apiaries outside the protective belt can be populated with purebred colonies of the same breed of bee.

The mating boxes contain a feeding trough for feeding dough and three small plastic frames with honeycombs. After two to three weeks, the beekeeper can check on these brood combs whether the mating has worked and whether the queen has started laying eggs.
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Frank Rmr

March 13, 2021

The building is the last stop of the former Saalburg tram, which was last restored in 2005

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Bumble-Bee

March 14, 2021

The mating station is located below the Saalburg restaurant on the site of the former stop of the former Saalburg railway. This tram line from Bad Homburg to Saalburg was opened in 1900 in connection with the Saalburg celebrations for the restoration of the Roman fort. The tram ran until 1935, but was discontinued after a serious accident and replaced by post buses. The station building - a single-storey quarry stone building with a gable roof and porch in an open half-timbered construction - is intended to give the impression of a building in the provincial Roman architectural style. It is probably the only tram stop from the "Roman period". In 2003/2004, the city of Bad Homburg carried out a fundamental renovation of the building, which is now a listed building.

The station building was taken over by the beekeeping association in 1937 and the "state-approved mating station for beekeeping" was opened the following year. This mating station was used intensively, especially in the decades after the Second World War, to spread the peaceful Carnica bee.

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Queens from the breeding lines of the mating station are sold by Seip in Butzbach, among others.

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Location: Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Hochtaunuskreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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