Bautzen train station
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.jpg) Reception building, street side (2019)
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | former crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | DBZ |
| IBNR | 8010026 |
| opening | June 23, 1846 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bautzen |
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| City / municipality | Bautzen |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 10 '22 " N , 14 ° 25' 45" E |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Bautzen train station , in Upper Sorbian Dwórnišćo Budyšin , is an operating point of the Görlitz – Dresden railway line and the now disused lines to Hoyerswerda and Bad Schandau in the urban area of Bautzen in Saxony.
The station had a depot from its construction until the 1990s .
history
On June 23, 1846, with the completion of the Bischofswerda – Bautzen section, Bautzen was connected to the Görlitz – Dresden railway of the Saxon-Silesian Railway Company . On September 1, 1847, the connection was opened to Görlitz .
The location of the Bautzen train station was chosen due to various technical and economic parameters - among other things, the Spreetal was crossed at one of the narrowest points - somewhat away from the historic old town. In the period that followed, the location of the station had a major impact on inner-city traffic and brought about significant changes in the urban structure that had evolved. In contrast to other cities, the Bautzen train station could not be quickly connected to either of the two medieval traffic axes ( north-south and east-west ), as it was located southeast of the old crossroads.
Neither the acceptance of a longer route to the city center over a bend in the street nor a diagonal road break through to the city center were consistently implemented in Bautzen; instead, an urban compromise has been found. On the connecting axis between the train station and the main market, the medieval suburban structure was severely intervened and a street breakthrough with the Kaiserstraße (today Karl-Marx-Straße ) was created through the grown urban structure up to the Kornmarkt . The further breakthrough through the old town development to the main market did not take place. Since then, the economic city center of Bautzen has shifted more and more from the main market towards the Kornmarkt.
Various plans (1870 and 1914) that provided for a railway connection from Berlin via Bautzen and Rumburg to Vienna were not supported by the Saxon government due to the deliberately preferred traffic development of Dresden. This and the fact that the railway line to Zittau branches off in Bischofswerda well before Bautzen prevented Bautzen from ever developing into an important railway junction.
In 1877 the branch line to Bad Schandau was put into operation. In this context, the station building was expanded. From 1908 there was a connection to Berlin via Hoyerswerda . In 1921 the station building got roughly its present shape. In 1945 the building burned down in the course of the battle for Bautzen .
After the Second World War, the station building was rebuilt in a simplified manner. The Plotzen artist Alfred Herzog (1895–1988) created eight sgraffiti in the station hall. They represent LOWA wagon construction and other traditional industries in Bautzen and the region.
Sgraffiti in the station concourse
Sgraffiti on the opposite wall
In 2006 the station was frequented by 2,500 travelers every day.
In December 2013, Deutsche Bahn offered the city of Bautzen to buy the station at a preferential price. In February 2014, the station building was closed due to falling parts of the ceiling. Deutsche Bahn did not want to repair the damage until the building was sold in 2014. The city declined a purchase due to a lack of profitability, but proposed an investor to Deutsche Bahn in April 2014. This put the necessary investment at five million euros.
In mid-June 2016, the Bautzen district council decided on parts of a property concept that provided for a new administrative location for around 250 employees in the reception building. Around two thirds of the usable area of the building are to be used for this purpose. A private investor took over the renovation, after which the district wants to rent part of the building for at least 15 years. The renovation work lasted from 2017 to the beginning of 2020. The renovated reception building was opened on January 24th.
Platforms
Bautzen train station has an island platform between tracks 2 and 3 as well as a house platform on track 1 directly at the reception building. A pedestrian tunnel leads from the reception building or the main platform to the central platform. In 2010 and 2011, the station was modernized with funds from the economic stimulus package . The platforms were raised, staircases were renewed and additional elevators and writing and display boards were installed.
| track | place | Usable length [m] | Platform height [cm] | Current usage |
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| 1 | House platform | 173 | 55 | to Dresden |
| 2 | Central platform | 171 | 55 | to Görlitz |
| 3A / 3B | Central platform | 171 | 55 | currently no use |
traffic
Bautzen is operated since the cessation of long-distance traffic in 2004 only by regional trains in relation Dresden-Goerlitz, of which up the timetable change in 2018 some to and from Wroclaw ( Breslau were tied) in Poland. The Trilex-Express goes via Görlitz to Zgorzelec , where there is a connection to the Polish trains to Wrocław. During the day there is an hourly connection to Dresden, sometimes with a change in Bischofswerda.
As of December 8, 2019
| line | Line route | Cycle (min) | EVU | annotation |
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| RE1 | Dresden Hbf - Görlitz - Zgorzelec | 60 (daytime) | DLB | |
| RB60 | Bischofswerda - Görlitz | 60 | DLB |
Bautzen depot
It started with a two-room locomotive shed south of the station building. It is assumed that the locomotive shed was built in 1846 because a steam locomotive was stationed at Bautzen station from December 1848. With the construction of the Bautzen – Schandau line from 1874, the track at Bautzen station was expanded so that the two-tier engine shed had to be demolished. In 1877 the first depot was built on Preuschwitzer Strasse (Westkopf) with a seven-station locomotive shed and the equipment required for locomotive handling. The water station building is still there today. 1909 came to an end for the depot on Preuschwitzer Strasse.
With increasing transport services (traffic in four directions) the number of locomotives in Bautzen had to be increased, so that in 1909 the new depot with a fifteen-long roundhouse on the old Wilthener track (Ostkopf) was put into operation. The systems necessary for locomotive treatment and repair were available here. Today the coal shed, the administration building (engine line) and the water station building are still there.
Since the opening of the Görlitz – Dresden railway in 1846, it belonged to the Saxon-Silesian Railway Company , which was nationalized in 1851, then from 1922 to the Dresden Reich Railway Directorate . Due to the restructuring of the railroad after the Second World War, the Bautzen depot was incorporated into the Cottbus Reichsbahndirektion in 1952 .
Locomotive inventory May 1945:
7 × class (BR) 38 sä (roller carriages); 3 × BR 38 pr; 8 × BR 52; 5 × BR 55; 2 × BR 56; 5 × BR 58; 1 × BR 86; 6 × BR 91; 4 × BR94 sä
Locomotive stock July 1965:
3 × BR 38 sä; 5 × BR 38 pr; 28 × BR 52; 7 × BR 75 bath; 3 × BR 91; 13 × BR 94 sä; 4 × V15
Locomotive stock August 1983:
18 × BR 52.8; 1 × BR 44; 1 × BR 65; 40 different diesel locomotives;
Up until May 14, 1988, operational steam locomotives of the class 52.8 for scheduled route service and two heating locomotives were based here.
Bautzen loading point
The Bautzen charging point is located on Ricarda-Huch-Straße on the south side of the station. It has a loading lane on track 40 with a ramp length of 116 meters and a loading area of 2,150 square meters as well as a side loading ramp on track 46 with an edge length of 257 meters and 34 square meters of loading area.
literature
- Hans von Polenz: Railways in the Bautzener Land ; Ostsächsische Eisenbahnfreunde eV, Löbau 2006; ISBN 3-00-018243-8
- Erich Preuss: The Reichsbahn Report 1945–1993. Facts - legends - background . 2nd Edition. Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70789-2 .
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (DBZ) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
- Location and some allowable speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
- Pictures of the steam locomotive farewell in Bautzen
- Pictures of the Bautzen station and depot at www.sachsenschiene.de
- Pictures of the train station and depot Bautzen on www.oberlausitzer-eisenbahnen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Saxony station development program. Current status and conception 2006 (PDF; 5.4 MB) November 2006, p. 11 , accessed on October 27, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Stefan Schramm: What will happen to the Bautzen train station? In: Saxon newspaper . March 16, 2015, ZDB -ID 2448502-0 , p. 15 ( online under a similar title ).
- ↑ Uwe Menschner: Bautzen station hall is now completely closed . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , regional edition Hoyerswerda . February 25, 2014, p. 16 (similar version online ).
- ↑ Stefan Schramm: shivering on the Bautzen platform . In: Saxon newspaper . December 27, 2014, ZDB -ID 2448502-0 , p. 24 .
- ↑ Only one citizens' office planned in the future / District Council decides to rent the Bautzen train station from 2019 . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . June 15, 2016, p. 1 ( online ).
- ↑ Sebastian Kositz: Green light for Bautzen station . In: Sächsische Zeitung , local edition Bautzen . tape 71 , June 13, 2016, ZDB -ID 2448502-0 , p. 13 ( online ).
- ↑ MDR.de: Bautzen has a train station again. January 24, 2020, accessed January 27, 2020.
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Bautzen's train station is being modernized for 900,000 euros , July 30, 2010.
- ↑ a b Station equipment Bautzen. DB Station & Service, accessed on December 23, 2019 .
- ^ DB Netze (ed.): Loading stations of DB Netz AG . Frankfurt am Main July 1, 2012, p. RB Südost 2 ( online [PDF; accessed on February 18, 2013]).