Bruchsal train station

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Bruchsal
Reception building
Reception building
Data
Location in the network Crossing station
Platform tracks 8th
abbreviation RBR
IBNR 8000055
Price range 2
location
City / municipality Bruchsal
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 7 '26 "  N , 8 ° 35' 24"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '26 "  N , 8 ° 35' 24"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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Bruhrainbahn train in Bruchsal

The Bruchsal Station is the center of rail transport of the city of Bruchsal .

development

19th century

When the Baden main line was built from Mannheim via Heidelberg , Karlsruhe , Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel , the Karlsruhe – Heidelberg section (see Baden-Kurpfalz-Bahn ) was opened on April 10, 1843, initially on 1600 mm wide gauge. This enabled the baroque town of Bruchsal to benefit from a railway connection. Your first station in Baden had three tracks on the initially single-track line, a turntable , a small shed for storing a locomotive overnighting here and a preheating system with a water reservoir for trains starting here. In the first month of operation, 25 people drove from Bruchsal in first class, 303 people in second class, 3212 people in third class; 27 people bought tickets for the fourth carriage class (standing car).

A few years later, the line was expanded to double-track. The station gained further importance through the Württemberg Westbahn , which opened on October 1, 1853 and began in Stuttgart and ended in Bruchsal. The Westbahn initially had its own standard gauge "Württemberger Bahnhof" with two tracks, the building of which was east of the first "Badischer Bahnhof". The Württemberg locomotive treatment systems and the goods shed were arranged in a southerly direction.

Since Baden's broad gauge was incompatible with the gauges of its neighboring countries, it was feared that the lucrative transit traffic would be lost. For this reason, the Baden routes were converted to standard gauge (1435 mm) in just four months in just four months , after which the rails of the two Bruchsal stations could be linked.

When the Bruhrainbahn Bruchsal – Rheinsheim opened on November 23, 1874 and extended to Germersheim on May 15, 1877 , Bruchsal had become a railway junction for good. The long-distance existed initially in all directions: north-south traffic from Heidelberg Karlsruhe, Freiburg to Basel and further south and east-west traffic from Munich via Stuttgart , Germersheim, Landau and two bridges until after Saarbrücken .

In 1879 the Baden State Railways took over operations on the Western Railway in the Bruchsal – Bretten section by contract with Württemberg . An additional contract regulated the fate of the Württemberg train station in Bruchsal and its employees. After that, Baden took over all the facilities and the station building became the main building of the entire station. The employees of the Royal Württemberg State Railways (KWSt.E.) were free to be employed by the Baden State Railways or to be transferred to Württemberg territory.

20th century

On March 5, 1896, the private Katzbachbahn to Odenheim was also opened, from which the Kraichtalbahn to Menzingen branches off in Ubstadt, four and a half kilometers away . The former was extended to Hilsbach on September 3, 1900 . The two branch lines were initially operated by the Badische Lokal Eisenbahn Aktiengesellschaft (BLEAG) , then by the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft (DEBG) , as the BLEAG had to file for bankruptcy in the wake of the global economic crisis .

Between 1890 and 1914, the Bruchsal train station, which in the meantime had developed into a hub for rail traffic, underwent extensive renovations. After the construction of a new, prestigious reception building, which was completed on May 15, 1900, the old Württemberg train station continued to be used as an administration building, unlike the other structures that were demolished.

In the course of the Second World War , the station building was destroyed, whereupon a new one was built. East-West traffic also lost its importance in the whole of Germany, with the result that after the war there was no longer any long-distance passenger traffic from Bruchsal to Saarbrücken; only long-distance freight trains still used this main line.

In the 1950s, the Rheintalbahn , Westbahn and the Bruhrainbahn section Bruchsal - Graben-Neudorf were electrified. However, the demand for the branch line to Menzingen and Hilsbach fell significantly in the post-war period , so that on October 1, 1960 the Tiefenbach –Hilsbach section of public transport was shut down due to a lack of demand, and twelve days later after a derailment in freight traffic . In 1963 the state-owned SWEG took over the branch line, at the same time steam operation on this route was gradually replaced by diesel railcars . On January 31, 1975, however, the Odenheim Ost – Tiefenbach section was also closed, and finally the Odenheim Bahnhof – Odenheim Ost section on June 1, 1986.

present

S3 of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn in Bruchsal station
S32 of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn in Bruchsal station on the way to Baden-Baden
Freight train in Bruchsal station

In the course of the construction of the Mannheim – Stuttgart express line from the end of the 1980s, a connecting track to the Bruchsal station was created at the point where it bridged the Rhine Valley Railway near Bruchsal, which enabled long-distance train connections on the Karlsruhe – Bruchsal – Stuttgart route. From then on, trains of the newly created " Interregio " (IR) train type also ran from Karlsruhe via Bruchsal, Stuttgart, Aalen and Nuremberg to Dresden , and later only to Nuremberg.

Since the branch line to Menzingen and Odenheim was increasingly threatened with closure, the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG) agreed to take over the line from the SWEG from 1994 and expand it into a light rail . In the same year the tram lines S3 (Karlsruhe – Bruchsal) and S9 (Bruchsal – Bretten) were set up. In September 1996 the S3 was extended over the Kraichtalbahn to Menzingen, two years later the Katzbachbahn was also integrated into the light rail network as the S31. Both branches of the branch line were even electrified for this purpose. The ICE 31 stops daily to Kiel via the Ruhr area , an IC runs every two hours to Hamburg and Munich .

Track and platform systems

There are 5 continuous platform tracks (numbers 1-5), three head tracks with a platform (numbers 6-8) and three through tracks for freight trains or for parking trains. Tracks 1-3 are in two parts, depending on their platform height, so that both light rail vehicles with lower boarding heights and Deutsche Bahn trains can stop at them. Most of the trams of the S31 / S32 lines stop at platform 1b, mainly in the direction of Karlsruhe Hbf . Trains to Menzingen / Odenheim also run here, but these are more likely to be located on platform 3a. Track 1a is used very rarely. Regional Express trains run from platform 2b to Stuttgart . There are also trains of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar (S4) that end in Bruchsal during their half-hour break, some of which also arrive on platform 5. Track 3 is the main track in the direction of Heidelberg and the high-speed line. Track 4 is the corresponding opposite track in the direction of Karlsruhe. However, the Regional Express trains coming from Stuttgart to Heidelberg also run there , as they cannot enter platform 3 for technical reasons. Track 5 is used almost exclusively by the hourly S33 line of the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn to Germersheim via Graben-Neudorf . The S9 trams run from / to Bretten and Mühlacker on the south-facing head track 6 . Tracks 7 and 8 face north. Only a few trams leave from there to Menzingen / Odenheim. Track 8 is used almost exclusively for parking light rail vehicles.

business

Long-distance transport

line route Clock frequency
ICE 26 (( Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund -) Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Gießen - Frankfurt (Main) - Heidelberg - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe Every two hours
ICE 42 Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne - Frankfurt (Main) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich a pair of trains
IC 26 ( Westerland (Sylt) -) Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Gießen - Frankfurt (Main) - Heidelberg - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe individual trains
IC 30 ( Greifswald ← Stralsund ←) Hamburg - Bremen - Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Stuttgart - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe - Offenburg a pair of trains
IC 60 ( Basel Bad Bf - Freiburg (Breisgau) - Offenburg -) Karlsruhe - Bruchsal - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich Every two hours

Regional and S-Bahn traffic

line route Clock frequency
RE 17B Heidelberg - Bruchsal - Mühlacker - Vaihingen (Enz) - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Stuttgart 120-minute intervals
S 3 Germersheim - Speyer - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Wiesloch-Walldorf - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe 60-minute intervals in the morning, with S 4 30-minute intervals on the same route, 30-minute intervals in the afternoon to Karlsruhe Hbf
P. 31 Karlsruhe main station - Bruchsal - Odenheim 60-minute intervals, Mon-Fri afternoons in traction operation with S 32 to Ubstadt Ort every 20 minutes;

Some trains beyond Karlsruhe Hbf are tied through as S 71 / S 81 in the direction of Rastatt and partly further to Baden-Baden or into the Murgtal or also coming from there.

P 32 Karlsruhe Central Station - Bruchsal - Menzingen (Baden) 60-minute intervals, Mon – Fri afternoons in traction operation with the S 31 to Ubstadt Ort every 20 minutes;

Some trains beyond Karlsruhe Hbf are tied through as S 71 / S 81 in the direction of Rastatt and partly further to Baden-Baden or into the Murgtal or also coming from there.

P. 33 Bruchsal - Graben-Neudorf - Philippsburg - Germersheim 60-minute intervals, Mon-Fri afternoons amplifier to Graben-Neudorf (one train from / to Philippsburg)
S 4 Germersheim - Speyer - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Wiesloch-Walldorf - Bruchsal Only trains from Heidelberg that end in Bruchsal are designated as S4, then offset by 30 minutes to S 3
RB 17C Bruchsal - Helmsheim - Bretten - Maulbronn West - Mühlacker - Vaihingen (Enz) - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Stuttgart main station Every 2 hours
RB 71 Bruchsal - Helmsheim - Bretten - Maulbronn West - Mühlacker 2-hour cycle (during rush hour there is an hourly repeater cycle between Bruchsal and Bretten)
S 9 Bruchsal - Helmsheim - Bretten 2 pairs of trains a day

literature

  • Werner Greder: Bruchsal and the railroad . Publication No. 2 of the Historical Commission of the City of Bruchsal 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greder: Bruchsal and the railway . Bruchsal 1983, p. 20
  2. ↑ Greder: Bruchsal and the railway . Bruchsal 1983, p. 25