Eschwege station

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Eschwege
Eschwege city station
Eschwege city station
Data
Location in the network Terminal station (since 2009)

Through station (1880–1995)
End station on the side (1875–1880)

Platform tracks 2
abbreviation FEG
IBNR 8001884
opening October 31, 1875

December 12, 2009 (Stadtbahnhof)

location
City / municipality Eschwege
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 11 '30 "  N , 10 ° 2' 27"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '30 "  N , 10 ° 2' 27"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The station Eschwege , now also known as the city railway station , was west of the center of the city of the same first opened in 1875 and - after the operation had been discontinued in the meantime - again in 2009.

history

expansion

The station Eschwege him and the tethering line was on 31 October 1875, together with the section Bebra - Eschwege West (then Niederhone ) of Bebra-Göttingen railway as a spur track opened. At that time, the construction of the Leinefelde – Treysa line , part of the Kanonenbahn , was already planned. The section between Eschwege station and Leinefelde was opened on May 15, 1880. The Eschwege station was transformed from a terminus to a through station .

As a result, Eschwege station gained further importance through the connection of two branch lines to the Kanonenbahn: On May 1, 1902, the Schwebda – Wartha railway line was opened. Although it only branched off from the Kanonenbahn in Schwebda , a train station approx. 5 km east of Eschwege, the trains always ran to and from Eschwege. The same applied to the Heiligenstadt – Schwebda railway line opened in 1914 .

Eschwege station was expanded to 32 tracks. For passenger traffic , there were three tracks on the covered house platform and on a partly covered island platform , to which an underpass led.

Passenger traffic was mainly oriented in the direction of Kassel , where a line branching off from the Kanonenbahn in Waldkappel led since 1875 . Above all, however, the Eschwege station served as the starting point for shuttle trains to Eschwege West station , where there was a connection to long-distance traffic on the north-south route .

Dismantling

The division of Germany after the Second World War interrupted the cannon railway and the route to Heiligenstadt behind Schwebda. East of Schwebda only the Schwebda – Wartha railway line - and this only up to the inner-German border near Heldra - remained in operation and was mainly used for local freight traffic . Passenger traffic remained minimal. In 1970/71 only one pair of trains ran Monday to Friday to Wanfried and another to Schwebda. On May 30, 1981, passenger traffic to the east of Eschwege station, and on June 1, 1985, passenger traffic between Eschwege West and Eschwege station was also discontinued. In 1995 the line east of Eschwege was shut down , making Eschwege station a terminus again. The preliminary "end" for Eschwege station came when, on December 15, 2002, freight traffic there was also suspended.

renovation

A few years later, the Hessische Landesbahn bought the railway infrastructure from Eschwege West up to and including the Eschwege station from Deutsche Bahn AG , rebuilt the line and electrified it. Eschwege station was rebuilt as a terminal station on the northern part of the former station area. A connecting curve to the north was also newly built , which allows journeys to Göttingen without having to change direction again . A new stop , Eschwege-Niederhone , was created. Operations started on December 12, 2009.

Reception building

The old station building in Eschwege is a listed building and is used by a Waldorf school.

Eschwege station received a symmetrical, classical , two-story, very representative reception building with neo-Romanesque decor in 1875 . The building consists of a high, seven-axis central section with window arcades and arched windows, which is framed by two risalits with triangular gables , each of which is adjoined on the outside by three-axis, slightly lower side wings. The portals are lavishly framed in sandstone . The upper floors of the side wings were added later, which can be seen from the different window shape. The reception building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

With the abandonment of the station, the reception building, which had been completely oversized in the last few years of operation, also lost its function. A period of vacancy followed. Eventually, the Association for Waldorf Education bought the building and had it renovated in accordance with monument regulations from 2009 and converted into a school building. In the process, annoying additions from the 1970s were removed and the building supplemented so that the original symmetry comes into effect again. Today the building houses the school and kindergarten of the Waldorf Association. The steel rivet construction of the adjoining platform roof could be retained. A "station sign" with the inscription Waldorf Eschwege was installed.

Eschwege city station

The new Eschwege station, sometimes also called Eschwege Stadtbahnhof , was opened on December 12, 2009. It comprises a new reception building, a two-storey car park and a large, new central bus station , which together with track 1 forms a combined platform . In the reception building there is a customer center or a mobility center of the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV) with ticket sales, a waiting area with seating and toilets . There is also a bakery with newspaper sales. The station has two tracks on outer platforms. In the passenger traffic it is served by all local trains of the Cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft between Göttingen and Bebra (RB7), some of which are connected to Fulda .

In 2013 the station received the European rail award in the “small train station” category. The prize is awarded annually by the European Rail Congress .

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Eschwege  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Data from Schomann, p. 533
  2. ^ A b Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines for passenger traffic in Germany 1980–1990 . Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3-613-71073-0 , p. 144
  3. ↑ Federal Railway Office : List of federally closed lines in the state of Hesse since 1994  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.eba.bund.de  
  4. ↑ mme: Back to Eschwege . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2010, p. 213
  5. ↑ Schomann, p. 535
  6. ^ Association for Waldorf Education Eschwege e. V.
  7. ↑ on renovation see: Berkemann
  8. ^ Eisenbahn-magazin 1/2014, p. 22