Wiedenest station

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The Wiedenest station was a station on the Siegburg – Olpe railway line . Until 1907 the station was called Bruchhausen .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the station and the connected railway line enabled the previously very remote place Wiedenest and the surrounding Dörspetal between Bergneustadt and Olpe to achieve industrialization and the associated economic boom.

In addition, the station was important as an operating point for the division of trains in order to drive longer trains over the steep incline towards Olpe.

1979 the passenger traffic between Gummersbach - Dieringhausen and Olpe was stopped. After that there was freight traffic in Wiedenest until 1988 .

history

The first passenger train from Olpe to Siegburg at Bruchhausen / Wiedenest station, 1903

When the railway line did not yet exist, Wiedenest and the entire Dörspetal were far away from the major transport routes. The next stretch slowly approached the Dörspetal, the Bigge Valley Railway in the still distant for the prevailing conditions Olpe from 1875, in the more distant Ründeroth from 1884. In 1887 the railway from Ründeroth after was Derschlag continue to be built. In 1896 the extension to Bergneustadt followed, and in 1903 to Olpe.

The station was opened on September 1, 1903 and was initially called Bruchhausen . At that time, the journey by train to Cologne was still four and a half hours, as the detour via Siegburg had to be taken. The station buildings at Wiedenest, Hützemert and Eichen were of the same design. The cellar was made of quarry stone, the buildings above in half-timbered construction and slated up to the goods shed. The building consisted of a service room, two waiting rooms and the service apartment on the upper floor. There was also an attached goods shed. The station had four tracks and initially had no signals. There was also no signal box yet. In 1906 various small villages such as Bruchhausen were combined to form the village "Wiedenest", and in 1907 the station was renamed.

In the first few years the volume of goods here was rather low, as Wiedenest was not yet an industrial location. The largest customer in freight transport and important for the population here was initially the farming cooperative . Later, large tonnages of fish transports were added, which were sent by an entrepreneur based here with many ponds, and there was also the shipment of agricultural products and stones from the quarries in the area.

When the freight traffic increased after the opening of the direct connection to Cologne , the station got another track in 1914.

During its entire operating time, the station played a special role: it was the place where trains were split up in order to bring them over the incline towards Olpe. This happened particularly often during the time of the occupation of the Ruhr by the French up to 1923, when massive numbers of coal trains were diverted to the east because of the blockade of the northern routes. In the 1920s, the Wiedenest station was also expanded before the global economic crisis began. Despite this crisis, the volume of goods on the route increased immensely.

During the Second World War, the news office from Cologne was temporarily relocated here in order to protect it from bomb attacks in the hard-hit metropolis. The works fire brigade of the Reichsbahn repair shop in Opladen, which is quite a distance away, was also temporarily stationed here. The Wiedenest station was nevertheless damaged by air raids, although not as badly as the Olpe and Dieringhausen stations.

From 1947 onwards, the Schriever & Hähner company was connected to the eastern exit in Wiedenest.

In 1973 the train station became a stop, and the fire brigade burned down the ailing station building as part of an official exercise.

In 1985, goods traffic between Bergneustadt and Wiedenest was stopped. In 1988 a dam slide caused by improper construction work behind Wiedenest finally led to closure on May 27, 1989 in the direction of Olpe. The damage was not repaired in spite of the existing insurance and justified claims for damages due to the disinterest of the railway, instead the route was simply closed.

Today you can still find a storage shed and both the house platform and the central platform.

See also

literature

  • Sascha Koch, Horst Kowalski and others: Railways in Oberberg and the history of the Dieringhausen depot . Galunder Verlag Nümbrecht 2005. ISBN 3-89909-050-0 .
  • Sascha Koch: Dieringhausen - Bergneustadt - Olpe: Chronicle of a railway line between the Rhineland and Westphalia . Galunder Verlag Nümbrecht 2003. ISBN 978-3-89909-019-2 .

Web links

Commons : Bergneustadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ track plan Wiedenest
  2. ^ History of the Wiedenest station, part 1 at kursbucharchiv.de
  3. ^ History of the Wiedenest station, part 2 at kursbucharchiv.de
  4. ^ History of the Wiedenest train station, part 3 at kursbucharchiv.de
  5. ^ Sascha Koch: Dieringhausen - Bergneustadt - Olpe: Chronicle of a railway line between the Rhineland and Westphalia . Galunder Verlag Nümbrecht 2003. ISBN 978-3-89909-019-2 , p. 47f
  6. ↑ Dörspetal fire brigade when the station burned down
  7. ^ The Dammrutsch in Wiedenest at Oberbergische-Eisenbahnen.de , accessed on March 14, 2010

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '41.82 "  N , 7 ° 41' 26.23"  O