Old train station (Baden-Baden)
| Baden-Baden city | |
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 Entrance building of the station, today: Festspielhaus
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| opening | July 27, 1845 |
| Conveyance | September 24, 1977 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Baden-Baden |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 46 '2 " N , 8 ° 13' 58" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The old train station Baden-Baden (so the last name) was a railway terminus and end point of the railway Baden-Oos-Baden-Baden . It went into operation together with this line on July 27, 1845, served local and long-distance traffic and was finally shut down together with the line on September 24, 1977 . The reception building , which dates from 1895, has been part of the Baden-Baden Festival Hall since 1998 .
Railway system
history
Since the city of Baden-Baden lies off the Upper Rhine Plain in the Oos Valley , the route of the Baden Main Railway could not be connected directly to this important travel destination for topographical reasons. Instead, a branch line was led from the municipality of Oos, which is about four kilometers away, to Baden (then the name of the city).
In the course of time, the station underwent several changes. 1855 were its tracks, as well as all others in the Grand Duchy of Baden , of broad gauge (1600 mm) on standard gauge (1435 mm) umgespurt . The line to Baden-Baden had been electrified since May 27, 1958 .
Surname
The name of the station changed several times:
| year | designation |
|---|---|
| until 1903 | to bathe |
| from 1903 | Baden-Baden |
| from 1932 | Baden-Baden city |
| from 1937 | Baden-Baden |
The former city train station of Baden-Baden described here is not to be confused with today's Baden-Baden train station on the Baden main line, which also changed its name several times in the course of its existence and is now the Baden-Baden train station .
traffic
From here both feeder trains to Oos station and long-distance trains and through coaches run . This included one from Paris who only ran the (old) first class of cars and has operated since 1897. There were also direct connections to Amsterdam , Berlin , Brussels , Lucerne and Munich . During the racing weeks, shuttle trains also ran between the train station and the racecourse in Iffezheim to enable international guests to travel comfortably.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Baden-Oos – Baden-Baden railway was considered out of date in the eyes of Baden-Baden's local politics and the Deutsche Bundesbahn , the numerous level crossings were perceived as a hindrance to car traffic and the line was therefore closed . Lord Mayor Ernst Schlapper wanted to continue using the station area as a large car park. With the beginning of the 1977/78 winter timetable, rail traffic was therefore discontinued and the station was inoperative.
Reception building
The first station building of the railway station Baden was a timber-framed building , the Friedrich Eisenlohr in Swiss-style had designed and which was at the side next to the tracks. In view of the select audience that was arriving, it naturally had a princely room . This first reception building had two disadvantages: it was soon too small for the rapidly growing traffic and too unrepresentative for the glamorous public of the " world bath ". The Grand Ducal Baden State Railways remedied the first deficiency with extensions. The latter could only be eliminated by a new building. However, this was hesitating again and again and could only be inaugurated on March 18, 1895. A splendid building in the style of the neo-renaissance with borrowings from the baroque was realized . A third of the construction costs could be used to decorate the facade . It was designed with a light sandstone from the Murgtal . The building received electrical lighting and, of course, a princely room again, which was placed in the western pavilion of the complex.
The reception building is now a cultural monument of particular importance in accordance with Section 12 Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Act .
Recovery
The railway systems were soon demolished after they were abandoned. 1978 parts of the old railway station, 15 kilometers east to the station Bad Herrenalb - the end point of Albtalbahn - translocated . The station building was retained and was used for other purposes for 20 years, including as the casino's slot machine . An event hall made of a tubular steel modular system was built on the former platforms . The Baden-Baden flea market took place on the surrounding land. When the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden was built on the former railway site in the 1990s , the architect Wilhelm Holzbauer redesigned the reception building into the foyer of the Festspielhaus. In addition, a lake with a green area was created on the former railway site and an underground car park was built. The northern portal of the Michael Tunnel , which opened in 1989, is also located on the former station grounds.
The street names Eisenbahnstraße , Beim alten Bahnhof and Bahnstaffel are reminiscent of the station . The station building achieved a certain level of awareness thanks to the kit for model railways offered by Vollmer .
literature
- NN: Baden-Baden. From the Belle Époque train station to the Festspielhaus . In: Eisenbahn Kurier 6/1998, pp. 26–27.
- NN: Line to Baden-Baden closed 30 years ago . In: Der Weichenbengel 6/2007, pp. 38–46
- Walter Carganico: 150 years ago the first train went to Baden-Baden . In: Aquae 95th Working Group for Urban History Baden-Baden, Issue 28 (1995), pp. 71–82.
- Karlfriedrich Ohr: The old city train station in Baden-Baden. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 27th year 1998, p. 147 ff. ( Online )
- Erich Preuß: 100 legendary train stations . Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-613-71389-5 , p. 10f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Goette: Rheingold. Legend on rails . Freiburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-88255-735-0 , p. 8.