Old Hof train station
| Old Hof train station | |
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 Station building around 1851
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| Data | |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| opening | 1848 |
| Conveyance | 1880 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Friedrich Bürklein |
| location | |
| City / municipality | court |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 19 '10 " N , 11 ° 54' 51" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 500 m |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The old station was the first station in the town of Hof in northern Bavaria . It was opened in 1848 as part of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn and the Saxon-Bavarian Railway . The border station between Bavaria and Saxony was to be built near the city center of Hof, which is why it was created as a terminal station . A stone boarding hall was built at the station to make it easier for travelers to get on and off and for other railway businesses . There were only three such halls in Bavaria. Part of the Hofer Hall with the massive portal has been preserved. In 1880 the old station was replaced by the then new main station .
Construction and opening
In November 1848 the railway lines from Hof via Bamberg to Nuremberg and from Hof to Plauen were opened. The building of the station was only completed around 1851 after the planning and costs between Bavaria and Saxony had been agreed. The basic structure of Hof's old train station was “already the preliminary stage of the classic city train station”. In Hof there were, in addition to the shared boarding hall (station hall), Bavarian and Saxon goods halls, wagon halls and engine sheds. The Bavarian depot was even equipped with a transfer table.
Reception building
The reception building stood on the site of today's city post office on Dr.-Konrad-Adenauer-Platz (previously Postplatz , previously Bahnhofsplatz ). After the old station was closed in 1880, the post office first used the reception building of the old station. In the years 1924-27 the station building was replaced by a new post office that still exists today.
Boarding hall
At Hallplatz, directly behind the post office, part of the original, stone boarding hall of the old train station is still standing. Only three stone station halls were built in Bavaria:
- Munich : length 110 m; Width 28.7 m; Height 17.4 m; around 1847
- Courtyard: length 91 m; Width 23.0 m; Height 16.5 m; around 1851
- Würzburg : length 104 m; Width 24 m; Height 14.4 m; around 1856
Only parts of the Hofer Halle have survived. It was designed by Friedrich Bürklein , the architect of the Bavarian King Ludwig I. Its architecture is reminiscent of a three-aisled basilica. The stone hall was originally 91 m long, but has been shortened several times over the years: first to 76.3 m and later to 39 m. In 1985 the remaining hall was restored true to the original by the city of Hof. Since then it has served as a parking space for vehicles from the Hof volunteer fire department . In addition to the hall of the old Augsburg train station in front of the Red Gate from 1840 (tram depot since 1920) and that of the Hamburg train station in Berlin (1845–1847), the Hof Einsteighalle is the oldest preserved train station hall in Germany.
Goods shed
The former Bavarian goods shed on Poststrasse still exists on the area of the former train station on the edge of downtown Hof. The Saxon goods shed at Hallstrasse 9 ⊙ served as a synagogue for the Jewish community in Hof after the old train station was closed. It was devastated during the November pogrom in 1938 and demolished in December 1938.
stretch
The old train station in Hof was - just like the later Hof main train station - between two bridges across the Saale . In the south, the Bavarian railway crosses the river between Oberkotzau and Hof in the Moschendorf district on the Moschendorfer bridge , in the north the Saxon railway crosses the river on the Unterkotzau bridge between Hof and Feilitzsch in Hof's Unterkotzau district .
During the operating time of the old station, the following additional routes were opened that are related to Hof station:
- 1854: Ludwig-West-Bahn Bamberg – Würzburg and on to Frankfurt am Main
- 1865: (Hof–) Oberkotzau – Eger-Regensburg – Munich with connection from Eger, from 1871 connection to Prague
- 1869: (Werdau–) Zwickau – Dresden and on to Breslau
- 1877: (Hof–) Oberkotzau – Holenbrunn; In 1878 extended to Marktredwitz and Nuremberg
Shutdown
The old station was no longer able to cope with the increasing demands placed on a border station between Bavaria and Saxony. In 1880 it was replaced by the new main train station well before the gates of the city and shut down. The area of the new train station was almost as large as that of the entire city of Hof when it was opened in 1880.
present
Remnants of the location of the first train station are the remnants of the boarding hall, the preserved Bavarian goods shed, the underpass of the Bavarian exit under Hochstraße, the post office building at the location of the reception building and a few other buildings and parts of buildings in the Hof urban area. Some information boards point the interested passers-by to the old train station: at today's post office building, at the boarding hall and at the Bavarian goods shed. The name of a restaurant opposite the demolished station building draws attention to the first Hof train station. The restaurant is called Alter Bahnhof .
Stop at Hof Mitte
A new Hof-Mitte stop is planned on Jahnstrasse, 400 meters from the old station. He is to receive a 170 m long, 55 cm high platform. Five lines are to stop at the train station. In addition, the construction of a turning track north of the stop is being examined. Commissioning is targeted for 2022.
literature
- C. Asmus: Hof - depot and train station . Merker Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1984 ( Eisenbahn-Journal special edition, ISSN 0720-051X ).
- Beatrice Sendner-Rieger: The stations of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn 1841-1853 . German Society for Railway History V. (DGEG), Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-921700-57-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 530 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 850 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Sendner-Rieger, p. 74, paragraph 9
- ↑ a b Sendner-Rieger, p. 75
- ↑ a b Sendner-Rieger, p. 285
- ^ Arnd Kluge: The Reichskristallnacht in Hof , Hof Stadtarchiv, 2002, accessed on July 26, 2015.
- ^ Project: Hof Mitte (station offensive) on the website of the Bavarian Railway Company