Landshut old train station

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In 1857 the first station, the old station , was built in Landshut as part of the Munich – Regensburg line and inaugurated in 1858. The company ended in 1880. The end of the former reception building, which has been a listed building since 1973, is evidence of its existence .

Old Landshut train station, end of the reception building from the southwest (road access), 2011
Old Landshut station, end of the reception building from the southeast (tracks, turntable), 2011
View of the old train station (in the left half of the picture), watercolor by Albert Emil Kirchner 1859

Construction and commissioning

In 1854, the surveying work began on the future station area, which was located directly in front of the gates of the then city on the north bank of the Kleine Isar . This area was endangered by floods, so that from 1856 drainage ditches were created, soil was filled and leveled and the Pfettrach was submerged. The brick building was erected in 1857 under the direction of master mason Simon Pausinger (reception building) and master builder Johann Baptist Bernlochner (locomotive shed). In April 1858, the half-timbered entry hall was finally built. The entire area was surrounded by a fence. Up to 700 people worked on the construction site.

The first train entered the station on September 6, 1858, a freight train with 20 freight cars full of building materials and a passenger car in the middle. Inside was Paul Camille von Denis , the director of the Royal Privileged Stock Corporation of the Bavarian Eastern Railways . This private company was responsible for the construction and operation of the line.

Scheduled rail operations started - presumably delayed due to a lack of passenger cars - on November 3, 1858, but without the opening ceremony. This should take place after completion of the route between Landshut and Regensburg, but has not been handed down.

Railway station and railway operations

The extension of the railway area was approx. 450 m by 150 m in an approximate north-south orientation, almost seven hectares. The railway site was in the immediate vicinity of the Seligenthal monastery . The entrance and exit gate was on the north side of the site. The station was divided into a passenger station , a freight station and a complete depot .

Model of the old train station in 1:87 scale - view from the southwest
1:87 scale model of the old train station - view from the southeast
Model of the old train station in 1:87 scale - view from the northwest
Site plan from 1847 with the future railway area.
Scale plan of the railway area, status approx. 1857. Tracks, buildings, lettering.

Passenger station

The passenger station included the reception building , the Einsteighalle and privy and three tracks with two platforms and a hub . In the head of the brick-built reception building, facing south to north, was the apartment and office of the administrator as well as the telegraph office. The elongated extension housed: cash register, luggage office, post office, a room for servants, waiting room 1st and 2nd class, restaurant, waiting room 3rd class and waiting room for His Majesty the King. In fact, two Bavarian kings visited the city of Landshut by train: in 1860 König a. D. Ludwig I . and in 1869 King Ludwig II .

The extension was supplemented by a wooden veranda on the west side, more or less on the street side. On this side there was also the separate exit at some distance. On the east side, the rail side, was the boarding hall, an open, high half-timbered construction. It spanned three tracks. The track facing the station building and the track facing away had a platform for people, luggage and mail. The middle track was reserved for shunting trips.

Freight depot

Components of the freight yard were: goods shed , loading ramp , wagon turntables , weighbridge , toilet. On the eastern side of the elongated goods shed were three loading tracks , which at the end converged to form a wagon turntable. With the help of three smaller wagon turntables, the freight wagons could be turned by 90 ° by hand, pushed to the loading lane (“loading ramp”) and then maneuvered onto the correct track. They were weighed on the weighbridge.

Depot

A locomotive shed , a wagon shed with a manually operated transfer platform, as well as coaling and a cesspool belonged to the depot . According to the track plan, there were also water cranes and cleaning pits, but no water tower . A water tower is also not shown in the plan of the locomotive shed. However, a steam pump was housed there, which was probably used to fill the locomotive tenders without intermediate storage. In the building of the engine shed there were also five parking spaces, a workshop, office, magazine and a (engine) driver's room. This enabled full supply and maintenance as well as sheltering and heating up the locomotives. The neighboring car depot housed six parking spaces with space for 12 cars.

Timetable 1860

According to an original timetable from 1860, the Landshut – Regensburg and Landshut – Passau routes led over the Geiselhöringer fork , which later became less important due to the acronyms Neufahrn – Obertraubling and Sünching – Radldorf .

Departure target
05:21 Regensburg / Passau freight train
05:36 Munich freight train
08:42 Munich Passenger train
09:30 Regensburg / Passau Passenger train
14:41 regensburg freight train
15:28 Munich Passenger train
17:25 Munich freight train
18:22 regensburg Passenger train
Arrivals origin
08:32 regensburg Passenger train
09:20 Munich Passenger train
12:43 Regensburg / Passau freight train
14:10 Munich freight train
15:18 Regensburg / Passau Passenger train
18:12 Munich Passenger train
21:09 Munich freight train
21:38 Regensburg / Passau freight train

Operation of the terminus station

Due to its location, the old station was designed as a terminal station . The locomotives that pulled the passenger trains into the boarding hall were turned by hand on the turntable adjacent to the south and drove on the middle track through the hall to behind the switches. Finally they put the train back in order to be able to pull it forward. However, it is also possible that the locomotive was changed, because the timetable only allowed ten minutes for this process.

The freight train locomotives were turned in the same way.

Significance for city and surrounding area

The connection to the railway network had various effects on the economic development of the city and social life. Industrial goods could now be transported by rail, both piece goods and bulk goods that were difficult or impossible to handle with horse carts. In addition to coal, steel, cast iron, wood and other building materials, cattle and beer were also transported, as images of earlier freight cars show. The transport of mail by rail was also new, and the telegraph line along the railway made it possible to transmit messages quickly. But the train was also used as a troop transport as early as 1859, during the Second Italian War of Independence .

For clubs, societies and the bourgeoisie, new excursion possibilities opened up, whereby the station restaurant was also a popular destination.

End of operation

As early as the seventies of the 19th century it became apparent that the Landshut terminus station was not able to cope with the steadily increasing rail traffic. Added to this was the expected volume of traffic from additionally planned routes to Landau ad Isar and Neumarkt-St. Veit and their extensions.

Therefore, between 1876 and 1880, a considerably larger through station with a large roundhouse was built at the current location, literally on the green field. The construction site of the new station was initially connected to the old station by rails for the purpose of transporting materials. The first scheduled train arrived at the new station on May 11, 1880.

In 1881 the Ministry of Finance agreed that the land and buildings belonging to the “Staatsärar” in the old station should be sold. The military paid 18,400 marks for the expansion of the cavalry barracks, and 20,235 marks were achieved for a further 23.29 days of work. The old station was then dismantled. Today only the reception building (Innere Regensburger Str. 7) is evidence of its existence. Since 1881 it has housed the Royal Bavarian Road and River Construction Office, today the Landshut State Construction Office. While the locomotive shed and the railway area can be verified at least until 1895, there are no more traces of the route today.

literature

  • Herzog, Theo: Landshut in the IX. Century , Residenzverlag, Landshut 2nd edition 1994
  • Zeitler, Walther: Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate , Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Weiden 1985, ISBN 3-924350-01-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Fuhrmann (ed.): Bw Landshut (Bay). In: Deutsche Bahnbetriebswerke […] , loose-leaf collection, GeraNova Augsburg 1993
  2. ^ House of Bavarian History (ed.): Railway in Bavaria 1835-2010 , Edition Bayern special issue # 01, Friedricht Pustet Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7917-2302-0 .

Other sources

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Model of the old train station on a scale of 1:87 (H0) - representation of model and prototype, Thorsten Hambusch, Landshut

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '34.2 "  N , 12 ° 9' 5.3"  E