Railway stations in Würzburg
In Würzburg there are three train stations and stops that are served by scheduled passenger traffic. Another two stations are only used for train formation and operations, one is completely shut down.
Train stations in operation
Würzburg Central Station
The main train station is the most important railway station in Würzburg and the entire Main Franconia region. This is where the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg and the lines from Stuttgart ( KBS 780 ), Aschaffenburg ( KBS 800 ), Nuremberg ( KBS 805 ), Bamberg ( KBS 810 ) and Treuchtlingen ( KBS 920 ) meet. Around 600 train journeys take place daily on the ten platform tracks. ICE trains run from here every hour or two hours to destinations such as Frankfurt am Main , Nuremberg, Munich and Hanover . In local transport , four regional rail and five regional express lines offer, in some cases, half-hourly offers on the suburban routes. Despite its good transport connections and its great importance in the whole of Germany's long-distance traffic , it does not offer any requirements for barrier-free use, as it has neither lift systems nor escalators or wheelchair ramps , which would make platform access easier for people with reduced mobility. An expansion of the traffic station has been planned since the mid-1990s, but has not yet been implemented. The reception building and the rest of the overall system are not very appealing either, which was recently confirmed by a survey by the newspaper “ Bild am Sonntag ” in June 2005, which described Würzburg Central Station as “Germany's ugliest train station”. In spring 2007, the Deutsche Bahn and the city of Würzburg finally agreed on a modernization until 2011/2012.
On the station square also contains the stops of Würzburg tram and the bus station , which is considered as a key transfer point for the region. These systems have also been in need of modernization for years, but they have not yet been implemented.
Würzburg Süd stop
The Würzburg Süd stop (opened as Südbahnhof in 1879 and usually still called that today) is now classified in station category 5 as the second most important station. It is located on the border of the Frauenland and Sanderau districts at 137.8 km of the railway line from Treuchtlingen , which runs parallel to the southern city ring there . With the construction of this bypass, the Südbahnhof, which had remained undamaged during the war, was demolished. Today breakpoint is long of two 213 and 204 meter outdoor platforms that do not provide conditions for a barrier-free entry into the holding here trains from their height ago, even the platform access is not accessible by stairs from the Zeppelin , Grünewald- and Sandberger road from . The two platforms are equipped with glass weather protection shelters, ticket machines , timetable displays and SOS information pillars. Especially in the school traffic in the morning and at noon the breakpoint is very busy due to the several nearby schools.
The stop is served all day by the following regional train lines:
- (Karlstadt–) Würzburg – Ochsenfurt – Steinach – Ansbach – Treuchtlingen (every 60 minutes)
- Würzburg – Ochsenfurt – Marktbreit (afternoons Mon-Fri, 60-minute intervals)
- Würzburg – Lauda – Bad Mergentheim (–Crailsheim) ( every 120 minutes)
During rush hour , the offers in the main area (to Ansbach, to Lauda) are compressed to a 30- or 60-minute cycle. There is also the Südbahnhof / LVA bus stop on line 16 at the Zeppelinstraße underpass .
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Würzburg-Zell train station
The Wuerzburg-Zell Station , which an operationally station part is of Würzburg main station, located at kilometer 3.9 of the Main-Spessart Railway to Aschaffenburg and is located between the industrial area of the New Harbor and the former Würzburg marshalling yard , which since February 2005 is shut down. The station - classified in station category 6 - consists only of a partially covered 239 meter long central platform , which - like the underpass - is not designed to be barrier-free . The single-storey station building was built in 1906 and has been used as a rehearsal room by the Musikbahnhof Association , which includes regional bands and solo musicians , since 1998 . The entire system of the station made a very shabby impression until the renovation in 2011, as no investments had been made in this station for years. In February 2007 it was announced that Deutsche Bahn wanted to offer the station building for sale, but a new owner has not yet been found. Coming from Würzburg, shortly before the start of the platforms, the single-track port railway unthreads on the left.
The station is a stop for the hourly regional train line ( Schlüchtern -) Jossa - Gemünden (Main) - Würzburg - Schweinfurt (- Bamberg ), and the weekday repeater trains from Karlstadt , which in Würzburg usually continue to Treuchtlingen or Kitzingen , stop here become. The train station is very poorly connected to the rest of the local public transport network, although several bus lines serve the Neuer Hafen area and the adjacent Dürrbachau (lines 11, 13, 19, 27, sometimes 22), but they run on the Rothofbrücke bridge that spans the tracks and on the northern one City ring past the train station.
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Railway stations without passenger traffic
Würzburg-Heidingsfeld Ost train station
The Ostbahnhof of the formerly independent town of Heidingsfeld was built in 1864 and is located on the Würzburg – Treuchtlingen railway line at kilometer 133.9. In addition to its operation in passenger transport , which ended in the late 1980s, it used to have a freight hall with a loading station. The stately reception building has been refurbished and is used privately and commercially. Until June 2001, the station still had a regular tram connection on line 3. Since it was discontinued, traffic has been operated with buses on line 16, and tram line 3 has been going to Heuchelhof ever since . For a possible resumption of tram operations, the tracks on the forecourt of the Ostbahnhof and on the entire Heidingsfeld inner-city route were still available until they were removed in 2015.
Würzburg-Heidingsfeld West train station
The Heidingsfeld Westbahnhof was built in 1866 and is located near the merging of the railway lines from Treuchtlingen and Stuttgart , but the actual station is on the Stuttgart branch at kilometer 153.7. It consists of the station building that still exists today, which, like that of the Ostbahnhof, is in private use. In addition to the station building, there is also - exactly between the two railway lines - a modern-style signal box .
The Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) and the Agenda 21 public transport working group have been campaigning for the reactivation of a train station in Heidingsfeld for several years. There is sufficient passenger potential here, as there is no train stop in the entire south of the city of Würzburg. The VCD and Agenda 21 recommend the former Westbahnhof as a suitable location - but with platforms on both lines, as there are good connections to the nearby tram stop “Klingenstraße” (lines 3 and 5) and the bus stop “Hofmannstraße” (lines 31 and 33) could be created.
Würzburg-Heimgarten stop
The Würzburg-Heimgarten stop was at kilometer 92.3 on the Würzburg – Bamberg railway line and was between the Heimgarten residential area and the Aumühle industrial area . Since its construction in 1854, the first name was " Artillery Barracks ", but after 1945 it was changed to a less military-sounding name. In 1981, when a third track was laid between Würzburg and Rottendorf due to the increased volume of traffic , the platforms had to give way to the expansion. Since then, the track space between Gneisenaustrasse and the residential buildings on the north side has been very narrow.
Deportation trains in the time of National Socialism
A total of eight deportations from train stations in Würzburg were carried out between November 27, 1941 and January 17, 1944. Four from the Aumühle freight yard and four from the main train station. Of the total of 2069 deportees, only 61 survived. The DenkOrt Deportationen 1941-1944 memorial in front of the main train station today commemorates the deportations and their victims .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Jungbauer: New station: Bahn wants to tackle small solutions immediately in Main-Post on March 12, 2007
- ^ Profile in the station database of the Bavarian Railway Company
- ^ Horst-Günter Wagner : The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 396-426 and 1298-1302, here: p. 410.
- ↑ Historical photographs of the Südbahnhof 1900–1965
- ↑ a b Deutsche Bahn station categorization (as of: 01/2015) (PDF; 353 kB)
- ^ Platform information Würzburg Süd on the Deutsche Bahn website
- ↑ a b Profile in the station database of the Bavarian Railway Company
- ↑ Platform information Würzburg-Zell on the Deutsche Bahn website
- ^ Ernst Jerg: A train station on special offer in Main-Post from February 23, 2007
- ^ Profile in the station database of the Bavarian Railway Company
- ↑ [1] , Old tracks gone: the streets are tight. Main post.
- ^ Karl-Georg Rötter: Why the deportation memorial shouldn't be at the main station . Main-Post GmbH. August 11, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ↑ DenkOrt Deportations 1941-1944 . denkort-deportationen.de. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
