Überlingen Ost train station
| Überlingen East | |
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 Former reception building of the Überlingen Ost train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | October 1, 1901 |
| Conveyance | December 2001 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neo-Gothic / Country Style |
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| City / municipality | Überlingen |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 45 '50 " N , 9 ° 10' 5" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 401 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Überlingen Ost (or Ostbahnhof ) train station is a former stop on the Stahringen – Friedrichshafen railway line ( route kilometers 19.6) in Überlingen on Lake Constance . As part of the entirety of Lake Constance Belt Railway he stands together with the adjacent tunnel entrance under monument protection . In 2001, rail operations at the stop were stopped.
location
The former Ostbahnhof is located on Mühlenstraße, directly at the exit of the 615 meter long Überlingen East Tunnel. The layout of the station, with the platform that is still in place , is extended to the east by the level crossing on Nußdorfer Strasse and to the north and west by the Seubertweg (which partially runs above the tunnel portal) (named after Adolf Seubert, the engineer of the two railway tunnels) limited.
history
After the section Stahringen - Überlingen West was opened in 1895, the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg signed a state treaty in November 1897 to continue the railway line to Friedrichshafen . In the autumn of 1898, construction work finally began on two tunnels that run under Überlingen. At the same time, they were driven from the west and east of the city into the soft Molasse rock until they met in an approximately 160-meter-long open cut (today's Überlingen stop ). By visiting the Baden Grand Duke Friedrich I and the Württemberg King Wilhelm II. In a special train was the second section of the railway line Stahringen-Friedrichshafen, and thus the station Überlingen East opened. In December 1944, the station was downgraded to a halt.
The station restaurant closed in the late 1970s, then sold German Federal Railroad in 1984, the (since 1975 unoccupied) reception building . It has been privately owned since then and is used as an office building. After the opening of the Überlingen Mitte stop (today only Überlingen ) in 2001, the Ostbahnhof was completely separated from rail traffic. The approximately 130-meter-long platform is still largely intact, but no longer accessible to the public.
Reception building
One of the most remarkable cultural monuments of the Bodenseegürtelbahn as a whole is the station building of the former train station, because, unlike most of the other station buildings on the route, it is a relatively elaborately designed station building for use as a stop. With funding from the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the building was partially repaired in 2015 (decorative elements, masonry).
architecture
The one and two-storey building made of sandstone blocks with hipped roofs (and a gable roof on the eastern part of the building) is equipped with elements of neo-Gothic and romantic country house style. On the street side, the facade is in three parts with several cross-frame windows and two round arches supported by columns (entrance area), with a platform above with a balustrade and a stone eagle figure. On the west side there is a corner balcony bay with a round arch.
The facade to the platform is in two parts, also with cross-frame windows, multi-part arched openings and the Baden coat of arms . In the eastern part of the building there are two-part coupled arched windows with columns. The particularly elaborately designed east facade contains three-part coupled arched windows with columns and a decorative gable (processed, red-painted beams with four carved dragon heads and consoles ). A console frieze also extends around the entire building below the eaves .
Web links
literature
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf; Burkhard Wollny: The railway on Lake Constance . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-88255-758-9 .
- Paul Baur (Ed.): ... small, ultra-modern but local! Überlinger trade in transition . Association of Friends of the Jörg-Zürn-Gewerbeschule, 2nd edition 1997, ISBN 3-921213-93-2 .
- Oswald Burger: The belt was closed a hundred years ago. The last piece of railway on the lake . In: Leben am See, The Yearbook of the Lake Constance District, Volume 17 . Bodenseekreis, City of Friedrichshafen (Ed.), Verlag Senn, Tettnang 1999, ISBN 3-88812-518-9 .
- Hanspeter Walter: New hub for mobility. One hundred years after the railway was built, Überlingen has a central train station. In: Leben am See, The Yearbook of the Lake Constance District, Volume 19 . Bodenseekreis, City of Friedrichshafen (ed.). Verlag Senn, Tettnang 2001, ISBN 3-88812-520-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information at leo-bw.de , accessed on September 23, 2018
- ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Scharf; Burkhard Wollny: The railway on Lake Constance. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1993, p. 209
- ↑ The German Foundation for Monument Protection helps the monument owner of the Überlinger Ostbahnhof on denkmalschutz.de, accessed on 23 September 2018
- ↑ Monument of national importance on denkmalschutz.de, accessed on September 23, 2018
- ↑ Stef Manzini: German Foundation for Monument Protection supports Ostbahnhof In: Südkurier of June 8, 2015.