Überlingen Therme station
| Überlingen thermal baths | |
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 View to the train station
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| Location in the network |
Intermediate station ( terminus 1895–1901) |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | RUEB |
| IBNR | 8005937 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | August 21, 1895 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Ueberlingen thermal baths |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Überlingen |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 46 '10 " N , 9 ° 8' 43" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 401 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Überlingen Therme train station (formerly Überlingen , Überlingen West ) is a train station in the large district town of Überlingen on Lake Constance. He has three tracks and is located at the kilometer 17.525 of the railway line Stahringen-Friedrichshafen , belongs to the train station Category 5 of Deutsche Bahn (DB) and was until the opening of the breakpoint Ueberlingen in 2001, the main entry point of the city.
location
The Therme train station is located near the western city limits, a few hundred meters from Überlingen's old town. The listed reception building is located south of the tracks not far from the lake shore , only Bahnhofstrasse and the former harbor lie in between. Directly to the west of the reception building, on the other side of Bahnhofstrasse, is part of the future state horticultural show site (the site is partly located on the former freight yard ). Obere Bahnhofstrasse runs north of the station. In the west (Bahnhofstrasse) and east (Goldbacher Strasse) the tracks are bordered by level crossings .
history
Prehistory and construction
In the middle of the 19th century, the health resort of Überlingen worried about traffic-related isolation and pushed for a railway connection as soon as possible, as many towns on Lake Constance were already connected to rail traffic ( Friedrichshafen via the Südbahn in 1847; Lindau via the Allgäubahn in 1853; Romanshorn in 1855 via the Thurtallinie) ; Rorschach 1856 with the railway line to St. Gallen and Radolfzell and Konstanz with the Baden main line 1863). It was not until the spring of 1892 that the Grand Ducal Baden State Railroad granted permission to build a railway section from Stahringen via Ludwigshafen to Überlingen as a terminus.
Work on the railway line , which mostly runs along the lakeshore, did not begin again until two years later in January 1894 near Stahringen, but it progressed rapidly. As early as August of the same year, the Katharinenfelsen near the Goldbacher Heidenhöhlen was blasted . The planned demolition of the New Year's Eve chapel standing in the way (and still considered insignificant) was prevented by resistance from the population.
Simultaneously with the railway facilities was directly opposite the Überlinger station building a breakwater in Lake Constance, which as a separate port of course shipping was available. A train station hotel was also built. With the visit of Grand Duke Friedrich I on August 21, 1895, the Überlingen passenger and freight station was opened.
Extension of the Stahringen – Friedrichshafen railway line
Soon after the station opened, the Baden State Railroad and the Royal Württemberg State Railroad began planning the construction of the Stahringen – Überlingen railway to Friedrichshafen or Unteruhldingen or Frickingen . For cost reasons and to take into account the Überlingen cityscape, two tunnels with an open cut under Überlingen were also planned, as the city feared that a railway line running through the old town would impair or even lead to a complete decline in tourism (the main source of income for the City). The location of the station favored the construction of the tunnel, as there is a rising Molasse rock not far from the railway site into which the west tunnel tube could be driven.
From 1898, construction work for the tunnels began at the same time from the west and east sides of the city. With a length of 948 ( west tunnel ) and 615 ( east tunnel ) meters, the tunnels were blasted through the soft Mollasse sandstone and dug until they met after a breakthrough in an approximately 160 meter long open tunnel cut (since 2001 Überlingen stop ). On October 1, 1901, with the renewed visit of the Grand Duke of Baden and the King of Württemberg, Wilhelm II . the railway tunnel including the single-track Überlingen-Ost stop (also called the Ostbahnhof ) opened. The three-track station, now called Überlingen West (also called Westbahnhof ), remained the city's main station despite the new Ostbahnhof .
Air raid in 1945
On February 22 at 1:45 p.m., the US Air Forces ( United States Army Air Forces , B-26 320th Bombardement Group, Mission 474) carried out the only targeted air strike on Überlingen; it was for the freight yard at the West Railway Station. 56 explosive bombs were used, seven of them with long-term detonators. Eleven concentration camp prisoners, four members of the military construction crew and five local residents were killed in the attack. Six residential buildings in the area and other buildings on the station premises as well as a railway and road bridge were completely destroyed, and the station building was also hit directly. A total of 50 to 60 houses were damaged. As a result of the long detonation of some high-explosive bombs, there were further heavy detonations until the following night. The attack was part of Operation Clarion , using seven medium-range Martin B-26 Marauder bombers from Épinal in Lorraine . For many years it was wrongly assumed that the air raid targeted the Goldbacher tunnel , which is only a few hundred meters away from the station.
Another story
Until the 1980s, the port was separated from regular traffic and the tracks of the freight station and the goods shed were dismantled, after which this area was largely used as a parking lot . The station hotel was closed in the 1960s. In 2001, the Überlingen Mitte stop (today only Überlingen ) was opened in the tunnel cut . Embedded between two high lining walls , the stop can only be used on a single track, but is still considered a "main station" because it is located in the center of the city and is directly connected to the bus station . Shortly after opening, the Ostbahnhof was closed, but the Überlingen- Nussdorf stop was reactivated.
Since 2003
After the opening of the nearby Bodensee-Therme swimming pool in November 2003, the Westbahnhof was officially renamed the Überlingen Therme . After the closing of the ticket hall and the station restaurant , the reception building was empty, only a mechanical signal box is still on the ground floor on the house platform . After Deutsche Bahn sold the station building to a private investor in 2013, renovation and renovation work finally began in early 2018. A restaurant , offices, an information center and a ticket sales point for the state horticultural show are to be built in the building; the work should be finished in spring 2019, but this did not happen. In 2020, the Therme station is to present itself as the gateway to the state horticultural show.
On the site of the former freight station and the adjoining Graf site south of the track system, the search for possible duds from the 1945 air raid was carried out until March 2016 as part of the preparatory work for the state horticultural show; the search was fruitless.
construction
Platforms
The main platform on track 1 is 168 meters long and 38 centimeters high (it is to be extended in 2019 and increased to 55 centimeters). The partially covered platform on tracks 2 and 3 is also 38 centimeters high, but 223 meters long. Since the Therme station does not have a pedestrian underpass , there is a level crossing over tracks 1 and 2.
Signal boxes
Next to the signal box in the station building ( Üf ) is the signal tower of the former mechanical signal box Üw to the west of the station . The listed building is still owned by DB and is located entirely on the state horticultural show site; it is to be integrated into the design of the state horticultural show by 2020 (as a café).
traffic
Only the regional train Seehänsele serves the Therme train station every hour with regional shuttles , each in the direction of Friedrichshafen or Radolfzell / Singen. The frequency on the Stahringen – Friedrichshafen is to be increased before the state horticultural show, as more frequentation is expected.
Because the Stahringen – Friedrichshafen railway line is only single-track, the regional train has to wait several times a day for the IRE Sprinter to pass from Ulm to Basel on a sideline (mostly track 1 or 3) . The Interregio-Express does not stop at the Therme station, but only at the Überlingen stop .
| Train type | route | Clock frequency |
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| RB | ( Singen (Hohentwiel) ) - Radolfzell - Ludwigshafen (Bodensee) - Überlingen Therme - Überlingen - Uhldingen-Mühlhofen - Salem - Markdorf - Friedrichshafen city (- Friedrichshafen harbor ) | 60 min |
Web links
literature
- City of Überlingen (ed.): Überlingen. Image of a city. Looking back on 1200 years of history in Überlingen. 770-1970 . Konrad, Weißenhorn 1970.
- 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 .
- Oswald Burger: The Stollen. Überlingen 2005, ISBN 3-86142-087-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Überlingen on the way to the State Garden Show 2020 (PDF 4.1 MB)
- ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels at eisenbahntunnel-portal.de, accessed on February 23, 2018.
- ↑ 320th Bomb Group strike photo Überlingen Marshalling Yards (Germany) .
- ↑ 320th Bomb Group Final mission report Überlingen Marshalling Yards (Germany) (PDF; 184 kB).
- ↑ Martin Bauer: The riddle is solved after 65 years. In: Südkurier of February 22, 2010
- ↑ Martin Bauer: Unraveled 65 years after the attack. In: Südkurier of February 22, 2010.
- ↑ Marin Deck: Therme station is being converted for catering In: Südkurier from February 22, 2018.
- ↑ Stefan Hilser: Five years after the sale to entrepreneur Stehle: Therme station on the siding? In: Südkurier from February 25, 2019.
- ^ Eva-Maria Bast: Duds in Überlingen could require large-scale evacuation In: Südkurier from May 20, 2015
- ↑ Jenna Santini: Bomb Search: New Challenges in Evacuation In: Südkurier Online from July 22, 2015
- ↑ Stefan Hilser: Bomb search on the Landesgartenschauegelände ended without finding In: Südkurier from March 11, 2016.
- ↑ Marin Deck: Therme station is being converted for catering In: Südkurier from February 22, 2018
- ↑ Platform information ( memento of the original from August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on deutschebahn.com, accessed on August 29, 2018.
- ↑ Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes on stellwerke.de, October 26, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2018.
- ↑ Überlingen on the way to the State Garden Show 2020 page 32 (PDF 4.1 MB).
- ↑ Information about the Seehänsele on zugbus-rab.de, accessed on February 23, 2018.
- ↑ Marin Deck: Therme station is being converted for catering In: Südkurier from February 22, 2018
