Aachen-Rothe Erde train station
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Operating point type | railway station |
Location in the network | Connecting station |
Design | Through station |
Platform tracks | 2 |
abbreviation | KARE |
IBNR | 8000406 |
Price range | 4th |
Profile on Bahnhof.de | Aachen-Rothe_Erde |
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City / municipality | Aachen |
country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 50 ° 46 '13 " N , 6 ° 6' 59" E |
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Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia |
The Aachen-Rothe Erde station is a station in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne-Aachen high-speed railway . It is located in the eastern Rothe Erde district of Aachen, in the vicinity of the Aachen districts Frankenberg , Forst and Ostviertel .
history
With the opening of the Haaren – Aachen-Rothe Erde railway on December 31, 1875, the station, which at that time still bore the name Rothe Erde , was opened by the Aachen industrial railway. Especially after the expansion of the Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein Rothe Erde , promoted by Adolph Kirdorf , the station initially served as a transfer station for the connected tracks of the various industrial companies in Rothe Erde. As an initially exclusive freight station , it established connections to the coal mines in neighboring Belgium , to the Aachen northern district and to the quarries in Stolberg . Ten years after the opening, the Vennbahn was used to connect to Luxembourg via Monschau and Sankt Vith, linking the station to the ARBED steelworks there. At the same time, the new Aachen-Rothe Erde depot was built.
The station has also been used for passenger traffic since 1880 . In 1892, the railway lines were relocated about 100 meters into the city in order to enable rail traffic to pass through an increasingly important arterial road , today's Trier road. The sloping terrain in the direction of the center was used, but the original height profile of the routes was retained by means of embankments. The original route ran over a section of today's railway path to the intersection with Trierer Straße and further over today's Clermontstraße and Krautmühlenweg as well as over the current site of an allotment garden . The old and new routes meet again at the bridge over Erzbergerallee.
The passenger station building was also rebuilt and integrated into the embankment. This arrangement can still be found today. The bridge over Trierer Strasse was directly connected to the station building, which caused renewed traffic problems due to its narrow width of 12 meters. In 1898, these were tightened by the opening of the tram line to Brand , which despite being expanded to two tracks, only ran under the railway line as a single track. Later the bridge had to be widened.
At the beginning of the 20th century the name was changed to Aachen-Rothe Erde . The depot was closed in 1932.
During the Second World War , the station was badly destroyed and the bridge over Trierer Strasse was blown up. It was not until 1946 that the Aachen - Cologne connection could be resumed. As the transport of steel , coke and lime was subsequently discontinued, the station became less and less important as a cargo handling point. Only the connections to the Aachen Nord train station with the Talbot wagon factory located there and to the Aachen Philips works on the Vennbahn remained in operation. In contrast, the Rothe Erde station was increasingly used for passenger traffic on the Aachen - Cologne route. In 2004, the goods sheds were finally torn down and the old and now no longer used railway site was largely leveled for the construction of the Aachen Arkaden shopping center .
In 2013, construction began on a new, closed car wash on the site of the former freight yard. It replaces the old, open system in Aachen Central Station, so that the trains can be cleaned outside in winter. For reasons of space, the decision was made for the location in Rothe Erde, which is also to be increasingly used as a parking facility, while in Aachen Hbf mainly technical maintenance work is to be carried out.
Aachen-Rothe Erde station was a planned stop for the campus railway , but it was not built after the negative vote by the citizens of Aachen in a referendum in March 2013.
Station forecourt and facade after the renovation
cast iron pillars of the old platform roof
former mechanical signal box Rpf
Todays use
In 2007 the entire station was rebuilt in the course of commissioning the ESTW Aachen. The old freight and storage station was severely dismantled. Until the renovation, the station still had two mechanical signal boxes , one each for the passenger and freight station, from which the form signals and points were set. Another signal box called Rr was demolished in 2004 in preparation for the construction of the Aachen Arkaden. Meanwhile, the train station, as CBI is common with Ks-signals equipped and managed by the operations center remotely Duisburg. The central platform was completely rebuilt. The new platform has a height of 76 cm above the top of the rail. The station also got a second entrance from the east side and a lift for barrier-free access to the platform. The next taxi stand is in the immediate vicinity of the western exit on Beverstrasse. There is also a parking lot with a Cambio CarSharing station . The renovation of the western facade was completed in October 2013. The red louvred windows, behind which the currently unused rooms of the train station are hidden, now shine from the inside in a subtle light.
Aachen arcades
In the period from January 2007 until the opening on October 9, 2008, the Aachen Arkaden, an office and shopping center with 16,000 m² of retail space , was built on a large part of the former site of the former freight yard . It was built in the style of functional contemporary architecture of minimalism with atriums including a transparent foil roof. Of the traditional arcades , six tower stilts and the shops are evident. The Look and Feel interior concept includes natural materials, relaxation areas and an air-purifying office tree plant in the arcade rotunda , which extends to the first floor and, with a few smaller plants, provides a natural air conditioning system. In addition to the four-story building, the shopping center integrates the six-story tower complex. The intention of this tower is an urban dominant feature as an entrance to the city center and the east quarter. The forecourt ensures inclusion in the environment. The overall impression is reminiscent of the neoclassical Grenzwart house, which was built at the train station between 1924 and 1930. The main urban user is the Aachen health department .
traffic
Railway lines
The NRW-Express , Rhein-Sieg-Express and the Euregiobahn currently stop in Aachen-Rothe Erde . In addition, the station is served at night by the S13 S-Bahn, which goes to Aachen or Troisdorf . Furthermore, part of the old freight yard is still used today as a storage area for rolling stock and the Euregiobahn railcars , which can also be refueled there at a diesel filling station.
Bus routes
The following bus lines operate at Aachen-Rothe Erde train station:
See also
Web links
- Reinhard Gessen: Rothe Erde station . In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region . Reinhard Gessen. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
- Current departure plan from Aachen-Rothe Erde . Deutsche Bahn . Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- Departure Aachen, Rothe Erde station (bus). In: departure monitor. Aachen Transport Association , accessed on February 24, 2015 .
- Aachen Rothe Erde station. (PDF) In: Stop location plans. Aachener Verkehrsverbund , accessed on February 5, 2020 .
- Stefan von der Ruhren: Aachen Rothe-Erde . In: Railways in Aachen and the Euregio Meuse-Rhine . Stefan von der Ruhren. November 12, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
- Guido Rademacher: Aachen Rothe Erde depot . In: Railway in the Aachen area . Guido Rademacher. January 31, 2010. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- Tracks in Aachen-Rothe Erde station , DB Netz AG (PDF; 208 KB) In: Tracks in service facilities. DB Netz AG . January 1, 2015. Accessed February 24, 2015.
- André Joost: Aachen-Rothe Erde branch . In: NRWbahnarchiv-Betriebsstellearchiv . André Joost. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- André Joost: Aachen-Rothe Erde train station . In: NRWbahnarchiv-Bahnhofsinfo . André Joost. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station category list 2016. (PDF file; 337 kB) (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service , January 1, 2016, archived from the original on February 12, 2016 ; accessed on February 12, 2016 .
- ^ Hans Schweers, Henning Wall: Railways around Aachen. 150 years of the international route Cologne - Aachen - Antwerp , Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1993, ISBN 3-921679-91-5 , p. 93.
- ↑ Aachen-Rothe Erde train station. In: Accessible on the move. Aachen Transport Association , June 17, 2011, archived from the original on November 13, 2013 ; Retrieved November 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Stations in Aachen - Rothe Erde. In: Cambio CarSharing . cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co KG, accessed on February 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Kathrin Albrecht: A real bright spot replaces the "Horror Cabinet" . In: Aachener Nachrichten , Aachener Zeitungsverlag , October 25, 2013. Retrieved on November 13, 2013.
- ↑ The laying of the foundation stone to close this inner-city building gap in the east of the city took place on Monday, August 27, 2007. Robert Janzen from the investor TCN in Neuss was in charge of the project . Aachener Zeitung, August 28, 2007, p. 13, no.196.
- ↑ Robert Esser: Aachen Arcades start record breaking . In: Aachener Nachrichten , Aachener Zeitungsverlag , October 9, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Aachen Arkaden - your shopping center . Advertising association of the Aachen Arkaden GbR. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Jutta Geese: move ticked off: health department in the Aachen-Arkaden . In: Aachener Nachrichten , Aachener Zeitungsverlag , November 2, 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ↑ The Aachen architects Höhler + Partner assisted the project developer TCN. The architects Walter Wiese took over the client representation. In July 2006 TCN took over the management of Real Estade GmbH from AMW projekte GmbH. Aachener Zeitung, October 8, 2008
- ↑ Notice timetable for Rothe Erde station. (PDF; 412 kB) Aachen Transport Association , June 15, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2015 .