Aken railway station (Elbe)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aken (Elbe)
Reception building with platform (2015)
Reception building with platform (2015)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Design Through station
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation LAK
opening May 1, 1890
location
City / municipality Aken (Elbe)
country Saxony-Anhalt
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 51 '10 "  N , 12 ° 2' 9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '10 "  N , 12 ° 2' 9"  E
Height ( SO ) 57  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt
i16 i18

The Aken (Elbe) railway station is the station of the small town Aken (Elbe) in Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt . It is the end point of the Köthen – Aken railway line and went into operation in 1890. Scheduled passenger traffic ended in December 2007. Freight traffic continues when required.

location

The line with the train station runs in the west of the city. The town center is about 500 meters further northeast. The adjacent streets are Bahnhofstrasse and Flurstrasse . The Trebbichau stop is almost five kilometers further south. To the north, the route continues to the Elbhafen and the Aken Ost industrial area.

history

The line and station were opened on May 1, 1890, when the first passenger train coming from Köthen drove over the new line to Aken. The official inauguration of the station took place the day before.

The port had already started operations in 1889. Due to the sharp increase in transport volumes, it was no longer possible to transport all goods by road with carts. Therefore, the station had a very positive effect on the local economy. Other companies settled near the port. These included a pearl mill, an oil mill, a steelworker, a grain trade, a grain silo and a coal dealer. Before and during the Second World War , a tank farm, a magnesite and an aluminum plant were added. The siding remained after the war. Farmers loaded beets and potatoes on the loading road. The aluminum plant was dismantled and delivered to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment .

During the GDR era, the volume of goods traffic grew strongly. Five freight trains drove to Aken every day, and the mail was brought to Aken by rail until shortly before the fall of the Wall. The train station was the workplace for up to 37 employees; they accounted for the station itself, the signal box, the barrier to the port and the ticket office.

After 1989, passenger traffic fell sharply. Despite some discussion about a possible closure, the superstructure in the station was renewed in the winter of 1993/94. This was necessary for the connection to the port. Most of the rest of the freight traffic collapsed. The magnesite plant was still the most important customer. The connections to Woodward (injection device factory) and Heenemann (steel) were then expanded further. In 1994 the ticket office closed; an automat was installed for this.

Freight traffic increased again in the following years. Around the year 2000, wood, salt and scrap were loaded in the port. Until 1999 coal was unloaded on the loading street by the local fuel dealer. In 2000, Deutsche Bahn stopped transport and the port needed a new transport partner. The Central German Railway Company took up traffic afterwards. Since then, a fertilizer company has been served. The Solveywerk Bernburg also has a coke store in the port. If necessary, freight traffic takes place here. From 2005, after a two-year break, the magnesite plant received wagons again. The tank farm was opened again in 2006, for which a new connection was created.

In November and December 2005 all tracks and signals that were no longer needed were removed. Only two tracks and two switches remained.

In 2006, 51,000 tonnes of containers and bulk goods were transported to and from the port by rail. In the previous year it was only 31,000 tons. On February 28, 2007, heavy goods traffic took place in the Aken train station for the first time.

Regional train in the station (2007)

Aken station has not been served as planned since December 9, 2007 after the state of Saxony-Anhalt canceled passenger traffic on the route between Köthen and Aken. Most recently, the trains ran every hour. On weekends and on public holidays there was only a two-hour offer. The transport company was the Elbe Saale Bahn . Since then, buses have been running between the two places. Freight traffic fell sharply after passenger traffic was discontinued. After the Bavarian Regional Railway, a subsidiary of the German Regional Railway , took over operations on the line in 2012 following a tender to third parties, the dispatcher was withdrawn in Aken . Barriers were dismantled and the signals made invalid. So you always have to stop at the affected areas until the train crew has cleared the route. All other side tracks in the station are closed. Until the beginning of 2010, a weekly container train drove to Aken. Otherwise, in the 2010s DB Schenker trains on demand for the Solveywerk Bernburg and for the fertilizer company run with private railway companies.

On certain occasions there are journeys in passenger transport. Between 2008 and 2012, between 200 and 1600 passengers were counted per trip.

According to a cross-off list from DB Cargo , the Aken rail freight transport location is threatened with closure.

Investments

Reception building

The reception building , which was built before 1900, is now a listed building .

In 1997 a local association and DB Station & Service AG renovated the roof, doors and windows of the reception building. Further rooms were renovated by 2005. A year later, a museum was set up there, dealing with the history of the railway in Aken. In 2008, all tenants were terminated by DB Station & Service. From December 31 of the same year, the building was initially empty. In mid-2010 it was bought by a private person in order to use it for residential purposes. The association moved to a building in the port in 2014.

Reception building (2015)

Signal boxes

The mechanical dispatcher interlocking "As" from the manufacturer Gast was put into operation in 1941, on July 26, 2012 its use ended.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Aken (Elbe)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Eisenbahnfreunde Aken e. V .: History of the Köthen-Aken / Elbe line. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Inland port Aken / Elbe. Another positive business result and, for the first time, heavy goods traffic by rail. March 2, 2007, accessed November 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ Georg Zieglgänsberger: From the Anhalt Railway History . The branch line Köthen - Aken. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Pro Bahn Central Germany: Cancellations in Saxony-Anhalt 2007. (No longer available online.) June 9, 2007, archived from the original on April 12, 2016 ; accessed on November 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk : 215 freight stations in Germany before the end. (No longer available online.) May 18, 2016, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on November 27, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  8. ↑ Eisenbahnfreunde Aken e. V .: Our association. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
  9. ^ List of German signal boxes. Entries A. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .