Amstetten (Württ) railway station

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Amstetten (Württ)
Amstetten train station
Amstetten train station
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation TAM
Price range 5
opening June 29, 1850
Profile on Bahnhof.de Amstetten__Wuertt_
location
City / municipality Amstetten
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 34 '41 "  N , 9 ° 52' 22"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '41 "  N , 9 ° 52' 22"  E
Height ( SO ) 582  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Amstetten (Württ) train station is on the 67.0 kilometer of the Filstalbahn , above the Geislinger Steige . The local railway Amstetten – Gerstetten and the narrow-gauge railway to Oppingen have their starting point here. There is no longer any regular passenger traffic on the two last-mentioned routes, but museum trains run on them seasonally . The German Bahn AG divides the entire station in three operating locations. Amstetten (Württ) local station is run as a station part , Amstetten (Württ) (narrow-gauge railway) as a separate station.

Over the decades, the largest settlement in the municipality of Amstetten has developed around the once remote station .

Around 400 travelers get on and off at the train station every day (as of 2016).

history

Planning and construction

For the construction of the railway connection between Stuttgart and Ulm , the Württemberg railway commission commissioned Michael Knoll with the planning and implementation. Knoll and his colleague Karl Etzel designed the Geislinger Steige and stipulated that all trains would have to be pushed on this five and a half kilometer long ramp so that they could reach the Swabian Alb . In order to uncouple the push locomotives again, the railway needed a station as close as possible above the platform. Knoll chose a location over a kilometer west of Amstetten. At that time the village, with around 300 inhabitants, was one of the smaller localities in the Geislingen Oberamt .

State Railroad Time

On 29 June 1850, opened Royal Wuerttemberg state railway to stretch Geislingen -Ulm. The Amstetten station had two through tracks and one shunting track. A two-story entrance building with arched windows on the ground floor was located on the track towards Geislingen. It had a turntable and a carriage house for the pushing locomotives that were moving back .

The station building initially stood alone in the landscape. Only one inn opened in 1814 on Staatsstrasse (today Hauptstrasse 21-23), which has been called Zum Rößle since 1835 , and three farmhouses from 1845 (now Hauptstrasse 8; 15-17 and 19) were also outside. They were shown on maps as the hamlet of Neuhaus . In 1851 the state railway built a residential building for its employees at the station, and in 1860 a goods shed with a guard's apartment. From 1859 to 1862, the Ostbahn between Plochingen and Ulm received a second track . In 1862 another farmer from Amstetter moved out and founded the Steighof . In 1866 a timber merchant from Ulm opened the station management (today Hauptstrasse 96).

Since 1875, the state railway no longer needed the turntable and removed it. Also in 1875, a timber merchant from Hofstett-Emerbuch relocated the Zum Rößle inn to a new building (today Hauptstrasse 62).

In 1888 citizens from Laichingen , Merklingen and Nellingen formed a railway committee. They planned a branch line that should branch off from the Ostbahn in Amstetten, Lonsee , Westerstetten or Beimerstetten . But it quickly became clear that only Laichingen could get a connection at the last three stations mentioned.

The state railway classified the project as unprofitable, so that the private Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WEG) built and operated the route. The narrow-gauge railway went into operation on October 20, 1901. At the Amstetten station, WEG set up a narrow-gauge station with a turntable and trolley pit on the western side .

In Gerstetten , too, the residents wanted a railway connection. In 1896 they founded a citizens' association for this purpose. They preferred a connection to Herbrechtingen , to the Brenzbahn . However, the WEG commissioned in 1901 suggested building a railway line from Amstetten to Gerstetten and then continuing this to Herbrechtingen, if necessary. The citizens' association agreed. On July 1, 1906, the first scheduled train ran. The continuation to Herbrechtingen never came.

The establishment of the Amstetten-Bahnhof settlement

In 1925 the residents of Neuhaus applied that their place of residence should no longer be listed separately as a hamlet, but should also be designated as Amstetten. In the meantime only 265 people lived in the village, the settlement around the train station was already inhabited by 264 people. On April 9, 1926, the Ministry of the Interior united the hamlet of Neuhaus, the Bahnhof residential area and the Steighof to form the Amstetten-Bahnhof district .

With the electrification of the Ostbahn on June 1, 1933, the pushing of trains between Geislingen and Amstetten ended. Heavy freight trains are still an exception today.

Federal railway time and closure of the branch lines

After the Second World War, Amstetten-Bahnhof grew almost exclusively. In 1961 the district had 1,090 inhabitants, while 306 people lived in the village.

In 1970 the Deutsche Bundesbahn had the historic station building torn down and replaced with a simple flat roof structure. Passenger traffic on the Albbähnle (Amstetten – Laichingen) was able to hold up until August 31, 1985 . After the cessation of freight traffic on September 14, 1985, the WEG dismantled the route. One last section, between Amstetten and Oppingen, was preserved. On March 1, 1996, the scheduled operation for passenger trains on the Amstetten – Gerstetten line ended. The Ulm Railway Friends bought both lines and used them for journeys with historic trains and railcars.

Rail operations

Regional trains serve the station. The trains in the direction of Geislingen (Steige) stop on platform 1, the main platform. Track 2 has no platform and is used by passing trains. The trains in the direction of Ulm stop on platform 3.

According to Deutsche Bahn AG, the Amstetten (Württ) station corresponds to station category 6.

The single-track local train station, which is a part of the train station, is located east of the train station and is connected to the Filstalbahn in the direction of Geislingen via a transfer platform. He has a track. It is used exclusively for museum operations.

The narrow-gauge station is west of the station. It is connected to the Filstalbahn via a transfer track from Ulm, which ends at a hairpin . It has several tracks, but only one platform. It is also used exclusively for museum operations.

The number of daily train stops in each direction at Amstetten station was reduced from 32 to 18 as part of a new timetable concept in December 2016, the travel time to Ulm was extended from 18 to 23 minutes, and the transfer-free travel time to Stuttgart from 60 to 84 minutes.

Regional traffic

line Line course Clock frequency
IRISHMAN Stuttgart - Esslingen - Plochingen - Göppingen - Geislingen (Steige) - Amstetten (Württ) - Ulm - Aulendorf - Friedrichshafen - Lindau individual trains
RB Stuttgart - Esslingen - Plochingen - Göppingen - Süßen - Geislingen (Steige) - Amstetten (Württ) - Ulm hourly

Web links

  • Location, track systems as well as individual signals and permissible speeds of the station on the OpenRailwayMap

literature

  • Karlheinz Bauer: Amstetten. History of a Alb community. Published by the municipality of Amstetten, 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Milankovic: Nightmares about the railroad . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 72 , December 2, 2016, p. 28 ( online ).