Büchen station

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The station building in 2004 with the house platform at track 140
The station building in 2004 with the house platform at track 140
Data
Location in the network Crossing station
Design Wedge station
Platform tracks 4 (with 5 platform edges)
abbreviation ABCH
IBNR 8000058
Price range 3
opening 1851
Profile on Bahnhof.de Buechen
location
City / municipality Books
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 28 '31 "  N , 10 ° 37' 22"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '31 "  N , 10 ° 37' 22"  E
Height ( SO ) 18  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Schleswig-Holstein
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The station Büchen of Deutsche Bahn is as Keilbahnhof landscaped crossing station and regional railway junction in the town of Büchen . The Berlin – Hamburg and Lübeck – Lüneburg lines intersect at Büchen station . Over 4,000 passengers boarding and disembarking are counted every day (as of 2013). There is a bus stop in front of the station building with connections to the surrounding villages.

history

The station was built on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway , which had been in operation since 1846 , and opened on October 15, 1851 after the Lübeck-Büchener Railway (LBE) was completed. In the same year the Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft opened a branch line from Büchen to Lauenburg . In passenger traffic there were soon through trains Lübeck - Lauenburg and after the opening of the Lauenburg Elbe bridge to Lüneburg .

In the final phase of the Second World War , the station was badly damaged and partially destroyed in a bombing raid on April 26, 1945. At the end of April 1945, German troops also blew up the bridge over the Elbe-Lübeck Canal east of the station. In the fierce fighting near Büchen on May 1, 1945 , other parts of the station and numerous surrounding buildings were damaged or destroyed.

After the end of the war, the Berlin – Hamburg line between Schwanheide station and Büchen was divided by the border between the British and Soviet occupation zones and later by the inner-German border ; Until the reunification , the Büchen station was the border station of the Federal Republic of Germany . After one of the two main line tracks between Berlin and Schwanheide had been dismantled as a reparation payment on the east side, the second main line track between Büchen and the nearest train station in Schwarzenbek was also removed on the west German side .

The train traffic was initially completely interrupted. In the summer of 1946, the bridge over the Elbe-Lübeck Canal was restored, but freight traffic did not resume until August 27, 1947. Initially, a pair of passenger trains was also envisaged in the negotiations, but this was not introduced. Initially, there were three through freight trains and one handover between Büchen and Schwanheide per day in each direction. Additional freight trains were agreed in the autumn of the same year. During the Berlin blockade in 1948, traffic decreased significantly, but did not come to a complete standstill. On September 10, 1949, passenger traffic was resumed with two pairs of trains, one of which was the Cologne-type railcar , which was derived from the Flying Hamburger .

In 1953 ten regular and three goods trains ran westwards and five regular and three goods trains ran east. Since 1965, freight trains in transit to and from West Berlin have also been run via Büchen. The border crossing was the most important in freight traffic, especially for the transit of Comecon countries to the port of Hamburg . Here the shortest route in western territory had to be covered, which saved foreign currency. In 1982, 12,250 freight trains with almost 433,000 wagons were carried. The border clearance at Büchen station took about two hours for a freight train. The locomotive change between the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn always took place in Büchen; Until 1973, DR locomotives were able to drive through to Hamburg in front of passenger trains.

With the expansion of the route as part of the German Unity transport project , the Hagenow Land  - Büchen section was electrified in 1996. Today, in addition to regional trains and regional express , some EuroCity trains on the Hamburg - Berlin - Dresden - Prague - Budapest line and, until 2014, the EuroCity Vindobona Hamburg - Villach stop here .

In October 2010, the refurbishment of the station began with the demolition of the old reception building . The 4.5 million euro work was officially completed in November 2013.

Structural system

Track systems and platforms

The route of the Berlin-Hamburg railway runs in a straight line from southeast to northwest through the town. Before the conversion to a high-speed line , there were platforms on both sides . In the current state, the high-speed line in the station area is fanned out into four parallel tracks; the two inner tracks, which have been developed for speeds of up to 230 km / h, are used exclusively for through high-speed traffic without stopping. The outer tracks each have outer platforms with the numbers 1 (towards Berlin) and 4 (towards Hamburg) and are used for long-distance and regional traffic towards Hamburg, Rostock and Berlin. These two platform tracks will be continued from the station for about 1.5 km in the direction of Hamburg and then threaded into the double-track main line. These tracks are all provided with electrical overhead lines .

The single-track, non-electrified Lübeck – Lüneburg line turns - coming from the north and swiveling to the southeast - into the Berlin-Hamburg line and after about 400 meters branches off over several switches to the south in the direction of Lauenburg and Lüneburg. Behind the threading out, this route branches off in the station area onto two tracks with an island platform in between . These two platform tracks are numbered "40" and "41" on the island platform, while an additional house platform on the northern platform is numbered "140".

From the Lübeck-Lüneburg route north of the Berlin-Hamburg route, in addition to the platform tracks, tracks for freight loading branched off, which have since been largely dismantled. To the south of the Berlin-Hamburg route, several sidings branch off from the Lübeck-Lüneburg route .

Access

The station facilities are surrounded on all sides by tracks and partly undeveloped land. For access from the site to the platforms, a pedestrian tunnel with access openings on both sides was created at the north-western end of the railway facilities . From this tunnel, stairs lead up to platforms 1 and 4 of the Berlin-Hamburg route and to the western part of the town. In 2013, elevator systems were put into operation that improve access to the platforms and the streets on both sides of the railway systems.

The platform 140 is accessible from platform 1 via a paved footpath over the partly unpaved area between the angled railway lines. The island platform with the tracks 40 and 41 can be reached from the end of the platform 140 via a track crossing that crosses the track 40.

By the beginning of 2017, the station tunnel and the access roads on Lauenburger Strasse were rebuilt and modernized.

Buildings and service facilities

Former railway water tower in Büchen station

The original station building was destroyed on April 26, 1945. Due to the importance of the station on the demarcation line, it was included in the construction program of the Reich Railway Directorate Hamburg as early as 1947 . In 1950 the head office of the Deutsche Bundesbahn approved a design with two separate structures for service and utility rooms. The new building with a towering and extended hipped roof was ready for occupancy in 1951. This building was demolished in 2011 and replaced by a new reception building.

Between the island platform and the sidings there was a water tower ( Bahnwasserturm Büchen ), a two-story building which, with two water tanks, served to supply the steam locomotives and as a drinking water reservoir for the station buildings. The building, erected in 1912, was demolished in 2013.

Since the renovation, the station has had a combination container with a Deutsche Bahn travel center and the branch of a local large-scale baker.

Train connections

line Line run Clock frequency
EC27
IC27 		Hamburg-Altona  - Büchen  - Berlin Hbf  - Dresden Hbf  (- Prag hl. N. ) every two hours (with a time gap at noon)
ICE Hamburg-Altona - Büchen  - Berlin individual trains
RE1 Hamburg Hbf  - Büchen  - Hagenow Land - Schwerin Hbf  - Bad Kleinen  - Blankenberg (Meckl)  - Bützow  - Rostock Hbf Every two hours or every hour during peak hours on the partial route Hamburg Hbf - Büchen (- Schwerin Hbf)
RE83 Lübeck Hbf  - Mölln (Lauenburg)  - Büchen  - Lauenburg (Elbe)  - Lüneburg hourly

Status: Annual timetable 2019

Station Mission

Due to its border location, Büchen station had a very busy station mission . Since 1957 she had taken care of the repatriates and travelers from the GDR . In 1995 the Büchen station mission was closed. Your files came into the regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Deutsche Bahn AG (ed.): Büchen station officially opened after modernization . Press release 531/2013 BP / EML SH of November 25, 2013
  2. ↑ Dietrich Kutschik, Burkhard Sprang: The Berlin-Hamburg Railway . transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71040-0 , pp. 56 .
  3. ^ Lübecker Nachrichten : The air raids on Geesthacht and Büchen , from: April 11, 2015; accessed on: May 27, 2018; See also the photo there
  4. ^ A b Ralf Roman Rossberg : Border over German rails. Eisenbahn-Kurier Verlag, Freiburg 1980, ISBN 3-88255-828-8 , pp. 52–56
  5. ↑ 100 years of the Hamburg Railway Directorate 1884–1984 , p. 73
  6. ^ Martin Schack: New train stations. Station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948–1973 . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-49-3 , p. 148 .
  7. ↑ North Elbian Church Archives, holdings July 15