Büderich station

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Buderich
Büderich station, 1910
Büderich station, 1910
Data
Operating point type Junction (1878–1881)
Railway station (1881–2012)
Junction (since 2012)
Location in the network Separation station (1881–1945)
Intermediate station (1945–1960)
End station (1960–2012)
Design Through station
Platform tracks formerly 4
abbreviation KBUE
opening October 15, 1881
Conveyance May 29, 1960 (PV)
location
City / municipality Wesel
Place / district Buderich
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 37 '34 "  N , 6 ° 33' 37"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '34 "  N , 6 ° 33' 37"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Buederich Station is a former railway station in the district of Büderich the Lower Rhine district town Wesel . It achieved historical importance as the station that separated the Boxteler Bahn from the Venloer Bahn , but it was never an express train stop . Passenger trains served the station until 1960 . The operating point has been classified as a junction since 2012 . There are only handover trips to the Borth salt mine .

location

The operating site is located about half a kilometer south of the Gest farming community and one kilometer southwest of the Büderich district of Wesel . The tracks run from northeast to southwest. Access is via Bahnhofstrasse, which branches off to the west from Gindericher Strasse.

history

The Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) opened the Wesel  - Rheinbrücke  - Venlo section of the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn on December 31, 1874 . The construction of the westernmost section of this line only came about after the Dutch Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (North Brabant-Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft; NBDS / NBDE) presented their plans for an international long-distance line from Boxtel to Kleve in 1867 . In 1869 the NBDS changed its plans to the effect that the railway should run towards Wesel and both companies should use the Rhine bridge. Three and a half years after the Venloer Bahn, the NBDS began operating its line on July 1, 1878. The two routes were separated at the Gest branch, which was opened at the same time . In view of the single-track route, this was equipped with a switch and three block signals .

Already during the construction of the line the local politicians tried to get a rail connection to Büderich. The CME rejected the project with the low return on the route. After the nationalization of society in 1880, the politicians took up the project again and their intentions were confirmed. After the municipality of Büderich ceded the necessary land to the responsible Royal Railway Direction in Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine free of charge, construction could begin. The work was completed on October 15, 1881. The junction became operationally a train station, the name changed to Büderich. The station had a single-storey reception building in half-timbered construction on the north side, platforms and a loading street on the south side. The lines separated at the beginning behind the train station (coming from Wesel). On April 1, 1895, the management of the Prussian State Railways was reorganized. The Büderich station thus fell under the responsibility of KED Münster . From April 1, 1899, the KED Essen was responsible. The Venloer Bahn west of Büderich fell to KED Cöln in 1905 .

In the years 1899/1900, KED Essen expanded the section from Wesel to Büderich to two tracks. Presumably, the station was also renovated at the same time. The separation of the two lines was relocated in front of the station so that the continuous main tracks flowed directly into the Boxteler Bahn. The trains of the Venloer Bahn ran on the branching line. Behind Büderich, both lines continued to run on a single track.

With the outbreak of World War I , international traffic between the German Empire and the Netherlands came to a standstill. As a result, NBDS got into a serious crisis, as a result of which, from 1919 onwards, it partially left the management of the company to Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (Staatsspoorwegen; SS). In 1922 the NBDS filed for bankruptcy . The Deutsche Reichsbahn , founded in 1920, took over the management of the German section of the line on February 1, 1925 and was also its owner from July 1, 1925. With the takeover, the border between the Reichsbahndirections Essen and Cologne was moved from kilometer  50.0 of the Venloer Bahn to kilometer 46.3. The Büderich station was thus completely within the RBD Cologne. To simplify operations, the Boxteler Bahn had been classified as a branch line since 1924 . Two years earlier, the Reichsbahn failed with the same concern for the Venloer Bahn.

As a further consequence of the war, Belgian and French troops occupied the left Lower Rhine and the Wesel bridgehead from February 1919 . With the exception of the connection from Wesel to Boxtel, which was mainly used for the removal of reparations goods, traffic over the Rhine Bridge was suspended. Trains to and from Venlo ended in Büderich. After the occupation of the Ruhr in January 1923, the Reich government called for passive resistance , whereupon the Reichsbahner ceased operations between Büderich and Venlo. The occupying powers then operated the remaining routes on their own . In the autumn of 1924 they returned Büderich to the Reichsbahn, the checkpoint on the Rhine Bridge was omitted from October 21, 1924. From November 15, 1924, the Reichsbahn resumed train services from Büderich to Venlo.

Around 1926, the Deutsche Solvay-Werke put the works railway to the Borth salt mine into operation. The southern end point was at the Rhine port of Ossenberg . The majority of the extracted salt was sent via the port, only a small part of 6.1 percent (status: 1928) ran via Büderich. The tracks of the Werkbahn lay south of Ladestrasse and were connected to the Reichsbahn network via two connections at the east and west head of the station. Another connection existed at this time to a brickworks north of the station .

In the spring of 1945 the attacks on the area around the station increased. The Boxteler Bahn was abandoned with the gradual retreat of the Wehrmacht and the route was systematically destroyed every 100 meters. The same applied to the Venloer Bahn west of Büderich. The station building was completely destroyed in the fighting. Continuous traffic to Wesel was no longer possible when the Rhine bridge was blown up on the morning of March 10, 1945. About two weeks later the Allies crossed to the right bank of the Rhine on March 23. After the liberation of Wesel, they built a makeshift bridge over the Rhine at Fort Blücher . Since the bridge itself was only single-track, a second track was laid between Büderich and Menzelen West in order to increase capacity. The bridge went into operation on April 9, 1945; it was primarily used for the Allied supply trains. The bridge was in operation until around the beginning of 1946.

Civil passenger traffic was resumed on February 10, 1946. A restart of the Boxteler Bahn did not take place. The Rhine bridge was also not restored, despite requests from the city of Wesel.

In 1949, the second line to Menzelen West was dismantled, and the line was rededicated to a branch line around the same time . Between 1951 and 1953, the Deutsche Bundesbahn put the Büderich Ost stop into operation. This was located about 700 meters east of the train station at the Gindericher Straße level crossing. Despite the commissioning of the stop and the conversion of the locomotive-hauled passenger trains to rail buses , the Federal Railroad applied for the closure of the Venloer Bahn in 1957. As a result, on May 29, 1960, it stopped passenger traffic between Büderich Ost and Geldern . Until 1961, however, a freight train with an attached passenger car drove from Büderich to Bönninghardt .

Seven years after passenger traffic came to an end for freight traffic on the Venloer Bahn. The BD Köln subsequently withdrew all staff from the station. The track system was also dismantled; practically only the western connecting track is left. After the closure of Büderich as a freight tariff point for public transport, only the service of the connection to the Borth salt mine remained. After the cessation of freight traffic in Xanten and Kleve in 2007, Büderich was the northernmost freight tariff point on the left bank of the Rhine. In 2014, the connection was only operated sporadically.

construction

The train station was at its greatest extent between the two world wars. Coming from Wesel, the Venloer Bahn ran on two tracks towards the station. The entry signal was to the east of Gindericher Strasse, immediately to the west of the level crossing was the Büderich Ost stop, which opened in the early 1950s. There was a pull-out track on the south side parallel to the entry section . The station was equipped with five main tracks , a loading track and two other side tracks, as well as three sidings . The mainline tracks from Wesel flowed directly into the Boxteler Bahn to enable trains on this route to pass through quickly. Trains of the Venloer Bahn, on the other hand, ran on the branching line.

The station building was northwest of the tracks. The single - storey half-timbered building was still there until at least 1969, but has since been demolished. Track 1 was equipped with a house platform , the intermediate platform on track 2 could be reached via a passenger crossing from track 1. Platforms 3 and 4 on the Venlo side shared a central platform. Track 5 served as a crossing and overtaking track, the neighboring track 6 served as an open loading track, and the loading road ran parallel to this. Since it was forbidden to cross the Boxteler tracks due to the passage, the central platform was connected to the reception building and the loading street via a pedestrian bridge. Two other short loading tracks with an attached loading ramp were located north of the reception building. After the Boxteler Bahn was shut down, tracks 1 and 2 in a westerly direction were also connected to the Venloer Bahn.

The siding of the Lower Rhine gravel dredging and steam brickworks branched off in front of the station building. The siding was probably in operation until the 1960s. The Solvay works railway was connected to the station via two track connections at the east and west end and ran south of Ladestrasse. After the rest of the railway facilities have been dismantled, the western siding to the industrial railway is the only remnant of the former station.

passenger traffic

From 1881, Büderich was initially served by eight pairs of passenger trains, four pairs of trains each of the Prussian State Railways between Haltern , Wesel and Venlo and the NBDS between Wesel and Boxtel . By the outbreak of World War I, the number rose to six pairs of trains on the Boxteler Bahn and seven pairs of trains on the Venloer Bahn. Despite its operational importance as a separation station, Büderich never stopped for express trains .

Due to the war, the timetable was thinned out from August 1914, the consequences of which extended into the 1920s. The express train service almost completely came to a standstill, and in 1923 an express train ran for the last time on the Boxteler Bahn to Vlissingen . In 1926, six pairs of trains ran daily on both routes again. With the exception of two pairs of trains, the trains going over to the Venloer Bahn began in Wesel and ended in Geldern . Another pair of trains came on weekdays between Wesel and Geldern in the early hours. By the summer of 1939, the Reichsbahn expanded the service to Geldern to include ten pairs of trains , and eight pairs of trains were used on the Boxteler Bahn to Goch .

The first post-war timetable of February 10, 1946 called for three pairs of trains between Büderich, Menzelen West, Moers and Krefeld Hbf on weekdays, and only one train on Sundays. With the further commissioning of the Venloer Bahn, the offer was initially reduced from January 6, 1947 to two trains to and four trains from Geldern (one or two trains on Sundays), as the trains coming from Krefeld already moved to Menzelen West. The Boxteler Bahn remained closed in its eastern section from Büderich. By the summer of 1950, the Federal Railroad expanded the service to ten pairs of trains on workdays (six on Sundays) between Büderich and Geldern. Already in the summer of 1953 the offer was reduced again, seven pairs of trains ran daily from Büderich, five of which ended at the Büderich Ost stop, which had just opened. After the application for closure to the State Ministry of Transport in 1958, the Federal Railroad further reduced the service to a single pair of trains in the evening hours and otherwise relied on rail buses . At the same time, she referred local bus companies to their line concessions and forbade them to set up parallel lines. On May 29, 1960, the remaining pair of trains was also discontinued. Until the spring of 1961, an unofficial freight train with an attached passenger car drove from Büderich to Bönninghardt, and the route has been without passenger traffic since then.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Until 1918 as the Royal Railway Directorate (KED), 1918–1922 Railway Directorate, 1922–1949 Reich Railway Directorate (RBD), from 1949 Federal Railway Directorate (BD).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 36-42 .
  2. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 70-72 .
  3. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 62 .
  4. ↑ a b c Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 105-106 .
  5. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 77-78 .
  6. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 153-154 .
  7. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 164 .
  8. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 165-168 .
  9. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 267-270 .
  10. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 270-271 .
  11. ↑ a b c track plan Bf Büderich, 1928.
  12. ↑ a b c Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 202-203 .
  13. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 194-199 .
  14. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 209-212 .
  15. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 200-201 .
  16. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 258-262 .
  17. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 221-223 .
  18. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 232-237 .
  19. ↑ Thomas Barthels, Armin Möller, Klaus Barthels: Bahnen am Niederrhein . Barthels, Mönchengladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-9810183-3-2 , p. 81 .
  20. ↑ a b track plan Bf Büderich, 1939.
  21. ↑ a b Site plan of the private siding (mine siding) of the company Deutsche Solvay-Werke GmbH, branch i. Borth to the Büderich station; 1969.
  22. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Venlo Railway. Haltern - Wesel - Venlo . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-04-1 , p. 304-315 .
  23. ^ German course book, summer 1914.
  24. ^ German course book, summer 1926.
  25. ^ German course book, summer 1939.