Bad Berka train station

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Bad Berka
Reception building, track side (2017)
Reception building, track side (2017)
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
formerly connecting station
Design Through station
formerly wedge station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation UBB
IBNR 8011066
Price range 7th
opening May 15, 1887
location
City / municipality Bad Berka
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 53 '46 "  N , 11 ° 16' 53"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '46 "  N , 11 ° 16' 53"  E
Height ( SO ) 273  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Thuringia
i16 i18

The Bad Berka station is a station of the small town of Bad Berka in district Weimarer Land in Thuringia . It went into operation in 1887. Until 1967 it was a wedge station .

location

Bad Berka train station is located around 300 meters south of the city center. It is located at kilometer 17.28 and is the starting point of the branch to Blankenhain . From 1887 to 1967 the Bad Berka train station was also a wedge train station . It is directly adjacent to Bundesstrasse 87 (Tannrodaer Strasse) and Bahnhofstrasse . The Bad Berka Zeughausplatz stop is around 750 meters further north, the former Martinswerk stop around one kilometer further south. The next stop on the branch to Blankenhain is the Saalborn stop, three kilometers away .

history

On May 15, 1887, the railway from Weimar via Bad Berka to Tannroda went into operation. A two-storey reception building was built in Bad Berka . From around the turn of the century, the railroad transport company took care of the rolling of the freight on the road to and from the customers. In the particularly hot summer of 1912 there was such a shortage of water that the well of the water station in Bad Berka train station dried up. There were operational disruptions and delays. For this reason, the water station was connected to the city's high-pressure pipeline a year later.

Between 1926 and 1931, the route between Bad Berka, Munich, Tannroda and Kranichfeld was relocated , so that Bad Berka train station also had to be rebuilt.

In the period from 1943 to mid-1944, wagons from Eastern Europe with items from the deported Jews arrived at the station almost every week . Most of the clothing in question came from the Auschwitz concentration camp . Things were put in the armory . On April 5, 1945, US bombers attacked a passenger train that was arriving in Bad Berka and was coming from the direction of Weimar. 18 travelers and one railroad worker were killed and many more were injured. The street front of the reception building suffered severe damage. The goods shed also partially collapsed. Another passenger train that started its journey in Blankenhain was shot at several times, came to a stop in Bad Berka and was towed away there. The reconstruction of the reception building was completed at the end of April 1946.

In 1962, VEB Kohlenhandel, in coordination with the DR, created a transshipment point for the southern part of the Weimar-Land district . This handling of coal reduced the volume of goods traffic in Blankenhain.

In the 1960s, dispatchers, shunting managers and train drivers worked for the freight trains in Bad Berka. The station had around 20 employees at that time.

On April 4, 1966, passenger traffic to Blankenhain ended. Freight traffic was stopped on September 24, 1967. This was followed by the closure of the section. Since then, Bad Berka station has been structurally a through station and, in terms of its location in the network, an intermediate station .

From 15 to 17 May, celebrations took place on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the route. Two Mitropa dining cars and a couchette car were available in Bad Berka for this purpose.

In the 1990s, new railcars were used. On September 17, 1994, the prototype of the DB class 670 was presented in Bad Berka train station .

By 1996, almost all siding that were no longer in use had been closed and then dismantled. From March 15, 1994, the station was only manned by one dispatcher . On March 29, 2000, the ticket office closed. Personnel were no longer required to secure the passengers. Until September 16, 2001, however, the level crossing in Legefeld had to be secured from Bad Berka . When this was also included in the train control operation of the Berka train station in Weimar , the occupation of the Bad Berka train station finally ended.

Breakdowns

Among other things, in the years 1890, 1926, 1940, 1946, 1981 and 1994 there were repeated floods of the Ilm . The station area in Bad Berka was often flooded, which led to operational disruptions and interruptions.

investment

Platforms and tracks

Platform of the trains in the direction of Kranichfeld (2017)

At the beginning in 1887 the station had six tracks and eleven switches. The entrance track from the direction of Tannroda was located on a 90-meter-long house platform . A 90-meter-long central platform followed to the west , crossing track 2 as an entry track from the direction of Weimar and loading track 3 with an 80-meter-long loading lane. Loading platform 6 existed to the east of platform 1. It ended at a head ramp. The branch to Blankenhain branched off to the south. Track 7 was the platform track on the house platform. Track 8 was a bypass. With the relocation of the Bad Berka – Munich section , the southern head of the station was also moved east. On the western side, loading track 4 and track 5 with a 35 meter long head and side ramp could be created. Track 3 was now given the function of a deployment and bypass track. The layout of these systems hardly changed until the section to Blankenhain was closed. After that, tracks 7 and 8 were only used as stabling tracks.

Platform of the trains in the direction of Weimar (2017)

For the period from 1897 to 1904, there is evidence of eleven simple switches in the Bad Berka train station.

In August and September 1997, loading street track 4 as well as sidings 7 and 8 on the former Blankenhain platform were removed. On December 22, 1999, train control was introduced on the line so that the station no longer needed local staff for the Bad Berka station. Further renovation work on the tracks and the safety systems followed. While the new platforms were still under construction, travelers still had to cross the tracks. For this, however, personnel were temporarily required to secure the travelers. The old platforms were shut down. The two new ones were arranged so that they are on the same side, about 70 meters apart.

There are currently only two crossing tracks in Bad Berka station. The two platforms are each 50 meters long and 55 centimeters high.

Reception building

Reception building, street side (2017)

The reception building, which has existed from the start, was built on two floors and is around 18 meters long. A part of the building arranged transversely to the track was built on three floors. There were service and waiting rooms on the first floor.

In 1900 it was given an open extension on the right side, which was later a closed one. Extensive renovation work took place in 1935. It was also modernized and the framework was plastered.

An attached goods shed had a side ramp and a front ramp for fire goods. It was a half-timbered construction with brick infill. At first the gable roofs were covered with natural slate and later with tiles. There was also a small toilet facility as well as a stable and a farm building.

Railway station restaurant

A train station restaurant existed from around the 1890s . It included two second and third class waiting rooms as well as an open veranda until the station renovation in 1935. In addition to the kitchen and cellar, there were two rooms for the landlord on the first and second floors.

Security technology

From around 1914, the entrances to the station were secured with form signals . The entrance signal A from the direction of Weimar, which was initially directly in front of the entrance switch, was to be set back 100 meters at the request of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 1921. Due to the poor visibility and the fact that there was no space to the right of the track, it was eight meters away and placed in a garden on the left side of the track. Later it changed to the inside arch side. The entry signal B from the direction of Kranichfeld was even set up to the left of the adjacent street on the left side of the track. This was not possible on the right-hand side of the track due to the development. So it was set up about ten meters from the track.

Connection

The EB 26 line , which runs every hour between Weimar and Kranichfeld , serves Bad Berka station. In the morning rush hour, the traffic is compressed to 30-minute intervals.

In addition, some local bus lines connect the station with the towns of Kranichfeld, Weimar, Blankenhain, Rudolstadt or Erfurt, among others .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Bad Berka  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Michael Dittrich: IBNR directory. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ DB Station & Service AG: Station price list 2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) P. 4 , archived from the original on August 6, 2017 ; Retrieved March 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschebahn.com
  4. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 11 .
  5. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 14-15 .
  6. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 17 .
  7. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 22 .
  8. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 33 .
  9. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 35-36 .
  10. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 42 .
  11. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 44-45 .
  12. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 48 .
  13. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 54 .
  14. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 52 .
  15. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 56 .
  16. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 134 .
  17. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 64 .
  18. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 68 .
  19. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 58 .
  20. ^ DB Station & Service AG: Bad Berka station. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 28, 2017 ; accessed on March 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschebahn.com
  21. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 71 .
  22. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 16 .
  23. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 27 .
  24. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 69 .