Bad Harzburg train station

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Bad Harzburg
Entrance building, 2011
Entrance building, 2011
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Design Terminus
Platform tracks 5 (formerly 6)
abbreviation HBHA
IBNR 8000019
Price range 3
opening August 22, 1840
Profile on Bahnhof.de Bad_Harzburg
location
City / municipality Bad Harzburg
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 53 '16 "  N , 10 ° 33' 18"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '16 "  N , 10 ° 33' 18"  E
Height ( SO ) 236  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Lower Saxony
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Bad Harzburg is a terminus in the Lower Saxony spa town of Bad Harzburg . The station is the southern end of the line from Braunschweig , which was completed in 1841 and is considered the first state-run railway line in Germany . In addition, the station is also the end point of two further routes from Oker and Ilsenburg (Harz) .

Location and structure

Entire complex, 2019

The train station is located north of the Harzburg city center at an altitude of around 328 meters above sea ​​level . The station tracks run in a north-west-south-east direction. The facility is bordered to the south by Dr.-Heinrich-Jasper-Strasse / Herzog-Julius-Strasse ( Landesstrasse 501 ), to the east and north by the street Am Güterbahnhof and to the west by Badestrasse.

The operating point is located on the VzG routes 1901 ( Braunschweig Hbf - Bad Harzburg ) and 6425 ( Heudeber-Danstedt - Stapelburg [–Bad Harzburg] and Bad Harzburg - Oker ). The line from the direction of Stapelburg has been closed since 1973 and was dismantled a few years later.

The six main tracks of the passenger station (tracks 1–6) are on the southwest side on three central platforms; Track 1 is out of service. The platform of the tracks 1/2 is not covered, the platforms of the tracks 3-6 are there partially, a concourse does not exist. The platforms are connected to each other via a cross platform at the southeast end, followed by the station building from 1905. Its facade is in the neo-renaissance style; the interior belongs to Art Nouveau . The historic station building was bought by the Frankfurt-based Ædificia Infrastruktur- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH at the turn of the year 2017/2018 .

The freight station is located east of the passenger station. Since the last renovation in 2003, this has four loading tracks (tracks 10-13).

Signal bridge in Bad Harzburg, May 2017. In the background leading to the top right the former track to Stapelburg, on the left the tracks to Vienenburg and Oker lead down.

Signals and points are  operated and monitored from the Hf mechanical signal box at the head of the station. The entrance signals of the train station (Esig A and B) are at the level of the Westeroder Straße level crossing, the no longer existing entrance signal from the direction of Eckertal was approximately at the same height. The exit signals are mounted on a signal bridge at the level of the station head. Exits from tracks 5 and 6 as well as 7 to 11 are controlled by two group exit signals (P5 / 6 and P7 / 11). With the exception of the main tracks 3 and 4, all tracks have locking signals . The Jüdel-type signal box is located immediately north of the bridge. It went into operation on May 17, 1906.

history

19th century

On August 5, 1835, the ducal state ministry in Braunschweig approved the construction of a railway from Braunschweig via Wolfenbüttel to Neustadt-Schulenrode, which was the name of Bad Harzburg at the time. But it was not until November 13, 1837 that the Duchy of Braunschweig concluded a state treaty with the Kingdom of Hanover on the final course of the route, as Prussian territory was touched. The initiative came from the Braunschweig secret legionary councilor Philipp August von Amsberg . The course of the route was opened in several sections, the first from Braunschweig to Wolfenbüttel on December 1, 1838, then it continued to Schladen until August 22, 1840 . Here the travelers had to change into horse-drawn carriages . The last section to Harzburg went into operation on October 31, 1841. Since the locomotives used at the time could not cope with the gradient (gradient 1:49) between Vienenburg station and the southern terminus, the Duke of Brunswick State Railroad used horses as a leader on this section. The ramp to Harzburg was converted to steam operation on November 8, 1843.

After Wernigerode was connected to the railway network in 1872, plans came up for a connection from there via Ilsenburg to Harzburg. The initiator of the project, Count Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , initially succeeded in connecting Halberstadt to Wernigerode, followed by the continuation of the route to Ilsenburg in 1884. In order to close the gap between Ilsenburg and Harzburg, the neighboring hoteliers, with reference to tourism in the region, made a strong effort. The Prussian state parliament approved the project in 1890, whereupon the responsible Royal Railway Directorate (KED) Magdeburg examined various route options.

Initially, a direct tour of Abbenrode was planned, but the neighboring property owners did not want to sell their land. An alternative route with a tunnel through the Butterberg failed because of the high costs. In both cases, the Harzburg train station would have been built as a through station. The third variant considered by the KED Magdeburg would have been a connection north of the Schimmerwald. However, since this would have unnecessarily lengthened the route and only reduced the costs slightly compared to the tunnel variant, it was also rejected. The compromise ultimately envisaged a guided tour through the Schimmerwald and the connection of the railway from the north. The route had a steeper gradient compared to the other variants, but was ultimately the most cost-effective variant. The Duchy of Braunschweig approved the project in 1892, after which construction work began. The connection was inaugurated on September 30, 1894.

At that time, the station had a different structure. Today's passenger station comprised two platform tracks and a middle track for moving; all three tracks were connected to each other by a 12.6 meter turntable . At the head end there was an inn , the reception building was connected to it along the rails. To the east of it was another platform with an express freight ramp . Another turntable was at the freight yard. The locomotive station was in front of the passenger station. The facilities extended west of the tracks and included a double-track rectangular shed , a water tower and a small workshop. The station also had a signal box at the north head and two caretaker booths. These were located to the west of the entrance to the freight station and at the height of the express goods ramp. The water tower and the engine shed were built with the construction of the line from Ilsenburg in 1894.

20th century

218 253 in front of a passenger train on platform 4, 1989
Leaded glass window on the reception building with a view of Bad Harzburg (east window), 2013

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a major renovation of the station system. The main reason for this was the construction of the branch line to Oker, which was completed in 1912. As early as 1907, the line to Vienenburg received the second track. The passenger station was equipped with three head platforms, followed by the new station building in 1905. The two smaller turntables were given up and replaced by a 20-meter turntable in the locomotive station. Two hand-operated switch connections between the platforms were used to move. The locomotive station was also expanded. In the same year, KED Magdeburg replaced the signal box and the signal box at the freight station with a new mechanical signal box at the north head. Its special feature is the still existing signal bridge. In the 1920s, the turntable was enlarged to 23.6 meters in diameter. At around the same time, platforms B and C were given a roof.

In 1942 the Deutsche Reichsbahn dismantled the second track in the direction of Vienenburg. The station was spared from fighting for a long time during the Second World War. The Reichsbahn took advantage of the combination of Heudeber-Danstedt over Wernigerode and Bad Harzburg Goslar at that time preferred for Umleiterverkehre. The foothills of the low mountain range should offer sufficient protection against air attacks, which did not come true towards the end of the war. US soldiers reached Goslar on April 10, 1945, and Bad Harzburg was liberated one day later. At the same time, the Stapelburg air ammunition plant, six kilometers away, detonated after an air raid. The pressure wave of the detonation was so strong that the east window in the Harzburg train station broke. It was restored in almost original condition in 1986.

On May 29, 1945 the US units withdrew, Bad Harzburg was in the British zone of occupation . From July 1, 1945, the Red Army controlled the areas east of Bad Harzburg. The through traffic from Bad Harzburg to the Soviet occupation zone was initially interrupted with the invasion; In 1946, by agreement between the two occupying powers, isolated refugee trains still ran over the demarcation line. After that, the western section of the route was reduced to the section from Harzburg to Eckertal. The German Federal Railroad , which emerged from the Reichsbahn in 1949, stopped passenger traffic to Eckertal on May 21, 1955, and buses were still commuting on replacement rail services until September 27, 1958. Freight traffic ended on June 11, 1957. An approximately 225-meter-long remnant was used as a siding and pull-out track until the 1970s.

In the 1970s, the Federal Railroad gave up the locomotive station in Bad Harzburg. The remaining systems were removed in the mid-1980s. At the end of the 1990s there was a major dismantling of the freight transport facilities. At that time, DB Cargo intended to completely abandon freight transport, which now only comprised individual ballast trains. After the company withdrew in 2002, EVB took over the transport. The ballast loading was rebuilt the following year.

21st century

Since 2006, DB Netz intends to replace the mechanical signal boxes in Bad Harzburg and the surrounding area with the ESTW Harz-Weser in Göttingen . In 2010 it became known that the implementation of the project would be delayed by up to ten years.

On December 4, 2014, at the rail summit in Hanover, the infrastructure program “Lower Saxony is on the train III” (NiaZ3) was decided, which aims to make the train stations accessible to all, including Bad Harzburg station. As part of this project, the central platforms were lowered from 76 cm to 55 cm between April 10 and July 28, 2017, and the length of the riser was shortened from 180 m to 170 m. A tactile guidance system for people with visual impairments was set up on these platforms, and the weather shelters and showcase lighting were also replaced. A total of more than 3.8 million euros were invested in the renovation (as of 2017). The old side platform was demolished in April 2018

  • View of the platforms in Bad Harzburg, May 2017. Platform 5/6 is being renewed. Erixx railcar on the right.

  • Track work, April 2018. Platform 1/2 was torn down, and track 2 was renewed that day.

traffic

Regional train on platform 4, 2012

While on the route to and from Braunschweig there was mainly local traffic, the trains on the routes opened in 1894 and 1912 were in high demand, especially for holiday traffic. When the line to Oker was opened in 1912, the trains coming from Halberstadt were mostly tied to Goslar. The 1914 summer timetable lists 14 pairs of trains plus two pairs of trains in the summer months on the route to Vienenburg / Braunschweig. Seven pairs of trains ran between Halberstadt / Wernigerode, Bad Harzburg and Goslar every day, plus four pairs of trains from Bad Harzburg to Halberstadt / Wernigerode and Goslar, as well as a weekday pair of trains to Goslar and various holiday trains. The KED Magdeburg therefore intended the double-track expansion between Ilsenburg and Bad Harzburg. The project was not carried out because of the First World War and was not implemented after the end of the war.

The offer developed similarly in the 1920s and 1930s, the number of trains was comparable to that of 1914. During the Great Depression, however, the holiday traffic collapsed at almost the same level as during the World Wars. In addition to the local trains to Braunschweig, Halberstadt and Goslar, five pairs of express trains ran via Bad Harzburg in the summer of 1939. These were direct connections to Berlin , Magdeburg , Halle (Saale) , Hildesheim or Hanover .

After 1946 the connection from Bad Harzburg via Eckertal to Wernigerode and Halberstadt was interrupted. From 1950 the German Federal Railroad served the remaining section with two pairs of trains every working day. In 1955 she stopped passenger traffic. Freight traffic to a sawmill in Eckertal continued for two years, but had to be abandoned due to the lane widening in the curves of the route. Until the sawmill burned down in 1963, the Federal Railroad supplied it as a replacement rail service. The connections to the west and north, however, were expanded, in the summer of 1950, for example, there were express train connections to Hanover and Düsseldorf and through coaches to Bonn and Hoek van Holland .

After the turn of the proposed new federal states located district Wernigerode the reconnection of Bad Harzburg on Eckertal and Stapelburg direction Wernigerode. Since both the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn wanted a continuous connection from Halle to Braunschweig and Hanover, a change of direction in Bad Harzburg would have been inevitable in this case . The gap was therefore closed further north at Vienenburg, making a direct connection via Goslar bypassing Bad Harzburg possible.

The Harz Express (RE 4) from Hanover via Goslar and Halberstadt to Halle, which was introduced with the summer timetable, was temporarily run via Bad Harzburg. In the spring of 2012, the Lower Saxony regional transport company announced that the connection between Hanover and Goslar would be abandoned from the 2015 timetable and that the train would run directly from Goslar to Vienenburg. The traffic from Hanover to Bad Harzburg will be taken over by line RE 10, which runs every hour in the same ratio. Operation on this line and the regional train lines from Bad Harzburg to Braunschweig was taken over by Erixx , a subsidiary of the East Hanoverian Railway, when the timetable changed on December 12, 2014 . The line to Kreiensen / Göttingen stayed with DB-Regio.

Timetable offer 2019
line route Clock frequency EVU
RE 10 Bad Harzburg  - Goslar  - Salzgitter-Ringelheim  - Hildesheim Hbf  - Hannover Hbf hourly Erixx
RB 42 Bad Harzburg  - Vienenburg - Wolfenbüttel  - Braunschweig Hbf hourly Erixx
RB 82 Bad Harzburg  - Goslar - Langelsheim  - Seesen  - Kreiensen (-  Northeim (Han)  - Göttingen ) hourly DB Regio North

Remarks

  1. ↑ from 1892: Bad Harzburg .

Web links

Commons : Bad Harzburg train station  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedhelm Schlender: Eckertal station. In: Friedhelms Eisenbahnseiten. April 27, 2005, accessed January 25, 2015 .
  2. ^ Goslarsche Zeitung : The platform remains, the building is sold . March 27, 2018, accessed August 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Friedhelm Schlender: At the Bad Harzburg train station. In: Friedhelms Eisenbahnseiten. February 8, 2011, accessed January 25, 2014 .
  4. ^ Friedhelm Schlender: Signal box: Bad Harzburg. In: Friedhelms Eisenbahnseiten. May 25, 2005, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  5. ^ Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes. Entries B – Ben. In: www.stellwerke.de. December 7, 2014, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  6. ^ Harry Plaster: The Harzburg train station. In Harzburger Altertums- und Geschichtsverein eV (ed.): Uhlenklippen Spiegel issue 85 / March 2004
  7. ^ Harry Plaster: The Harzburg train station. In Harzburger Altertums- und Geschichtsverein eV (ed.): Uhlenklippen Spiegel issue 85 / March 2004
  8. ^ The railways from Magdeburg to Braunschweig and Halberstadt and from Braunschweig to Harzburg . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 13 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig September 23, 1843, p. 196–197 ( books.google.de ).
  9. ↑ Dirk Endisch: The railway Halberstadt-Vienenburg . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 , p. 8-12 .
  10. ↑ a b Dirk Endisch: The Halberstadt – Vienenburg railway line . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 , p. 17-20 .
  11. ↑ a b c Dirk Endisch: The railway Halberstadt-Vienenburg . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 , p. 76-88 .
  12. ↑ Statistical evidence . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Appendix 2, 1897, p. 42–67 ( online [PDF; accessed January 25, 2015]).
  13. ↑ From the Prussian state budget for 1907 . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume 6, 1907, pp. 37-48 ( online [accessed January 25, 2015]).
  14. ↑ Friedhelm Schlender: Various route data. In: Friedhelms Eisenbahnseiten. February 21, 2011, accessed January 5, 2015 .
  15. ↑ a b Dirk Endisch: The Halberstadt – Vienenburg railway line . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 , p. 29-38 .
  16. ↑ a b Dirk Endisch: The Halberstadt – Vienenburg railway line . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 , p. 38-41 .
  17. ↑ The dying of the railway line from Bad Harzburg to Eckertal began as early as 1957 . In: Goslarsche Zeitung . November 12, 1992 ( online [accessed January 25, 2015]).
  18. ↑ ESTW Harz-Weser replaces 65 old style interlockings. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Netz Nachrichten. December 2006, archived from the original on August 15, 2016 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 .
  19. ↑ News from November 1st, 2010 to November 30th, 2010. Highest railway for the southern Harz, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
  20. ↑ rail summit on December 4, 2014 in Hannover "Lower Saxony is the train III" - list of stations and planned measures . Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  21. ^ Regional association for the greater Braunschweig area : Modernization of the train station in Bad Harzburg . Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  22. ↑ Platform information Bad Harzburg ( memento from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on deutschebahn.com
  23. ^ Course book summer 1914.
  24. ↑ Dirk Endisch: The railway Halberstadt-Vienenburg . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 , p. 24-29 .
  25. ↑ Course book summer 1939.
  26. ^ Course book summer 1950.
  27. ↑ Dirk Endisch: The railway Halberstadt-Vienenburg . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 , p. 58-61 .
  28. ↑ Sven Steinke: Harz-Elbe-Express will soon run regularly to Goslar. In: Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de. March 25, 2014, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  29. ↑ New railway company connects Harz and Heide. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Lower Saxony regional transport company, December 19, 2012, archived from the original on November 13, 2013 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 . 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.lnvg.de