Bad Mergentheim train station
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 View from the house platform towards Weikersheim
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | TBMR |
| IBNR | 8000724 |
| opening | October 23, 1869 |
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| City / municipality | Bad Mergentheim |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 29 ′ 37 ″ N , 9 ° 46 ′ 19 ″ E |
| Height ( SO ) | 144 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Bad Mergentheim railway station , to 1926 Station Mergentheim , is an operating agency of the railway line Crailsheim-Königshofen . It is located in Bad Mergentheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg . The reception building is located at Poststrasse 1 .
history
On October 23, 1869, the Crailsheim – Mergentheim line was opened. The opening was celebrated five days earlier, on October 18, 1869, in Mergentheim. Mergentheim station was originally a border station between Württemberg and Baden . The clock tower - which no longer exists - in the central wing of the reception building indicated the Baden and the Württemberg " railway time ". In addition to the station building, the station consisted of a Württemberg locomotive depot, a Baden locomotive depot and a carriage depot. The goods shed was shared. Renovation work changed the central part of the reception building, so that the characteristics of the building suffered greatly.
In general cargo Bad Mergentheim was for the area to Tauberbischofsheim , until Blaufelden and Osterburken operates. For these tasks, the station had a local shunting service with small locomotives and staff until 1993 . In addition, wrong on the route freight trains in the relation Nürnberg - Aschaffenburg with -gauge . The last department head worked in Bad Mergentheim until 1993. After that, the independent department was dissolved and assigned to the Lauda train station as a branch .
The station was of great importance for the spa business from the start. Starting in the summer of 1939, there were through cars from Berlin to Bad Mergentheim. From 1968 the city was again served by year-round through cars from Hamburg and Dortmund . These were only discontinued in 1988 and 1989 respectively.
Since 2006 the station with the two signal boxes and the travel center belong to the Westfrankenbahn . In 2007 the freight yard with the tracks and ramp was demolished for a new building. After demolition in 2014, a residential complex was built in the former locomotive shed in Baden and on the Baden railway site. The station building was extensively modernized in 2019/2020.
Investments
Today there is a house platform and a central platform. All tracks for freight traffic and sidings have now been removed.
Platform access
Platform 1
Monument protection
The following parts of Bad Mergentheim train station are under monument protection :
- Station, reception building of the former exchange station, solid construction in the pavilion type from 1869 and toilet building (station 5) (entity with signal box 2 (station 29), signal box 1 (station 18); Württemberg locomotive depot (station 38); Baden car depot (Stifterstraße 18, formerly. No. 15), service building (Zaisenmühlstraße 2)).
- Station 29: Signal box 2, one-and-a-half-storey flat roof building with cladding made of shell limestone, around 1930.
- Railway station 18: Signal box 1, one and a half-story flat roof building with cladding made of shell limestone, around 1930.
- Part of the totality of the Bad Mergentheim – Crailsheim railway line: Württemberg Taubertal Railway with stations, outbuildings, bridges, track systems and all stationary and movable accessories, built in 1869.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bad Mergentheim train station --zielbahnhof.de. In: bf-b.zielbahnhof.de. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
- ^ Center for travelers in a new design - Fränkische Nachrichten. In: fnweb.de. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Bad Mergentheim travel center in a new design from February 14th. In: deutschebahn.com. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Large investments, probably in three years - Franconian news. In: fnweb.de. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Bahnhof Bahnhof 1-0 5 18 29 38 Stifterstraße 18 Zaisenmühlstraße 2 Bad Mergentheim - details page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
