Bad Salzungen train station
| Bad Salzungen train station | |
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 Reception building and water tower, before the reconstruction of the station area
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (previously 5) |
| abbreviation | USZ |
| IBNR | 8010021 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1858 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bad Salzungen |
| location | |
| City / municipality | bad Salzungen |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '54 " N , 10 ° 13' 46" E |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Bad Salzungen train station is the train station of the district town of the Wartburg district of Bad Salzungen . It is located on the Werra Railway and the Werra Valley Railway .
history
Bad Salzungen train station was opened in 1858 by the private Werra Railway Company and soon developed into a junction on the Werra Railway . With the opening of Germany's first meter-gauge railway , the Feldabahn , in 1879, the railway line to Liebenstein-Schweina branching off at the neighboring Immelborn station in 1889, and the steadily increasing potash production in the nearby Werra potash district , its importance increased further. So it came about that from 1906 the Feldabahn was expanded to standard gauge in sections until 1934.
Bad Salzungen train station was expanded into an extensive marshalling yard. In addition to another connecting line for a cold rolling mill, the Deutsche Reichsbahn now also had a wagon refurbishment (WAS), which carried out the most urgent work on freight wagons. A GEx Bad Salzungen - Zella-Mehlis - Gräfenthal - Gotha also started in Bad Salzungen for the Deutsche Post on the post platform opposite the main post office.
Bad Salzungen is also important in passenger transport, but for a long time the station was only an intermediate stop for express trains to and from Bad Liebenstein. Only after this line was shut down did the express train or express train in the direction of Zwickau begin at Bad Salzungen station. In the 1980s, a so-called construction worker express train was set up, which every Monday shortly after midnight brought construction workers to Berlin to carry out the housing construction program . This was the only high-quality passenger train service on the middle section of the Werra Railway.
After the fall of the Wall in the GDR, goods traffic collapsed almost completely, only potash traffic remained until 1999. However, when the last Thuringian potash works in Unterbreizbach got a connection via Heringen (Werra) , only occasional timber traffic remained. Only scrap or rags were transported on the connecting line of the former potash plant in Merkers .
Passenger traffic has been handled by the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn (STB) since 2001 . The trains run on the entire Werra Railway from Eisenach to Eisfeld every hour or every two hours on the Eisfeld – Sonneberg railway via Sonneberg to Neuhaus am Rennweg . There are also some reinforcement trains to Eisenach. In 2001, STB railcars continued to drive to Vacha for half a year until rail passenger traffic was discontinued.
In 2010 it became known that the city of Bad Salzungen wanted to acquire the station building and the area of the freight yard. In addition, the timber loading is to be relocated to Merkers and a shopping center for the Kaufland retail chain is to be built in the area of the former freight station . The timber has been loaded in Merkers and Dorndorf since 2011; the former freight depot was demolished in early 2015 and the shopping center was built immediately afterwards.
In November 2014, Deutsche Bahn began creating barrier-free access to the last platforms 3 and 4 that were still used for passenger traffic. 3 million euros. Two elevators were built for step-free access to the platform; The new platform also received, among other things, a wayfinding, information and guidance system for the blind as well as dynamic text displays.
In 2017 the outbuildings of the train station were demolished, and in 2018 the conversion of the reception building into a residential and commercial building began. The work is expected to be completed in mid-2020.
Platform tracks
| track | Length in m | Height in cm |
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| 3 | 132 | 55 |
| 4th | 132.5 | 55 |
gallery
Street side
Railroad crossing at the eastern exit of the station
formerly WAS Bad Salzungen
Station exit in the direction of Meiningen (1991)
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literature
- Steffen Dietsch, Stefan Goldschmidt, Hans Löhner: The Werra Railway. Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810681-3-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Free Word from November 19, 2010, quoted a. a. here , accessed on November 7, 2014
- ↑ Kaufland construction start planned for next spring , insuedthueringen.de, accessed on November 7, 2014
- ↑ Start of construction for the renovation of the Bad Salzungen transport station , press release from Deutsche Bahn AG, accessed on November 7, 2014
- ↑ a b Platform information on Bad Salzungen train station on deutschebahn.com