Baden railway station

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Baden (CH)
Station building and station square
Station building and station square
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation BD
IBNR 8503504
opening August 9, 1847
Profile on SBB.ch No. 3504
Architectural data
architect Ferdinand Stadler
location
City / municipality to bathe
Canton Aargau
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 665 497  /  258772 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '35 "  N , 8 ° 18' 27"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-five thousand four hundred and ninety-seven  /  258772
Height ( SO ) 385  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Baden (CH) station of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is the station of the city of Baden in the canton of Aargau . It was opened in 1847 as the terminus of the Swiss Northern Railway (“Spanish-Brötli-Bahn”), the first railway line in Switzerland , and is therefore one of the oldest railway stations in the country. The station building designed by Ferdinand Stadler is the oldest in Switzerland, which has been preserved in its original state and is still used today for rail operations. The Baden train station is an express train stop. Although no routes branch off, it is particularly important as a transfer point to numerous bus routes.

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There are express trains to Basel , Bern , Zurich HB and Zurich Airport , usually every half hour . In regional train traffic, Baden is served by the S23 and S27 of the Aargau S-Bahn as well as the S6, S12 and at rush hour the S19 of the Zurich S-Bahn . The S23 runs every hour via Brugg - Lenzburg - Aarau - Olten to Langenthal and every half hour the S27 runs through the lower Aare valley to Koblenz and then alternately to Waldshut and Bad Zurzach . The Zurich S6 (Baden - Zurich Oerlikon - Zurich HB - Meilen - Uetikon ) and the S12 (Brugg - Baden - Zurich HB - Winterthur - Seuzach / Seen ) each run every half hour. The S19 runs during commuter times from Koblenz to Zurich HB and Pfäffikon ZH .

The Baden train station plays a special role as a hub for bus traffic. No fewer than 16 bus routes connect it with various destinations in the city and in the region. Eight lines of the regional transport company Baden-Wettingen (RVBW) pass the station as through lines. Next to it is the terminus of eight PostBus lines, which run at frequent intervals, especially during rush hour. Postbus destinations are Bellikon , Berikon-Widen , Bremgarten (via Mellingen or Stetten ), Kaiserstuhl , Mägenwil and Tegerfelden . There are also various night bus routes. Baden train station has a Mobility car sharing service. From the Bahnhofplatz the promenade lift leads down to the Limmat promenade; Together with the connecting footbridge over the Limmat , it creates a quick connection for pedestrians and cyclists to Ennetbaden .

Long-distance transport

Zurich S-Bahn

Aargau S-Bahn

bus

from the Ost train station

1 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 7 - 9

from Bahnhof West stop

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 9

Postbus

from the Postautostation stop

In addition, four night bus routes N70 N71 N72 N73 run in different directions in the region at the weekend .

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View of the Baden train station

At Baden train station, the Zurich – Baden line merges with the Baden – Aarau line . The route generally runs from east to west. In the area of ​​the city of Baden, however, it has a south-north route, and the train station is designed accordingly. It consists of five through tracks with a house platform and two covered central platforms. The express trains usually run on platform 1 (eastwards) or on platform 3 (westwards). Regional trains and S-Bahn trains use tracks 2, 4 and 5.

The Metroshop, an underground shopping center, is located under Bahnhofplatz . The SBB travel customer center can also be found there, which has been relocated from the station building (the building itself now only serves as a restaurant and waiting room). Additional services in the Metroshop include a Western Union sales location and the city of Baden's tourist office.

Due to the high density of lines and cycle times as well as the tight space available, bus traffic has been separated and drives to the station in one direction. The east bus station is located on Bahnhofplatz, where the RVBW buses stopping southwards. The west bus station on Güterstrasse is used by RVBW buses and Postbuses traveling northwards (the latter, however, only for getting off). The start and finish point of all Postbus lines is the Postbus garage, which is located directly north of the train station under the main post office and has access to the Metroshop.

There are two underpasses: The first leads from the West bus station under the station building to the Metroshop and then to Badstrasse on the banks of the Limmat . It represents the most important pedestrian connection in the city in a west-east direction and is continued in the form of a footbridge over the Limmat to Ennetbaden . The second underpass is located at the southern end of the track field shortly before the portal of the Kreuzliberg tunnel ; near the old town it connects the Stadtturmstrasse with the Bahnhofstrasse.

The station building designed by Ferdinand Stadler has retained its basic structure to this day. It consists of a two-story, stepped main wing with a raised central section, which is bordered by risalits . On the central ridge there is a clock tower with a tin hat and a weather vane standing on four narrow columns. The main entrance is in the form of a three-part round arch arcade. On both sides of the main wing there are symmetrical, single-storey side wings. The station has been on the list of cultural assets of national importance since 1995.

history

Floor plan of the station buildings in Zurich and Baden 1847
View of Baden train station around 1850 (from the north, in the center of the picture the Schlossberg with the Stein ruins )
Station building

Compared to neighboring countries, the age of the railways began relatively late in Switzerland. The reasons were topographical difficulties, but also the disagreement between the cantons. In 1838 a railway line was planned from Zurich along the rivers to Basel . In Limmattal the Trassee should run on the right side of the valley, the Baden train station had been built several hundred meters from the city on the Wettinger field. The project failed in December 1841 due to a lack of money, resistance from the rural population and various political reasons.

In 1846, after extensive planning, the Swiss Northern Railway (SNB) was founded. It took up the old project, but with a line to the left of the Limmat. The city of Baden hoped that the SNB would also build a branch line via Lenzburg to Aarau . She preferred the area in front of the Mellingertor south of the old town as the location of the train station. However, chief engineer Alois Negrelli did not agree. He convinced the city authorities that a train station on Haselfeld north of the old town (at today's location) would be more suitable because of the flat terrain and could be expanded more easily if necessary. In addition, the touristically important spa district will also be better developed.

However, this change in the project made it necessary to build an 80-meter-long tunnel under the Schlossberg and the Stein ruins . To make room for the tunnel, the powder tower and part of the city wall had to be demolished. In the construction of the Schlossberg tunnel , prisoners were initially deployed, and later also unskilled workers. A demolition accident claimed three lives, and six other workers died of typhus . The tunnel was cut on April 14, 1848. In the meantime, a representative station building and a goods shed were built according to plans by the architect Ferdinand Stadler .

On August 7, 1847, the Zurich – Baden railway line , the first railway line entirely on Swiss soil, was ceremoniously opened, and scheduled operations began two days later. The route soon received the nickname “Spanish-Brötli-Bahn”, after the Spanish bread pastry from Baden , which was very popular in Zurich at the time. The locomotives turned on a turntable in Baden .

The further construction of the line was delayed by several years because the new Swiss federal state, founded in 1848, first had to enact the legal basis for the railway system. In 1853 the SNB became part of the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB), which now pushed the planning ahead. It dropped the branch line Baden – Lenzburg – Aarau (later built by the Swiss National Railway) and began construction work on the continuation of the existing line to Brugg (with a junction at the intermediate station Turgi in the direction of Waldshut ) in the summer of 1854 . The opening took place on September 29, 1856. With the exception of the electrification of the Zurich – Olten line on January 21, 1925, there were no significant operational changes in the following 100 years.

Road traffic in Baden began to increase significantly from the late 1940s. The level crossings on Stadtturmstrasse north and on Schulhausplatz south of the tunnel portal increasingly turned out to be bottlenecks; the barriers were closed for more than five hours every day. The initially planned relocation of the train station to Schulhausplatz met with great rejection. Finally, in 1955 , the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau gave preference to the “minor railway relocation”. This project envisaged the construction of the 988 m long Kreuzliberg tunnel, which, starting from the train station, passes under the neuralgic areas. The construction work lasted from 1957 to 1961, the old Schlossberg tunnel has been used for road traffic ever since.

The first redesign of the station area followed in 1967. The Metroshop shopping arcade was built under the station square in a five-year construction period. In addition, the traffic flows of pedestrians, automobiles and buses have been unbundled. Since Brown, Boveri & Cie. (today Asea Brown Boveri ), which owned a large industrial area north of the train station and moved more and more production facilities from the city center, freight traffic declined significantly. In 1988, SBB, Post, RVBW and the building department of the canton of Aargau formed a project commission that examined the urban development possibilities around the station.

In 1998 the implementation of the winning design plan began. In the same year, the over 150-year-old goods shed on the west side of the station was demolished and the tracks for freight traffic lifted. In their place a building with shops and offices (the so-called long house) and the bus station West, which can be reached from the Schlossberg road tunnel via a ramp, were built. The station building was extensively renovated and the Metroshop redesigned. A festival in September 2001 marked the end of the modernization. In 2008, Postauto Schweiz AG and the Association of Public Transport awarded Baden railway station the FLUX prize for particularly well-designed transport hubs.

literature

  • Otto Mittler: History of the City of Baden . Volume II: From 1650 to the present. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1965, p. 234-245 .
  • Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume VI, District of Baden I. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0782-X , p. 260-266 .
  • Werner Stutz: Railway Stations in Switzerland - From the Beginnings to the First World War . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 , p. 31, 56, 68, 104, 131 .
  • R. Wanner: R. Wanner: The oldest station of the Swiss railways: Baden . In: SEAK (Ed.): Railway Amateur . January 1988, p. 13-16 .

Web links

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

References and comments

  1. ↑ The older station building of the Dietikon train station (also built in 1847) was replaced in 1866 by a new building on the opposite side of the track field, but was retained.
  2. ↑ Baden region network plan ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 987 kB), tariff association A-Welle  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.a-welle.ch
  3. ^ The "French station" in Basel, the terminus of the line from Mulhouse , was opened on December 11, 1845.
  4. ↑ How the Gotthard Tunnel gets to the Mittelland ( Memento from January 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Work and Transport October 12, 2004, Swiss Railway and Transport Staff Association
  5. ^ Folk festival for the new Baden train station , swissinfo, September 30, 2001
  6. ↑ The FLUX 2008 goes to the Baden train station , Association of Public Transport, November 14, 2008