Bayerisch Eisenstein / Železná Ruda-Alžbětín railway station
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Bavarian Eisenstein Železná Ruda-Alžbětín |
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 Railway station with Czech half in the foreground |
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
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NBEI |
| IBNR | 8000830 |
| category | 6th |
| Web address (Germany) | stationsdatenbank.bayern-takt.de |
| Web address (Czech Republic) | www.cd.cz |
| opening | October 20, 1877 |
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| Place (Germany) | Bavarian Eisenstein |
| Place (Czech Republic) | Železná Ruda |
| Country Germany) | Bavaria |
| Region (Czech Republic) | Plzeňský kraj |
| Country | Germany and the Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 7 '18.4 " N , 13 ° 12' 32.5" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 722 m |
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The Bayerisch Eisenstein / Železná Ruda-Alžbětín station is a border station between Germany and the Czech Republic .
Geographical location
The station connects the Bavarian Forest Railway Plattling - Bayerisch Eisenstein, begun in 1874 by the Bayerische Ostbahn and completed by the Royal Bavarian State Railways , and the Pilsen – Priesen (–Komotau) railway line Pilsen – Markt Eisenstein (today: Železná Ruda ). The state border between Germany and the Czech Republic runs right through the tracks and the reception building . The station has two postal addresses: Bahnhofstrasse 54, Bayerisch Eisenstein and Debrník 30, Železná Ruda.
construction
The railway station track system has three parts:
- In the west is the former depot with a turntable, which serves as a museum for the Bavarian Local Railway Association .
- The platforms of the passenger station are located next to the reception building.
- On the German side, only platform 2 is used and is also used for cross-border trains.
- Platforms 3 and 5 are in operation on the Czech side. Track 4 serves as a locomotive siding for Czech trains. This maneuver is carried out across borders.
- Track 1 on the house platform is out of service.
- There are wooden loading tracks in the east of the station.
designation
Before the German occupation of the so-called "rest of Czech Republic" in 1939, the station was only called Eisenstein . The name was changed to Bayerisch Eisenstein on October 1, 1939.
construction
The basis of this rail connection is the Bavarian-Austrian State Treaty of March 30, 1873. On the Bohemian side, the Pilsen – Priesen (–Komotau) railway built the missing section of the line from Neuern to the Eisenstein station and opened it on October 20, 1877 On the German side, after the nationalization of the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company on May 10, 1875, the line was completed by the Bavarian State Railway and the last section from Ludwigsthal to Eisenstein was opened to traffic on November 15, 1877.
It was only towards the end of the line construction on May 17, 1877 that the two railway companies agreed on details of the large track systems for the handover operation and for the construction of the very large reception building. For this purpose, the local area had to be filled with over 250,000 m³ of earth and leveled. The central part of the station building was built exactly on the border. This is followed by a wing of the building belonging to the respective railway company on both sides. The waiting rooms were designed very representative in accordance with the style of the time. The largest preserved ceiling in Cologne is located in the first class waiting room .
The station was completed in 1878. On the south side of the track field, which initially had nine and later eleven tracks, a seven- room roundhouse with turntable and a two-room rectangular locomotive shed were built. Today the Bavarian Local Railway Association exhibits more than 20 vehicles from the local railway era in the Bavarian Local Railway Museum .
business
Until 1945
The railway line was designed as the shortest railway connection between Prague and Munich ; Because of the steep inclines and the narrow curves, especially on the Bohemian side, however, it did not achieve the importance intended for it. There was no cross-border train service until 2006, not even after the Sudetenland was compulsorily incorporated into the German Empire in 1938. Only around the turn of the century 1900, through coaches from Munich to Prague drove over the route for a few years. The through freight traffic was limited to the region.
Iron Curtain
After the end of the Second World War , cross-border train traffic came to a complete standstill. In 1953 Czechoslovakia drew a wire fence across the railway system and the tracks were broken. Even in the reception building, the separation was carried out by walls. The Czech passenger trains ended at Železná Ruda station (Eisenstein market) a few kilometers north of the border . The DB drove its trains to the buffer stop at the border fence and used the southern half of the divided reception building. The steam operation of the DB to Bayerisch Eisenstein ended for passenger and freight traffic in the 1970s. The rail buses remained for a long time , these were later replaced by diesel locomotives with n-type cars .
See also: Border fortifications of Czechoslovakia in the Cold War
After 1990
The border crossing was reopened to rail traffic on June 2, 1991. Since then, the České dráhy (ČD) trains have been running to Klatovy (Klattau) and Pilsen (Pilsen) . On the German side, the Regentalbahn trains run under the name Waldbahn from Plattling via Regen and Zwiesel to Bayerisch Eisenstein . Both railway companies use the track systems for shunting trips regardless of the course of the border. In 2006 the Bavarian Forest Nature Park bought the German part of the building.
After the station's signaling systems were prepared for cross-border traffic, since May 28, 2006, forest railway regional shuttles have been running to Špičák, seven kilometers away . There is a connection to Pilsen. This is the first scheduled cross-border traffic on the route since its completion in 1877. The Bayerwald Ticket tariff has been extended to include Špičák on these trips.
In December 2006 the previous name Železná Ruda of the Czech part of the station was officially changed to Železná Ruda- Alžbětín . In the 2016 annual timetable, trains from Plattling to Bayerisch Eisenstein ran every hour. On the Czech side there are local trains ( Osobní vlak ) and a Eilzugpaar ( Spěšný vlak ) to Plzeň (sometimes with change in Klatovy ). In addition, three pairs of express trains run to Prague with modernized cars ( Rychlík vyšší kvality ). Some of the trains of the Forest Railway to Špičák that had passed through in recent years have been discontinued.
The German part of the station was completely renovated from spring 2010 to mid-2011 for a total of 5.14 million euros. The official groundbreaking took place after construction began on November 10, 2010. Since the renovation, it has housed an exhibition on railways and nature. The Czech part of the station is owned by the Czech rail network operator SŽDC , the exterior renovation of the building on the Czech side was completed in 2018. The interior of the station will be renovated in 2019.
Bayerisch Eisenstein train station is a border tariff point .
Today's connections
Status: July 2016
| Train type | route | Clock frequency |
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| WBA 1 | Plattling - Deggendorf - Gotteszell - Regen - Zwiesel - Bayerisch Eisenstein | Hourly |
| Os | Železná Ruda-Alžbětín - Špičák - Janovice nad Úhlavou - Klatovy (- Plzeň) | Every 2 hours |
| Sp 1960/1965 | Železná Ruda-Alžbětín - Špičák - Janovice nad Úhlavou - Klatovy - Švihov u Klatov - Přeštice - Dobřany - Pilsen hlavní nádraží | a pair of trains |
| Rx 775-779 | Železná Ruda Alžbětín - Špičák - Janovice nad Úhlavou - Klatovy - Švihov u Klatov - Přeštice - Dobřany - Plzeň hl.n. - Rokycany - Kařez - Hořovice - Beroun - Praha-Smíchov - Praha hl.n. | two / three pairs of trains |
Worth knowing
In 2017, the German part of the station was voted station of the year in the tourism category by the Pro Schiene Alliance . This took place in particular due to the completed conversion by the current owner of the reception building, the Bavarian Forest Nature Park , into the Museum NaturparkWelten.
literature
- Bernhard Hager: From the end of silence (part 1). In: Eisenbahngeschichte No. 76 (June / July 2016), pp. 42–53.
- Bernhard Hager: Across old borders (part 2). In: Eisenbahngeschichte Nr. 77 (August / September 2016), pp. 14-20.
Web links
- Bavarian Local Railway Association
- Austrian Reich Law Gazette , especially Article 13 (page 378)
Individual evidence
- ^ Railway history booklet 77, p. 15
- ↑ From Bavaria to Bohemia in: Lok Magazin 10/2007, p. 94 ff.
- ↑ https://www.mittelbayerische.de/bayern-nachrichten/eine- limit-mitten-durch-den-bahnhof-21705- art521787.html
- ↑ https://www.szdc.cz/pro-media/tiskove-zpravy/opravena-zelezna-ruda.html
- ^ Bahnhof des Jahres Bahnhof Bayerisch Eisenstein , allianz-pro-schiene.de, accessed on August 25, 2017