Beckingen (Saar) train station
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L1010969_(2).JPG) The station after the restoration work completed in 2014
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| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | SBE |
| IBNR | 8000840 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1868 |
| Website URL | Station profile of DB Netz AG |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Otto Dear |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Beckingen |
| country | Saarland |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 23 '12 " N , 6 ° 41' 17" E |
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| Railway stations in Saarland | |
The Beckingen (Saar) Station is the station of the municipality Beckingen on the Saar Railway between Trier and Saarbruecken . The Beckingen station building is the second oldest preserved train station in Saarland and the most elaborately designed on the Saar line. The station is listed in the operating point directory with the operating point abbreviation SBE and belongs to the station category 6. After the removal of the switches to the adjacent factory premises of the Beckinger screw factory in 2008, the previous station is operationally a stopping point . The Beckinger reception building, with the historic reception buildings of the Merzig , Dillingen , Luisenthal and Bexbach train stations , is one of the oldest preserved reception buildings in Saarland.
history
Planning and construction
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The building plans were submitted on December 17, 1857 by the then departmental builder Otto Lieber . Lieber, who came to the Saar with the construction of the railway, became a district master builder in Mülheim an der Mosel in 1865 and a building inspector in Saarbrücken in 1869. In 1873 he returned to Düsseldorf , where he was first a government and building officer, then a secret building officer. He retired in 1892. The architect who designed the Saarbrücken Winterberg Monument , which was inaugurated on August 9, 1874, is also dearer .
On Christmas Eve 1857, the plans drawn up by Lieber for the Beckinger station building in Saarbrücken were revised and released on January 21, 1858 in the Railway Department in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works in Berlin . The station house was completed in 1858/1859. The Saar line was officially opened on May 26, 1860 - from this point at the latest the station also had a telegraph station .
Since Beckingen was only the 3rd stop, the lowest category, and was therefore only intended for a simple type train station, as it was found several times on the Saar route and how it was preserved, for example, with the Wiltingen train station between Saarburg and Konz , it is astonishing that Lieber was able to lavishly build the train station in Beckingen in the manner of a romantic knight's castle. Who gave the impetus for this and approved the considerable additional costs required remains unknown. In the official Prussian construction journal from 1863, the small Beckingen train station is explicitly mentioned in a larger article about the Saar line: “At the end of the section, the Beckingen stop is at a very romantic point in the Saar-Valley, which is particularly lovely here , ... “The Beckingen train station is specially highlighted in the article with its floor plan and facade plan.
There is no conclusive evidence to explain the exceptional position of the Beckinger building, but only assumptions that state that the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , who is also known as the "Romantic on the Hohenzollern Throne", influenced the design of the Railway building in Beckingen. Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Had already visited Beckingen and its surroundings as crown prince and later as king and probably got to know them better. His younger brother and successor in the Prussian reign, Wilhelm , the future German Emperor, succeeded on January 14, 1814, together with the Prussian troops under General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, after days of unsuccessful efforts, the Saar near Beckingen, near the later station area, to be crossed by means of a provisional trestle bridge during heavy ice drifts in order to put an end to Napoleon's rule after the Battle of Leipzig as part of the wars of liberation .
The gothic castle-like architecture of the station could possibly be interpreted as a reminiscence of the history of Beckingen as a commander of the Teutonic Order . The Beckinger Kommende, which was built in the 13th century , was forcibly dissolved by the French state during the French Revolution in 1762/1793. The Duchy of Prussia and finally the Kingdom of Prussia emerged from the territory of the Teutonic Order in the Baltic States ( Teutonic Order State ) . The station building could be understood as an architectural historical connection between the old Prussian areas in the east and the territories of Prussia on the Saar, newly acquired by the Congress of Vienna .
Another medieval reference of the building is the picturesque point de vue interaction of the tower of the Beckinger train station with the tower of the nearby Siersburg on the other side of the Saar. In its position between the river landscape and the wooded mountainside, as well as in its architectural silhouette (left-standing polygonal crenellated tower with flagpole, crenellated "Palas" building, Gothic windows), the small Beckingen train station is reminiscent of Friedrich Wilhelm IV's neo-Gothic Stolzenfels Castle , the most outstanding Work of the Rhine Romanticism , which was created between 1836 and 1847.
extension
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Around 1890 the railway building was extended by two outer axis buildings in neo-Gothic shapes.
Destruction in World War II
During the fierce fighting in 1944/1945, the station lost its striking tower and was badly damaged. In late autumn 1944, the US armed forces had established themselves on the left bank of the Saar in the area between Rehlingen , Eimersdorf and Fremersdorf and fired from there on Beckingen and the Haustadter Valley. The crossing over the Saar and the loss-making conquest of the right bank of the Saar succeeded in March 1945.
Temporary reconstruction
The post-war period brought about a disfiguring and temporary restoration of the entire complex. The octagonal tower structure was not reconstructed and its preserved square tower stump was only provided with a temporary monopitch roof. With the relocation of the platforms in 2001 and the outsourcing of the security technology, the Liebersche station building lost all function and became neglected, so that a demolition seemed increasingly likely.
Restoration and new use
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After previous efforts aimed at maintaining and restoring the station failed to make progress, the Beckingen community took the initiative to restore and reuse the historic station ensemble. The municipality submitted an application for the transfer of ownership of the station building to Deutsche Bahn AG, for which the Saarland state government promised financial subsidies, provided that an acceptable usage concept for the renovated railway building was drawn up. At the end of 2004, the “European Tourism Institute” (ETI) at the University of Trier was commissioned to draw up an expert opinion on the possible use of the station area for tourism. The Landesdenkmalamt Saarland was a damage assessment and cost estimate for the station building commissioned in the year of 2005.
After the Beckingen municipal council had unanimously decided in April 2008 to acquire the historic railway building and the adjoining site from Deutsche Bahn AG for a symbolic price of € 1, restoration work on the station building began with the laying of the foundation stone in May 2009. The renovation and expansion measures were planned and carried out by the Dillingen- born architect Calogero Cascino (* 1960) in cooperation with the State Monuments Office of Saarland.
After the reception building was gutted, its original room layout on the ground and first floors was changed to reflect the new use. The work that was carried out in the years 2009 to 2014 also applied to the sandstone facade, which was repaired and supplemented in traditional stone carving. For the completely new building components, the tower and the gable on the waiting room extension , a color-matched clinker brick was chosen instead of a sandstone masonry, so that these additions can be read by the observer as a restoration ingredient. The redevelopment was supplemented by covering with slate and making new wooden windows based on those from the construction period. The zinc print on the platform (around 1880) or the taxi telephone box (around 1960) were also included in the restoration work. The structural reconstruction of the railway building began with the reconstruction of the tower and the renovation of the sandstone facade, which was badly damaged by the weather and the effects of the war. These two construction phases were largely completed in mid-2012. The external work on and around the old station, such as the restoration of the sandstone retaining wall, lasted until February 2014.
The largely lost interior of the neo-Gothic building was designed in a modern, restrained form while preserving the type floor plan, as were the exterior doors. In autumn 2013, the future use of the Liebersche station building was started with the information center for the Wolferskopf nature reserve and the Beckingen municipality's tourist office. The large room on the upper floor serves as the community's wedding room. Although the restoration work in the outdoor area was not yet completed at this point, the official opening of the restored station building took place on June 8, 2013.
The rest of the work on the outside area (wall, railing) took place in 2014.
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In addition to the total costs of around 2.2 million euros, the Saarland state government granted subsidies of 1.15 million euros. The Zweckverband Wolferskopf contributed € 150,000 as rent paid in advance. For the community of Beckingen, around € 900,000 remained to be financed.
Reception building
The building is entered in the list of monuments of the municipality (see list of architectural monuments in Beckingen ). The municipality acquired the building from Deutsche Bahn in 2009 for a symbolic price of one euro .
The original access to the entrance to the Beckinger station building led from Bahnhofstrasse via a two-armed staircase embedded in the retaining wall to the higher station forecourt . This staircase has been preserved to this day and can be accessed from one side after its restoration. The top of the retaining wall is a balustrade, consisting of a series of low rectangular columns that are connected to one another by a cover made of sandstone slabs.
A typical designation of smaller railway reception buildings in the 19th century was a symmetrical floor plan. In Beckingen, deviating from this scheme, the design of a medieval castle inspired romanticism. The picturesque asymmetry of the building complex, which - with the development of the railway from England - generally only prevailed after 1870, was deliberately used here as a stylistic device based on a medieval castle complex. The picturesque layout of the Beckingen station building also takes up elements of the multi-tower, crenellated first Saarbrücken main station building from 1852.
The railway building is dominated by a 20 meter high tower, which is provided with window openings in the form of loopholes and a final crenellated wreath at the top. On the top floor, a round station clock is attached to each of the four outer walls. The inside of the tower housed the weights of the mechanical station clock hanging on long chains . Due to their length, these had to be pulled up by hand less often.
The two-storey building, attached to the south-east of the tower, has a row of stone battlements on the front and back over the eaves cornice, which is placed on stone consoles and protrudes over the eaves. The gables of the building close in a stepped or stepped gable.
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The railway building has rectangular single and twin windows with sills and bow roofs on the front and back. The canopy closes the windows at the upper edge in the form of stone profile strips that are pulled down a short distance to the side of the window opening. This decorative element is exemplary of the Tudor Gothic and was taken up by the German Neo-Gothic imitating it. Through various individual elements of the facades, the windows and the Tudor arches , the entire building can be assigned to the style of the English Gothic Revival .
Around 1890 the railway building was extended by two axes. However, since neo-Gothic forms were also used here, the overall picturesque appearance of the complex was hardly disturbed.
Loopholes-like window slits on the distinctive 20 m high tower, the battlements shaped cornices , Gothic arches and the rustic sandstone walls make the building complex reminiscent of a medieval castle from its outer shape . The neighboring ruins of the Siersburg on the opposite side of the Saar and other Saar castles could have served as a source of architectural inspiration.
The floor plan is well-proportioned and met all the needs that can be placed on a small train station: the vestibule led to the right-hand side into the two first and second class waiting rooms, each with direct access to the house platform . In the middle was the ticket office and on the left the luggage storage, also with an exit to the platform.
A canopy attached to the platform in the period after the Second World War was erected, like other later conversions, without regard to the original architectural and stylistic conditions.
traffic
Beckingen train station on the Saar route belongs to the Saarland Transport Association and is located in Wabe 211 (Beckingen). It is served by the following lines:
| line | Line designation | Line course |
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| RB 70 | Saar Valley Railway | Merzig (Saar) - Beckingen (Saar) - Dillingen (Saar) - Saarlouis Hbf - Saarbrücken Hbf - St. Ingbert - Homburg (Saar) Hbf - Landstuhl - Kaiserslautern Hbf |
| RB 71 | Saar Valley Railway | Trier Hbf - Saarburg (Bz Trier) - Merzig (Saar) - Beckingen (Saar) - Dillingen (Saar) - Saarlouis Hbf - Saarbrücken Hbf - St. Ingbert - Homburg (Saar) Hbf |
Buses 201, 202, 411 and 462 also stop at the station.
Accident on May 11, 1970
A serious accident occurred on May 11, 1970, in which five people were killed after a landslide caused by heavy rainfall lasting two days. An express train derailed and smashed the last wagon of an oncoming passenger train.
Saargarten Beckingen
The so-called "Saargarten" was created in 2010 to design the area around the station. It extends between the station building and the Saar over an area of 32,000 m². The park area is designed with sculptures and sculptures by various international and national artists. A children's playground, a sports facility, a restaurant and picnic areas were set up for the purpose of local recreation. The park is part of the Gardens without Borders , a tourism project in the triangle of Saarland , Lorraine and Luxembourg , which has been presenting historical restored gardens from different eras or current themed gardens since November 1998, across borders and thus connected to the European idea .
- Saargarten in front of the station building
View from the Saar to the station tower
Metallplastik, Werner Bitzigeio, “Stille”, 2008, steel, diameter 2.50 m
Metal sculpture, Hubertus Jacobs, “Confidential conversation”, 2008 Steel, 2.40 × 1.40 × 0.70 m
Wooden sculpture group, Laura Danzi, “No concrete heads”, 2010, oak, 15 parts, 2.10 × 8 × 8 m
Lighthouse slide in the children's playground
Metal sculpture, Eugenio Riotto, “Gate to Freedom”, 2010 Steel, 8 parts, each 2.25 × 1.60 × 0.8 m
Metallplastik, Angelika Summa, "Rotation", 2010, structural steel, diameter 2 m
Stone sculpture, Joan Thimmel, TOUN and Andres Medl, 2008, Udelfanger sandstone , 3½ tons, 2 m high
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Literature and Sources
- Arrival Saarbrücken Hbf, 150 years of railways on the Saar, ed. v. Head of the State Chancellery - State Archives in collaboration with the Saar History Museum and the Saarbrücken City Archives, edited by Michael Sander, Saarbrücken 2002.
- Archive of the Saarbrücken Railway Directorate, Railway Department in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works.
- Axel Jungmann archive, Beckingen, Schäferweg 11.
- Konstantin von Briesen: Documented history of the Merzig district, Saarlouis 1863, reprint Dillingen 1980.
- The romantic Nahe and Saar-Thal, part 2: The Saarbrücker-Trier-Luxembourg railway, without author, Kreuznach 1864.
- List of monuments of the Saarland from 1994 and 2013, ed. v. State Conservatory Office of the Saarland.
- European Tourist Institute (ETI), tourist action plan for the valorization of the historic train station in Beckingen, Trier 2004/2007.
- Kurt Harrer: Railways on the Saar, Düsseldorf 1984.
- Christiane Henrich, Monika Silvanus, Martin Uhrhan, Volkmar Schommer: Beckingen in the course of time, a representation of the past and present of the Beckingen community and its districts, ed. from the community of Beckingen, Beckingen 1991.
- Kurt Hoppstädter: The origin of the Saarland railways, publications of the Institute for Regional Studies of Saarland 2, Saarbrücken 1961.
- Johann Heinrich Kell: History of the Merzig District, Saarbrücken 1925.
- Barbara Neu: Saarland station entrance building in the 19th century, master's thesis ( http://bahnhoefe-im-saarland.2bnew.de/ ).
- Saarbrücker Zeitung from May 11, 2009.
- Manfred Schneider: Large train station for a building from the imperial era, in: Saargeschichten, magazine for regional culture and history, issue 3, 2014, pp. 35–39.
- Eckhard Seitz: 130 years of Saarbrücken Railway Directorate 1852 - 1982, beginning and development of state railway administration in south-west Germany, Saarbrücken 1982.
- Engelbert Zimmer: The Saarbrücken Railway Administration through the ages 1847–1957, in: Die Schiene, messages for the Saarland railroader, special issue, 6th year, Saarbrücken 1959.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Copy made in 1884
- ↑ Saarland Monument Preservation Report of July 17, 2013, http://www.saarland.de/SID-EA0DC1C8-D1DDBE78/103901.htm , accessed on May 14, 2015
- ↑ Monika Silvanus: Beckingen under Prussian rule (1814 / 16-1918), transition to Prussia, in: Christiane Henrich, Monika Silvanus, Martin Uhrhan, Volkmar Schommer: Beckingen in the course of time, a representation of the history and present of the Beckingen community and their parishes, ed. from the community of Beckingen, Beckingen 1991, pp. 135-137
- ↑ http://www.kuhv-beckingen.de/ort-und-geschichte/der-deutsche-orden-in-beckingen , accessed on May 27, 2015
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed on May 14, 2015
- ↑ https://www.beckingen.de/content/beckingen/Tourismus/alter-bahnhof-1 , accessed on May 14, 2015.
- ↑ https://www.beckingen.de/content/beckingen/Tourismus/alter-bahnhof-1/geschichte , accessed on May 14, 2015
- ↑ Honeycomb plan 2007 of the Saarländischer Verkehrsverbund ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF)
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn: Regional traffic network Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2008 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)
- ^ Stiftung Kulturbesitz of the community of Beckingen (ed.): Skulptura 2010 Beckingen, Beckingen 2010.
- ^ Art in Public Space Saarland, Volume 5, Merzig-Wadern District 1945 to 2012, essays and inventory, edited by Margarete Wagner-Grill, ed. by Jo Enzweiler, in preparation.
- ↑ https://www.gaerten-ohne-grenzen.de/Media/Attraktionen/Saargarten-Beckingen , accessed on August 26, 2019.
