Bempflingen station

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Bempflingen
Bempflingen stop
Bempflingen stop
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation TBEM
IBNR 8000865
Price range 6th
opening September 20, 1859
Profile on Bahnhof.de Bempflingen
location
City / municipality Bempflingen
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 34 '21 "  N , 9 ° 16' 23"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '21 "  N , 9 ° 16' 23"  E
Height ( SO ) 342  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines

Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Bempflingen train station is located on the 22.2 kilometer of the Plochingen – Tübingen railway line . According to the railway building and operating regulations, however, due to the dismantled points, it is no longer a train station , but a stopping point .

history

Planning and construction

In the mid-1850s, the Royal Württemberg State Railroad planned and built the line from Plochingen to Tübingen, then known as the Upper Neckar Railway . The management of Elmer & Zweifel , which has operated a cotton mill here since 1855 , campaigned for the construction of a train station in Bempflingen . They wrote a petition to those responsible in Stuttgart on behalf of the Bempflingen community and the surrounding communities and promoted the site. The letter states, among other things:

" Zuffenhausen , Eislingen and other small towns also have stops that are hardly as important as such in Bempflingen."

Bempflingen, then numbering a little over 700 inhabitants, finally got a station about half a kilometer east of the village. The embankment to be built interrupted the road to Großbettlingen .

The station received a two-storey entrance building made of sandstone, which is still preserved today. The building is equipped with a gable roof covered. The outer facade of the attic is clad with wooden slats. Windows and doors on the ground floor are provided with round arches . The railway system had a platform and a crossing track.

State Railroad Time

On September 20, 1859, the state railway opened the first section between Plochingen and Reutlingen . On that day, the first post office in Bempflingen went into operation. It was on the ground floor of the reception building. A passage had to be built for the interrupted road to Großbettlingen.

The small community underwent a structural change through the cotton mill and the railway. In 1895, 45 percent of the 792 inhabitants were still active as farmers.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the state railway extended the station building with a one-story extension to the south. Since October 1, 1901, the railway line between Neckartailfingen and Metzingen has been open to two tracks . The station received another track as a passing track. In 1909 the post office left the reception building.

Reichsbahn time

Since the mid-1920s, the bus competed with the railroad, with two connections ending in Bempflingen. The Kraftpost opened in 1926, a line of Nuertingen . In 1927 a private entrepreneur started operating a line from Metzingen .

On October 1, 1934, the Deutsche Reichsbahn began electrical operations between Plochingen and Tübingen.

Air raids occurred in the immediate vicinity of the train station during World War II . One occurred on December 9, 1944. Allied fighter-bombers had attacked the village that morning. At lunchtime, there was another low-flying attack on an express train from Tübingen to Stuttgart. The attack claimed three lives. On March 25, 1945, there was a low-flying attack on an express train towards Tübingen. This time there were six dead and several injured.

Bempflingen becomes a border station

After the war, the victorious powers divided Württemberg into two zones of occupation. The border between the American and French zones ran south of Bempflingen . The station was given a new function as a border station. In the course books of this time, the editors noted a stay of five minutes for trains in the direction of Plochingen. In reality, this was not enough. The controls sometimes took up to 25 minutes. The Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart complained about these travel time extensions to the two military governments. But it was not until 1948 that the trains stopped at two minutes.

Dismantling

On August 1, 1988, the Deutsche Bundesbahn gave up freight transport in Bempflingen. The community acquired the no longer needed goods shed between 1989 and 1992. The station has been unoccupied since February 1, 1993. The railway dismantled all side tracks and switches and thus downgraded the station to a stopping point. Today (2011) there are only direct connections to Stuttgart once a day.

Rail operations

The stop is served by regional trains. The trains in the direction of Metzingen (or Herrenberg) stop on track 1, and on track 2 in the direction of Nürtingen (or Plochingen).

According to Deutsche Bahn AG, the Bempflingen station corresponds to station category 6.

Regional traffic

RB R73 Plochingen - Wendlingen - Nürtingen - Metzingen - Reutlingen - Tübingen - Herrenberg 60-minute intervals
Herrenberg - Tübingen - Reutlingen - Metzingen - Wendlingen (Neckar) (or Wernau - Plochingen)

literature

  • Dieter Reichold: Upper Neckar Railway. A journey through time on the route Plochingen, Wendlingen, Nürtingen, Metzingen, Reutlingen . Wiedemann Verlag, Münsingen-Rietheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-941453-09-8 .
  • Sönke Lorenz (Ed.): Bempflingen and Kleinbettlingen . Wegra Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-921546-28-1 .

Individual evidence