Bergisch Gladbach (Gronau) train station

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Bergisch Gladbach (Gronau)
Reception building of the former train station
Reception building of the former train station
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Intermediate station
opening January 4, 1912
Conveyance September 29, 1965
location
City / municipality Bergisch Gladbach
Place / district Gronau
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 10 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 10 ″  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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At the time of construction, the former Bergisch Gladbach train station was in the Gronau district and is now in the city ​​center of Bergisch Gladbach .

history

Former " Hauptbahnhof " in Bergisch Gladbach (1912)

The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft began building its Cologne-Mülheim-Lindlar line in the 1860s . On 15 December 1868, the first section of been Mülheim on the Rhine to the station Bergisch Gladbach opened, the latter directly as a terminal station was created.

When the line continued to Bensberg station almost two years later, the terminus remained in place, which is why all trains had to turn there. Due to this operational obstacle, the Prussian State Railways planned a branch in Gronau a good 1.2 kilometers in front of the terminus and a connecting curve to the Bensberg line to enable undisturbed travel in both directions, which was also shorter. A resolution was passed against these plans on March 21, 1906 , but it was unsuccessful. Because the railway management decreed that about 2.5 kilometers from the Gronau junction at route kilometer 10.83 a new through station was to be built and a signal box on Buchholzstrasse .

After the completion of the train station in Gronau, which took over all passenger traffic and was popularly referred to as the "Hauptbahnhof", and the corresponding track systems, the railway rolled over the new route from January 4, 1912. The Bergisch Gladbach terminus station remained responsible for handling freight traffic .

In 1950 the terminus station was reopened for passenger traffic under the name Bergisch Gladbach Stadtmitte .

The connecting curve was shut down again together with the Gronau junction on May 29, 1960 and the through station closed on September 29, 1965.

Reception building

Since October 18, 1983, the station building of the former train station in Gronau has been listed as a monument under number 55 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .

The reception building now houses the administration offices of the bib International College and the University of Applied Sciences for Business (FHDW) .

literature

  • Hans Mittler: The Gronau (main) train station and its history . In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V. (Ed.): Home between Sülz and Dhünn. History and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area . No. 22 , 2016, p. 8th ff .

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