Biedenkopf station
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 Track side of the reception building (2011)
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | FBIK |
| IBNR | 8000952 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | March 19, 1883 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Founding period |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Biedenkopf |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 54 '32 " N , 8 ° 31' 50" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 274 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Biedenkopf station is a through station in Biedenkopf and is located at 62.3 km of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway . It is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
history
The Biedenkopf station was opened on March 19, 1883 with a freight train service for the commissioning of the line ( Marburg -) Cölbe - Laasphe ; the release for passenger traffic took place on April 2, 1883. On the occasion of the first arrival of a passenger train from Cölbe at 9:48 am, a folk festival including a pageant from the school to the train station was held.
Soon afterwards the route was continued via Laasphe to Erndtebrück - Kreuztal - Siegen . This branch line was completed in 1889. In 1895, the premises of the Biedenkopf station comprised six points , a fixed ramp, a weighbridge and a siding.
In 1905, 62,000 tickets were sold at Biedenkopf station . The number of train pairs increased continuously (1888: 4, 1914: 9 train pairs). As a result, the waiting rooms and ticket issuance were expanded. Even the freight quickly grew in importance; the goods shed had to be expanded after 1902.
From the middle of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century there were repeated considerations to run a branch line from Gießen via Gladenbach to Biedenkopf as part of the expansion of the railway lines between the Lahn and the Ruhr . However, these plans never came to fruition.
passenger traffic
From May 1, 1911 to May 1987, the Biedenkopf station was not only a through station on the Oberen Lahntalbahn , but also the starting and ending point for the trains on the Scheldalbahn to Dillenburg , which branched off 4.5 km further northwest in Wallau from the Oberen Lahntalbahn ; then the passenger traffic on the Schelden Valley Railway was stopped.
From the winter timetable 1957/58 to the summer timetable 1979 there was a daily pair of express trains from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne (E 781/782) with stops in Gießen , Marburg, Biedenkopf, Siegen and Troisdorf, among others .
From 1983 the entire traffic between Bad Laasphe and Marburg was directed towards Biedenkopf as a school center ; only three trains ran on Saturdays. Until 1985 there was another train station in Biedenkopf near Ludwigshütte in the west of the city. After that, until 2003, when the new Biedenkopf school center stop was opened, it was the only train station in the city center.
In the course of the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the route of the Oberen Lahntalbahn, a route festival was held on August 29th and 30th, 2009 (one year late from the actual anniversary year). In addition to the well-known railcars, several historic trains ran this weekend. On Sunday a TEE train from the 1970s drove with Rheingold wagons on the Marburg – Biedenkopf – Bad Laasphe – Erndtebrück route. In addition, one was steam engine of class 52 and a set of known railcars on the track Biedenkopf - used Erndtebrück - Bad Laasphe.
The " Lahntal Total " event, which has been taking place annually since 2006, has also provided regular special train services with increased passenger numbers at Biedenkopf station . On this car-free Sunday, the scheduled connections on the Upper Lahn Valley Railway will be supplemented by numerous train pairs.
Freight transport
Due to the early establishment of the iron and steel industry in the Lahn and Dill area , the so-called “hinterland” , there was heavy freight traffic from the start. Large companies in the former county Biedenkopf were served by freight trains freight yard Biedenkopf (and Biedenkopf-Wallau): the Buderus - foundries in Wilhelmshütte and Ludwig Hut (later also as the location of the aircraft kitchen manufacturer Buderus Sell / Sell GmbH ) as well as the thriving brake discs foundry in Breidenbach (Buderus Guss ) until the end of 2002.
From 1970 onwards, an industrial trunk line leads into the “Am Seewasem” industrial park. Until the second half of the 1990s, there was regular use by Biedenkopfer companies, who supplied their international customers by rail. B. Banss (slaughter and conveyor technology), Elkamet (plastics technology). These sidings as well as the level crossing for the access to the industrial area were operated from the signal box “BO” at the eastern end of the station. The once sizeable freight yard has now been closed and largely dismantled in 1999; the main industrial track has been preserved.
After the enormous damage to the forest caused by Hurricane Kyrill in 2007, there was a short-term need for rail freight transport. In cooperation between the city of Biedenkopf, the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf , the forestry office and the Kurhessenbahn, a timber loading point was set up between Breidenstein and Breidenbach (near the former Wiesenbach stop ). The remnant of the former Schelden Valley Railway between Biedenkopf-Wallau and Breidenbach-Wiesenbach, which had been fallow since 2002, was reactivated for freight traffic. The facility was expanded for permanent use from a temporary arrangement.
In the first few years after the storm, up to five block trains with 18 wagons were sent weekly via the Biedenkopf station (in the direction of Marburg) to sawmills, primarily in southern Germany and Austria. In the section from Breidenbach to Marburg, these were usually driven with locomotives from the Kurhessenbahn. The volume of goods has decreased significantly since 2010, so that today only a few freight trains are driven.
Service offer
Passenger traffic has been handled entirely by the DB subsidiary Kurhessenbahn since 2002 . Since 1995, diesel railcars of the 628 series used. In summer, specially converted bicycle trolleys run on the Upper Lahn Valley Railway, which offer enough space for bicycles due to the busy, parallel long- distance cycle paths . In the 2009/10 timetable period, 26 trains run daily from Monday to Friday on the Obere Lahntalbahn, all of which stop at Biedenkopf station. Since 1979 these have been exclusively regional trains .
In 2012, the station was equipped with two platform tracks and one siding. The tracks of the freight station and track 1 have been closed and most of them dismantled. Thus, the platform on track 2 is now a side platform (previously: intermediate platform), where track 1 and its platform were, there is a parking lot at the reception building and otherwise a meadow.
| line | Train run | Tact |
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| RB 94 | Marburg (Lahn) - Cölbe - Buchenau (Lahn) - Friedensdorf (Lahn) - Biedenkopf - Bad Laasphe (- Erndtebrück ) | Mon – Fri: every hour, Sat + Sun: every two hours |
The travel time from / to Erndtebrück and Marburg is usually around 45 minutes, from / to Bad Laasphe 15 to 20 minutes. Biedenkopf is in the tariff area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund , which includes all of central and southern Hesse (except Bergstrasse district ).
Railway systems
Reception building
The reception building has existed in its current form since 1910. In the interior there are several seats in addition to ticket machines . The station has very limited opening times; During this time, tickets can still be purchased at the counter , provided that the only employee there does not have to operate the mechanical signal box in the same room. There is no longer a possibility to store luggage; nor toilets. These were added in the course of an earlier renovation of the building of the station restaurant; however, it has not been cultivated since the early 1990s. The building is not wheelchair accessible or barrier-free; however, the tracks can be reached at ground level if one accepts a detour around the house. The owner of the reception building is Aedificia from Frankfurt am Main, founded in 2013 , a company that has been purchasing and marketing train stations across Germany since 2014.
Goods shed
After the cargo handling (with combined rail / truck transport) at the Biedenkopf station was stopped, the goods shed with its large warehouse (built in 1912) could be used for cultural purposes. In the 1980s and 1990s, at the invitation of the Jazzclub '88 Biedenkopf, internationally known jazz bands made frequent guest appearances in the concert series “Jazz im Güterbahnhof”.
The building was later used as a used goods department store (branch of the Marburg recycling center) by a local employment company (“Integral”) .
After the creation and resolution of a corresponding development plan and securing of financing / funding through public subsidies from the city of Biedenkopf, the goods shed is to be demolished in 2020. In its place - and on the adjacent site to the west - the construction of a central bus station ( ZOB ) with 70 park & ride parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces and charging stations for electric cars and bicycles is planned. Provided that the future use is for the further development of local public transport and that the construction of a central bus station is mandatory, the monument protection was lifted and the demolition permit was issued.
Signal box
The Biedenkopfer signal box "Bo" is located east of the station. It was built in 1913. From there the formerly numerous sidings and a level crossing were served. After more and more freight customers dropped out and tracks were shut down, the interlocking was abandoned in 1998.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 621
Web links
- Private page about the Obere Lahn Valley Railway with further information about the Biedenkopf train station ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- www.kurhessenbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen. P. 621
- ↑ Urs Kramer: " Cölbe-Sarnau-Biedenkopf-Wallau-Laasphe-Erndtebrück "; 12-page article from the collection " Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany once & now ", GeraMond Verlag 1997, ISSN 0949-2143
- ^ Lutz Müntzer: "Railway in Biedenkopf" in the history and stories of our city ; Volume 2 of the festival book for the 750th anniversary of Biedenkopf (Wetzlar Druck 2004), p. 23
- ↑ The not realized Hinterlandbahn
- ↑ Urs Kramer: " Cölbe-Sarnau-Biedenkopf-Wallau-Laasphe-Erndtebrück "; 12-page article from the collection " Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany once & now ", GeraMond Verlag 1997, ISSN 0949-2143
- ↑ The railways in the Rothaar Mountains ; der railbus 4/2010, p. 7 (pdf, 402 kB)
- ↑ (Buderus'sche Eisenwerke)
- ↑ Kyrill: Breidenstein timber loading station is a complete success - expansion planned ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; marburg-biedenkopf.de, July 6, 2007
- ↑ In Breidenstein near Biedenkopf, a loading point for timber transports is being converted and expanded for permanent use. (pdf, 27 kB) Hessian Ministry of Economics, Transport and Regional Development, November 23, 2007, accessed on December 7, 2009 .
- ↑ Biedenkopfer goods shed to give way in 2020 ; Hinterländer Anzeiger Online from November 1, 2019
- ↑ The annual highlight in the jazz scene is the Christmas concert in December ( Memento of February 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ); biedenkopf.de, November 2, 2008
- ↑ Biedenkopf used goods store
- ↑ Biedenkopfer goods shed to give way in 2020 ; Hinterländer Anzeiger Online from November 1, 2019
