Bitburg-Erdorf station
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 Bitburg-Erdorf station
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | SED |
| IBNR | 8001828 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | November 15, 1871 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bitburg-Erdorf |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neo-Gothic |
| architect | Carl Julius Raschdorff |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Bitburg |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 59 '55 " N , 6 ° 34' 15" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Bitburg-Erdorf Station is a train station at the Eifel track in Bitburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Nims-Sauertalbahn , which has since been shut down from the city station , branches off here, the remainder of which is only used by freight traffic and by a few special trains. Today it is the only train station in Bitburg with regular passenger traffic .
history
Because of its topography and the sparse population density , the Eifel was only opened up to railway lines relatively late . In November 1867, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft began building a railway line from Cologne to Trier . After the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War , construction work was accelerated so that the route was open to traffic from November 15, 1871.
Erdorf-Bitburg station was opened on March 25, 1871. The construction of the station on the district of the then still independent municipality of Erdorf met with resistance from the residents, as they feared that the flying sparks from the locomotives could set the thatched roofs of the houses on fire and because the municipal cemetery had to be relocated when the station was built.
On October 21, 1910, the branch line from Erdorf to Bitburg was opened, which opened as the first section of the Nims-Sauer Valley Railway and from around 1915 led continuously via Irrel into Sauer Valley and from there to Trier. The construction of the route was preceded by a 42 year long discussion about the exact route. In order to avoid confusion with the city train station in Bitburg, the station Erdorf-Bitburg was renamed to Erdorf. Today, only the remainder of the route to Bitburg-Stadt remains, which is occasionally used by the network operator Amprion to transport transformers to the Niederstedem substation.
In the years before the First World War, Erdorf was a stop for all express trains on the Cologne-Trier route.
Due to the war, train traffic between Trier and Cologne was interrupted from the winter of 1944 and could only be gradually resumed from 1946, so that there were no direct connections from Erdorf in these directions. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the originally double-track Eifel line was dismantled onto one track.
Station building and station facilities
Reception building
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The planning and design of the reception building came from the master builder Carl Julius Raschdorff , who also designed the Kyllburg , Ehrang and the warehouse , among other things . Raschdorff, who held a chair at the Imperial Technical University of Charlottenburg , is best known for building the Berlin Cathedral .
The building is characterized by its red sandstone blocks and is located between the track system and Mainzer Straße. With the red sandstone as a building material and the Gothic style forms, a reference to the landscape and local history is to be established, similar to other reception buildings on the Eifel route. The counter hall, which ends with shield gables, juts out at right angles on both long sides. Their gables are also emphasized by pointed arches. The part of the building adjoining the counter hall to the south is accentuated by a bay-like projecting mid-tower. The gable fields on the north side and their extension are designed as half-timbering. Here, too, as in many other train stations on the Eifel route, the magnificent design was paid for by the war debts France had to pay after the Franco-Prussian War.
The original station has been extended three times since it was completed. However, these have been inserted so cleverly that they are hardly noticeable to the viewer. The station building is a listed building .
Engine shed and water supply
From the opening of the Nims-Sauertalbahn , there was also a locomotive shed and a short turntable at Erdorf station , which existed until the 1960s. Initially there were also water cranes in the station to fill the steam locomotives on all platforms .
Signal boxes
Erdorf station was equipped with two mechanical signal boxes. The signal box for the branching Nims-Sauertalbahn is a listed building. It has a base made of limestone blocks with two storeys. A floor rises above this, which is clad with half-timbering towards the route. Two small bay windows stand out from the rectangular floor plan.
Offer
The Erdorf station is in the timetable of 2018 following SPNV operated -line:
| line | Train run | Clock frequency |
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| RE 12 |
Eifel-Mosel-Express : Köln Messe / Deutz - Köln Hbf - Köln Süd - Euskirchen - Mechernich - Kall - Jünkerath - Gerolstein - Bitburg-Erdorf - Trier Hbf As of: Timetable change December 2015 |
three pairs of trains |
| RB 22 |
Eifel-Express : Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne Hbf - Gerolstein - Bitburg-Erdorf - Speicher - Kordel - Trier Hbf (Cologne Messe / Deutz - Gerolstein asRE 22) |
60 min + amplifier in the peak hours to Gerolstein |
Web links
- Entry for Erdorf station in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Manfred Stoos, Bitburg-Erdorf, 2010
- ^ A b c Ag Railway history: Eifel line Cologne – Trier - AG Railway history - The Nims-Sauertalbahn. In: nims-sauertal-bahn.de. January 21, 1910, accessed April 22, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Father Josef Böffgen: Brunnenstadt Gerolstein old and new pictures, European Library, 1978
- ↑ Werner Becker: History of the community Erdorf. In: www.bitburg-erdorf.de. 2016, accessed April 29, 2016 .
- ^ A b Ag Railway History : History - AG Railway History - The Nims-Sauertal Railway. In: nims-sauertal-bahn.de. October 15, 1915, accessed April 25, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Bernd Altmann, Hans Caspary: Bitburg-Prüm district. City of Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinden Bitburg-Land and Irrel (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1997, ISBN 3-88462-132-7 .
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn course book. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .