Bitche train station
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Entrance building of the Bitsch train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| IBNR | 8700530 |
| opening | December 15, 1869 |
| Conveyance | 5th October 2014 |
| Profile on SNCF.fr | Code: 87193821 |
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| City / municipality | Bitche |
| Department | Moselle department |
| region | Grand Est |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 2 '56 " N , 7 ° 25' 56" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 307 m |
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The Bitche station ( German actually Bitsch station ; French Gare de Bitche ) is the station of the eponymous town of Bitsch (French Bitche ) in the French Moselle department of the Grand Est region . It is located on the Saargemünd - Niederbronn section of the Haguenau – Falck-Hargarten railway line, which was closed in 2014 .
location
Bitsch train station is located between the Lemberg and Bitche-Camp train stations (German: Bitsch-Lager; at the Bitsch military training area ) on the eastern edge of the old town of Bitsch. The local bus station is located on the station forecourt .
history
To transport moderate development of the fortress Bitsch and in view of the possibility of rapid troop transport in these strategically important location on the border - the Kingdom of Bavaria related - Pfalz the railway line from Sarreguemines (Sarreguemines) to Haguenau (Haguenau) was built in the years 1868/69 . The section of Niederbronn-Bitche-Sarreguemines was on 8 December 1869 by the railway company Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l'Est opened. The French Emperor Napoleon III. At the request of the city council, and against the wishes of the military, ordered the construction of a station near the city. For strategic reasons, the buildings - located near the fortifications - were built using a lightweight construction method so that they could be demolished quickly in the event of a defense.
After the Franco-Prussian War , the place fell to the German Empire in 1871 . In 1900 the Bitsch military training area was built near the town . A 16 km long forest railway was built from the station to remove the wood from the 3285 hectare area, which was almost completely forested up to that point .
On the occasion of an upcoming visit to the Bitsch Fortress by the German Emperor Wilhelm II , the German administration at the time had the previous reception building torn down in 1902 and a larger and more representative one built. The building, decorated with a kind of donjon , which was also intended to symbolize the power of the German Empire, was inaugurated on May 14, 1903 by Wilhelm II. After the First World War , the place and the fortress again belonged to France. From June 19, 1919, the railway was operated by the Administration des chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine (AL) and incorporated into the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) on January 1, 1938 . In contrast to the Bitche-Camp (Bitsch-Lager) station built at the beginning of the 20th century, the station was temporarily called Bitche-Ville (Bitsch-Stadt).
After the occupation by the Wehrmacht and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to the German Reich , the Deutsche Reichsbahn was given operational management from July 1, 1940. This situation ended with the liberation of Lorraine in March 1945 .
Rail traffic on the route between Bitsch and Niederbronn has been completely idle since 1996. Due to low profitability and superstructure damage the section Sarreguemines-Bitche, since December 2011, until its closure in replacement bus service operated by buses.
business
Until 2011, line 17 was operated as TER (Transport express regional) from Beningen via Saargemünd to Bitsch.
There are currently six buses from / to Sarreguemines to Bitsch during rush hour, Monday to Friday, where you have to change to the train or bus from / to Beningen.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Gare de Bitche at bitscherland.fr, accessed on February 18, 2018
- ↑ Niederbronn-les-Bains - Sarreguemines Ligne N ° 28
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 7th, 2009 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.
- ↑ Route table 17 TER Lorraine (PDF; 133 kB)
