Bitterfeld train station
| Bitterfeld | |
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 Reception building (2009)
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | LBT |
| IBNR | 8010050 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 17th August 1857 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bitterfeld |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Bitterfeld-Wolfen |
| Place / district | Bitterfeld |
| country | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 37 '26 " N , 12 ° 18' 57" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 79 m |
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| Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt | |
The Bitterfeld train station is a train station in the town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in the Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt . In 1857 the station on the Trebnitz – Leipzig line went into operation. Since the line from Berlin to Halle was fully commissioned, both lines have crossed in Bitterfeld. Another route to Stumsdorf was then opened to traffic. Today, Bitterfeld is a long-distance train station, with the ICEs from Berlin to Munich stopping every two hours .
location
The Bitterfeld train station is located in the west of the Bitterfeld district, which was an independent town until the merger to form Bitterfeld-Wolfen in 2007. The center of Bitterfeld is located about a kilometer to the east. The adjacent streets are Bahnhofstraße and Black Way .
The operating point is a crossing station . The Berlin – Halle (north-east / south-west running) and Trebnitz – Leipzig (north / south running) railway lines intersect here . Both routes run parallel for more than three kilometers. The closest stations in all four directions are Greppin , Muldenstein , Petersroda and Roitzsch .
history
On August 17, 1857, the Bitterfeld train station went into operation. The station building was in the middle of the track system. A water tower was built in 1890 . Six years later, bridges were built over the tracks. Two central platforms and the signal boxes with the names "Mbd", "Swt" and "Not" were also built. The goods shed was expanded in 1907. The branch line to Stumsdorf went into operation on October 1, 1897.
On January 18, 1911, the station was electrified and electrically powered trains ran to Dessau for the first time. On the route to Delitzsch this happened on December 5, 1913. For the shunting service, additional signal boxes were built in 1917, which were named "Rtl", "Rtll" and "Zd". Numerous connecting railways enabled the connection to the Bitterfeld train station. After the First World War , electrical operation to Leipzig was only resumed on September 27, 1921.
A new boiler house, which was completed in 1930, was built at the north end of the station. Towards the end of the Second World War , freight traffic came to a standstill from March 1945, as the Muldenbrücke was also blown up. It was only accessible again from February 23, 1949. Due to reparations payments , the electrical train operations had to be dismantled in 1946. After the war, on March 15, 1958, an electric train drove to Roßlau for the first time .
On November 27, 1977 there was a kettle crack in Bitterfeld , in which nine people died.
The Bitterfeld railway junction was three kilometers long and had almost 400 employees. 40 platoons were formed daily and 30 were disbanded. The entire station was divided into three supervisory districts: freight yard north, freight yard south and passenger station. Two shunting locomotives were constantly in use for the connecting railways.
Up until 1999, major renovations were carried out on the station building and forecourt. With the fall of the Wall , the volume of freight traffic in Bitterfeld decreased significantly, so that by around 2000 many freight tracks and signal boxes were shut down. The entire redesign and renovation of the station area cost around 180 million Deutschmarks. Platforms 1 to 6 with roofs and the track systems were renewed and the reception building was renovated. There was also a newly laid out bus station and the newly designed station forecourt. There is a class Kö II diesel locomotive , which is run by a local model railway association, as an exhibit .
Investments
A total of 87 tracks were once part of the railway system. In addition, there were connecting railways to local companies, two drainage mountains and other loading streets . There was also a roundhouse with 16 tracks and a coal station with 980 meters of sidings.
Today the Bitterfeld station has a total of six platform tracks. The platform edges 1 to 4 are each 370 meters long and 76 centimeters high, the platform edges 5 and 6 are each 140 meters long and 55 centimeters high.
The station building with the station forecourt to the east of the tracks is owned by Deutsche Bahn (as of 2016).
Since the renovations carried out at the end of the 1990s as part of the German Unity Transport Project No. 8.2 , platform tracks 1, 2 and 3 can be driven through at 200 km / h. In the north of the station a crossing structure was built, an approximately 600 m long underpass of the main line towards Wolfen under the Halle – Berlin railway line; this made it possible to enter and exit the station at the same time. An electronic interlocking in the station area controls 117 signals and 56 points.
In January 1998, the longest turnouts in the world were installed in Bitterfeld station . The 169.2 meter long construction can be driven on at 220 km / h (in normal operation: up to 200 km / h) in the branching branch. The 03 turnout in the north end of the Bitterfeld station allows trains from Leipzig to Berlin to enter the railway line from Halle without reducing speed. The tongues are each 59 m long and weighed, including the traverse during installation, 120 t. The switches are each equipped with eight drives for the switch device and three for the movable frog point and were designed as clothoid switches : Their radii decrease from 16,000 m at the start of the switch to 6100 m towards the middle. The switch 60 installed in the south head in 1999 would allow trains from Wittenberg towards Halle to thread out at 220 km / h, but the route towards Halle does not yet allow such high speeds. As part of the turnout renewal, the clothoid turnouts were replaced by conventional arched turnouts in 2018.
Transport links
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU | |
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| ICE 11 | Berlin - Bitterfeld - Leipzig - Erfurt - Frankfurt - Stuttgart - Munich | individual trains | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 18 | Hamburg - Berlin - Bitterfeld - Halle - Erfurt - Bamberg - Nuremberg - Munich | 120 | DB long-distance transport | |
| RE 13 | Magdeburg - Biederitz - Zerbst - Roßlau - Dessau - Wolfen - Bitterfeld - Delitzsch - Leipzig | 120 | DB Regio Southeast | |
| S 2 | Leipzig-Stötteritz - Leipzig - Delitzsch - Bitterfeld - | Wolfen - Dessau |
30 (Leipzig – Bitterfeld Mon – Fri) 60 (Leipzig – Bitterfeld Sat – Sun) 120 (Bitterfeld – Dessau) 120 (Bitterfeld – Wittenberg) |
DB Regio Southeast |
| Gräfenhainichen - Wittenberg (- Jüterbog ) | ||||
| S 8 | Halle - Landsberg - Bitterfeld - | Wolfen - Dessau |
30 (Halle – Bitterfeld Mon – Fri) 60 (Halle – Bitterfeld Sat – Sun) 120 (Bitterfeld – Dessau) 120 (Bitterfeld – Wittenberg) |
DB Regio Southeast |
| Gräfenhainichen - Wittenberg (- Jüterbog) | ||||
The 440 bus runs to Stumsdorf via Zörbig every hour . It replaces the trains on the Bitterfeld – Stumsdorf railway line after they have been canceled .
From June 2019 to March 2020 inclusive, the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line between Sachsendorf and Halle was completely closed due to construction work at Köthen station . Meanwhile, the Intercity trains on lines 55 and 56 were diverted via Dessau and also stopped in Bitterfeld.
Web links
- Bitterfeld train station. In: bahnhöfe-und-bahnstrecken.com. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
- Track plan of Bitterfeld station. In: sporenplan.nl. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
- Files and plans for the Bitterfeld train station in the holdings of the Reich Railway Directorate in Halle in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
- ^ Michael Dittrich: IBNR directory. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Station price list 2016. (PDF) (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service AG, p. 11 , archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
- ↑ The Zörbiger Saftbahn. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Bitterfeld. (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service, archived from the original on September 11, 2018 ; accessed on September 11, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ State of the train stations in Saxony-Anhalt: Hundreds of train station buildings fell into disrepair. (No longer available online.) MDR Saxony-Anhalt , January 26, 2016, archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
- ^ Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit (Ed.): Lutherstadt Wittenberg-Bitterfeld. German Unity Transport Project No. 8 , Berlin, November 1998.
- ↑ a b Super switch allows Tempo 200 in the train station . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of October 11, 1997.
- ↑ building project railway junction Köthen, BauInfo portal of Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
