Cottbus main station

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Cottbus main station
Chóśebuz głowne dwórnišćo
Entrance building, street side (2009)
Entrance building, street side (2009)
Data
Location in the network Crossing station
Design former island train station
Platform tracks 10 (formerly 12) , of which
  • 9 through tracks
  • 1 head track (formerly 3)
abbreviation BCS
IBNR 8010073
Price range 2
opening September 13, 1866
Profile on Bahnhof.de Cottbus central station
location
City / municipality cottbus
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 45 '3 "  N , 14 ° 19' 35"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '3 "  N , 14 ° 19' 35"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Brandenburg
i16 i16 i18

Cottbus Hauptbahnhof ( Lower Sorbian Chóśebuz głowne dwórnišćo ; until December 9, 2018 Cottbus ) is the largest passenger station in the state of Brandenburg. It is located south of Cottbus city ​​center and is frequented by around 12,000 travelers every day.

history

Old reception building in an island location on a historic postcard. View from the platforms
Spreewaldbahnhof
Old station building before World War II
Former goods handling

Cottbus station went into operation on September 13, 1866 with the opening of the railway line from Berlin . In 1867 this was extended to Görlitz. The reception building was inaugurated in 1870; Due to its location between the tracks, an island station was created . In the following years, more rail lines were built in the region. The Großenhain train station, north of the Berlin train station, was built for the Großenhain – Cottbuser railway in 1873. In 1880 this station was closed again and the trains from the Berlin station were handled. The reception building of the Großenhain train station still exists and serves the railway administration.

In 1886 the platforms were connected by a tunnel. Freight transport facilities were built in the north of the station.

In 1899 the Spreewaldbahn built its terminus with a connection to the state train station north of the facilities. The last remnants of this business were dismantled in 1983, the reception building was preserved.

As early as 1927 there were plans to replace the reception building in an island location with a new building on the south side of the tracks because of the cramped situation. However, these were not realized because of the global economic crisis.

Cottbus station, reception building from the east (1990)

In February 1945 the station building and other parts of the station were destroyed in an air raid. After the war, barracks for passenger handling had to be built instead of the destroyed buildings. This provisional solution lasted a long time, but it turned out to be more and more inadequate. At the end of the 1960s there were therefore renewed plans for the construction of a reception building on the south side. In 1970, the first building preparations began. Since Cottbus was an important railway junction, especially for freight transport, not least because of the extensive lignite mining in the region, extensive preparations had to be made before construction. This included the double-track expansion of several lines in the Cottbus area in order to relieve the node. An additional platform was built. In 1974 work began on the new platform tunnel. After four years of construction, the new reception building finally went into operation on October 5, 1978.

On September 30, 1989, electrical operation on the Lübbenau – Cottbus line and thus at Cottbus station began. The route from Finsterwalde followed on December 16 of the same year. In 1990 the routes in the direction of Senftenberg and Guben followed.

In 1995 the Federal Garden Show took place in Cottbus. On this occasion, the reception building was extensively renovated and expanded. On December 7, 2002, an ICE 2 (class 402) was christened Cottbus / Chóśebuz by the then mayor Karin Rätzel in the Cottbus train station.

At the end of November 2010, a new electronic signal box went into operation. This replaced thirteen old signal boxes and controls all signals, points and level crossings in the area of ​​the Cottbus train station from the operations center in Berlin-Pankow. The station had to be closed for an entire weekend during the commissioning of the approximately 50 million euro complex.

In 2016, extensive work began on converting the station and its surroundings. The platforms will be renewed and both forecourts in the north and south of the station will be redesigned. The trams will get a new track layout. A new public transport terminal for switching to trams and buses is being built next to the reception building. On November 21, 2018, the extension of the tunnel from the station building to the northern platforms and to the north side of the railway facilities went into operation.

Since December 10, 2018, the station has officially been named Cottbus Hauptbahnhof .

Investments

Center island
Station concourse

The train station is south of the city center in an east-west position. The original layout of the station as an island station can still be recognized by the large open space between the tracks. On this central island, some ancillary buildings of the provisional station building that was built after the war have been preserved. Originally, the station could be reached from Bahnhofstrasse, which runs on a bridge over the tracks in the east of the station, today there is no longer any connection from the bridge.

On both sides of the central island there are platforms on through tracks and some head tracks. The 1970s-style reception building is on the south side of the tracks. During the renovation, a new house platform was created in front of it. There are two island platforms between the station building and the central island, and another to the north.

The original station tunnel , often called the Spreewald tunnel, connected the platforms and the central island with the north exit. It bears its name after the Spreewald train station in front of the exit, the starting point of the narrow-gauge Spreewald railway that was closed in 1970 . When the station was rebuilt around 1980, a second tunnel was created, about 100 meters further east, which leads from the new station building to the south of the tracks to the central island. In order to get from the station building to the northernmost platform or to the north entrance, it was necessary to switch between the two tunnels. Since November 2018, the new tunnel has led from the station building to all platforms and to the north side of the station. The new tunnel exit is in the area of ​​the former Großenhain train station and is barrier-free accessible by elevator. In the course of the tunnel construction, bicycle parking facilities and parking spaces were created on the new northern forecourt.

Listed signal box B23

There are no passenger handling systems or waiting rooms at the north entrance. There are facilities for freight traffic between the north entrance and the platforms. Most of these are no longer in operation, including goods handling and the container terminal.

In the reception building there is a travel center, various dining facilities, a bookshop and a shop with local products. There are waiting possibilities directly in the heated station hall.

The tram lines  1 and 5 and some bus lines stop right in front of the reception building, while tram lines 2, 4 and 5 stop east of the station at the Bahnhofstrasse / Stadtring intersection.

The B23 signal box east of the station bridge is a listed building and has not been in operation since the station was connected to an electronic signal box . Also on the list of monuments are the buildings of the Spreewald train station and the train station of the Großenhain-Cottbuser Eisenbahn north of the railroad tracks.

"Cottbus Central Station"

Until 2000, the station was the only passenger station in the city. A distinction by name additions was not necessary. Since then, the Cottbus- Sandow stop has been built , and the relocated Cottbus- Merzdorf and Cottbus- Willmersdorf Nord stops in incorporated suburbs now have Cottbus in their name. With the renovation for the Federal Horticultural Show in 1995 , "Cottbus station" was replaced on the outer facade by "Cottbus Hauptbahnhof". Officially, the Cottbus station will not be referred to as Cottbus Hbf until December 2018 . Both the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association and the Cottbus municipal transport company - Cottbusverkehr - called this station “Cottbus Hauptbahnhof” in their information media for a long time.

Transport offer

In the 2019 timetable year Cottbus will be served by the following lines:

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
IC 56 Cottbus Hbf  - Berlin  - Magdeburg  - Hanover  - Bremen  - Oldenburg  - Emden  - Norddeich Mole single move DB long-distance transport
RE 1 Cottbus central station  - Guben  - Eisenhüttenstadt - Frankfurt  - Berlin - Potsdam  - Brandenburg  - Magdeburg individual trains DB Regio Nordost
RE 2 Cottbus Central Station  - Lübben  - Königs Wusterhausen  - Berlin - Nauen - Wittenberge  - Schwerin  - Wismar 060 (Cottbus – Wittenberge)
120 (Wittenberge – Wismar) 		East German Railway
RE 10 Cottbus central station  - Calau - Doberlug-Kirchhain  - Falkenberg  - Torgau  - Eilenburg  - Leipzig 120 DB Regio Nordost
RE 18 Cottbus Hbf  - Neupetershain - Senftenberg  - Ruhland  - Priestewitz  - Coswig  - Dresden 120 DB Regio Nordost
RB 11 Cottbus main station  - Peitz Ost  - Guben - Wellmitz - Eisenhüttenstadt - Finkenheerd - Frankfurt 060 DB Regio Nordost
RB 41 Cottbus main station  - Kolkwitz - Kunersdorf - Vetschau - Raddusch - Lübbenau  - Lübben 120 East German Railway
RB 43 Cottbus Hbf  - Calau - Finsterwalde  - Doberlug-Kirchhain - Falkenberg - Herzberg 120 DB Regio Nordost
RB 46 Cottbus Hbf  - Cottbus-Sandow - Klinge - Forst 060 East German Railway
RB 49 Cottbus Hbf  - Neupetershain - Senftenberg - Ruhland - Elsterwerda-Biehla  - Falkenberg 120 DB Regio Nordost
RB 65 Cottbus central station  - Spremberg - Weißwasser - Horka  - Görlitz  - Hagenwerder  - Zittau 060 East German Railway

Station renovation

Planning

The Spreewald tunnel was originally supposed to go out of service in 2014, but remained open until 2018.

After the renovation in the 1970s, the station remained a temporary solution in many respects, for example there was no continuous passenger tunnel.

At the end of 2008, DB Netz AG applied to the Federal Railway Authority to dismantle large parts of the infrastructure of the former container terminal on the north side of the station. Deutsche Bahn had been planning to convert the station since 2008; around 100 million euros were budgeted to rebuild all the tracks and platforms of the passenger station by 2011.

The renovation plans were initially postponed to 2014. As a replacement for the old Spreewald tunnel, the newer eastern tunnel should be extended and open up all platforms. However, the Deutsche Bahn did not want to finance a northern exit. As a result, with the closure of the Spreewald Tunnel, the footpath to the residential areas adjacent to the north and to the city center would have been significantly lengthened. In August 2012, the city of Cottbus decided to provide funds for planning the widening of the eastern station tunnel as a prerequisite for its extension.

In May 2013, Deutsche Bahn and the state government announced that they would renovate the Cottbus train station by 2017 and invest 23 million euros for this. The platforms are to be renewed and equipped with elevators. The city originally planned to expand the station forecourt by 2015, where all urban, local and long-distance traffic should be bundled. In May 2014 it was announced that the renovation work would not start before 2016.

Time schedule

North exit of the new platform tunnel in the goods supply road

The groundbreaking ceremony for the station renovation took place on December 11, 2015. After several months of disposing of ordnance on the station forecourt, the actual construction work began there in autumn 2016. In addition, the electronic signal box was adapted. At the same time, work began on the extension of the station tunnel to the north, with construction starting on April 8, 2016. The breakthrough took place on March 6, 2017. The city of Cottbus is contributing six million euros to this construction phase. The completion of the new tunnel including the northern forecourt was planned for the middle of 2017, the release for the end of 2017. In summer 2017, autumn 2018 was given as the new release date. The renewal of the platforms started at the beginning of 2017. It started with platform 9/10, which was released on June 18, 2017. Work was then carried out on platform 7/8, which was released on December 10, 2017. Platforms 2/3 (completed on June 17, 2018) and 4/5 (approved on December 21, 2018) followed in 2018, and platforms 6 (opened on July 5, 2019) and 1 (approved in May 2020) followed in 2019 ). They have been equipped with lifts so that they are barrier-free, they have been raised to a platform height of 55 centimeters, and have roofs and seating right at the entrances. In 2020 the old Spreewald tunnel will finally be demolished. In total, Deutsche Bahn, the state of Brandenburg and the city of Cottbus are investing around 30 million euros in the renovation.

The continuous platform tunnel was opened on November 21, 2018.

Central traffic junction at the station forecourt

View over the station forecourt before the renovation
Opening ceremony on October 21, 2019
The central stop on the first day of operation
Station forecourt Cottbus with a new colored facade (June 2020)

At the same time, the city has been converting the station forecourt since autumn 2016 as part of the so-called climate-friendly mobility center Cottbus. For this traffic junction, the bus station was relocated from Marienstraße to the forecourt; he got nine bus ramps. In addition, a central tram stop was built for almost all lines, eliminating the old situation with three different stops in the surrounding streets. Only line 3 (Madlow – Ströbitz) continues to run on the old route, as the detour via the main train station would have unnecessarily increased travel times to the city center. To compensate for this, the new bus line 9 Südeck – Sportzentrum – Hauptbahnhof was set up on Straße der Jugend, which runs every hour and is coordinated with the departure times of the regional trains.

From the direction of the city ring, the new stop can also be used as a turning loop and is used as such by line 1 (Hauptbahnhof – Schmellwitz Anger). A bicycle parking facility with 260 parking spaces has been set up on the south side of the reception building. The city of Cottbus invested a total of around twelve million euros in the transport hub. Commissioning has been postponed several times: from originally May 2019 to August 2019 and most recently to autumn 2019. The reason for this was the late completion of the roof of the new tram stop due to delays in delivery of the components and a shortage of staff. The new station forecourt was inaugurated on October 21, 2019 and put into operation on the morning of the following day.

With the completion of platform 1, after three and a half years in May 2020, the modernization of Cottbus main station ended. The total investment for the repair of the platforms, the tunnel and the technical systems amounts to 30 million euros. In the course of the modernization, the facade of the reception building will also be redesigned in color.

Parking spaces

For long-term parkers, a new free car park with 286 parking spaces was opened in 2014 on the west side of the reception building, for which 2.3 million euros were invested. An expansion planned for October 2016 was canceled after contamination of the site was discovered. For the duration of the construction work, 156 parking spaces were created on the area of ​​the former container station at the Spreewaldbahnhof to compensate for the loss of the 219 long-term and 70 short-term parking spaces on the forecourt. Both measures should cost around 310,000 euros together. An expansion of the parking spaces on the north side is possible if necessary. In addition to the reception building, 83 short-term parking spaces , six so-called kiss and ride spaces and 20 taxi parking spaces will be created.

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Track field of Cottbus train station (October 2009)

literature

  • Günter Liesk, Horst Puschmann and Dieter Wiene: The Cottbus train station . In: Eisenbahn-Jahrbuch 1980. Transpress-Verlag. Reprinted in: Rail Traffic in the GDR, Volume III . Transpress 2002, ISBN 3-613-71186-9 , pp. 185-194.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Cottbus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: Train traffic to Cottbus station is stopped. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 19, 2010, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Citizens' information on the station renovation , accessed on November 24, 2018.
  3. ↑ In three minutes to the city center. In: Lausitzer Rundschau, November 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: City of Cottbus (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2011
  5. ↑ Announcement of the Federal Railway Authority of December 19, 2008.
  6. ↑ 100 million euros - Bahn wants to renovate the station in Cottbus. (No longer available online.) In: Lausitzer Rundschau . December 8, 2008, archived from the original on October 16, 2008 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: Hope for Spreewald tunnel replacement . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . August 11, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  8. ^ Peggy Kompalla: Cottbus: unanimously for the Spreewaldtunnel. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . August 17, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Railway summit in Cottbus sets the course for the future. Deutsche Bahn AG, May 6, 2013, archived from the original on June 29, 2013 ; Retrieved May 18, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Sven Hering: Bahn postpones renovation of Cottbus main station. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 3, 2014, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: Railway station shortly before the next construction phase. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016 .
  12. ^ Peggy Kompalla: Look into the future of the Cottbus train station. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . April 9, 2016, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  13. ↑ a b Cottbuser as a construction site inspector. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . July 7, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Climate-friendly mobility center Cottbus. (PDF; 2.50 MB) Presentation by the City of Cottbus on the renovation of the station. March 8, 2016, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Current pictures and information on the construction progress (installation of the first tram rails, platforms 9/10 shortly before completion). Construction progress report on the station renovation website. June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Completion of platform 7/8, closure of platform 2/3. Construction progress report on the station renovation website. December 12, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Completion of platform 2/3, closure of platform 4/5. Construction progress report on the station renovation website. June 12, 2018, accessed June 20, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Platform 4/5 completed. Construction progress report on the station renovation website. December 21, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Platform 6 in operation / platform 1 out of service. Construction progress report on the station renovation website. July 5, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: The Cottbus train station is now complete. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 8, 2020, accessed May 31, 2020 .
  21. ^ A b Peggy Kompalla: Large station for the station. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . December 12, 2015, accessed February 17, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: In three minutes to the city center. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 21, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .
  23. ^ Peggy Kompalla: The Cottbus train station will not open until autumn. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . June 25, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: The Cottbus train station is now complete . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , May 8, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  25. ^ Peggy Kompalla: The beginning of the station renovation. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . July 21, 2014, accessed February 17, 2016 .
  26. ↑ 40 additional parking spaces for the P + R parking lot. Message on the website about the station renovation. June 23, 2016. Retrieved June 26, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: City of Cottbus waived further parking spaces at the train station. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . October 10, 2016, accessed October 10, 2016 .
  28. ^ Peggy Kompalla: New commuter parking spaces in Cottbus. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . February 17, 2016, accessed February 17, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Overview of planned parking spaces. (PDF; 3.28 MB) Graphics of the city of Cottbus on the existing and planned parking spaces at Cottbus train station. February 17, 2016, accessed April 10, 2016 .