Dueren train station
| Dueren train station | |
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 East side of the reception building with platform 1
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Passenger station |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Island station |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | KDN |
| IBNR | 8000084 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | September 1, 1841 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Dueren |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Düren |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '39 " N , 6 ° 28' 57" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Düren train station is located north in the center of Düren and is the largest train station in the city and in the Düren district . It lies at the intersection of the Cologne – Aachen high-speed line with the lines to Jülich , Heimbach and Euskirchen and, until 1996, the line from Neuss .
Trains from various regional express , regional train and S-Bahn lines run here. This means that Düren is connected to the Cologne S-Bahn network, among other things . In addition, the station is served by individual Intercity and Intercity Express trains on the weekend for long-distance traffic.
history
The first 100 years
The Aachen - Düren - Cologne line was opened in September 1841 as one of the first railway lines in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia . In the course of industrialization, the station, the reception building of which was opened on April 15, 1874, became increasingly important. The following routes have emerged over the years:
| 1864 | Düren - Euskirchen |
| 1869 | Düren - Bedburg - Neuss |
| 1873 | Düren - Jülich |
| 1892 | Düren - Kreuzau (from 1903 to Heimbach) |
In addition, the Dürener Eisenbahn AG (DEAG) was established in 1893 on the initiative of Nord-Düren factory owners, which built a meter-gauge line to Inden in several stages. To the northwest of today's tracks there was a multi-track transfer station, in which standard-gauge freight wagons of the state railroad were pushed onto DEAG trolleys and then delivered to their recipients via the route towards Inden. DEAG also operated tram traffic; its final stop was in today's Josef-Schregel-Strasse at the height of today's bus station. In later years DEAG was considered an obstacle to car traffic, so that it was shut down in 1965 for both passenger and freight traffic.
In addition, from 1908 there was a standard gauge rail network of the Düren Kreisbahn (DKB) in the Düren district , which was not connected to the state railway at Düren station, but via a track connection from the eastern head of the Düren station to the DKB operating center Distelrath. The DKB also operated tram lines, the northernmost of which ended at the state train station on its access ramp - however, this route was so badly damaged in 1944 that it was not rebuilt afterwards. The DKB ceased passenger traffic in 1963 and freight traffic in 1970.
Since Düren was on the international main line from Belgium to Cologne, a number of express and luxury trains such as B. the Ostend-Wien-Express , which established a ship connection to Dover / London in the Belgian port of Oostende. Even then, the highest-ranking trains did not stop between Aachen and Cologne, but there were a number of other international trains that stopped in Düren and in some cases also in Stolberg.
A serious accident occurred on November 11, 1917: the engine driver of the D 253 disregarded a signal showing "Halt" , drove into the front holiday train 5 and smashed its last two cars. 19 dead and a further 36 injured, according to other sources 23 dead and 30 injured, were the result.
A depot for the treatment of locomotives was built at the Düren junction . At first it was located directly at the train station. In 1930 the construction of a new depot began. It was on the Aachen – Cologne route in the direction of Merzenich. It took about three years to build, so that operations could begin in 1933. This increased the importance of Düren as a central hub for rail traffic.
Second World War
In contrast to the rest of the city of Düren, which was almost completely destroyed by the Allied attack on November 16, 1944, the station remained largely unscathed during the war. However, the depot was badly damaged in World War II and only partially rebuilt after the war. The Düren depot thus lost its importance.
post war period
Due to the great destruction of Düren during the Second World War, the city ran out of funds. For this reason, the plans to redesign and rebuild the station, which had been going on for decades, were not implemented. The previous structure of the platforms and tracks remained:
The tracks to the southeast of the reception building served the Cologne - Aachen, Düren - Heimbach and Düren - Euskirchen lines, the tracks northwest of the building served the Düren - Jülich, Düren - Heimbach and Düren - Bedburg lines.
Between all these tracks, three further tracks (17, 18 and 19) ended immediately northeast of the reception building, the ends of which were only connected by a turntable. They served the Düren - Euskirchen and Düren - Bedburg routes. The middle of these tracks had no platform and was used to shunt locomotives to the other end of the retracted trains.
This also applied to the rail buses of the VT 95 series (later the 795 series), which were used in the Düren district until 1978 and whose sidecars had no driver's cabs, as well as to diesel locomotive-hauled passenger trains with older wagons (most recently so-called conversion cars ) without control cars . Steam locomotives, which were mostly only allowed to drive at reduced speed with the tender pushed, were also turned in the right direction using the turntable.
Since May 15, 1949, express trains have again served the Düren station. There were two connections: one from Brussels via Aachen in the direction of Cologne and Wiesbaden to Frankfurt, the second from Aachen via Cologne, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Ulm to Munich. So you could drive from Düren to Cologne or Aachen without stopping. In the post-war period, the train service on the main routes was gradually expanded - not only in international traffic, but also in the local and regional area. For many years there were express trains that ran from Aachen via Düren and Euskirchen (see Bördebahn ) to the then federal capital, Bonn . There were also express trains via Bedburg and Neuss to the state capital Düsseldorf .
In 1983 the Düren - Euskirchen railway was shut down for passenger traffic and was only retained for freight traffic. The Deutsche Bundesbahn also wanted to shut down the branch lines to Jülich and Heimbach, but lengthy negotiations began for these lines with the Düren district, which finally took over the two lines in 1993 through the Düren district railway and through a dense and well-networked range of passenger numbers -Achieved increases that were well above all forecasts.
With the introduction of a nationwide regular timetable on the Belgian State Railways in the mid-1980s, the train service on the Cologne - Düren - Aachen - Brussels - Oostende axis was reorganized and now regularly served every two hours. At that time, rigid cycles were only known in Germany for the intercity network and for S-Bahn and trams. In addition, Düren kept some non-clocked direct connections such as B. to Paris, Berlin or with a sleeping car to Munich.
After the volume of local rail freight traffic had decreased so much that Düren could no longer be called a node, the Düren depot was closed on July 1, 1986 and demolished three years later.
After the rail reform
In 1996 the Düren - Bedburg line, which ran through the area of the advancing Hambach opencast mine , was shut down and soon afterwards dismantled.
As a result of the 1996 introduced Cologne - Paris Thalys trains, the last D-Zug line Cologne – Oostende was discontinued in December 2002, and the Aachen – Dresden night train was also given up. A year later, the intercity and night train routes were also changed, so that there is no longer any daily long-distance traffic in Düren. The station was thus downgraded to station category 4 (highly frequented local transport system stop / local transport hub), which describes a station with highly frequented regional and urban transport, which is mostly located in large cities or metropolitan areas .
The mayor of Düren tried to stop the high-speed trains ICE and Thalys on the Aachen – Cologne route in Düren. These attempts failed because the classification 2 would have been necessary. But this would be an overclassification for this station. On the other hand, Deutsche Bahn has assured that the station will be upgraded to Category 3 again as soon as an intercity or night train connection runs over the Aachen – Cologne route.
The expansion of the Aachen - Düren - Cologne line and the associated establishment of an S-Bahn line from Düren to Cologne led to a renewed increase in the importance of the junction.
The station building has been preserved to this day; it was completely renovated at the end of the 1970s. With the expansion of the Cologne - Aachen high-speed line and the construction of the S-Bahn, the track systems were streamlined and the signaling technology was modernized. In particular, the platforms in the southern part were redesigned and made barrier-free . The entrance to the station from the direction of Cologne was expanded for a maximum speed of 160 km / h. In the course of the second construction phase, tracks 1 and 2 of the station are to be upgraded for passage at 200 km / h.
present
Since today's station building is arranged between the tracks, Düren is an island station . His ticket machine code is 3900. Since the Düren train station is on the course book routes 450.13 , 480 and 482, it is also a hub station . There are connections in all directions:
Long-distance transport
| Train (line) | Line course | Tact |
|---|---|---|
| IC 2403 ( IC 26 ) | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Düren - Aachen | only on sundays |
| IC 2406 ( IC 26 ) | Aachen - Düren - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Gelsenkirchen - Münster - Osnabrück - Diepholz - Hamburg - Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Schwerin - Rostock - Stralsund | only on fridays |
| IC 1919 ( IC 32 ) | Dresden - Berlin Südkreuz - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Mönchengladbach - Aachen - Düren - Cologne | only on sundays |
| ICE 846 ( ICE 10 ) | Berlin East - Hanover - Bielefeld - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Düren - Aachen | only on sundays |
Local transport
Complete reactivation is planned for the Bördebahn via Zülpich to Euskirchen , and trains will then run to Bonn . Since Easter 2015, this route has not only been used on Sundays and public holidays as before, but also every Saturday by the “Bördeexpress”.
Bus routes
The central bus station ( ZOB ) is located at the north and main exit of the station . Almost all lines run here. They also serve as a connection to the city's second bus hub, Kaiserplatz .
City , regional and express bus routes operated by Rurtalbus , which stop at Düren ZOB:
| line | Line designation | Line course |
|---|---|---|
| 205 | City bus | Düren Kaiserplatz - train station / central bus station - Birkesdorf hospital |
| 206 | City bus | Düren Kaiserplatz - train station / central bus station - Birkesdorf - Mariaweiler / Hoven - Echtz |
| 209 | City bus | Düren Kaiserplatz - train station / central bus station - Arnoldsweiler - Ellen |
| 210 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Kreuzau - Boich - Nideggen - Schmidt |
| 211 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Kreuzau - Drove - Thum - Berg |
| 216 | Regional bus | Düren Kaiserplatz - train station / central bus station - bookmark - Schophoven - Kirchberg - Jülich |
| 221 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Kreuzau - Nideggen |
| 225 | Regional bus | Düren Kaiserplatz - train station / ZOB - Glashüttenstrasse |
| 230 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Kelz - (Vettweiß -) Poll - Pingsheim |
| 236 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Huchem-Stammeln - Oberzier - Niederzier |
| 237 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Mariaweiler - Echtz - Geich - Langerwehe |
| 238 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Arnoldsweiler - Oberzier - Niederzier - Stetternich - Jülich |
| 276 | Regional bus | Blatzheim - Buir - Golzheim - train station / central bus station |
| 286 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Gey - Kleinhau - (Bergstein -) Vossenack |
| 291 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Stockheim - Froitzheim - Vlatten |
| 296 | Regional bus | Railway station / ZOB - Schlich - Langerwehe - Inden / Altdorf - Lamersdorf - Frenz / Lucherberg |
| 297 | Regional bus | Train station / ZOB - Langerwehe |
| 298 | Regional bus | Euskirchen - Kommener Straße - Dürscheven - Zülpich - Füssenich - Düren train station / central bus station |
| B. | City bus | Düren Kaiserplatz - hospital - green belt - train station / central bus station - Düren Kaiserplatz |
| N 1 | night bus | Train station / ZOB - Düren Kaiserplatz - Niederzier and / or Huchem-Stammeln - Jülich |
| N 2 | night bus | Train station / ZOB - Düren Kaiserplatz - Merzenich - Nörvenich - Vettweiß |
| N 3 | night bus | Train station / ZOB - Düren Kaiserplatz - Hürtgenwald - Kreuzau - Nideggen |
| N 4 | night bus | Train station / ZOB - Düren Kaiserplatz - Langerwehe - Inden |
| SB 8 | Express bus | Train station / ZOB - Golzheim - Nörvenich - Zülpich |
| SB 38 | Express bus | Düren Kaiserplatz - train station / central bus station - Arnoldsweiler - Niederzier-Krauthausen |
| SB 86 | Express bus | Train station / ZOB - Vossenack - Simmerath |
| SB 98 | Express bus | Euskirchen - Zülpich - Düren train station / central bus station |
Service in the train station
The station is completely barrier-free . All platforms can be reached using an elevator. There is also a guidance system for the blind on the floor. In addition to a travel center , a bookstore and a DB service store, there are sanitary facilities, lockers and an ATM in the building. The station mission also maintains a contact point for those seeking help. At the southern exit of the station underpass is the newly built bicycle parking garage , which was opened in September 2010 after a construction period of several months. Massive construction defects became apparent after just four years.
Tracks
The station has 23 tracks, but only nine of them have a platform that can be used. If the tracks are used as planned, the trains run as follows:
- Platform 1: Stop for long-distance and regional trains and through-tracks for trains in the direction of Aachen (platform length: 320 meters)
- Track 2: through track for trains in the direction of Cologne
- Platform 3: Stop for long-distance and regional trains in the direction of Cologne (platform length: 320 meters)
- Track 4: used as a stop for trains from Cologne that end unexpectedly in Düren (platform length: 240 meters)
- Platform 4a: Stop of the Rurtalbahn from and in the direction of Heimbach and stop of the Regional Express, which only runs to Düren in times of low traffic, from and to Aachen (platform length: 100 meters)
- Platform 5: S-Bahn stops from and towards Cologne (platform length: 140 meters)
- Track 6: S-Bahn stops from and in the direction of Cologne, Bördebahn stops to and from Euskirchen and Euregiobahn stops from and in the direction of Aachen (platform length: 140 meters)
- Track 7: through / overtaking track
- Track 8–11: new shunting and stabling tracks for the DB and Euregiobahn that are connected to the ESTW
- Track 12-19: shunting and siding of DB and Rurtalbahn GmbH (arrangement of the tracks on the main building and on the north side of the main building)
- Track 20: shunting and siding of the Rurtalbahn GmbH
- Track 23: Stop of the Rurtalbahn from and in the direction of Linnich (Track 23 as a stopping track for the planned connection of the Euregiobahn over the north bridge)
- Dueren train station
View from the renovated track 3 of the regional express to Aachen
View from the renovated platform 4a to the Euregio railway
View from the platform of tracks 3 and 4 of the ICE 545
Düren station - platforms 22 and 23 (not modernized north side)
planning
Redesign of the area around the station and the north side
The city of Düren is planning a complete redesign of the area around the station. The plans were completed in 2005. After a court ruling banned the demolition of the north bridge in 2007, talks are currently being held with residents and local companies around the station. Implementation can begin when everyone involved has agreed.
This plan shows that the unused areas around the station area will be developed with a new multi-storey car park (now the north car park) and apartments. Furthermore, the train station is to be better linked with the central bus station (ZOB) and completely redesigned. Since the demolition of the north bridge was prohibited by law, the reactivation of the route over the north bridge (including the restoration of electrification) is being dealt with. There are also plans for a third track between Düren and Langerwehe, which will then be used by the Euregiobahn and the growing freight traffic. The construction of a new Düren-Derichsweiler stop is also under discussion , which should relieve the traffic situation in the city center with a large P&R service.
Furthermore, the entire north side of the Düren train station is to be modernized. This includes the restoration of electrification, the reduction from ten to six northern tracks for the construction of the four-lane B 399n and an intersection-free filling station for the Rur Valley Railway.
Inconsistencies in naming
The Düren station is not called the main station by Deutsche Bahn , as no official name change has been made. The name Düren Hbf is used on the machines in the train station and on the destination displays of the Rurtalbahn ( RB 21 ). The street on which the entrance to the reception building takes place and which is mentioned in the address of the station is also called the main station.
Rurtalbahn in Heimbach station with train destination indicator "Düren Hbf"
Ticket machine with the label "Düren Hbf" in Düren station
Rurtalbahn in Düren station
See also
literature
- Eisenbahn-Amateur-Klub Jülich eV (Ed.): Chronicle of the Bw Düren . 1st edition. Jülich 1980.
Web links
Deutsche Bahn:
- Tracks in service facilities (KDN) , DB Netz AG (PDF; PDF; 221 kiB)
- Current departure plan from Düren. Deutsche Bahn
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- André Joost: Düren branch. In: Betriebsstelleinfo.
- André Joost: Düren access point. In: Bahnhofsinfo.
Aachen Transport Association:
- Stop location map Düren train station . Aachen Transport Association , December 2016 (PDF; 419 kB)
- Stop location map Düren ZOB . Aachen Transport Association , January 2020 (PDF; 397 kiB)
further web links:
- Traffic and economic activity in Düren. In: Wisoweg - economic, social and traffic events in the Rhineland. Heinrich Klein
- Reinhard Gessen: Railway stations - Düren. In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region. Reinhard Gessen
- Stefan von der Ruhren: Düren. In: Railways in Aachen and the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. Stefan von der Ruhren, December 11, 2015 .
- Guido Radermacher: Then & Now: Düren Hbf 1965–2006. In: Railway in the Aachen area. Guido Radermacher
- Urban development projects - train station area. In: www.dueren.de. City of Düren
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station category list 2015 (PDF; 352 kiB) DB Station & Service , January 13, 2015, p. 20 , accessed on November 29, 2015 .
- ^ Rail: Long-distance traffic will not stop in Düren in the future either. In: Aachener Nachrichten . May 8, 2015, accessed January 31, 2016 .
- ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Volume 1: Splinters of German History. Zeit und Eisenbahn Verlag, Landsberg - Pürgen 1979, ISBN 3-921304-38-6 , p. 79.
- ↑ Ludwig Stockert : Railway Accidents (New Series) - Another contribution to railway operations theory . No. 88 . Urban & Schwarzenberg , Berlin 1920.
- ↑ Extension line (ABS) 4. Cologne - Düren - Aachen - Paris / Amsterdam: 1st construction phase Cologne - Düren. In: 16-page brochure. August 2002, pp. 3, 14 , archived from the original on September 17, 2009 ; accessed on January 31, 2016 .
- ^ The upgraded Cologne-Düren line (ABS 4). Christoph Schmitz, October 12, 2009, archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; accessed on January 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Bicycle parking garage in Düren officially opened. In: Aachener Nachrichten . September 5, 2010, accessed January 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Structural defects: The bicycle parking garage is in the rain. In: Aachener Nachrichten . January 24, 2014, accessed January 31, 2016 .
- ^ At the Düren train station is to be built. In: Aachener Nachrichten . November 4, 2015, accessed January 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Christoph Lammertz: Derichsweiler should get a train station again. In: Aachener Nachrichten . June 27, 2008, accessed January 31, 2016 .