Daun train station

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Daun station reception building in 2008
Daun station reception building in 2008
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 3
opening November 15, 1895
Conveyance November 11, 1991
Architectural data
Architectural style Historicism / Art Nouveau
location
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 11 '53 "  N , 6 ° 50' 7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '53 "  N , 6 ° 50' 7"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Daun station is a separation station near Daun , which is located in the heart of the Vulkaneifel in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Eifelquerbahn runs through the station . Until 1989, the Wengerohr – Daun railway branched off south of the station and was converted into a cycle path. The station is currently without traffic.

history

The station Daun was on 15 November 1895 as the third section of the railway line from Andernach to Gerolstein on Kaisersesch opened. An alternative, albeit rejected, plan provided for a connection via Kelberg and Ahrtalbahn to Remagen .

In the 1960s, the closure of the Eifelquerbahn was discussed, which affected the station. In 1975 general cargo handling was closed. After a decommissioning report was issued in the 1980s, the last scheduled passenger train ran from Mayen to Gerolstein via Daun on November 11, 1991 .

Since 1910, the railway line to Wengerohr branched off at the station south of the station. In 1934 five pairs of trains drove daily from Daun towards Wengerohr. After the Second World War, traffic was reduced to two pairs of trains. In 1981 the line was closed.

At the turn of the millennium, a reactivation of the Eifelquerbahn was discussed again. On May 28, 2000, the TransRegio resumed traffic on the section east of Daun (Andernach – Mayen – Kaisersesch). DB Regio has been using this section since December 14, 2008 . On August 1, 2001 , the Vulkaneifelbahn took over operations on the remaining section of Kaisersesch-Daun-Gerolstein . For several years, rail buses drove through the Daun train station on weekends and holidays in Rhineland-Palatinate during the summer months . The journeys were mainly used for leisure and tourism purposes , but were given up again at the end of 2012. The service of the Daun station in the meantime resumed in freight traffic ended with the abandonment of the western Eifelquerbahn by the Vulkaneifelbahn. Today the Maare-Mosel-Radweg runs on the branch route to Wengerohr .

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate sees no possibility of bearing the necessary investments for resuming regular traffic in the amount of 40 million euros. The equally high sum of 24 million euros for tourist traffic makes this option seem unlikely and does not find support from the local district administrators and mayors of the association. As a realistic alternative to the demolition of the tracks and the construction of a cycle path, there is only a handcar. The binding decision on the future of the line and thus the Daun train station is still pending.

Railway facilities and station buildings

The station 2008

The station used to have two platforms that could be reached through an underpass. The more important of the two platforms served the Eifelquerbahn and was covered. In 1985 some tracks and the northern (covered) platform were dismantled. Because of its function as a branch station , the station was exceptionally large compared to its location. The two-tier locomotive shed with turntable on the eastern edge of the station area has been torn down for many years . The station building with a half-hip roof has belonged to the city of Daun since 1990 and is now used as a youth center. At the western end of the station there were two siding : a Raiffeisen warehouse and a carbon dioxide factory.

environment

Since the Daun station has not been reactivated for regular traffic, it is primarily a stop on the RegioBus line 500, which connects the places on the Eifelquerbahn between Mayen and Gerolstein and is operated by the DB Regio.

The station is located on the eastern outskirts at one of the lowest points in the city. Immediately behind the southern end of the station is the Dauner Viaduct , which today serves as a valley crossing on the Maare-Moselle cycle path . The station is also on the B 257 .

See also

literature

Günter Werkmeister: Eifelbahnhof Daun - A branch station as a system theme, Eisenbahn-Journal, issue 11/1984, p. 48ff. - with track plan as of 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The construction of the cross train. (No longer available online.) VEB Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Entry on the former Daun train station in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b decline and shutdown. (No longer available online.) VEB Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original on February 28, 2017 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Thomas Geyer: reactivation of the Eifel-quer-Bahn. (PDF) Local Rail Transport Association for Rhineland-Palatinate North, August 29, 2011, accessed on September 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Stephan Sartoris: The train has left. Retrieved April 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c Upswing and revival. (No longer available online.) VEB Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Freight traffic. VEB Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, accessed on September 7, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Maare-Mosel cycle path. Moseleifel Touristik e. V., accessed on September 7, 2015 .
  9. ↑ a b c Erich Mertes-Kolverath: Pictures of the route: 3000 (KBS 477, cycle path / KBS 248g). In: tunnel portals. Retrieved on September 7, 2015 (from the Eifel-Jahrbuch, 1991, pp. 161–166).

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