Dresden Mitte station

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Dresden center
Dresden Mitte station
Data
Operating point type Station part (Dresden station)
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation DM
IBNR 8013444
Price range 4th
opening October 1, 1897
location
City / municipality Dresden
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '23 "  N , 13 ° 43' 27"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '23 "  N , 13 ° 43' 27"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
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The Dresden Mitte station is located at the edge of the Dresden city center. The station, which opened in 1897 as the Wettiner Straße stop , is located on the connecting line between Dresden Central Station and Dresden-Neustadt Station . In its history, it was discussed several times as Dresden's new central train station.

location

The Dresden Mitte train station is located near Dresden's old town about 500 meters west of the Dresden Zwinger on the border between the districts of Wilsdruffer Vorstadt and Friedrichstadt . In the immediate vicinity are the Dresden Congress Center , the former Yenidze cigarette factory , the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in the former Wettiner Gymnasium , the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital , as well as the Ostragehege with the trade fair and various sports facilities. The Dresden State Operetta is also located near the train station on the site of the former Mitte power station.

history

Prehistory and establishment

The original railway facilities in Dresden did not follow an overall concept. Rather, every private railway had built its own station as the end point of its long-distance route, so that from 1875 there were four different, inadequately linked long-distance stations in Dresden. In addition, many crossings between railroad and road represented a major traffic problem. After all railroad facilities affecting Dresden were in the hands of the state at the end of the 1880s, it was decided to fundamentally redesign the Dresden railroad junction under the direction of construction officer Otto Klette. A new central station was to be built, but for a long time no agreement was reached about the location. After the Elbe floods in March 1845 , the surveying inspector Karl Pressler suggested diverting the Weißeritz river bed to Cotta and using the former river bed for a Dresden central train station. This plan was taken up and the former river bed used for a connecting line between the Dresden long-distance train stations, but instead of a central train station, a simple train station for suburban traffic was set up at Wettiner Straße. The new central station was the former Böhmische Bahnhof , on the one hand because of its close proximity to Prager Strasse , which developed into the most important shopping street in Dresden in the last quarter of the 19th century, and on the other hand because it was already the busiest station in Dresden.

Wettiner Strasse station in 1908

The Weißeritz was relocated from 1891 to September 1893 and on August 1, 1896, today's Mitte station was provisionally opened for through traffic. The inauguration as the Wettiner Strasse stop took place on October 1, 1897. Based on the model of the two stations at Alexanderplatz and Friedrichstrasse on the Berlin Stadtbahn , this station was given a 100 meter long and 36 meter wide platform hall that spanned all six tracks. Tracks 1 and 4 were reserved for suburban traffic and tracks 2 and 3 for long-distance traffic. Tracks 5 and 6 were used for freight traffic, which could be directed south to Dresden-Friedrichstadt as well as to the main train station. The station concourse was flanked by four corner pillars decorated with turrets, which concealed the warehouse of the hall. Large arched windows adorned the long sides of the platform hall. Entrances, ticket offices, baggage handling, waiting rooms and restaurants at street level were housed under the elevated platforms, similar to the Dresden-Neustadt train station. These extensive facilities for a local train station are an indication of its great importance for commuter and business traffic.

Reconstruction plans and demolition of the platform hall

The destroyed train station in 1945
Preserved cornerstone of the former platform hall

In the period that followed, a conversion of the station to Dresden Central Station was considered several times. At the end of the 1930s, the National Socialists planned a redesign of Dresden, which included a new central station in place of the Wettiner Straße station. The need for prestige and representation in the Third Reich required enormous dimensions, the new central station was to be 300 meters long and 200 meters wide, and an oversized forecourt and spacious streets were planned to make room for rallies and parades. In the vicinity, between Freiberger Strasse and Ehrlichstrasse, the so-called Reichsbahnbogen, a development that reflects the zeitgeist and demonstrates power was to be built. With the outbreak of World War II, however, these plans quickly became obsolete. During the air raids on Dresden in 1945 , the hall structure was badly damaged. However, the damage was not so severe that it would have justified the demolition of the platform hall including three corner pillars in 1953. Only one of four corner pillars was preserved, as the smoke outlet for the station heating was located in it.

Previously, a conversion of the station into a central station had been considered again. The extensive destruction of Dresden would have made a far-reaching redesign of the railway facilities possible, and so in 1946 and 1947 several designs were drawn up for a new, generously dimensioned central station in place of the Wettiner Straße station. This was to be built with 17 through and three end tracks over a length of 400 meters and a width of 186.5 meters parallel to Könneritzstrasse . The laterally arranged station building was planned on the inner city side. In subsequent drafts, the dimensions were somewhat reduced by abandoning the baggage platforms, but the design was essentially retained. One of the main goals of this planned redesign of the railway junction was to run trains on the east-west route Chemnitz - Görlitz via Dresden without changing direction. Why these plans were ultimately not carried out cannot be answered with certainty, but financial difficulties, material shortages, labor shortages and general planning uncertainty in socio-political change are named as possible reasons.

The previous name of the station referred to the Wettin dynasty and was therefore not in the sense of the socialist system. Therefore, the station was renamed Dresden-Mitte on July 20, 1946 . Little changed in the following 40 years. Since there was no longer a platform roof, but the tracks and buildings were designed for a covered train station, rainwater paved its way through the insufficiently sealed floor and gradually decayed.

Reconstruction after the turn

New people tunnel

After the fall of the Wall , there were initially plans to build a glass station hall with two floors, shops and offices based on designs by the Ingenhoven architects' office . However, for reasons of cost, this design was not implemented. In 1997, minor renovation work took place and from November 2001 the Deutsche Bahn AG renovated the station from scratch as part of the expansion of the Leipzig – Dresden line . Trams have been running under the tracks since mid-2002 and stop right in front of the platform access in Jahnstrasse at the wholesale market hall . The new platforms 1 and 2 were completed in January 2003 and platforms 3 and 4 in October 2004. At the northern end of the platform, an additional passenger tunnel, which was initially not planned, was built to improve the route to northern Friedrichstadt . As a first step in the interior design, a DB Service Store opened in March 2005.

The station forecourt, located between the Mitte station and Weißeritzstrasse, was redesigned in 2011 for around 850,000 euros. A 23-meter-long band of granite boulders and bright red stone replicas made of fiberglass, which is intended to remind of the earlier course of the Weißeritz, was also built on the square. The side facing Könneritzstraße is decorated with murals, some of which belong to the railway arch gallery .

construction

North-east head towards Marienbrücke

Dresden Mitte station is a through station with four platform edges. The S-Bahn Dresden trains run on tracks 1 and 2. Regional and long-distance trains run on tracks 3 and 4, although there are only stops for regional trains. Two more tracks on the northwest side of the station are used for freight traffic. In the southwestern head of the station, the route of the Berlin railway branches off to the Dresden-Friedrichstadt freight yard. To the northeast of the train station is the Marienbrücke over the Elbe , followed by the Dresden-Neustadt train station .

Traffic importance

Due to its central location within Dresden and the various transfer options, the Mitte station is of great importance for local and regional transport. All regional trains and the two S-Bahn lines that run on the Dresden connecting line stop here. There is a connection to four tram lines (1, 2, 6, 10) and one bus line (94).

As of December 9, 2018

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
RE1 Dresden Hbf  - Dresden Mitte - Dresden-Neustadt - Dresden-Klotzsche - Bischofswerda  - Bautzen  - Löbau (Sachs)  - Görlitz 120 trilex
RE2 Dresden Hbf - Dresden Mitte - Dresden-Neustadt - Dresden-Klotzsche - Bischofswerda - Ebersbach (Sachs)  - Zittau  - Liberec 120 trilex
RE15 Dresden Hbf - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden-Neustadt - Großenhain Cottb Bf  - Ruhland  - Hoyerswerda 120 DB Regio Nordost
RE18 Dresden Hbf - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden-Neustadt - Großenhain Cottb Bf - Ruhland - Senftenberg  - Cottbus 120 DB Regio Nordost
RE50 Dresden Hbf - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden-Neustadt - Riesa  - Leipzig Hbf 060 DB Regio Southeast
RB34 Dresden Hbf - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden-Neustadt - Dresden-Klotzsche - Kamenz (Sachs) 060 City railway Saxony
RB60 Dresden Hbf - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden-Neustadt - Dresden-Klotzsche - Bischofswerda - Bautzen - Löbau (Sachs) - Görlitz 120 trilex
RB61 Dresden Hbf - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden-Neustadt - Dresden-Klotzsche - Bischofswerda - Ebersbach (Sachs) - Zittau 120 trilex
S1 Meißen-Triebischtal  - Coswig (near Dresden)  - Dresden-Neustadt - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden Hbf - Heidenau  - Pirna  - Bad Schandau  - Schöna 10/20 (Meißen-Triebischtal-Pirna Mon-Fri during peak hours)
0 30 (60 to Schöna)
DB Regio Southeast
S2 Dresden Airport  - Dresden-Klotzsche - Dresden-Neustadt - Dresden Mitte  - Dresden Hbf (- Heidenau - Pirna) 030 (to Pirna Mon-Sat) DB Regio Southeast

literature

  • Kurt Kaiß / Matthias Hengst: Dresden's Railway: 1894–1994. Alba publication, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87094-350-5

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Kaiß / Hengst: Dresdens Eisenbahn, p. 10f
  2. Kaiß / Hengst: Dresdens Eisenbahn, p. 40ff
  3. ^ Dietrich Conrad: Die Dresdner Bahnhöfe , p. 126. In: Stadtmuseum Dresden, Dresdner Geschichtsbuch 2 , 1996.
  4. Kaiß / Hengst: Dresdens Eisenbahn, p. 27f
  5. a b c Kaiß / Hengst: Dresdens Eisenbahn, p. 62f
  6. Kaiß / Hengst: Dresdens Eisenbahn, p. 44ff
  7. ^ A tent for trains , online article by WELT from November 15, 2001.
  8. Networking of the S-Bahn with the Dresden city traffic - status and perspectives ( Memento of June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Upper Elbe Transport Association of March 11, 2004 (PDF; 50 kB).
  9. Modern S-Bahn route for local traffic , Dresden Official Gazette No. 43/2005, p. 8.
  10. Mayor Jörn Marx opens a new town square at the Mitte train station. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, December 29, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2017 (press release).
  11. Peter Hilbert: Rotes Steinwunder , Sächsische Zeitung of December 24, 2011.
  12. ^ Announcement of the renovation of the Marienbrücke . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 3/2003, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 101.