Durlesbach station

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Durlesbach station
Railway memorial
Railway memorial
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation Durle station
opening May 26, 1849
Conveyance 1984
location
City / municipality Bad Waldsee
Place / district Durlesbach
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 54 '8 "  N , 9 ° 40' 35"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '8 "  N , 9 ° 40' 35"  E
Height ( SO ) 588  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Durlesbach station is a former station of the Royal Württemberg State Railways, opened in 1849 and closed in 1984, on the southern railway in Durlesbach , a residential area of the town of Bad Waldsee in the Reute district of Upper Swabia . The Durlesbach flows into the Schussen nearby .

The station building exists in two versions: the original building from 1849 - rebuilt as a residential building in nearby Reute - and the new building from 1911.

The Durlesbach train station is mentioned in the song Auf de Schwäbsche Eisebahne .

Station ensemble

The station facility is located on a semicircular forecourt and is an ensemble of four symmetrically arranged buildings, consisting of the actual reception building from 1911, the remise , goods shed and ancillary building from 1876 with passenger entrances, wooden shed , laundry and bakery. The original station building from 1849 was demolished in 1911 and is now being rebuilt in the Reute district.

In the station building from 1911 there were four service rooms on the ground floor with a waiting room , ticket office, baggage check-in and telegraph room . The station master's apartment was on the upper floor. The switchman's apartment was in an attic . Since the Royal Railway Administration expected Durlesbach to lose its importance, investments by the Railway Directorate were limited to the bare minimum from the start.

City train station, wooden train station and monastery train station

First, in 1849, the southern line from Friedrichshafen through the Schussental towards the origin of the Schussen near Bad Schussenried was built on relatively simple terrain. At the Schussentobel near Durlesbach, the first topographical challenges arose for the planning engineers. The shot was moved to an artificial bed over a length of 1.4 km. On May 26, 1849, the Ravensburg - Biberach line began operating. At the end of June 1849, the gap to Ulm was closed. The Oberamtsstadt Bad Waldsee built a road to the then remote Durlesbach train station, which thus became the municipal train station.

On July 25, 1869, Bad Waldsee received its own station on the newly built Herbertingen – Isny ​​railway line , so that Durlesbach station quickly lost its importance. The forest management tried to revive the station as a wooden station and arranged for a wood storage area and another track to be built. The station was not accepted by the Upper Swabian timber traders.

In 1867 the hundredth anniversary of the beatification of Elisabeth Achler , the good Beth von Reute , was celebrated (not quite punctually) ; Subsequently, the Franciscan Sisters of Reute revived the monastery, which had been closed since secularization and is now (since 1870) their mother house. Numerous visitors then populated the Durlesbach train station. In 1897, a second-class waiting room was added after the monastery in charge of the monastery complained about the inadequate, too small and smoky third-class waiting room. After that, however, the increasing individual traffic resulted in fewer and fewer train passengers. In 1984 the operation was given up. In previous years, only a "stop to get on and off for tour groups on special request" was possible.

The station was sold to a private person in 2003. The new owner has converted the building for commercial use; it now houses a goldsmith's shop and a café.

monument

A group of sculptures by René Auer has been located south of the station building since 1990 , depicting the central scene from the song Auf de Schwäbsche Eisebahne :

A buck had been kaofet; Ond that där net lazy,
the guate Må ends it da hentersta Waga nå.

The sculptures are complemented by a narrow-gauge train that has no historical connection with the normal-gauge trains that run here . The locomotive in this ensemble was restored in 2010.

The memorial is maintained by the Friends of Durlesbach-Bähnle eV-Reute with the support of the city of Bad Waldsee. This association has since added a platform roof; the images in this article show an earlier state of the monument.

  • Durlesbach station

  • "'S Bäuerle"

  • "Billy goat" (before departure)

  • "Conductor"

  • "'S Weible"

Naming

Since the station is not in a village, it was named after the stream that flows into the Schussen here .

Other widespread, but refuted explanations are:

  • Dur de Bach means translated into High German through the Bach . The station construction workers allegedly had to wade through the stream to get to work.
  • Dorlesbach , because the track workers of the royal Württemberg railway "made a pilgrimage" across the stream to an inn with a beautiful landlady , shrouded in legend, by the name of Dorle .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel : Bahnhof von Durlesbach - There is a train in the hallway from October 23, 2008, accessed on May 10, 2010
  2. ↑ On the Schwäb'sche Eisebahne. City of Bad Waldsee , accessed on March 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : Steam locomotive should soon return to Durlesbach on April 27, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2010
  4. ↑ Landesvermessungsamt Baden-Württemberg: Topographic map 1: 50,000, sheet L8124
  5. ^ Gregor Maier: The Durlesbach station. (PDF; 172.5 KB) Accessed February 23, 2016 .