Eichenberg station
| Eichenberg | |
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 Reception building
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 7th |
| abbreviation | HEBG |
| IBNR | 8000090 |
| Price range | 4th |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Eichenberg |
| location | |
| City / municipality | New Eichenberg |
| Place / district | Eichenberg train station |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 '31 " N , 9 ° 55' 17" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Eichenberg station is the only station in the municipality of Neu-Eichenberg in Werra-Meissner in northern Hesse . It is located east of the historical location on the other side of the B 27 in the district of Eichenberg-Bahnhof .
history
The Eichenberg station was created when the Halle – Kassel railway line went into operation .
In 1876 the section Niederhone –Eichenberg– Friedland (Han) of the Göttingen – Bebra railway was completed. This made Eichenberg a railway junction . In order to overcome the watershed between Fulda and Werra near Cornberg and between Werra and Leine near Eichenberg, considerable inclines and four tunnels were necessary, which made the route very winding.
On December 15, 1915, the 25 km Gelstertal Railway from Velmeden via Großalmerode Ost to Eichenberg was opened. In freight traffic , it was mainly used to transport lignite from the North Hessian lignite area .
After the end of the Second World War , Eichenberg was a border station. The controls between the British and American zones took place here; on November 1, 1948, they were lifted to the north (British zone), and a year later to the south (American zone). The train service between Eichenberg and Arenshausen was stopped. The western administration refused to open it because the Eichenberg station was already overcrowded by the controls. In the Helmstedt Agreement of 1949, it was decided to open the line, but later not implemented. The tracks between Eichenberg and Arenshausen had been dismantled since 1948.
On June 2, 1973, passenger traffic on the Gelstertal Railway was stopped. On December 31, 2001, the transport of residual goods from Eichenberg to Witzenhausen Süd or the paper mill was also ended.
In 1989 the recommissioning of the Eichenberg – Arenshausen stretch was considered as one of the first to close the gap. The first survey work took place on January 6, 1990. In Eichenberg, the unused eastern platform (tracks 10 and 11) was completely renewed and extended, and access to the underpass was restored. A switch connection was also laid on the route to Kassel in order to avoid a level crossing of the north-south route in east-west traffic. On May 26, 1990, the new platform was put into operation.
Trains between Nordhausen and Göttingen had to change direction south of the platforms, so that no scheduled journeys were planned in this relation. For them, the Eichenberger curve was rebuilt as a connecting curve at the north end of the station and put into operation in 1998.
Here the regional express runs from Göttingen in the direction of Erfurt ; Eichenberg station will thus continue to be bypassed.
On January 22, 2020, a train accident occurred in Eichenberg station in which four track workers were injured, two of them seriously. A freight train collided with the boom of a crane.
Track systems
Eichenberg station still has extensive track systems today. Passenger traffic is handled on seven platform tracks.
The numbering begins on the northwest side of the reception building.
- Track 1 is a through track and is the main platform directly in front of the station building. The track is no longer used in scheduled local rail passenger transport.
- Track 2 is a through track without a platform and serves as a through track for freight and long-distance trains from Göttingen to Kassel.
- Track 3 shares an island platform with track 4 . Today the trains of the Cantus lines RB7 and RB8 in the direction of Kassel (RB8) and Eschwege / Bebra / Fulda (RB7) stop here .
- Track 4 is a through track and is on the platform next to track 3. Today the cantus trains stop here in the direction of Göttingen .
- Track 5 is a through track and shares the middle island platform with track 6. At the moment (as of the end of October 2012) this platform is being modernized and therefore no trains are currently running from this platform.
- Track 6 is another through track and is located on the platform next to track 5. Also here, due to the modernization of the platform, there are currently no trains.
- Track 7 was a through track without a platform, but today it is mostly overgrown with bushes and small trees.
- Track 8 , like track 7, was an overgrown track without a platform.
- Like tracks 7 and 8, track 9 has no platform and is now mostly overgrown with bushes and small trees.
- Track 10 is a through track and shares the outermost island platform with track 11. Here the trains run towards Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof or Erfurt Hauptbahnhof via Leinefelde and Nordhausen as well as to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe .
- Track 11 is another through track and is located on the outermost island platform next to track 10. Individual regional trains in the direction of Nordhausen, which start or end in Eichenberg, leave here.
- Track 12 is a through track without a platform and serves as a through track for freight and long-distance trains in the direction of Leinefelde / Nordhausen.
- A track branches off from track 12, which is no longer used regularly today.
- The platform on which the Gelstertalbahn trains ran was between track 12 and 13 until the station was rebuilt in 1990.
Tracks 1 to 6 connect to the route to Göttingen in the north, tracks 10 to 12 to the one in the direction of Leinefelde.
The platforms of Eichenberg station are not barrier-free, only accessible via the stairs of the pedestrian underpass . The installation of an elevator is planned.
business
Like all of Northern Hesse, Eichenberg belongs to the tariff area of the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV), but is also integrated into the Southern Lower Saxony Transport Association (VSN).
The Eichenberg train station is the junction of the old north-south line ( Göttingen – Bebra line ) and the Halle-Kassel railway . There are direct connections to Witzenhausen , Hann. Münden , Kassel main train station / Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station , Göttingen , Leinefelde , Nordhausen , Halle (Saale) , Mühlhausen , Erfurt , Eschwege , Bebra and partly to Bad Hersfeld and Fulda . The Göttingen – Kassel and Göttingen – Bebra passenger traffic has been carried out by cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft since 2005 . Electric multiple units of the series 442 operated by Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland have been running in the direction of Halle since December 13, 2015 . The line to Erfurt has been operated by DB Regio class 642 diesel multiple units since December 2013 , which replaced the Erfurt Railway .
In Eichenberg the lines RE2 Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Hann. Münden - Leinefelde - Bad Langensalza - Erfurt (DB Regio), RE9 Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Hann. Münden - Leinefelde - Nordhausen - Sangerhausen - Halle (Saale) (Abellio Rail Central Germany), RB7 Göttingen - Eichenberg - Bebra - Bad Hersfeld - Fulda (cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft) and RB8 Göttingen - Eichenberg - Hann. Münden - Kassel (cantus transport company). The lines RB7 and RB8 are winged in Eichenberg towards Kassel and Bebra. (As of 2019)
Station building
The building was offered at a public auction in March 2013. The doors and windows here were boarded up until mid-March 2014.
See also
literature
- Ralf Roman Rossberg : Border over German rails 1945–1990. 2nd Edition. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-88255-829-6 , pp. 130-133.
- Wolfgang Koch, Werner Keller, Paul Lauerwald: Eichenberg station. The splendor, fall and rise of a railway junction. Hessisch Lichtenau 1990, 232 pages, numerous black-and-white and color illustrations, ISBN 3-9800576-6-6
- Günter Walter, Wolfgang Klee: Border experience, Eichenberg station and the Halle-Casseler railway. In: Railway History , Issue 35, DGEG-Medien, 2009
Web links
- Gelstertalbahn at Forgotten Railways
- Community hopes for funding from land
- Tracks in service facilities (HEBG) , DB Netz AG (PDF; track plan)
- werra-meissner-bahnen to the Eichenberg railway junction
Individual evidence
- ↑ hessenschau.de: Seriously injured in an accident with a freight train. January 23, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020 .
- ^ Claas Michaelis (clm): Bahn AG is auctioning off building in Eichenberg: Train station for 7,000 euros. HNA, March 13, 2013, accessed March 23, 2014 .