Eilenburg station
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.jpg) Entrance building seen from the bus station
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | LEG |
| IBNR | 8010095 |
| opening | 1871 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Eilenburg |
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| Architectural style | historicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Eilenburg |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '6 " N , 12 ° 38' 12" E |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Eilenburg station is one of two stations in the North Saxon large district town of Eilenburg . It is classified in station category 4 by Deutsche Bahn . The station is located in the Southeast regional area .
The station was opened in 1871 and over time gained importance in passenger and freight traffic. Many jobs were associated with him. Today (2018) passenger trains run to Leipzig , Halle (Saale) , Hoyerswerda , Cottbus and Lutherstadt Wittenberg, among others . Since the opening of the City Tunnel in Leipzig , the Central German S-Bahn has also stopped in Eilenburg.
The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony has listed the reception building, the Eo and Ew signal boxes and the East and West water towers as cultural monuments in the state monument list (object number 08973253).
history
The city of Eilenburg was on the outskirts of Prussia in an area that had to be ceded by Saxony with the Congress of Vienna . It was not until 1868, when there was already a dense rail network, that the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Railway Company was granted a concession and confirmation document for the construction of a connection. In 1871 the reception building was built, which included service rooms, ticket offices, baggage handling, apartments for employees and four waiting rooms. A year later, in April 1872, the line from Falkenberg (Elster) via Eilenburg to Halle (Saale) was opened. In November 1874 the branch to the Saxon university and trade fair city of Leipzig was opened. As the end point of the line, a separate terminal station was built in Leipzig with the Eilenburger Bahnhof . On February 20, 1895, the Eilenburg – Lutherstadt Wittenberg line went into operation. From 1896 there was also the idea of building a line from Eilenburg to Bitterfeld with its up-and-coming industrial areas. Because of the outbreak of the First World War, this project did not go beyond the planning phase.
The last route opened was the branch to Wurzen, which went into operation in 1927. Construction was delayed considerably by the First World War and the tense economic situation in the first years of the Weimar Republic .
Since it opened, the station's services have been an important employer. In 1910 there were a total of 233 employees, in 1933 even 570. These were distributed as follows: railway workers (250), railway depot (40), wagon repair (6), wagon cleaning (4), railway maintenance with the signal box and craftsmen (220) as well as goods and Baggage handling and ticket issuance (50). The station also gave important impulses for the further economic development of the entire city.
On March 29, 1945, the worst accident in the history of the station occurred. That day at around 12:45 p.m., a freight train loaded with smoke- throwing bullets caught fire because the wood wool used to fill the cargo had ignited. In order to minimize the damage in the event of an explosion, the affected wagon was detached and pushed westward out of the station towards Wedelwitz . At around 1 p.m. there was an explosion, the pressure wave of which was felt throughout the city. 40 people are said to have died in the detonation, and the fire fighting operation is said to have lasted until the following morning.
The Eilenburg station was in the area of the Reichsbahndirektion Halle (Saale) , which was dissolved in 1994. In the 1980s, the freight yard had reached its limit. Around 1,000 wagons were loaded and around twice as many unloaded every month. In addition, there were 30 freight trains every day that had to be formed or dissolved. In passenger traffic, Eilenburg was the stop of the D-trains Krakau – Erfurt, Frankfurt (Oder) –Mönchengladbach and Cottbus – Eisenach as well as the express train connection Cottbus – Leipzig. In the 1990s there was an interregional line from Lübeck via Schwerin, Magdeburg and Leipzig to Cottbus. In 2000 the station was disconnected from long-distance traffic.
As early as 1978, passenger traffic from Eilenburg to Wurzen was stopped. 20 years later, the Free State of Saxony canceled scheduled passenger traffic on the route to Wittenberg between the Eilenburg and Bad Düben stations.
The passenger station is still largely as it was in GDR times. In 2010, platform 1 was re-paved in preparation for the celebrations for the 1050th anniversary of Eilenburg . In 2011, new tracks, overhead lines and signaling technology were built in the western end of the station. This allows faster entry from the direction of Halle and Leipzig. In the course of this, conditions for the formation of trains were created by means of relocation procedures. The process operation was discontinued. So far, there is no schedule for the barrier-free expansion of the traffic station, which is often requested. According to the railway, this can only be realized with the complete renovation in the course of the route expansion and the construction of an electronic interlocking , for which DB Netz is responsible.
description
Passenger station
The investments of the passenger railway station include built in the 1870s, today under monument protection standing reception building of red brick with a tower on the west side, which was extensively renovated in the 1990s. The railway's own gastronomy, which moved in after the renovation, closed a short time later. Two small sales rooms were also recently not let. At the end of 2011, the remaining DB travel agency closed with press offers . The waiting hall remained closed. In May 2012 it became known that DB had sold the building to an Eilenburg telecommunications company. This expanded the building into the company headquarters by 2014. The tracks are located to the south of the reception building and are bordered on the other side by federal highway 87 . The station has two platforms with four passenger tracks: platform 1 with a length of 470 meters and platform 2 with 325 meters, which can be reached through a pedestrian underpass. The significantly longer platforms are now only intended for use over a length of 178 meters. Both have a platform height of a maximum of 38 centimeters. On platform 2 there is still a waiting building and the house of supervision P for the passenger station, both of which are now unused. The house platform and a 150-meter-long outside platform that connects to platform 2 are no longer intended for passengers to get on and off. The entrance building can be reached without barriers , the platforms are only accessible by stairs.
Freight depot
In Eilenburg, about ten tracks of the freight station are connected to the south of the passenger station with a drainage mountain. There are also sidings for freight wagons and the locomotives used to the east of the reception building, as well as a DB Cargo social wing . In this area there is still a power supply on track 39 and formerly a loading ramp. Today there is a loading lane along track 34. Next to the Ew dispatcher interlocking there is a branch of the DB Netz division . The Gbf supervision for the freight yard is no longer available.
Security technology
On the grounds of Eilenburger station, the two are still occupied are guard interlocking Aw (mechanical, in the construction unit ) and Eo (electromechanical, Type VES 1912 (E43) ), and the interlocking Ew (electromechanical, Type VES 1912 (E43) ), which is located as an equestrian signal box above a drainage mountain and is a dispatcher signal box . The Em signal box , which was located east of the reception building, was shut down in 1998 and later demolished. In 1941 the station had a total of 96 points . In contrast, there were still 74 points in 2009, two of which were shut down. Today there are 23 light signals at Eilenburg train station , which are marked with letters.
As early as 2002/2003, Deutsche Bahn had initial plans for an electronic signal box (ESTW) in Eilenburg with a control area as far as Peißen , Leipzig-Heiterblick and Falkenberg (Elster) with completely renewed signaling and telecommunications technology along the lines. The start of construction was initially planned for 2005; according to an article in the Delitzsch-Eilenburger Kreiszeitung , the project also included the expansion for tilting technology trains and Tempo 160 on the Leipzig – Eilenburg – Falkenberg route. However, the project has not yet been implemented. The complete redesign of the Taucha (b Leipzig) station, which was planned as the first construction stage for an Eilenburg ESTW, began in 2018.
Depot
In 1926 a depot was set up in Eilenburg . The locomotive stations in Torgau and Schildau and, since 1964, the Wurzen locomotive station were subordinate to him . 16 to 18 class 38 , 52, 80 , 55, 72 and 94 locomotives were used for operation in Eilenburg . There were also six to eight locomotives in Torgau, two in Schildau and three in Wurzen.
The Eilenburg depot, including the three branch offices, employed a total of around 350 people in administration, locomotive service, locomotive maintenance, maintenance of the technical systems and stationary staff. The locomotive staff in Eilenburg alone comprised 90 employees. The shunting operation included, among other things, the operation of the connections to the Eilenburg Ost train station , the Eilenburg chemical plant and the dermatoid plant. Which belongs to the depot roundhouse had 12 tracks, of which four were among the workshop.
In the mid-1960s, the first diesel locomotives of the DR series V 100 and V 60 were put into service. Shortly thereafter, three locomotives from the DR class V 200 followed . These gradually replaced the steam locomotives. After the electrification of the Halle (Saale) –Eilenburg line, electric locomotives of the 211 , 242 , 243 and 250 series were also put into service at the end of the 1980s .
The Eilenburg depot no longer existed as an independent service center since 1969. After the Torgau branch was assigned to the Falkenberg (Elster) depot in 1967, the Eilenburg depot followed two years later. The Wurzen locomotive station was assigned to the Leipzig-Süd depot. Since then, Eilenburg has been a so-called staff deployment point . In 1994 the Falkenberg (Elster) depot was also dissolved. In 1995 the turntable and the slag elevator were expanded and the two water towers shut down. The social wing and the changing rooms were used until 1999.
Transport links
Rail transport
history
From the opening of the station until at least the end of the Second World War - unlike today - through traffic ran from Halle to Cottbus. To get to Leipzig, you had to change trains in Eilenburg. This was because Eilenburg and Halle were in Prussia, while Leipzig was part of Saxony. In 1944 there was a daily express train and an express train from Halle (Saale) Hbf to Cottbus and an express train from Leipzig Hbf to Cottbus. There were also five passenger train connections from Halle to Falkenberg (Elster) and, in some cases, further to Cottbus. In addition, seven passenger train connections ran daily from Leipzig to Eilenburg. After Wittenberg there were four daily connections from Wittenberg three.
During the GDR era, traffic was concentrated due to the large number of commuters in the morning and afternoon. In 1970 there was through traffic mainly from Leipzig to Cottbus, so that a change had to be made to Halle in Eilenburg. At that time, three express trains and three express trains per direction ran between Leipzig and Cottbus every day, all of which stopped in Eilenburg. In addition, there were thirteen passenger train connections from and to Leipzig or sometimes only from or to Taucha (near Leipzig) . On the Halle – Eilenburg route, apart from one pair of express trains, there was only regional traffic every day. Back then, thirteen passenger trains ran in each direction. In 1970 there were seven continuous connections in each direction between Eilenburg and Wittenberg. In 1970, four pairs of passenger trains ran daily on the Eilenburg – Wurzen branch line, on which passenger traffic was discontinued in 1978.
From 1995 an interregional line from Lübeck via Schwerin, Magdeburg and Leipzig to Cottbus replaced the previous express train connections. In 2000 the remaining long-distance transport services were converted to RE.
Current
The Eilenburg station is on the course book routes 209.43, 218.1, 501.4 and 501.9, the following regional transport lines, operated by DB Regio, serve the station:
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| RE 10 | Leipzig - Eilenburg - Torgau - Falkenberg (Elster) - Doberlug-Kirchhain - Calau - Cottbus | 120 | DB Regio Nordost |
| RB 55 |
Heidebahn Eilenburg - Bad Düben (Mulde) - Bad Schmiedeberg - Pretzsch - Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf (individual trains on certain occasions) |
- | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 4 | Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz - Leipzig - Eilenburg - Falkenberg (Elster) - Elsterwerda-Biehla - Ruhland - Hoyerswerda | 30th | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 9 | Eilenburg - Delitzsch - Halle (Saale) |
60 (Mon-Fri) 120 (Sat-Sun) |
DB Regio Southeast |
The Regional-Express runs every day at 120-minute intervals . Together with the S4 line, it compresses the cycle to Torgau to 30 'and further to Falkenberg (Elster) to 60'. From 4 a.m. (Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 6 a.m.) to 10.30 p.m., the S-Bahn in the direction of Leipzig runs every 30 minutes. In early and late traffic and on weekends in night traffic, the S4 runs without a cycle. In Leipzig, the S-Bahn will be tied through to Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz and further to Wurzen-Oschatz at the edge of the day.
With the timetable change in December 2017, the new line S 9 of the S-Bahn Central Germany was introduced. It replaced the previous regional rail services between Eilenburg and Halle.
In the 2017 summer timetable, regular non-stop connections from Wittenberg to Eilenburg were offered for the first time since 1998. There were three pairs of trains that ran on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays and were designated as the RB 55. In the 2018 timetable, the offer is limited to individual trains on certain occasions.
future
The city of Bad Düben is aiming for a connection via Eilenburg to the existing S-Bahn network. Although the responsible association ZVNL assesses the chances of this as very low, the regional planning association West Saxony included the reactivation of the route in the current regional plan. With the 2017 summer timetable, regular train services between Eilenburg and Wittenberg were resumed on weekends and public holidays.
As part of the new tendering, RE line 10 is to be extended beyond Cottbus to Frankfurt (Oder) via Guben and Eisenhüttenstadt from 2022 .
Regional bus transport
The bus station at Eilenburger Bahnhof, newly built in 2015, is the hub of regional bus traffic in the Eilenburg region. Buses run from the six bus platforms to Leipzig , Delitzsch , Taucha , Bad Düben and Wurzen as well as the two city bus routes.
| line | Course (as of August 25, 2020) | Days of traffic | bus company |
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| 195 | Eilenburg - Pehritzsch - Jesewitz - Taucha | Monday - Friday | Geissler bus service |
| 197 | Eilenburg - Jesewitz - Taucha - Leipzig main station | Monday – Saturday | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| 212 | Eilenburg - Krostitz - Delitzsch | Monday - Friday | Omnibus traffic Leupold |
| 221 | Eilenburg - Krippehna - Zschepplin - Hohenprießnitz | Monday - Friday | Geissler bus service |
| 222 | Eilenburg - Jesewitz - Mutschlena | Monday - Friday | Geissler bus service |
| 229 | Eilenburg - Mölbitz - Wildschütz - Audenhain (- Mockrehna) | Monday - Friday | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| 231 | Eilenburg - Doberschütz - Rote Jahne - Wöllnau | Monday - Friday | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| 232 | Eilenburg - Mörtitz - Laussig - Gruna - Bad Düben | Every day | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| 233 | Eilenburg - Zschepplin - Hohenprießnitz - Wellaune - Bad Düben | Monday - Friday | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| 234 | Eilenburg - Doberschütz - Mockrehna - Gräfendorf | Monday - Friday | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| 674 | Eilenburg - Thallwitz - Lossa - Wurzen | Monday - Friday | Regional bus Leipzig |
| 676 | Eilenburg - Thallwitz - Böhlitz - Röcknitz - Lüptitz - Wurzen | Monday – Saturday | Regional bus Leipzig |
| City bus A / B | Eilenburg: station - mountain - station - east - station | Monday – Saturday | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| City bus B / A | Eilenburg: station - east - station - mountain - station | Monday – Saturday | Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe |
| On-call bus | Eilenburg - Jesewitz - Taucha region | Every day | Geissler bus service |
Private transport
Eilenburg train station is located on the southern edge of the Mitte district and can be reached via Bahnhofstrasse coming from the center. As a station mainly used by commuters, 87 Park & Ride and 112 covered Bike & Ride parking spaces have been created at Eilenburg station . There are also 9 motorcycle parking spaces and other unpaved parking spaces. There is also a taxi rank in front of the reception building .
Passenger numbers
According to the ZVNL, Eilenburg station was frequented by around 1,340 people on working days in 2006. This number results from the sum of all entry, exit and transfer passengers on one working day. This makes Eilenburg station the second most frequented station in the northern Saxony district after Delitzsch und Bf and one of the most frequented stations of the ZVNL in rural areas.
The greatest number of passengers in 2006 was on the Eilenburg – Leipzig route, with an average of 3,400 passengers per working day. The Eilenburg – Halle connection was used by around 500 travelers every day.
In 2015, which is just over a year after the S-Bahn began operating, around 900 boarders were counted on an average working day, and passengers who left and changed trains were not recorded.
Freight transport
Current
Several connections are operated from the Eilenburg train station, including the Lüptitz quarry, the Sprotta and Lau 30 gravel works, the Lau’s prestressed concrete works, the grain industry in Eilenburg-Ost and the Stora Enso paper mill in Eilenburg. Tracks 5 to 13 are available for train formation. In addition, there are several sidings in the station as well as a loading lane on track 34, where timber is still regularly loaded. One or two diesel locomotives of the DB series 261 and V 90 are usually used to form trains . (As of 2018)
history
During the GDR era there were a number of other affiliates, for example the quality furniture factory, the Dermatoid and the EBAWE in Eilenburg-Ost, the Eilenburg chemical plant or the NVA ammunition store near Doberschütz. Several tracks with ramps, a loading line, cranes and scales were available for local freight traffic. On track 35 there was also a transfer system to road traffic, for which the road scooter was used. Today there is only platform 34 left. Local transhipment traffic for general cargo was never particularly large; the transhipment comprised around ten to 15 general cargo wagons . In return, the number of freight trains to be loaded and unloaded and those to be formed and dismantled was enormous and in the 1980s was greater than the capacity of the station actually allowed. Around 1,000 wagons had to be loaded and 2,000 wagons to be unloaded every month, and 30 local freight trains , empty wagon trains and through freight trains were to be formed or dissolved every day . The general cargo traffic was stopped in 1997.
Use as a film set
The Eilenburg train station formed the backdrop for a scene in the DEFA film You and I and Little Paris by Werner W. Wallroth . A key scene in the award-winning feature film Kriegerin (2011) by David Wnendt was also filmed in the summer of 2010 at the Eilenburg train station.
Web links
- Track plan of Eilenburg station on the Deutsche Bahn website (PDF; 164.5 kB)
- Delivery to the Eilenburg station in the holdings of the Reich Railway Directorate Halle in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andreas Flegel: Eilenburg in old views , European Library Verlag , 2002
- ↑ a b c d e Otto Künnemann: Eilenburg railway junction in the yearbook for Eilenburg and the surrounding area, Heide-Druck publishing house, 2006
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Erhard Künitz, Erich Preuß : Railway stations A – Z: Eilenburg , GeraMond Verlag , 2007
- ↑ dpa: Deutsche Bahn is investing seven million euros in Eilenburg. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. July 19, 2011, accessed September 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Heike Liesaus: Eilenburger Bahnhof: Service point top, but the environment leaves a lot to be desired. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Kathrin Kabelitz: Bahn sells Eilenburg station building . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . May 4, 2012, p. 17 .
- ↑ Eilenburg. (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service, archived from the original on September 4, 2018 ; accessed on September 4, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Millioud: ESTW Eilenburg ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (accessed on June 27, 2011)
- ↑ Soon no more level crossings in Taucha? (No longer available online.) In: Tauchaer Stadtmagazin. Heimatverein Taucha, July 2003, archived from the original on March 1, 2006 ; Retrieved June 27, 2011 .
- ↑ HTVS - engineering office for building construction, civil engineering, traffic engineering and noise protection GmbH: Taucha station (accessed on June 27, 2011)
- ^ Kurt Krause: The Eilenburg railway depot of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in: Yearbook for Eilenburg and the surrounding area, Heide-Druck publishing house, 2008
- ↑ Annual figures for the Eilenburg depot at www.sachsenschiene.de
- ↑ Excerpt from the course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1944
- ↑ Summer timetable of the Reichsbahndirektion Halle from May 31, 1970 to September 26, 1970
- ^ Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Bad Schmiedeberg - Eilenburg Heidebahn . (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: eisenbahnverein-wittenberg.de. December 1, 2016, archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Kathrin Kabelitz: Regional plan provides for S-Bahn for Bad Düben in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 9, 2015, page 30
- ↑ Without changing from Frankfurt (Oder) to Leipzig? Possible from 2022 in: Leipziger Volkszeitung (accessed on March 27, 2019)
- ↑ Local traffic plan, Zweckverband for the Leipzig local traffic area - update 2008
- ↑ Local authority association for the Leipzig local transport area: Local transport plan 2017-2022 , page 35 (accessed on June 30, 2018)
