Eisenach railway station
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 Eisenach
train station Bahnhofstrasse 35, 99817 Eisenach |
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | UEI |
| IBNR | 8010097 |
| Price range | 3 (as of 2016) |
| opening | 1846/1900 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Eisenach |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Eisenach |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '37 " N , 10 ° 19' 55" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 222.52 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Eisenach railway station is the main station of the city of Eisenach in Thuringia . It is a traffic junction and is located on the Thuringian Railway (Halle – Bebra) and the Werra Railway (Eisenach – Meiningen – Eisfeld).
In the timetable information, the station is listed as a train station , while the on-site lettering of the station building was changed to the main station at the beginning of the 21st century .
history
1840 to 1900
The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , the Duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen founded the Thuringian Railway Association on August 19, 1840 with the aim of planning and building a railway line Weimar – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach . With the financial participation of the Kingdom of Prussia , the Thuringian Railway Company (ThEG) was created (1844 ). Their first construction project was the Thuringian main line Halle - Gerstungen . At the same time, the railway from Eisenach to Meiningen was being planned. On December 20, 1841, the participating “project countries” also signed a state treaty for the construction of the Halle - Kassel line . In the years 1846–1847 the first Eisenach station was built on the ground floor. Its first station building probably came from Julius Eugen Ruhl . As the provisional terminus of the Gotha - Fröttstädt - Wutha - Eisenach section, it was officially opened on June 24, 1847. The western continuation of the main line was opened a good two years later, on August 18, 1849, with the section to today's Hörschel district for excursion traffic. After further construction, now following the Werra , there was a gap in Gerstungen on September 25, 1849 with the Hessian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn .
From 1856 Eisenach developed into a railway junction with the construction of the Werra Railway, which opened on November 2, 1858. The Thuringian Railway between Eisenach and Apolda had already been expanded to two tracks. Between 1859 and 1861, and again in 1885, the Eisenach station building was enlarged and expanded. In the years 1882 and 1895, the two railways were bought by the Prussian State Railways . Since August 1, 1897, the Eisenach tram stopped on the station forecourt.
1900 to 1945
A major renovation of the railway facilities began in 1900: the railway line was raised three to four meters in the urban area, and the station building was rebuilt. The freight station was also changed and received a drainage mountain. On April 12, 1904, the inauguration of the newly built station building with rail post office.
Between 1922 and 1926 the new railway depot (Bw) was built in the eastern part of the freight yard with the locomotive shed. In 1928 the station building was again too small and received an extension for ticket issuance. In addition, train monitoring was introduced and goods handling was expanded into a large general cargo handling point , a modern electromechanical interlocking was built and new signaling technology with Indusi and track vacancy detection systems was installed.
After the Second World War
After the end of the Second World War, the second mainline track and several station tracks were dismantled as reparation payments to the Soviet Union, but by August 1945 there were again 20 passenger train connections. In autumn 1945, the construction staff for the BMW plant in Eisenach, which was under Soviet military administration, presented a detailed plan with three variants for the construction of a 900 m long siding from the plant's power station II to the Eisenach train station.
On June 1, 1955, the new Bahnbetriebswagenwerk (Bww) in Eisenach started operations with numerous branches (e.g. Vacha , Gotha , Mühlhausen , etc.). At the end of the 1950s, the station facilities had to be expanded again: in 1956 with the construction of platform track 10 and in 1958 with the construction of five shunting tracks in the freight yard. The station, goods handling, ticket issuance and baggage and express goods handling departments were merged into the Eisenach complex on November 1, 1959. In 1961 and 1962, the western end of Eisenach station was redesigned as part of the construction of the Förtha – Gerstungen railway line called “Trasse” . Two more milestones followed in the next few years. Large container technology was introduced in 1970 and the steam locomotive age came to an end in 1971. Between 1974 and 1980 the Eisenach depot was transformed into a major service center. A new social building, a new locomotive hall, a new workshop building, a new boiler house and a new tank system were built, and the vehicle washing system was reconstructed. In the meantime, the railway service vehicle plant was home to over 200 cars. On June 23, 1976, the Eisenach railway accident occurred at the western end of the station when the transit train D 354 derailed and collided with a shunting department. A shunting locomotive and a wagon crashed onto the road next to the tracks. From 1981 to 1982 the station concourse was redesigned and microprocessor-controlled ticket printers were introduced. In 1983 and 1984 modern three-force brakes were installed below the two drainage mountains and the superstructure was partially renovated. In 1985 the depot had around 1000 employees. In 1989 and 1990 there was briefly a kind of S-Bahn operation between the Wutha , Eisenach, Eisenach / West and Eisenach / AWE stations , which was ended by the political changes of the transition in the GDR and the closure of the AWE.
1990 to 2000
There were profound changes in the years to come. On the one hand, new construction and expansion measures ( VDE No. 7 , from April 26, 1990), introduction of InterCity traffic, reopening of the Eisenach – Wartha (Werra) –Gerstungen line (from June 2, 1991, double-track from September 26, 1992), Simultaneously opening of the first travel center in East Germany, conversion of platforms 3 to 6 (1994), start of operation of the ESTW Eisenach central signal box (spring 1995/16 June 1996) and start of electrical operation between Bebra and Neudietendorf (28 May 1995) and on the other Closure of the Eisenach railway depot (May 28, 1995), closure of numerous signal boxes between Gerstungen and Wandersleben (June 16, 1996), demolition of the old Ew signal box (spring 1999), relocation of the DB Regio AG locomotive line to Meiningen (summer 1999) and incorporation of the freight yard to the Erfurt cargo station.
Since May 1997 a regional train line has been running from Eisenach to Bad Hersfeld every two hours. At the same time, the local transport platform 1/2 was rebuilt. In 1999 new machines were installed in the Eisenach train station.
2000 to 2010
On May 30, 2000 the IC line Frankfurt am Main - Leipzig - Dresden was converted to ICE with tilting technology (ICE-T), the EC 56/57 “Goethe” Paris Est – Frankfurt Hbf . – Dresden Hbf.– Prague hl. n. dropped, the regional train Eisenach-Bad Hersfeld was discontinued and introduced hourly on the lines Eisenach-Bebra and Eisenach-Meiningen. In addition, the wagon workshop and the home of passenger coaches were relocated to Erfurt.
From January 2001 the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn (STB) runs on the Eisenach – Meiningen – Eisfeld route . Since the start of the schedule in 2004, ICE line 50 Dresden – Frankfurt has been running every hour. The IC line 15 Frankfurt – Halle – Berlin – Stralsund was canceled, the eastern section Eisenach – Stralsund was merged with the IC line 51. This line runs between Düsseldorf – Kassel – Eisenach and then on to Berlin and Stralsund . From the timetable change in December 2004, the IC Eisenach – Frankfurt Süd will also operate via Kassel / Gießen on Sundays and the IC Eisenach – Berlin Zoo on Mondays. Since December 2005, Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe can be reached directly with the ICE line 50 with the 2006 timetable.
The 100th anniversary of the station building was celebrated for a whole weekend in April 2004. In February 2006 the service point was closed. After protests by the city and by many travelers, the railway was forced to reopen a few days later. The 3-S headquarters was relocated to Erfurt and connected to the headquarters there. The Cantus public transport company took on 10 December 2006. Regional traffic between Bebra and Eisenach. At the beginning of November 2007, modern LCD displays were installed on the platforms and in the reception hall.
On May 18 and 19, 2008, the Memory Train stopped at Eisenach station. In November and December the old Em and Eo signal boxes were demolished. On December 14th, 2008 the CNL stopped for the last time in Zurich. This runs from the 14./15. December in Eisenach, due to the coupling of the CNL from Berlin and the CNL from Dresden / Prague in Erfurt, now through. Since the 2009/2010 timetable change on December 13, 2009, a pair of ICE trains with the 401 series has been running on the route Interlaken Ost – Mannheim – Frankfurt – Eisenach – Erfurt – Leipzig – Berlin Gesundbrunnen and stops in Eisenach. This is the first time that ICE 1 will run on schedule on the Thuringian Railway.
Since 2010
As part of the Federal Republic of Germany's economic stimulus package I , the reception building was renovated in 2010 and 2011 for 1.5 million euros . The focus was on the energetic renovation of the ceiling areas, walls, facades and windows, which reduced the energy requirement in the station by up to 36 percent. The reception building was equipped with a new block-type thermal power station and the waiting room situation was also improved.
The station was assigned to station category 2 in 2010 , and to station category 3 in 2012 and 2013.
After the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line went into operation , the hourly ICE stop was maintained (as of: 2017 timetable).
The travel center in the train station was closed on June 30, 2019, and an agency has been selling tickets since July 1, 2019.
Transport links
Long-distance transport
Eisenach station is served by several long-distance lines of Deutsche Bahn AG.
The main service was carried out from 2004 to 2017 by the ICE line 50 from Wiesbaden / Frankfurt (Main) via Eisenach to Leipzig / Dresden. This line served Eisenach every hour between 2004 and 2017. Mainly ICE T trains were used. In addition, a pair of trains operated on the ICE line 28. This consisted of the ICE trains 1716 and 1717 to and from Hamburg-Altona .
When the 2018 annual timetable came into effect (from December 10, 2017), ICE line 50 was switched to a two-hour cycle. In addition, the ICE line 11 runs every two hours (Munich - Stuttgart - Frankfurt (Main) - Eisenach - Erfurt - Leipzig - Berlin). This means that the Eisenach region now has additional long-distance connections to Mannheim and Stuttgart without changing trains.
There are currently two pairs of intercity trains between Cologne and Leipzig operating on the Central-Germany connection . Additional IC trains run on Fridays and Sundays as relief traffic.
Regional traffic
Eisenach train station is on the course book routes 575 and 605 .
Cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft has been operating its Stadler Flirt trains in the direction of Bebra since 2006 as the R6 of the NVV . Among other things, the Eisenach Westbahnhof and the stop at the Opel factory are served. The trains run every hour Monday through Friday and every two hours on weekends.
Between Eisenach and Halle (Saale) wrong until 12 December 2015 car trains of the DB Regio , 4 Halberstadt Mitteleinstiegswagen cars and a locomotive of the 182 series . Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland has been serving this line with railcars of the Bombardier Talent 2 type since December 13, 2015 . In the current timetable year, these trains run every hour as line RB20 and serve, among other things, the Fröttstädt train station , from where there is a connection to Friedrichroda , the Gotha train station and the Neudietendorf train station , from where there is a connection in the direction of Arnstadt - Ilmenau , Arnstadt - Saalfeld and Arnstadt - Suhl - Schweinfurt exists. In the rush hour, additional amplifier trains run as the RB22A line between Eisenach and Erfurt, and in some cases further via Weimar to Apolda or via Erfurt to Sangerhausen . At the weekend the trains only run to Halle (Saale) every two hours. In the other hour they only run to Weimar or Naumburg train stations .
The Werra Railway (KBS 575) has been served from Eisenach to Eisfeld with the regional shuttle of the Southern Thuringia Railway since 2001 . Since 2002 these trains have been running every two hours via Sonneberg to Neuhaus am Rennweg . These trains run as line STB41 every hour from Eisenach to Eisfeld. In Wernshausen there is an hourly connection to the STB43 line to Schmalkalden , in Meiningen to the Unterfranken-Shuttle to Schweinfurt and the STB44 to Erfurt via Suhl and Arnstadt, and in Grimmenthal to the RE7 regional express trains between Erfurt and Würzburg .
Long-distance and regional transport
| line | Course of the journey | Cycle (min) | operator |
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| ICE 11 | Munich - Stuttgart - Frankfurt am Main - Fulda - Eisenach - Erfurt - Leipzig - Berlin Hbf (deep) - Berlin Gesundbrunnen | 120 (alternating) | DB long-distance transport |
| ICE 50 | Dresden - Leipzig - Erfurt - Gotha - Eisenach - Fulda - Frankfurt am Main - Mainz - Wiesbaden | ||
| EC 62 | Graz - Salzburg - Munich - Stuttgart - Heidelberg - Frankfurt am Main - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt | Single move,
Operates again from November 1st, 2020 |
DB , ÖBB |
| IC 51 | Düsseldorf / Cologne - Dortmund - Kassel - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Gera | Two pairs of trains | DB long-distance transport |
| Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Bebra - Eisenach - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena-West - Jena-Göschwitz - Gera | A pair of trains | ||
| Leipzig Hbf - Weimar - Erfurt - Gotha - Eisenach - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | Single trains,
Relief traffic (Fri, Sun) |
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| Cologne / Düsseldorf - Essen - Bochum - Dortmund - Kassel - Bebra - Eisenach - Erfurt - Weimar - Leipzig | |||
| FLX 10 | Stuttgart - Heidelberg - Frankfurt am Main - Fulda - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Halle (Saale) - Berlin | Discontinued until further notice | Leo Express for Flixtrain |
| RB 6 | Eisenach - Eisenach West - Hörschel - Herleshausen - Gerstungen - Wildeck - Ronshausen - Bebra | 60 (Mon-Fri)
120 (Sat + Sun) |
CANTUS |
| RB 20 | Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Apolda - Naumburg (Saale) - Weissenfels - Leipzig | 60 | Abellio |
| STB 41 | Eisenach - Bad Salzungen - Meiningen - Grimmenthal - Hildburghausen - Eisfeld (- Sonneberg) | 60 (120) | South Thuringia Railway |
Railway systems
The passenger station has six platform tracks; four of them are used for long-distance traffic . The entry track to the freight yard is located between platform tracks two and three. In addition, the passenger station has for parking near and far down extensive railway tracks at the Langensalzaer road (commonly known connection Bretternitz ). This parking facility was electrified to streamline the shunting work. Since then, no independent shunting locomotive has been in service in the passenger station.
The freight yard is to the east of the passenger station . This is where trains are formed and disbanded for goods traffic on the Werra Railway and various connections in the region.
To the east of the freight yard is the Eisenach depot and the wagon workshop of the former Eisenach Bww. The offices were closed by Deutsche Bahn in 2001 and the properties were sold. The entire site was acquired in 2004 by Uwe Adam Eisenbahnverkehrsunternehmen GmbH, which has its headquarters there. In the three-track wagon hall of the former Bww, the IGE Werrabahn Eisenach e. V. his domicile and uses his steam locomotives from here.
Platforms
All platforms can be reached barrier-free by an elevator or stairs. This means that boarding the local trains is completely barrier-free.
| track | Length in m | Height in cm |
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| 1 | 210 | 55 |
| 2 | 210 | 55 |
| 3 | 368 | 55 |
| 4th | 368 | 55 |
| 5 | 377 | 55 |
| 6th | 377 | 55 |
service
In terms of service facilities, the station has a flower shop, a shop for groceries and travel supplies, and a book and magazine shop. In addition, in 2009 a subway shop was rented in the station (former lounge). The train station is barrier-free, there is an elevator to all platforms and there is also a disabled toilet next to the normal toilets. In addition to the station management in Erfurt / Eisenach, Deutsche Bahn maintains a service point (between 6 a.m. and 10:30 p.m.). There is a taxi rank in front of the train station. A car rental company settled in the area. The Federal Police also has premises in the station, but no longer maintains its own station .
Freight transport
With the Eisenach freight yard and the Eisenach-Stedtfeld works station, Eisenach has two freight yards.
The loading points on the Werra Railway to Hildburghausen are supplied from the freight station . In addition to DB Cargo Germany, the loading points are also served by several private railways. In 2006 the network operator shut down and dismantled the so-called facility B, part of the Eisenach freight station and, connected to it, one of the two waste mountains.
DB Cargo trains run daily to Spain from the “Stedtfeld” works station . There is a brisk freight traffic between the works station and the freight station .
At the Wartha (Werra) depot, wood is loaded and, as in Gerstungen, potash products (road salt, etc.) are bagged and loaded.
Signal boxes, signaling and security technology
An electronic signal box (ESTW) from Alcatel Lorenz has been used as security technology since 1995 .
introduction
The ESTW Eisenach was built and put into operation in the course of the traffic project German Unity No. 7. After the abolition of the inner-German border, the importance of east-west traffic increased. The station was expanded as part of the German unity transport project . Today long-distance trains can travel at speeds of up to 160 km / h. An increase to 200 km / h from Eisenach in the direction of Erfurt is currently being implemented.
The ESTW Eisenach controls the Thuringian trunk line from Gerstungen / state border to Wandersleben.
Operational characteristics in 2006
ESTW Eisenach (including Gotha)
- Signals 316
- Switch 165
- Shunting routes 390
- Train routes 710
- Commissioning May 7, 1995 Gotha and June 16, 1996 Eisenach
- Number of employees: 3 dispatchers and 1 dispatcher assistant.
The announcements in the stations are usually no longer carried out by employees of the ESTW, but by employees of the Erfurt / Eisenach station management. Outside the busy times, announcements can also be made by the ESTW.
The ESTW Eisenach controls operations at the following operating points:
- Dispatcher Neudietendorf: from the Erfurt-Bischleben stop to Neudietendorf train station
- Dispatcher Gotha: from Wandersleben station to Sättelstädt stop
- Dispatcher in Eisenach: from the Schönau stop to Eisenach station, station section passenger station
- Gerstungen dispatcher: from Eisenach West stop to Gerstungen station
The local control area of the Eisenach freight yard was controlled by a switch attendant on the Rt1 electromechanical interlocking, which was only built in 1984. On December 12, 2008, the post was released. In addition to a few, now electrically locally operated points ( EOW ), most of the former operating area can only be reached by manual points. For the first time (in the area of the public railway network) the yellow manual weights, which were previously only known from connecting railways, are used. These indicate that the turnout can be "left lying" in any position, i.e. that it has no defined basic position.
The former Eo dispatcher interlocking at the Eisenach freight station on the striking Hörselbrücke was demolished at the beginning of December 2008.
Further train stations and stops in Eisenach
The node Eisenach is next to Central Station and from the operating stations Eisenach Stedtfeld and Wartha and the breakpoints Eisenach West , Eisenach Opel factory and Hörschel .
On August 1, 1893, the Eisenach West stop , the so-called Westbahnhof, was inaugurated. Here you had access to local public transport at the terminus of the Eisenach tram . Around 1930 the gasworks in Weststadt received a siding, at the same time the "Westbahnhof" was converted into an alternative connection point. With the renovation and electrification in 1991, the connection was opened and the track connection expanded.
In the years from 1902 to 1905, with the construction of the Schwebda – Wartha railway via Creuzburg , Mihla and Treffurt , the Wartha (Werra) station, which is now used as a depot and loading point, was also built. On September 1, 1969, all traffic on the Wartha – Mihla route and on September 25, 1976 on the Wartha – Hörschel – Eisenach route were suspended. Since June 2, 1991, the reconstructed and now electrified Eisenach - Wartha - Gerstungen line has been gradually put back into operation.
On December 15, 1992, the Hörseltalbahn GmbH (HTB) started operations at Eisenach-Stedtfeld station and a short time later, on May 23, 1993, the Eisenach-Opelwerk stop was opened. Eisenach-Stedtfeld station is operated jointly by DB and HTB. In the course of the expansion 1991–1994, electrical local turnouts (EOW) were installed and tested for the first time .
literature
- Gerd Bergmann: Eisenach railway history: 150 years of the railway in Eisenach , Eisenacher Geschichtsverein e. V., Eisenach, 1997, ISBN 3-9803976-3-7 .
- Georg Thielmann: Eisenach railway junction through the ages , Wachsenburgverlag, 2004, ISBN 3-935795-91-2 .
- Otto Meyer & Reinhold Brunner: The Eisenach Railway Station - Monument to Transport History, NVS GmbH, 2004.
- Volume 9 Eisenbahnkurier - Interzone Bebra-Eisenach, Eisenbahnkurier, 1996.
Web links
- Railways in West Thuringia
- The Eisenach main station
- Representation of the railway system on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of course book route 605 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 575 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Siegfried Lohr : Planning and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982], pp. 344f.
- ↑ This route should run on the south bank of the Hörsel, then run on a railway embankment from the north end of Bauhofstrasse to the northern station area, with only two necessary underpasses for Clemensstrasse and Heinrichstrasse. Source: The reconstruction of the BMW plant in Eisenach (1945–1960). Material collection in the archive of the Automobile World Foundation
- ↑ Otto Mayer: June 23, 1976 - Accident in Eisenach. August 12, 2013, accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Economic stimulus program, selected highlights, Eisenach, planned measures. (No longer available online.) In: www.bahnhof.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 2, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ List of stations by category for 2010 ( Memento from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ List of stations by category for 2012 ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 240 kB)
- ↑ List of stations by category for 2013 ( Memento from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 282 kB)
- ↑ Rita Specht: Eisenach benefits from fast ICE routes . In: Thüringer Landeszeitung (Eisenach edition) . November 26, 2013, p. 15 (similar version online ).
- ↑ From business communications . In: Locomotive Report . No. 11 , November 2019, ISSN 0344-7146 , p. 24-26 .
- ↑ a b Platform information on Eisenach train station ( memento from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on deutschebahn.com
- ↑ Construction project Erfurt - Eisenach. (No longer available online.) In: BauInfoPortal der Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on November 21, 2016 .