Elsterwerda-Biehla train station

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Elsterwerda-Biehla
Entrance building, street side
Entrance building, street side
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Separation station
Design Wedge station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation BEB
IBNR 8010100
opening June 1, 1874
Profile on Bahnhof.de Elsterwerda-Biehla
location
City / municipality Elsterwerda
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 28 '20 "  N , 13 ° 31' 6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '20 "  N , 13 ° 31' 6"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Brandenburg
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The Elsterwerda-Biehla train station is a train station in the north of the southern Brandenburg town of Elsterwerda . The Biehla district of the same name can be found west of the train station.

Location and environment

The Elsterwerda-Biehla train station is located in the Biehla district of the same name in the small town of Elsterwerda in southern Brandenburg. Biehla, located in the north of the city, was mentioned in a document as early as 1247. The municipality, which was independent until 1940, was originally characterized by viticulture and agriculture and today you can still find overgrown terraces near the historic water tower on the Winterberg as evidence of this era. Landmarks of the district that characterize the townscape are a historical water tower built on the model of the Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal and a bell tower from 1862. Today, the distinctive residential development along the Ruhland – Falkenberg railway line, two industrial areas and tree nursery fields determine the overall picture.

The 15 hectare Elsterwerda-Nord industrial area can be found in the immediate vicinity of the station facilities, where mainly medium-sized companies from the craft and service industries have settled. To the south of the station, these are mainly former areas of Elfa , one of the largest companies in the former Bad Liebenwerda district during the GDR era . To the north were the consumer wholesalers, the consumer bakery and the sand-lime brick factories .

The 58 hectare industrial and commercial park Elsterwerda-West is located in the south of Biehla on Bundesstraße 101. The areas accessible from Elsterwerda station with a siding and a container terminal also once belonged to Elfa . In addition to a biomass power plant, other medium-sized companies from industry, trade and crafts have settled here today .

Station development

industrialization

In the middle of the nineteenth century industrialization began in the region , which experienced a further boom with the opening of numerous brown coal mines. With the construction of the Upper Lusatian Railway from Kohlfurt via Biehla to Falkenberg in 1874 and the opening of the Berlin-Dresden and Elsterwerda-Riesa Railway a year later, Biehla became an important traffic junction. Because not far from the intersection of the two railway lines, the Poststraße Berlin – Dresden, the later trunk road 101 , or federal road 101 , touched the place. This is where the Biehla train station was built about a kilometer east of the town center. The Berlin – Dresden railway line was connected by a 1.6-kilometer-long connector line from Elsterwerda station. It was introduced into the Biehlaer Bahnhof in such a way that it was shaped like a wedge station . Below the crossing building on the railway line between Berlin and Dresden was from October 1885 a railroad crossing on Schleinitzweg the breakpoint Biehla , which was connected by a skywalk to the train station.

The good transport links that have now been created in the town meant that a number of businesses soon settled in the area around the station. The stoneware factory founded in January 1900 , at times the largest employer in Biehla with around 400 employees, received its own rail connection with a turntable and the wagons could be pushed into their production halls. Other companies that settled here included the Elsterwerdaer Fahrradfabrik ( Elfa ), which claimed a large part of the area between the station and the connecting track. In their immediate vicinity, the Phenicia-Werk was to be found, and north of the train station, the Germania-Sandwerke, which also had their own rail connection. Ultimately, this development also meant that the population of the community increased considerably, because many new businesses have settled in the nearby town of Elsterwerda since the railway was built. While Biehla had five hundred inhabitants in 1875, this number had increased more than fivefold in 1939 to 2568.

From the end of the Second World War to the turning point

Station building and forecourt before the redesign
The train station and the log path seen from the intersection
Water tower
Opposite the platform: the former large-scale consumer bakery
The station forecourt, which was redesigned in 2011
Construction work on the crossing structure in January 2014

The course of the Second World War brought this development to an abrupt end. Many companies in the country had been converted to the production of armaments, including those in the area around the Biehla train station. In the last days of the war, on April 19, 1945, a major attack by American B-17 bombers on the railway systems in the city of Elsterwerda was devastating . Most of the industrial facilities in Elsterwerda fell victim to the attack, as they were mostly located in the immediate vicinity of the railway tracks. The premises of Elfa and Phenicia-Werke, located between the Falkenberg – Ruhland railway line and the connecting track, were completely destroyed on that day. Three days later the Red Army moved into town.

The place later recovered only slowly, because the facilities of the stoneware factory, which was a bit out of the way and therefore largely spared from destruction, were unceremoniously dismantled on the orders of the occupying forces and transported to the Soviet Union with two freight trains in 1946 as a reparation payment .

The stop on the Berlin – Dresden route was finally closed in 1962. In 1981, the railroad crossing to the Schleinitzweg settlement was closed as part of the electrification work . For pedestrian traffic, however, a log path was created to replace the crossing structure.

With the in After turning time associated decline of many large companies in the region of operation of the station building has been set. The station restaurant closed and the train supervisor also disappeared. Since then, tickets can only be purchased from machines.

Present and Future

As part of the station redesign in 2010 and 2011, the station was completely redesigned for 1.1 million euros. Ancillary buildings such as the station supervision, administration and bicycle shed were demolished and in their place a bus turning loop and new bicycle storage facilities were created. The station forecourt as well as the Ladestrasse that runs along the tracks to the level crossing on Berliner Strasse, which is the only access to the Biehlaer Bahnhof today, have been completely renovated and the street Am Nordbahnhof from the adjacent industrial area has been redesigned into a pedestrian zone. A modern bus stop, a taxi stand and 43 parking spaces were also built. The station building itself is still empty.

In September 2013, construction work began to renew the crossing structure, which consists of four bridge elements. The tracks on the Berlin - Dresden line are also to be lowered into a trough structure so that in future the overhead line can also be installed under the structure, which will have three elements. A passage speed of up to 160 km / h is then provided in this area. The trains will be able to pass the Biehlaer Bahnhof at around 100 km / h. In the course of the construction work, largely fallow gardens at the "Schleinitzweg" settlement were removed and the Schleinitzweg and Kiesgrubenweg roads, which were intended as access to the construction site, were paved with a layer of bitumen. In December 2014, the 29 million euro crossing structure between the Berlin-Dresden Railway and the line towards Horka went into operation. The permissible speed could thus be increased from 140 km / h (1990s) to 160 km / h.

In January 2019, the Federal Railway Authority approved the erection of an electronic interlocking (ESTW-A) at route kilometer 125.0 of the 6207 line. In this context, two existing interlockings (B1, W2) and one switch are to be dismantled.

Plant and buildings

The Elsterwerda-Biehla train station seen from the air before the renovation work
The former goods handling and the water tower, which are also under monument protection
Passenger train on line S 4 to Hoyerswerda on platform 1
Passenger train on line RB 31 to Dresden on platform 3

The current station building with the adjoining goods handling was built in 1874 with the commissioning of the Ruhland – Falkenberg railway line. The renowned builder Friedrich Jage , based in Elsterwerda, built this ensemble of buildings made of Silesian clinker masonry, which has been preserved to the present day . A little later, the station received its platform roof with cast iron columns. The station complex also includes a water tower, which has a capacity of 50 m³ and was also built at this time.

Initially, the station was named Elsterwerda Oberlausitzer Bahnhof , as it was originally operated by the Oberlausitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . This name persisted even after the nationalization of the railway company. It was only renamed Elsterwerda-Biehla after the First World War . At the beginning of the 1950s, the station was to be renamed Elsterwerda-Nordbahnhof , but this was ultimately not realized. Only the street Am Nordbahnhof , now a pedestrian and cycle path, still reminds of this.

The station building has been privately owned since 2011. It was auctioned off by Deutsche Bahn and is now in dire need of renovation. Since 2012 the building with the platform roofing, the goods handling, the water tower and the carbide lamp bunker have been listed.

passenger traffic

In the 2020 timetable the following lines will stop at Elsterwerda-Biehla station:

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
RE 3 Elsterwerda-Biehla - Falkenberg (Elster) - Berlin - Eberswalde - Greifswald - Stralsund individual trains DB Regio Nordost
RB 31 Elsterwerda-Biehla - Elsterwerda - Großenhain Cottb Bf - Coswig (b Dresden) - Dresden 120 DB Regio Nordost
RB 49 Falkenberg (Elster) - Elsterwerda-Biehla - Ruhland - Senftenberg - Cottbus 120 DB Regio Nordost
S 4 Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz - Leipzig - Falkenberg (Elster) - Elsterwerda-Biehla - Ruhland - Hoyerswerda 120 DB Regio Southeast

The Biehla train station is connected to the VerkehrsManagement Elbe-Elster network via line 587.

literature

  • Horst Krampe: The Berlin – Elsterwerda – Dresden railway was opened 125 years ago . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda (Hrsg.): Local calendar for the country between Elbe and Elster . No. 53, Gräser Verlag OHG, Großenhain 2000, pp. 262-280, ISBN 3-932913-16-7 .
  • City administration Elsterwerda (ed.): Elsterwerda. History of our city. "Elsterwerda station" . 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Investment brochure for the business location Bad Liebenwerda and Elsterwerda ( online as a PDF file ( memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ a b Werner Galle: "Elsterwerda railway junction - 126 − year history of the railway on the Black Elster" in Elsterwerdaer Stadtanzeiger , No. 15/2001
  3. ↑ Historical municipality directory of the State of Brandenburg (online as PDF file)
  4. ↑ Werner Stang with the assistance of Kurt Arlt (Ed.): Brandenburg in 1945 - Studies . Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 1995, p. 30/31 .
  5. ↑ Contribution by Gerhard Scherf: 100 years of stoneware from Elsterwerda-Biehla in the local calendar 2002 - Local history yearbook for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, Ortrand am Schraden, Falkenberg and Uebigau , publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde eV, Gräser Verlag Grossenhain, 2001 , ISBN 3-932913-22-1 , pp. 265-274
  6. ↑ a b Flyer: "City of Elsterwerda"
  7. ↑ Antje Posern: “Biehla's station becomes presentable - loading street expansion started / forecourt will follow in 2011 / student ideas for the building” in Lausitzer Rundschau, August 19, 2010
  8. ↑ Frank Claus: “The square in front of the train station in Elsterwerda Biehla has been completely redesigned for 1.1 million euros” in Lausitzer Rundschau, August 20, 2011
  9. ↑ Frank Claus: "Elsterwerda sits in bed at night - start of construction for the Elsterwerda-Biehla / Bahn junction structure warns of noise from rams" in Lausitzer Rundschau, September 28, 2013
  10. ↑ Antje Posern: "Bahn is investing 40 million euros in Biehla - renovation of the crossing structure planned from mid-2013 / Elsterwerda presents concerns about planning" in Lausitzer Rundschau, August 2, 2013.
  11. ↑ Dresden – Berlin line . In: Electric Railways . tape 113 , no. 2-3 , 2015, ISSN  0013-5437 , p. 162 .
  12. ↑ Determination of the omission of an environmental impact assessment (UVP) according to § 5 Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG) for the change in the project "Signal box centralization Bf Elsterwerda-Biehla and construction of track clearance detection system Bf Elsterwerda" in railway km 108.600 - 134.400 of the line 6207 Roßa --lau , km 0.590 - 1.664 of the route 6192 Elsterwerda - Elsterwerda-Biehla, km 121.8 - 124.2 of the route 6135 Berlin - Elsterwerda and km 18.4 - 20.3 of the route 6273 Abzw Zeithain - Elsterwerda; Subject of change: Establishment of ESTW-A Elsterwerda-Biehla. (PDF) Planning approval from October 19, 2016, Ref. 511ppa / 024-2300 # 011 Your application for a change of plan from January 31, 2019. In: eba.bund.de. Federal Railway Office, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 15, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Home calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg. No. 53 , Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda, Gräser Verlag Großenhain OHG, 2000, article by Manfred Reuschel: The water supply of Biehla and Elsterwerda in past centuries , pp. 248-258, ISBN 3-932913-16-7
  14. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author), Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2001 (= Landscapes in Germany; 63), pp. 75–79, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .
  15. ↑ Margarete Noack: Elsterwerda - When the chimneys were still smoking. Photo documents from the years 1949–1989 . 1st edition. Leipziger Verlagsgesellsch., Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-910143-14-2 , pp. 46 .
  16. ↑ Elsterwerda City Administration (ed.): "Oberlausitzer Bahnhof Elsterwerda-Biehla" . (Information sheet).
  17. ↑ Elsterwerda City Administration (ed.): Elsterwerda - History of our City - "Oberlausitzer Bahnhof Elsterwerda-Biehla" , 2007
  18. ↑ Frank Claus: “Oppelhain, Uebigau and Elsterwerda-Biehla railway stations auctioned” in Lausitzer Rundschau, July 12, 2012
  19. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Elbe-Elster district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  20. ↑ http://www.elster-nahverkehr.de/index.php/liniennetz Internet presence of the VerkehrsManagement Elbe-Elster

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