Essen-Altendorf train station
| Essen-Altendorf | |
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 Former reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | EEAT |
| opening | October 15, 1874 |
| Conveyance | May 20, 1960 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | eat |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '51 " N , 6 ° 58' 6" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 62 m |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Bahnhof Essen-Altendorf was from 1874 to 1960, a railway station for passenger transport in Altendorf , since 1901 a district of Essen . Another platform served as a transshipment point for the adjacent slaughterhouse on Holdenweg.
history
The station, opened with the name Altendorf on October 15, 1874, was located on a section of the former Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft that went into operation that year . It was the third west-east connection through the Ruhr area . To the west of the station, a connecting line branched off from 1912 to the north in the direction of Borbeck to the Mülheim-Heißen-Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord railway line . It was double-tracked from the start, the directional track from Borbeck was cross-free with a bridge over the Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line, past the platforms on an embankment south and in the eastern part of the station into the line to Dortmund. Passenger traffic took place on the branch to Borbeck built in 1912 from June 1925 and was discontinued in May 1950.
The station had three tracks for passenger traffic; one on the covered house platform and two more on the 200 meter long and also covered central platform , which was connected to the reception building by an underpass. At the same time, a fourth track ran southeast to a 40-meter-long loading ramp. This only served the then slaughterhouse on Holdenweg, which was reached through an underpass in the embankment of the Borbeck – Dortmund track. On this embankment ran a through track without a platform, which came over a steel truss bridge from the north over the Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line from Borbeck without crossing. It was dismantled along with the bridge in 1955. The remaining second track on this route from Borbeck led directly to the house platform. It was electrified in 1980 for the freight traffic that was still in existence at the time, but was shut down in August 1984 and the branch was dismantled the following year.
About 300 meters east of the Altendorfer train station, a freight train track branched off to the north, via which the Amalie mine and the Krupp cast steel factory could be reached. This siding no longer existed in the 1950s.
The station building was built with a high roof and a clock tower above the station hall. The train station restaurant, which was last called Kleine Gruga and had an outside area, was housed in the eastern wing of the building . The station master's office was in the small western part of the building.
With the closure of the section between Mülheim-Heißen and Essen-Kray Nord station for passenger traffic in 1959, the station was no longer needed, it was finally closed in 1960. On December 13, 2002, the entire section of the route was finally closed for the occasional freight traffic.
Renaming
The station opened with the name Altendorf was briefly called Altendorf bei Essen from 1897 , but was renamed Altendorf-Essen Nord in 1898 . There was also a station Altendorf-Essen Süd , today's Essen West station . After Altendorf was incorporated into the city of Essen in 1901, the Altendorf-Essen Nord train station was given the name Essen (Altendorferstr) , which in 1907 finally became its last name, Essen-Altendorf .
Todays situation
At the beginning of 2009, work began on converting the old railway line into a pedestrian and cycle path at the former Altendorf station. The asphalted footpath and cycle path here has existed since 2010, which connects the Essen city center with Frohnhausen on the former railway line and is now part of the Ruhr (RS1) cycle expressway . In September 2013, the route of the former northern branch to Borbeck was also connected as a pedestrian and cycle path.
The existing reception building is privately owned as a residential building. The high roof with the clock tower on top of the reception hall has been replaced by a flatter roof.
Of the former railway bridges over the Schölerpad and Holdenweg, only the northern parts of the former track on the house platform of the riveted steel trough cross-sections that were once adjacent to each other have been renovated for the cycle path. The platforms, which are greened today, are still recognizable and have individual benches that have been placed on new concrete plinths with the inscription Rheinische Bahn . In the spring of 2014, the stairway from the island platform in the former underpass was completely filled.
The buildings of the slaughterhouse on Holdenweg gave way to residential development in the 1980s.
Views
Former reception building; right: station master's office; Middle: reception hall; left: restaurant rooms
left: house platform; red ledge shows the width of the central platform; right: embankment of the Borbeck track
to the left: route to Mülheim-Heißen; to the right: former branch to Borbeck.
renovated, northern part of the bridge over the Schölerpad
Filled underpass from the cattle platform to the former slaughterhouse on Holdenweg
Web links
- Aerial photo of Altendorf train station in 1926 , accessed on September 27, 2013
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost: