Essen-Steele Süd train station
| Essen-Steele South | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
|||
| Data | |||
| Location in the network | until 1945 intermediate station 1945–1965 terminus |
||
| Platform tracks | 1 | ||
| abbreviation | EESU | ||
| opening | July 1, 1879 | ||
| Conveyance | May 30, 1965 | ||
| location | |||
| City / municipality | eat | ||
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '38 " N , 7 ° 4' 40" E | ||
| Height ( SO ) | 59 m | ||
| Railway lines | |||
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |||
The Essen-Steele Süd train station (until 1893 Steele-Rheinisch , 1893 to 1950 Steele Süd ) was a train station in the Steele district of Essen , which was in operation for passenger traffic between 1879 and 1965 and for goods traffic until 1979.
history
Since 1878 the rail traffic was operated by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft between the station Mülheim - Heißen and Steele-Rheinisch, from 1893 Steele Süd. On May 30, 1879, the station was put into operation. It was located on the right bank of the Ruhr in the then independent town of Steele on the section of the Mülheim-Heißen-Altendorf (Ruhr) railway that was opened at the time and was built by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. Passenger traffic at Steele Süd station began on July 1, 1879, freight traffic two weeks earlier. In Steele, this was important for the Wisthoff glassworks , the Spillenburg oxygen works and the New Scotland Association of Mining and Huts, which was established in 1856 and which also produced rails on a large scale.
After 1912 a station building was built for passenger traffic . To the west, at the level crossing over Langenberger Strasse over the Kurt-Schumacher-Brücke , stood a signal box . For the year 1926 the sale of almost 130,000 tickets is stated, including many for schoolchildren who commuted between Dahlhausen , Altendorf (Ruhr) and Steele Süd. Over 70,000 tons of goods, including hard coal, iron and potatoes, were handled in Steele South this year.
After the railway bridge over the Ruhr between Steele and Altendorf (Ruhr) was blown up by German soldiers on April 2, 1945 during the Second World War and was not rebuilt later, the Essen-Steele Süd station was instead of the Altendorf (Ruhr) station for passenger traffic has become the terminus. There was still freight traffic up to the Wisthoff glassworks.
On May 14, 1950, the station was renamed from Steele Süd to Essen-Steele Süd , after Steele had been incorporated into the city of Essen in 1929. Opposite, west of the level crossing, several tracks coming from the west ended at a building for goods handling .
On May 30, 1965, passenger traffic on the remaining route from Essen-Steele Süd via Rüttenscheid to Heißen was stopped. A museum train ran from 1970 to 1978. The goods handling building fell victim to a fire in autumn 1976. After the German Federal Railroad announced in 1973 that it would give up the railway line from Rellinghausen to Essen-Steele Süd, freight traffic was also suspended in 1979, so that it only ran from Heißen to Rellinghausen. In 1980 the city of Essen bought the grounds of the former Essen-Steele Süd train station. Its tracks were removed after 1981.
Todays situation
Nothing has survived from the former service buildings and railway facilities. Only the rest of the drainage hill of the freight yard is marked on today's RuhrtalRadweg . In the 1980s, the route near the train station was converted into a cycle and footpath. Green areas were created in the area.
literature
- Harald Vogelsang: The Bochum-Dahlhausen depot and the railway in the central Ruhr valley . Ed .: Eisenbahn-Kurier Verlag. 1991, ISBN 3-88255-430-4 .
Web links
- Description of the EESU operating point in the NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
- Pictures from Essen-Steele Süd train station , accessed on October 2, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d On the trail of the Steele Süd station ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 31, 2014; accessed on January 4, 2018