Esslingen (Neckar) railway station
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 Esslingen railway station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 6 (2–3, 5–8) |
| abbreviation | TE |
| IBNR | 8001920 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | November 20, 1845 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Esslingen__Neckar_ |
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| Architectural style |
Round arch style (1846) Neo-Renaissance (1882/83) |
| architect | Michael Knoll (1846) |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Esslingen am Neckar |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 44 ′ 19 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The station Esslingen (Neckar) is the main station of the city of Esslingen and is located at kilometer 13.2 of the Fils Valley Railway .
history
The former imperial city of Esslingen was intended as the end point of the first Württemberg railway line, the Centralbahn Esslingen – Stuttgart – Ludwigsburg. Thanks to the flat surface on the Neckar , the work progressed quickly and on November 20, 1845, the Eßlingen train station was opened to traffic. It had a one-story station building and a locomotive depot . Later a house for railway employees was added.
Not all councilors of the official district saw an advantage in the new transport. The end of the route was still here, but the further construction through the Filstal was not long in coming. They feared that an insignificant stop would be created here on the Ostbahn between Stuttgart and Ulm , which would not be fair to the city. However, due to the geographical location in the valley between the Fildern and the Schurwald , a railway junction at that point was out of the question.
Nevertheless, there was great industrialization. The numerous old factory buildings in Weststadt still bear witness to the boom that Esslingen experienced at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
As early as 1852, the royal state railway (KWSt.E.) equipped the eastern railway between Cannstatt and Plochingen with a second track.
The station was overloaded and had to be enlarged. This resulted in a shift of the entire system to the west. The KWSt.E. initiated the construction of a new reception building at the level of Friedrichstrasse (today's Berliner Strasse). Now there were ten tracks and four platforms . The freight yard had several sheds. In 1884 the city laid out the station square. In the middle of it was a cast-iron bowl fountain, which had been removed in the meantime. The railway operations building was built at Bahnhofsplatz 2 in 1899, and diagonally opposite in 1901 was the neo-Gothic post office, which was demolished in 2001 . In 1909 the customs office in Eisenbahnstraße (today's Fleischmannstraße) was added in Art Nouveau style .
At the beginning of the 20th century, a new railway line was supposed to relieve the heavily trafficked Eastern Railway, especially from freight traffic. The left bank Neckarbahn would also have affected Esslingen. A south station was to be built for Esslingen in Pliensauvorstadt . In 1909, the state railroad decided not to build the route to Plochingen for cost reasons, but only to the existing Esslingen station, which it would have reached with the help of a 260 meter long bridge over the Neckar. Since the railway line was always in competition with the four-track expansion of the Eastern Railway, it was postponed and ultimately never built.
In 1912, the Esslingen am Neckar tram began operations; it was operated by the Eßlinger Städtische Straßenbahn (ESS) company. Both lines served the stop on Bahnhofsplatz: the through line from Obertürkheim to Oberesslingen and the city line that ran through the old town in the ring traffic. The latter only existed until 1915. The trams ran on the through line until 1944. After that, the trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar took over .
Also on the station square was the turning loop for the trains of the END - the tram Esslingen – Nellingen – Denkendorf GmbH from 1926 to 1978 . The regional tram connected the communities of Nellingen on the Fildern and Denkendorf with their Oberamtsstadt. In 1929 a branch was added that branched off in Nellingen and connected Scharnhausen and Neuhausen on the Fildern .
After the Eastern Railway between Stuttgart Hbf and Esslingen had been expanded to four tracks from October 14, 1931 , after electrification, Stuttgart suburban traffic began on May 15, 1933 , from which the S-Bahn later developed. On May 15, 1939, the station was given the addition (Neckar) . The renaming of Eßlingen (Neckar) to the current spelling took place on September 27, 1965, after the city had already changed the official spelling of its name on October 16, 1964.
In 2011, the conversion of the former freight yard west of the current station and north of the tracks into a commercial and residential area began. In spring 2016, the not yet modernized platforms on tracks 2 and 3 as well as 5 and 6 will be increased for barrier-free access. After the renovation, all three existing platforms have a uniform height of 76 cm. The modernization was completed on September 27, 2018.
Reception building
The first single-storey station building was built in 1846, presumably under the direction of Georg von Morlok, based on plans by Michael Knoll . The narrow-cut eight-axle building, designed in the simple Knoll style , had a gable roof . The city side was preceded by an arcade .
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| Entrance building from 1882/83, city side |
In the 1880s, Esslingen had over 20,000 inhabitants and was the fourth largest city in Württemberg. Therefore, contrary to the otherwise usual economy, the state railway equipped the new station building with more pompous features. It was built in the Italian Renaissance style from 1882 to 1883 . The architect did not create a completely new design, but only slightly modified the proportions of the plans for the station, which was built between 1869 and 1873 . The building consists of an elongated, 15-axis single-storey central building and two two-storey front buildings. An arcade precedes the middle section.
The architect was probably inspired by the Roman triumphal arch for the design of the central entrance portal . The Württemberg coat of arms is clearly visible above the entrance , surrounded by oak leaves and laurels . Including the year MDCCCLXXXIII (1883). The word BAHNHOF is written in capital letters on the risalit itself . The old station building at the end of Bahnhofstrasse had to give way. The company Friedr. Dick and rebuilt it on their factory premises as an office building. They were demolished in the late 1980s.
As part of the economic stimulus package II , the reception building was refurbished with energy-saving measures . In addition, all platforms were made more accessible by elevators.
Rail operations
The station is served by regional trains and the S1 line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Track 1 and the house platform no longer exist. The trains to the south stop on track 2 as planned. The regional trains in the direction of Bad Cannstatt stop on platform 3. Track 4 does not have a platform, freight and long-distance trains rush through the station here. Regional trains in the direction of Plochingen and Stuttgart run on track 5 and 6. Track 7 serves the regional trains and S-Bahns in the direction of Bad Cannstatt, track 8 in the direction of Plochingen. The freight tracks 9 and 10 end in the direction of Plochingen at a buffer stop .
The station Esslingen (Neckar) corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG the station category third
Regional traffic
| route | Clock frequency | |
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| RE | Stuttgart - Esslingen (Neckar) - Plochingen - Göppingen - Geislingen (Steige) - Ulm - Laupheim West - Biberach (Riss) - Aulendorf - Ravensburg - Friedrichshafen - Lindau | Hourly |
| RE | Stuttgart - Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt - Esslingen (Neckar) - Plochingen - Nürtingen - Metzingen - Reutlingen - Tübingen | Hourly (half-hourly in rush hour ) |
| RB | Stuttgart - Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt - Esslingen (Neckar) - Plochingen - Göppingen - Geislingen (Steige) (- Ulm) | Hourly |
Train
| line | route |
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| S 1 | Kirchheim (Teck) - Wendlingen - Plochingen - Esslingen - Neckarpark - Bad Cannstatt - Central Station - Schwabstraße - Vaihingen - Rohr - Böblingen - Herrenberg (repeater trains in rush hour traffic between Plochingen and Herrenberg) |
literature
- Werner Mey: Esslingen - then and now. Bechtle Verlag, Esslingen am Neckar 1992, ISBN 3-7628-0514-8 .
- Andreas M. Räntzsch: Stuttgart and its railways. The development of the railway system in the Stuttgart area . Uwe Siedentop, Heidenheim 1987, ISBN 3-925887-03-2 .
- Chr. Ottersbach, C. Ziehr: Esslingen am Neckar - art historical city guide. BechtleBuch + MagazinVerlag, Esslingen am Neckar 2001, ISBN 3-7628-0564-4 .
- Otto Borst: History of the city of Esslingen am Neckar. Bechtle Verlag, Esslingen am Neckar 1977, ISBN 3-7628-0378-1 .
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (TE) , DB Netz AG (PDF; track map on the Deutsche Bahn AG website)
- Representation of the station on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 750 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 790.1 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ https://frag-den-ob.esslingen.de/dito/explore?action=basearticleshow&id=911&
- ↑ New city quarter instead of tracks In: Immobilien Zeitung March 17, 2011. Accessed on September 29, 2015.
- ↑ Esslingen (Neckar) station is being modernized. In: DB press releases, February 22, 2016. Accessed April 1, 2016.
- ^ Ulrich Stolte: New platforms and elevators for around 40,000 passengers. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. September 27, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Roland Feitenhansl: Heilbronn station - its reception building from 1848, 1874 and 1958 . DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2003, ISBN 3-937189-01-7 , p. 102 .
- ↑ Feitenhansl (2003), p. 179