Förtha station (Kr Eisenach)
| Förtha (Kr Eisenach) | |
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 The station building of Förtha
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| Location in the network |
Intermediate station separation station (1961–1992) |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | UF |
| IBNR | 8010110 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | April 1, 1896 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Foertha__Kr_Eisenach_ |
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| City / municipality | Barley |
| Place / district | Förtha |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '20 " N , 10 ° 15' 44" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 301.19 m |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Förtha train station (Kr Eisenach) is a train station in the Gerstungen municipality in Thuringia . It is located near Eisenach on the Werra Railway . From 1962 to 1992 it was a branch station of a bypass route, on which cross-border traffic was led to the Gerstungen border station .
location
The train station is about 2 km (as the crow flies) from the center of the Gerstung district of Förtha, in the Epichnellen district that belongs to Förtha . The northern part of the station area is already in the hallway of Wolfsburg-Unkeroda , and the location of Unkeroda extends from the east to the station.
history
The construction of the Werra Railway began in 1856 and the Förthaer Tunnel was built between Eisenach and the then independent village of Epichnellen , which here crosses the ridge of the western Thuringian Forest and the Rennsteig . On May 30, 1858, the first train was able to use the line, the official opening of the line was on November 1, 1858. For operational reasons, signal station No. 8 was set up near the village of Epichnellen, which later became a block post . On April 1, 1896, the stop, which was named Epichnellen ( Wilhelmsthal ) , went into operation.
Wilhelmsthal Castle, which the Grand Dukes of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach used as their summer residence, is located 4 km east of the train station. The train stations of Marksuhl, Eisenach and Epichnellen (Wilhelmsthal) were used to receive guests during state visits and hunts. In 1908 the initially single-track station was expanded to two tracks as part of the route expansion, and in 1909 it was put into operation at route kilometer 7.9. After the merger of the communities of Förtha and Epichnellen, the station was called Förtha (Kr Eisenach) from March 4, 1946 .
1961 began the construction of a second line, the Förtha – Gerstungen railway line , which served as a bypass line for the Thuringian Railway between Eisenach and Gerstungen. After the turnaround and the reopening of the Thuringian Railway, traffic on this route was stopped in 1992. In 1994 it was closed and the line was dismantled later.
In 2001 the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn (STB) took over the passenger traffic from Eisenach via Förtha (Kr Eisenach) to Meiningen. Förtha is served hourly by the STB line 41 Eisenach – Meiningen – Eisfeld-Sonneberg (Thür) Hbf, and there are also a few repeater trains between Bad Salzungen and Eisenach. In the station there are still two continuous tracks, each with an outside platform, and another siding secured with a track block.
Station building
Several contemporary album sheets, which were commissioned by the railway company for advertising purposes and were also used in magazines, provide information about the appearance of the first station building in Förtha. The original main building was a small, one-story house with a pent roof. Next to it was a two-story extension with storage rooms and a waiting room. A little off the edge of the forest was a separate house with a horse stable and coach house. From image design reasons by the artist, the m in Natura about 500 remote southern tunnel portal was near the station added .
Today's Förtha station (Kr Eisenach) consists of the main building with the station master's offices, other common rooms for railway staff and the ticket office. In the extension is the waiting room, toilets for travelers and some storage rooms. On the opposite platform, to which passengers can access via an approximately 200 m long entrance, there is a small shelter and waiting room for about ten people. The listed main building consists of a one-story clinker brick building with partial basement. The Wilhelminian style half-timbered extension is attached to the main building to the south. The platform area is covered with a protective roof right up to the edge of the platform. This ensemble of buildings forms the historic train station. Immediately behind the main building, a three-storey residential building for railway employees was built around 1960, initially housing and office space for the construction management of the bypass railway.
Surroundings
The area around the station is also geologically interesting, due to an outcrop that was created during the construction of the railway line from the Permian Age at the end of the ancient world. The Zechstein profile geotope at the Förtha train station has been a designated area natural monument since 1966 . The Zechstein outcrop stands as a rock face directly next to the western platform of the train station and is considered the most important outcrop in western Thuringia for the transition from the Rotliegend to the Zechstein.
literature
- Heinrich Weigel: The “Werrabahn” in contemporary representations . In: Paul-Joseph Raue (Hrsg.): Heimatblätter to history, culture and nature . tape 3 . JA Koch, printing and publishing house, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-924269-95-5 , p. 67-70; 124 .
- Gerd Bergmann, Otto Mayer: The railway in the Wartburgland. In: Eisenacher Tourismusinformation (Hrsg.): Eisenacher Schriften zur Heimatkunde . Issue 35. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 1987.
Web links
- Information about the train station on foertha.com ( Memento from March 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway official operating point directory. In: bahnstatistik.de. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ^ W. Döpel: History of Marksuhl , printing and publishing house of the Hofbuchdruckerei Eisenach H. Kahle, Eisenach 1909 p. 51
- ↑ http://stredax.dbnetze.com/Dokumente/ISR/BS/NBS/U/UF_NBS.pdf
- ↑ List of monuments of the Free State of Thuringia
- ↑ Hans Cloos : Conversation with the Earth , Fr./Main, 1947, page 217 ff
- ^ Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: District Office Wartburgkreis, Lower Nature Conservation Authority (Hrsg.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . Booklet 8. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , The Zechstein profile at the Förtha train station, p. 64-65 .