Feldkirch train station

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Feldkirch
View of Feldkirch train station, on the right edge of the picture the area of ​​the former car workshop
View of Feldkirch train station, on the right edge of the picture the area of ​​the former car workshop
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Separation station
abbreviation Fk
IBNR 8100197
opening July 1, 1872
Website URL ÖBB
location
City / municipality Feldkirch
state Vorarlberg
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 14 '29 "  N , 9 ° 36' 21"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '29 "  N , 9 ° 36' 21"  E
Height ( SO ) 457  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Austria
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The Feldkirch station is the station of the Austrian city of Feldkirch in Vorarlberg . It is located in the northern district of Levis between the Ardetzenberg and the Känzele , the address is Bahnhofstrasse 40-42. The branch station is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and is located on the Lindau – Bludenz and Feldkirch – Buchs lines . During the day, Railjet trains run hourly to and from Vienna, which alternately continue from Feldkirch to Zurich or Bregenz or alternately come from Zurich or Bregenz.

history

Historic postcard of the Feldkirch train station, already with the extensions of the state railway (1899)

The station was opened as a through station on July 1, 1872 by the private Vorarlberger Bahn , which also had its headquarters , boiler house management and workshops in Feldkirch , and finally functioned as a separation station from the opening of the branch line to Buchs on October 24 of the same year. Despite Feldkirch's proximity to Liechtenstein and Switzerland , Austria-Hungary and the Confederation agreed at the time on Buchs station as a common customs and border station . The reason for this was the fact that Liechtenstein belonged to Austria in terms of customs and currency policy until 1920.

The original reception building was expanded again and again from 1884 by the now responsible kk state railways , as Feldkirch gained in importance following the opening of the Arlbergbahn . In addition, the state railway designated Feldkirch, in addition to Vienna , Linz , Salzburg , Steyr and Villach , as one of its six upper railway operating offices . The Feldkirch boiler house management was also responsible for the branches in Bregenz and Bludenz .

On August 6, 1926, electrical operations began in Feldkirch when the overhead line was extended westward from Bludenz. In contrast to the other train stations in the region, instead of a yoke construction, a cross-wire suspension with a grounded upper and live lower wire was used in the Feldkirch train station . Both post-tensioning and route separation were designed in two fields with two opposing jib masts and contact wire approach , the fixed point with a spread jib.

After the annexation of Austria to National Socialist Germany on 11/12/13. From March 1938 until 1945, Feldkirch temporarily served as a border station to Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The customs office in Feldkirch station, previously just a domestic customs office , played an important role in this. From March 12, 1938, it had to take over the exchange control of the express train travelers to Liechtenstein and Switzerland. As early as March 13, 1938, local SS people from Vorarlberg had anti-Semitic riots against Jews who had traveled there . They were yelled at with “ Saujud ”, their finger rings were pulled off and their jewelry was torn off. With the introduction of the German Customs Act on April 1, 1939, the railway border customs office for all goods traffic on the Feldkirch – Buchs SG line was finally set up in Feldkirch. When war broke out in September 1939, the customs office was included in the "enhanced border inspection service". It was about a "100% border security as possible" of goods and passenger travel and the defense against espionage, sabotage, propaganda and anti-subversive activities. For this purpose, all train travelers at Feldkirch station were subjected to a body search. The railway facilities were also cordoned off by the police.

In addition, the Deutsche Reichsbahn built a connecting curve to the north of the station by 1940 , which enabled direct journeys from Lindau to Buchs SG and vice versa, i.e. without changing the direction of travel in Feldkirch. However, this was abandoned at the end of the war in 1945.

In 1951, the requested State Parliament of Vorarlberg , the state government , to the Austrian Ministry of Transport to advocate that the joint customs station would be transferred from Buchs to Feldkirch. The reason given was that “this is of great economic benefit for Vorarlberg and especially for Feldkirch in connection with the international transport business”. Ultimately, the petition was unsuccessful, and in 1952 the ÖBB and Swiss Federal Railways signed another ten-year contract to keep Buchs as a border station. In 1959 Switzerland joined an agreement ratified by Austria and other European countries in 1956 to regulate cross-border rail travel. As part of this agreement, Austria and Switzerland agreed on Buchs station as a common border station.

In the 1960s, the old reception building was demolished before the new one went into operation in early 1969. The commissioning of the new two-track Schattenburg Tunnel in 1991 required the conversion of the Feldkirch track system. The access to the old, single-track tunnel, the south portal of which was filled in at the beginning of the 2000s in the course of the construction of a road, has since served only as a pull-out track for shunting trips . This ends shortly before the now closed north portal. In the 1980s, the wagon workshop was also relocated to the new marshalling yard in Wolfurt .

From 1999 to 2001 the station was renovated again as part of the ÖBB station initiative and made barrier-free. The five platforms , each 55 cm high , including two central platforms next to the main platform , and the underpass were renewed and the interior of the station hall was redesigned from 1969. As a result, the station was voted the sixth most beautiful station in Austria by the passengers surveyed in 2010 as part of a VCÖ survey .

service

View of the new Schattenburg tunnel towards Bludenz , on the right the access to the old tunnel that serves as a shunting track
Curved house platform of Feldkirch train station, view towards Bregenz

In  long-distance passenger rail transport , Feldkirch is served by Railjet trains on the Vienna Airport / Budapest Keleti - Vienna Hbf –Bludenz –Feldkirch –Zürich HB / Bregenz route; there is also one Eurocity and three Nightjet pairs. Regional trains run to Lindau, Buchs SG and Schruns, and the station is served by the S1 line of the Vorarlberg S-Bahn . Feldkirch train station also serves as a loading station for motorail trains from Bregenz and Zurich via Feldkirch to Vienna , Graz and Villach .

Train type course frequency
RJ Zurich  - Feldkirch  - Bludenz - St. Anton am Arlberg  - Innsbruck  - Salzburg  - Vienna Every two hours
RJ Bregenz  - Feldkirch  - Bludenz - St. Anton am Arlberg - Innsbruck - Salzburg - Vienna Every two hours
NJ Vienna - Linz - Innsbruck - Feldkirch - Bregenz One pair of trains a day
NJ Graz - Leoben - Innsbruck - Feldkirch - Zurich (vehicle transport between Graz and Feldkirch) One pair of trains a day
NJ Vienna - Linz - Innsbruck - Feldkirch - Zurich (vehicle transport between Vienna and Feldkirch) One pair of trains a day
IC Dortmund  - Duisburg  - Cologne  - Koblenz  - Mannheim  - Stuttgart  - Ulm  - Lindau   - Bregenz - Feldkirch - Innsbruck One pair of trains a day
EC Graz - Leoben - Innsbruck - Feldkirch - Zurich One pair of trains a day
REX (Lindau -) Bregenz - Dornbirn - Feldkirch  - Bludenz (-  Schruns ) (Half) hourly
R. Buchs SG - Schaan-Vaduz - Hilti Forestry - Nendeln - Tisis - Gisingen - Altenstadt - Feldkirch Individual trains
S. Lindau - Lochau-Hörbranz - Bregenz Harbor - Bregenz - Riedenburg - Lauterach - Wolfurt - Schwarzach - Haselstauden - Dornbirn - Dornbirn Schoren - Hatlerdorf - Hohenems - Altach - Götzis - Klaus in Vorarlberg - Sulz-Röthis - Rankweil - Feldkirch Amberg - Feldkirch  - Frastanz - Schlins-Beschling - Nenzing - Ludesch - Nüziders - Bludenz Half-hourly

Former car workshop and training workshop

In the northeast area of ​​the train station, near the Levner Weiher, are the former car workshop, today ÖBB Technische Services GmbH , and the training workshop of the ÖBB. The training courses offered are: metal technology-mechanical engineering, track construction technology, electrical engineering, plant and operating technology, mechatronic automation technology and office clerk, mobility service / travel consultant and forwarding agent. In 2019 the city of Feldkirch bought the property and the building of the training workshop. The current training there is to be continued in a new training facility in Bludenz from mid-2021 at the latest. The premises of the railway sports club are also located on the Levner Weiher area.

Social events

James Joyce quote bar in the Feldkirch station concourse

James Joyce

Since Bloomsday 1994, a James Joyce quote can be read in the train station hall in Feldkirch, emphasizing the Irish writer's special connection with the Montfort city. Thanks to influential friends, Joyce, who was regarded as an " enemy foreigner " due to the World War II , was able to leave Austria with his partner Nora Barnacle and their two children, while his brother Stanislaus Joyce was arrested as an "enemy foreigner" in Trieste as early as 1915 Was imprisoned for the duration of the World War. At the border control in Feldkirch, Joyce was almost arrested, which is why, according to his words, the fate of his novel Ulysses decided at the train station in Feldkirch . At the end of 2001, the ÖBB replaced the memorial plaque installed by the Feldkirch cultural district above the ticket counters with a striking presentation of the literary-historical quotation from Joyce translated into German ( Over there, on those tracks the fate of 'Ulysses' was decided in 1915. ), with which the ÖBB contribute significantly to the popularization and dissemination of the facts that have been hidden for decades.

Stefan Zweig

The Austrian writer Stefan Zweig claims in his memoir entitled “ Die Welt von Gestern ” ( Die Welt von Gestern ) that he was an eyewitness and eyewitness at the Feldkirch train station in 1919 when Charles I was deported into exile by the Republic of Austria.

“When I returned to Austria via the Feldkirch border station, I was facing an unforgettable experience. As soon as I got out of the car I noticed a strange unrest among the border guards and police officers. The chime came to announce the approach of a train. The police officers lined up and all officers hurried out of their crates. Slowly, majestically, the train rolled up, a special kind of train, a saloon train. The locomotive stopped. A palpable movement went through the rows of those waiting, I still didn't know why.

Then I recognized Emperor Karl, the last Emperor of Austria, and his black-clad wife, Empress Zita , standing up behind the mirror of the carriage . I gave a start: the last Emperor of Austria, heir to the Habsburg dynasty that ruled the country for seven hundred years, left his empire! Because he refused to formally abdicate, the republic had forced his departure. Now the tall, serious man stood at the window and saw the mountains, the houses, the people of his country for the last time. ... "

Carl Zuckmayer

Carl Zuckmayer quote at Feldkircher train station (2016)

The German poet Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) also fled to Switzerland via the Feldkirch train station, and one of his quotes can be found on a cemetery wall at the train station:

“When the train slowly pulled into Feldkirch and you could see the glaring cone of the headlights, I had little hope. The day was already dawning, my pulse pounding with the ticking of the clock. If only you were out already. Any second can bring some new turn. Every change of a border guard a new suspicion, the whole comedy was in vain. "

people

literature

  • Lothar Beer: The history of the railways in Vorarlberg , Volume I. Hecht-Verlag, 1984
  • Lothar Beer: The history of the railways in Vorarlberg , Volume II. Hecht-Verlag, 1995; Feldkirch railway station, pp. 142–148; Feldkirch car workshop. Pp. 279-283
  • Franz J. Fröwis: Three special trains of historical importance in Vorarlberg (1917, 1919 and 1921) In: Bludenzer Geschichtsblätter , issue 40/41 1981; Pp. 3–43, The "Hofsonderzug" of March 24, 1919; P. 23–30, About the deportation of the Habsburgs via Feldkirch to Switzerland.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Feldkirch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vision Rheintal: A spatial cultural history (PDF; 4.6 MB)
  2. ^ A b Michael Gehler: Vorarlberg: between Fussach and Flint, Allemannentum and cosmopolitanism. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2000, pp. 525-526
  3. ^ Dissertation by Dipl.-Ing. Mag.Peter Pils: The development of service law for railway employees in Austria from the beginning to the outsourcing of ÖBB from the federal administration , Vienna 2011, p. 26, online at core.ac.uk, accessed on May 13, 2020
  4. ↑ The Reichsbahndirektion Innsbruck on bahnstatistik.de, accessed on May 13, 2020
  5. ↑ Georg Schwach: Overhead lines for high-voltage single-phase alternating current in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Textband, Bern 1989, p. 295
  6. ^ German Reich course book summer 1939, timetable table 407
  7. ^ German Reich course book summer 1944, timetable table 407
  8. ^ A b Gerhard Wanner: Refugees and Borderline Conditions in Vorarlberg 1938–1944 - Entry and Transit Country Switzerland . In: Rheticus Vierteljahresschrift der Rheticus-Gesellschaft 1998, Issue 3/4, pp. 227–271, online at Remember.at, accessed on May 17, 2020
  9. ↑ Place of history and fate: Feldkirch train station. ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) www.vorarlberg.naturfreunde.at, accessed on March 23, 2014
  10. ↑ "International Agreement to Facilitate Border Crossing for Passengers and Luggage in Rail Traffic" of May 18, 1956, see also: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFnahm.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011293
  11. ↑ Then -Now: Railway Shadow Castle Tunnel . Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Lothar Brill Webmaster: Route 101 05, Innsbruck Hbf - Lindau / Germany (Arlbergbahn), railway tunnel in Austria. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  13. ^ ÖBB Immobilien Bahnhofsoffensive
  14. ↑ http://www.vision-rheintal.at/fileadmin/VRuploads/PDF/Hintergruende/Mobilitaet/Bau_der_Eisenbahn.pdf
  15. ^ ORF Vorarlberg: Dornbirn has the most beautiful train station in Vorarlberg . Article dated August 25, 2010.
  16. ↑ a b https://www.nightjet.com/de/angebote/automotorrad/in-oesterreich
  17. ↑ VOL: Open House Week of the ÖBB training workshop Feldkirch
  18. ^ VN: Feldkirch bought 5.7 million old ÖBB training workshops
  19. ↑ ESV Feldkirch
  20. ↑ Andreas Weigel : The fate of "Ulysses". James Joyce and Feldkirch, Vorarlberg. In: Montfort. Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg. 52nd year. 2000. Issue 3. pp. 289-301.
  21. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : At the Feldkirch border station in 1919 . In: Archives of the Month (2009) (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Small writings of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . Volume 15 ). 2010, ISBN 978-3-902622-12-9 , ISSN  2070-352X , p. 12–13 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  22. ^ Jutta Berger : Bike tours to places of Nazi resistance in Feldkirch. In: derStandard.at . September 28, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  23. ↑ General Directorate of the Austrian Federal Railways (ed.): Almanach der Österreichische Eisenbahnen 1977 . Vienna 1977, p. 66

Remarks

  1. ↑ Stefan Zweig: "The World of Yesterday". - The truth of this anecdote is now being questioned even by “Stefan Zweig” biographers: “In the“ World of Yesterday ”, Zweig asserts that he was an eyewitness on March 24, 1919 in Feldkirch, that historically pleasing moment when Karl and Zita Habsburg were deported from the Republic of Austria to Switzerland. However, Zweig biographers also distrust this famous eyewitness report because the sensation inherent in it was never mentioned or recorded anywhere before, neither by Zweig nor by his companion and later wife, Friderike Winternitz . Zweig mentions the anecdote, often cited as a historical eyewitness account, for the first time in his “World of Yesterday”, written decades later. Friderike Winternitz, who is also active as a journalist and writer, only mentions the legendary anecdote after the “Second World War” in her Zweig biography, after she learned from Zweig's “World of Yesterday” what she and Zweig (should) have seen in Feldkirch. "(Andreas Weigel: James Joyce and Stefan Zweig (rough report) . Excursion Feldkirch.)
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