Forsbach train station

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Forsbach
Forsbach train station around 1905
Forsbach train station around 1905
Data
opening 1889/1890
Conveyance Closure: 1960, demolition: 1979
location
City / municipality Bergisch Gladbach
Place / district Forsbach
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 55 '59 "  N , 7 ° 9' 35"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '59 "  N , 7 ° 9' 35"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Forsbach station was a district that lay in the Königsforst on the Cologne-Mülheim-Lindlar railway line , consisted essentially of station buildings and was razed in 1979 . It is now as a desert in the Bockenberg district of Bergisch Gladbach .

Location and description

Forsbach station was about 1.5 km northwest of Forsbach above the Giesbach at an altitude of 128  m above sea level. NHN and was connected to Forsbach via the Brück-Forsbacher-Weg, which branches off the Bensberger Straße ( L 288 ) at the north exit of Forsbach and via which the village was reached after about 1100 meters.

At the approach to Forsbach, directly in front of the actual station building, there was a two-story residential building for railway employees. Most recently it was inhabited by Romanian forest workers. In the waiting room of the train station there was a restaurant, among other things, for hikers who wanted to hike through the Königsforst from here .

In the community encyclopedia of the Rhine province , the place Bahnhof Forsbach is listed under this name as a place of residence of the rural community Bensberg . In the 1897 edition a house with 13 inhabitants is given for the place, in the 1909 edition the number of inhabitants sank to nine.

During the Second World War there were numerous ammunition depots in the area of ​​the Königsforstes, which could have led to a disaster in 1943 when a four-engine American bomber crashed not far from Forsbach train station . Because of the constant danger of incendiary bombs, a locomotive with baggage wagons was stationed at the station during the war years to evacuate the railway personnel and residents. Like the anti-aircraft gun installed, it remained unused. Remains of the air raid shelter have been preserved. The coal-fired locomotives repeatedly caused small forest fires that had to be extinguished by the forestry officers.

Interim plans by the forest administration to set up a forest museum in the facility after the train service stopped, did not materialize. Finally, in 1979, all the remaining buildings were laid down, which at the same time fell the village desolate.

Railway history

Stone with a bronze plaque in memory of the former Forsbach train station

Forsbach station, which gave it its name, was built around 1889/90 when the railway connection established in 1868 between Mülheim and Bergisch Gladbach was extended to Forsbach, Untereschbach and Immekeppel (finally to Lindlar in 1912 ). The section from Bensberg to Hoffnungsthal was opened on July 1, 1890. However, there was no official inauguration in Forsbach. Mülheim could now be reached by train in 50 minutes (1897), which was a significant improvement for the factory workers coming from Forsbach. When the last passenger train left Forsbach on October 1, 1960, the station building already looked "abandoned and weathered". Express, general cargo and cargo traffic had been suspended on site since May 29, 1960. In the year before passenger train traffic was discontinued in 1959, a trip from Forsbach to Cologne-Mülheim cost 1.40 DM twice as much as a bus trip - taking into account the previously required journey through the forest. The tracks were dismantled in 1962.

When the railway line was built, the shortest and easiest route was chosen. One particularly wanted to avoid the climb to Forsbach. On the other hand, Forsbach was so close that the town could be supplied from this station. That is why it was given the name Forsbach , although it was in the area of ​​Bensberg, which was merged with Bergisch Gladbach on January 1, 1975. After the First World War , goods and luggage were always confused with other places such as Forbach or Ferbach . Therefore, the mayor's office for Forsbach asked the Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld to give the Forsbach station the addition “District Cologne”. Thereupon the name in the following timetables read Forsbach (Bez Köln) , meanwhile also Forsbach (Bz Köln) .

Forsbach was a typical branch station with a ticket office, signal box and two platforms. There was also a siding and a loading siding. The latter ended at a loading lane with scales set up for freight transport (especially wood from the nearby sawmill and coal). In total, it had five turnouts on three tracks as the crossing station at which the oncoming trains met.

To commemorate the station, the Forsbach village community of Dehre Unity set up a stone with a bronze plaque in 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 343, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Sülztalbahn - history and stories of the route Cologne - Bergisch Gladbach - Rösrath - Untereschbach - Immekeppel - Lindlar , series of the history association Rösrath e. V., Volume 42, Rösrath 2012, pp. 69ff. ISBN 978-3-922413-65-3
  3. ↑ Information from TIM-online, accessed on August 10, 2014
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1897, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 124 .
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII, 1909, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 102 .
  6. ^ German course book 1914. accessed on August 10, 2014
  7. ↑ Gerhard Peterhänsel: Zug um Zug, Die Eisenbahnen im Sülztal and Aggertal - a regional historical study , series of publications by the history association for the community of Rösrath and the surrounding area. V., Volume 15, 6/86, p. 31ff., Rösrath 1986
  8. ^ Official station directory from 1944. Retrieved on August 10, 2014

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