Friedrichsthal train station (Saar)
| Friedrichsthal (Saar) | |
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 View of the reception building as it is today
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | SFI |
| IBNR | 8002117 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1852 |
| Website URL | Station profile of DB Netz AG (PDF; 114 kB) |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Friedrichsthal |
| country | Saarland |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 19 '12 " N , 7 ° 5' 20" E |
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| Railway stations in Saarland | |
The station Friedrichsthal (Saar) is a through station in the southwest of the Saarland town Friedrichsthal on the Nahe Valley Railway between Saarbruecken and Türkismühle .
history
The station is on the Saarbrücken − Neunkirchen railway line, an important route in the 19th and early 20th centuries for transporting coal from the mines to the Saarbrücken coal port and to southern Germany and France. The first Friedrichsthal train station was opened in 1852 and was located at the extreme southwest end of the town. At that time the industrial center of Friedrichsthal was located in this area. In the second half of the 19th century, the station was an essential prerequisite for the settlement of glassworks in Friedrichsthal.
The first station was demolished in 1910 due to track extensions and the current building was built a few meters further west. A total of 253,000 marks were estimated in 1909 for the renovation of the station (rail-free access to the intermediate platform and construction of the new reception building).
Architecture and use
The reception building consists of a main building and two lower wings. It has high, slate-covered forest roofs equipped with bat dormers and gable dormers. A dwarf house with a wide segmented gable emphasizes the central axis of the building. The facade is structured by cornices and pilasters , which are designed as wider pillars on the ground floor of the main wing. The station has a central platform and thus two platform tracks. A barrier-free access is possible at any of the two platforms, as only stairs are available. The station building on the hillside is clearly below the tracks with its ground floor level. The entire building is now a listed building . The station was busy until the 1980s. There was a train station restaurant and a ticket office for the Deutsche Bundesbahn . After the railway closed the ticket office as part of restructuring measures in the 1990s and the restaurant was no longer profitable, the station was partially rented out as a residential building. Nowadays the station building is empty. For a long time it only served as a passage to the tracks and is increasingly falling into disrepair. The building has been completely closed since December 2019 and the tracks can only be reached via the pedestrian bridge.
traffic
Local transport
Friedrichsthal train station has lost its importance. Nowadays only regional trains stop here except for one regional express a day.
| line | Train run | Clock frequency |
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| RE 3 | Saarbrücken - Neunkirchen (Saar) - Ottweiler (Saar) - Türkismühle - Bad Kreuznach - Mainz (- Frankfurt (Main)) | Single move |
| RB 73 | Saarbrücken - Neunkirchen (Saar) - Ottweiler (Saar) - St. Wendel (- Türkismühle) | Saarbrücken - St. Wendel: every half hour
Saarbrücken - Türkismühle: Hourly |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Banken: The industrialization of the Saar region 1815-1914 , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3515078282 , p. 537.
- ↑ Christian Jung, Werner Klär (ed.): Friedrichthal. A journey through time . City of Friedrichsthal / SDV printing and publishing house, 1999, p. 69ff
- ↑ Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 49, 1909, Association of German Railway Administrations, p. 81.
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland; List of partial monuments Regional Association Saarbrücken (PDF; 10.2 MB)
- ↑ Tobias Altherr: Friedrichsthal: station building blocked. In: Regio-Journal. December 27, 2019, accessed on July 8, 2020 (German).