Goettingen train station
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 Station building with eastern station forecourt
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | HG |
| IBNR | 8000128 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | 1854 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Goettingen |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Hanoverian round arch style |
| architect | Conrad Wilhelm Hase |
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| City / municipality | Goettingen |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 32 '12 " N , 9 ° 55' 37" E |
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| Railway stations in Lower Saxony | |
The Göttingen train station ( IATA train station code ZEU ) is a long-distance and regional stop and the only train station in the city of Göttingen . The train station, built in 1854 as the terminus of the Hanover Southern Railway , connects to the west of the Göttingen city center. Today the station has four platforms with two through tracks each. There is also a through track for goods traffic between the station building and the platforms. In 2013, the station was named “ Station of the Year ” in the “Large Cities” category by the Pro Schiene Alliance .
The station counts 230 train stops every day and a total of 51,000 travelers and visitors.
history
In the course of planning the construction of the Hanover Southern Railway, the City of Göttingen's magistrate decided in 1851 to apply for the construction of a train station west of the city center. This was followed by three years of sometimes fierce discussions among the citizens and especially the property owners concerned, until the foundation stone was laid in 1853. Adolf Funk , Conrad Wilhelm Hase and Julius Rasch took over the planning ; Emil Hackländer was in charge of construction. The design of the station followed the model of the "Central-Bahnhof zu Hannover" completed in 1847 in the Hanoverian arched style made of natural stones . On July 31, 1854, operations began with an inauguration ceremony.
The Hannöversche Südbahn was opened in 1854 with the Alfeld –Göttingen line. In 1856 it was extended to Kassel , although the original connection initially only ran over the former Dransfeld ramp . From 1867 the Göttingen – Bebra railway to Eichenberg was built, which was expanded to Bebra in 1876 and in Eichenberg had a connection to Kassel. The station building in Göttingen was built between 1856 and 1887 and rebuilt several times. At the beginning of the 20th century, the station forecourt was redesigned. In summer, palm trees were set up in front of the facility, which shaped the image of the station until the Second World War.
The station was rebuilt again from 1913 to 1924, with an interruption during the First World War . In particular, the tracks were raised. In the southern part, the Eichenberger route was moved west to the Dransfeld ramp, the old route was today's Eisenbahnstraße in Göttingen and Am Flüthedamm in Rosdorf. An underpass on Groner Chaussee (today's Groner Landstrasse) south of the train station was built, as it was overloaded as a level crossing due to the increasing traffic and the construction of a tram was also specifically decided. But the station building was also rebuilt and added extensions. The Gartetalbahn , a 750 mm narrow-gauge railway that had ended directly at the train station and ran to Duderstadt for a time and to Rittmarshausen until it was closed in 1959 , was given its own Göttingen Süd train station about 400 meters further south as part of this elevation she did not have to cross Groner Chaussee and the standard gauge connection could be lowered.
The station was largely destroyed by bombing during World War II. The station and the station hall were rebuilt in a simplified form in the post-war period; the facade was redesigned. From 1963 Göttingen was connected to the electrified route network. In the 1960s the station forecourt was rebuilt and adapted to the requirements of motor vehicle traffic. The buses, which until then departed almost directly in front of the station building, now stopped at the central bus station (ZOB), south of the reception building, in front of the car parking areas. The first railway connection to Kassel had to give way to the one built later: the route of the Hannöverschen Südbahn via Dransfeld was shut down in May 1980.
The station was extensively rebuilt between 1984 and 1989 as a station on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg , which is currently under construction . The first plans presented in 1971 for the new line in Lower Saxony envisaged a route in the Weser Uplands via Holzminden . After protests from the state and various investigations and reports, the decision was made in 1976 for the guided tour over Göttingen that exists today. The track systems in the western area of the station were adapted to a total length of 4.0 km. The station area was a separate planning approval section of the new line (No. 3.8, km 98.750 to 101,000). The regional planning procedure in this area was completed on September 30, 1977.
In 1981 it was planned to run the new line through the station on three tracks: In addition to the two main tracks of the new line (west edge of platform C, east edge of platform D), a passenger train overtaking track (west edge of platform D) was planned. In the end , only local traffic in the direction of Bodenfelde left the former platform C.
Ultimately, the station was expanded to the west by a platform (tracks 10/11), with the previous platform C (tracks 8/9) being demolished and rebuilt in the style of the neighboring new platform. Several buildings of the former repair shop had to be demolished for the newly created west entrance in this area and a passenger train treatment system had to be abandoned and rebuilt elsewhere. The first of the two new line platforms was completed in September 1987. The 400 m long platform C went into operation when the winter timetable changed in 1988/89.
The station can be driven through on the new tracks at up to 120 km / h, the subsequent arch in the area of the marshalling yard with 200 km / h. This speed through the station was determined because all passenger trains were supposed to stop in Göttingen anyway and this speed was considered sufficient for freight trains.
With a total of 172 arrivals and departures per day of regular long-distance trains, the station was in 18th place in the 1989 summer timetable in the Deutsche Bundesbahn network. Until the end of the 1980s there was another long-distance connection with Düsseldorf via Ottbergen – Paderborn (one or two D-pairs).
In the 1990s, the station forecourt was redesigned again. A pergola was opened on the street in front of the train station, where the bus station is also located . In order to accommodate the growing number of parked bicycles, a “bicycle parking garage” opened right next to the station building . Nevertheless, the forecourt is still full of bicycles.
In 1994, the service of the Göttingen train station by trains on the ICE line 3 (Hamburg – Frankfurt am Main – Basel) was questionable: By canceling the stop in Göttingen when the timetable changed in May 1995, travel times at the end of the line were to be adjusted. In mid-July 1994, the state of Lower Saxony, the region of southern Lower Saxony and Deutsche Bahn AG agreed to maintain the ICE stop on line 3 in Göttingen by increasing the scheduled maximum speed to 280 km / h. The Federal Minister of Transport approved a corresponding application by Deutsche Bahn. Although the maximum speed was reduced to 250 km / h after the ICE accident in Eschede, almost all ICE trains (with the exception of the ICE Sprinter ) stop in Göttingen.
From the end of the 1990s, the station was renovated in three stages due to the World Exhibition Expo 2000 taking place in Hanover . First, the underpass in the area of the old platforms A and B (tracks 4/5 and 6/7) was expanded and additional space was created in this tunnel for retailers. The old platforms were also renovated, with the focus only on the access area with a partially glazed platform roof and newly created elevator systems (which were still for months due to a lack of EBA approvals). In the third phase, the part of the reception hall facing the tracks was equipped with a toilet and luggage lockers. At the same time, the three through tracks between the station building and platform A have been reduced to one track.
The extensive renovation work ended at the end of 2006, in the final phase of which, among other things, the entire entrance hall of the station was renovated. Among other things, the branch of a fast food chain was created in the newly created business line . The renovation, which cost 13.8 million euros, was completed at the end of March 2007.
In the course of the economic stimulus programs, the station building received an energetic renovation in 2010/2011 by DB Station & Service AG . In autumn 2012 the bicycle parking facilities were completely renewed and significantly expanded. The dynamic passenger information systems (DFI) were also renewed to improve the quality of information in city bus and regional transport.
In August 2013 , Göttingen was named “Metropolitan Railway Station of the Year” by Allianz pro Schiene .
service
Status: Annual timetable 2019
Long-distance transport
| line | route | Clock frequency |
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| ICE 11 | Hamburg-Altona - Hanover - Göttingen - Fulda - Frankfurt - Stuttgart - Munich | individual trains at night |
| ICE 11 | Berlin - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Würzburg - Munich | one train a week at night |
| ICE 12 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Braunschweig - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Freiburg - Basel (- Bern - Interlaken Ost ) | Every two hours |
| ICE 13 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Braunschweig - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt Airport | Every two hours |
| ICE 20 | ( Kiel -) Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich (- Chur ) | Every two hours |
| ICE 22 | (Kiel -) Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - ( Heidelberg -) Stuttgart | Every two hours |
| ICE 25 | ( Lübeck -) Hamburg - / Bremen - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt / Augsburg - Munich (- Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) | Hourly |
| ICE 26 | ( Binz -) Stralsund - Rostock - Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Gießen - Frankfurt - Heidelberg - Karlsruhe | Every two hours |
| ICE 91 | Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Plattling - Passau - Wels - Linz - St. Pölten - Vienna | a pair of trains |
| IC 26 | Westerland - Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Augsburg - Oberstdorf / Berchtesgaden | individual trains |
Local transport
Locomotive hall
The locomotive hall is a large, striking building on the side of the station facing away from the city center. This historical industrial monument now houses a large multiplex cinema and a multi-purpose hall used as a conference and event location. The hall offers 5,400 m² event space and 3,000 m² foyer space. Originally a railway repair shop was located there since 1855. The reason for the establishment of this plant in the university town, which until then had been largely unindustrialized, was that the route continued to Hannoversch Münden via the so-called Dransfeld ramp . Because of the gradients there, the trains had to be pre-tensioned, which were serviced and repaired in the Göttingen plant. The building of today's locomotive hall was erected from 1917. After the repair shop was closed in 1976, the site was initially left to decay for two decades and no adequate subsequent use was possible, especially since the locomotive hall was included in the provisional list of architectural monuments by the Lower Saxony Institute for Monument Preservation in 1981 . It was not until 1993 that the plans for using the hall as an event site became more concrete. The multiplex cinema in the northern part of the facility was opened in 1996, the event area in the southern area of the Lokhalle opened in December 1998.
literature
- Jens-Uwe Brinkmann: On rails through time. The Göttingen train station from the Hanover Southern Railway to the end of the steam age. Göttingen 1998. (2001, ISBN 3-929181-42-8 )
- Günther Siedbürger: The locomotive hall and its railroad workers. Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-926920-14-9 .
Web links
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- Tracks in service facilities (HG) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
- Representation of the railway system on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ^ Goettingen train station . In: mobile . No. 5 , May 2019, ISSN 0949-586X , ZDB -ID 1221702-5 , p. 124 .
- ↑ a b Peter Schurmann in: Ernst Böhme (Ed.): Göttingen - history of a university town. Volume 2, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, ISBN 3-525-36197-1 , p. 130.
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, general agency Göttingen of the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover (ed.): 125 years of the Alfeld – Göttingen railway line , Göttingen 1979, pp. 79–85.
- ^ Walter Engels, Peter Nussberger, Helmut Weber: Planning and implementation of the new Hanover – Würzburg line. In: Knut Reimers, Wilhelm Linkerhägner (Ed.): Paths to the future. New construction and expansion lines of the DB . Hestra Verlag Darmstadt, 1987, ISBN 3-7771-0200-8 , pp. 97-104.
- ↑ a b Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hanover – Würzburg (North) (Ed.): New Hanover – Würzburg line: Göttingen. Folded map (12 pages, A6), Hanover, approx. 1979
- ↑ a b Norbert Klein, Peter Leiste: Status of planning and construction work in the Edesheim – Göttingen section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line. In: The Federal Railroad . Vol. 57, No. 10, 1981, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 789-794.
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Gnest, Peter bar: Rail Line Hanover-Würzburg: Commissioning between Norten-Hardenberg and Göttingen. In: Die Bundesbahn , year 1990, issue 10, pp. 941–944.
- ^ Project group of the NBS Hanover of the Bahnbauzentrale (ed.): New line Hanover – Würzburg: The Northeim - Göttingen section , brochure, 44 A4 pages as of May 1988, p. 30 f.
- ↑ Without author: Annual review 1988. In: Die Bundesbahn. Vol. 65, No. 1, 1989, ISSN 0007-5876 , p. 61.
- ↑ Ralph Seidel: The influence of changed framework conditions on network design and frequencies in long-distance rail passenger transport in Germany . Dissertation at the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2005, p. 46 .
- ↑ a b Federal Ministry of Transport: Wissmann / Süssmuth: ICE stop secured in Göttingen. The Federal Ministry of Transport will approve the necessary application. Press release No. 153/94, July 13, 1994
- ↑ On the ICE line 3, the train is set to speed 280. In: Göttinger Tageblatt , July 13, 1994
- ↑ Gottingen after reconstruction officially opened on www.bahnfahren.info
- ↑ Data on the renovation
- ↑ Orion offers space for 1,600 bicycles In: Göttinger Tageblatt , July 30, 2012
- ↑ Ulrich Schubert: Göttingen has "Station of the Year 2013" - that's what the jury says. Eye-catcher without a dirty corner. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack GmbH & Co. KG, August 21, 2013, accessed on September 7, 2013 .