Geislingen railway station (Steige)
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 Geislingen train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | TG |
| IBNR | 8002218 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | June 14, 1849 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Geislingen__Steige_ |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Round arch style |
| architect | Michael Knoll |
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| City / municipality | Geislingen an der Steige |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 37 '8 " N , 9 ° 50' 32" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 469 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Geislingen (Steige) station (often referred to as the main station ) is located on the 61.3 km of the Filstalbahn below the Geislinger Steige in Geislingen an der Steige . Until May 2000 there was a connection to Geislingen-Altenstadt for freight traffic. It was the last remaining section of the original railway line to Wiesensteig . The station is served by intercity and regional trains.
history
Planning and construction
When Georg von Bühler and Carl Christian von Seeger presented the plans for a railway connection from Stuttgart to Ulm , the connection through the Filstal was in competition with a route through the Rems and Brenz valleys . They saw overcoming the Swabian Alb as an almost impossible task.
In the 1840s the Oberamtsstadt Geislingen had around 2,300 inhabitants. These mostly lived from agriculture or practiced a craft in small businesses. Less than one percent of them were employed in factories abroad. Despite its location on the Stuttgart – Ulm state road , there was no significant trading point here. The Albaufstieg built in 1824 hardly contributed to an improvement in trade. Due to the poor condition of the road and the steep incline, the way to Ulm was difficult to climb for wagons.
With the proposal of the Ostbahn, the city councils drew new hope for the city and the Oberamt and campaigned for a connection. On December 16, 1841, they wrote a petition in which they explained the economic importance of the region and listed flour, beer, grain, cattle, firewood and stones as products. The passenger traffic was initially uninteresting. In order to attract more targeted attention, they indicated the impending impoverishment of the city if they were not taken into account.
However, the petitioners themselves doubted that a locomotive could ever cope with the ascent of the Alb. Instead, it was imagined that the wagons in Geislingen would be decoupled from the locomotives and then pulled individually by horses onto the Alb.
Ultimately, the experts decided on the shorter railway line through the Filstal to Ulm and commissioned Michael Knoll with the planning and construction of the railway ramp near his home town of Geislingen. The experienced Karl Etzel stood by Knoll's side. The miller Daniel Straub , a cousin of Knoll, who set up workshops for tools and machines in the Kapellmühle and in a newly constructed building above the Steige , particularly benefited from the railway construction .
Large earth movements were necessary to steer the train onto the station and the platform. The station was built specifically north of the city center in order to make it the central point for the villages of Altenstadt, Eybach and Weiler. The two-story building with a hipped roof designed by Knoll still exists.
State Railroad Time
On June 14, 1849, the Royal Württemberg State Railroad put the Süßen – Geislingen section into operation. The Geislingen – Ulm section opened on June 29, 1850. On the Geislinger Steige, all trains had to be pushed to Amstetten .
Daniel Straub continued to run a forge for tools, which he expanded into an iron foundry and machine factory. The Maschinenfabrik Geislingen AG (MAG) developed from this in 1883 . In 1853, Straub and two partners founded the metal goods factory Straub & Schweizer , which has been called Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) since 1880 . Industrialization began in Geislingen.
Michael Knoll died on June 29, 1852, exactly two years after the inauguration of the Geislinger Steige. His friends donated a bust in his honor, which initially stood on the western station forecourt. The following can be read on the base:
"Dedicated by his friends to the builder of the railway-Alb crossing, Michael Knoll, chief building officer from Geislingen."
Between 1859 and 1862, the state railway expanded the Eastern Railway from Plochingen to Ulm to two tracks . The population of Geislingen increased. In 1880 there were 3,900, in 1900 7,000 people lived in the city at the foot of the Alb.
Since October 21, 1903, a 21 km long branch line branched off from Geislingen. The valley railway led via Überkingen and Deggingen to Wiesensteig . When it was erected, the Knoll monument had to give way and was moved to the Geislinger Steige.
Reichsbahn time
At the Geislinger Stauferstollen, which had its own railway connection to the valley railway, iron ore was increasingly being mined and transported away even before the beginning of the Second World War . In 1940, the Deutsche Reichsbahn set up the Eybtal sweeping station, to which the head-turning that had previously burdened Geislingen station was relocated. The Kehrbahnhof existed until 1944. As early as 1933, Geislingen was also integrated into Stuttgart's electrically operated suburban traffic .
Federal Railroad Time
In the economic boom, private transport increased. The Deutsche Bundesbahn recorded falling passenger numbers on the Geislingen – Wiesensteig railway line . This resulted in the closure of the Deggingen – Wiesensteig section. The rest of the section was kept by the Federal Railroad for passenger traffic until June 1, 1980. Freight traffic continued until September 25, 1981.
21st century
As the last piece of the valley railway, Deutsche Bahn AG shut down the Geislingen – Geislingen-Altenstadt section in May 2000.
Since 2006, the Geislingen Art and History Association has been increasingly trying to move the Knoll memorial from its place on the Geislinger Steige back to its original location. However, since this would have been associated with immense costs, the club members decided in favor of a refill. Since May 9th, 2009 there is again a memorial in honor of Michael Knoll on the station square.
The station is to be modernized. While Deutsche Bahn wants to achieve a platform height of 76 cm, the state insists on 55 cm. A preliminary planning , for which the city made 170,000 euros available in 2014, is therefore pending.
In mid-November 2015, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the Göppingen District Office agreed to allow the Metropolexpress coming from Stuttgart not only to travel to Süßen, but to Geislingen from 2019. The district contributes to the additional costs of this solution. An additional track is to be built in the station for traffic, the cost of which is estimated at 5 million euros and is to be subsidized by the state. Talks with the operator about adapting the operating concept are still pending (as of November 2016). In September 2017 it became known that due to the lack of a timetable for the time after Stuttgart 21 went into operation, it is still unclear whether the additional track will then be needed. Clarity should exist at the end of 2017, after which a decision should be made on the implementation.
After the commissioning of Stuttgart 21, two Metropolexpress lines will run between Stuttgart and Geislingen or Ulm , one of which will run between Stuttgart and Ulm in 82 minutes, the other between Stuttgart and Geislingen in 58 minutes. (As of December 2017)
Rail operations
Individual intercity and regional trains serve the station. The regional trains to Ulm and Plochingen / Stuttgart start and end on platform 1, the house platform. Track 2 is used by trains going to Ulm, track 3 by trains going to Göppingen / Stuttgart.
According to Deutsche Bahn AG, the Geislingen (Steige) station corresponds to station category 4.
Long-distance transport
| line | route | Clock frequency |
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| IC 60 | Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Göppingen - Geislingen - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich | individual trains |
| IC 62 | Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Heidelberg - Stuttgart - Geislingen - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich - Salzburg (- Klagenfurt ) | individual trains |
Regional traffic
| route | Clock frequency | |
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| IRISHMAN | Stuttgart - Esslingen - Plochingen - Göppingen - Geislingen (Steige) - Ulm - Aulendorf - Friedrichshafen - Lindau | Hourly |
| RB | Stuttgart - Esslingen - Plochingen - Göppingen - Süßen - Geislingen (Steige) - Ulm | Hourly |
literature
- Karlheinz Bauer: History of the city of Geislingen an der Steige. Volume 2. From 1803 to the present. Edited and published by Carl Maurer, Geislingen an der Steige 1976.
Web links
- Location, track systems as well as signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
- Tracks in service facilities (TG) , DB Netz AG (PDF; track plan of Geislingen station (Steige))
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG: Platform information Geislingen (Steige) ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Query of the course book route 750 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Local councils angry: preliminary planning of the railway is still pending. In: swp.de. January 21, 2016, accessed January 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Metropolexpress: State and district agree . In: Göppingen district news . November 18, 2015, ZDB -ID 1360527-6 , p. 15 .
- ↑ Oliver Hillinger: "We have new vigor and high motivation" . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 72 , November 2, 2016, p. 24 ( online ).
- ↑ Dirk Hülser: Waiting for the Metropolexpress . In: Swabian Post . September 27, 2017, p. 5 .
- ^ Winfried Hermann: Planned train service on the Stuttgart − Ulm route. (PDF) Printed matter 16 / 3058. In: landtag-bw.de. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, November 24, 2017, pp. 3, 4 , accessed on February 3, 2018 .