Gladenbach station

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Gladenbach
Former Gladenbach train station (4) .jpg
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks last 2
abbreviation FGDB
opening May 12, 1894
Conveyance November 2006
location
City / municipality Gladenbach
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 45 '24 "  N , 8 ° 34' 58"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '24 "  N , 8 ° 34' 58"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Gladenbach station was the station of the city Gladenbach in Marburg-Biedenkopf . It was opened on May 12, 1894, when the Niederwalgern - Weidenhausen section of the Aar-Salzböde Railway went into operation. The line and with it the station has been closed since 2006.

history

628 330-3 in Gladenbach (May 1995)

Gladenbach station was put into operation on May 12, 1894 with the first section of the Aar-Salzböde-Bahn Niederwalgern-Gladenbach-Herborn from Niederwalgern to Weidenhausen. The opening of the second section between Weidenhausen and Hartenrod took place seven years later on July 15, 1901, and it was possible to drive to the end of the line in Herborn from August 1, 1902.

Freight traffic was stopped on January 1, 1992 and passenger traffic on May 27, 1995 . In November 2006, the entire line was shut down and gradually dismantled.

In 2003 there was a discussion about reactivating the Niederwalgern – Hartenrod section for local passenger transport. In November 2006, DB began to gradually dismantle the remaining route.

location

The Gladenbach station was the operating center of the Aar-Salzböde-Bahn and was around 32 kilometers from Herborn and around 11 kilometers from Niederwalgern .

In the area of ​​the city of Gladenbach, the train station is located on the southern outskirts at the end of Bahnhofstrasse , in the direction of Niederwalgern. About 300 m further west in the direction of Herborn was a rail connection of the WESO-Aurorahütte GmbH.

Railway systems

Reception building

As the largest on-the-go station, the station also had a stately reception building . The building, which is vacant today, still belongs to Deutsche Bahn AG , but the city of Gladenbach is making efforts to acquire the building from DB. The station building at Bahnhofstrasse 77 is a listed building .

Engine shed

Gladenbach station had a locomotive shed with two shed tracks. The engine shed is now owned by a private company.

Tracks

The Gladenbach station had five tracks in its early years, in the largest expansion state the plans show nine tracks and 15 points, six of which were served by the signal box "Gf" (type AEG, built in 1913) in the front of the reception building. Tracks 1 to 3 were platform tracks and had platforms with a length of 74 m (track 1 at the station building) and 200 m each (tracks 2 and 3). Track 4 was a siding on both sides on the southern side. On the northern side, to the west of the reception building, were tracks 5 (siding) and 6 (loading track with 134 m usable length on the 122 m long loading road). Tracks 7 and 8 were the shed tracks, track 9 circumnavigated the locomotive shed to the north, on it were the coal bunkers and other storage areas; Since the connection to tracks 6 and 9 was changed in the 1970s, it served as a pull-out track, via which loading track 6 had to be approached. In the last few years of operation, the number of accessible tracks was reduced to three, of which only two were platform tracks, the third track (the former track 4) was shortened and served as a siding for overnight train sets.

Transport links

The Gladenbach Bahnhof bus stop was in front of the train station , but it was rarely used. In particular, individual bus courses on the DB course book route 5345 ended and began here, the buses then stayed overnight in the former locomotive shed. There has never been a link between rail and bus traffic at Gladenbach train station. (The Gladenbach Busbahnhof stop is in the city center, around 1.7 km from the train station and has nothing to do with the train station.)

Service offer

The trains on the Aar-Salzböde Railway did not run at a fixed rate. They drove from Herborn via Hartenrod and Gladenbach to Niederwalgern, individual trains continued to Marburg and back, sometimes without intermediate stops. On the other side, a number of trains to Dillenburg were tied through. In individual epochs there were unusual train runs, such as B. the binding of two pairs of trains beyond Herbon to Sinn. At the end of rail operations, the offer was severely limited, on Sundays and public holidays operations were completely replaced by buses.

literature

  • Urs Kramer: Niederwalgern – Herborn branch line: rail line through the mountains between Lahn and Dill. Verlag Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 1994, ISBN 3-928786-29-6 .

Web links

Commons : Former Gladenbach station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. abbreviation
  2. Inventory of disused railway lines for passenger traffic in Hessen , Hessen mobil, as of June 30, 2016, p. 34 (accessed on January 13, 2019)
  3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
  4. Plan of the "Signalanlagen Bf Gladenbach Befstw. "Gf", site plan and locking plate ", status January 24, 1979
  5. z. B. in the 1943 annual timetable