Halberstadt station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station (since 1868) |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | LHB |
| IBNR | 8010157 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 1868 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Halberstadt |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Halberstadt |
| country | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 53 '58 " N , 11 ° 4' 25" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 110 m |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt | |
The station Halberstadt is the largest train station in the town of Halberstadt in the Harz region . A terminus station was opened in 1843. In 1868 a new through station went into operation elsewhere in the city. The first connection from Halberstadt was offered to Magdeburg . Two more routes were added over the next few decades. The station suffered severe damage during the Second World War . Extensive modernization work took place between 2008 and 2010. The station building and the depot are under monument protection.
location
The through station, which has existed since 1868, is located in the northeast of the city. It is on the street Hinter dem Personenbahnhof and on Bahnhofstrasse . The route to Magdeburg branches off about 500 meters further west, after Thale it goes straight to the east. After Vienenburg , the route heads west. To the south, the route branches off via Langenstein to Blankenburg .
history
On March 21, 1842, construction of the Halberstadt railway station began on behalf of the Magdeburg-Halberstadt railway company founded for this purpose . The station was initially on Schützenstrasse and had eight tracks. The first freight train entered the station on July 1, 1843 at 10 a.m. On August 15, it was officially opened for passenger traffic. It was designed as a terminus . In the first few years two pairs of trains ran daily. On January 2, 1844, goods traffic between Magdeburg via Oschersleben to Halberstadt was started. From 1860 the section to Thale was built. On June 2, 1864, the first train ran this route. On November 26th, 1860 the regional council in Magdeburg granted the concession to expand the line to the Magdeburg-Halberstädter-Eisenbahngesellschaft and on April 18th, 1861 the construction work to expand the line from Halberstadt via Quedlinburg to Thale began. On June 2, 1864, the first train left Halberstadt in the direction of Thale with the “Falkenstein” locomotive. On April 13, 1864, the concession was granted for a route via Aschersleben in the direction of Bernburg. The line went into operation on October 10, 1866. This provided a connection to the north, east and south-east. Due to the steadily increasing volume of traffic, starting in 1865, consideration was given to building a through station outside the city. Many citizens of Halberstadt did not approve of this idea. But the railway company was able to implement its plan.
On August 1, 1868, the station went into operation at its current location as a through station, and on March 1, 1869, the line to Vienenburg could be opened. The existing facilities were used as a freight yard from that point on. The first station building was not preserved. After the Prussian State Railways took over the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Railway Company, the marshalling yard was expanded to 14 tracks. A new signal box was also built to handle the increasing traffic due to the interim route extensions to Halle (Saale) and Wernigerode – Bad Harzburg. Further expansions took place in 1904–1908, where two new drainage mountains, a water tower and the Wehrstedter bridge were built.
Halberstadt developed more and more into an important rail hub. The high point was the 1920s. In 1939 the station expanded by 4.8 km. There were two depots for locomotives, a repair shop, express cargo handling and several sidings to local companies.
Halberstadt was bombed by American troops on April 7th and 8th, 1945 during World War II. Since a commander of a special Wehrmacht train standing in the station forced the locomotive personnel to pull their train out of the station, contrary to the service instructions, an ammunition train standing on the siding could not be pulled into the open field. When an anti-aircraft gun from the ammunition train opened fire, the station was fired upon by the US Air Force fighter-bombers. After the gasometer exploded, the ammunition train was also hit, which destroyed the train station, the offices and the adjacent residential and industrial buildings. The resulting crater made the station unusable until the end of the war. During the second attack on April 8, the western station area with the repair shop and the eastern exit were also badly hit. A total of 45 locomotives and hundreds of passenger and freight wagons were destroyed, 80% of the track systems were no longer usable. After the construction of the track system began, the first train was able to travel west again on May 19, 1945. Operations to the east resumed on June 16. Until the Hr1 and HR2 interlockings were working again in 1952, the points had to be set manually by hand or key switch. On July 1, 1945, Halberstadt came under Soviet administration. Trains went west from Halberstadt only to Wernigerode and Stapelburg , the connection across the inner-German border to Vienenburg was dismantled. Various operating systems could be repaired by 1952. The Hr1 signal box was operated until 1974.
Only a few essential repairs were made after the war. The increasing volume of freight (up to 18,000 tons) in the 1950s and 1960s forced another expansion. A new general cargo handling facility was built in the area of the old terminal station, and in 1974 a goods shed was added in the Schützenstrasse area. From 1968 to 1970 the station building was given a curtain wall made of corrugated iron on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the GDR . Wall tiles were installed in the station building. Because of the corrugated iron, the train station in Halberstadt was often referred to as the “sardine can”. Parts of this disguise could still be seen in 2006.
There were already plans for a renovation in 2005, in which the old building elements would still be preserved. The renovation and monument protection were mainly due to private investors. The state of Saxony-Anhalt contributed 10.2 million euros to the construction project. The first work began in August 2008. The building was acquired in 2008 by NOSA GmbH, a holding company of the city of Halberstadt. The station forecourt was redesigned, the bus station relocated and the tram stop rebuilt. The sheet metal facade was removed and the building almost completely gutted. The station building was completed in August 2010. The grand opening took place on August 15th. The actual renovation costs amounted to around 8.2 million euros. Several shops are there.
The water tower at the Wehrstedter Bridge has been privately owned since 2007 and is open a few days a year. A planned gastronomic use has not yet been implemented due to high renovation costs.
On August 29, 2011, the station was named station of the year in the small town station category. The station has been known as the Kulturbahnhof since 2014 .
In 2011, around 3350 travelers were counted at the train station per day.
Investments
Platforms and tracks
In 1950 the train station in Halberstadt had two platforms. The second platform was a central platform . Its length was 312 meters. The first platform, located directly at the station building, was significantly longer than the second. There was a third through track between the two platforms.
In 1981 the two platforms still exist. At that time the station had 157 points and three waste mountains .
Today the station has a total of five platform tracks. They are numbered from 1 to 5. Platform 1 is 320 meters long. All others are 120 meters long.
Depot
The depot in Halberstadt existed until 2003. Very large stocks of the DR series 50.35 were housed there. It was the last steam locomotive depot of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
Transport links
train
Only Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland trains stop in Halberstadt. Since December 9, 2018, only diesel multiple units of the 1648 series have been used . In the years before, diesel railcars of the 612 , 640 and 642 series were also used. For many years there has been a free connection to Potsdam and Berlin . In the 2019 timetable, Halberstadt station will be served by the following lines:
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) |
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| HBX | Berlin - Potsdam - Magdeburg - Halberstadt - ( wing ) Goslar / Thale | Fri-Sun |
| RE 4 | Halle (Saale) - Aschersleben - Halberstadt - Wernigerode - Vienenburg - Goslar | 120 |
| RE 11 | Magdeburg - Oschersleben (Bode) - Halberstadt - Quedlinburg - Thale | 60 |
| RE 21 | Magdeburg - Oschersleben (Bode) - Halberstadt - Wernigerode - Vienenburg - Goslar | 120 |
| RE 24 | Halle (Saale) - Könnern - Aschersleben - Gatersleben - Halberstadt | 120 |
| RE 31 | Magdeburg - Oschersleben (Bode) - Halberstadt - Langenstein - Blankenburg (Harz) | 120 (Magdeburg – Halberstadt) 60 (Halberstadt – Blankenburg) |
| RB 44 | Halberstadt - Wegeleben - Gatersleben - Frose - Aschersleben | individual trains |
Bus and tram
At the station forecourt, two trams, one bus and one night line stop at the larger parts of the city from 8:00 p.m. to around 10:30 p.m., operated by Halberstädter Verkehrs-GmbH .
The bus station is located south-east of the train station, from which nine regional bus lines and four AST lines of the Harzer Verkehrsbetriebe operate in the current timetable . The PlusBus 210 runs every hour to Osterwieck via Dardesheim and then every two hours to Vienenburg. This line was set up after the cancellation of the trains on the Heudeber-Danstedt – Osterwieck line .
Private transport
157 car parking spaces and 20 bicycle parking spaces are available at the train station. A charging station for electric cars was also installed.
Trivia
- There is a Rübelandbahn add-on for the Microsoft Train Simulator , which also reproduces the Halberstadt train station (before the renovation) in great detail.
Web links
- Historical pictures of the train station on kulturbahnhof-halberstadt.de
- Files and plans for Halberstadt train station in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. 2015, accessed December 20, 2015 .
- ^ Michael Dittrich: IBNR directory. Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
- ↑ DB Station & Service AG: Station price list. (PDF) (No longer available online.) January 1, 2015, p. 35 , archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Werkstätten für Denkmalpflege GmbH Quedlinburg: Halberstadt Hauptbahnhof 2010. Accessed on December 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Heidrun Senz: History, decline and decay of the Halberstadt railway junction. (No longer available online.) Bahnfrau Heidi, archived from the original on February 15, 2011 ; Retrieved October 19, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Historic Halberstadt train station renovated. (No longer available online.) In: MDR.de. MDR Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg region, August 15, 2010, archived from the original on October 18, 2010 ; Retrieved October 19, 2010 .
- ↑ Ingmar Höfgen: Water tower sold. In: Volksstimme. September 22, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Jörg Endries: Handing over the keys at the water tower. In: Volksstimme. October 14, 2017, accessed April 3, 2018 .
- ^ Halberstadt cultural station. Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Pro-Rail Alliance : Station of the Year. (PDF) August 29, 2011, p. 2 , accessed December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Station equipment Halberstadt. DB Station & Service, accessed on September 4, 2019 .