Heilbronn-Sontheim train station
| Heilbronn-Sontheim train station | |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | Two platform tracks with a gauge of 750 mm, Loading tracks and sidings in standard gauge |
| opening | 1900 |
| Conveyance | September 27, 1985 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Württemberg unit train station type IIIa |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Heilbronn |
| Place / district | Sontheim |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 7 '21 " N , 9 ° 11' 48" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The former Heilbronn-Sontheim train station is located at Bottwarbahnstraße 4 in Sontheim and is a cultural monument . The building is used today (as of 2008) by a private music school and an engineering office.
Emergence
The Royal Württemberg State Railways built in 1900 in continuation of the Bottwartalbahn of Beilstein by Heilbronn first the offices and residential buildings in 1913 was followed by waiting room and freight shed. The station had several names: Until 1904 the name was Sontheim , until 1912 Sontheim am Neckar and then until the incorporation of the community Sontheim into Heilbronn in 1938 Sontheim (Neckar) . Then he was called up to the end of operation Heilbronn-Sontheim .
description
The service and residential building as well as the attached waiting hall correspond to the Württemberg unit train station type IIIa, as it was built on many branch lines across the country in the late 19th century. There were identical buildings along the Bottwartalbahn in Beilstein and in Großbottwar . The buildings in the country house style are shingled and boarded half-timbered construction with carved beam heads and projections.
The attached goods shed had a size of 30 × 6–7 m, the adjoining loading ramp had an area of 250 m². There was a small gantry crane , a weighbridge and a loading gauge for checking the clearance profile . This meant that the station was primarily designed for freight traffic.
business
Because of the high volume of goods, the Bottwartalbahn from Heilbronn Süd station to Talheim was provided with a three - rail track . Therefore, the Sontheim station only had standard-gauge tracks for freight traffic. From the Sontheim station, the siding to the Ackermann twisting mill and to the storage sheds of the Hermann Amos agricultural machinery factory and a coal merchant, which were also only built in standard gauge. Only the passenger traffic had 750 mm track. After the two terminus stations, the station was the most frequented on the route, as there was a connection to the Heilbronn tram in Sontheim .
Decline in rail operations
On October 1, 1961, the German Federal Railroad downgraded Heilbronn-Sontheim station to a branch of Heilbronn Süd station. With the end of passenger traffic on the Bottwartalbahn in 1966, it became a pure freight station and was no longer occupied from November 1, 1970. A connection in Talheim was served on the remaining standard gauge track until 1976. The Heilbronn-Sontheim train station was closed on September 27, 1985.
After the train
In 1994/95 the building was restored. In 1999 a music school moved there, and later an engineering office. There is also a standard-gauge freight car with a brakeman's cab on the site. The former railway line is now partially covered with a playground for the neighboring municipal kindergarten in Sontheim.
literature
- Kurt Seidel: Narrow gauge in Baden-Württemberg . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1977, ISBN 3-921703-19-0 .
- Ludger Kenning: The Bottwartal and the Zabergäubahn . Kenning, Nordhorn 2004, ISBN 3-933613-47-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Stadtkreis Heilbronn . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 252 .
- ^ A b Rainer Stein: The Württemberg standard station on branch lines . In: Eisenbahn-Journal Württemberg-Report . tape 1 , no. V / 96 . Merker, Fürstenfeldbruck 1996, ISBN 3-922404-96-0 , p. 80-83 .
- ↑ Ludger Kenning: The Bottwartal and the Zabergäubahn , plan of the track systems on page 107
