Herzberg (Harz) train station

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Herzberg (Harz)
Reception building
Reception building
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation HHB
IBNR 8000166
Price range 6th
location
City / municipality Herzberg am Harz
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 38 '38 "  N , 10 ° 19' 48"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '38 "  N , 10 ° 19' 48"  E
Height ( SO ) 233  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Lower Saxony
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The Herzberg (Harz) station is a station classified railway operating agency of the South Harz Railway and the branching here railway line to Seesen . The routes to Siebertal and Bleicherode that started here earlier have been closed. Herzberg (Harz) is one of the last two railway access points in the city of Herzberg am Harz , along with the Herzberg Schloß stop .

location

The station is located southwest of the Herzberger downtown just off the main road L 530 ; The federal  highways 243 and 27 are about one kilometer away . To the west of the station is the Aue district, and to the north is the Kastanienplatz district. In the southwest, the tracks are bounded by the Häxgraben.

Surname

The station is officially called "Herzberg (Harz)". In Herzberg itself, however, it is only referred to as “ Hauptbahnhof ”, whereas the “Herzberg Schloß” stop is referred to as “Schlossbahnhof”. The spelling “Herzberg Hbf” or “Herzberg Hauptbahnhof” is also often found in official documents.

In early 2015, as part of the renovation of the passenger station, the typical blue station signs were installed, but not with the station name Herzberg (Harz) , but with the city name Herzberg am Harz as an inscription.

history

Former platform on a track that branched off the Seesen line (2015)

On December 1, 1868, the southern Harz line from Northeim to Herzberg was completed, until August 1, 1869, Herzberg was the end of this line. Then the line was extended to Nordhausen . On October 10, 1870, the line to Osterode am Harz opened , which was completed on September 1, 1871 to Seesen . On July 10, 1884, the Scharzfeld – St. Andreasberg completed, whose traffic was mainly directed to or via Herzberg. On November 1, 1911, the line to Bleicherode- East was opened. In 1913 a route to Sieber and on was started, but was not continued due to the war . Finally, on December 1, 1931, a route serving goods traffic to the Siebertal to the community of Lonauerhammerhütte to the former Osthushenrich paper factory (now the Smurfit Kappa Group ) was put into operation on the route that had begun .

With this, the Herzberg station reached its maximum size and became an important railway junction . In 1944, north of the station, in the Kastanienplatz district, a connecting track was planned between the southern Harz and western Harz lines to prevent freight trains from jamming at the station. However, this construction was no longer implemented.

Due to the division of Germany, the line in the direction of Bleicherode was divided on the edge of Zwinge in 1945 . As the operation of this "dead end" became increasingly unprofitable over time, passenger traffic on the remaining route was gradually discontinued on May 27, 1961, and freight traffic followed on January 30, 1982. On December 31, 1994, the route to Siebertal was also closed .

View from the island platform of the marshalling yard with the high-voltage pylon built in 2015 (2015)

In the 2000s, the entire track system was renewed and the shunting systems dismantled.

In the medium term, the station and the remaining routes are to be connected to an electronic signal box in Göttingen.

Current condition

The track to the paper factory was never dismantled and is still used as a siding in the area of ​​the station exit. The route to Bleicherode was almost completely converted to a cycle path as far as Hilkerode .

Station parts

Passenger station

Clearly visible: the new elevator building (2014)

In 2014 and 2015, the station was made barrier-free as part of the Lower Saxony is on Zug II project for around 3.9 million euros : since 2015, the three platform edges have a height of 55 centimeters and a length of 140 meters, as well as elevators on the House platform (track 1) and on the island platform (tracks 2 and 4). The pedestrian underpass under tracks 1 and 2 was therefore also renovated. The platforms were provided with a tactile guidance system. A dynamic text indicator was installed on each platform to provide information about delays and other schedule deviations.

The timetable remained in place during the renovation period of around half a year. It should be built under rolling traffic and also at night. The construction work was completed in mid-2015; In early November 2015, the elevators were also put into operation after the clearance was previously delayed.

Station building

The building on track 1 was sold in 2003 by Deutsche Bahn to Patron Elke Sàrl based in Luxembourg . Since then, there has been a kiosk in the building, but it has been closed since 2016. At the entrance on the street side there is a piece of graffiti with the inscription "My dream on the track".

View of the building from the track side during the renovation period (2014)

Marshalling yard

The former marshalling yard during the renovation period (2014)

The former marshalling yard area southwest of the platforms is no longer used. The track systems no longer needed were removed in the 2000s. Tracks 5, 6 and 7 are an exception: Track 5 is a passing track right next to platform track 4. Tracks 6 and 7 are remnants of what was previously a total of nine sidings and are still used as sidings for unused wagons.

In the past, an industrial site in the Herzberg district of “Aue” was connected to track 14. The tracks and a buffer stop are still in place on the site.

Freight depot

Freight train with Harz wood, which was loaded in Herzberg (2015)

The freight yard area southeast of the passenger station was largely dismantled. Tracks 35 and 37 are still there. Wood from the Harz Mountains is loaded onto appropriate trains on them . The site is now privately owned by Holz Reimann. In November 2017, the building, which had not been used for a long time, was demolished in order to facilitate the loading of wood.

In addition, a siding used to lead to the Pleissner Guss GmbH site in the south of the station. A remnant of it on the Pleissner company premises can still be viewed from the Duderstädter Straße bike path (L 530).

links

A train to Nordhausen arrives

The southern Harz line has been operated every hour from Northeim to Nordhausen and back since 2009 , from Northeim every two hours to and from Göttingen and every two hours to and from Bodenfelde . Today, the western Harz route from Braunschweig via Salzgitter and Seesen to Herzberg is mostly driven every hour, every two hours on Sundays. On weekdays around 63 regional trains stop in Herzberg. Lint railcars are used on both routes .

line route Clock frequency EVU
RB 80 Nordhausen - Walkenried - Herzberg - Northeim - Göttingen Every two hours DB Regio North
RB 80 Herzberg - Northeim - Göttingen Individual trains DB Regio North
RB 81 Nordhausen - Walkenried - Herzberg - Northeim - Bodenfelde Every two hours DB Regio North
RB 81 Walkenried - Herzberg - Northeim Individual trains DB Regio North
RB 46 Herzberg - Seesen - Salzgitter-Ringelheim - Salzgitter-Bad - Braunschweig Hourly DB Regio North

Many buses from the surrounding area also drive to the centrally located train station.

line route Clock frequency operator
VSN 450 St. Andreasberg - Bad Lauterberg - Barbis - Scharzfeld - Herzberg Every two hours RBB
VSN 450 Bad Lauterberg - Barbis - Scharzfeld - Herzberg Every two hours RBB
VSN 451 Herzberg - Lonau - Sieber - Herzberg Hourly (workdays)
Single trips (Saturdays)
RBB
VSN 453 Wulften - Hattorf - Elbingerode - Hörden - Herzberg Hourly (workdays)
Single trips (Saturdays)
RBB
VSN 454 Rhumspringe - Pöhlde - Herzberg Individual trips RBB
VSN 454 Pöhlde - Herzberg Hourly (workdays)
Single trips (Saturdays)
RBB
VSN 459 Herzberg (city traffic) Hourly / two-hourly Steffanowski

An integral cycle schedule has already been established in Herzberg . The symmetry minute is about half an hour. Without delays, it generally works as follows:

  • Regional train 46 from Braunschweig arrives at the 21st minute.
  • Either the RB 81 or the RB 80 from Nordhausen will arrive at the 24th minute.
  • At the 26th minute, the RB 80/81 drives out again towards Göttingen / Bodenfelde.
  • The trains of the RB 80/81 do not meet in Herzberg station, but on the double-track southern Harz line between Herzberg and Hattorf.
  • At the 28th minute, either the RB 81 from Bodenfelde or the RB 80 from Göttingen arrives.
  • At the 30th minute the RB 80/81 leaves again in the direction of Nordhausen.
  • In the 34th minute, the RB 46 leaves again in the direction of Braunschweig.

At the same time, the bus lines also arrive at the station in the same period.

Previous offer

In the past, long-distance trains also stopped here, for example, before 1945 a pair of express trains from Münster to Halle, then long- distance express trains , some of which came from North Rhine-Westphalia, such as a Bielefeld-Herford-Altenbeken-Ottbergen express train in the 1980s –Northeim– Herzberg –Scharzfeld – Odertal.

On the morning of November 12, 1989, Herzberg was the starting point for the first train across the opened inner-German border . After the fall of the Wall , the southern Harz line saw through express trains Cologne - Halle .

Until December 12, 2004, Herzberg was the terminus of most trains from Bad Lauterberg , which were connected to the southern Harz line via Scharzfeld . Some drove on to Braunschweig (today's RB 46).

Next stations

  • Direction Northeim (Han) : Hattorf (Hp .; ex Bhf. )
  • Direction Nordhausen : Bad Lauterberg-Barbis (Hp.); until 2005: Scharzfeld (station); until 1983: Scharzfeld-West (Hp.)
  • Direction Seesen : Herzberg Castle (Hp)
  • Direction Siebertal: Siebertal (Gbf.)
  • Direction Bleicherode : Pöhlde (Bhf.)

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Herzberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b OpenStreetMap, the free world map
  2. a b Klaus Matwijow: Lonauerhammerhütte - housing estate and industrial center. Papierflieger Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-86948-164-7 . P. 72.
  3. Eckehard Eder, 125 years of the Seesen - Osterode - Herzberg railway line, Osterode a. H., Osterode 1996; P. 76f
  4. a b Article "Hauptbahnhof becomes a figurehead" on the website of the city of Herzberg
  5. a b c OpenRailwayMap (formerly rail map)
  6. HarzKurier of November 22, 2017