Hochdorf (b Horb) station
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.jpg) Hochdorf train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | THF |
| IBNR | 8000389 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | June 1, 1874 |
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| City / municipality | Eutingen in the Gäu |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 28 '56 " N , 8 ° 43' 25" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 511 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Nagoldtalbahn Pforzheim - Calw - Nagold - Horb and the Gäubahn Stuttgart - Eutingen - Freudenstadt separate at the Hochdorf (b Horb) station .
location
The Hochdorf train station is about one to one and a half kilometers from the eponymous district of the city of Nagold on the federal highway 463 (Rottweiler Straße). Although it is closer to the Hochdorf district of Nagold, the Hochdorf train station is officially located in the district of Eutingen im Gäu .
In terms of rail technology, the Hochdorf (b Horb) station is located at a fork in the route, the Eutingen railroad intersection. The routes to Freudenstadt ( Gäubahn ) and Pforzheim ( Nagoldtalbahn ) branch off to the south-west, directly behind the Hochdorf train station . In a north-westerly direction, the line branches off towards Eutingen and towards Horb at the Eutingen railway junction.
history
Creation of the Hochdorf train station (1865–1879)
On February 18, 1865, a state treaty was signed between Baden and Württemberg , which included the construction of the Nagold Valley Railway. On April 25, 1865, the then Minister of State Karl von Varnbüler introduced the third fundamental railway law in Württemberg by means of a ministerial lecture, with which the construction of the Nagold Valley Railway was finally decided.
A government bill of April 28, 1865 already mentions a “Gäu Railway” Stuttgart – Freudenstadt as a route to be built. It should connect the Württemberg capital Stuttgart with the Black Forest and future railway lines in the Murg and Kinzig valleys. This construction option was agreed in a state treaty between Württemberg and Prussia of March 13, 1865.
On June 1, 1874, under the direction of senior building officer Carl Julius Abel, the Brötzingen – Calw – Nagold – Hochdorf section was opened, after operations between Pforzheim and Brötzingen had already started on June 11, 1868 . At the same time, the subsequent line to Horb went into operation, which is now included in the neighboring lines from Eutingen to Freudenstadt or from Stuttgart to Hattingen .
On September 1, 1879, the Gäubahn began operating between Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof and Freudenstadt Hauptbahnhof . The Hochdorf station, which had opened five years earlier, thus became the crossing station between the Gäu and Nagoldtalbahn.
Development up to the Second World War (1879–1945)
In the early years of the Nagold Valley Railway, long-distance trains ran between Calw and Horb - coming from Stuttgart - via the Württemberg Black Forest Railway to Singen am Hohentwiel and on to Lake Constance or Schaffhausen . When the route from Stuttgart via Eutingen to Freudenstadt was opened, using the Stuttgart – Böblingen – Horb route has since been a significantly shorter route from Stuttgart to Switzerland , which is why long-distance traffic then switched to this connection. Against this background, the Eutingen - Hochdorf (b Horb) section was expanded to two tracks and operated accordingly from 1887.
The lighting in Hochdorf train station has been powered by electricity since 1912.
Development after the Second World War (1945–1990)
In 1954, the Hochdorf signal box in the direction of Eutingen was decommissioned and a central signal box was built. This was accompanied by a simplification of the track plan. Since then, it has no longer been possible to enter freight track 4 from the direction of Nagold.
Almost exactly fifty years after it was put into operation, the second track between Hochdorf and Eutingen was shut down again on May 29, 1983, after it had already been put out of service on November 5, 1981 due to defects in the superstructure. The second track was dismantled between 1984 and 1985. The remaining track has been used by both the Gäu and Nagoldtalbahns since then. In 1988, the loading of goods in the Hochdorf station was stopped.
Development of the Hochdorf train station in the "Freudenstädter Stern" (since 1990)
In the mid-1990s, plans arose for a regional network called Freudenstädter Stern . These envisaged cost reductions through extensive rationalization of personnel and infrastructure, the introduction of an integral regular timetable and at least hourly train services.
In 2005 the station was modernized. Since then it only has two tracks with a central platform that is reached at the same level. The track on the house platform is no longer available. The old form signals were replaced by Ks light signals and have since been remotely controlled from the electronic signal box (ESTW) at Freudenstadt main station . This means that - after the ticket office had already been closed - there have been no more train staff at Hochdorf station since that day. On November 8, 2005, the signal box technology was dismantled and removed by workers from the Wuppertal signaling plant. The station building is used privately. The owner, who owns a total of 3 train stations in the vicinity, has renovated and refurbished the buildings with reference to the historical background. The owner's demolition company is also located at the station, which deals with historical building materials and uses the old workshop shed as a machine store and workshop. This shed has also been restored and painted in the original colors.
One of the last major projects in the regional network was the electrification of the Gäubahn, which lasted from April to December 2006, as well as the new construction or renovation of the Schopfloch (b Freudenstadt) and Hochdorf (b Horb) stations . In this way, the route could be integrated into the Karlsruhe light rail network with the S41 line , after it was extended to Freudenstadt in 2003. The light rail system started operating at the scheduled change of the 2006/2007 timetable on December 10, 2006. The changeover was accompanied by a sharp increase in the number of passengers. In 2005, only around 500 passengers per day used the train service on the Gäubahn; in 2007 there were already 1,300 and in 2008 1,400 passengers.
business
passenger traffic
Around 1900, the bathing train from Frankfurt and Wiesbaden via Karlsruhe , Pforzheim and Hochdorf to Freudenstadt also stopped at Hochdorf station .
Regional express , regional and light rail trains stop at Hochdorf (b Horb) station in the 2019 timetable . Long-distance trains no longer run on the routes leading to Hochdorf station.
The Gäubahn is operated by Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) . A regional express runs from Freudenstadt to Stuttgart every two hours. In the intervening hours, the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG) extended the S8 (previously S41) Karlsruhe – Freudenstadt light rail line to Eutingen im Gäu on behalf of Deutsche Bahn in December 2006 . In Eutingen there is a seamless transition from the Stadtbahn to RE Stuttgart– Singen .
The cultural railway is operated by the DB subsidiary DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH (RAB) . The diesel railcars used there run every two hours between Pforzheim and Tübingen , and every hour between Pforzheim and Horb.
Occasionally there are trips with historical steam locomotives on the Gäubahn . For the time after the determination of Stuttgart 21, the Hochdorf train station is to be connected to Stuttgart with a Metropolexpress .
Regional traffic
| route | Clock frequency | vehicles | |
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| RE 14B | Stuttgart - Böblingen - Herrenberg - Eutingen im Gäu - Hochdorf (b Horb) - Freudenstadt Hbf | 120-minute intervals | BR 442 |
| S 8 | Karlsruhe Tullastraße / Verkehrsbetriebe - Karlsruhe station forecourt - Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof - Durmersheim - Rastatt - Gaggenau - Gernsbach - Forbach (Black Forest) - Baiersbronn - Freudenstadt city - Freudenstadt main station - Dornstetten - Schopfloch (b Freudenstadt) - Hochdorf (b Horb) - Eutingen im Gäu ( - Herrenberg) | Every 120 minutes to Bondorf (b Herrenberg), individual trips to Herrenberg in the evening traffic | Light rail vehicles |
| RB 14B | (Stuttgart - Böblingen -) Herrenberg - Eutingen im Gäu - Hochdorf (b Horb) | individual pairs of trains in the evening Monday to Friday | BR 442 |
| RB | Pforzheim - Calw - Nagold - Hochdorf (b Horb) - Horb (- Rottenburg - Tübingen ) | Hourly, connection every two hours to Tübingen | BR 650 |
Freight transport
The freight transport plays a minor role on both the Gäubahn and on the Nagold Valley Railway. The last time a large amount of timber was transported was after the storm damage caused by hurricanes Lothar and Kyrill . A particular problem with freight traffic is the high utilization of the Eutingen im Gäu – Hochdorf (b Horb) line, where, in addition to the regional express and light rail trains on the Gäu Railway, trains from the Nagold Valley Railway also run every hour .
See also
- History of the railway in Württemberg with maps for the completion of the Gäubahn compared to the growth of the entire Württemberg rail network
- Eutingen im Gäu – Freudenstadt railway line
- Nagold Valley Railway
literature
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny: The railway in the northern Black Forest . tape 1 : Historical development and railway construction . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-88255-763-X .
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny: The railway in the northern Black Forest . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-88255-764-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny, Volume 1, p. 131
- ↑ a b Hochdorf special, history of the Hochdorf train station, accessed on August 30, 2009 ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Axel H. Kunert: The Metropolexpress is still going. In: Nagold edition. Schwarzwälder Bote, June 7, 2019, accessed on November 21, 2019 .