Ilmenau Bad train station
| Ilmenau bath | |
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 Ilmenau Bad train station
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| abbreviation | UIB |
| IBNR | 8011931 |
| opening | 1904 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Home style |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Ilmenau |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 40 ′ 53 " N , 10 ° 54 ′ 32" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 485.8 m |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The station Ilmenau Bad (colloquially Bahnhof Bad ) is a stop on the Rennsteigbahn in Ilmenau ( Thuringia ).
It is located in the southwest of the city directly on the Ilm . Until the timetable change on December 9, 2007, it was the end point of the timetable route 566 ( Erfurt – Ilmenau ). The next train station in the direction of Erfurt is the Ilmenau train station 1.3 kilometers away , in the direction of Schleusingen the train station in Manebach follows . Ilmenau Bad is located at 20.45 kilometers of the Plaue – Themar railway line at a height of 486 meters. The Ilmenau Bad train station is classified as a stop, which is why there were never any operating facilities such as signal boxes, locomotive sheds or the like in its vicinity. The station never played a role for freight traffic either, it was and is a pure passenger station.
history
In the second half of the 19th century, the spa business began in Ilmenau. At that time the spa district was built in the southwest of the city. It is located in the lower Gabelbachtal right on the edge of the Thuringian Forest . As early as 1879, Ilmenau received a railway connection in the direction of Erfurt, but the city's train station was far away from the spa district.
The spa guests had to change to the horse-drawn carriage at the station to get to the spa district, which the operators of the spa facilities disliked. That is why they called for a direct rail connection to the district in order to make it easier for the often sick guests to travel there. When the Rennsteigbahn from Ilmenau to Schleusingen was planned after 1900 , the spa operators insisted on a train station near their facilities.
Since the route was supposed to pass the district anyway, they were given their station. To build the station, however, the 15 meter high slag dump of the Sophienhütte (a glassworks founded in 1855 ) first had to be removed. This is where the train station was built, which went into operation in 1904 together with the Rennsteigbahn. During its more than 100-year history, it was primarily used by spa guests to travel to the hotel and glaziers from the Sophienhütte to get to their workplace.
After the number of passengers declined after the fall of 1990, the local rail transport to Schleusingen was discontinued in 1998. Initially, the route between Ilmenau train station and Ilmenau Bad was still used, but when this turned out to be unprofitable, traffic was also discontinued in 2000. However, passenger traffic on this section was only suspended for five years. From 2005 the trains of the Erfurt Railway and the South Thuringia Railway went back to Bad Station. At the weekend between 2005 and 2007 there was again train traffic from Ilmenau to Stützerbach . Furthermore, “museum trips” take place on the Rennsteigbahn at irregular intervals. These also stop at Bad Bahnhof. The connection Ilmenau – Stützerbach and thus the scheduled passenger traffic in Bad Bahnhof were discontinued on December 9, 2007.
Since June 2014, trains of the Erfurt Railway have been running to Rennsteig station on weekends and public holidays . With the timetable change in December 2017, the services were taken over by the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn for eleven years.
Investments
Today there is only one platform and only one track at Bad Bahnhof . A second track used to exist to enable train crossings. However, this was dismantled.
The station building is all the more worth seeing. It is a two-story half - timbered building that is richly decorated and used to have a turret on the roof. The roof is very steep, as snowy winters can be expected due to the location in the Thuringian Forest and a steeper roof is statically more stable than a flatter one. The building is very similar to the train stations in Manebach, Stützerbach, Schmiedefeld and Schleusingerneundorf. Right next to the train station is the Lessingpark on the south side and the Ilm on the north side.
