Cologne-Mülheim train station
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Entrance building of the
Mülheim am Rhein train station (1910) |
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 7th |
| abbreviation | KKM |
| IBNR | 8000209 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | July 1, 1909 (today's train station) |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Cologne-Muelheim |
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| City / municipality | Cologne |
| Place / district | Mülheim |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '31 " N , 7 ° 0' 49" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Cologne-Mülheim train station is located in the Cologne district of the same name and is an important regional train station of Deutsche Bahn AG in Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. The station is divided into a passenger station on the Cologne - Duisburg , Cologne - Wuppertal and Cologne-Mülheim - Bergisch Gladbach lines, as well as spatially separate through tracks for freight trains on the Troisdorf-Mülheim-Speldorf line . Its development goes back to the year 1874.
history
In the 19th century there were still several train stations in Mülheim am Rhein, as all private railway companies had their own railway systems and routes.
The stations of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME, Cologne – Duisburg line ) and the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft (BME, routes to Elberfeld and Bergisch Gladbach - Lindlar ) were right next to each other on Buchheimer Strasse (near Wiener Platz ).
Only the station of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft (RhE, Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf line ) was already at the site of today's Cologne-Mülheim station.
This station only served as a passenger traffic stop until June 1, 1886. With the opening of the route extension from Deutz Schiffbrücke station to Kalk Süd, passenger traffic on the Opladen – Troisdorf line was discontinued.
After the nationalization of the railway companies, there were long deliberations on how the urgently needed merging of the stations should be carried out. The stations of the CME and BME were demolished, the routes swiveled to the east.
Construction work began in 1903, on July 1, 1909, the new station was opened and all goods and passenger traffic could be moved over the merged routes. At that time the station was still called Mülheim am Rhein , as Mülheim was not incorporated into Cologne until 1914 and was an independent town at the time. This also explains the generously dimensioned facility for a suburban train station with four platforms and seven tracks.
Today the station is a hub for regional and S-Bahn traffic in north-eastern Cologne and an important link between regional and local public transport.
historical development
- 1874: Opening of the Troisdorf - Speldorf (Mülheim an der Ruhr) railway line of the Rhenish Railway
- 1886: Suspension of passenger traffic in Mülheim (RhE)
- 1909: New construction of the Mülheim train station at its present location
- 1944: Destruction of the reception building in the course of the bombing
- 1951: Reconstruction of the reception building in a simplified form
- 1975: S-Bahn operations open ( Bergisch Gladbach - Cologne - Cologne-Chorweiler )
- 1990: Opening of the main S-Bahn line
- 1997: The underground tram stop at Mülheim station opens
- 2004ff: Reconstruction of the track apron as part of the route expansion to Cologne Messe / Deutz (deep)
service
Cologne-Mülheim train station is served by various local rail passenger transport lines, including two Regional Express lines. Only the trains of the Rhein-Münsterland-Express (RE 7) pass through the station as scheduled without stopping.
There are no stops for long-distance passenger rail transport .
The following lines operate by bus:
| line | Driving distance |
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| 150 |
Kalk , Corintostraße - Deutz / Messe train station  - Thermal baths - Mülheim, Wiener Platz - Schanzenstraße / Schauspielhaus - Schanzenstr. North - Mülheim station
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| 151 |
Porz , Markt - Porz train station - Urbach - Eil - Finkenberg - Gremberghoven - Hansestraße Ost - Frankfurter Straße - Ostheim - Höhenberg - Buchheim - Mülheim station - Mülheim, Wiener Platz - Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung - Stammheim - Flittard - Chempark
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| 152 | Porz, Markt - Porz train station - Urbach - Eil - Finkenberg - Gremberghoven - Steinstraße - Frankfurter Straße - Ostheim - Höhenberg - Buchheim - Mülheim station - Mülheim, Wiener Platz - Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung - Stammheim - Flittard - Chempark
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| 153 |
Deutz train station / LANXESS arena - Deutz - Humboldt / Gremberg - Vingst - Höhenberg - Buchheim - Mülheim station - Mülheim, Wiener Platz - Düsseldorfer Straße - Stammheim - New Mülheimer Friedhof
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Discussion about Rhein-Ruhr-Express
The extent to which the Rhein-Ruhr-Express (RRX), which will replace the regional trains RE 1 and RE 5, will stop in Cologne-Mülheim has not yet been clarified. In 2016, the then North Rhine-Westphalian Transport Minister Michael Groschek announced that this stop would not be served by the RRX. This would mean that there is no longer a direct connection with the state capital Düsseldorf and the time required for commuters increases. From the ranks of the citizens' initiative RRX for Cologne-Mülheim the fear was expressed that many commuters would switch to the car, which would exacerbate problems with air pollution levels in the already polluted part of the city. The Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland (NVR) has now submitted a feasibility study which, contrary to the assessment of the federal government, attributes an RRX stop to be economically viable. An additional track would have to be built so that the stop would not cause any hindrances to long-distance traffic. The NVR study, based also on the assumption of strong population growth in Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine, assumes 18,200 commuters per day from 2030, which would correspond to an increase of 4,900 boarding and disembarking numbers compared to 2017 figures.
Training travel center
Until 2017, the station building was the only Deutsche Bahn training travel center in the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was operated independently by trainees at the counters. Trainees in the travel advisory department from all over the state spent several weeks here in their first and second year of training. An instructor was present in case of difficulties. It has been operating as a normal travel center since 2018.
Mülheim underground station
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| Basic data | |
| District | Mülheim |
| Opened | June 1, 1997 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 (side platforms) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 ′ 26 " N , 7 ° 0 ′ 42" E |
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| Stretch) | Mülheim tunnel |
| Line (s) | 13 18 |
| Switching options | 150 151 152 153 S 6 , S 11 , regional traffic, long-distance traffic, |
At the southern end of the station area, the tracks cross Frankfurter Strasse. There a tunnel was created for the tram , which was given a stop below the railway crossing with a central platform and two tracks, which was opened in 1997 and, like all newer tunnel stations of the Cologne tram, is designed for triple tram trains with a platform length of 90 meters. The platform with the tracks for the S-Bahn was extended to the south, so that an elevator connects the platforms of the S-Bahn and the light rail directly with each other. Both platforms can be reached from a mezzanine by stairs and escalators. The platforms for regional transport, on the other hand, can only be reached through the station tunnel and the reception building .
The two tram lines 13 and 18 are currently running on the route. In addition, the bus lines 150, 151, 152 and 153 of the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB) stop at the station .
| line | Line course | Tact |
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| 13 | Sülzgürtel - Zülpicher Strasse / Gürtel - Lindenthal - Aachener Str./Gürtel - Venloer Strasse / Gürtel ( Ehrenfeld station ) - Geldernstrasse / Parkgürtel - Neusser Strasse / Gürtel - Riehl - Mülheim Wiener Platz - Cologne-Mülheim train station - Buchheim - Holweide | 10 min |
| 18th | Dellbrück, Thielenbruch - Holweide - Buchheim - Mülheim station - Mülheim Wiener Platz - Zoo / Flora - Reichenspergerplatz - Ebertplatz - Breslauer Platz / Hbf - Dom / Hbf - Appelhofplatz (Breite Strasse) - Neumarkt - Barbarossaplatz - Eifelwall - Klettenberg - Hürth - Brühl - Bornheim - Bonn West - Bonn main station | 5 min (main section) |
| Previous station | Cologne light rail | Next station | ||
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Mülheim Wiener Platz ← Sülzgürtel |
13 Belt Railway |
Buchheim Herler Strasse Holweide Vischeringstrasse → |
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Mülheim Wiener Platz ← Bonn Central Station |
18 Foothill Railway |
Buchheim Herler Strasse Thielenbruch → |
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See also
Web links
- Information about the underground station Bf Mülheim from the KVB
- Operations in the nrwbahnarchiv
- Tracks in service facilities (KKM) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Kaiß: Stopover - The Opladen train station through the ages . Leverkusen 2016, ISBN 978-3-9809357-9-1 , p. 62 .
- ↑ Radio Köln: Radio Köln - The best mix! Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Christ: Rhein-Ruhr-Express: New track increases chances for RRX stop at Cologne-Mülheim train station. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
- ^ Anja Katzmarzik: Deutsche Bahn: Responsibility from the start. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Uwe Schäfer: Mülheim station: travel center remains. January 18, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019 (German).