Kaufbeuren station
| Kaufbeuren | |
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 Entrance building 2010
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Intermediate station separation station (1922–1977) |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | MKFB |
| IBNR | 8000194 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | September 1, 1847 |
| Website URL | BEG station database |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Kaufbeuren |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 52 '33 " N , 10 ° 37' 46" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 681 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The station Kaufbeuren is the station of the independent city Kaufbeuren in Swabia . It is located on the Bavarian Allgäu Railway from Munich via Kempten to Lindau . The now closed railway line to Schongau , also known as the Sachsenrieder Bähnle , began in Kaufbeuren . Kaufbeuren station has four platform tracks and belongs to category 4 of DB Station & Service . It is approximately 100 daily regional trains of Deutsche Bahn and the state railway and by a InterCity - pair of trains operated.
Kaufbeuren station was opened in 1847 as the provisional terminus of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn . After the extension to Lindau, the Royal Bavarian State Railways moved the station closer to the city center of Kaufbeuren by 1854. With the opening of the line to Schongau in 1922 it became a separation station , but in 1977 it was shut down again. The station building from 1854 was demolished in 1978 and replaced by a new building by 1979.
location
The train station is located southeast of downtown Kaufbeuren. The station building is located northwest of the tracks on Bahnhofstrasse. A P + R parking lot is located southeast of the platforms on the site of the former freight tracks . In the southwest of the station, the federal road 16 , which is called Füssener Strasse at this point, crosses the tracks with an underpass . It connects the train station with the city center. To the northeast of the station, the railway line crosses the Wertach .
Kaufbeuren station is on the double-track and non-electrified Allgäu Railway from Munich via Buchloe and Kempten to Lindau ( VzG 5362). It has been expanded for 160 km / h and is served in regional traffic as well as by individual long-distance train pairs. In Kaufbeuren, the railway line, which was closed in 1977, branched off through the Sachsenrieder forest to Schongau (VzG 5443). It was single-track, not electrified and served regional and freight traffic.
The following course book sections meet in Kaufbeuren:
- KBS 966: Kaufbeuren – Schongau (until 1972)
- KBS 970 : Munich – Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Kempten (Allgäu) –Immenstadt – Lindau / Oberstdorf
- KBS 974 : Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Biessenhofen – Marktoberdorf – Füssen
history
On August 25, 1843, the Bavarian government passed the law to build the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn from Hof via Bamberg , Nuremberg , Nördlingen , Augsburg and Kaufbeuren to Lindau . On September 1, 1847, the Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the Kaufbeuren station as the end point of the section from Augsburg via Buchloe to Kaufbeuren. The first station in Kaufbeuren was north of the Wertach, as the bridge over the Wertach was not yet completed. He received a brick entrance building in brick construction with an attached goods shed and a locomotive depot . In 1848 the Wertachbrücke, an arched bridge made of stone blocks with four fields, was completed, but the previous train station north of the Wertach remained. On April 1, 1852, the Bavarian State Railways opened the continuation of the line over the Wertach Bridge to Kempten (Allgäu), making the Kaufbeuren station a through station. By March 1, 1854, the entire route of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn from Hof to Lindau was completed. The Buchloe – Lindau section today belongs to the Bavarian Allgäu Railway . The city of Kaufbeuren wanted to relocate the station to the other bank of the Wertach in order to shorten the distance to the city center. The Bavarian State Railways initially refused, but the city managed to convince them. From 1853 to 1854 a new station was built for 27,225 guilders southwest of the old one on the other side of the Wertach Bridge. The previous station was demolished in 1854.
The new Kaufbeuren train station received a three-storey reception building in the classicism style designed by the architect Eduard Rüber . In addition, a freight hall, a locomotive and a wagon shed were built . On May 1, 1873, the Bavarian State Railways put the section of the Allgäu Railway to Munich, branching off from the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn in Buchloe, into operation, making continuous journeys from Munich via Kaufbeuren to Lindau possible. On March 30, 1892, three new mechanical signal boxes went into operation in Kaufbeuren . From 1904 to 1905 the Bavarian State Railways expanded the Allgäu Railway between Buchloe and Kempten to two tracks. The platforms at Kaufbeuren station were renewed and a new goods shed was built. The previous level crossings were replaced by a platform underpass. On April 1, 1922, the Deutsche Reichsbahn opened a railway line from Kaufbeuren to Aufkirch , which was extended to Schongau in 1923 . The Kaufbeuren station thus became a separation station and received larger track systems. The number of platform tracks was increased from three to five by building a second central platform. The route was mainly used for freight traffic from the Peiting and Peißenberg mines to the Allgäu, as well as for excursions to the Sachsenrieder forest , which is why it was also called Sachsenrieder Bähnle .
In the 1950s, the tracks in Kaufbeuren reached their greatest extent with eight main tracks, additional parking and loading tracks and over 40 switches. On October 27, 1970, the previous mechanical signal boxes were replaced by a track plan push button signal box . Due to falling passenger numbers, the German Federal Railroad stopped passenger traffic on the Kaufbeuren – Schongau line on October 1, 1972. In 1977 the Deutsche Bundesbahn stopped the remaining freight traffic and shut down the line. After the line was closed, the station lost its importance, as hardly any trains started or ended in Kaufbeuren. Part of the freight track was shut down. In February 1978, the old station building from 1854 was demolished and a new low-rise building was erected by July 6, 1979. The Kaufbeuren railway maintenance depot, located in the south-east of the station, was dissolved in 1978. From 1986 to 1994 the DB laid the remaining freight tracks southeast of the platforms and partially dismantled the track systems. The number of platform tracks has been reduced from five to four. In 1999 the local freight traffic was finally stopped. On May 16, 2007, the station's former freight hall was demolished. The former shunting and freight tracks with scales and some structures were removed and built over in 2013 as part of an enlargement of the P + R car park behind the station.
In 2011, the DB, as the operator of the station in Kaufbeuren, presented plans for a planned new construction of the no longer contemporary station building. Instead of the current building, a single-storey building was to be erected, which is slightly smaller than the previous building. A travel center and a catering area should be located in the building. The front should be provided with a large glass construction. Deutsche Bahn planned for the new building at a cost of two million euros. In October 2013 it became known that the railway had put the implementation of the new construction plans on hold for financial reasons.
construction
Reception building
The station building from 1854 was a three-storey eaves - standing building in brick construction with a slate roof . On both sides there were single-storey wing buildings with a hipped roof , which were connected to the main building via single-storey transverse structures. The symmetrical building was in the classicism style and was designed by Eduard Rüber . The main building had a footprint of 16 by 12 meters. On the ground floor there was a ticket office , waiting rooms, the train station restaurant, goods handling and a post office. On the first and second floors there were apartments for railway employees. From 1892 the building also contained a command signal box . Around 1938, the Deutsche Reichsbahn modernized the station building, including plastering the outside. In February 1978 it was demolished.
The new reception building of the Kaufbeuren station was opened on July 6, 1979. It is a one-story, hexagonal clinker brick building with a protruding flat roof. The building includes a waiting hall, a DB travel center and a DB service store. On both sides there are flat extensions with service rooms.
Platforms and track systems
In the early years there were three platform tracks at one house and two intermediate platforms in Kaufbeuren . There were also other parking and loading tracks. In the course of the double-track expansion of the Allgäu Railway, the platforms were renewed by 1905. The intermediate platforms were replaced by a central platform . With the expansion to the separation station, the Deutsche Reichsbahn expanded the track system again from 1922. They built a second central platform with two platform tracks. Thus, it was now possible that with trains passing the Allgäu Railway same time two trains of Schongauer route could stand on the platform in Kaufbeuren.
From the 1950s there were eight main tracks in Kaufbeuren, five of which were platform tracks. Opposite the station building, in addition to the three main tracks without a platform, there were two more butt tracks that were used to park trains. A separate locomotive shed was connected to the freight tracks . Another dead-end track provided the connection to the railway maintenance depot east of the locomotive shed. The local freight facility, which consisted of two loading tracks at the freight shed, was located southwest of the reception building . At the southern exit of the station there was a siding to the warehouse, which was equipped with extensive track systems and a turntable . After the route to Schongau was largely closed, the Deutsche Bundesbahn gradually dismantled the freight facilities from 1972 onwards. From 1986 to 1994, all remaining freight facilities were shut down and the second central platform was converted into a side platform by dismantling the fifth platform track .
Today the tracks of the Kaufbeuren train station consist of four platform tracks. Track 1 is on the house platform , tracks 2 and 3 on a central platform and track 4 on a side platform opposite the house platform . All platforms are covered and equipped with digital train destination displays . An underpass opened in 1905 connects the central and side platforms with the main platform. There are no elevators , so only platforms 1 and 4 are barrier-free . A lifting system is only available on platform 1.
| track | Usable length | Platform height | use |
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| 1 | 330 m | 38 cm | Trains in the direction of Kempten, Füssen and Marktoberdorf |
| 2 | 350 m | 38 cm | Trains in the direction of Buchloe, Munich and Augsburg |
| 3 | 350 m | 38 cm | individual trains in the direction of Buchloe, Füssen and Marktoberdorf |
| 4th | 124 m | 38 cm | individual trains in the direction of Augsburg and Füssen |
Signal boxes
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The Bavarian State Railways participated in Kaufbeuren on March 30, 1892 three mechanical interlocking of the company Krauss in operation. The command signal box was housed in the reception building, the guard signal boxes in two two-storey switch towers. Signal box I was located north of the track system at the exit towards Buchloe, signal box II was in the direction of Kempten between the main tracks and the connection to the warehouse. On October 27, 1970, a new Lorenz 30 track plan push button interlocking went into operation, which is located in a single-storey building on the house platform. The mechanical signal boxes were shut down and the switch towers demolished shortly afterwards.
traffic
passenger traffic
The Kaufbeuren station is served daily by a pair of trains on the Intercity Line 26, which runs under the name Nebelhorn from Hamburg-Altona via Augsburg and Kaufbeuren to Oberstdorf .
The station is a regional traffic system stop. Since December 9th, 2009 it has been served every two hours by the alex of the regional railway from Munich to Lindau and Oberstdorf. Furthermore, the Allgäu-Franken-Express runs daily from Nuremberg to Lindau and Oberstdorf with several pairs of trains. Regional-Express trains from Augsburg to Lindau and Oberstdorf complement the journeys of the Allgäu-Franken-Express every two hours. Regional express trains between Munich and Kempten also stop in Kaufbeuren every two hours.
Since December 2018, trains of the Bavarian Regiobahn have been running every two hours from Augsburg and Munich to Füssen, so that between Buchloe and Füssen there is an hourly service . These trains turn in Biessenhofen from the Allgäu Railway onto the Biessenhofen – Füssen railway line .
| Line / type of train |
course | Clock frequency |
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| IC 26 |
Nebelhorn: ( Hamburg -) Lüneburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Augsburg - Kaufbeuren - Immenstadt - Oberstdorf |
a pair of trains |
| ALX | Munich - Kaufering - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Kempten (Allgäu) - Immenstadt - Oberstdorf / Lindau | Every 2 hours |
| RE | Munich - Kaufering - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Biessenhofen - Kempten (Allgäu) | Every 2 hours |
| BRB | Munich - Kaufering - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Biessenhofen - Marktoberdorf - Füssen | Every 2 hours |
| RE |
Allgäu-Franken-Express : Nuremberg - Augsburg - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Kempten (Allgäu) - Immenstadt - Lindau / Oberstdorf |
Every 2 hours |
| RE | Augsburg - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Kempten (Allgäu) - Immenstadt - Lindau / Oberstdorf | |
| BRB | Augsburg - Bobingen - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Biessenhofen - Marktoberdorf - Füssen | Every 2 hours |
| BRB | Augsburg - Bobingen - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Biessenhofen - Marktoberdorf | 2-hour intervals during peak hours |
Freight transport
From April 1, 1922, the Kaufbeuren station served as a through station for goods traffic from the Peiting and Peißenberg mines to the Allgäu . The coal trains switched from the Sachsenrieder Bähnle to the Allgäu Railway in Kaufbeuren . Round timber from the Sachsenrieder forest was also loaded in Kaufbeuren. In addition, local freight trains from Schongau and the places along the Kaufbeuren – Schongau railway arrived in Kaufbeuren. Local freight traffic and general cargo loading were also important. Until September 25, 1966, a branching in the purchase Beurener urban area of the railway line Kaufbeuren-Schongau was siding operated at a gravel pit. For shunting and transfer journeys in Kaufbeuren own was small diesel locomotive of Köf III stationed. By December 31, 1972, the Deutsche Bundesbahn gave up almost all freight traffic between Kaufbeuren and Schongau. As a result, the station lost a large part of its freight traffic. What remained was a freight train from Kaufbeuren to Linden, which was stopped on September 1, 1977. In May 1987, the DB withdrew the small locomotive and on January 1, 1990 gave up general cargo traffic in Kaufbeuren. In May 1999, Deutsche Bahn completely stopped local freight traffic. Today there is no more goods handling at Kaufbeuren station.
There is no longer any international freight traffic on the Allgäu Railway. Individual freight trains still run through Kaufbeuren to sidings in Aitrang and Günzach .
See also
literature
- Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7455-9 .
- BDEF yearbook 2003: Eisenbahnfreunde Unterwegs, Kaufbeuren on the Allgäubahn . Self-published by BDEV, Hanover 2003.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 970 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 974 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Roman Dilken: Historical development of the KBS 970 ( Memento of 5 October 2018 Internet Archive ). In: kbs970.de .
- ↑ a b Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 322-323 .
- ↑ a b Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 323-325 .
- ↑ a b Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes. In: stellwerke.de , October 26, 2015, accessed on July 17, 2017.
- ↑ a b Reiner Schruft: Kaufbeuren - Saxony Rieder Forst. Photo documentation of the route. In: vergierter-bahnen.de , April 2009, accessed on July 17, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 325-327 .
- ^ New train station for Kaufbeuren. In: Kreisbote , April 20, 2011, accessed on July 17, 2017.
- ^ Allgäuer Zeitung : Train departed for the new Kaufbeurer station. In: all-in.de , October 5, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2017.
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 323 .
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 327 .
- ↑ a b DB Station & Service : Station equipment Kaufbeuren ( Memento from April 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: deutschebahn.com , March 1, 2018.
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 326 .