Kaufering train station

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Kaufering
Entrance building from the street side
Entrance building from the street side
Data
Location in the network Crossing station
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation MKFG
IBNR 8000195
Price range 4th
opening November 1, 1872
Website URL stationsdatenbank.bayern-takt.de
Profile on Bahnhof.de Kaufering
location
City / municipality Kaufering
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 4 '51 "  N , 10 ° 51' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '51 "  N , 10 ° 51' 17"  E
Height ( SO ) 591.5  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Bavaria
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The Kaufering station is the station of the market Kaufering in Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech . It is a crossing station between the Allgäu Railway from Munich to Lindau and the Lechfeld Railway from Bobingen to Landsberg am Lech . The station has five platform tracks on one house platform and two central platforms . It belongs to the station category 4 of the DB Station & Service and is daily from about 140Regional trains operated by DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben and the Länderbahn .

Kaufering station was opened in 1872 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways as a through station on the Buchloe – Kaufering – Landsberg line. A year later, the entire Munich – Kaufering – Buchloe line was put into operation, so that the station became a separation station . With the opening of the railway line to Bobingen in 1877, the station became a crossing station. Due to the strategic location, the Deutsche Reichsbahn expanded the station during the Second World War . At the end of the 1980s and 1990s, the station building was modernized and some of the tracks were dismantled.

location

Kaufering train station is located south of the Kaufering market. The station area is bordered to the north by Bahnhofsstraße and to the south by Viktor-Frankl-Straße. In the east of the station area, Augsburger Strasse crosses under the tracks with an underpass , and in the west, Kreisstrasse LL 22 crosses the route with a bridge. The station building is north of the tracks and has the address Bahnhofsstraße 15.

Kaufering is the crossing station of two railway lines. The Bavarian Allgäu Railway from Munich via Buchloe and Kempten to Lindau am Bodensee ( VzG 5520) is a double-track main line . In addition to regional traffic, some international long-distance trains run on it . The Lechfeldbahn from Bobingen via Kaufering to Landsberg am Lech (VzG 5363 and 5364) is a single-track branch line that is only served in regional traffic.

The following course book sections meet in Kaufering :

history

On April 9, 1869, the Bavarian State Parliament passed a law to build a railway line from Munich to Memmingen , which was to connect to the Ludwigs-Süd-Nord-Bahn in Buchloe . Contrary to the efforts of the city of Landsberg to get a direct connection to the route, a route via Kaufering was decided due to lower costs. Instead, Landsberg was to be connected to the main line with a branch line to Kaufering. At the end of 1869, construction work began on the railway line from Munich to Buchloe and, in 1870, the construction of the branch line to Landsberg, which was designed as a vicinal railway . The Kaufering train station was built west of the Lech , although the old town center of Kaufering was on the eastern bank of the Lech . A train station near the center of the village would, however, have resulted in higher costs due to difficult terrain, so the decision was made to locate it west of the Lech.

On November 1, 1872, the Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the main line from Buchloe to Kaufering, to which the Vizinalbahn to Landsberg am Lech connected in the Kaufering station, which opened at the same time. On May 1, 1873, the extension from Kaufering to Munich was put into operation, so that continuous train traffic from Munich to Lindau was now possible. In 1872 the Kaufering station received a three-storey station building in brick construction with a hipped roof . There was also a goods shed with a loading ramp, a toilet building, water cranes , a water house and a residential building for the railway staff. There was also a two-room carriage house with an attached turntable . The track system consisted of five main tracks. For the exchange attendant, who were responsible for setting the points, there was an exchange attendant house with office and living quarters at the western and eastern exit of the station. On May 15, 1877, the Bavarian State Railways put the Lechfeld Railway from Kaufering to Bobingen near Augsburg into operation. Kaufering was now a railway junction where trains from Munich to Buchloe and from Augsburg to Landsberg crossed. On April 5, 1893, the station was centralized, which means that the levers for setting the points and signals were combined in mechanical signal boxes . The station received a command signal box in the station building as well as two additional guard signal boxes. The exchange attendant's houses were converted into residential buildings.

With the double-track expansion of the Munich – Buchloe railway line, the Bavarian State Railways rebuilt the station in 1906. The tracks and switches were redesigned and the number of main tracks increased to seven. The level crossings were replaced by a platform underpass and the platforms covered. The wagon shed was demolished, the turntable relocated to the west and a two-tier locomotive shed with an integrated locomotive driver's night was built. In addition, a heating house for locomotives was built into which the water house was also integrated. At the end of the 1920s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn set up a siding to the Riebel gravel works, which branches off from the Lechfeldbahn track at the western exit of the station. At the end of the 1930s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn modernized the station building. The building was plastered and a two-story extension was added to the east. During the Second World War , a DAG explosives factory was built southwest of the train station in Frauenwald , which was connected to the Kaufering train station via a siding. The Deutsche Reichsbahn built six more tracks so that the track system now comprised 15 tracks and a third guard interlocking to cope with the significant increase in freight traffic. A granary built in 1940 and 1941 and a bunker system built in 1944 were also equipped with rail connections to the station. All material transports and those of concentration camp prisoners who were used in the construction of the bunker went through the Kaufering station.

In order to save personnel, the Deutsche Bundesbahn replaced the mechanical interlockings on June 27, 1979 with a pushbutton interlocking , which was installed in the station building. For the use of the new interlocking, all form signals were replaced by light signals , with the points being given an electrical drive instead of the mechanical one. The already no longer used water house and the decommissioned engine shed were demolished in 1981. There was a railway maintenance office in Kaufering until it was dissolved in the early 1980s . She was responsible for the section from Igling to Epfenhausen on the Allgäubahn , on the Lechfeldbahn from Klosterlechfeld to Landsberg and on the Fuchstalbahn to Asch-Leeder in Landsberg . In 1996, Deutsche Bahn sold the southern part of the railway system with tracks 11 to 15 to Markt Kaufering. The tracks were dismantled in the same year and the construction of a bypass road in the south of Kaufering and a P + R facility with 250 parking spaces began. To connect the car park, Deutsche Bahn extended the platform underpass to the south and built a new entrance there. In August 1997, the extension of the platform tunnel and the construction of the new P + R facility were completed. At the end of 2003, the DB shut down tracks 7 to 10 and the connection to the former DAG site. In the summer of 2007, however, the siding was reactivated to connect the Klausner sawmill. The goods shed and the loading platform were dismantled in 2007 and further P + R parking spaces were set up at this point.

In November 2008, a memorial was set up at Kaufering train station for the concentration camp prisoners who had to work on the bunker construction sites of the Ringeltaube armaments project in 1944 and 1945 during World War II . For this purpose, a type G 10 freight car was set up on the unused loading track under a newly built wooden roof.

construction

Reception building

Station building from the track side

In 1872 the reception building was built as a three-story brick building with a slate hip roof . The doors and windows are arranged symmetrically, with two cornices on each side. On the ground floor the building had two service rooms, one for the dispatcher , two waiting rooms, one for the first and second class and one for the third class, and a vestibule at the entrance to the street. On the second and third floors there were apartments for the railway staff. To the side of the reception building was a one-story extension with a gable roof . After the commissioning of the two mechanical interlockings , a command interlocking was set up in the dispatcher's office in the reception building . In the 1930s the building was plastered and the old lattice windows were replaced by full-pane windows . To the west of the building, the Deutsche Reichsbahn erected a two-story building with a flat tent roof that was attached to the one -story extension. After the Second World War, the station building housed a ticket office, waiting and service rooms, and apartments for railway employees on the second and third floors. A pushbutton interlocking has been located in the reception building since 1979 . From 1990 to 1991 the building was renovated and there is still a ticket office to this day . There is also a public waiting room in the reception building.

Platforms and track systems

Platforms of the train station
Class 218 with n-wagons as Regional Express on track 2

From 1873, the railway station's track system consisted of five main tracks, which were equipped with intermediate platforms. To the east of the reception building there was a loading platform with nozzles at the goods shed, and to the west there was a two-tier wagon shed, which was connected to the main track via a turntable with several sidings. With the double-track expansion in 1906, the tracks and points of the station were rebuilt. The previous intermediate platforms were replaced by two central platforms , which were equipped with platform roofs. The house platform on track 1 also received a platform roof. The rail-like crossings were replaced by a platform underpass. Instead of the wagon shed, a new two-tier locomotive shed was built, to which two sidings and a stump track were connected to the turntable that was moved to the west. To the south of the platforms, two new platformless tracks were added.

By the Second World War, the Deutsche Reichsbahn added two more platform-free tracks in the south, with tracks 8 and 9. With the construction of the DAG site, the track system was significantly expanded from 1939. Tracks 10 to 15, known as DAG tracks , were built, one of which was a butt track. The siding to the munitions factory was directly connected to the DAG tracks. In addition, another stub track was built in the east of the station and an approximately one kilometer long pull-out track in the west, which ran parallel to the Allgäu Railway.

When the southern track system was sold on May 9, 1996, tracks 11 to 15 were closed and dismantled in August and September 1996. By removing the connecting switch, the pull-out track in the west of the station was shut down. At the end of 2003, by dismantling the switches, Deutsche Bahn also shut down tracks 7 to 10 and the track connection to the former DAG site, which was ultimately only accessible via track 10. At the beginning of 2007, tracks 7 to 10 were dismantled. In the summer of 2007, the DB reconnected the siding to the former DAG site to tracks 5 and 6 of the station by installing a new switch, in order to serve the Klausner sawmill from October 2007.

Kaufering station today has five platform tracks on a house platform and two central platforms. The platforms are still equipped with the platform roofs from 1906 and have digital train destination displays . All platforms are connected to the main platform and the P + R facility via a pedestrian underpass . The station is not barrier-free . To the south of the platforms there is still track 6 without a platform. The loading track has been preserved to this day and is used for the memorial for the victims of the Nazi era .

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 211 m 22 cm no scheduled train service
2 256 m 22 cm Regional trains in the direction of Buchloe
3 256 m 22 cm Regional trains in the direction of Munich
4th 178 m 22 cm Regional trains in the direction of Augsburg
5 124 m 22 cm Regional trains in the direction of Landsberg (Lech)

Signal boxes

In the early days of the station, the points were set using levers on site by exchange officers. On April 5, 1893, with the centralization of the station, the Bavarian State Railways put three new mechanical signal boxes into operation. The station received a command signal box in the reception building, which was controlled by the dispatcher , as well as two additional guard signal boxes, which were housed in two-storey switch towers. Signal box I was at the station exit in the direction of Munich, signal box II at the exit in the direction of Buchloe. In 1939, the Deutsche Reichsbahn opened another guard interlocking for goods traffic to the DAG site, which was located as interlocking III in the west of the station right at the beginning of the siding to the ammunition factory. On June 27, 1979, the Deutsche Bundesbahn put a SpDrL60 type of track plan pushbutton interlocking from Standard Elektrik Lorenz into operation in the station building. The three mechanical signal boxes at the station exits were taken out of service and demolished shortly afterwards.

traffic

passenger traffic

Regional Express and two regional trains in Kaufering station

The station is a clock hub, every half hour there are connections between trains in the direction of Buchloe, Munich and Landsberg and every hour also to Augsburg.

Since December 9, 2007, the alex , which replaced the Allgäu-Express that has been in service since December 14, 2003 and is operated by the Länderbahn , has been running between Munich and Lindau or Oberstdorf . This creates a direct connection to Oberstdorf and Lindau . The alex trains are driven by class 223 locomotives and compartment cars from the former Deutsche Bundesbahn. In addition, Kaufering is served every two hours by the regional express lines Munich– Memmingen , Munich – Kempten and Munich– Füssen , which are operated by DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben . The trains in the direction of Füssen and Memmingen run with class 218 and 245 locomotives with double-decker cars . Class 612 railcars with tilting technology are used on the line to Kempten . The regional express trains and the alex run together every half hour between Munich and Buchloe.

In addition, the Kaufering station is served every hour by regional trains in the direction of Augsburg and Landsberg am Lech. Since the commissioning of the Augsburg 1 diesel network in December 2007, additional trains have been running from Kaufering to Landsberg every hour, in order to run every 30 minutes to Landsberg. The trains on the Lechfeldbahn are operated by DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben with class 642 railcars .

Train type route Clock frequency
ALX Munich - Kaufering - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Kempten - Immenstadt - Oberstdorf / Lindau Every two hours
RE Munich - Kaufering - Buchloe - Türkheim (Bay) - Mindelheim - Memmingen Every two hours
RE Munich - Kaufering - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Kempten Every two hours
RE Munich - Kaufering - Buchloe - Kaufbeuren - Biessenhofen - Füssen Every two hours
RB Kneipp-Lechfeld-Bahn:
Landsberg (Lech) - Kaufering (- Bobingen - Augsburg ) 		Half-hourly

The Eurocitys on line 88 between Munich and Zurich pass through Kaufering station without stopping.

Freight transport

Until the 1920s, the Kaufering station was of little importance for goods traffic. With the construction of the siding to the gravel works and the construction of the DAG site, however, the importance of the station for freight traffic increased sharply and remained in place after the Second World War. Among other things, tanks and other material were transported for the Welf barracks of the Bundeswehr . From the 1950s to the 1970s, a type Kö II small diesel locomotive was stationed in Kaufering for shunting tasks , and until the 1980s two type Köf III (class 332) small locomotives were stationed . In the 1980s, up to 300 freight wagons were shunted in Kaufering every day. In local freight transport, DB mainly loaded agricultural products such as sugar beets . From the end of the 1980s, freight traffic continued to decline and the station's freight facilities were gradually dismantled. Deutsche Bahn completely stopped local freight transport in the early 2000s. Since October 2007, freight trains with sawdust and logs have been running regularly over the newly built siding to the Klausner sawmill. They are driven with class 232, 233, 234 and 290 locomotives from DB Cargo or 2143 from Staudenbahn-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft . The Augsburg Localbahn carries out freight traffic on the Lechfeld and Fuchstalbahn from Augsburg via Landsberg to Schongau , with Kaufering station being used for shunting work, among other things.

future

It is planned to expand and electrify the Munich – Buchloe – Memmingen – Lindau railway line. Construction work was originally scheduled to start in 2014 and be completed in 2016. Due to some delays, electrification is not expected to be completed until 2020. It is also planned to make the station accessible.

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 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 66-67 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e History of the Kaufering train station. In: kaufering.de. Markt Kaufering, archived from the original on August 9, 2016 ; accessed on April 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 74 .
  4. ↑ a b Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 67-69 .
  5. ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . 2011, p. 69-72 .
  6. ↑ Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . S. 66-69 .
  7. ^ A b Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . S. 71-72 .
  8. ↑ a b Platform information for Kaufering station. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn AG, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on December 1, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . S. 67 .
  10. ^ List of German signal boxes. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved February 16, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . S. 69 .
  12. ↑ Completed tenders by the BEG. (No longer available online.) In: bahnland-bayern.de. Bavarian Railway Company (BEG), archived from the original on October 22, 2011 ; accessed on February 17, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Step towards a shorter route to Munich NZZ online, February 16, 2008, accessed on July 31, 2010
  14. ↑ Electrification should not become a second Stuttgart 21 ( memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), from the Allgäuer Zeitung, January 19, 2011, author: Michael Munkler
  15. ↑ Printed matter 18/357 of January 22, 2014. Report on the progress of the project in expanding the cross-border rail axes. In: bundestag.de. German Bundestag, accessed on February 16, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Traffic connections to Kaufering station on the website of Markt Kaufering