Kempten (Allgäu) Ost train station

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Kempten (Allgäu) East
Station building of the Ostbahnhof
Station building of the Ostbahnhof
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation MKPO
IBNR 8003230
Price range 6th
opening 1919
Website URL stationsdatenbank.bayern-takt.de
Architectural data
architect Andor Ákos (attributed)
location
City / municipality Kempten (Allgäu)
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 43 '53 "  N , 10 ° 19' 55"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '53 "  N , 10 ° 19' 55"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Bavaria
i11 i16 i16 i18

The Kempten (Allgäu) Ost train station (officially: Kempten (Allgäu) Ost , abbreviation according to the operating point directory : MKPO , colloquially: Ostbahnhof ) is a category 6 freight and passenger transport station on the Neu-Ulm – Kempten railway line in Kempten (Allgäu) . The station has a boarded-up waiting building, a ticket machine and digital passenger information . The original purpose of the station was the settlement of industry in the east of Kempten. However, since the 1960s the station has been losing importance.

history

The railway made its entry into Kempten in 1852. A short time later there was great economic and population growth during the industrialization and urbanization of Kempten . At the beginning of the 20th century, the space around Kempten Central Station was completely used up. The city of Kempten therefore started looking for a suitable open space for another train station.

Established criteria for the choice of the location were sufficient space, a rail connection possibility and as much land as possible owned by the city of Kempten. With the completion of the railway line from Neu-Ulm via Memmingen to Kempten in 1863, there was a basis for a train station at three potential locations. Candidates were the Engelhalde , the Lindenberg or the Bleichhöfe. In the end, the city's magistrate decided on the site at the city bleachers: The Engelhalde was intended to be used for gravel mining and had terrain problems. The Lindenberg was ruled out because the foundations of the Roman embankment were located just below the surface of the ground; these should initially be fundamentally researched. The areas at the bleaching yards had the following advantages: The terrain was easy to work on, most of the land belonged to the city and there was a direct railway line for a through station. The mayor Adolf Horchler then gave the order in 1907 for the construction of the Ostbahnhof with industrial siding on the Neu-Ulm – Kempten railway line . Horchler also acquired various properties in the vicinity in order to sell them to the industry at a discount.

Station warehouse

At Horchler's initiative, there was a 12-year break in development until Otto Merkt completed the industrial station in 1919 and had a power supply set up. A switchman's house was built north of the Ostbahnhof railway underpass, from which two branch tracks branched off to the west. To attract industry, there was intensive advertising not only locally but also nationwide . So a bell foundry from Apolda was established , which made use of the siding. In the winter of 1923/24 unemployed people were employed when the Ostbahnhof was expanded; Twelve companies had settled there by 1930, including the Heinrich Nicolaus offset printing company, which was continuously expanding its operations there.

In 1929 a station building attributed to Andor Ákos was built at the Ostbahnhof.

In 1937, the artillery barracks with its own siding were built due to the proximity to the Ostbahnhof . Helmuth Sachse KG Luftfahrt-Gerätebau was hidden under the Allgäuer Vertriebsgesellschaft near the Ostbahnhof . The BMW involved on the share capital at the Helmuth Sachse KG and also placed orders. The plant had a siding at the station. At the end of 1944, about 2,000 people were employed by Sachse, including around 800 to 1,000 civilian forced laborers and 500 concentration camp prisoners .

After an air raid on Kempten on August 3, 1944, there was minor damage to the railway system. On April 26 of the following year, bomb hits caused major damage to the Ostbahnhof. After the partial demolition of the Upper Iller Bridges by the German Wehrmacht on April 27, 1945, the Kempten main train station in Munich, Ulm and Augsburg could no longer be approached. The Ostbahnhof developed into an important supply point for Kempten until the parts of the bridge that had been blown up, which lasted two years. During this time, train travelers from Munich had to take long detours by train to get to Kempten.

In addition to developing into an industrial location, there was also residential development in the 1940s and 1950s. In particular, the proximity to the train station was the reason for building houses over the Roman city of Cambodunum , which has been preserved with foundations . Today this part of the city is called “Ostbahnhof” from an urban planning point of view.

In 1954 the railway system was equipped with a standard signal box. Due to the relocation of transport from rail to road, the Ostbahnhof lost its importance towards the end of the 1960s: tracks were removed, sidings to companies were dismantled.

After long discussions that had raged between Deutsche Bahn and the city administration of Kempten since 1999 , the second track was dismantled in 2003 to save costs.

In 2010, in a Bavarian competition organized by member of the Bundestag, Anton Hofreiter, the Ostbahnhof was named the “second worst” train station in Bavaria. A year later, demands arose to beautify the station. As a result, 104,000 euros were withdrawn from economic stimulus package II and invested in the breakpoint. Here one was dynamic passenger information and covered waiting bench set, the roads were resurfaced. The reception building is to be demolished in autumn 2019.

Location and traffic

The Ostbahnhof is in close proximity to the Roman city of Cambodunum. The church of St. Ulrich is nearby . The street underpass under the tracks in the immediate connection to the train station in the south is known by the population as a "stalactite cave" due to its damp condition and is to be renewed or renovated in 2013 after several years of discussions between the city administration and Deutsche Bahn .

In 1921 the Ostbahnhofsstüble was built as a wooden structure at the Ostbahnhof. The building served as a canteen for the workers in the factories there. In 1945 the Ostbahnhofsstüble burned down completely. After the Second World War, it was rebuilt on the old plan.

Line 1 of the city bus of the Kemptener Verkehrsbetriebe stops at the Ostbahnhof and then goes back to the central bus transfer point of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Kempten . In the 1960s there were concepts for a light rail in Kempten, including the Ostbahnhof with the existing rails as a stopping point. With the closure of the Kempten – Isny ​​railway line , however, these plans were put on file.

  • Railway underpass at the Ostbahnhof: it is to be renewed in 2015

  • Dripping water in the underpass, which is why it is also called the “stalactite cave”

Archeology and finds

During the construction of the railway line in 1862, several burials probably dating from Roman times, but not precisely documented, were found in place of the later Ostbahnhof. These burials, apparently found next to the Roman road to Abodiacum , belong to the grave fields that can be found more frequently on the right Illerhchterrasse in Kempten . The burials were located about 400 meters from the great thermal baths.

The discovery of a small shield hump in the station area allowed formal comparisons with pieces from the Migration Period and the early Middle Ages.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Ilg: Company Stories. The railway systems from their beginnings to 1940 . In: From Kempten's past days . 1st edition. tape VI. . Self-published, Kempten 2008.
  2. ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 91 .
  3. ^ Christian Ilg: company stories. The railway systems from their beginnings to 1940 . In: From Kempten's past days . 1st edition. tape VI. . Kempten 2008, p. 179 .
  4. ^ Christian Ilg: City stories. The streets and houses of the municipality of Kempten . In: From Kempten's past days . 1st edition. tape IV. . Kempten 2004, p. 175 .
  5. ↑ Markus Naumann: In the land of the camps. The Kempten and Kottern / Weidach subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp. In: Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund , No. 109, 2009, ISBN 3-9810073-5-2 , p. 125.
  6. ^ Christian Ilg: company stories. The railway systems from their beginnings to 1940 . In: From Kempten's past days . 1st edition. tape VI. . Kempten 2008, p. 186 .
  7. ↑ a b A good 100,000 euros are being used to renovate the Ostbahnhof station from the economic stimulus package. In: all-in.de ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 22, 2011. (accessed December 13, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.all-in.de
  8. ↑ "Zweitgammeligster" Bavaria station in Kempten. In: all-in.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 13, 2010. (accessed December 13, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.all-in.de  
  9. ↑ Kempten Ostbahnhof should be more beautiful. In: all-in.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 1, 2011. (accessed December 13, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.all-in.de  
  10. ↑ Jochen Sentner: Building of the Kempten Ostbahnhof is to be demolished in autumn , all-in.de, June 11, 2019.
  11. ↑ Bahn assures early reconstruction of the underpass in Kemptener Ostbahnhofstraße. In: all-in.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 22, 2011. (accessed December 13, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.all-in.de  
  12. ^ Christian Ilg: City stories. The streets and houses of the municipality of Kempten . In: From Kempten's past days . 1st edition. tape IV. . Kempten 2004, p. 128 .
  13. ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 71 f .
  14. ↑ Birgit Kata, Gerhard Weber: The archaeological findings in the area of ​​the Kempten residence and its surroundings. In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): More than 1000 years: The Kempten Abbey between founding and relinquishment 752 - 1802. Allgäu research on archeology and history , No. 1. Likias, Friedberg 2006, ISBN 3-9807628-6-6 , p. 51.
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Czysz, Gerhard Weber a. a .: Kempten and the Allgäu. In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany. Vol. 30, Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1150-7 , p. 116.
  16. ↑ Volker Dotter Weich, Karl Filser u. a. (Ed.): History of the city of Kempten. Dannheimer, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , p. 68.

literature

  • Reinhold Breubeck: Kempten railway junction (Allgäu). The railway in Oberallgäu and Ausserfern . Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, Neustadt / Coburg 2005, ISBN 3-9807748-9-9 .
  • Christian Ilg: Company stories. The railway systems from their beginnings to 1940 . In: From Kempten's past days . 1st edition. tape VI. . Kempten 2008.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Kempten (Allgäu) Ost  - Collection of images