Koblenz-Lützel train station
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | KKOL KKOLM (Koblenz-Lützel Central Station ) KKOLN (Koblenz-Lützel North Station ) |
| IBNR | 8003352 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1858 |
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| City / municipality | Koblenz |
| Place / district | Lützel |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 22 '4 " N , 7 ° 35' 30" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Koblenz-Lützel Bahnhof is the oldest which is still in operation Station of Rhineland-Palatinate city of Koblenz . It was built at the same time as the Rhenish railway station , which was abandoned in favor of today's main station and destroyed in World War II.
The Koblenz-Lützel train station is located in the Lützel district in the throat of the Prussian fortress Kaiser Franz , not far from the Moselle and the Moselle railway bridge . It includes a passenger station and a freight station, and there was also a depot , which is closed today and which is now home to the DB Museum Koblenz .
In Koblenz-Lützel, the now dismantled Koblenz-Lützel – Mayen Ost railway branched off from the left Rhine route from 1904 to 2003 . The Neuwied – Koblenz railway line, which is important as a connection to the right-hand Rhine route or for goods traffic on the Moselle route , runs through the station and is connected there with the left-hand Rhine route.
In addition to the Koblenz-Lützel train station and the Koblenz main train station , Koblenz has had three access points for passenger traffic over two kilometers along the left-hand Rhine route since the Koblenz Stadtmitte stop was completed .
history
In 1858 the Bonn – Koblenz section of the left Rhine route was opened. Difficulties were posed by the question of where the Koblenz train station should be built. Two places were seriously discussed. One was on the left bank of the Moselle and the other was the Moselweiser Feld. An order of the Prince Regent Wilhelm from April 1858 finally resulted in the separation of the passenger and freight station. The Rheinbahnhof was built near today's Löhr-Center and the Rhenish freight yard was located outside the Koblenz city area on the left bank of the Moselle below the Kaiser Franz fortress , where today's Koblenz-Lützel station is located.
Construction began shortly after the royal decision was announced in May 1858, and freight transport opened in November of the same year. The station building was initially provisional in 1859 and probably permanent in the following year. Through the Moselle railway bridge of the freight station was connected to the passenger station on the other bank of the Moselle. The entire area of the station was extensively secured by a crenellated wall from 1864-66 . The enclosure became necessary because the effectiveness of the throat tower of the fortress Kaiser Franz had been severely impaired due to the track system. In the years 1875 and 1876, a track system with a ramp was built in the throat of the Franz Feste to connect the Artellirie carriage houses. This military track system was expanded in the following years. In 1878 connecting tracks to the wagon houses and in 1879 a second loading ramp were built.
The rise of Lützel to an economically important district is to be seen in direct connection with the construction of the train station. Most of the employees were already working in rail operations in 1889. Companies settled mainly between Neuendorfer Strasse and the freight yard. On October 17, 1889, the fortification of the freight yard was abandoned. The last remains of the walling are now along Deichstrasse and in the back yard of the house on Deichstrasse 1.
In 1900 the construction of the Koblenz-Lützel-Mayen Ost railway line began and opened in 1904. During the expansion of the freight yard, the Koblenz-Lützel depot was built in 1905 . Freight wagons were repaired in the hall that still exists today and freight locomotives were parked in the adjacent roundhouse with a double turntable . In 1918 the Prussian government released the Kronprinz-Wilhelm-Brücke and with it the Neuwied – Koblenz railway line . In addition to the Horchheimer railway bridge in the southern part of Koblenz, this created another connection between the left and right Rhine route north of Koblenz.
In the Third Reich , the first large deportations from the greater Koblenz area took place via the freight yard. The first deportation took place on March 33, 1942. This train brought 337 people to Izbica and Majdanek . In 1942, 870 people of the Jewish faith were deported from Lützel to Cologne and on to labor and concentration camps. A total of 936 Jews were deported from Lützel train station by the end of the war in 1945. The Lützel train station was destroyed in the air raids on Koblenz in 1944. In the following year 1945, German troops on their retreat destroyed all Koblenz bridges, including in particular the Kronprinz-Wilhelm- and Lützel railway bridges, which are very important for the station. In the same year the Lützel railway bridge was temporarily repaired by the Americans. The Koblenz-Lützel train station was also rebuilt. It was not until 1954 that the railway bridge in Urmitz was rebuilt on a single track. On September 22, 1962, the electrified and double-track railway line Neuwied – Koblenz was opened to traffic.
In 1968 the depot was given up and dismantled in several sections; Since the beginning of the 1980s, the roundhouse and other parts of the depot were demolished.
Freight wagons were repaired in the depot in the depot until 1995. In 2001, the DB Museum Koblenz , an external location of the Nuremberg Transport Museum , moved into this hall and exhibited old locomotives and trains on the railway yard's tracks. The Koblenz-Lützel-Mayen Ost railway line was closed two years later, in 2003, and some of it was dismantled.
passenger traffic
Koblenz-Lützel train station is the access point for passenger traffic. The two central platforms are designed in the usual height of 76 cm for Germany and can only be reached via steps, so the station is not barrier-free. Access to the platforms is on the east side directly from the street "Am Güterbahnhof".
Trains on the left-hand Rhine route run over the tracks on the eastern platform . The trains of the “MittelrheinBahn” stop here, all other trains on the left bank of the Rhine pass the station without stopping. The western platform is used by the trains on the Neuwied – Koblenz railway line , the "Rhein-Erft-Express" stops here, while the "RheingauLinie" runs through the station without stopping.
There are bus stops near the Koblenz-Lützel train station at Schüllerplatz or at the Balduin Bridge .
Freight depot
The Koblenz-Lützel freight station, which is now part of the Koblenz trimodal goods distribution center , was built in 1858. Today it consists of 4 loading tracks and a large number of shunting tracks and sidings, some of which are now part of the DB Museum Koblenz . There is also a connection to the Rheinhafenbahn here, at the freight station, which connects the Koblenz-Lützel freight station with the Rhine harbor and thus the Rhine and Moselle federal waterways with the DB network on its 10 km route .
planning
The 32700 m² south-eastern station area between the tracks and Andernacher Strasse, on which the old freight station buildings are located, is to be upgraded in terms of urban development. About 25,000 m² of the area is owned by Aurelis Real Estate, the rest of the area belongs to private individuals and the city of Koblenz. Together with the city of Koblenz, Aurelis Real Estate would like to create living space for 1,300 people and commercial space in this area.
Monument protection
Both the Koblenz-Lützel depot in Schönbornluster 3 in the Neuendorf district and the remains of the wall of the station fortifications as part of the system at that time and today's monument zone Feste Kaiser Franz in Deichstraße are protected cultural monuments according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland- Palatinate registered.
literature
- One hundred years of the Koblenz-Lützel freight yard, 1858–1958. Koblenz 1958.
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (KKOL) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 203 kB)
- Pictures from the Koblenz-Lützel train station in 1951/1952
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 470 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 466 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ A b c d Peter Kleber & Matthias Kellermann: Military facilities in the area of the Kaiser Feste Franz system . In: Feste Kaiser Franz eV (Ed.): Feste Kaiser Franz. On the history of the fortifications and the Feste Franz system in Koblenz-Lützel . 4th edition. Verlag Dietmar Fölbach, Koblenz 2017, ISBN 978-3-934795-55-6 , p. 65-67 .
- ^ Johnen, New Creation, page 25f.
- ↑ Max Bär: From the history of the city of Koblenz: 1814-1914 , Krabben, Koblenz, 1922, pp. 201-202. Accessed December 6, 2010
- ↑ kreisgebiet.de: history of the district Mayen-Koblenz Accessed 6 December 2010
- ↑ a b Beate Dorfey, Petra Weiss: With the train to death: The deportations of Jews . In: City of Koblenz, City Archives, State Main Archives Koblenz (Ed.): City Guide Koblenz; On the trail of National Socialism . 2nd, revised edition. Johannes Fuck print shop, Koblenz 2016, p. 23 .
- ↑ Super User: The freight yard in Koblenz-Lützel. In: mahnmal-koblenz.de. January 27, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 .
- ^ Regionalgeschichte.net: Koblenz. Retrieved December 6, 2010
- ↑ urmitz.de: The history of the Urmitz community ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on December 9, 2010
- ↑ dbmlag.org: From the repair shop to the museum location. Retrieved on December 14, 2010
- ↑ Marcus Dietz: Roses for the Lützeler Bahnhof . In: Lokal-Anzeiger - Koblenzer Schängel . December 14, 2016, p. 1, 3 .