Kreuztal train station
| Kreuztal | |
|---|---|
 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | ECT |
| IBNR | 8000214 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1861 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Kreuztal |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '22 " N , 7 ° 59' 31" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The kreuztal station is the main passenger station in North Rhine-Westphalia Kreuztal .
history
As early as the 1840s, a rail connection in Kreuztal was discussed. At that time, a route from Cologne via the Aggertalbahn and the Wittgensteiner Land to Treysa was planned. In 1861 Kreuztal (then still called Creuzthal ) was connected to the Ruhr-Sieg route between Siegen and Hagen. Although the construction of the section from Olpe to Kreuztal, which corresponded to the original plan for an east-west connection, was decided by the Prussian parliament in 1913, construction did not take place because of the outbreak of the First World War .
In 1884 the first section of the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway to Hilchenbach was opened. As a result, Kreuztal increasingly became a traffic junction.
As early as 1860 to 1865, the train station was built on a large meadow near Kreuztal, which then had around 200 inhabitants. The industrially rich Ferndorftal with the Müsen mining area was of decisive importance here.
When the last section of the Ruhr-Sieg route was opened on August 6, 1861, there was already a restaurant in the station building. The reception building facing Bahnhofstrasse with a three-storey main gable had two waiting rooms with a taproom and two service rooms on the ground floor, one for the station master and one for ticket issuance and baggage handling. The station master's apartment and the railway maintenance office were set up on the upper floor. With the opening of the branch line Kreuztal – Hilchenbach in 1884 and its continuation to Erndtebrück and Marburg in 1888/89, an extension of the station facility became necessary for the first time. The station building was enlarged by an extension on the south side. Further modifications and additions followed.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the first bombing raid on the Kreuztal train station on February 22, 1945 mainly destroyed the railway facilities in the passenger station. In another attack on March 18, 1945, the marshalling yard was almost completely destroyed.
In 1947 the destroyed part of the reception building was rebuilt with a rectangular structure with a hipped roof and a strongly structured plastered facade.
After a fire in 2002, in which large parts of the building burned out completely, the reception building was no longer usable for travelers.
At the end of 2004, the city of Kreuztal acquired the station for the symbolic price of one euro. After extensive construction work with a total cost of around 2.1 million euros, about a quarter of which was funded by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the new cultural station in Kreuztal was reopened in February 2008 .
Today the station has three platform tracks, each of which can be reached by elevators. The public toilets are barrier-free from the platform . Access to the reception hall with the art exhibition area and the kiosk on the ground floor is also handicapped accessible. The reception hall is equipped with an inductive hearing system. With this system, hearing-impaired people can also take part in cultural events there. The announcements of the Deutsche Bahn are switched from the platform to the reception hall and thus to this audio system. This means that the station is completely barrier-free.
Regional traffic
The Kreuztal train station offers transfer options to buses in the direction of Freudenberg , Hilchenbach , Junkernhees , Littfeld and Siegen, among others . The following lines operate by rail:
Kulturbahnhof
In 2007 and 2008, the station building was converted into a “ culture station ” with offices, a catering area and two artist studios. There, with Annette Besgen and Ulrich Langenbach, two renowned artists from the region have their studios, each with an area of 100 m². In a small gallery in the foyer, under the motto “change of scene”, three to four exhibitions from all areas of the visual arts take place every year, for which a total of 40 m² of glazed exhibition space is available.
See also
literature
- Werner Wied: Kreuztal, young town on Kindelsberg. Kreuztal 1969, pp. 62-70.
- Jürgen Kalitzki, Dieter Tröps: People, Trains, Railway Stations - Volume 2: Railways in Siegerland. The Ruhr-Sieg route with the railway locations Siegen, Weidenau, Kreuztal, Hilchenbach, Betzdorf, Freudenberg and Olpe in the Sauerland. Siegen 1996, ISBN 3-923483-22-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Railways in the northern Siegerland, Werner Herling, Bundesbahn-Sozialwerk Kreuztal, 1978
- ↑ Report DerWesten, February 24, 2008
- ↑ DerWesten June 25, 2008
