Landsberg (Lech) train station
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 Station building from the track side
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | MLL |
| IBNR | 8003512 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | November 1, 1872 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Landsberg__Lech_ |
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| City / municipality | Landsberg am Lech |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 2 '50 " N , 10 ° 52' 18" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 588.87 m |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The Landsberg (Lech) Station is one of two stations of the district town of Landsberg am Lech in Upper Bavaria . In addition to the train station, there is also the Landsberg am Lech Schule stop in the city . In Landsberg station, the line from Kaufering changes to the line, also known as the Fuchstalbahn , towards Schongau . The station has two platform tracks on a house platform and an intermediate platform and is grouped in station category 6 of DB Station & Service .
Landsberg station was opened in 1872 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways as the terminus of the Kaufering –Landsberg railway line. With the opening of the line to Schongau in 1886, Landsberg became a through station . Around 2000 the railway site was modernized and a large part of the track system was dismantled. In 2007, the station was named Station of the Year by the Pro Schiene Alliance together with Berlin Central Station .
location
The train station is located southwest of downtown Landsberg on the opposite bank of the Lech . In the direction of the city center, the station area is limited by the station square, on which the bus station is also located. In the south, Katharinenstrasse crosses the southern exit of the station with a level crossing. Katharinenstrasse also provides a direct connection to the city center. To the west, the station facilities are bordered by residential and commercial areas on Spöttinger Straße. The station building is in the east of the track system and has the address Bahnhofstrasse 17 .
Landsberg station is a through station , but organizationally two different routes lead into the station. The route from Kaufering to Landsberg (as an extension of the Lechfeldbahn from Bobingen near Augsburg ) is a single-track branch line ( VzG number 5364), which is served as scheduled in regional traffic. It is the timetable of the Deutsche Bahn under the timetable route number 986th The Fuchstalbahn from Landsberg to Schongau (VzG number 5365) is also a single-track branch line, which is operated as scheduled for freight traffic and is used for museum railroad traffic.
history
Planning and construction
As early as 1843, the city of Landsberg am Lech tried to establish a rail connection. She suggested running the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn on the section between Kaufbeuren and Augsburg via Landsberg. The construction of the line via Landsberg would have received financial support from the city. However, in 1847 the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior decided to route the route via Buchloe and Schwabmünchen .
It was not until 1861 that plans for a railway line to Landsberg came up again when the construction of a railway line from Munich via Buchloe to Memmingen came under consideration. In the same year a railway committee was founded which, like the city itself, demanded a route over Landsberg. The planning of the route was completed in 1863. However, since the Bavarian state had no financial means, the realization was postponed. The Bavarian Ministry was then shown the financial advantages of a possible route via Kaufering, since the Lech bridge in Kaufering was cheaper. Only a branch line from Kaufering was now planned to connect the city of Landsberg . The Royal Bavarian State Railways intended to set up the Landsberg station on the Sandauer Bridge. However, the city of Landsberg demanded the establishment of the train station at the Katharinenbrücke, which would shorten the walk from the city center in contrast to the variant at the Sandauer Brücke. On October 24, 1870, it was decided to build the Munich – Kaufering – Buchloe line and a branch line from Kaufering to Landsberg, the city having enforced the station at the Katharinenbrücke.
Opening and operation
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After two years of construction, the Buchloe – Kaufering – Landsberg section was put into operation on November 1, 1872. The gap between Kaufering and Munich was closed on May 1, 1873. After the station opened, there was a goods shed , a locomotive shed , a wagon shed , a water house and a caretaker's house next to the station building . All the buildings were brick buildings and had slate roofs. The reception building was a three-story building in the Italian villa style. In this waiting and service rooms were accommodated. As early as 1880, the Royal Bavarian State Railways expanded the building with a one-story extension, in which another waiting room was housed. The station had two platform tracks for passenger traffic. To the north of the reception building was the freight shed, which was connected to a weighbridge via its own track . Opposite the goods shed was a loading ramp and the wagon depot, which was connected by two tracks. At the southern end of the station, shortly before today's level crossing on Katharinenstrasse, there was a turntable to which a two-room locomotive shed was connected. There was a switchman's house at the end of the station exit in the direction of Kaufering.
In 1881, the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior granted approval for planning the local railway from Landsberg to Schongau. On May 16, 1885, the first freight train for transporting timber ran from Unterdießen to Landsberg. A year later, on November 16, 1886, the line was officially opened. The commissioning of the new railway line resulted in some adjustments to the track systems in Landsberg, so the turntable for the main line had to be moved towards Schongau. The wagon shed was demolished in 1898, as the maintenance of the wagons was now carried out in other stations such as Augsburg.
In the 1920s, all railway buildings at Landsberg station were plastered and painted white, and changes were made to the facade of the reception building. In 1921 the Landsberg railway system comprised eleven tracks, 20 switches and four siding, which led to a sawmill, a coal merchant, BayWa and the Bavarian plow factory . Two continuous tracks, designated as tracks 2 and 3, as well as a stump track, designated as track 1, were used for passenger traffic. There were also seven tracks for freight traffic, which also led to the loading ramp and the goods shed. The locomotive shed at the southern end of the station was demolished by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1928, and passenger locomotives were no longer stationed in Landsberg. The station remained unscathed during World War II .
The south-facing one-storey annex to the reception building was expanded in 1950 to create another waiting room for the American soldiers stationed in Landsberg . In 1950 the Deutsche Bundesbahn installed a mechanical signal box of the unit type in Landsberg . For this purpose, the two-story command signal box at the level crossing on Katharinenstrasse and a two-story guard signal box at the opposite station exit towards Kaufering were built.
Dismantling and modernization
Since June 2, 1984, there have been no more passenger trains between Landsberg and Schongau, and operations have been discontinued due to declining passenger numbers. After 1984 the Deutsche Bundesbahn began to dismantle the tracks in Landsberg. The two sidings to the coal trading company and to the sawmill were closed, and the dismantling also affected some freight tracks within the station. In November 1998, Deutsche Bahn closed all freight and shunting tracks, and the sidings for Baywa and the plow factory were then dismantled. Only tracks 1 and 2 remained for passenger and freight traffic. Track 1, which is a stump track, is used for passenger trains in the direction of Kaufering. Track 2 serves as a through track for special and freight trains to Schongau. The freight and shunting tracks within the station were only dismantled in 2005.
In 1999 the goods shed was torn down to make way for a new bus station. Simultaneously with the construction of the bus station, the platform on track 1 was modernized in order to create a direct transfer option between buses and trains in the direction of Kaufering. The new bus station with the modernized platform on track 1 went into operation in December 2000. With the construction work on the house platform, the station building was also partially renovated. In 2007 the station was named Station of the Year by the Pro Schiene Alliance, together with Berlin Central Station . In addition to the construction of the bus and train platforms, the Pro-Rail Alliance also recognized the service facilities in the reception building.
construction
Reception building
The station building was erected with the construction of the railway line to Kaufering in 1872. The building was a three-story brick building with a slate-covered hip roof and was built in the Italian villa style. The doors and windows are arranged symmetrically, on the ground floor there were two waiting rooms, one for the first and second and one for the third class, an anteroom, which was located at the entrance to the street, and a service room. Apartments for railway employees were housed on the upper floor. There was a canopy on the track side. The station building was expanded in 1880 with a small, one-story extension to the south. After several renovations, the extension reached its present size in 1950, when waiting rooms for American soldiers stationed in Landsberg were set up. In 1920 the station building was plastered and painted white. It also received shutters. From 1977 to 1978, the external facades of the station building were renovated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn, among other things the lattice windows were omitted . The counter in the station building was open until the 1990s. In 2004, Deutsche Bahn sold the station building to a mobility service provider, who renovated the station building within a year until March 2005. The building was painted red and a café, a public waiting room, a toilet and a ticket machine were installed on the ground floor.
Track systems
From 1872 the track system consisted of two main tracks, which ended in a turntable in the south at today's station exit in the direction of Schongau . The main platform with the station building was on track 1, which was used for passenger traffic . To the north of the station building, track 1 was followed by another dead-end track, which led to a weighbridge and a goods shed . To the west of track 2 there were two more tracks, which led through the wagon depot opposite the goods shed and also ended in the turntable. To the north of the wagon depot there was a loading road that lay on another stump track. A two-hour engine shed was attached to the turntable in the south .
After the Vizinalbahn to Schongau went into operation in 1881, parts of the track system were rebuilt. The turntable for the station exit had to be moved in the direction of Schongau, and another main track was put into operation. The carriage depot ceased to exist in 1889, the two tracks that led to the depot were preserved and served as tracks for freight trains. In the following years, four siding were added. A track has been set up to the nearby plow factory, a sawmill, BayWa and a coal merchant. After 1920 there were already 11 tracks, three of which were designed for passenger traffic. The tracks were connected by 20 points, the turntable was omitted. The Deutsche Reichsbahn had the locomotive shed demolished in 1928, and the two tracks leading to the locomotive shed were no longer available.
Until the 1990s, little was changed on the track system in Landsberg, only the connections to the coal merchant and the sawmill were omitted. Around 1990 the Landsberg train station still had eleven tracks, one of which was a stump track and two continuous tracks were used for passenger traffic. The tracks for passenger traffic lay on a house platform and an intermediate platform . There were four continuous tracks and several butt tracks that led to the goods shed and the loading ramps for freight traffic. After the dismantling of individual freight tracks in the 1990s, Deutsche Bahn shut down all tracks except for one continuous and one stump track in November 1997. The disused tracks were dismantled in 2005.
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The station now has two platform tracks, with track 1, which is used as planned, is only a stump track. The platform of track 1 is barrier-free , covered and has digital train destination displays . There is an intermediate platform on the continuous track, which is only used for special trips on the Fuchstalbahn.
| track | Usable length | Platform height | Current usage |
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| 1 | 73 m | 55 cm | Regional trains in the direction of Kaufering |
Signal boxes
Landsberg station has been controlled by two mechanical signal boxes since 1950 . The first signal box was located at the northern exit of the station in the direction of Kaufering and was a guard signal box. The signal box was housed in a two-story switch tower. The second signal box is located at the level crossing on Katharinenstraße and served as a command signal box, which is also located in a two-story building. The guard interlocking was decommissioned in the 1990s with the dismantling of almost all tracks. The command signal box is still manned by a dispatcher .
traffic
passenger traffic
In 1934, 34 passenger trains stopped in Landsberg every day. Four trains ran from Augsburg via Bobingen , Kaufering and Landsberg to Schongau , between Augsburg and Landsberg and between Landsberg and Schongau another two pairs of trains operated. An additional 26 amplifier trains ran from Kaufering to Landsberg, connecting them to the Allgäu Railway to Munich . During the Second World War , all amplifier trains between Landsberg and Kaufering were canceled. 1945 only twelve passenger trains served the station a day. Three pairs of trains ran from Augsburg via Kaufering to Landsberg, the other three pairs of trains from Landsberg to Schongau. After the Second World War, the volume of traffic increased again, so that additional trains were soon introduced between Landsberg and Kaufering. The number of travelers on the section from Schongau to Landsberg, however, fell, so that passenger traffic was discontinued in 1984. In 1986 around 20 pairs of trains served the station, six trains continued from Kaufering via Bobingen to Augsburg.
Since the start of operation of the Augsburg 1 diesel network , which DB Regio Allgäu-Swabia won in a tender, Landsberg station has been served every half hour by regional trains on the Kaufering –Landsberg route in December 2007 , with trains running every hour to Augsburg . Around 35 local trains leave Landsberg every day . The trains with diesel railcars of the 642 series .
| Train type | route | Clock frequency |
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Kneipp-Lechfeld-Bahn : ( Augsburg - Bobingen -) Kaufering - Landsberg (Lech) |
Half-hourly |
Five city bus routes and 16 other regional bus routes operate on the bus platforms in front of the station .
Freight transport
The station was of great importance in freight traffic. In the 1920s, in addition to the almost 15 tracks intended for freight traffic, there were four sidings. The sidings led to a BayWa loading hall, to a plow factory, to a coal merchant and to a sawmill, which was responsible for a large volume of goods. By the 1980s, however, all sidings except for the BayWa loading hall were closed. The last siding was closed around 1985 and general cargo traffic, which was handled via the goods shed and the loading ramp, was also discontinued. The former railroad tracks for freight traffic were dismantled in the 1990s. Today the station is run through by individual freight trains of the Augsburg Local Railway , which run to Schongau via the Fuchstalbahn .
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
- Fuchstal-Bahn initiative: history of the station on fuchstalbahn.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin and Landsberg: Die Bahnhof des Jahres 2007. (No longer available online.) In: allianz-pro-schiene. Archived from the original on September 28, 2010 ; accessed on February 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Station plan in the station database. In: stationsdatenbank.bayern-takt.de. Bavarian Railway Company , accessed on February 16, 2014 .
- ^ Description of the Landsberg train station. In: bahnhof.de. DB Station & Service, accessed on February 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . S. 69 .
- ↑ a b c d 140 years Landsberg station: History of the station ( memento from September 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on lechfeldbahn.de.
- ↑ a b c d story of Landsberg train station. In: fuchstalbahn.com. Retrieved February 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Timeline of the history of the Fuchstalbahn. In: fuchstalbahn.com. Retrieved February 17, 2014 .
- ^ List of German signal boxes. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved February 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi .
- ↑ Landsberg train station was recognized as train station of the year. (PDF) In: allianz-pro-schiene.de. Retrieved February 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Platform information on Landsberg (Lech) train station. (No longer available online.) In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn AG, archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; accessed on December 6, 2016 . 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.
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): Course book from 1934 (course book route 404a) . (Reprinted 1987).
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): Course book from 1945 (course book route 404b) . (Reprinted 1987).
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn (Hrsg.): Course book from 1986 (course book route 983) .
- ↑ Completed award procedure. (PDF) In: beg.bahnland-bayern.de. Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft (BEG), accessed on March 25, 2018 .
