Lauda train station
| Lauda | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | TL |
| IBNR | 8000221 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | November 1, 1866 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Lauda |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Lauda-Koenigshofen |
| Place / district | Lauda |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 33 '55 " N , 9 ° 42' 34" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 192 m |
| Railway lines | |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Lauda station is a separation station in the Baden-Württemberg city of Lauda-Königshofen , in which the Lauda – Wertheim line branches off from the Frankenbahn . It belongs to station category 4 of DB Station & Service and has four platform tracks .
location
The station is in the east of the Lauda district . To the east it is bounded by an industrial area and by Tauberstrasse, which runs parallel to the Tauber River . Bahnhofstrasse runs to the west of the station, while Inselstrasse crosses under the tracks with a tunnel to the north of the railway site .
Another, smaller train station is located in the Königshofen district . There the Crailsheim – Königshofen line joins the Frankenbahn.
history
State and Reichsbahn time
The first plans for the Odenwaldbahn from Heidelberg to Würzburg did not include a train station at the current location; this only happened when the Tauberbahn was planned. On November 1, 1866, the station, which was to serve as a transfer station between the two railway lines, was opened with the Odenwaldbahn. The station initially only had a temporary station building completed on March 1, 1866 . The current building could only be put into operation in 1872. On October 10, 1867, the first section of the Wertheim line to Hochhausen was put into operation, making Lauda a railway junction .
In 1906 an official building was built next to the reception building, which has been used by the Lauda repair shop since 1929.
Because of its convenient location, the station was expanded. In 1938, about 1,000 people worked on the Lauda railroad out of a population of about 3,000, and the town's population had doubled in 80 years. To the west of the train station, the “Bahnhofsstadt” (station city) was a second focus of the city’s settlement.
Second World War
Due to its function as a railway junction, Lauda and its surroundings were repeatedly exposed to Allied air raids . A first attack in April 1942 by a single bomber had no consequences. From October 1944 to March 1945 there were four attacks by bomber units. On October 15, 1944, an outbound express train was shot at, the Tauber Bridge suffered minor damage and 6 to 8 locomotives were shot inoperable. There was great damage to the signal and telephone lines. On November 9, 1944, the Allies flew the most extensive attack with twelve fighter-bombers . 30 bombs dropped all missed their targets, but a subsequent attack with the on-board weapons was aimed at the water towers , engine sheds , signal boxes and locomotives. 13 locomotives could no longer be used and people were not harmed. Another attack on November 30 of the same year involved two departing passenger trains. There were 15 fatalities. The station was then shelled with on-board weapons. The last attack took place on the morning of March 24, 1945: ten fighter-bombers attacked the southern part of the station. A train of the Wehrmacht with Russian prisoners of war was hit hard by cluster bombs and the weapons on board, with 43 prisoners losing their lives. There were also numerous injuries. The track and signal systems of the southern head of the station were badly damaged, and other locomotives were unusable. Operations in the station could only be provisionally resumed on the evening of the same day.
When US troops took the city, the fighting did little damage to the station. Railway workers managed to prevent the Tauber Bridge from being blown up by the Wehrmacht . The board of directors of the depot ordered the demolition of all the facilities there before he resigned, but his deputy prevented the implementation of the project. Since the Odenwaldbahn was an important supply route for the American occupying forces, US troops immediately occupied the station. The employees of the Lauda train station resumed their regular service on June 10, 1945.
After 1945
Up until the 1970s, there were five federal railroad stations in Lauda: the train station, the signal master's office , the railroad master's office , the depot and the operations office. After that, the offices were closed except for the train station and converted into branch offices. In 1988, the Lauda office employed around 480 people.
In the former office building of the Lauda train station there is now a branch of the railway construction company Strabag Rail , a subsidiary of Strabag .
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| Entrance building from 1872, elevation of the city side |
Lauda train station in the 21st century
From May 2014 to October 2015, extensive modernization measures were carried out at Lauda station. Deutsche Bahn and the city of Lauda-Königshofen invested around 7.3 million euros in a new pedestrian underpass and three elevators to the respective platforms to enable barrier-free access. The platforms have also been raised and modernized. In addition to the pedestrian underpass, the innovations include new floor coverings with so-called tactile guide strips for the visually impaired, modern platform equipment, new lighting and two 58-meter-long platform roofs.
Platform data
Platform data up to 2014
The station had four platform tracks with a platform height of 32 cm each.
- Track 1: platform length 327 m
- Track 2: platform length 451 m
- Track 3: platform length 331 m
- Track 4: platform length 331 m
Track 1 was on the house platform, another platform was between tracks 1 and 2 and between tracks 3 and 4.
Platform data from 2015
As a result of extensive modernization measures from 2014 to 2015, the platforms on tracks 1/2 and 3/4 at Lauda station were renewed and increased from 32 to 55 cm. The two renewed platforms are 170 m long. 58 m of these are covered by a renewed roof.
A pedestrian underpass completed in October 2015 is 30 meters long, five meters wide and 2.50 meters high. Three elevators between the tracks contain cabs with a size of 2.20 m long and 1.10 m wide.
passenger traffic
development
Due to its function as a connection point, long-distance trains also stopped in Lauda for decades. In peak years there were ten express train stops a day , mainly trains on the routes Berlin - Stuttgart and Palatinate - Franconia . In 1886 there was a continuous connection to Berlin for the first time. Up to the Second World War , other changing destinations were added, some of which could be reached by through coaches , for example Metz , Leipzig , Paris , Karlsbad , Dresden , Breslau , Milan and Naples . In the interwar period , the Deutsche Reichsbahn set up through coaches from Berlin to Bad Mergentheim and back, with the coaches being converted in Lauda.
With the division of Germany and the associated shift in traffic flows, the Hamburg – Stuttgart route replaced the connections from Berlin. In the 1960s and 1970s, the German Federal Railroad (DB) offered a through car connection from Hamburg to Ulm through the Taubertal. The wagons were moved in Lauda station. In 1991 the DB opened the Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line , creating additional capacity in north-south traffic. For the Würzburg – Stuttgart route and thus for the Lauda station, this meant the end of high-quality passenger traffic. The only exception was the Interregio "Rennsteig" from Erfurt to Stuttgart , which was discontinued in 2001 .
today
In 2015, the station will be served every two hours by regional express trains on the Würzburg– Stuttgart route. A few additional trains run on this line, so that there is sometimes an hourly service. Another regional express line Aschaffenburg – Crailsheim serves the station every two hours, this train is nicknamed the Main-Tauber-Express . In addition, the station is served by regional trains on the Wertheim – Lauda route from individual trains. Another regional train line (first established on October 1, 1866) runs every two hours from Würzburg to Lauda, most trains continue to Bad Mergentheim , some trains continue to Crailsheim. This line also has individual amplifier trains.
| Train type | Line course | Clock frequency |
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| RE 8 | Würzburg - Lauda - Osterburken - Bad Friedrichshall - Heilbronn - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Stuttgart | Hourly, individual gaps |
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Main-Tauber-Express : Aschaffenburg - Wertheim - Tauberbischofsheim - Lauda - Bad Mergentheim - Crailsheim |
Every two hours |
| RB | Wertheim - Tauberbischofsheim - Lauda - Bad Mergentheim - Crailsheim | Every two hours |
| RB | Würzburg - Lauda - Osterburken | Hourly |
Depot
The Grand Ducal Baden State Railways (BadStB) and its successor organizations established in the days of steam traction the locomotive depot on the Odenwaldbahn and its branch lines in the northeast of Baden Lauda out safely.
As early as 1866, the BadStB set up locomotive treatment systems in Lauda with the extension of the Odenwaldbahn from Mosbach to Würzburg and expanded them into a complete workshop by autumn 1868 , the generous facilities of which were located opposite the reception building. In 1866, a Baden locomotive station was set up in Würzburg, which was subordinate to the workshop in Lauda. With the administrative reorganization of the northern Baden railway lines in 1937, the facility now known as " Bahnbetriebswerk Lauda " came to the Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart via the Reichsbahnmaschinenamt Heilbronn as an intermediate authority .
From the 1910s to the 1950s, there were always 40–50 steam locomotives stationed in Lauda; no stationing data has survived for earlier years. By 1959 the number of locomotives had shrunk to 27 and included the 38 , 39 , 50 and 64 series . On April 1, 1962, with the relocation of the 64 series to the Heilbronn depot, the home of steam locomotives ended. After that, only small locomotives were stationed in Lauda . On February 1, 1976, the Lauda depot was converted into a branch of the Heilbronn depot.
Monument protection
Unity of the Lauda station
The following parts of the station and outbuildings are as impersonal entity under monument protection :
- Bahnhofstrasse 17 (Flst. No. 388/1): Former Service residential building, 2 to 3 storey pavilion building with hipped roof and rich structure, Art Nouveau, around 1910 (§ 2).
- Bahnhofstrasse 23 (Flst.No. 388/1): station reception building, 1 to 2 ½ storey classicist pavilion building with a central waiting hall, rich structure, re. 1871 (§ 2).
- Bahnhofstrasse 27: Former Car workshop with service building; 1 to 2 ½ storey classical pavilion building, after 1870 (§ 2).
- Bahnhofstrasse 29, 31: Former Car workshop with service house, 1 to 2 ½ storey classical pavilion building, after 1870 / around 1900 (§ 2).
Further parts of the whole Lauda station :
- Bahnhofstraße 21: kiosk, single-storey classicist building under a hipped roof, around 1900.
- Access road 1: Former Goods hall, 1 ½ storey red sandstone block construction with floating gables, after 1870.
- Access road 8: depot, single-storey red sandstone block building with two-storey central projectile with floating gable, after 1870.
- Access road 9: Former Bath house, single-storey shell limestone building with red sandstone structures with floating gables, after 1879.
- Access road 12: Former Electricity works, 1-2 storey red sandstone block building, after 1870.
- Access road 13: Former Locomotive workshop, single-storey red sandstone cuboid construction, after 1870.
- Tauberstrasse 16: Former Locomotive workshop I, later a magazine, shell limestone and sandstone block construction, around 1870.
Steam locomotive monument
In order to realize the idea of a steam locomotive monument, which has existed since 1975, the interest group of the Lauda Steam Locomotive Friends was founded on January 29, 1976. This could be implemented through donations of 72,000 DM and voluntary work: On August 4, 1978, the steam locomotive 052 908-1 (manufacturer: BMAG ; year of construction: 1942) of the DR class 50 was in a park at the interface between the old town and the newer town set up and handed over to the city on the following day. The memorial was later supplemented with barriers, a water crane and a memorial stone, and a roof was built to protect the locomotive in 2003/2004. Fundamental renovation work is to be carried out in the near future in order to save the monument from deterioration. The steam locomotive festival takes place annually to finance the preservation of the monument; However, the income of the interest group is only sufficient for the regular renovation work. The monument has now become a symbol of the city.
Web links
- History of the station onzielbahnhof.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn station category list 2013 ( Memento from July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 315 kB)
- ↑ Query of the course book route 780 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 782 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ History of the station on zielbahnhof.de
- ↑ a b Lauda - A city and the railway. In: Waldemar Lutz, Hansjörg Noe (Hrsg.): Label TBB, local history for the Main-Tauber district. Verlag Waldemar Lutz, Lörrach and Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-12-258280-5 , pp. 142f.
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↑ Source for the section on World War II:
Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-768-0 , p. 48-50 . - ^ Fränkische Nachrichten : Lauda train station receives an underpass in 2014 . April 24, 2013. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Fränkische Nachrichten: Barrier-free to all platforms . October 13, 2015. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ Platform data ( memento of the original from January 17, 2016 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. on deutschebahn.com
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^ Source for the section on the history of passenger traffic:
Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-768-0 , p. 60-127 . - ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1230.
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^ Source for the section on the depot:
Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-768-0 , p. 142-273 . - ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Bahnhofstrasse 17 21 23 27 29 31 Tauberstrasse 16 Zufahrtsstrasse 1 8 9 12 13 Lauda-Königshofen - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
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^ Sources for the section on the steam locomotive
monument: Jerôme Umminger: Black monster worries. Main-Post , February 3, 2012. Accessed on July 17, 2012.
Lauda-Königshofen mayor's office (clerk: Thomas Dreher): Submission 51/2012 on the agenda item renovation of the steam locomotive monument in Lauda - Application from the community of steam locomotives for financial support from the city Lauda-Königshofen ( 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. (pdf, 74 kB). Retrieved July 17, 2012. City gives steam locomotive fans a helping hand. Fränkische Nachrichten , May 24, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
