Lauscha railway station (Thuringia)
| Lauscha (Thür) | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | ULA |
| IBNR | 8012171 |
| Price range | 7th |
| opening | 1886 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Lauscha__Thuer_ |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Home style |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Lauscha |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 '23 " N , 11 ° 9' 37" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 611 m |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Lauscha (Thür) station is a category 7 passenger station in Lauscha on the Coburg – Ernstthal railway line on Rennsteig . It is a terminus and switchback station .
location
The Lauscha train station is 611 m above sea level. NN in the city of Lauscha in the Thuringian Slate Mountains . It is located on the L 1145, which bears the name Bahnhofstrasse in this section , in the Lauschatal between the Großer Tierberg with the Schnitzerskopf in the east and the Teufelsholz in the west, south of the town center. The station building is kilometer 38.51 (Kilometrierung at the ends of the tracks 1 and 2). The entrance signal from Steinach is at kilometer 37.9 and that from Oberlauscha at kilometer 39.6. The standard-gauge branch line runs in the section from Coburg via Sonneberg to Lauscha, route number 5121 and from Lauscha to Ernstthal on Rennsteig 6689; Course book route number 564.
history
Railway station 1886–1945
Lauscha station was built in 1886 by the Werra Railway Company as the end point of the connection from Sonneberg, which is historically also known as the Steinachtalbahn . The construction of this line was supposed to enable the Lauscha glass industry to connect to long-distance freight traffic and to supply the gas works with hard coal. Therefore, in addition to passenger traffic, relatively extensive freight traffic was planned for a branch line. The station area in the narrow Lauschatal at the foot of the Tierberg was secured with up to 10 m high quarry stone walls on the slope. The first station building stood lengthways on Bahnhofstrasse. The first train arrived at Lauscha station on September 29, 1886, and on September 30 at 5:22 a.m. the first train left the station as scheduled.
In the course of closing the gap between Wallendorf and the railway line to Probstzella , the Royal Railway Directorate Erfurt had extensive construction work carried out from 1912 to 1913. Because the trains to both destinations can only leave the station area in a southerly direction on one slope of the Lauscha Valley, the Lauscha station was converted into a switchback station . The new railway line to Ernstthal am Rennsteig was led over a 93 m long viaduct made of rammed concrete from the station area to the western slope of the Lauscha Valley. It circles the Teufelsholz mountain almost completely and gains a distance of around 3.3 km through the Lauschenstein tunnel and over the Nasse Telle viaduct to the Eller, a saddle above the Steinach and Lauscha valleys, which the railway line is only 330 m away Minimum distance as the crow flies to Lauscha train station, about 85 meters in altitude.
In the years from 1912 to 1914, today's representative station building was built upside down from the two tracks on the central platform . It was built according to a design by the engineer Steinbrinck. The one or two-story building has a facade clad with natural stone. The counter hall, baggage acceptance, service rooms and a restaurant, which was temporarily operated by Mitropa , were located on the ground floor . Up until its renovation in 2001, there was a dispatcher's house on the central platform .
The mechanical signal box was built in 1913 according to plans by engineers Jacobi and Steinbrinck. The three-storey building is integrated into the retaining wall. It has a hipped roof and a facade made of natural stone masonry with a bossed structure . The control room on the top floor is characterized by a slated half-timbered facade that protrudes far and has large windows.
The freight yard was extensively expanded. For this purpose, the sloping terrain was filled with the material that had accumulated during the construction of the Lauschenstein tunnel and secured by a retaining wall made of 6,000 m³ of stamped concrete. The Lauschabach was canalized and a connecting route over the old railway line was moved into an underpass. Among other things, a loading line with two free loading tracks, a shed track, a head ramp as well as a weighbridge and a loading gauge were built . In addition, a new locomotive shed with a workshop and locomotive treatment plant was built. The station tracks were finally 1,503 meters long in 1914.
The old station building was demolished in 1915 and replaced by a new goods handling facility with an office and residential wing, which was connected to the goods shed on the ramp platform. The former signal box , a historic water crane , the scales that are no longer connected to the track network and the remaining loading gauge as well as the remains of shunting , parking and loading tracks still bear witness to the brisk shunting and freight traffic in Lauscha station at the time.
In Lauscha the locomotives of passenger and were Eilzüge between Sonnenberg and Saalfeld implemented , for which at least 12 minutes were provided in the timetable. For this purpose, the retracted train was pushed back. The locomotive then bypassed the train on the parallel track and, after a previous brake test, pushed the train back onto the platform.
Railway station 1945–1994
On March 10, 1950, there was a serious accident. When maneuvering a locomotive fell series Prussian T20 ( Series 95 to DR-renumbering ) of the DR , the machine 95 041 a located between the distance after Sonnenberg and leading over the station A viaduct according Ernstthal Rennsteig route blind track , the einständigen in the Lokschuppen led, the outer wall of which broke through the 14.5 m high stamped concrete wall on Bahnhofstrasse and fell backwards onto the street. When the crash occurred, the fire door opened. The engine driver and the stoker were seriously injured. The 65-year-old head engine driver suffered third-degree burns to which he succumbed five days after the accident.
A locomotive from the Sonneberg depot was stationed in Lauscha until 1952. In 1970 the engine shed was demolished.
Siding 3 next to the platform tracks on the retaining wall was removed in 1965.
Station after 1994
The railway maintenance office was demolished with the goods shed during renovation work in 2003. The historic new reception building has not been used since 1996 and is in a critical state of preservation. It is owned by a Dutch citizen who had repairs carried out on the roof in 2012.
In 1997 the line was temporarily closed and the section from Sonneberg was renovated in 1998. In 1999, rail traffic was stopped again in order to carry out the renovation of the section to Neuhaus am Rennweg
A large part of the track system was shut down in 2001. The two platform tracks, a locomotive transfer track and two short sidings are still in operation. The station, which had 27 employees in the 1950s, is unoccupied and all traffic has been controlled by the electronic interlocking at Sonneberg Central Station since 2002 . A control computer is on the station premises. The platform is equipped with weather-protected seating.
platform
| track | Length in m | Height in cm |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 55 |
| 2 | 60 | 55 |
traffic
Since 1923, the class 95 locomotives were the dominant locomotive series on the line. At the end of the 1970s, they were replaced by class 119 locomotives , which continued train traffic until the line was closed in 1999.
In the summer of 1976 there were five pairs of passenger trains and one pair of express trains every day over the entire route, plus a pair of passenger trains to Sonneberg.
Since December 15, 2002, the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn has been traveling to Lauscha station every hour with light railcars of the Regio-Shuttle type with 71 seats and 77 standing places on the route from Sonneberg via Lauscha and Ernstthal am Rennsteig to Neuhaus am Rennweg . There was no need to move the locomotive, but Lauscha station is still used as the line's crossing station. The stay in the station has been shortened to three minutes.
literature
- Wolfgang Beyer, Emil Ehle: Over the Rennsteig - From Sonneberg to Probstzella. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1983.
- Wolfgang Beyer: Railway in the Sonneberger Land. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, Neustadt / Coburg 2004. ISBN 3-9807748-5-6 .
- Thomas Schwämmlein: Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Sonneberg district . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg, ISBN 3-937940-09-X . Pp. 270-273.
- City of Lauscha (Hrsg.): Historischer Bilderbogen - A foray through the history of Lauscha and Ernstthal. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2008, ISBN 978-3-86595-255-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lauscha newspaper. (PDF file: 0.2 MB) City of Lauscha, October 7, 2014, p. 10 , accessed on October 8, 2016 .
- ^ A b c Wolfgang Beyer: Railway in the Sonneberger Land . Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag Neustadt / Coburg, 2004. ISBN 3-9807748-5-6 , pp. 63–65
- ^ Wolfgang Beyer: Railway in the Sonneberger Land. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, Neustadt / Coburg 2004. ISBN 3-9807748-5-6 , p. 67
- ^ Martin Weltner: Railway disasters. Serious train accidents and their causes. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7654-7096-7 , p. 17 (with photo of the crashed locomotive).
- ^ Wolfgang Beyer: hairpin and slope . In: railway magazine . No. 10 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 54 .
- ↑ a b Platform information on the Lauscha (Thür) train station ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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
- ^ Wolfgang Beyer: hairpin and slope . In: railway magazine . No. 10 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 53 .
