Laxenburg train station

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Laxenburg train station
Former Kaiserbahnhof Laxenburg.jpg
Reception building of Laxenburg train station (2012)
Data
Operating point type Terminus
Platform tracks 2
opening September 28, 1845
Conveyance March 31, 1932 (passenger traffic)
location
City / municipality Laxenburg
state Lower Austria
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 4 '3 "  N , 16 ° 21' 15"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '3 "  N , 16 ° 21' 15"  E
Railway lines
List of train stations in Austria
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The Laxenburg station was a station of the Lower Austrian municipality of Laxenburg , the end point of Laxenburger Bahn from Mödling to Laxenburg. Accordingly, it was a terminus station .

history

Laxenburger railway was opened on 28 September 1845 that - - still preserved station building but found only 1,847 finished.

Passenger traffic in the station and on the entire Laxenburger Bahn ceased on March 31, 1932. Freight traffic continued until 1938, when Laxenburg station was deleted from the station directory.

Technical Equipment

The train station in Laxenburg had three tracks . This was the usual pattern for early terminal stations: on the outside there was a platform track for arriving and departing trains, and in the middle a third track so that the locomotives could bypass their train. In addition, there was a turntable in the area in front of the station so that the locomotives could be turned around so that they were always on the move with the boiler ahead.

business

Public transport

Laxenburg was an excursion area for the Viennese. That generated a lot of traffic. From November 5, 1883, nine trains ran daily in each direction, and at the turn of the century up to 15 pairs of trains that carried all three carriage classes .

Court trains

The Laxemburg station was also the Fürstenbahnhof for Laxenburg . Until the end of the First World War , the route was regularly used by court trains , both of the Habsburgs and their guests who visited them in Laxenburg Castle. It is to this that the station owes the subsequent, inaccurate designation "Kaiserbahnhof". When, towards the end of the First World War, Emperor Karl I stayed mainly in Laxenburg from February 1917 to March 1918, the station was extended by a pull-out track , which was dismantled again soon after 1918. Both Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King Ludwig III. von Bayern used the train station on their visits.

Reception building

The reception building of the Laxenburg train station is one of the oldest still preserved in Austria. It went into operation in 1847. On the street side it stands on a higher stone pedestal, as the terrain slopes slightly towards the city. The station building was located at the front of the terminus, the three tracks of the station were covered with a platform hall . The original room layout inside the reception building does not seem to be known. It was built in Tudor style shapes .

In 1890 the interior was redesigned: The hall tracks were shortened to make space for a princely room , a cash desk and an office. There were also two waiting rooms , one for 1st and 2nd class travelers and one for 3rd class travelers, a ticket office and an entrance hall.

In 1898 the platform to the north in front of the platform hall was provided with a platform roof that was closed on the street side. Since this renovation, operations have been limited to this one platform track. In 1905 a small goods hall was added at the end of this platform roof.

After the cessation of passenger traffic in 1932 and goods traffic in 1938, the building was temporarily used as a barn, then in the 1950s as a workshop for a wire factory. Later a riding hall was operated here. During the renovations necessary for all the different uses, the historically traditional internal structure of the building was largely removed. In 1980 the municipality of Laxenburg bought the building and saved it from demolition. From 1983 it served as a tennis hall.

It was renovated in 1999/2000, serves as an event hall, youth club, clubhouse and houses a restaurant.

The station building is now a listed building .

Incidents

On March 13, 1857, a train entering the station could not brake in time. Its locomotive ran over the bumper and broke through the wall to the counter room.

On the last day of operation of passenger transport, on 31 March 1932 ran away when moving in Mödling Train Station , a boxcar , rolling all the way to the Laxenburger station, ran down the buffer, broke through the opposite wall and came in the former state room to stand.

Worth knowing

The station building is now also marketed as the " Biedermeier station ".

literature

  • Hellmuth Fröhlich: Forgotten rails . In: Railway. Technical supplement “Die Modelleisenbahn” , issue 4. Minirex, Lucerne 1968, ISSN  1421-2900 , ISSN  0013-2756 , p. 54.
  • Hellmuth R. Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg, wing runway with Kaiserbahnhof . Slezak, Vienna 1989. ISBN 3-85416-147-6 (paperback), ISBN 3-85416-144-1 (paperboard)
  • Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Railways in the south of Vienna - On rails through the Mödling district. Kral, 2015. ISBN 9783990039

Web links

Commons : Kaiserbahnhof Laxenburg  - Collection of images
  • Traffic changes from August 1, 1883, see: (Südbahn.) Wiener Zeitung, July 27, 1883, left column, 3rd paragraph from [3]

Remarks

  1. ↑ See also: List of listed objects in Laxenburg

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opening of the Laxenburg Railway on… Wiener Zeitung, September 28, 1845 [1]
  2. ^ Austrian Railways. Railway to the kk Lustschloss Laxenburg. Wiener Zeitung, September 30, 1845 [2]
  3. ↑ Information board on the building.
  4. ↑ Subject to a special train service for special occasions. - In: Merry: Forgotten rails .
  5. ↑ See plan at Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 37.
  6. ↑ Winter timetable of the southern railway. In:  Wiener Zeitung , October 25, 1883, p. 68 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz(right column)
  7. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , pp. 68–73.
  8. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , pp. 35, 37.
  9. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 81.
  10. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 45.
  11. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , pp. 70–73, 81.
  12. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , pp. 35, 39.
  13. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 40.
  14. ↑ See photo at Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 38.
  15. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 45.
  16. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 43; ders., p. 88, also speaks of a rope factory .
  17. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 37.
  18. ^ Biedermeier jewel became event center on OTS from March 2000, accessed on September 27, 2019.
  19. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 83.
  20. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 82f.
  21. ↑ Explanation board on the building; Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 35.
  22. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association