Lenningsen train station

Station building

Information sign about the history of the station

One of the outbuildings

Former railway line converted into a hiking trail

The Lenningsen station in 1901 on the railway line Welver - Dortmund built. Today the building in Bönen - Lenningsen is used as a day care center and community center, the former railway line is used as a bike and hiking trail. The station is part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

building

A wooden barrack had existed in Lenningsen since the railway line was opened in 1876, in which the railway staff worked and passengers were processed. In 1901 the two-storey station building with a gently sloping gable roof and single-storey extensions on both sides was erected from yellow bricks. Brick cornices, pilaster strips and a central projectile were used as design elements. The building housed the dispatch offices, 1st to 4th class waiting rooms, goods handling and an apartment for the station master. The toilets and stables were in the outbuildings.

history

In 1876, two pairs of express trains traveled the route from Dortmund's Südbahnhof via Kassel to Leipzig every day. In 1930, in addition to several passenger trains, there were also two pairs of express trains and four pairs of express trains that went to Leipzig, Dresden or Berlin.

During the Second World War, the railway line was an important supply line for the German Wehrmacht. The station was bombed several times, but not damaged. Trains were attacked by low-flying planes outside the station and were partially shot to death on the open route. The two National Socialist propaganda slogans “Wheels must roll for victory” and “First win, then travel” were attached to the station building.

After the end of the war, there was initially a shuttle service between Dortmund-Süd and Welver / Soest. There were also refugee and Allied troop transports. In 1946 the regular passenger traffic to Dortmund and Unna was resumed, it ended with the winter timetable 1962/63. The station's office had been closed six years earlier.

On the occasion of her first visit to Germany in 1965, Queen Elisabeth II stayed overnight in her special train on May 25 at the Lennings train station before visiting the British troops in Soest the next day. The special train arrived in Lenningsen at 9:09 p.m. and left the station the following morning at 9:35 a.m. Elizabeth II stayed on the train and waved to the assembled residents and the children of the Ermeling School, whom they had woken with a serenade.

In 1968 the station and the line between Unna-Königsborn and Welver were closed, and the tracks were dismantled in 1969. In 1975 the Unna district built a cycle, riding and hiking trail on the former railway line to the district road between Flierich and Hemmerde . In 1997 this was expanded to Hamm -Hasenvöhde.

The station building was privately acquired in 1972. Several shared apartments lived there from 1977 to 1985, and an artist's studio was set up in the former baggage handling area.

From 1985 the buildings were empty, in 1988 they were placed under monument protection. In 1994 the municipality of Bönen bought the Lennings train station. The evangelical parish of Flierich planned to build a two-tier kindergarten there. As part of the renovation, there were discussions between the villagers and the politicians about the removal of the propaganda slogans used in the war years. With the help of donations and their own initiative, the Lenningsen interest group converted the outbuildings (toilets and stables) into a storage room for the kindergarten and a community center and was thus able to maintain them. The wooden platform hall at the rear of the station building has been extensively reconstructed. The kindergarten opened in 1996.

To commemorate the visit of Queen Elizabeth II 30 years ago, a flowerbed with "Elisabeth roses" was laid out in 1995. In winter 2009/2010 these roses died due to frost damage, the bed was then leveled. In 2011 the interest group redesigned the bed and again planted the hybrid tea "The Queen Elizabeth Rose".

The 100th anniversary of the station was celebrated in 2011 with an exhibition and ceremony. The station will be included in the route of industrial culture , theme route 10: brine, steam and coal .

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Lenningsen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~10~11021

51.57564 7.78937Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 32.3 " N , 7 ° 47 ′ 21.7" E

[1] The West: The Queen's Noble Roses Frozen, May 21, 2010

[2] The West: The Queen is back in Lenningsen on August 12, 2011