Leoben Central Station
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 Leoben Central Station
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Branch station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | Live |
| IBNR | 8100070 |
| opening | 1868 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Bruno Riegler |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Leoben |
| state | Styria |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 23 '11 " N , 15 ° 5' 24" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 540 m above sea level A. |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
Leoben Hauptbahnhof is a transport hub and long-distance stop in Leoben in Styria . It is the central transfer point for inner-Austrian train journeys and links Vienna with Klagenfurt and Villach as well as Graz with Upper Styria and Salzburg . However, the separation station between the two branches of the Rudolfsbahn is Sankt Michael .
history
On September 1, 1868, the Bruck an der Mur – Leoben railway was opened, and with it the first Leoben station. Although this was always the most northerly of the four train stations in the city, it was then named after the Südbahngesellschaft Südbahnhof . On December 1 of the same year, the St. Michael – Leoben wing of the Rudolfsbahn was completed, but only as far as the Leoben Göss station to the south. The gap closure between the two terminus stations was planned and routed due to disputes between the competing railway administrations, but not yet completed. In 1872 the first section of the Erzbergbahn between Leoben and Vordernberg was opened, which should have been the reason to agree on the completion of the short connecting section between Südbahnhof and Gösser Bahnhof. This enabled Leoben to become a hub for rail connections to Vienna and Graz, to Carinthia via the Neumarkter Sattel, via Palten-Liesingtal to Linz and towards Salzburg. This justified a significant upgrade of the Leoben location. It was only with the transition of the state railway companies to the Austrian Federal Railways that the name was changed to Leoben Hauptbahnhof.
The loading facilities of the Seegraben coal mine, which was closed in 1964, were located in the northern area of the station, facing the Munzenberg. A couple of stub tracks, some of which protrude to the west from the station area and which are now at the bottom of the ÖSTU-Stettin construction company , are relics of this time.
On the street side, on the old station forecourt, the terminus and reversing loop of the urban trolleybus routes to Donawitz and Göß were located.
New construction and renovation
1970 to 1975 the old station was demolished and replaced by a new building designed by the architect Bruno Riegler. The new station concourse was artistically designed with plastic friezes by Rudolf Kedl and two enamel pictures by Giselbert Hoke . A sculpture by Helmuth Gsöllpointner was set up on the forecourt . In addition, a multi-storey operations building was built to the north, which among other things houses the dispatcher.
2003-2005 the Shoo buildings that were platform facilities , the pedestrian tunnel and the forecourt modernized. The station concourse and the works of art were left. An attempt was made to combine the new structure with the old one as aesthetically as possible and to make the station more customer-friendly. An important task for the architects was to connect the platforms with the station hall and the city via the pedestrian tunnel.
In 2015 the empty general cargo hall was demolished and a parking garage was built in its place .
traffic
Long-distance transport
In terms of topography, Leoben lies at the intersection of the Vienna – Villach axes in a north-east-south-west direction and Graz – Innsbruck, Salzburg, Linz in a south-east-west and north-west direction. The national long-distance passenger transport of the ÖBB is based on these main traffic lines, with all long-distance trains offering a scheduled stop in Leoben. The travel time is 45 to 60 minutes to Graz, Vienna and Villach about two hours, to Linz and Salzburg around three to Innsbruck around five hours. Since the first regular timetable there have only been a few trains that did not stop here in some timetable periods. For many years, the services on both main traffic axes were equally well equipped at two-hour intervals, but the direct connections on the south-east-west / north-west axis decreased from year to year from 2005 onwards. A two-hour cycle was only retained for the Graz-Salzburg route.
One reason for this development lies more in the more distant surroundings than in the immediate vicinity: the first stage from Leoben west to Selzthal can be covered quickly through the Galgenberg tunnel and the well-developed Schoberpass route. However, the subsequent sections Selzthal – Linz and Selzthal – Bischofshofen – Wörgl offer unattractive travel times. The Ennstal line, which is still largely single-track, is also regularly affected by line closures that last several weeks every two years.
For decades, Leoben was well integrated into international long-distance traffic between Vienna and Italy (Venice, Milan, Rome). Currently (2015) there is a EuroNight Vienna – Rome and a EuroCity Vienna – Venice. Connections Zagreb – Graz – Linz – Prague, with through coaches also Zurich – Budapest, Graz – Salzburg – Paris, Villach – Vienna – Warsaw and Villach – Vienna – Prague – Berlin – Hamburg, had a short inventory over a few timetable periods. The long-standing night route Graz-Zurich with EN464 / EN465 remained in the east-west direction with almost the same travel time as 20 years ago, as did the daily route Graz-Salzburg-Frankfurt (-Saarbrücken).
Regional traffic
In Styrian regional traffic, Bruck an der Mur and St. Michael are in the vicinity , and Mürzzuschlag , Neumarkt and Schladming on the periphery can be reached directly from Leoben.
The former local passenger transport to Sankt Michael via the Leoben Göss train stations and the abandoned Leoben Hinterberg train station as well as along the Erzbergbahn via Leoben Donawitz, St. Peter Freienstein, Trofaiach to Vordernberg has been discontinued. Until the late 1960s, the latter route was also of national tourist importance for traffic to the Präbichl .
Freight transport
Leoben station itself no longer has any facilities for cargo handling, but together with the neighboring Niklasdorf station it is an important hub for a considerable volume of freight to and from the steel industry in the Donawitz district of Leoben. The inflow is made up of ore from the Slovenian port of Koper via Graz or Jesenice, from Danube ports, from Erzberg via the Schober Pass, and coke and coal, mainly from the Czech Republic and Poland, via the Northern Railway and Semmering. For these heavy trains of up to 2000 tons, the route to the Leoben Donawitz freight station, which is short at just under three kilometers, but more than 20 per thousand steep, usually requires a train division or a tensioning service, which is provided in Niklasdorf or Leoben. In addition, all trains coming from the south have to be overturned for the onward journey to Donawitz, since the Donawitz loop was removed around 300 meters north of the Leoben Göss train station. The freight volume leaving Leoben Donawitz, which in turn is partially distributed in Leoben main station, consists mainly of semi-finished products (block steel, frames) and finished products (wire, rails).
In addition to the main train station, ÖBB also operates the Leoben Göss marshalling yard in Leoben, which is purely a freight station. The train stations in Leoben Donawitz and the completely abandoned train station in Leoben Hinterberg are on routes on which passenger trains no longer operate. The former railway line between Göss and Hinterberg and the Leoben Hinterberg train station will be demolished and converted into a cycle path from 2018. Leoben Hbf is thus the only railway station in Leoben operated by rail passenger transport.
Operational peculiarities
Since October 30, 2016, the Leoben train station (together with the neighboring St. Michael train station) has been remote-controlled by the ÖBB's southern operations center in Villach.
In the northern area, next to the post office, the northern tunnel rescue train is permanently available, and its southern counterpart is located in St. Michael station. Leoben is the official seat of train drivers who are organizationally part of the Knittelfeld and Bruck ad Mur production sites. Most of the beginning and ending freight trains (ore and coal) from Leoben Donawitz to Eisenerz, Spielfeld and in the direction of Hohenau and Hegyeshalom are served from here. That is why there are numerous parked locomotives in Leoben.
City-side connection
On the street side, Leoben train station is served by local bus routes to the nearby city center, to Göß, Donawitz and Trofaiach, as well as by some regional bus routes.
Since the 1970s, the population has criticized the lack of short-term and long-term parking options for private transport. Only the removal of all the remaining old parts of the railway building for local cargo handling in the southern area in the course of the modernization in 2003 and the bank regulation in the course of the construction of the Mur barrage made additional short-term parking options possible in the vicinity of the station. The northern bypass of the city, completed in 2009, not only eased the traffic situation due to the chronically congested Zeltenschlagstrasse, but also made the train station easier to reach for the eastern parts of the city.
The main square, which is only open to Franz-Josef-Strasse, with a line of sight to the tower of the Gustav-Adolf Church, and the line of sight that crosses this between the building fronts of the main station and the Montan University on the other side of the Mur Bridge (in the photo to the right of the church) together result in an urban development Attractive perspective square with building fabric from old to new.
Quotes
Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando described the old Leoben train station as follows in his work Masquerade of the Genii :
"Important express train lines seep away in the interior of Austria, lose the dining car in Leoben, this thunderstorm corner of European travel, through a puzzling desquamation process."
Lines of the compound line
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Unzmarkt - St. Georgen ob Judenburg - Thalheim-Pöls - Judenburg - Zeltweg - Knittelfeld - Fentsch-St. Lorenzen - Kraubath - St. Michael - Leoben main station - Niklasdorf - Bruck an der Mur 
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See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Leoben train station . In: architektur im netz , nextroom.at. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ^ Starting shot for a new parking deck in Leoben , February 18, 2015
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