Leutkirch station

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Leutkirch
Station building
Station building
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
separation station (1889-2001)
Design Wedge station (1889-2001)
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation TLK
IBNR 8000336
Price range 5
opening September 1, 1872
Profile on Bahnhof.de Leutkirch
location
City / municipality Leutkirch in the Allgäu
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 49 '35 "  N , 10 ° 0' 59"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '35 "  N , 10 ° 0' 59"  E
Height ( SO ) 652  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Leutkirch Station is the station of Baden-Wuerttemberg City Leutkirch im Allgäu . It belongs to Deutsche Bahn station category 5 and has two platform tracks . The station is located in the network area of ​​the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund (bodo) and belongs to tariff zone 68. The address of the station is Bahnhof 1 .

The station was opened on September 1, 1872 as the provisional terminus of the Herbertingen – Isny railway line. On August 14, 1874, when the extension to Isny ​​opened, it became a through station . Before the Leutkirch – Memmingen railway line opened on October 2, 1889, today's station building was built ; the facility became a wedge station . After the section towards Isny ​​was finally closed on December 31, 2001, Leutkirch is once again a pure through station. The reception building is a listed building and was renovated in 2011 and 2012. In addition to the city, a cooperative of 600 citizens contributed one million euros to the costs. The "Bürgerbahnhof" was named " Monument of the Month April 2012" by the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation.

location

Environment map

Local situation

The train station is located about 400 meters west of Leutkirch's old town and is connected to it by Bahnhofstrasse. On the way there, this crosses Karlstrasse, which is part of Bundesstrasse 465 . The immediate station forecourt consists of a roundabout and bears the name Bahnhof . Following this, there is a triangular park area with parking facilities all around in the leg of the two railway lines leading north and south. This is bounded in the north and south by the U-shaped Bahnhofstrasse and in the east by Wurzacher Strasse.

The Bahnhofsarkarden shopping center is located in the immediate vicinity of the train station . It was built after the track system was torn down on the former railway line to Isny. To the southeast, Poststraße runs along the station arcades. It flows into Wangener Straße, which belongs to Bundesstraße 18 and which used to cross the Isny ​​route by means of a level crossing. There is an allotment garden to the north of the station area. In the northeast, Wurzacher Straße, also part of federal highway 465, passes under the station exit in the direction of Memmingen by means of an underpass. There was also a level crossing there until the early 2000s.

Railway lines

In Leutkirch station, the Leutkirch – Memmingen line branched off from the Herbertingen – Isny ​​line approximately 300 meters west of the platforms until December 2001. Today the Herbertingen route in Leutkirch merges directly with the Memmingen route. The siding to the Thermopal company branched off at the level of the Wurzacher Strasse underpass . The track systems of the Isny ​​route are still preserved in the station area, the other route has meanwhile been cleared.

history

The way to the railway connection

Württemberg railway network in 1854

After the industrial boom in the middle of the 19th century, an efficient means of transport was sought for the region. The horse-drawn carts reached their limits on the poorly developed roads. The Kingdom of Württemberg relied on the construction of waterways, so that a canal was planned from Ulm on the Danube to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance . The canal should have the approximate course of today's Württemberg Southern Railway . Since the cities of Leutkirch and Isny in the Allgäu could not be connected to the canal, they relied on the new steam train technology invented in England . After the project of a canal had been discarded in favor of the construction of the southern railway, Isny ​​and Leutkirch were connected to Essendorf station from 1849 by state road number 54 .

On March 18, 1860, a railway association was founded in Leutkirch, which campaigned for a railway connection to Essendorf. In 1862 the railway committees of Leutkirch, Kißlegg, Waldsee, Saulgau and Mengen came together. At the beginning of the year they planned a railway line from Sigmaringen via Mengen, Aulendorf, Kißlegg to Leutkirch with a possible continuation to the Bavarian border. Construction was decided in 1865. The outbreak of the German War in 1866, in which the Kingdom of Württemberg also fought alongside Austria against Prussia , delayed the start of construction until the end of 1867. Citizens from Wangen im Allgäu wanted Bavaria to build a line from Memmingen via Leutkirch, Kißlegg, Wangen and Support Hergatz to Lindau in order to also get a railway connection. 31 citizens spoke to the minister on January 2, 1868 in Stuttgart. However, the application was denied because it was claimed that Wangen Bavaria only wanted to support the construction of a faster route to Lake Constance. In the autumn of 1870, the Württemberg Allgäu Railway to Kißlegg was completed. The stagecoaches now drove to Kisslegg instead of Essendorf. In April 1871 the groundbreaking ceremony for the section from Kißlegg to Leutkirch took place. The completion of the last section was delayed by the outbreak of the Franco-German War .

The makeshift train station

On October 20, 1871, the Royal Württemberg State Railways announced the construction of the Leutkirch station. A provisional facility, prepared for later route extensions, was to be built here. The tender was won by the construction company F. Schmid. On September 1, 1872, the section from Kißlegg to Leutkirch was officially opened. The communities accompanied this event with numerous festivals.

The temporary reception building had a floor area of ​​27 × 10 meters. The wooden, one-story building contained rooms for the post office, service rooms and two waiting rooms. The station restoration, which was run as an inn until 1883, was at the other end of Platzgasse, today's Bahnhofstrasse . In 1987 the building was demolished and replaced by a new building for the Leutkircher Bank. A station restoration was opened in the station building in 1889.

A goods shed measuring 35.24 × 10.02 meters was built for goods traffic . In addition, there was a separate engine shed . There was a small outbuilding to the west of the one-story administration building. This housed the toilets, a wood and a lamp store. The entire railway area had dimensions of 674 × 63 meters. The height above the sea was controversial at the time, various sources gave 652 to 657 meters above sea level, according to more recent sources the station is 652 meters above sea level.

Track plan from 1872

There were probably two platform tracks. A precise track plan has not been handed down. A third track was used for freight traffic. To the east of the reception building there were two more butt tracks for freight traffic. The traffic in Leutkirch increased rapidly. On market days, up to 1100 people are said to have frequented the station. Freight traffic also gained in importance, mainly long timber, cheese, boards and bricks were transported.

The Württemberg state parliament decided on December 11, 1872 to build the line to Isny. Construction work began in the spring of 1873 and was officially opened on August 14, 1874. Changes to the railway systems were not made.

Connection to Memmingen and conversion to a wedge station

The station building under construction, the TUEBINGEN locomotive in the foreground

When the branch line from Kißlegg to Wangen opened on July 31, 1880 , Bavaria tried again to extend the line from Leutkirch via Kißlegg to Wangen in the direction of Memmingen and Lindau. In December 1885 negotiations were held in the Bavarian state parliament about extending the route . On February 10, 1887, a state treaty was finally concluded, as the all-German army command wanted another rail link between Bavaria and Württemberg.

The station was to be converted into a wedge station. The line from Kisslegg branches off in front of the station into the rail lines to Memmingen and Isny. A new station building was to be built in the center of the wedge of the station, with an auxiliary building on each side. In front of the station building, a spacious station square was created, on which a roundabout and a park were later laid out. A so-called central booth was planned in the Keilspitze, from which operations were to be controlled. On June 17, 1888, the buildings and track systems in Leutkirch station were put out to tender. The company Theuer und Oelkuch from Stuttgart was awarded the contract. On June 18, 1888, construction work began on the line from Memmingen to Leutkirch. In September the interior work in the high-rise buildings was put out to tender. The work was completed in good time before the onset of winter.

On May 5, 1889, the Allgäuer Bote reported that a contract had been concluded between the Berlin Railway Regiment and the Royal Württemberg General Management, which resolved to take over the construction of the line from June 28 for training purposes. On July 19, 1889, the royal Württemberg building section put the construction work for the water supply to the station to tender. The costs for the necessary systems were estimated at around 30,000  gold marks , with the iron pipelines already costing 20,000 gold marks. On August 8, 1889, construction was so advanced that the first test drive between Leutkirch and Aichstetten took place. In the same month, the construction section worked out a draft timetable for four pairs of trains between Memmingen and Leutkirch every day . The Berlin Railway Regiment completed construction on September 2, 1889. On October 2, 1889, the route was officially opened with a fork breakfast in Leutkirch and a festival in Memmingen. The next day it was officially put into operation. From then on, most of the trains coming from the direction of Kisslegg went to Memmingen instead of Isny.

Extension of the station facilities

Historical representation of Leutkirch, in the foreground the train station

The traffic on the railway line to Memmingen increased, so that on June 20, 1890 the goods shed was relocated from the Isnyer to the Memmingen side. The total cost was around 13,000 gold marks, of which the concrete work amounted to 8,300 gold marks. On July 15, 1890, the gap between Wangen im Allgäu and Hergatz was closed, so that a faster alternative route from Munich to Lake Constance resulted.

The Royal Württemberg State Railways built their own apartments for their staff in Bahnhofstrasse and Wurzacher Strasse. The railway master’s office also moved into one of these buildings, the exact year of construction is unknown. According to various sources, they are said to have been built between 1890 and 1909. In the following years, the locomotive shed was expanded to two tracks; The Royal Württemberg State Railways built a boiler house for the cattle car cleaning facility in September 1893. In the course of the nationwide introduction of platform barriers, Leutkirch station was also given appropriate barriers on October 1, 1893. You should prevent entering the platform without a ticket or platform ticket .
In 1894 an ice cellar was built on the Isny ​​side near the adjoining building, in which the restaurants chilled their beer. In the same year, a building authority building was built on the Isny ​​side of the station. It was on the same level as the goods shed on the Memmingen side. The Royal Works Building Office was on the ground floor and the building inspector's apartment on the first floor. Chambers and stage rooms were set up in the attic.

From 1903, the Royal Württemberg State Railways set up a motor vehicle traffic that linked the smaller towns in the area with Leutkirch and Kißlegg. Initially, two vehicles were available for this. The traffic was stopped again around 1907 because of the low power of the motor vehicles.

On March 2, 1907, the extension of the track system was approved. It cost 17,200 gold marks, with the superstructure alone being estimated at 4,800 gold marks. In June 1907 plans were made for a signal box I , which was built that same year. It stood on the west side outside the train station in the direction of Kißlegg, a second signal box was built at the level crossing on Wurzacher Strasse. It is no longer possible to determine whether signal box III was built in the same year.

On July 1, 1907, the Kempten – Silbratshofen railway was officially opened. The extension to Isny ​​was put into operation on October 15, 1909. This created another connection from Leutkirch towards Kempten (Allgäu) . Due to the increasing freight traffic, a weighbridge was built on the Memmingen side in the same year. It came from the Lang company in Cannstatt , was nine meters long and weighed up to 40 tons. In June it was planned to expand the building authority building. Another office and a veranda above were to be built on the ground floor. From 1911 to 1921 Leutkirch was a locomotive station of the Royal Württemberg State Railways, which was manned by a train driver and a stoker. In June 1911, the cattle car cleaning facility's boiler house built in 1893 was added to. The outbuilding on the Memmingen side was expanded in 1913 to include an oil cellar and a storage room. In the same year, another large building was erected in Bahnhofsstraße, which housed Railway Maintenance Department I on the ground floor . The station building was expanded from the summer of 1914 to 1915. An additional one-story extension was built on the Memmingen side. In 1914 the station was subordinated to the Friedrichshafen Railway Operations Inspectorate. Leutkirch, with the railway maintenance depots I and II, as well as Kißlegg and Waldsee, belonged to the Leutkirch railway construction inspection.

First World War

After the First World War began on August 1, 1914 and mobilization took place on August 2 , numerous soldiers were ceremoniously bid farewell on August 7 at the Leutkirch train station. The military trains brought most of the soldiers towards France. As a result, there were longer delays in scheduled passenger and freight trains, as the military trains had priority. In the following years, Leutkirch was often crossed by Bavarian military trains. Elderly soldiers guarded the station and kept an eye out for enemy planes. On August 28, the first hospital train with German and French wounded passed through the station. Soon afterwards, the military decided to cordon off the station while a military train was staying in order to prevent gifts to French prisoners of war . During the war, rail traffic was increasingly restricted due to a lack of coal, at the end of 1918 the station was characterized by military trains with returnees.

Beginning of the Reichsbahn era

Opposite the station building on the Isny ​​side, the Peter and Son sawmill was built in 1919. The plant received a private siding on July 27, 1924. This was approved on the condition that one-fifth of the construction costs for a possible underpass between the post office and Alte Wurzacher Strasse would be borne. However, this underpass was not built until 1995, but the sawmill has already been closed in the meantime. On April 1, 1920, the Royal Württemberg State Railroad was part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . As a result, the designation locomotive station was dropped for Leutkirch, the station was subordinated to the Aulendorf railway depot , which belonged to the Ulm Machine Office. On August 29, 1923, the Railway Maintenance Department I complained to the Reich Railway Directorate in Stuttgart about the fact that the piles of earth at the end of the butt tracks, which served as buffer stops , clogged the brake hoses of the freight cars with earth. The railway master's office demanded that the piles of earth be replaced by buffer stops. However, this requirement was initially not met due to a lack of money. From October 1, 1924 until the end of the year, so-called blank tickets were tested at Leutkirch station. They were handwritten by the exhibitor in ink or with a pen that was not easily erased. The respective class was marked with a colored stripe.

In May 1924, Leutkirch Railway Maintenance Department I began the project for a gravel and sand works in the railway's own gravel pit near Marstetten-Aitrach . Gravel mining was started in the same year under the direction of the railway maintenance office. The workers were referred to as construction auxiliary and civil engineering workers in wage class 4. At the end of 1927, a separate building was built between the goods shed and the weighbridge on the main road to Wurzach for Railway Maintenance I, which had previously been housed in residential or other administrative buildings. In the gravel works near Marstetten-Aitrach, a concrete goods factory was built that produced concrete parts for bridges and platforms. On June 20, 1930, the apartment of the head of the railway maintenance department I was connected to the telephone network so that the railway maintenance department could be reached at any time. This was particularly necessary for the gravel works, as all faults and irregularities at the works should be reported to the railway maintenance office immediately.

In 1931 Adolf Kimpfler planned to build a warehouse for the Allgäu concentrated feed means . The building was to be built close to the train station to enable a rail connection. After the location near the district court had been determined, construction work for the construction of the building could begin in September. The warehouse was connected to the station with a track.

End of the Reichsbahn era and World War II

The agricultural credit and goods cooperative Herlazhofen built a storage shed on the Isny ​​side opposite the post office, which the Deutsche Reichsbahn bought. At the end of 1937, the Deutsche Reichsbahn converted the shed into a railway maintenance shed. For this he received several workshops, a lounge and a warehouse. A post car shed and a corrugated iron shack were built in the Keilspitze, and the residence shed was replaced in 1937 by a residence and overnight building.

After the Second World War began in 1939 , traffic was again severely restricted by military trains. Older soldiers or farmers guarded the station from enemy attacks. Due to the nearby ammunition depot for vacationers, the freight traffic in Leutkirch station rose again. A Jewish couple from Leutkirch was on 28 November 1941, a train to Stuttgart deported . In the period that followed, several deportation trains with Jewish inmates passed the station. In 1943 a storage shed for wood was built on Wurzacher Strasse, for which Franz Schorer received a storage space lease from the Deutsche Reichsbahn. At the beginning of 1945 the railway traffic was almost completely stopped. The day trains were canceled because there was a risk that they would be shot at or bombed by Allied aircraft.

After the railway traffic came to a complete standstill in March 1945, the Reichsbahndirektionszug and other railway service trains were parked on platform 4. A railway artillery with around 50 cars paused in Leutkirch station to train new troops. The Deutsche Reichsbahn set up a reception camp for railway employees, initially in Leutkirch and later in the gravel works near Marstetten-Aitrach. In April 1945, the station was overcrowded with numerous service and military trains. On April 24, 1945, French troops marched into Aulendorf. The Leutkirch station was then to be destroyed, but Mrs. Peter was able to prevent the demolition. She gave the soldiers civilian clothes and advised them on how to get away. In return, the soldiers sabotaged the demolition. On April 26, 1945, the station was attacked by low-flying planes. The aim was to destroy the military trains standing in the station. Two people on a makeshift train were killed during the attack. On April 27, the station was attacked with phosphorus bombs, killing five people.

Due to the demolition of some bridges in the Leutkirch area, the routes towards Memmingen and Aulendorf were no longer passable after the war. The first train in the direction of Stuttgart left the station on May 17, 1945. The railway workers who fled during World War II left the reception camp with it. The bridges had meanwhile been temporarily restored. Since June 14, 1945, the station was served by three pairs of trains, in the following period the Detachement d'Occupation des Chemins de Fer Francais (DOCF) improved the operating situation, but operations as in the pre-war period were not restored. On September 1, 1945, the Leutkirch station was connected to the south of Württemberg with the Reichsbahndirektion Karlsruhe, which had been taken over by France . A small Köf locomotive has been at home in Leutkirch station since August 31, 1945 . On July 9, 1945, the station restoration was opened to passengers again. On September 1, 1946, the Leutkirch works office was dissolved and it was incorporated into the Lindau works office. The seat of the machine office in Friedrichshafen was moved to Aulendorf. On June 25, 1947 in a treaty between Baden, Rhineland-Palatinate and Württemberg-Hohenzollern the Administrative Union of South West German Railways established (SWDE). On September 7, 1949, the German Federal Railroad was founded in the American and British zones . On October 15, 1949, the SWDE in the French zone also became part of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.

Development from 1950

Schematic track plan from 1970
The former Isny ​​station part

On January 1, 1953, the station was re-incorporated into the Friedrichshafen operations office. On the same day, the works office switched back to the Stuttgart Railway Directorate, which was finally renamed the Stuttgart Railway Directorate on April 1 of the same year. The warehouse for Allgäu concentrated feed, built by Adolf Kimpfler in 1931, has now become the property of Raiffeisen. In 1955, it was expanded to include a compound feed factory, and a ramp was built on the building that enabled goods wagons to access it directly. In 1962, the Carl Edelmann forest nursery applied for a siding, but this was not realized until 1964.

On May 20, 1965, the British Queen Elisabeth II stayed overnight in a special train in Leutkirch during her trip to Germany, which lasted from May 18 to 28. After Elisabeth II came from Munich, the special train arrived at the station shortly after midnight. Here the queen stayed overnight in her special train, as the necessary length of track and tranquility were guaranteed in Leutkirch. At around 8 a.m. in the morning, the train continued its journey towards Friedrichshafen amid a large crowd.

On April 1, 1968, the Kißlegg railway maintenance facility was incorporated into the Leutkirch railway maintenance facility. In September 1968 an office for goods handling was set up in the goods hall. In the same month, the platform barriers were dismantled and the platforms paved. Because of its special historical significance, the Deutsche Bundesbahn had a platform barrier house rebuilt after it was dismantled in the Leutkirch station in the Nuremberg Transport Museum . Between the reception building and the Isny ​​annex building, three modern bus stops were built on the station square to enable direct transfers between bus and train. Signal box III, which steered the exit towards Isny, had not been occupied since 1968. The points still required for passenger traffic were set by signal box II, the rest could only be set by hand. At the beginning of the 1970s the Deutsche Bundesbahn planned a central signal box in Leutkirch, but the plans were not implemented for the time being. At the beginning of April 1970, the luggage service in Leutkirch station was discontinued and the passengers were given luggage trolleys instead . On August 9, 1970, the Deutsche Bundesbahn offered the first public special trip from Leutkirch station. The Ulmer Spatz train drove from Leutkirch station to the Black Forest and back again in the evening. In September 1970 the bus stops that were previously located between the reception building and the Isny ​​annex were relocated to the Memmingen annex. In the summer of 1970, the bicycle at the train station project could also be implemented in Leutkirch, with the Deutsche Bundesbahn providing eight bicycles for this purpose. In 1972 a loudspeaker system was installed in the station. The announcements could be heard in the platform area, in the station lobby, in the station restoration and at the bus stops.

In 1974 the Deutsche Bundesbahn planned to demolish the Isny ​​annex, but this did not happen. On April 26, 1973 the station restoration, which was last led by Ludmilla Fetzer, closed. The attached kiosk was retained for the time being. On June 1, 1976, passenger traffic to Isny ​​was stopped and the route to Friesenhofen , which from then on only served goods traffic to the holiday ammunition depot, was shortened. From now on it was only a siding of the Leutkirch train station, which was shortened once more on December 7, 1976 and has since ended at the then new loading station Holiday.

On January 19, 1978, the interlockings I and II were replaced by an electronic track plan push button interlocking of the type 30 from Lorenz. The Aichstetten and Tannheim stations were also remotely controlled from this signal box . With the commissioning of the new signal box, the shape signals were replaced by light signals . The level crossing on the main road to Wurzach received a flashing light system. In the same year the Deutsche Bundesbahn had the signal boxes I and II demolished. The engine shed was also demolished.

In 1979, several citizens of Leutkirch wanted the station to be barrier-free. After the Deutsche Bundesbahn did not agree, at least the platforms should be raised to make it easier to get on. The Deutsche Bundesbahn then planned to raise the platforms in 1980 for 250,000  German marks to a height of 55 centimeters, which, however, only actually happened in 2017. In 1980 the Kißlegg train station was incorporated into the main Leutkirch branch. In April 1980, DB Touristik opened a customer service center in a room in the station building.

Since the mid-1960s, passengers criticized the poor structural condition of the reception building. On August 7, 1968, the Deutsche Bundesbahn informed the city of Leutkirch that a new station building was already planned. However, no more detailed plans were available yet. In May 1979 the station building was placed under monument protection on the initiative of Leutkirch citizens who wanted to prevent the station building from being demolished . However, the German Federal Railroad continued its plans for a new reception building. A modern purpose-built building was to be built on the site of the Memming outbuilding. However, the State Monuments Office and the city of Leutkirch refused to approve the construction of a new reception building, which is why the project was discarded for the time being. The Deutsche Bundesbahn, however, did not agree to renovate the old building either, as it no longer seemed economical to maintain it. Leutkirch citizens then founded a support company to finance the renovation of the reception building. In order to attract more attention to the station building, a station festival was held on May 7th and 8th, 1983. Another festival was held in May of the next year, and the support company organized a signature campaign during the festival to ensure the renovation of the station building. As a result, the Deutsche Bundesbahn had the external facades renovated, the interior remained in poor condition. Since 1984 the ticket office has only been manned on a few days of the week, and ticket machines have been set up on the platform . When the Deutsche Bahn AG was founded in 1994, the station master was no longer required, the last being Gerhard Krause. On April 1, 1995, the transport of luggage and express goods was terminated. The signal station closed on December 31, 1996.

On June 1, 1997, the art exhibition Kunst im Bahnhof opened in the unused rooms of the reception building. The rooms were rented and renovated by Deutsche Bahn. However, the exhibition was dismantled again in 1998 after better premises were found in Altmannshofen Castle. On December 31, 2001, Leutkirch was abolished with the final suspension of the Isny ​​route as a wagonload tariff point in freight traffic. On September 27, 2010, the city of Leutkirch accepted the proposed concept of a public station. The renovation and redesign of the reception building was to be financed with a cooperative made up of Leutkirch citizens.

In February 2016, a video travel center was opened in place of the previous travel center. From March to November 2017, the platform systems were expanded to a height of 55 centimeters for more than five million euros. The intermediate platform on track 2 was replaced by an outside platform on track 3, which can be reached via an underpass with elevators.

Buildings

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Track plan (before the new platforms were built in 2017)

Reception building

Station building from the track side

When the construction of the track systems and building structures was put out to tender on June 17, 1888, the Theuer and Oelkuch company was awarded the contract for the construction of the reception building. The cost of rebuilding the station building was estimated at 50,000 gold marks. The interior work of the building was estimated at around 21,000 gold marks, of which 8066 gold marks were accounted for by the carpentry work and 4227 gold marks for the belt floors. The shell of the building was completed in spring 1889. Construction work was completed in the summer of 1889. During the operating time of the Württemberg State Railways, the station building was called the administration building. The building is 14.5 meters wide and 33.5 meters long. The passengers from the station square are picked up in a 22 meter long lobby. The entrance to the vestibule was designed with seven archways, from the vestibule access to all rooms was possible. The third class waiting room was in the left part of the building, and the station restoration buffet was to the right of the waiting room. The second-class waiting room followed; there was no first-class waiting room at the time. The stairwell was in the middle of the building. The post office and the luggage office followed on the right. In the right part of the building was the room for the telegraph and the station management. The station management's room was on the platform side. The apartments for the station management and the building inspector were on the first floor. Chambers were housed in the roof of the building, storage rooms and the kitchen of the station restoration in the basement. In 1894 the building inspector's apartment was relocated to the newly constructed building authority building.

In the summer of 1914 the station building was rebuilt. The stairwell was moved to an extension in the center of the facade of the building on the city side. An annex for the transport service was built on the Memmingen track side. As a result, the station building was extended from 33.5 to 39.65 meters. The construction work continued until 1915. In April 1923, the installation of an apartment for the Leutkirch Railway Operations Office in the attic was approved. A dormer window was built into the roof of the apartment , which was dismantled when the building was renovated in 1984. In 1938 the station restoration was redesigned, the owner at the time was Gottlob Stecher. During the Second World War, Gottlob Stecher planned the renovation and expansion of the reception building, but these plans were never implemented. The station building was not destroyed despite several low-flying attacks during the war. When the third class was abolished in 1956 , the second class waiting room became the first class waiting room and the third class waiting room became the second class waiting room. On April 26, 1973, the station restaurant, which was last led by Ludmilla Fetzer, was closed. The restaurant rooms have been empty since then. In 1968 passengers complained for the first time about the poor structural condition of the building. The German Federal Railroad then announced that a new station building was already planned. A new, modern functional building was to be built on the Memmingen track side. Leutkirch citizens then founded a support group in the spring of 1972 to maintain the building. In 1973 a station festival and a signature organization were held to secure the preservation of the building. However, the Deutsche Bundesbahn did not react and announced that renovating the old building would no longer be profitable.

In 1979 the building was listed as a historical monument. Another station festival was held in 1984, this time the Deutsche Bundesbahn responded and renovated the exterior facades in December of that year. However, some rooms in the building remained unused. On June 1, 1997, the art exhibition in the train station was opened, on this occasion some of the interior spaces were renovated. However, the exhibition moved to Altmannshofen a year later. In the following years the future of the building was discussed. Deutsche Bahn sold the building to the city of Leutkirch, as it would have been unprofitable to keep it. On September 27th, the city of Leutkirch decided to adopt the concept of a citizens' station to renovate the building, as the city itself did not have enough funds to renovate the building. The city of Leutkirch sold 1,111 shares at 100 euros each to 600 citizens to renovate the building. The ground floor was rebuilt by the architectural office Gegenbauer and expanded for a gastronomic use. The spatial structure was changed, but the historic staircase was retained. The renovation was completed in mid-April 2012.

Outbuildings

Memmingen outbuilding
Isny outbuilding

The Memming outbuilding is opposite the Isny ​​outbuilding, they are arranged symmetrically to the reception building. On May 4, 1889, the plans for both outbuildings were completed, and on May 29, 1889, the Royal Building Authority approved them.

The wooden Memmingen outbuilding was 24.8 meters long and 7.4 meters wide. On the side that points in the direction of the station building, a room has been set up for the train crew and day laborers. The toilet facilities and the wooden structure for the station administration were located in the middle of the building. In the right part on the track side there was a lamp room and on the city side there was a laundry room, which was only available to railway employees.

The Isny ​​outbuilding was 30.5 meters long and 7.4 meters wide. In the middle of the building, on the side of the track, there was a water tank for the locomotive feed. A magazine was set up on the city side. On the side of the reception building there was another toilet facility as well as the wooden trays of the station management. In the left part of the building was the wooden rack for the building inspector, the magazine for the railway foreman and the wooden rack for the station restoration. In 1913 the Memmingen outbuilding was expanded to include an oil cellar and a storage room.

The outbuildings were not destroyed in the Second World War, despite several low-flying attacks. The Isny ​​outbuilding was renovated and now houses a bicycle shop. The Memmingen outbuilding was used as a kiosk after the Second World War. After the reception building was sold, it was renovated and now houses a Deutsche Bahn travel center. The address of the Isny ​​auxiliary building is now Bahnhof 5 , that of the Memmingen auxiliary building is Bahnhof 2 .

Signal boxes

In June 1907, plans were made for three signal boxes in Leutkirch station; these were to be created in the western exit towards Kißlegg, at the level crossing towards Memmingen and at the level crossing towards Isny. Signal boxes I and II were built in the same year. When the signal box III was built is no longer traceable today. On January 19, 1978, the signal boxes were replaced by a Lorenz L 30 track plan push button signal box in the reception building. The Aichstetten and Tannheim stations were also remotely controlled from this signal box. Then the signal boxes I and II were demolished, the signal box III was demolished in 1984.

Platforms

The station had two platform tracks each on the Memminger and Isny ​​side of the track. Since October 1st, 1893, access to the platform has been prevented by platform barriers. It was not until September 1968 that the platform barriers were dismantled by the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In the same month the platforms were paved. Today the station has two platform tracks on the Memmingen side, both of which are 170 meters long and 55 centimeters high. The height of the platforms was 30 centimeters before the renovation, the handicapped-accessible expansion of the station and the elevation of the platforms were completed at the end of November 2017.

traffic

passenger traffic

passing Eurocity
Regional train to Memmingen on platform 1

Long-distance transport

On May 27, 1979, the first express train was introduced on the Munich – Memmingen – Lindau route. The pair of trains 366/367 ran from Munich via Lindau and Zurich Airport to Milan and also stopped in Wangen and Leutkirch. The express train was pulled by a DB class 218 locomotive and driven in modern wagons, but was discontinued in May 1982. Since the mid-1980s, the station has been traversed by EuroCity line 88 on the Munich – Zurich route, but its trains only stop in Memmingen between Buchloe and Lindau.

Local transport

When the station opened on September 1, 1872, four pairs of trains ran daily in the direction of Kisslegg, from where they usually continued their journey to Aulendorf. From September 1, 1872 to August 31, 1873, a total of 32,191 passengers were counted at Leutkirch station. This high number was achieved through the market days in Leutkirch, when up to 1,100 used the station every day. When the line to Isny ​​was opened on August 14, 1874, four pairs of trains connected Herbertingen with Isny. With the opening of the Memming line on October 2, 1889, four more connections were created. In addition, another pair of passenger trains was introduced from Leutkirch to Aulendorf. By the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the number of trains in the direction of Aulendorf was increased to six pairs of trains a day. The military timetable of 1914 had three daily connections from Memmingen via Leutkirch to Aulendorf and another three daily connections from Leutkirch to Isny. In 1928 there were two transfer connections from Leutkirch via Aulendorf to the stations on the Südbahn. An express train line from Munich via Leutkirch to Freiburg im Breisgau was entered in the 1928 timetable , but was discontinued in 1929. Until the Second World War there were only minor changes in the timetable. From August 26, 1939, the war timetable was in effect, which is why only a few trains served the station. In February 1945 the timetable was further restricted, as the trains were only allowed to run at night due to the danger of bombing. They too were discontinued in mid-March 1945.

Train traffic was not resumed until June 14, 1945, with only one freight train with passenger transport from Aulendorf to Isny ​​being approved on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. In 1946 the timetable could be further improved, but the trains were still limited to individual days of operation. It was only when the Deutsche Bundesbahn was founded in 1949 that the timetable could be brought back into line with pre-war levels. From 1954 the daily Kleber-Express express train from Munich to Freiburg and back stopped in Leutkirch . This was replaced in 2003 by the Allgäu-Donautal-Express Munich– Herbertingen , which was also discontinued two years later. From the end of the 1950s, Uerdingen rail buses were also used around Leutkirch . On June 1, 1976, the line to Isny ​​was shut down, relocating the trains from Aulendorf to Isny ​​to Memmingen. Since April 23, 1993, the station has been served by regional trains within the framework of the Allgäu-Swabia cycle on the regular schedule .

Leutkirch is served by almost forty DB Regio trains Monday to Friday . Regional trains from Memmingen via Kißlegg and Aulendorf to Sigmaringen stop in Leutkirch every two hours. In the direction of Kißlegg, the offer is supplemented every day at an approximate hourly rate, in the direction of Memmingen Monday to Friday. These services are provided with railcars of the DB class 650 . In addition, Leutkirch is served daily by a pair of regional express trains, driven by class 612 railcars , on the Munich – Memmingen – Lindau route. During the day, the passing Eurocitys in Leutkirch overtake the regional trains. A regional train set is parked on the Isny ​​track system overnight.

Freight transport

The station gained importance in freight transport due to the increasing milk and cheese production in the Allgäu . From September 1, 1872 to August 31, 1873, a total of 1590 dairy cows were transported to Leutkirch by train. The products, milk and cheese, were also transported by train. Wood from the surrounding forests was handled in Leutkirch, as well as bricks from factories. In the early years, excavated remains of gravel from the Ice Age were also loaded onto the railway. Leutkirch station was a train formation station for freight trains in the direction of Aulendorf and Isny. Three through freight trains ran through Leutkirch station in 1930. From 1932 a small locomotive was stationed in Leutkirch for shunting tasks. In addition to milk and cheese, products from the surrounding industry were handled in the station. A cattle train ran from Stuttgart to Leutkirch once a week to transport cattle. During the Second World War, the volume of goods traffic rose briefly due to the Heeresmunitionsanstalt Urlau located on the railway line to Isny . The trains from Urlau were forwarded in the direction of Memmingen or Aulendorf.

After the Second World War, the volume of freight traffic could only slowly increase again. In the early 1970s, the Thermopal siding, which was built in 1936 and is still in use, was extended from 250 to 600 meters so that longer trains could also be loaded or unloaded. The Grüner Markt company, founded in Leutkirch in autumn 1971 , parked two bulk goods wagons at Leutkirch station. Since January 1, 1976, Leutkirch general cargo traffic has been handled by Memmingen station . In 1976 freight traffic in the direction of Isny ​​was stopped, the short section to Holiday was served by military trains until 2001. On April 1, 1995, baggage and express goods handling ceased. In the tank trucks from the Shell tank farm near Altmannshofen , the locomotive is moved at Leutkirch station to continue the journey towards Memmingen.

Bus transport

Bus station

From the mid-1950s, the Deutsche Bundesbahn started using rail buses in the direction of Kißlegg and Isny ​​in addition to trains . The bus stops in front of the Memmingen outbuilding, which were set up in September 1970, are still in use.

The station is at least hourly to the ring line of city bus Leutkirch connected as a connection to the past near residential areas and the city center. The frequency of the bus line is currently not adapted to the frequency of the regional trains from Memmingen and Aulendorf, so there is no direct connection. The station is also the starting point for some regional buses . On weekdays, the lines in the direction of Isny, Bad Wurzach and Kißlegg or Wangen are served almost every hour. Individual buses run in the direction of Memmingen, Kempten and Aichstetten.

literature

  • Michael Mayer: 125 years of Leutkirch station . Wilfried Eppe Verlag, Bergatreute 1998, ISBN 3-89089-046-6 .
  • Arrived again. The Leutkircher citizen station. In: Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg. 4/2012, p. 1f.
  • Susann Seyfert: A future model? Leutkirch citizens save their train station. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 41st year 2012, issue 4, pp. 224–227 ( online ; PDF)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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