Lichtenfels train station

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Lichtenfels
Reception building east facade
Reception building east facade
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 6th
abbreviation NLF
IBNR 8000228
opening February 15, 1846
Profile on Bahnhof.de Lichtenfels
Architectural data
Architectural style Neo-renaissance
architect Gottfried von Neureuther
location
City / municipality Lichtenfels
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 8 '46 "  N , 11 ° 3' 35"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '46 "  N , 11 ° 3' 35"  E
Height ( SO ) 262.4  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Bavaria
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The Lichtenfels train station is located in the municipality of the city of Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia on the Bamberg – Hof railway line and the Eisenach – Lichtenfels railway line that joins here . In long- distance passenger transport, he had regular stops on the Intercity Express trains on the line from Berlin to Munich from 2000 to December 9, 2017 . Since then, the station has been integrated into the ICE network with one train.

history

Traffic map from 1912 with Lichtenfels

In the summer of 1841, the planning of the Bamberg – Lichtenfels section of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn began . The construction work was then carried out. Railway systems with five through tracks were built on the outskirts of the city. The site had to be filled up to four meters, the city wall had to be broken through in two places and the Coburg Gate had to be rebuilt. The station, which was equipped with an operating station, was first used in January 1846. The opening ceremony followed on February 15, 1846. On October 15, 1846, the line to Neuenmarkt was opened and on November 1, 1848, the end point at Hof was reached. The first massive reception building of the transit station was erected from 1847 to 1850 based on a temporary wooden structure. In January 1859 the connection to the Werra Railway followed, which upgraded the station to a railway junction with separate railway systems for the Werra Railway Company and the Royal Bavarian State Railways and made major expansion measures necessary in 1862.

After the opening of the Hochstadt-Marktzeuln – Probstzella railway across the Franconian Forest to Thuringia, part of a new long-distance connection to Berlin, in October 1885 the station in Lichtenfels became the starting point for this line and thus also the seat of regional railway authorities. After the Royal Railway took over the Werra Railway on January 1, 1891, extensive expansion and reconstruction of the railway followed. The number of continuous tracks was increased to eleven, with 17 switchman posts being replaced by four signal boxes. The railway company also had, among other things, two freight forwarding buildings and a goods hall erected, and the platforms secured and roofed. The railway depot was set up in 1891 . With a railway area of ​​around 30 hectares and 29 percent of the citizens employed by the railway in 1914, Lichtenfels had developed into a city shaped by the railway. In 1889 the Coburger Tor was demolished, in 1896 a footbridge was built over the tracks for pedestrians on Coburger Strasse, which was dismantled in 1934.

From 1934 to 1936, extensive renovation and expansion measures were carried out in preparation for the electrification of the Nuremberg – Leipzig / Halle line. They cost 2.1 million Reichsmarks and included, among other things, raising the route by a maximum of 1.7 meters, building a platform underpass and five new signal boxes. The electromechanical signal box  3, as a so-called four-row signal box, was one of the most modern signal boxes of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The level crossing of the road to Coburg was replaced from the end of 1934 by the construction of a 3.5 meter high, 8 meter wide and 38 meter long underpass, which was opened in July 1935. The scheduled electric train service began on May 15, 1939.

During the Second World War, the depot was destroyed by an air raid on February 23, 1945. German units blew up switches and water cranes on April 11, 1945 . By the end of 1945, 95 percent of the damage had been repaired.

In autumn 1983, a central relay interlocking of the Lorenz type was put into operation, which replaced the electromechanical interlocking. Another redesign of the station followed at the beginning of the 21st century. The platforms were redesigned. They received a new roof as well as elevators and platforms with a height of 760 mm above the top of the rails .

Passenger train traffic

218 217 before the exit towards Bamberg, 1995

As of June 2020, 124 regional and 5 long-distance trains stop daily. Around 7,000 travelers were counted (as of 2017).

Long-distance transport

Until December 9, 2017, the station was the Intercity Express stop on the line from Hamburg via Berlin , Leipzig and then along the Saale Valley to Munich . With the timetable change and the associated relocation of the Berlin-Munich high-speed axis as part of the German Unity 8 (VDE 8) traffic project, only one ICE connection, Monday to Friday, runs directly from Lichtenfels to Munich.

In addition, a pair of IC trains on line 61 runs daily via Lichtenfels from Leipzig via Stuttgart to Karlsruhe , and at night a pair of IC trains on line 17 between Warnemünde and Vienna.

With the regional traffic to Bamberg and changing there to the ICE, the journey time to Munich is almost the same. The new line leads a few kilometers west of Lichtenfels.

line route Tact
ICE Lichtenfels  - Nuremberg  - Ingolstadt  - Munich Indent
IC 17 Vienna  - Passau - Regensburg - Nuremberg - Bamberg - Lichtenfels  - Leipzig - Berlin  - Warnemünde a pair of trains
IC 61 Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Aalen - Nuremberg - Bamberg - Lichtenfels - Saalfeld - Leipzig a pair of trains

According to a model calculation commissioned by the Coburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry for 2014, 520 ICE passengers a day can be expected at the station, 350 of whom are transferring passengers and 170 who are originally boarding and disembarking.

From the end of 2023, a new intercity line from Karlsruhe via Stuttgart and Nuremberg to Leipzig will stop in Lichtenfels.

Regional traffic

In local transport, Lichtenfels is a hub with hourly connections to Upper Franconia and South Thuringia. The start and end point is the station for a regional train connection as well as a transit station for an Agilis connection and four Regional Express lines:

Train type route Tact Vehicle material
RE Franken-Thuringia Express :
Nuremberg  - Fürth  - Erlangen  - Bamberg  - Lichtenfels  - 		Coburg  - Sonneberg Every two hours BR 442 (Talent 2)
Kronach  - Saalfeld Every two hours
RE Franken-Thuringia Express:
Nuremberg  - Fürth  - Erlangen  - Bamberg  - Lichtenfels  - Kronach  - Saalfeld  - Jena Paradies  - Leipzig 		Every two hours BR 442 (Talent 2)
RE Main-Saale-Express:
(Bamberg -) Lichtenfels  - Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg  - Hof  / Bayreuth (-  Nuremberg ) 		Hourly BR 641
RB ( Kronach  -) Lichtenfels  - Bamberg Hourly BR 442 (Talent 2)
ag Bad Rodach - Coburg - Lichtenfels  - Kulmbach - Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg - Bayreuth Hourly BR 650 (Regio-Shuttle RS1)

Since December 2013 the regional express line Würzburg – Bamberg – Lichtenfels – Bayreuth / Hof has been divided into two lines. DB Regio Franken won the tender in the Main-Spessart area and will henceforth operate the line from Würzburg to Bamberg, some of which will be extended to Frankfurt from 2015 . The Bamberg-Lichtenfels-Bayreuth / Hof line will continue to be operated by DB Regio Nordostbayern .

Railway systems

The station has eleven through tracks that run in a curve. The three island platforms are on tracks 1 and 2 (length 170 meters), 3 and 5 (length 370 meters) and 6 and 7 (length 210 meters). They can be reached via an underpass and stairs or elevators. A house platform is no longer available.

In the round locomotive shed of the former depot, the Nuremberg Transport Museum has parked some locomotives that are looked after by the BSW Group Lichtenfels.

Reception building

West view

The station building was built between 1848 and 1849 according to plans by the architect Gottfried Neureuther from 1847. It consisted of a three-storey central building with four window axes and single-storey, three-axis wing structures on both sides. In 1859/60 the side wings were lengthened. In 1862 the station building was completely rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style . An additional building was erected to the south with the same design as the old central building with a new wing. The three-story buildings were connected by the old, southern side wing, which was raised by one floor. Finally, in 1886, the symmetrical reception building was supplemented by the addition of a low central wing with the reception hall and the railway counters. The building has a facade made of sandstone masonry with cornices and pilaster strips. The reception hall has a structured wooden coffered ceiling with skylight.

Considerations in 1969 to demolish the building with 9741 cubic meters of enclosed space were not carried out. Rather, it was repaired and rebuilt in the following years. The station building is listed as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Dietsch, Stefan Goldschmidt, Hans Löhner: The Werrabahn . Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810681-3-9 , p. 121.
  2. ^ Ulrich Rockelmann, Thomas Naumann: The Frankenwaldbahn. The story of the steep ramp over the Franconian Forest . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-88255-581-5 , p. 95.
  3. ↑ Steffen Dietsch, Stefan Goldschmidt, Hans Löhner: The Werrabahn . Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810681-3-9 , p. 183.
  4. ^ The Deutsche Bahn AG in Upper Franconia. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, January 2016, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ A huge success for the region: “Lichtenfels-ICE” for commuters is retained and IC connection via Kronach is secured. December 9, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Lichtenfels station remains an ICE stop. In: np-coburg.de. February 18, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ BEG presents new local transport concept for commissioning the new VDE 8 line: faster connections for Upper Franconia and good connections to the ICE. Bavarian Railway Company, March 16, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ IHK zu Coburg (ed.): Creation of a small-scale traffic model with potential analysis for the ICE system stop Coburg: Summary . Hanover January 28, 2015, p. 3, 5 ( PDF ( memento from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on January 23, 2016]). Creation of a small-scale traffic model with potential analysis for the ICE system stop in Coburg: Summary ( memento of the original from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihk-coburg.de
  9. ↑ Connection to the high-speed network: ICE trains will stop in Coburg from the end of 2017. (No longer available online.) In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, June 24, 2016, archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; accessed on June 24, 2016 .