Muehlacker train station
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 Muehlacker train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | TM |
| IBNR | 8000339 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | October 1, 1853 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Muehlacker |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Thank God Spindler |
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| City / municipality | Mühlacker |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 57 '11 " N , 8 ° 50' 47" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 240 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Mühlacker station is a railway junction where the Karlsruhe-Mühlacker railway in the Württembergische Western Railway opens. With its five platform tracks, it is the largest train station in the Enzkreis . It is served by Intercity trains, Interregio Express trains and regional trains.
history
Planning and construction
In the 1840s, the Württemberg government set itself the goal of establishing a railway connection to the Rhine Valley Railway in order to reach Mannheim with its industry quickly. Baden's interest, however, was a connection from Pforzheim to the rail network. After years of negotiations between the Kingdom of Württemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden , an agreement on the course of the Western Railway was reached on December 4, 1850.
The route branching off from the northern railway in Bietigheim reached the stretch of land between the hamlets of Eckenweiher Hof and Mühlacker after around 23 kilometers . This is where the train station was built, where the Pforzheim railway line was to end later. Both settlements belonged to Dürrmenz to the south . Experts from both countries criticized this unfavorable situation, because again a remote station was planned, while the upper administrative city of Vaihingen would not have a station. The Baden side criticized the fact that an important border station was being built on a secluded homestead.
On October 1, 1853, the Royal Württemberg State Railways (KWSt.E.) opened the Western Railway. For the name of the station, the management chose Mühlacker. No protocols or similar evidence could be found about the statement that the Dürrmenz municipal councils were reluctant to give up “their good name” for the new transport structure.
Mühlacker becomes a border station
Due to the settlement of industrial companies, the population of Mühlacker increased and after 1900 became larger than Dürrmenz. As a result, the community later called itself Dürrmenz-Mühlacker. From 1859 to 1862, the Westbahn between Bietigheim and Mühlacker received a second track. The Grand Ducal Badische Staatsbahn (BadStB) completed the railway line from Durlach on June 1, 1863 from the southwest . It replaced the Pforzheim – Mühlacker horse-drawn bus established in October 1853 . As early as 1869, the BadStB put a second track into operation.
The new border station consisted of the Württemberg through station and the Baden terminus station (formerly tracks 50 to 53). Now two state railways with different officials and units of measurement were active in Mühlacker. The design of the timetables was considered problematic, as the Württemberg train station was based on the local time in Stuttgart and the train station in Baden was based on the local time in Karlsruhe. This resulted in a time difference of three minutes until the introduction of Central European railway time on June 1, 1891.
In the 1880s, the station gained importance due to long-distance traffic. On June 5, 1883, the Orient Express stopped for the first time on the way from Paris Ostbahnhof to Giurgevo (today Giurgiu ). However, due to the time saved, the operators did not stop in Mühlacker from 1901.
The Mühlacker – Bretten section has been accessible on two tracks since 1890 . In 1897 a decision was made to continue the Zabergäubahn , which ended in Güglingen at the time . The new line was to end in Mühlacker via Sternenfels , Diefenbach, Freudenstein , Maulbronn , Schmie and Lienzingen . The KWSt.E. from. The plan of the slab track from Renningen via Friolzheim to Mühlacker presented in 1913 was no longer taken into account from 1920.
Reichsbahn time
On April 1, 1920, the KWSt.E. and the BadStB in the Deutsche Reichsbahn . This meant the definitive end of its function as a border station. The Reichsbahn introduced uniform systems and regulations into the railway system. In 1921 she finally removed the border posts between the former station sections.
On July 4, 1930, the municipal council requested that the municipality be renamed Mühlacker. This took place on November 11, 1930, when the State Ministry raised Mühlacker to town.
In 1941 a new connecting curve was built west of the station between the Westbahn and the Karlsruhe – Mühlacker railway. It saved the trains from having to worry about their head and was therefore also of strategic importance, as troop transports reached France more quickly. From October 1944, the bombing and low-flying attacks on the railway facilities and the trains in the vicinity began. A total of 14 people were killed. The tracks and buildings were partly badly damaged.
Federal railway time until today
During the reconstruction, the Federal Railroad electrified the Bietigheim – Mühlacker section. On October 6, 1951, the first electric railcar arrived from Stuttgart as part of suburban traffic in Stuttgart . In the future, many trains will be relocated in Mühlacker. On May 23, 1954, the Federal Railroad extended electrical operations to Bretten, and on June 1, 1958 to Karlsruhe.
As an improvement in long-distance traffic, plans were made for a high-speed line from Mannheim to Stuttgart in the 1960s . Initially still quite conceivable, in the end those responsible decided against including Mühlacker and in favor of building the new Vaihingen (Enz) long-distance train station . The commissioning of the entire line on June 2, 1991 meant that only a few express trains stopped at Mühlacker. Also in 1991, the Federal Railroad stopped passenger traffic in the Mühlacker – Bretten section, so that the station continued to lose importance.
After individual Karlsruhe trams on the S9 line from Bretten ended in Mühlacker in 1997 , they were fully reactivated on May 30, 1999. The former border station was given back its task as a junction with high cycle rates and long-distance traffic connection .
Three elevators went into operation for the 2015 garden show. The platforms on tracks 1, 2/3, 5 and 50 are to be aligned over a total length of 922 m at a height of 55 cm. The federal, railway, state and city authorities are investing a total of 6.3 million euros in platforms and elevators. The city's share is 1.3 million euros. The renovation was completed in July 2019.
As a result of the new tendering of the transport services with a corresponding change of operator, the connections from Mühlacker train station with three Interregio-Express trains every two hours on weekdays, which in combination with the Intercity trains result in an approximate half-hourly service to Karlsruhe or Stuttgart, greatly expanded. The comparatively slower regional trains with stops at all subway stations (exception RE direction Heidelberg) were restructured, which now only run hourly to Stuttgart and on the branch towards Karlsruhe only run to Pforzheim.
Reception building
Two historical reception buildings have been preserved in Mühlacker . These are the Württemberg station building on track 1 and the Baden station building on track 50.
The Württemberg reception building was originally a two-story building with a gable roof . A distinctive feature of the stations on the Westbahn is the access, which - in alternating order - is highlighted by red and yellow sandstones. In 1885 the KWSt.E. Increase the building by one floor and add extensions on the eastern side. In the one-story extension there were work rooms for the post office.
In 1863, the BadStB erected its reception building on the former station garden. The building consists of a three-story central section with a hipped roof . Two two-story building sections border it on the left and right.
Rail operations
The station is a railway junction where the Karlsruhe – Mühlacker railway joins the Württemberg Westbahn . Track 1 is used for trains in the direction of Vaihingen (Enz), track 2 in the direction of Pforzheim . The RB 17C, which used to be the S9, starts on track 3. The Klosterstadt-Express to and from Maulbronn Stadt also begins and ends here on Sundays and public holidays . Platform 4 is only used by passing trains - the adjacent platform is blocked off on this side by a railing. Since the timetable change with which Go Ahead Baden-Württemberg and Abellio BW serve the routes of the Stuttgart network, track 5 is no longer used as planned for stopping passenger trains. Track 6 is a passing track without a platform for trains going to Bretten. Track 50 is the last remaining head track of the former Baden terminus station (once four tracks). At the eastern end of the track there is a connection to track 1. Track 50 is used for the RB 17A, which comes from Pforzheim and then couples with the RE 17B or the RB 17C on track 1.
The connecting track between the lines to Pforzheim and Bretten is planned to be used almost exclusively by freight trains. Individual trains of the Klosterstadt-Express, which do not end or start in Mühlacker, but instead run in the direction of Pforzheim and Tübingen , also use this connecting curve.
The Mühlacker station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG of Bahnhof Category 4th
The interlocking in Mühlacker is a relay interlocking of the type SpDrL30.
Long-distance transport
| route | Clock frequency | |
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| IC 61 | Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Stuttgart - Aalen - Nuremberg | 120-minute intervals |
Regional traffic
The RB 17 is winged at Mühlacker station, the RB17C and RE17B alternate every 2 hours. In the RE 17B hour, the RB 17C only starts in Mühlacker.
| line | route | Clock frequency |
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| IRE 1 | Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen - Stuttgart | Hourly |
| IRE 1 | Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen - Stuttgart - Schorndorf - Aalen | Every two hours |
| RB 17A | Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim - Vaihingen - Mühlacker - Pforzheim (- Wilferdingen-Singen / Bad Wildbad) | Every half hour to Bietigheim, every hour to Stuttgart. |
| RE 17B | Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim - Vaihingen - Mühlacker - Bretten - Bruchsal - Heidelberg | Every two hours to Heidelberg |
| RB 17C | Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim - Vaihingen - Mühlacker - Bretten - Heidelsheim - Bruchsal | Hourly with HVZ amplifiers |
literature
- Uwe H. Hagmann, Matthias Lieb: 150 years of Mühlacker station. The strange thought of building a train station at the Eckenweiher Hof. Edited by the city of Mühlacker. Elser Druck, Mühlacker 2003.
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Kraichgau. Railway history between the Rhine and Neckar . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-769-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Query of course book route 770 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of course book route 771 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b Query of course book route 772 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b Query of the course book route 710.5 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 710.9 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ CAS software: Mühlacker station now modernized and barrier-free. Retrieved November 7, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ DB Netz: Tracks in service facilities , October 1, 2010 (PDF, 191 kB)