Marbach (Neckar) station

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Marbach (Neckar)
Marbach station
Marbach station
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation TMB
IBNR 8003853
Price range 4th
opening December 8, 1879
location
City / municipality Marbach am Neckar
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 56 '37 "  N , 9 ° 15' 52"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '37 "  N , 9 ° 15' 52"  E
Height ( SO ) 223  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Marbach (Neckar) station is on the Backnang – Ludwigsburg line and is served by the S4 line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn . Until 1966 it was also the starting point of the narrow-gauge Bottwartalbahn . This once led to Heilbronn Süd and was recently only in operation as far as the hairpin on the border with Murr. The connecting line to the Marbach power plant, which has now also been closed, branched off there.

history

Planning and construction

As part of the new east-west connection from the Bavarian border near Crailsheim to the Baden border near Mühlacker (and further into the coalfield in the Palatinate-Saarland border area), the Royal Württemberg State Railways built the railway line from Backnang to Bietigheim. The city of Marbach had long since written petitions to the government and now received the long-awaited connection to the railway network. Construction work began in 1875. A huge viaduct made of iron framework and sandstone pillars spanned the Neckar valley between Marbach and Benningen . In order to build the route as close as possible to the location, a section of the cemetery had to be leveled. The Alexander Church , a fortified church from the 15th century, lost the northern part of its walling and two wall turrets. The train station was built around half a kilometer northeast of the city center. The station building that is still preserved today was more representative than the others on the route. The central building with its two side projections has three floors. The ground floor is made of sandstone, the upper floors of brick. The goods shed from that time still exists.

State and Reichsbahn time

On December 8, 1879, the railway line was put into operation, with it the Marbach station , which a short time later received the addition on the Neckar to differentiate it from the Marbach (Baden) station on the Baden Black Forest Railway .

Initially moderately, the passenger traffic on the route increased in 1881 when the junction between Beihingen and Ludwigsburg was completed. Beihingen-Heutingsheim was also considered a possible starting point for the Bottwarbahn , but Marbach was able to hold its own against it. The tracks of the narrow-gauge railway were in the northern area of ​​the station. Their equipment included a turntable, a goods shed and a trolley pit . The first trains went to Beilstein in 1894, and then to Heilbronn Südbahnhof in 1900. In 1906, the station building was given a one-story extension on the eastern side to accommodate additional service rooms.

The station experienced the greatest rush in June 1934. The reason was the 175th birthday of Friedrich Schiller , the city's most important son. The special trains, called the Schiller Train , brought thousands of visitors to the upcoming ceremonies, theater weeks and marches. It was a major National Socialist event for the solstice celebration, because the poet's birthday is November 10th.

Federal Railroad Time

In the last days of the Second World War, retreating Wehrmacht troops blew up the Neckar Viaduct. Air raids caused severe damage to the Beihingen-Heutingsheim– Bietigheim section . A train never again went from Marbach to Bietigheim. The rebuilding did not seem worthwhile. On September 29, 1966, the Federal Railroad stopped passenger traffic on the Bottwartalbahn. Once this line was one of the busiest narrow-gauge railways in southwest Germany, now the trains have been replaced by buses. From 1968 onwards, goods were only transported to Steinheim and the power station. The tracks were re-gauged to standard gauge for this .

For the connection to the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn, the station was rebuilt and the line was electrified for the time being to Marbach. The S4, which opened on September 28, 1980, enabled a direct connection to the state capital. In 1989 the freight traffic to Steinheim ended.

Deutsche Bahn AG

At the turn of the millennium, the last section of the Bottwartalbahn up to the branch to the power station was officially shut down. On December 8, 2012, Backnang replaced Marbach as the terminus of the S4. Since then, the Backnang – Ludwigsburg line has once again been accessible without changing trains. For this project, Deutsche Bahn expanded and converted the line and the stations between Marbach and Backnang from December 2005 to December 2012.

The state of Baden-Württemberg and the municipalities are opposed to the plans to reactivate the Bottwartalbahn from Marbach to Beilstein, which emerged in the 1990s, due to the expected high costs and the uncertainty about profitability.

Rail operations

The station has two through tracks and a head track. The S-Bahn runs to Backnang on platform 1. Track 2 is used by the S-Bahn to Stuttgart Schwabstraße. Track 3, the head track, is only used as a siding for S-Bahn.

According to Deutsche Bahn AG, the Marbach station corresponds to station category  4.

line course
S 4 Backnang  - Kirchberg  - Marbach  - Ludwigsburg - Zuffenhausen  - Central Station  - Schwabstrasse

literature

  • Albrecht Gühring: Marbach am Neckar. Guide through the Schillerstadt and its districts. Offizin Chr.Sheufele, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-923107-13-7 .
  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Kraichgau. Railway history between the Rhine and Neckar . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-769-9 .

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