Meissen train station
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_2010-10-17_104.jpg) Entrance building, street side
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | DME |
| IBNR | 8012326 |
| opening | December 1, 1860 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Meissen |
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| architect | Wilhelm Circle |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Meissen |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 9 '47 " N , 13 ° 28' 57" E |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Meissen Station is the largest train station of the city of Meissen . The station, opened in 1860, is located in the Cölln district . Its entrance building, newly built in 1928, is a listed building and, along with Stuttgart's main train station, is an architecturally significant transport structure from the interwar period . After long-distance traffic was discontinued in the 1960s, the station today has only regional significance as a station of the Dresden S-Bahn .
history
In the planning phase of the Leipzig-Dresden railway that was considering Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company is also a route through Meissen decided due to the favorable topographic but their track conditions in 1835 further north on Riesa lead. A branch line was planned to connect the then important city of Meissen . Initially, however, the citizens of Meissen had to use the Priestewitz train station , the Oberau train station from 1839 and the Niederau train station about seven kilometers away from 1842 for boarding. Only two decades later began with the groundbreaking on July 9, 1860, the construction of the branch line Coswig-Meißen and on December 1, 1860 the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company was able to start passenger traffic. Initially, three pairs of trains ran daily from Meißen train station to the Leipzig train station in Dresden . The trains needed 45 minutes for this 23-kilometer route with stops in Neusörnewitz , Coswig , Kötzschenbroda , Weintraube and Radebeul .
With the commissioning of the Nossen – Meißen section on December 22, 1868, the last gap on the Borsdorf – Coswig railway line was closed, which in Borsdorf comes from the Leipzig – Dresden railway line and re-enters Coswig. The Meissen train station was thus transformed from a terminal to a through station and direct connections to Leipzig became possible. Due to the less favorable topography, this route never achieved the importance of the flatter route via Riesa, but for a long time there were also express trains via Meißen.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Meissen train station, which had been rebuilt and expanded several times, was hardly able to cope with the sharp increase in traffic. The platform systems and the station building were therefore rebuilt after the First World War according to plans by the architect and professor Wilhelm Kreis and the building councilor Mirus. The new facilities were inaugurated on December 15, 1928.
Long-distance traffic via Meissen ended in 1965. Most recently, the Warsaw – Leipzig pair of express trains ran over this route.
On December 18, 1970, electrical train operation began in Meißen and in September 1973 Meißen was included in the network of the newly created Dresden S-Bahn . In this context, the reconstruction of the second track, which was dismantled in the course of the reparations payments, took place between Coswig and Meißen.
On January 31, 2000, the Deutsche Bahn stopped freight traffic in Meissen.
In 2010, Deutsche Bahn AG renovated the station building. This included better thermal insulation of the facade, new windows and upgrading of the waiting and passage areas. The majority of the investment total of 1.6 million euros came from the federal economic stimulus programs. For cost reasons, the client canceled the originally planned renovation of the Meissen porcelain tile base and the installation of new lighting.
As part of the expansion of the S-Bahn line to Meißen by 2016, the platforms were also rebuilt in 2012/2013. During this time, the station was only served by the S-Bahn and in the direction of Dresden. Due to the simultaneous renovation of the Elbe Bridge and the extensive expansion of the previously single-track line, the rest of the line towards Meißen Triebisch Valley was closed.
At Meißen station, trains on the S1 Meißen-Triebischtal – Dresden – Bad Schandau (–Schöna) S-Bahn run every 30 minutes; since April 2016, two more pairs of trains run to Dresden Hbf during rush hour on weekdays. December 2015 also trains of the RB line 110 Leipzig – Meißen every two hours.
Description of the plants
Railway station from 1860
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Although the station was initially the terminus of the branch line, the renaissance-like station building was erected on the side so that the planned continuation of the line across the Elbe towards Triebisch Valley was possible without major structural changes. In the reception building there were ticket and baggage counters, service rooms, a waiting room with a restaurant and a servant's drinking room and - due to the unheated car - a hot water bottle rental facility in winter. In addition to the reception building, the station included a small wagon shed, a water station and a goods shed when it opened. At its head there was a turntable for turning or moving the locomotives and railroad cars . Even after the conversion to a through station, it existed until 1910.
Railway station from 1928
The reception building is characterized by its functionally structured cubic dimensions with the gridded window areas. The cornice strips made of Rochlitz porphyry stand in stark contrast to the large, light wall surfaces. The spacious reception hall stands out from the asymmetrical structure as the dominant structure. It contains the functions required for travelers who come from here via a passenger tunnel to the elevated platforms . Since the former platform track 1/2 was dismantled without replacement in 2013 , the station has only had a central platform with two tracks.
Web links
- Representation of the railway system on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Manfred Berger: Historic train station buildings I. Saxony, Prussia, Mecklenburg and Thuringia. Chapter: Meissen Railway Station. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-344-00066-7 , p. 45 f.
- ↑ a b c d e Manfred Berger : The buildings. In: Fritz Borchert (Ed.): The Leipzig – Dresden Railway. Beginnings and present of a 150 year old. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00354-2 , p. 105.
- ↑ a b Kurt Kaiss; Matthias Hengst: Dresden's Railway. 1894-1994. Chapter The route to Leipzig via Döbeln. Alba publication, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87094-350-5 , pp. 156-161.
- ^ Website: Railways in Saxony
- ↑ a b Renovation of Meißen main station: Long-distance train station receives thermal envelope and tiles from the porcelain factory ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), article on bahnhof.de, accessed on June 1, 2011.
- ↑ Harald Daßler: Meißner Bahnhof remains a construction site , Sächsische Zeitung of January 17, 2011.