Meiningen train station
| Meiningen train station | |
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 Entrance building:
Prussian on the left - Bavarian on the right of the station concourse |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design |
Through station terminus station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | AROUND |
| IBNR | 8010230 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | November 2, 1858 (Prussian part) December 15, 1874 (Bavarian part) |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Meiningen |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Meiningen |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 34 ′ 27 " N , 10 ° 25 ′ 15" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 299.19 m above sea level NHN |
| Railway lines | |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The station Meiningen is a junction of two railway lines with five railway lines and with its facilities the most important railway station in southern Thuringia .
It consists of two adjacent, structurally once operationally separate stations and the Prussian station as a transit station on the Werrabahn from Eisenach to Lichtenfels and the Bayerischer Bahnhof as a terminal station and terminus of the Schweinfurt-Meiningen railway . The two stations were combined into one station in 1920 after the regional railways were dissolved .
location
Meiningen train station is located on route kilometer 60.69 of the Werra Railway and on route kilometer 77.90 of the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line. The train station is located on the eastern edge of the city center of Meiningen next to the English Garden and separates the city center and Oststadt districts. The old town and several important public institutions such as the Meiningen State Theater , hotels and the Meiningen Justice Center are in the immediate vicinity.
history
Werra Railway / Prussian Railway Station
The first plan for the construction of a train station in Meiningen was drawn up as early as 1838 as part of the project planning for a “Bavarian-Hanseatic Railway” that was also to run through the Werra Valley . The railway area was originally planned to be northwest of the old town at the foot of the Herrenberg (today Am Bielstein). The project was initially broken down due to a lack of concessions from the Kingdom of Hanover .
20 years later, after a construction period of two years, the station was inaugurated on November 2, 1858 when the Werra Railway opened. The station became the seat of the Werra Railway Company , which received the concession to build and operate the Werrabahn. When it opened, the station consisted of the station building and six other structures, including a locomotive shed with a repair shop and coke, wagon and goods sheds. In order to meet the steadily increasing need for maintenance and repair work on the Werrabahn vehicle fleet, a workshop with a roundhouse and turntable was built opposite the reception building from 1863 .
With the opening of the Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen railway in 1884, the station was connected to the Berlin – Erfurt – Würzburg – Stuttgart long-distance train connection . In 1895 the Prussian State Railroad took over the Werra Railway and Meininger Bahnhof became the Prussian Railway Station . In 1900 the space between the Prussian and Bavarian reception buildings was covered with a single-storey half-timbered building. It was provided with a loading ramp and a flight of stairs to the station square and from then on served as the main entrance to the platforms. The company workshop, known as an auxiliary workshop, developed from its establishment until 1900 into a contiguous hall complex of 200 meters in length with 26 locomotive stands and a number of workshops and other facilities. It was elevated to a main workshop in 1902 . The capacities of the main workshop soon reached their limits, so in 1914 the Prussian State Railroad built a new main workshop one kilometer north of the station, the later " RAW Meiningen" and today's Meiningen steam locomotive plant , into which a siding has since led from the station. The old main workshop was then dismantled and converted into a railway depot . In 1918 and 1928 all platforms were extended and roofed with the exception of platform 2.
Bavarian train station
On December 15, 1874, the Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line . To the south they built the independent Bavarian train station, leaning against the existing Werrabahn station, as a terminal station with a reception building, platforms, a locomotive depot with five stands, a turntable and other track systems. This almost doubled the railway area and now extended over 1,300 meters between the two entry signal boxes. Since the number of tracks at the level crossing in Marienstraße increased from two to ten, traffic control with barriers was no longer feasible. For example, a 100-meter-long road tunnel was built that crosses under the tracks and platforms and has since connected the city center and east city districts with one another. Due to the construction of the Bavarian train station and the lowering of Marienstraße necessary for the tunnel construction, major topographical changes with deep cuts in the terrain were necessary in the subsequent road network and in the wider area around the train station. So the urban road network east of the railway site had to be reorganized and further engineering structures had to be erected.
Reichsbahn time
After the state railways were dissolved and the Deutsche Reichsbahn was formed , the combined station came to the Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt , which set up one of nine operations offices here. In addition there were the seats of a machine office and a traffic office. The depot was enlarged and got a larger turntable. In the southern part of the railway area, a tank farm was established to supply fuel to filling stations. During the Second World War , an American air raid during Operation Clarion destroyed the southern railway tracks, a road bridge over them, signal box 4 and the tank farm. Railway employees, members of the armed forces and prisoners of war repaired the tracks within three days.
After the Second World War, the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway was interrupted in July 1945 . On this route, the trains only ran to Rentwertshausen and Römhild (until 1971). The locomotive depot of the former Bavarian State Railroad was converted into a coal station. The Soviet Army built a loading ramp for heavy war equipment between the freight yard and the depot. The last major renovation of the passenger station took place in 1960. In place of the half-timbered building erected in 1900, a new, enlarged station hall with a ticket office, luggage lockers, Mitropa , newspaper shop, kiosk , toilets and later an Intershop was created . Since then, a wide flight of stairs has led to the station forecourt.
After the construction of the inner German border , the Deutsche Reichsbahn set up new long-distance connections. Meiningen station was now the start and end point of express and express trains to Erfurt, Halle (Saale) , Leipzig , Berlin , Dresden - Görlitz and Stralsund - Barth (Baltic Sea). Rail traffic increased from 1960 to 1989 to around 200 train journeys a day.
In the 1960s a city express connection to Berlin was set up and from October 25, 1976 the city express "Rennsteig" ran between Meiningen and Berlin. These two pairs of trains only stopped in Suhl, Arnstadt (1980s), Erfurt, Halle (Saale) and at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport. In 1976 a new ring locomotive hall with twelve locomotive stands and a turntable was put into operation in the depot. A passenger train washing facility was also built in the Bavarian part of the station.
Deutsche Bahn AG
After German reunification in 1990 and the reopening of the Meiningen – Schweinfurt railway line in 1991, new express train connections were initially established from Berlin via Meiningen to Würzburg or Schweinfurt and Meiningen - Sangerhausen . After these lines were discontinued after the privatization of Deutsche Bahn, Meiningen station increasingly lost its importance towards the end of the 1990s. In 1998 the city built a new bus station near platforms 1 and 2, which offers travelers a good rail-bus transport network. The tank farm and the locomotive depot used as a coal station at Bayerischer Bahnhof were demolished. In its place is now the station 1 of the Meiningen base fire brigade .
In 2001, Deutsche Bahn handed over the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn (STB), founded in 1999, the local rail passenger transport (SPNV) for the southern Thuringian region, which then set up new rail lines and their operating location in Meiningen train station. Since 2004 the Erfurter Bahn (EB) has been operating a new direct connection from Meiningen to Schweinfurt and Bad Kissingen with the Lower Franconia Shuttle . It uses the tracks and platforms of the Bavarian train station for the Lower Franconia shuttle as well as the Meiningen train station as a further operating location. The Bavarian part of the station also served as a storage location for the regional express trains operated by Deutsche Bahn until 2017. For the 150th anniversary of the Werra Railway on November 2, 2008, a memorial plaque was attached to the reception building during a station festival.
In 2014, Deutsche Bahn AG sold the station buildings from 1858 and 1874 as well as the station forecourt to RK-Bahn Entwicklung GmbH , the remaining station facilities remained in the possession of Deutsche Bahn (see below). The station buildings were not designed as a train station and must continue to be available for rail operations.
In 2018/19, Deutsche Bahn modernized the Meiningen station with extensive construction work. The core piece was a new electronic interlocking (ESTW-Z) with a regional control center. The signal box building, consisting of six modules, was erected in April 2019 and forms the technical center of the station. The “Regional Control Center Meiningen” (RBZ) with dispatcher for the ESTW was brought into an existing administration building. In addition, an ESTW local control and 48 signals were newly installed. The station received a new track plan with the redesign of the two large switch plates in the south and north of the station area and ten new electrically localized points (EOW) for shunting work. At the same time, the track field lighting and point heating were renewed . As part of the modernization, the level crossing in Bella-Aul-Straße at the northern end of the station area was widened with the installation of a new barrier system. After a ten-week total closure of the station, during which, among other things, an American dud from the Second World War was defused, train traffic was resumed on December 1, 2019.
South Thuringia Railway
Süd-Thüringen-Bahn GmbH (STB) has been operating local rail passenger transport in South Thuringia and to Erfurt since 2001 and has been using DB's Meiningen depot as a maintenance workshop and operating facility since then . In 2018, STB acquired the railway site at the former freight yard from DB AG. It will build a new workshop with an office building and track systems there by 2020 and in 2019 received a connection to the rest of the rail network as part of the Deutsche Bahn AG construction work.
Station facilities
Reception building
The reception building is a classical building and consists of three parts. The larger building to the north was built in 1858 for the Werra Railway and was taken over by the Prussian State Railway in 1895 . The building to the south was built by the Bavarian State Railways in 1874 when the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line opened. In 1900 the two buildings were connected with a single-storey low-rise building, which was replaced by a modern station hall in 1960 . The building ensemble is a listed building. There is a taxi center waiting for passengers right in front of the reception building , and next to it is the Meininger bus station for public transport. Seating, a telephone booth, bicycle parking spaces and a car parking lot have been set up on the station forecourt.
Tenants, customer and service facilities
The following customer and service facilities are currently located in the reception building, including the station hall and on the platforms: Customer travel center of the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn, ticket machine for local and long-distance traffic as well as machines for drinks / snacks, bakery, pizzeria, waiting area and games library . The building also houses the lines for the depots of the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn and the Erfurter Bahn (Unterfrankenshuttle area) as well as a branch of DB Services GmbH of Deutsche Bahn . The federal police station is located in the Bavarian part .
Privatization, renovation and renovation 2014–2021
In 2014, Deutsche Bahn AG sold the station building and the station forecourt to RK-Bahnentwicklung GmbH . With a contract signed in 2016 between the city of Meiningen and the RK-Bahn, the station forecourt came into the possession of the city, and it was agreed that the RK-Bahn would invest in the reception building by 2021. The investment and modernization includes the creation of a central hub for travelers.
As part of an extensive renovation and modernization of the reception building, a number of new customer and travel facilities will be built by 2021. In the station concourse, in addition to the existing facilities (see above), there is a taxi service point, a travel supplies shop, public toilets and a bicycle rental facility. The station concourse will be accessible with an elevator from the station forecourt. The bike rental includes a bike park with an attached bike workshop in the basement of the Bavarian building. A hostel is planned for the second floor of the Prussian building .
Tracks
With a length of 1.3 kilometers, the station area covers an area of around ten hectares . It has 37 tracks, 22 of which are 3411 meters long with service facilities from DB Netz AG. There are 12 tracks on the Bavarian part of the station, which have their own numbering with the additional designation "B" in the internal track numbers. The longest track is track 2 with 937 meters.
The passenger station consists of a through station with platform tracks 1 and 2 and a terminal station with platform tracks 3 and 4 (internal track numbers 1B and 2B). All platforms are barrier-free. In 2010, the DB carried out a renovation of the platforms and roofs.
In the northern part of the station, track 24 branches off a siding to the Meiningen steam locomotive works with its own rail network.
Electronic signal box
Four and most recently three mechanical interlockings were once available for smooth traffic , which were replaced by a modern electronic interlocking (ESTW-Z) in 2019 . The ESTW Meiningen is controlled by the newly established regional control center Meiningen (RBZ Meiningen). Here the dispatcher Meiningen regulates the train traffic of the station as well as the entrances and exits from / to Ritschenhausen (destination station: Schweinfurt), Grimmenthal (Erfurt / Sonneberg) and Walldorf (Eisenach).
Platforms
| track | Total length [m] | Usable length [m] | Height [cm] | Covered | Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 301 | 225 | 55 | Yes | Eisenach, Erfurt, Eisfeld, Sonneberg, Grimmenthal |
| 2 | 315 | 110 | 30th | No | Eisenach, Sonneberg |
| 3 | 343 | 196 | 38 | Yes | Erfurt, Grimmenthal |
| 4th | 343 | 196 | 38 | Yes | Schweinfurt, Bad Kissingen |
Further parts of the station
The former freight yard is located on the east side of the railway site . A textile sales facility and two handicraft businesses were located here until 2019. Since then, the newly built operating site of the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn (STB) has been located there. On the west side are the loading station and the Bavarian part of the station, which is mainly used as a depot for the Lower Franconia shuttle of the Erfurt Railway (EB) and as a storage location for the STB. Opposite the reception building is the Meiningen (BW) depot, which is rented by the Südthüringenbahn and used as an operating facility until 2021. There is also a police station of the Federal Police at the station .
passenger traffic
With around 100 train stops a day, there are direct connections from Meiningen station with five lines on three lines to the following places, which are served by Regional Express trains (RE) and regional trains (RB).
| KBS | Train type | Railway line | direction | Companies | Tact | Connection option at the destination station |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 570 | RE | STx 50 | Erfurt |
South Thuringia Railway South Thuringia Railway Express |
six pairs of trains |
ICE Leipzig – Frankfurt / Main ICE Wiesbaden – Dresden ICE Berlin-Munich |
| 570 | RB | STB 44 | Erfurt | South Thuringia Railway | 2 hours | |
| 570 | RB | STB 44 | Grimmenthal | South Thuringia Railway | 2 hours | Feeder for the RE 7 Erfurt – Würzburg |
| 569 | RB | STB 41 |
Eisfeld Sonneberg Neuhaus am Rennweg |
South Thuringia Railway | 1 hour | RE Sonneberg – Nürnberg feeder to RE 7 Erfurt – Würzburg change in Grimmenthal (every 120 min) |
| 575 | RB | STB 41 | Eisenach | South Thuringia Railway | 1 hour | ICE Leipzig – Frankfurt / Main ICE Wiesbaden – Dresden ICE Berlin-Munich |
| 815 | RB | EB 40 | Schweinfurt |
Erfurt Railway Lower Franconia Shuttle |
2 hours | RE Würzburg – Hof RE Würzburg – Nuremberg |
| 815 | RB | EB 40 |
Bad Kissingen Gemünden am Main |
Erfurt Railway Lower Franconia Shuttle |
Indent |
literature
- Georg Thielmann, Hermann Lohr: Railway depot Meiningen . Bahn & Bild Verlag, Berlin.
- Tino Avemark: Meininger Bahnhof through the ages . Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-3-5 .
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (UM) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.61 MiB) (valid until 2019).
Individual evidence
- ^ Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen Bielsteinverlag Meiningen, 2008.
- ↑ a b c d Tino Avemark: The Meiningen train station through the ages . Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008.
- ↑ Schmidt-Raßmann: Meiningen as it used to be. Wartberg Verlag, 1992.
- ^ Ingrid Reissland: February 23, 1945 - bomb attack. In: Meininger Tageblatt . February 22, 1997.
- ↑ FW Meininger Tageblatt, article: Meiningen's black Friday . Friday Packet for February 21, 2015.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG construction projects - Meiningen station.
- ↑ Meininger Tageblatt : Electronic railway signal box put together . Edition of April 18, 2019.
- ↑ a b Meininger Tageblatt, edition of April 7, 2016, p. 7
- ^ RK-Bahn Entwicklung GmbH and Hellmuth Architects. Published in Meininger Tageblatt, April 8, 2017 and April 17, 2020.
- ↑ DB Netze , Tracks in Service Facilities, page 348, (2019, PDF).
- ↑ Tracks in service facilities (UM) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.61 MiB)
- ↑ DB Networks
- ↑ Platform information on Meiningen station from 2012 on deutschebahn.com
- ↑ a b Platform information on Meiningen station. ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2018 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. As of 2017 on deutschebahn.com
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn timetable, as of 2017/18.
