Memmingen station
| Memmingen | |
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 Train station with arriving trains
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 5 long-distance railway tracks |
| abbreviation | MM |
| IBNR | 8000249 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | October 12, 1862 |
| Website URL |
Station profile of the BEG deutschebahn.com |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Modular concept |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Memmingen |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 59 '9 " N , 10 ° 11' 12" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 595 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The Memmingen train station is an existing station since 1862. Today's station building had two previous buildings. In Memmingen , the Buchloe – Memmingen and Leutkirch – Memmingen lines meet the Neu-Ulm – Kempten line (Illertalbahn). The route from Munich to Zurich and thus also the Memmingen train station is to be expanded and electrified for tilting technology trains in the long term .
The station is barrier-free . For a long time, various parties have been calling for a further train stop in the West School Center (around 3500 students).
location
The train station is centrally located in the city center on the eastern edge of the old town, between Kalchstrasse and Lindentorstrasse. Maximilianstrasse joins Bahnhofstrasse in front of the station building, which runs west of the station. In the north there is a pedestrian underpass to Augsburger Strasse, in the south an iron footbridge leads over the railroad tracks to Gaswerkstrasse.
history
First rail traffic
The Illertalbahn, which was financed by the city, was the first connection Memmingen to the railway network from 1862. The first section Memmingen - Neu-Ulm was opened on October 12, 1862 and the southern section Memmingen - Kempten was put into operation on June 1, 1863. At that time, the stop was only classified as a post and railway administration .
The rail network was expanded on May 1, 1874 with the Buchloe – Memmingen line. As a result, Memmingen was linked to the Bavarian capital, Munich. In 1879 the Memmingen railway system had five tracks and three platforms. At that time, all operations were carried out on the site of today's train station. In addition, the Kalchtor , the Lindentörlein , the water art , the towers in between and a large part of the city wall were demolished. A water house and an overnight building were on the east side opposite the reception building. In between stood a two-track engine shed with a twelve-meter turntable . A two-track carriage shed with a ramp, warehouse and car turntable was built on the west side of the town towards Schranne .
In 1887 the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Württemberg signed the State Treaty on the establishment of the Württemberg Allgäu Railway with the Memmingen – Leutkirch line. In 1888 the Memmingen train station was rebuilt. To the west of the first track, three butt tracks were set up, two of which had a platform . In the run-up there were the sidings for coaches and freight cars as well as a locomotive shed for the Württemberg machines. Two stands also had to be added to the engine shed. An extension with overnight rooms was built for the Württemberg train drivers, a twelve-meter turntable in front, a water house and a head and side ramp. A total of 2740 meters of new tracks had to be laid and 1080 meters of old ones dismantled and relocated. 2090 meters of track were moved and 1585 meters raised by 20 to 30 centimeters. 13 new points , including one English, were installed, 15 were broken off and used again, two crossed points were inserted and two points moved.
The engine shed was moved from the west to the east side north of the Augsburger Strasse level crossing . This meant that foreign rail traffic could be carried out on today's tracks 11 to 13 essentially without affecting Bavarian operations. A loading hall had to be relocated and extended by 20 meters and the service building had to be increased by one floor. In 1889, a 17-ton iron footbridge was built directly north of the Stadtbach for pedestrian traffic and moved northwards 19 years later.
Expansion and expansion
On October 2, 1889, the line to Leutkirch was put into operation. From 1890 to 1893, extensive track plan changes and additions were necessary. The freight yard and the open loading tracks have been expanded. The house platform received an iron platform roof. For the increasing number of employees, in 1913 there were 155 railway workers, shelters and service apartments were built in the track field.
The joint post and railway administration was abolished in 1893 and converted into a railway administration . On October 22, 1900, the Ungerhausen – Ottobeuren railway was put into operation, and its trains usually ran to and from Memmingen. On June 23, 1904, the Memmingen – Legau railway finally followed . The first signal system was built between 1907 and 1908 .
A new freight hall with a dispatch building was completed in 1909. The old loading hall at track 13 was converted into another service building. A year later, the treatment facilities were expanded to include a wagon cleaning hall at the Württemberg locomotive treatment facility.
The width of the platforms was no longer sufficient for the heavy traffic of people and luggage. From 1916 to 1919 they were rebuilt and the tracks in the passenger station were expanded. The required space was created through the dismantling of the Bavarian locomotive depot and the water houses. The platforms were widened and provided with a wooden roof; a platform underpass allowed access. Due to the war, the remaining work and the construction of the annex to the reception building could not be completed until 1921.
Second World War
Towards the end of World War II, the railway junction and the adjacent were airbase target of several air attacks. On July 20, 1944, the first attack caused major damage to the passenger section of the station. The evacuation of four passenger trains prevented personal injury and vehicle damage. After intensive clean-up and repair work, rail operations could continue unhindered for a short time. April 20, 1945 was the most devastating air raid.
“[...] Locomotive shed and overnight building very serious roof and window damage, masonry damaged, ... water crane and turntable slightly damaged, 36 wagons destroyed, 88 heavily, 64 slightly damaged. Memmingen station occupied with 78 heavy explosive bombs, between signal boxes I and III ... exits to Kempten, Leutkirch and Legau interrupted. It was only possible to operate in the Pbf and in the direction of Ulm and Buchloe. Most of the tracks between Stw I and III and 20 switch units destroyed. The urban siding group 1 east of the station was almost completely destroyed. The eastern part of the iron footbridge over the tracks at signal box III collapsed to 20 m. … 18 soldiers, 3 railway workers, I Polish women and I Polish workers died. 165 soldiers slightly wounded. EGG. Signal boxes I and II damaged by splinters. ... the power supply system for the power station in signal box II was badly damaged. ... water tower badly damaged ... half of the goods hall destroyed, half seriously damaged. ... The overnight accommodation on Riedbachstrasse. with ancillary buildings, service residential buildings II and III, all platform roofs, the old goods hall and the train dispatcher building, for the most part heavily damaged. ... Half of the concrete loading platforms at the freight hall destroyed. "
American forces marched in on April 26, 1945, and that ended the Second World War for Memmingen. The new beginning was burdened with a heavy mortgage due to the poor infrastructure . After the traffic was back to normal, rationalization measures began in the early 1950s . The Memmingen 2 railway maintenance facility was dissolved on September 1, 1953 and the Memmingen operations office on May 1, 1954.
Expansion through the bus station and dismantling
To relieve the cramped station forecourt, a bus station was built to the south of the reception building at the end of the 1960s , which was expanded into a central bus station (ZOB) by 1982. To widen the layout, stump track 12 was dismantled, especially since it had become dispensable due to the discontinuation of passenger and freight traffic on the branch line to Legau on May 28, 1972.
In the 1970s, the track plan, which offered a wide range of travel options, was simplified by dismantling points. This particularly affected the connection to the freight station. After the water tower in the railway depot was demolished in 1976 , the locomotive shed and turntable were demolished in 1983. Only the massive extension to the locomotive shed remained and is still used as an overnight building.
Thanks to a favorable car circulation design , sidings 21 to 23, the remaining track 13 and track 10 were dismantled in the mid-1980s. Although several new sidings were created in the 1970s , this could not stop the declining freight traffic since the mid-1980s.
Younger story
In 1980 an attempt was made to regain lost capacity by transporting swap bodies and setting up a container terminal . On May 30, 1976, Memmingen became a junction station for the efficient operation of the connection systems and the surrounding routes. On September 25, 1988, the intersection area was mainly included in the Neu-Ulm area.
The first major project was the replacement of the Augsburger Straße level crossing with an underpass exclusively for bicycle and pedestrian traffic, which was completed in 1999. The transition for motor vehicles was omitted without replacement. Since the bridge over the underpass is located directly at the northern end of the platforms, access to the platforms on tracks two and three was created there. Associated with this was the modernization and elevation of all platforms. The edges, which were only around 20 centimeters high, hindered passenger changes considerably. The renovation also included replacing the old wooden platform roofs. A modern passenger information system replaced the antiquated train route with plug plates of sheet metal panels. In 2001 the new station was inaugurated. This was built as part of a cooperation between the local construction companies Kutter and Unglehrt , with Unglehrt contributing the precast concrete parts. A modular concept that was to be used nationwide for new buildings in Germany was implemented. Due to the high costs, however, the Deutsche Bahn refrained from building other similar station buildings, so that it remained the only modular station. In the course of the renovation, an electronic signal box was also built.
Signal boxes
From 1932 to 1934 an electromechanical interlocking system of the type VES 1912 with four interlockings was built. In 1932 the guard signal box 4 on Augsburger Straße and the dispatcher or command signal box 3 went into operation.
At the junction of the lines in the direction of Kempten, Legau and Leutkirch, signal box 2 was switched on in 1933, and one year later signal box 1 was completed in the southern head of the station on the former drainage hill.
In July 2000, one of which was operations center remotely controlled Munich electronic interlocking commissioned to replace the four electromechanical interlocking systems.
Platforms and tracks
| track | Length in m | Height in cm |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 343 | 76 |
| 2 | 312 | 76 |
| 3 | 312 | 76 |
| 4th | 185 | 76 |
| 5 | 145 | 76 |
Train connections
Long-distance passenger rail transport
In long-distance traffic, there are regular EuroCity connections from Memmingen train station in the direction of Munich and Zurich, as well as an intercity connection once a day in the direction of the Ruhr area and Oberstdorf .
Ulm - Kempten represents an important connection in passenger transport between the Bavarian Allgäu and Baden-Württemberg or central and northern Germany.
| Train type | route | Clock frequency |
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| IC 32 | Dortmund - Essen - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Ulm - Memmingen - Oberstdorf | a pair of trains |
| EC 88 | ( Basel -) Zurich - Bregenz - Lindau - Memmingen - Buchloe - Munich | three pairs of trains |
Local rail transport
There are numerous star-shaped connections in all directions for local transport to the clock node ( every full and half hour) .
| Train type | route | Clock frequency | |
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| RE | Ulm Hbf - Illertissen - Memmingen - Bad Grönenbach - Kempten (Allgäu) Hbf - Immenstadt | - Sonthofen - Oberstdorf | every two hours |
| - Hergatz - Wangen (Allgäu) / Lindau Hbf | |||
| RE | Ulm Hbf - Illertissen - Memmingen - Kempten (Allgäu) Hbf | every two hours | |
| RE | Memmingen - Mindelheim - Buchloe - Kaufering - Geltendorf - Munich-Pasing - Munich main station | every two hours | |
| RB | Memmingen - Altenstadt (Iller) - Illertissen - Senden - Neu-Ulm - Ulm Hbf | hourly | |
| RB | Memmingen - Mindelheim - Türkheim (Bay) - Buchloe - Bobingen - Augsburg Hbf | every two hours | |
| RB | Memmingen - Tannheim (Württ) - Leutkirch - Kißlegg - Aulendorf - Sigmaringen | every two hours | |
| RB | Memmingen - Sontheim (Schwab) - Mindelheim - Breitenbrunn (Schwab) - Krumbach (Schwab) | individual trains | |
Freight transport
From 1980 on, the volume of freight traffic in the station increased significantly. This was due to the general increase in production in industrial companies and the construction of a large number of siding . This ever-increasing volume of goods made it necessary to expand the track system again, which was done in several steps. In the direction of Kempten, a separate freight station was built with the corresponding switch connections for entrances and exits as well as a drainage hill .
Bus transport
The following bus lines stop at the central bus station :
| line | route |
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| City traffic Memmingen | |
| 1 | ZOB - Kalkerfeld - Waldfriedhof - Berliner Freiheit |
| 2 | ZOB - Clinic - Memmingerberg - Airport - Hühnerberg |
| 3 | ZOB - Realschulzentrum - Amendingen - Grünenfurt - Eisenburg |
| 4th | ZOB - Neubruch - vocational training center |
| 5 | ZOB - Schweizerberg - Dickenreishausen - Legau |
| 6th | ZOB - ice rink - Volkratshofen - Ferthofen |
| 7th | ZOB - Airport |
| Land transport Memmingen | |
| 810 | ZOB - Airport - Babenhausen - Krumbach (partly on-call bus) |
| 955 | ZOB - Ottobeuren Bhf. - Engetried, church |
| 959 | ZOB - Pleß Unterdorf - Kellmünz Bhf. (Partly on-call bus) |
| 960 | ZOB - Ochsenhausen Grieser - Biberach |
| 961 | ZOB - Aitrach - Altmannshofen - Leutkirch im Allgäu |
| 962 | ZOB - Goßmannshofen - Wolfert - Böhen |
| 963 | ZOB - Niederrieden - Winterrieden - Babenhausen |
| 964 | ZOB - Buxheim, Müller bakery (partly on-call bus) |
| 965 | ZOB - Bad Grönenbach Medical Center - Helios Clinic (partly on-call bus) |
| 966 | ZOB - Ferthofen - Illerbeuren - Legau, town hall (partly on-call bus) |
| 967 | ZOB - Schwaighausen - Sontheim - Erkheim - Babenhausen |
| 969 | ZOB - Rot an der Rot - Ochsenhausen |
| 981 | ZOB - Baltenplatz - Dr.-Berndl-Platz - Kalkerfeld |
| 982 | ZOB - Hühnerberg - Memmingerberg |
| 983 | ZOB - Eisenburg - Amendingen |
| 984 | ZOB - Vocational Training Center - Neubruch |
literature
- Train stations from A – Z, Memmingen train station , six pages
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (MM) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
- Memmingen station in detail (1989/90, 29 images) accessed April 20, 2010
- Information about Memmingen train station on verkehrsmittelvergleich.de, accessed June 19, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 975 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b Query of course book route 971 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Aimée Jajes: electrification of the Munich-Lindau moved back. Augsburger Allgemeine, October 19, 2012, accessed on October 19, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes , accessed on September 4, 2016
- ↑ a b Platform information on Memmingen train station. Infrastructure data from DB Stations & Service AG. (No longer available online.) July 11, 2018, archived from the original on August 28, 2018 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 . 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.
- ↑ a b Departure and arrival times on the official station website
