Merklingen Railway Station (Swabian Alb)

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Merklingen (Swabian Alb)
Station 2020
Central section of the station (construction status July 2020)
Data
Operating point type Passenger station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation TKML
Price range 5
opening December 2022 (planned)Template: future / in 2 years
location
City / municipality Merklingen
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 31 '14 "  N , 9 ° 44' 32"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '14 "  N , 9 ° 44' 32"  E
Railway lines

New Wendlingen – Ulm line

Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Merklingen (Swabian Alb) train station (following local signs Merklingen - Swabian Alb ) is a planned regional train station on the new Wendlingen – Ulm line near Merklingen .

The financing agreement was signed on December 2, 2016. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 18, 2017.

The station, at which around 1200 boarding and disembarking per day are expected, is to be assigned to price class 5.

Location and structure

The station is about one kilometer northwest of Merklingen, at km 57.747 on the Wendlingen – Ulm railway line. Two platforms, each 215 meters long and 2.50 m wide, were built. The four-track system is spanned by a 30 meter long pedestrian walkway with two stair towers and integrated elevators. 400 parking spaces for cars, three spaces for buses and parking spaces for bicycles will complete the facility. The system comprises eight points , including four protective points . As it became known in July 2019, one of the two track connections (between the tunnel under the BAB 8 and the Widderstall tunnel ) had to be moved and upgraded for a permissible speed of 160 km / h ( design 60-6000 / 3700-1: 32.5fb ) .

The tracks for the trains passing through are on the inside, the platform tracks on the outside. They start at km 57.481 and end at 58.081.

The platform height should be 76 cm, after a height of 55 cm was originally planned. The threading in and out of the platform tracks can take place at 100 km / h.

The longitudinal incline of the new line is around 5 per thousand in the station and is compensated for by measures in the platform design.

The station is being built on the site available for the construction of the new line, additional areas should not be used. An embankment was built on one side and a retaining wall on the other.

history

prehistory

Until 1985 Merklingen had two stations on the disused Amstetten – Laichingen railway, the Merklingen station and the Merklingen Ost stop .

As early as 2003, at an information event organized by DB Netz 2003, a question was asked about a train stop. The Laichinger citizen Gerhard Maier arranged that the idea of ​​a train station on the Laichinger Alb was taken into account in the project planning. Although an ICE stop Laichinger Alb requested by the Alb-Donau district as part of the plan approval procedure for the section was not included in the 2008 plan approval decision for section 2.3 of the new line, the resolution stated that the route and the distance to the motorway were one allow later retrofitting. According to later information from the project management, the subsequent implementation would not have been financially viable.

After that, the idea of ​​a train station was forgotten by the politicians until the excavators arrived on the new line across the Swabian Alb in the Laichingen and Merklingen area. In the summer of 2013, the then district councilor Heinz Surek brought a train stop for regional traffic back into discussion with letters to members of parliament and ministers as well as initiatives in the district council of the Alb-Donau district.

At the edge of the tunnel opening of the Steinbühl tunnel on the new Wendlingen – Ulm line, the Laichingen mayor Klaus Kaufmann asked the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Transport Winfried Hermann to talk to him about the establishment of a train station in the Merklingen area, whereupon he agreed to examine a regional train station in November 2013. In the summer of 2013, the then District Councilor Heinz Surek, with letters to members of parliament and ministers as well as initiatives in the District Council of the Alb-Danube District, brought up the discussion about a railway stop for regional traffic ( Heroldstatt , Laichingen, Merklingen , Nellingen , Westerheim ) and the municipality of Berghülen (all Alb-Danube district).

Potential analysis

At the beginning of 2014, the Alb-Donau-Kreis commissioned a potential analysis for a possible regional train station near Merklingen, with the financial participation of the interested municipalities, for 26,000 euros , which was presented in July 2014. According to the study, around 1,500 travelers would use the station every day. According to this first estimate, costs of 26.6 million euros were to be expected, with 4.8 million euros for planning and 21.8 million euros for construction. Since the additional stop extends the travel time by 2 to 4 minutes, connections at the Ulm and Stuttgart junction stations would be at risk. After the analysis, this can be compensated for by using traction material that can travel at speeds higher than 160 km / h on the new line, thus saving time. The additional costs for nine regional trains with a speed of 190 km / h were estimated in the potential analysis at 23 to 45 million euros, which would have to be co-financed by the district and the municipalities.

According to the status of negotiations in autumn 2014, the state would assume half of the infrastructure costs, the Alb-Danube district one sixth and the municipalities involved one third. The regional partners would also have to finance around 2.2 million euros for additional bus traffic and as a share in the purchase of fast regional trains; the revenues from bus and train are not included. The state's transport minister announced in February 2015 that it would finance half of the infrastructure costs of the station and order trains for them, provided that a cost-benefit analysis - as planned in the feasibility study - is presented and the municipalities finance the other half of the infrastructure costs and would order buses. A feasibility study was commissioned by the Alb-Donau district and seven municipalities in the region at the end of 2014. Hohenstadt ( district of Göppingen ) had joined the six communities in the Alb-Danube district ; the Ulm Chamber of Commerce also contributed to the costs.

Feasibility study

The feasibility study presented on July 20, 2015 showed a benefit-cost factor of −0.3. Funding for the station in accordance with the State Municipal Transport Financing Act would therefore not be possible. The main reason for the negative result was the assumed procurement of 10 faster train sets, for which 30 million euros were estimated (ten sets of three million euros each). The 190 km / h fast trains are necessary to combine the two-minute stop in Merklingen with the ICE timetable for the route. For the entire infrastructure, costs of 21 million euros were determined.

The study, which cost 226,000 euros, was based on the potential analysis and was processed by a working group of the companies Obermeyer and Ramboll . It is based on the standardized assessment . The experts expect around 950 passengers per day, an increasing demand for commercial space and - due to the proximity to the airport and the Stuttgart exhibition center - positive effects for the hotel and catering trade. Excursion guests should also be won with target group-oriented offers. The stop would mean around 250 fewer passengers a day on the Ulm – Sigmaringen railway line, and 130 passengers on the Filstalbahn from Stuttgart to Ulm. The feasibility study should serve as the basis for discussions with the state about funding.

The feasibility study favored a station location west of Merklingen. The feasibility study is based on a conservative scenario (with 950 daily users); an optimistic scenario (with 1600 users) was not pursued further. The underlying prognosis is based, among other things, on the assumption that commuters would need eleven minutes from turning into the parking lot to getting in; if seven were scheduled, 1200 travelers would be expected. The authors of the feasibility study also assume that positive structural effects would only take effect after the study horizon (2030).

As a result, a project group consisting of representatives from the municipalities, the state transport ministry and the railway was founded.

Realization discussion

On July 24, 2015, a round of the Alb mayors agreed with Transport Minister Winfried Hermann , the Bundestag member Hilde Mattheis , District Administrator Heinz Seiffert , four state parliament members as well as representatives of the appraisers and the Baden-Württemberg local transport company to find financing outside of the State Transport Financing Act. On the one hand, the federal government should be asked to consider taking the stop into account in the federal transport route planning, and on the other hand, the state should consider providing funds from the special fund set up for the Stuttgart – Ulm rail project. In addition, the mayors of the municipalities on the Laichinger Alb have agreed to bear 13 million euros (half of the infrastructure costs), subject to the approval of the individual municipal councils. According to the railway, the preliminary planning must be in place by autumn 2015, otherwise additional costs must be expected. On July 28, 2015, the district council of the Alb-Danube district voted for the realization of the stop.

In September 2015, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MVI) came to the conclusion in its own calculations for the benefit-cost analysis of the feasibility study that the train station was economical and that the way for funding by the state was basically free. By optimizing the operational processes and additional infrastructure improvements on the southern runway , the acquisition of faster vehicles can be dispensed with. To compensate for the two-minute extension of the travel time caused by the stop in Merklingen, while maintaining profitability, the purchase of used interregional train sets or an early turnaround in Friedrichshafen (with a second driver) instead of Lindau are considered. A benefit-cost index of 2.23 was determined for the first variant, and 1.13 for the second variant. In the second variant, signal compression on the southern runway should also help. The MVI announced that it would seek talks with the Ministry of Finance on this basis.

From the neighboring district of Göppingen mobilized against the project. The city of Geislingen in particular sees its location on the Filstalbahn weakened by a train stop on the new line. At the end of September 2015, the local council called for a resolution to stop the planning.

In talks between the ministry and the municipalities with Deutsche Bahn on October 23, 2015, the continuation of the planning was agreed, the costs of which were financed by the municipalities involved.

Almost 6,000 people took part in a postcard campaign for the train stop at the end of 2015. About 600 people attended an information evening on February 25, 2016.

realization

According to Deutsche Bahn, it was ready to build the station in 2015 if the financing was secured, the operation of the express traffic would not be impaired and the work would fit into the construction process of the section between Hohenstadt and Merklingen, which began in summer 2015 .

For this, the building rights must be available in the course of 2016 and by the end of 2017, when the 87 million euro contract for the section near Merklingen would be completed, the structures required for the station must be completed or at least started. The assumption of the cost risk became the subject of negotiations.

At the end of February 2016 it was announced that the DB was demanding an investigation of the underground of the train stop, which should cost millions of euros.

On February 15, 2016, the plan approval was applied for at the Federal Railway Authority ; it was issued on August 5, 2016. The plan approval relates only to the actual railway facilities, not to the planned commuter parking lot.

In the meantime, in May 2018, the draft planning was examined.

The Realization and Financing Agreement (RuFV) was signed on December 2nd, 2016 by Transport Minister Winfried Hermann, Railway Director Dirk Rompf and the Mayor of Laichingen, Klaus Kaufmann, in Merklingen Town Hall. The contractual partners are Deutsche Bahn, the state and the special purpose association “Verband Region Schwäbische Alb - Association for the establishment of the Merklingen (Swabian Alb) train station and the intermunicipal development of industry and commerce” founded at the end of November 2016 . Founding members were the cities and communities of Laichingen, Berghülen , Drackenstein , Heroldstatt , Hohenstadt , Merklingen , Nellingen and Westerheim . Later came more Bad Ditzenbach and Dornstadt and Wiesensteig added. The member municipalities are located in the Alb-Donau district and in the district of Göppingen . Talks are being held with other communities in the region. The local council of Römerstein rejected participation at the end of September 2017, that of Gruibingen in mid-November 2017. In 2018, the city of Wiesensteig and the municipalities of Bad Ditzenbach, Mühlhausen im Täle and Dornstadt joined. In addition to developing the train station, the Zweckverband is also pursuing the goal of building an intermunicipal industrial park of around 50 hectares.

The earthworks for the station were awarded on March 20, 2017. On June 30, 2017, the awarding of the route construction will take place. The shell work should be completed by April 19, 2018. The construction site will be handed over to railway technology on October 31, 2018. At the same time, from May 16, 2018 to September 26, 2019, civil engineering structures (walkways, bridges, elevators) will be built.

The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 18, 2017. The shell of the station, including the equipment, was tendered in April 2018 and awarded to Leonhard Weiss for 4.1 million euros .

View of the future east head of the station (September 2019)

The services for the railway equipment were awarded at the beginning of 2018 together with the new line.

In 2019, with the exception of the elevator installation, the civil engineering work was completed. Work on the superstructure and track is planned for 2020.

The commissioning, originally planned for 2021, was postponed to 2022, then initially with a shuttle service to Ulm Central Station . In the meantime (as of April 2019) commissioning is planned for December 2022.

In 2019, the responsible project manager considered a shuttle service between Merklingen and Ulm to be possible from 2020.

Transport links

rail

The stop is to be served by trains on the Würzburg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Friedrichshafen line. The travel time to Stuttgart main station should be 31 minutes, to Stuttgart airport 20 minutes and to Ulm 11 minutes.

From December 2022, the Wendlingen – Merklingen – Ulm and Merklingen – Ulm lines will be operated every 120 minutes. This initially results in an hourly service between Merklingen and Ulm and a two-hour service between Merklingen and Wendlingen for each direction.

A scheduled hourly service between Wendlingen and Ulm could not be realized due to the existing infrastructure and the operating program in long-distance traffic.

The state of Baden-Württemberg was planning to tender the regional traffic for the new line when the exact completion date of the line is clear. In June 2018, the state published advance information on the preliminary operation of regional traffic via Wendlingen. The award procedure should start by the end of 2020 and be completed in the first quarter of 2021 (status: July 2020). Suitable used vehicles should be used.

The stop in Merklingen causes a travel time extension of 2 minutes and 40 seconds. One minute of this should be compensated for by an earlier departure in Würzburg. A solution is being sought to compensate for the remaining time (as of November 2016). Without further compensation, the transition time between fast regional traffic and traffic to the Allgäu would be reduced from 5 to 3.5 minutes at Aulendorf station. The effects on the southern runway are to be compensated, among other things, by a faster driver change in Friedrichshafen. Measures to compensate for the loss of travel time are to be borne by the station project.

The first expert draft of the Deutschland-Takt , presented in October 2018 , also provides for an hourly connection to Merklingen train station with a 160 km / h regional transport line that should travel between the main train stations in Stuttgart and Ulm within 39 or 40 minutes. An hourly offer is also contained in the third expert draft submitted in June 2020. The Merklingen service line is to run from Würzburg main station to Friedrichshafen harbor .

Street

400 parking spaces are to be created for commuters on an area of ​​4.2 hectares. Access is via a spur road from Kreisstraße 7407. The facility also includes 50 bicycle parking spaces, a toilet facility and charging stations for e-cars and bicycles .

Costs, benefits and financing

The municipalities (198,000 euros in total) and the district (99,500 euros) raised a total of 297,500 euros for preliminary planning (including a cost estimate), draft planning and approval planning for the railway system (excluding road connections and parking spaces).

The municipalities are to contribute 13 million euros to the planning and construction costs. The state initially wanted (as of mid-2015) to bear the remaining 9.5 million euros of the total costs of an estimated 19.4 million euros in construction costs as well as the cost risk.

The state of Baden-Württemberg announced on October 23, 2015 that the state would assume the remaining construction costs - over the 13 million euros from the municipalities - as long as they were within the range discussed so far. The participation of the municipalities required by the Ministry of Transport, amounting to a total of 13 million euros, corresponds to around 23,100 inhabitants, a share of 564 euros per inhabitant. Laichingen (6.1 million euros), Westerheim (1.6 million euros), Heroldstatt (1.5 million), Berghülen , Merklingen and Nellingen (each 1.1 million) and Hohenstadt (0.4 million ) are participating in the financing Euro). On July 28, 2015, the municipal councils for Merklingen (one vote against), Berghülen (unanimously) and Nellingen (unanimously) voted for their communities to participate financially in the project.

The district assumes a third of the planning costs (according to various figures 4.2 million euros or 3.1 million euros) as well as the bus connection to the train station (one million euros per year).

In October 2015, the State Ministry of Transport announced a fixed funding amount under the State Municipal Transport Financing Act; possible additional costs should be borne by the municipalities.

At the end of July 2016, the Ministry of Transport announced that the cost-benefit study would produce a cost-benefit ratio of 1.5. The costs for the station are therefore 44 million euros. For the planning and construction of the actual station facilities, 26.5 million euros and 5.5 million euros for the area around the station are incurred. Another 3 million euros are earmarked for upgrading the Württemberg Southern Railway to compensate for the time lost due to the stop. An additional 9 million euros are budgeted for maintenance. The upgrading of the southern runway and the planning costs of the station were not included in the previous calculations, which accounts for a large part of the cost increase. The planning and construction costs are still borne jointly by the municipalities with 13 million euros and the state of Baden-Württemberg, which intends to contribute 30 million euros from regionalization funds. The missing million to cover costs can be explained by the rounding of the subtotals, which is why it is assumed that the implementation and financing contract will be available in August 2016 and can be signed by all parties involved in November 2016.

The municipalities' € 13 million package was also intended to finance the € 2 million planned for a karst exploration. The state pays 1.6 million euros, around 400,000 euros for the region (of which 133,000 euros for the district). The region finances the country's share in advance and receives it back if the stop is not implemented. If the station project had failed, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance would have assumed two thirds of these costs (according to other sources, 80 percent).

The federal government announced at the end of August 2015 that it would not participate in the financing of the railway station. He accepted, however, if the economy of the stop (as happened in the feasibility study) was not considered separately as long as the economy of the entire route was hardly changed.

A study presented in 2017 and commissioned by the State Ministry of Transport on the regional effects of the train station anticipates an economic benefit from the train station of 4.8 million euros annually. The majority of the expected approximately 1350 daily passengers will therefore travel in the direction of Ulm. Furthermore, the catchment area for trains to Stuttgart is larger: while 75 percent of the travelers to Ulm will come from the nine municipalities, only 60 percent to Stuttgart will come from there. Young people would emigrate less often and land prices could rise. In addition, 3300 additional day tourists and 600 additional overnight stays are expected per year.

The municipal funding share of 13 million euros should be called in mid-2018. In November 2018 it was announced that the costs for the station would increase by 10 million euros to 53 million euros. The state is considering the additional costs from funds under the Regionalization Act .

See also

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Merklingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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