Metzingen (Württ) train station
| Metzingen (Württ) | |
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 Metzingen train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | TME |
| IBNR | 8004009 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | September 20, 1859 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Metzingen |
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| City / municipality | Metzingen |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 32 '20 " N , 9 ° 17' 24" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 354 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Metzingen (Württ) station is a railway junction on the Neckar-Alb Railway from Plochingen to Tübingen , where the Ermstal Railway branches off to Bad Urach . It is served by a pair of intercity trains and regional trains.
Every year 2.6 million passengers are counted at the station (as of 2016).
history
Planning and construction
During the construction of the Upper Neckar Railway , the Royal Württemberg State Railroad planned to function as a hub for Metzingen. The city administration asked the state railway for a train station west of the Erms . But because of a better angle of inclination and in order to be able to connect the projected railway line towards Urach more easily, it relocated the tracks east of the city.
State Railroad Time
On September 20, 1859, the state railway opened the Plochingen - Reutlingen section . The reception building , in which the post office was initially housed, has been preserved. The railway line to Urach, for which a possible continuation to Münsingen was planned, branched off in Metzingen on December 27, 1873. Initially, the private Ermsthalbahn company operated the route.
On October 1, 1901, the state railway completed the double-track expansion of the Neckartailfingen – Metzingen section. On April 1, 1904, she took over operations on the Ermstalbahn. Since August 31, 1907, passengers have been able to reach the central platform via an iron walkway .
On November 8, 1912, the local council complained about the reception building, which they thought was no longer large enough. There were deficits above all in baggage and goods loading. At that time, the importance of agriculture in Metzingen is still evident. Farmers mainly loaded fruit, vegetables, wine, cattle, pigs and sawn timber. But leather and iron goods were also sent here.
Reichsbahn time
On October 1, 1934, electric train operations began between Plochingen and Tübingen . In 1938, the Deutsche Reichsbahn accelerated freight traffic on this section . This included the renouncement of long stays for the freight trains in Metzingen. The operations center received a small locomotive for assembling freight trains . The Reichsbahn built a wooden shed for them at the passage of Reichsstraße 28 (today's Ulmer Straße ). It was mockingly given the name Südbahnhof by the people of Metzingen . The local Nazis railed against the building. The article Metzingen defends itself against building sins appeared in the National Socialist bulletin . In this they demanded the demolition, but this did not happen.
Federal Railroad Time
In 1959, a hundred years after the opening, 130 trains stopped and ran through Metzingen every day. 112 on the Plochingen – Tübingen line and 18 on the branch line to Urach. Of these, 92 were passenger trains and 24 freight trains. There were also 14 other train journeys, such as business and empty journeys. The high frequency required an expansion of the station building, which took place in 1960. The old goods shed south of the reception building had to give way in 1962. The Deutsche Bundesbahn replaced it in 1972.
In the following years, train traffic declined due to the increase in individual traffic. On May 27, 1976, the Federal Railroad gave up passenger traffic on the Ermstalbahn. In May 1982 an underpass replaced the iron footbridge from 1907. In the following year it was removed. On January 1, 1988, the railway gave up general cargo traffic in Metzingen station. The no longer needed shed for the small locomotive was demolished.
Time of the Deutsche Bahn AG
Since then, on August 1, 1999, diesel multiple units started to transport passengers on the Ermstalbahn, Metzingen has once again become a hub in passenger traffic . Since the 2009/2010 timetable change on December 13, 2009, a pair of intercity trains has stopped in Metzingen. The unused goods hall was demolished in June 2011 to create a building site for a commercial building and parking spaces.
In the course of a track renovation, a level crossing (cart crossing) to the platform of tracks 2 and 3 was removed. This means that the platform is no longer barrier-free. The preliminary planning for a barrier-free development is ongoing (as of October 2016). Due to the narrow platform width, an elevator could only be erected temporarily and not before 2019. A widening of the platform would result in a comprehensive redesign of the track system, which should cost nearly 10 million euros.
In 2016, Deutsche Bahn planned to dismantle or rebuild a number of points in the station as well as dismantle a track.
Reception building
The reception building is a two-storey building with a gable roof . The windows and doors on the ground floor differ from the windows on the upper floor with round arches . The outer walls on the first and second floors are made of light sandstone. The facade of the attic is clinkered with light red bricks . There are also brick elements on the cornices .
The original main building measures 25.78 meters in length and 14.32 meters in width. The building's slim counter hall was initially open. It wasn't until 1888 that the state railway had doors installed.
On the ground floor there were waiting rooms for the 2nd and 3rd class , as well as service rooms for the train and the post office. The upper floor offered space for servants' apartments.
On March 1, 1889, Metzingen received a telephone connection in the mail. In 1893 the post office left the station building and moved into the post office building north of the station building, which was also preserved.
In 1960 the Federal Railroad enlarged the building. The northern one-story annex has been home to an inn since then. In addition, toilets were installed inside the building for the first time. It is 18 meters long and 12.49 meters wide. The 15.5-meter-long and 14.32-meter-wide single-storey extension facing south was intended for baggage and express goods handling.
Rail operations
The station has three platform tracks. The trains in the direction of Reutlingen stop on track 1, the main platform , and on track 2, the trains in the direction of Nürtingen . Trains to and from Bad Urach start and end on platform 3.
There is a preserved floor scale on track 4 without a platform. It is no longer in operation.
The station Metzingen corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG of Bahnhof Category 4th
Long-distance transport
| route | Clock frequency | |
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| IC 32 | ( Berlin Südkreuz - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg -) Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Plochingen - Nürtingen - Metzingen (Württ) - Reutlingen - Tübingen | 1 pair of trains daily |
Regional traffic
Metzingen train station is served by the following regional express (RE) and regional train (RB) lines (as of December 2019):
| route | Clock frequency | |
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| RE R8 | Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt - Esslingen (Neckar) - Plochingen - Wendlingen (Neckar) - Nürtingen - Metzingen (Württ) - Reutlingen - Tübingen | 60-minute intervals (compressed to 30-minute intervals from noon to evening) |
| RB R73 | Plochingen - Wendlingen (Neckar) - Nürtingen - Metzingen (Württ) - Reutlingen - Tübingen - Herrenberg | 60-minute intervals |
| RB | (Herrenberg - Tübingen - Reutlingen -) Metzingen (Württ) - Dettingen - Bad Urach | 60-minute intervals |
literature
- Dieter Reichold: Upper Neckar Railway. A journey through time on the route Plochingen, Wendlingen, Nürtingen, Metzingen, Reutlingen . Wiedemann Verlag, Münsingen-Rietheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-941453-09-8 .
Web links
- Location, track systems and some signals and permitted speeds of the station on the OpenRailwayMap
- Tracks in service facilities of DB Netz AG . Schematic track map on the website of Deutsche Bahn AG. (PDF file; 167 kB)
- Private page about Metzingen train station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 760 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 763 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b Anja Weiß: It is the Deutsche Bahn's turn. In: swp.de. October 28, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Determination of the omission of an environmental impact assessment (UVP) according to § 3a Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG) for the project “Bf Metzingen; Dismantling of tracks and switches ”, route 4600 Plochingen - Immendingen, in Metzingen. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Authority , January 11, 2016, archived from the original on January 13, 2016 ; accessed on January 13, 2016 (German, two-sided letter).
- ↑ Determination of the omission of an environmental impact assessment (UVP) according to § 3a Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG) for the project “Bf Metzingen; Dismantling of tracks and switches ”, route 4600 Plochingen - Immendingen, in Metzingen. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Authority , January 11, 2016, archived from the original on January 13, 2016 ; accessed on January 13, 2016 (German, two-sided letter).