Minden (Westphalia) train station
| Minden (Westf) railway station | |
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 Reception building in an island location
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Design | Island station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | HM |
| IBNR | 8000252 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 1848 |
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| architect | clamp |
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| City / municipality | Minden |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 17 '26 " N , 8 ° 56' 4" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Minden (Westphalia) station (officially Minden (Westf) ) is an island station on the main lines Ruhrgebiet – Hanover ( railway line Hamm – Minden and railway line Hanover – Minden ), Amsterdam – Hanover ( railway line Löhne – Rheine ) and the branch line to Nienburg ( railway line Nienburg – Minden ) in the network of Deutsche Bahn AG . It is the hub for local and long-distance passenger transport as well as freight transport for the region of the East Westphalian city of Minden .
history
The station was opened to traffic in 1848 as the terminus of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) and the Hanover State Railways and was thus able to connect from the Hamm – Minden section of the CME, which was completed on October 15, 1847, and the Hanover – Minden section of the Royal Hanover State Railways be used. Thus the station was initially still a border station on one of the main arteries of east-west traffic. This function ended in 1866 with the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia ; the rail traffic on the important east-west route was able to run from Berlin to Cologne without crossing the border.
In 1898 the Mindener Kreisbahnen opened a small railway line to Uchte with a transfer station in Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße near the Minden train station ; four years later, the circular railways were also directly linked to the state railway station with the construction of the state railway station in Kaiserstraße. This existed until 1957 and was shut down when the rail connection to Minden Stadt station was terminated.
In 1928 the station was expanded with the commissioning of the Nienburg – Minden line in the direction of Bremen.
The station was supplemented by the Minden freight yard and the connection to the port railway. After the Second World War, the Federal Railroad Central Office was relocated to Minden, which strengthened the importance of the railway station in Minden.
Location of the train station
The old town center of Minden lies on the left bank of the Weser . When there was a discussion about the location of the terminus in the course of the construction of the Cologne-Mindener Railway, a station near the city was initially favored. The narrow development and the difficult terrain south of the city of Minden forced the builders of the station to plan it outside the actual city center on the other, i.e. the right bank of the Weser . The southern route alignment meant a crossing of the Weser at Rehme south of the Wiehengebirge with a railway viaduct and the crossing of Porta Westfalica south of Minden on the narrow eastern bank. This path first had to be widened by blasting so that the railway line approached the city of Minden on a flood dam that crossed the Weser meadows and flowed east of the city into the station fortress. From there, the Hannoversche Staatsbahn was able to continue building its connection to the east without having to build a Weser crossing in Minden.
Station fortress
The new planned Minden train station was to be located outside the Minden fortress and was planned in the completely undeveloped area on the eastern, right bank of the Weser. The military advocated building the new station into a station fortress. This consisted of a protective wall made of fortress walls in the shape of a polygon and was built from 1847 to 1850. To the east this fortress was protected by three forts. The train left the station fortress through three railway gates: to the west through the Kölner Tor (Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn), to the east through the Magdeburger Tor (Hannoversche Staatsbahn) and later again to the west through the Löhner Tor the Hannoversche Westbahn .
Towards the Weser, the station fortress was protected by a flank battery. In the relatively large area of the fortress, a station barracks was built in 1869 so that the soldiers passing through had accommodation and did not have to be accommodated by the Minden population.
After the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866, the station fortress was strategically unnecessary, abandoned in 1873 and most of the fortifications demolished in the years that followed. In 1884, the common Minden depot with large workshops and locomotive sheds was built on the curve north of the station .
The station building
The station building of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was built from 1847 according to the plans of the royal building inspector Schelle, who lived in Minden, and was completed in 1848. It was then ready to start operating rail traffic with the opening of the main line of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company and the Minden-Hanover-Braunschweig line of the Royal Hanover State Railways on October 15, 1847. The appointment was important, as it was King Friedrich Wilhelm IV's birthday that day. The shell of the station building was therefore only finished and completed with traffic.
The station building was built in the romantic style, which used turrets and battlements based on the medieval model; During this time, this prevailed at more and more railway stations in Westphalia. Minden is one of the few station buildings still preserved in this style.
The facade has a threefold structure, the building itself is divided into two identical-looking head buildings. They are connected by a single-storey central wing, which housed ticket issuance and baggage handling as well as the royal customs administration and first, second, third and fourth class waiting rooms . There is also a restaurant and tavern with an inn, which had a very good reputation in earlier times and attracted customers from the area. This component is currently not in use due to a fire.
Elise Polko , née Vogel (1823–1899), who was married to the first railway engineer of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company, lived in the official apartment above the southern main entrance from 1852 to 1876 . She cultivated friendly relations with poets and painters and wrote poems and stories herself. From the balcony above the south entrance you had a clear view of the Porta Westfalica breakthrough in the Weser .
At that time, the station forecourt was still at ground level; as it lay between the tracks, it could only be reached via barrier level crossings . In the course of the growing road traffic, the railway lines were tunnelled, the station forecourt was lowered and the building was accessible by stairs. The south entrance was supplemented with a porch. Ground-level access is only possible again by backfilling and building a ramp, the porch was removed and the old unobstructed view of the south facade was restored.
The official name of the station is Minden (Westf); it comes from the Prussian period, when the postal address was Minden (Westphalia).
The building is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Minden .
The station building should be part of the “3. Reception building package NRW “2013 will be sold.
Track and operating systems
While the Cologne-Mindener Railway approached the city from the south and built its tracks to the west of the station, the Hanover State Railway came in a large curve from the east and laid its tracks east of the station. Both railway companies built maintenance facilities and workshops in their area.
The station was thus in the middle of the tracks of the two railway companies. If you wanted to continue, you had to get off the train on one side, go through the station and on the other side board the train of the other railway company. This type of island train station only exists in Westphalia with the Warburg train station .
Expansion of the tracks and the station forecourt
At the beginning of the 20th century, considerations were made to expand the railway lines at Mindener Bahnhof with four tracks. This was intended to commence the growing east-west traffic, because already at the turn of the century there were 200 trains per day on the Minden-Hamm route, and goods traffic in particular was booming. The new tracks should separate passenger and freight traffic. From 1908 this was implemented for the Minden - Hamm line, so that the increased line capacity could be used as early as the First World War . The further four-track expansion of the lines in the direction of Wunstorf and Hanover has not been carried out until today.
As part of this construction work, the tracks in the area of the train station were raised. This made it possible to cross Victoriastraße on the station forecourt with a bridge. It was moved to the south in front of the former fortress wall. This made the crossing of the railway line with Ostweststraße free of intersections, and the level crossing with its barriers could be omitted. The station forecourt had to be adapted to the lower street level and was lowered. As a result, the south exit of the station was given a staircase and a canopy. This was only changed again in the 21st century when, as part of the renovation work on the station forecourt, it was poured in at an angle, so that the station can now be reached again at ground level via the ramp.
electrification
From 1965, the railway lines around Minden were electrified. On September 29, 1968, the entire Wunstorf - Minden - Hamm line was energized, almost 121 years after the continuous train service began. This enabled the more economical electric locomotives to run at Minden station for the first time . Subsequently, the Mindener Bahnbetriebswerk with two roundhouse sheds at the northeast exit of the station in the direction of Hanover became superfluous, since electric locomotives could be operated with less maintenance. The depot was demolished in 1969. The site has been fallow and overgrown since then. The Deutsche Bundesbahn dissolved a total of 77 depots between 1956 and 1969.
Mindener Kreisbahnen
The Mindener Kreisbahnen built - initially in meter gauge - a transfer station north of the train station in order to switch from the state railway to the circular railway. Since the two systems drove in different lane widths, this handover had to be carried out with maneuvering and the use of trolleys. The shunting area at the Übergabe train station was connected to the state railroad's shunting area. After the circular routes were converted to standard gauge , this could be used by all railway companies. The connected shunting tracks to the west of the train station on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse were used by the Minden freight station for a long time until this area was abandoned by the restructuring of Deutsche Bahn in 1997. There was a customs house , the Oberpostdirektion and railway technical systems such as a locomotive shed , a railway depot and a railway filling station.
Today's meaning
The train station is the most important station in the large district of Minden . As an IC and ICE station, the station supplies Ostwestfalen and Lippe together with Herford train station and Bielefeld main train station .
Trains from various ICE and IC lines stop in Minden ( see also the list of Intercity stations and the list of Intercity Express stations ). In local transport there are currently (as of 2019) three providers: National Express , the WestfalenBahn and the Eurobahn . The Minden (Westf) train station is assigned to price class 3.
National Express currently serves the station with the RE 6 " Rhein-Weser-Express " Cologne / Bonn Airport - Düsseldorf - Dortmund - Minden.
Until the timetable change on December 10, 2017, the " Weser-Aller-Bahn " (RB 76) ran on the Nienburg – Minden to Rotenburg (Wümme) line on weekends and public holidays . Since then, this line between Minden and Verden (Aller) has been discontinued also the continuous service to Rotenburg with a direct connection from there to Hamburg (see also future of the Weser-Aller-Bahn ). The " Porta-Express " (RE 78), which is currently operated by the Eurobahn , runs continuously from Bielefeld Hbf to Nienburg (Weser) and now offers a connection between these stations without changing trains, even on weekends and public holidays.
Every two hours, the Westfalenbahn operates RE lines 60 (" Ems-Leine-Express ") and 70 (" Weser-Leine-Express ") Braunschweig - Hanover - Minden - Löhne - Bielefeld (RE 70) and Löhne - Osnabrück - Rheine (RE 60).
In addition to this offer, line 1 of the Hanover Haste - Weetzen –Hannover – Haste – Minden S-Bahn begins or ends at this station.
In 2000 the platform on track 12/13 was raised. This made it possible for travelers to the neighboring regional center of Hanover (at that time the host of EXPO 2000 ) to have barrier-free access to the S-Bahn trains. The station is approached by the S1 every hour.
Also to ensure barrier-free boarding on the trains of the Rhein-Ruhr-Express , the platforms on track 1 and 10/11 are to be increased to 76 cm and extended to 220 m by the end of 2020.
Minden station is looked after by the rail subsidiary DB Station & Service AG . This classifies the station in station category 3.
Regional network tariffs and a state-wide NRW tariff apply to all regional trains, buses and trams in North Rhine-Westphalia . Minden was part of the OstWestfalenLippe transport association (tariff: “The Six”). Since there is no general network or S-Bahn tariff in the neighboring districts of Lower Saxony, local transport tickets from Lower Saxony are only valid for rail transport. The Lower Saxony ticket can be used on all regional trains (direction Bielefeld from / to Herford ).
Since August 2017, in Westphalia-Lippe, including in Minden, the Westphalia tariff . This has replaced the tariff association “Der Sechser” ( OWL Verkehr GmbH ) and all other tariffs in this part of the country.
Military use
In the eastern track harp, the loading terminal for loading goods is primarily used for loading military goods. The tank pioneer battalion 130 of the Bundeswehr stationed in Minden uses this to load equipment by rail.
Transport links
Development of the station
The citizens of Minden were reluctant to accept the new station. The right bank of the Weser was not considered to belong to the city, only after the dissolution of the Minden fortress in 1873 did the area around the station begin to develop in terms of urban development. A new city quarter, the Laxburg, was built around this new train station. It is characterized by the station barracks, good town houses and railway buildings.
In order to improve the connection to the city, the Mindener Kreisbahnen built a branch line that ran east from the Weser bridge of the Kreisbahnen to the old fortress wall, along the Hafenstrasse and the Kaiserstrasse as far as the Minden train station. Here, where there is now a “ park and ride ” area, was the “Minden Staatsbahn” district station until 1957 (later “Minden Reichs-” or “Bundesbahnhof”). South of the double-track railway system was a single-storey station building with a waiting, service and luggage room in half-timbered construction (demolished in 1958). From here the trains went to Hille - Lübbecke and Uchte and served the railway stations "Minden Stadt" and "Oberstadt" of the district railways north of the city center. These were a bit outside, so the station was also connected to the city proper by the construction of the Minden tram . The district station was set in connection with the conversion to standard gauge. It was planned for the opening of the circular railway in 1898, but the first train could not run until 1902. The connection to Minden station was made on foot via the station forecourt, a walk of around 5 minutes.
A horse-drawn bus line had been in existence since 1884 to develop the station. Several attempts to set up a horse-drawn or steam tram failed. Among other things, traffic safety on the narrow station forecourt and the load-bearing capacity of the Weser bridge were called into question. Only after the bridge was rebuilt (1915) and the First World War could an electric tram line be opened from the city center to the train station in December 1920 . In the 1930s, trams ran here every ten minutes. The recruitment took place in May 1957. It was replaced by buses that later ran continuously from the station forecourt to Rodenbeck . The Minden – Hausberge trolleybus line also took over some of the transport tasks until 1965 .
Todays situation
There are 200 free park-and-ride spaces for commuters around the station , as well as around 100 paid parking spaces. There is a taxi stop in front of the main and east entrances.
The bus station is located at the eastern exit of the underpass facing away from the city . It is located on the other side of the tracks as seen from the station building and can be reached without barriers through the platform underpass. From here city buses on lines 6, 10 and 509/10 go to the central bus station in Minden, two stops away (central transfer point with direct bus connections). There is a half-hourly service, the buses depart one after the other at the same departure times. Lines 6, 10 and 509 alternately serve the eastern districts every hour, while line 510 runs as a regional bus to Kleinenbremen . Outside the tariff association, line 2004 runs in the direction of Bückeburg. About 200 m west of the train station, accessible through an underpass, there is a stop for the city buses to Leteln . All other parts of the city and the Minden Clinic can only be reached by changing trains at the central bus station.
Cyclists find in the station area between the tracks 10 and 1, built in 2002 and opened in 2003 Radstation with 440 video-surveillance weatherproof parking spaces. Here you can also rent bicycles, have your bike washed and carry out minor repairs. There are more bike racks in front of the main entrance and at the east entrance.
Service in the train station
The Deutsche Bahn travel center with ticket offices and InfoPoint is located in the station building . There is also a long-established train station bookstore in the hall and a bakery in the part of the old express counter.
The train station is barrier-free . All platforms can be reached by lifts, ramps or at ground level. There are also guide strips on the floor for the visually impaired .
See also
literature
- Karl-Peter Ellerbrock, Marina Schuster (Ed.): 150 Years of Cologne-Minden Railway. Catalog for the series of exhibitions and events of the same name, commissioned by the Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-88474-560-3 .
- Garrelt Riepelmeier, Ingrid Schütte, Werner Schütte: The railway in Minden and in the Mühlenkreis. DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2007, ISBN 978-3-937189-31-4 .
- Building and Art Monuments of Westphalia, Volume 50: City of Minden , edited by Fred Kaspar and Ulf Dietrich Korn, Part V: Minden outside the city walls , Part Volume 2, pp. 1713–1744, Ed .: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-635-9 .
Web links
- Track plan of the train station Minden (Westphalia) on the website of the DB Netz
- F. Hartung: Minden station. : Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1855, p. 300 (online at ANNO ).
- Minden station in the railway archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Querying the course book route 370 from Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 400 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 124 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Fred Kaspar: The Minden train station - On the cultural, social and settlement history of a railway project. In: Karl-Peter Ellerbrock, Marina Schuster (Hrsg.): 150 years Cologne-Minden Railway. Catalog for the series of exhibitions and events of the same name, commissioned by the Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-88474-560-3 , p. 166.
- ^ Mindener Tageblatt: Bahn wants to sell Mindener Bahnhof Issue of October 25, 2012, accessed on February 1, 2013
- ↑ Riepelmeier, Schütte, Schütte: The Railway in Minden and in the Mühlenkreis , p. 19
- ↑ Riepelmeier, Schütte, Schütte: The Railway in Minden and in the Mühlenkreis , p. 25
- ↑ Riepelmeier, Schütte, Schütte: The Railway in Minden and in the Mühlenkreis , p. 32.
- ↑ Minirex AG: Eisenbahn-Revue International (Germany edition) 5/2019 , ISSN 1421-2811, p. 226
- ↑ Minirex AG: Eisenbahn-Revue International (Germany edition) 5/2019 , ISSN 1421-2811, p. 226
- ↑ Station category list 2013. (PDF, 300 kB) DB Station & Service AG, January 2013, archived from the original on July 29, 2013 ; accessed on January 30, 2013 .
- ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45 . pkjs.de. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
- ↑ Building and Art Monuments of Westphalia , Volume 50: City of Minden, Part V Minden outside the city walls , p. 1731.
- ^ City of Minden: Bike station opened at Minden train station , accessed on November 7, 2011.