Montabaur train station

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Montabaur
Montabaur station 2009.jpg
Data
Location in the network Touch station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation
  • FMT (mainline part)
  • FMTN (regional rail section)
IBNR 8000667
Price range 4th
opening July 10, 2000 (regional rail section)
July 27, 2002 (long-distance rail section)
Profile on Bahnhof.de Montabaur
Architectural data
architect Architectural firm
Jux und Partner, Darmstadt
location
City / municipality Montabaur
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 26 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 31 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 31 ″  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Montabaur station is a passenger station at kilometer 89.1 of the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine / Main and at kilometer 21.8 of the railway line Limburg-Siershahn (sub Westerwaldbahn) and a freight station at kilometer 74.3 of the Westerwald cross train . The station for local passenger and -fern- and freight is on the outskirts of the 13,000-inhabitant city Montabaur , in parallel position to immediately north running Bundesautobahn 3 .

Structure of the station

Driver's cab perspective of an ICE passing the station in a northerly direction without stopping (2005)

The new line runs in the area of ​​the station on an approximately 15 m high embankment . The railway system of the station is divided into a long-distance section on the high-speed line (abbreviation in the FMT directory of operations ) and a regional section on the Unterwesterwaldbahn ( FMTN ). Exists between the two parts only an indirect connection: About Eastern trapping point of northern ICE platform track (track 4), a side track can be achieved, which is connected via a further switch with the track. 5

Five tracks are available for passenger traffic . On track 1 and tracks 4/5 there are two 405 m long and 76 cm high platforms that are covered over a length of 200 m. The platform on track 5 is divided into the western section 5a and the eastern section 5b; an exit in different directions is made possible by an intersection . Track 5 is used exclusively by the regional trains of the Unterwesterwaldbahn , tracks 1–4 only by ICE . Tracks 2 and 3 are the continuous main tracks of the high-speed line and are used by passing trains. In addition, seven tracks are available for freight traffic.

The elevated track systems are crossed by a passage in the area of ​​the station. A two-storey station building was erected at the end facing the city . From the southern main entrance on the station forecourt , stairs and an elevator lead to the passage, from the northern entrance this hall can be reached at ground level. Information and emergency telephones are set up at both entrances.

In the distributor level are a Travel Center of Deutsche Bahn with two ticket offices, toilets and a waiting room and self-service center of the Sparkasse Westerwald victory occupied. In addition, there is the so-called showcase of the region, in which local companies present themselves, as well as an information office for the city. A total of 700 m² of marketing space was created. The station concourse and the station forecourt are covered by a hot spot .

Two escalators, a staircase and an elevator lead from the underpass to the two platforms. There is also an information and emergency call column as well as seating on each of them. On the platform of tracks 4 and 5 there is a lounge for the employees of the platform service. There is also an office of the Federal Police in the basement of the station (behind the main staircase) . The station building is closed at night between 0:45 and 4:10.

Montabaur station is one of four passenger stations in Germany, along with the Limburg Süd station, which is also on the Cologne – Rhine / Main high-speed line, and the Allersberg (Rothsee) and Kinding (Altmühltal) stations on the new Nuremberg – Ingolstadt line. h can be driven through.

To the west of the station - at route kilometers 87.1 - the Dernbacher Tunnel connects to the station, to the east the Himmelberg Tunnel .

history

background

Montabaur, train station, aerial photo (2016)
Montabaur station with ICE 3 passing through

The new Cologne – Groß-Gerau line planned in the 1970s already provided for a train station in Montabaur on the right bank of the Rhine. The four-track system was to have - in addition to the two continuous mainline tracks - two platform tracks with outside platforms and a double track change (four switches each) between the two mainline tracks in both station heads. The facility was assigned "predominantly regional importance", which justifies "only a limited number of train stops".

An expert report commissioned by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , which only took into account Rhineland-Palatinate territory, determined at the end of the 1980s that 400,000 residents or 210,000 employees would live within a 30-minute car radius in 2000.

The route of the new line in Rhineland-Palatinate was the subject of long-standing debates and political compromises. First of all, in mid-1988, then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl had promised the then Mayor of Bonn Daniels that the federal capital would be connected to the high-speed route. The Ministry of Transport developed the proposal to run the route via Vilich , on the outskirts of Bonn. Such a compromise road should cost around half a billion D-Marks more than the planned (and later realized) route via Siegburg, but be half a billion D-Marks cheaper than the connection to Bonn Central Station .

Before the Federal Cabinet decided on the route to the right of the Rhine, the then Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Wagner , briefly discussed a so-called variant S in July 1989 . This envisaged a tour on the right bank of the Rhine with a swing from Dernbach over the tunnel and a bridge over the Rhine to Koblenz , which, after another crossing of the Rhine, should swing back onto the intended route on the right bank of the Rhine towards Frankfurt . The estimated additional costs of this detour variant were between 1.3 and 2.8 billion D-Marks (around 0.7 to 1.4 billion euros). Federal Transport Minister Zimmermann spoke of a “provincial farce” and proposed - as a compromise solution - the construction of a high-speed train station in Limburg to connect Koblenz. In addition to the construction of the train station, the compromise proposal provided for a package of further railway infrastructure measures in Rhineland-Palatinate. The then Federal Railroad initially accepted the route via Vilich and Limburg-Staffel in order to prevent further delays in the project.

After completing the route determination procedure, the Federal Cabinet decided on December 20, 1989 the current route of the high-speed route along the A3 motorway. A stop in the Limburg area was also established. A stop in Montabaur was not explicitly named.

On March 21, 1990, an agreement was signed between the Prime Ministers of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse and the Federal Minister of Transport for the planned new DB line Cologne-Rhine / Main , which Montabaur names as the only location "in the area of ​​the compression edge zone of the Middle Rhine-Westerwald area". A major reason for the construction is the lack of a connection to the Lahn Valley Railway to connect the Koblenz / Gießen areas , which could not be implemented in the implemented of the three discussed train station variants in Limburg . Instead, the Montabaur train station should ensure good accessibility by road ( motorway junction Montabaur, Dernbacher Dreieck ). In addition, the agreement provided for the examination of three station locations in the Limburg / Diez area.

In the regional planning procedure, the possibility of an ICE stop in Montabaur was investigated further from 1991. In the spring of 1993, Heinz Dürr , CEO of Deutsche Bahn, and Rainer Brüderle , Rhineland-Palatinate Minister for Economics and Transport, agreed to set up a train station in Montabaur. With the completion of the procedure in 1995, the construction of the ICE train station was sealed. Construction began in 1997.

In 1993 the then Deutsche Bundesbahn signed a contract to let ICEs stop every hour in Montabaur until 2007. Then - depending on the use - a decision should be made about the further connection. The state helped finance the station and set up the new motorway junction. The city of Montabaur also built an industrial area at the train station, conceived as the nucleus for a new city district between the train station and the existing settlement. The concept of the Montabaur city administration in the 1990s envisaged the development of a 51 hectare area on which up to 4,000 people should live and up to 2,000 should work. The new area was developed in a cooperation project between city, state and Westerwaldkreis . According to the planning status from 1995, a stop in Montabaur and Limburg Süd was planned for one of the five ICE lines leading over the new Cologne – Rhine / Main line.

The planned costs in 1997 were 27 million Deutschmarks (around 14 million euros). The federal government and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate participated in the financing; in addition, the country built the new motorway junction. According to the planning status of 1998, the Rhineland-Palatinate state government should finance 5.75 million DM, the city 750,000 DM.

Montabaur's mayor, Paul Possel-Dölken , expected 300 new jobs and 2,000 additional apartments for new residents from the station in 1998. In mid-1999, the embankment in the area of ​​the station was almost completed, and the concreting of the pedestrian tunnel was in full swing.

Of the investment costs for the station of around 13.5 million euros, the state ultimately assumed 4.1 million euros. The rest was financed by the federal government and Deutsche Bahn (all data as of 2002). In total, the construction costs amounted to 23.6 million euros.

In 2000 it was planned to invest more than 100 million DM in the urban development in the vicinity of the station and its transport links. So should state road 255 expanded, the train station car park connected to the highway 3 and underground parking for 170 cars under the bus station to be created. According to the state government from the same year, the state's commitment to the transport facilities at the train station was around 20 million Deutschmarks. According to other information, the city of Montabaur - with the support of the state - wanted to invest 56 million DM in the area around the station.

Planning and construction

A planning variant of the train station won first prize in the international competition “Association des Villes Européennes de Grande Viteesse” and the special environmental award from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Commissioning was planned for 2000/2001 in 1996.

The symbolic start of construction for an underground car park with 127 parking spaces at the station was celebrated in mid-2000.

Installation

Old City Station (2005)

On September 9, 2001 around 20,000 people took the opportunity to take part in a long hike. The four routes available for selection began at the train station and ran over distances of 4.8 to 18 kilometers.

The station replaces the previous Montabaur city station , where the last passenger train ran on July 6, 2000. Within four days, were sidings folded and adjusted allocations. This also cleared the way for construction work on the new line in areas that had been occupied by the tracks to the old Montabaur station. The first regional train on the way from Siershahn to Staffel arrived at the new Montabaur station on July 10, 2000 at 5:41 am. The mainline railway system was still under construction at that time.

The first ICE, with Hartmut Mehdorn and Doris Schröder-Köpf on board, stopped on July 25, 2002 between 12:09 p.m. and 12:21 p.m. on the way from Frankfurt to Cologne . In Montabaur, the Rhineland-Palatinate Transport Minister Bauckhage met the guests and took the special train to Cologne. The guests of honor signed the city's Golden Book during their stay. The next day, the new station was the destination of another parallel journey - for 2,000 people involved in the project. During a ceremony, DB Netz board member Klaus Junker symbolically took ownership of the route.

On August 1, 2002 - when the new line started operating - the first scheduled trains stopped. Montabaur, as one of the three intermediate stations between Cologne and Frankfurt Airport, was served by every third train. At the beginning of 2003, 20 ICE trains stopped in Montabaur every working day, from June 15, 2003 21.

A Park & ​​Ride car park with 350 parking spaces was available for commissioning. There was also an option to expand to 600 parking spaces.

business

Around 10,000 people commuted daily from the Montabaur area to Frankfurt am Main in the year it went into operation ( 2002). This includes car commuters.

The number of daily ICE stops in Montabaur was increased in June 2003. For timetable change 2003/2004 on 14 December 2003, a further four ICE stops were introduced in off position, three of moves towards Cologne.

1.4 percent of commuters use local public transport or local rail transport as a feeder. The regional bus services to the Rhine Valley and to Koblenz that were also set up for commissioning were discontinued in 2004 due to a lack of demand.

At the beginning of 2003 around 1100 passengers used the station every day; At the beginning of 2004 almost 2000.

In mid-2004, Deutsche Bahn stated the number of boarding and disembarking passengers at 1300 per day. The city had 1,800 to 2,000 passengers at that time. A passenger count in June 2005 found around 2,150 ICE passengers. In the summer of 2007, almost 3,000 passengers used the ICE train station every day. In 2008, the number of daily travelers was around 2,400. The number of boarding and disembarking at the train station increased by 3.5 percent between 2011 and 2012.

On June 22, 2006, the two millionth passenger was welcomed.

A survey of 500 passengers in the summer of 2007 revealed a proportion of business travelers and commuters of all travelers of around three quarters. The majority of respondents complained about the insufficient number of parking spaces at the station. Around 200 ICE trains stop in Montabaur every week, and are used by more than 2500 passengers Monday to Friday. The proportion of passengers traveling to Frankfurt is 72 percent (as of 2013). With around 2500 people entering and leaving each working day, demand in mid-2014 was at the previous year's level.

In May 2009, a car park with 400 parking spaces was opened at the station, which is intended in particular to serve the employees of the surrounding ICE park. The total investment was 3.3 million euros. In August 2010, construction work is to begin on another car park with 300 parking spaces, which is to be completed by the end of 2011. With a contract signed in December 2015, the city of Montabaur acquired the park-and-ride facility on the north side of the station for 450,000 euros and announced that it would charge parking fees there from spring 2016. On December 1, 2018, parking fees were introduced for around 1,400 park-and-ride spaces; east of the train station this is done using license plate recognition, and west of the train station using parking ticket machines .

As of 2003, two locomotives of the 226 series were stationed in Montabaur as tow locomotives . However, these were replaced by the 218.8 series in 2004 and scrapped by 2005.

Urban development

According to its own statements, the city of Montabaur had already invested 16 million DM in the area around the station by 2000, with the support of the state. Investments of a further 40 million DM were planned according to the information at the time.

The Regional Marketing Initiative (ReMI), founded in summer 1999, was initially supported by 25 companies and had a budget of 200,000 D-Marks (around 100,000 euros). The Westerwaldkreis contributed 25,000 DM, the surrounding districts with additional funds.

Within a few years, 80 companies with a total of 1,800 jobs settled at the station. Ralph Dommermuth , the CEO of United Internet , headquartered in Montabaur, is driving the development of the industrial park as an investor.

On July 30, 2015, a factory outlet center called Fashion Outlet Montabaur (since 2018: Montabaur The Style Outlets ) was opened, a shopping center with around 70 shops. With a catchment area of ​​17.5 million people, a demand volume of 4.9 billion euros per year is expected. The establishment of the outlet was preceded by a ten-year legal dispute with neighboring cities from Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, which is said to have cost up to 400,000 euros. Federal courts have dealt with the litigation several times. Around 75 million euros were invested in the shopping center.

Dommermuth had already bought 10,000 square meters of land at the station before the station opened and announced that he would initially invest 18 million euros with a property developer. In a second construction phase, an extension to up to 50,000 m² of usable space was planned.

In relation to the number of inhabitants, Montabaur has the highest density of BahnCard 100 holders . (As of January 2018)

A study by the University of Hamburg and the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2010 determined additional economic growth of 2.7 percent in the catchment area of ​​the new Limburg and Montabaur stations for the period from 2002 to 2006. This growth was clearly due to improved market access as a result of the stations. The number of people who do not live in Limburg but work there was around 13,000 at the turn of the millennium and in 2014 it was almost 17,500. In 2014 there were around 6,700 outbound commuters.

Transport links

In the 2015 timetable (since December 14, 2014) around 80 trains stop in Montabaur every working day:

The Limburg Süd train station, 21.4 kilometers away by rail, can be reached by ICE in nine minutes (38 trains every working day).

The train station is conveniently located in the immediate vicinity of the Montabaur junction (No. 40) of the A3 motorway. 350 park-and-ride parking spaces were available for the opening . This number has now grown to 900, supplemented by 130 chargeable parking spaces under the bus station at the train station (as of August 2006).

There are three taxi stands at the station forecourt . 15 bus routes run from the adjacent bus station called Montabaur / FOM station, including a free shuttle bus for ICE passengers that goes to the center of the district town about two kilometers to the south. In addition, call shared taxi lines operate from the bus station in the late evening hours within the Montabaur community.

At the bus station Montabaur / FOM there are also long-distance bus routes in the direction of Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz and Wiesbaden, which are operated by Flixbus .

Long-distance and regional transport

product line course Tact
ICE 41 ( Dortmund  - Essen  - Duisburg  -) Cologne / Cologne Messe / Deutz - Montabaur  - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt  - Würzburg  - Nuremberg  - Munich individual trains
ICE 45 (Dortmund - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - /) Cologne - Cologne / Bonn Airport - Montabaur  - Limburg South - Wiesbaden  - Mainz (- Mannheim  - Heidelberg  - Vaihingen  - Stuttgart ) individual trains
ICE 49 (Dortmund - Wuppertal  - Cologne Fair / Deutz - / Cologne -) Siegburg / Bonn  - Montabaur  - Limburg South - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt individual trains
ICE International 79 Bruxelles-Midi  - Liège-Guillemins  - Aachen  - Cologne - (Siegburg / Bonn -) Montabaur  - Limburg South - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt individual trains in the edge of the day
RB 29 Limburg  - Diez Ost - Elz Süd - Steinefrenz - Goldhausen - Montabaur  - Siershahn hourly

Transportation equipment

The tracks run on an embankment at a height of 14 meters, in an east-west direction and parallel to the A 3, which runs immediately to the north. Tracks 2 and 3 used for passageways are made in slab tracks with UIC -60 rails. The three platform tracks and the freight tracks, on the other hand, were built on a ballast superstructure . All four long-distance tracks (1–4) are equipped with line train control.

To the east and west of the station, switches lead to the platform tracks. Positioned in the direction of the platform (branch branch), these can be driven on at 100 km / h. The continuous main tracks are secured against flanking from the platform tracks by protective switches .

One of the five substations of the high-speed line and a sub-center of the electronic interlocking controlled from the Frankfurt am Main operations center are also located in the area of ​​the station. The high-speed route between the Idstein transfer point to the Siegburg / Bonn train station and the Limburg-Staffel-Siershahn railway line in the area of ​​the Montabaur train station are monitored and controlled from the sub-center . A connection of the entire Limburg-Staffel – Siershahn line to the signal box is planned.

criticism

Critics see the Limburg and Montabaur stations, which are about 20 kilometers apart, the result of political blackmail. After a station had been promised for Limburg in Hesse at the end of the 1980s, Rhineland-Palatinate requested a station in Montabaur in order to achieve a smooth approval process for the new line. The state made the construction of the Montabaur train station a condition for its approval of the new line in the Federal Council.

In its 1998 Black Book , the Taxpayers Association criticized the Limburg and Montabaur train stations. Since politicians could have influenced regional planning procedures, the railway had to build both "provincial stations" at a distance of 20 kilometers.

The old Montabaur station was the starting point for the Westerwaldquerbahn (Montabaur - Wallmerod  - Westerburg  - Rennerod  - Herborn (Dillkreis) ). On the section between Montabaur and Westerburg, local public transport was discontinued in 1981. Even before the new Montabaur train station was built, one point of criticism was the fact that no advance payments were made in order to be able to resume local rail transport on the section of the Westerwaldquerbahn between Montabaur and Wallmerod that was still preserved, which makes reactivation much more difficult today.

literature

  • Nina Demuth: The ICE train stations in Montabaur and Limburg: impulses for choosing a residential area, housing development and professional mobility . Diploma thesis, University of Trier, September 2004, ( PDF file ( Memento from January 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))

Web links

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

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