Nürnberg-Langwasser train station

Nuremberg-Langwasser
Nürnberg-Langwasser station in 2007
Data
Operating point type	Through station
Location in the network	Separation station
Platform tracks	7th
abbreviation	NNLW
opening	1938
Conveyance	September 26, 1987 (passenger transport)
location
City / municipality	Nuremberg
Place / district	Long water
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 24 '38 "  N , 11 ° 8' 9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '38 "  N , 11 ° 8' 9"  E
Railway lines
Ringbahn Nuremberg Nuremberg marshalling yard - Fischbach (near Nuremberg) Nuremberg marshalling yard – Nürnberg-Langwasser
Railway stations in Bavaria

The Nuremberg-long water station is located in Nuremberg . It was put into operation in 1938 as the Nürnberg-Märzfeld train station . His task was to open up the tent and barrack camps for the Nazi organizations participating in the Nazi party rallies in Nuremberg. It has not been used for passenger transport since 1987. In freight traffic, the track systems serve as the front yard of the marshalling yard .

history

Marchfeld station building 2005

For the transport to the marches on the newly built March field, efficient means of transport were necessary. A huge Nuremberg-Märzfeld train station was built for this purpose in order to be able to bring visitors directly to the Nazi party rally grounds.

The station building was never completed. Parts of the structures (northern display wall, stairways) are under monument protection.

There were also considerations to run the broad- gauge railway, which with a gauge of three meters should connect Munich via Nuremberg with Kiev, via the Märzfeld station. The project was discontinued with the end of the Second World War .

After the start of the war, the station was also used to transport prisoners of war who were housed in the camp on the Nazi party rally grounds. It was also the starting point for the transport of the Frankish Jews to the extermination camps . The largest transports, each with around 1000 people, left Nuremberg on November 29, 1941 for Riga in Latvia and on March 24, 1942 for the Izbica ghetto near Lublin in Poland .

The station was renamed in 1957 in Nürnberg-Langwasser station. It was a passenger train stop until the cessation of passenger traffic from Nürnberg Hbf to Nürnberg Rbf exit on September 26, 1987. Since then, it has only served as a through station or storage station for freight trains in the marshalling yard. In the end, only the southernmost platform was used for passenger traffic.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the railway in Germany, the station was the scene of a large-scale vehicle parade in 1985.

In addition to the seven platform tracks, which are now used as through tracks, there are also two sidings connected on both sides.

North next to the station area is located underground main workshop of VAG . There is a siding from the train station.

Memorial plaques

Former memorial plaque at the Märzfeld train station (2005)

In March 2005, a commemorative plaque was attached to the barrier to the old station building, which had been created in cooperation with an art class from the New High School in Nuremberg, students from the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, the social affairs department and the “Pedagogy for Documentation Center” project office.

The text read:

“In memory of the dual role of the former Märzfeld train station, which in 1938 received the cheering masses of an extermination dictatorship for the Nazi party rallies - at which from 1941 Jewish citizens, politically dissenting men, women and children, who were prisoners of war, were abused and humiliated, and experienced immeasurable suffering, in work - or were deported to concentration camps. "

In March 2007, this plaque was no longer to be found on the barrier, which has since been renewed - instead, there are new information boards at the beginning of a footpath leading to the platform, describing the Märzfeld train station as station 20 of a tour of the former Nazi party rally grounds. These boards are now smeared with graffiti .

• Information boards at the Märzfeld train station
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  Marchfeld train station information board

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  Information board 1933 to 1945/1

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  Information board 1933 to 1945/2

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  Information board after 1945

Web links

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

• Track plan of the train station Nürnberg-Langwasser on the website of Deutsche Bahn (PDF; 139.29 kB)
• Information page Bahnhof Märzfeld on the website of the City of Nuremberg's Department of Culture

Individual evidence

1. ^ DB Museum (ed.): In the service of democracy and dictatorship: The Reichsbahn 1920–1945 (=  history of the railroad in Germany . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Nuremberg 2004, ISBN 3-9807652-2-9 , pp. 80, 82 .
2. ↑ http://geodaten.bayern.de/denkmal_static_data/externe_denkmalliste/pdf/denkmalliste_merge_564000.pdf Object D-64-000-2367 on the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
3. ^ Anton Joachimsthaler : The broad gauge railway . Herbig-Verlag Munich and Berlin 1985. ISBN 3-7766-1352-1 , pages 316 to 318.
4. ^ Rolf Brüning and EA Weigert: Parade Express. A journey through the ages: from the eagle to the intercity. Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag 1985.