Nuremberg North Railway Station

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Nuremberg North
Former tracks of the terminus station (2005)
Former tracks of the terminus station (2005)
Data
Operating point type Terminus
abbreviation NNRD
opening July 1, 1899
location
City / municipality Nuremberg
Place / district Nordbahnhof settlement
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 28 ′ 20 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 29"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 20 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 29"  E
Railway lines

Ringbahn Nürnberg (km 5.8)

Railway stations in Bavaria
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The Nuremberg North Station (also: Nuremberg North Station ) is only the freight serving station in Nuremberg and is located on the northern ring of the transition Rollnerstraße. The former same terminal station was closed of 2008.

history

The station was put into operation on July 1, 1899 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways with the first part of the north ring as its terminus. The extension of the north ring on May 1, 1905 from Nuremberg North to Nuremberg Northwest created a terminal station with two exits.

Possible passenger traffic

Shortly after the opening of the freight station, there were plans to use the station for passenger traffic as well, but these were interrupted by the First World War , in which the facility was used for the handling of soldiers' trains. Subsequently, influential citizens, fearing increasing industrialization of the districts of Thon and Großreuth behind the Veste , prevented the further expansion of passenger traffic on the north ring and sometimes demanded the closure of the north-western part of the ring line. After the city council's decision on January 25, 1925, to keep the north-western part of the Ringbahn, demands quickly arose again to use it for passenger transport. These considerations resulted in a decision by the building committee on March 3rd of the same year to convert the terminal station into a spacious through station on Großreuther Strasse. In May 1929 along with the global economic crisis , the financial committee of the city, however, granted the project for cost reasons finally a rejection.

Use during the Nazi party rallies

The since 1923 in Nuremberg from the annual Nazi Party organized Reich party rallies attended from the takeover by the Nazis in 1933 large crowds of the city. Therefore, the station was also used for handling special passenger trains. An example of this is a festively decorated "diplomatic train" that transported ambassadors from Berlin to the Nuremberg North Station. From here, the arriving guests were picked up by vehicles and driven on to their respective destinations. During the Nazi party rallies , the station next to the Südbahnhof was also used as a so-called "Mitropadorf". Since the local hotel capacities were insufficient, the dining, sleeping and salon cars for diplomats and guests of honor were turned into hotels on rails so that they do not have to be stored in camps.

Likewise, the Deutsche Reichsbahn for the last time increased the pressure on Nuremberg by pointing out the increasing traffic to and from the annexed Ostmark to expand the north ring and to convert the facilities into a large through station until the 1939 Nazi party rally. However, these plans failed due to disputes between the railway and the city over the route. In particular, the city favored an underpass of Rollnerstrasse under the expanded ring line, but the railway saw a barrier system as sufficient. The only measure that was created in 1938 was a through track with an operating point, which since then has enabled traffic from the northeast to the northwest station with bypassing the terminal station. With the beginning of the Second World War, the expansion plans were no longer pursued. At that time, the terminus was once again used to handle trains with soldiers and equipment for military service. On February 21, 1945, the official building fell victim to the air raids on Nuremberg to destroy the infrastructure.

Dismantling

After the war, the station was used again as a freight yard before the Deutsche Bundesbahn ceased general cargo handling in 1976 . After the decision of the 12th German Logistics Congress to reduce the number of freight yards to 35 in Germany by 2000, cargo handling was discontinued. Before the station was completely dismantled at the end of the 2000s, it only served as a connection for a few companies. Today, the Nordbahnhof district of the same name is located in the area of ​​the former terminus . The station only consists of the through track of the ring line, from which some sidings branch off.

future

A connection of passenger trains from the Rangaubahn via the Nordring to the Graefenbergbahn has been discussed since the early 1990s and was classified as a transport and economically sensible measure within the framework of the Nuremberg Local Transport Development Plan 2011 with a cost-benefit indicator of 1.57 . A stop at Nürnberg Nord or Rollnerstraße would also be created at the level of today's train station .

In contrast, in a study commissioned in 2014, the Bavarian Railway Company came to a negative assessment of the route with an indicator of −0.22. Thus, the route would be adequately loaded with traffic, but the high costs of 38 million euros for route conversion and retrofitting for the purpose of noise protection measures would not be covered by the expected income.

photos

  • Entrance from the Ringbahn in the direction of the Nordostbahnhof (2005)

  • Area of ​​the terminus station (2011)

  • Key box (2005)

See also

literature

  • Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999 ( online version ).
  • Herbert Hieke: The Nürnberger Ringbahn . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-723-3 .

Web links

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

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  1. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 176 ( online version ).
  2. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 180 ( online version ).
  3. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 184 ( online version ).
  4. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 181 ( online version ).
  5. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 183 ( online version ).
  6. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 184, 185 ( online version ).
  7. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 189 ( online version ).
  8. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 179 ( online version ).
  9. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 180 ( online version ).
  10. ↑ Passages from the running text of the article List of Railway Stations in Nuremberg (as of August 6, 2017 at 18:34) moved to this article.
  11. ↑ Too expensive: Graefenbergbahn will not be extended to nordbayern.de for the time being (accessed November 8, 2017)