Nuremberg South Railway Station

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Nuremberg South
South side of the transhipment halls (2011)
South side of the transhipment halls (2011)
Data
Operating point type Through station
opening 1935
Conveyance 1998
location
City / municipality Nuremberg
Place / district Marshalling yard (Nuremberg)
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 25 '17 "  N , 11 ° 6' 9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '17 "  N , 11 ° 6' 9"  E
Railway lines

Ringbahn Nürnberg (km 0.0)

Railway stations in Bavaria
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The Nuremberg South Station (also: Nuremberg South Station ) was only the freight serving station in Nuremberg and was located north of the marshalling yard on a branch of the Südring . Until the demolition in 2018, only the old reloading halls existed on the site.

history

Forerunner station

A first as head station Güterumladestelle executed already existed since the opening of the marshalling yard 1902/03. This so-called reloading platform was a few hundred meters further south of what would later become the southern station and, with its eight tracks, was no longer able to cope with the increasing traffic in 1904 and was therefore expanded in the same year.

Construction of the south station

With the continued growth in the volume of goods after the First World War , the Nuremberg Railway Directorate planned from 1923 to 1929 for a modern new building that would replace the previous transfer station and be designed as a through station with seven tracks. According to the plans of March 14, 1929, the new, more northerly location of the station made it necessary to relocate what was then Allersberger Straße (today: Brunecker Straße ) to the east (today: Münchner Straße ). After 326 cars were recorded in the entry and 376 cars in the exit in 1927, which corresponded to an enormous burden on the old station, the global economic crisis delayed the construction of the new facility again before it began in 1932. At the beginning of September 1933, the topping-out ceremony for the prestressed concrete structure was celebrated in the style of functional modern industrial architecture . The large hall roofs protected the workers from the weather and, thanks to the pillar construction, still enabled flexible access from all sides. Comfortable lounge areas were also set up for employees. Even before the new halls went into operation, they hosted the anniversary show The Centenary of the German Railways from July 14th to October 13th, 1935 . For this purpose, a vehicle show took place in the halls and on an outdoor area specially laid out to the south and west. This also included a passenger platform for special trips, as well as a show on the superstructure of railway lines. According to the organizers, the exhibition counted around half a million visitors.

Installation

Immediately after the end of the anniversary celebrations, goods traffic at the Südbahnhof began operations and immediately saw a significant increase in cargo handling, which is due not least to the increasing arms production in the Third Reich and the numerous construction sites on the neighboring Nazi party rally grounds. During the party rallies of the station next to the serving North Station also as 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 did not have to be stored in storage. The station survived the Second World War largely unscathed, so that it gradually resumed operations after 1945. In 1969 a record was reached with a throughput of 469,000 tons, which resulted in the construction of a new smaller hall west of the existing one and increased the number of tracks to eleven.

After the Deutsche Bundesbahn ceased general cargo handling at many Nuremberg freight yards in 1976, the station remained together with the main freight station and the Fürth main station as the only general cargo reloading point. In 1985 the facility had 285 stands on eleven tracks with two bridge roads and eleven track bridges. 118 freight connections, of which Istanbul was the furthest, were served. 23 were abroad and one in the GDR . Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 11 were used for loading trains, while tracks 2, 5, 7 and 9 were used for unloading.

View into one of the reloading halls (2009)

Shutdown

Due to the decision of the 12th German Logistics Congress to reduce the number of freight stations to 35 in Germany by 2000, the handling of goods at the Südbahnhof was finally stopped in 1998. The halls were then rented out as storage facilities, but were largely empty. The area also served as a junkyard for a while.

Reuse

Lichtenreuth development area

Plans by the city of Nuremberg and the real estate developer Aurelis provide for a new district called Lichtenreuth in the area of ​​Brunecker Strasse . 2000 residential units are planned, but also a third of commercial space and a third of green space. Due to their dilapidation and high repair costs, the halls of the old Südbahnhof will in all probability give way to the new building area and will be demolished.

From February 15 to April 22, 2018, an exhibition at the Museum for Industrial Culture under the name Forgetting in the South - The Reloading Halls at Nuremberg's South Station dealt with the history of the station and the halls. The exhibition was organized by the Stadtbild Initiative Nürnberg, BauLust e. V. and the Association History for All - Institute for Regional History. In the future, a newly founded Nuremberg University will be located on the site. In this context, stimulated by the exhibition, among other things, a debate was held about a possible reuse of the halls in the sense of integration into the university. The discussion remained open-ended, so that on June 14, 2018, a company commissioned by Aurelis began the demolition under criticism from the SPD .

Technical University of Nuremberg

On October 9, 2018, the Free State of Bavaria acquired a 37.5 hectare area of ​​the former Südbahnhof in order to create a technical university with 6,000 students, around 220 professorships and around 2,000 university employees by 2025. The focus of the university is to be in the future field of technical sciences and around a fifth of the teaching content in the field of humanities and social sciences. Planned chairs are Mechatronic Engineering, Quantum Engineering, Biological Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics. With the desired relationship between technical, humanities and social science fundamentals, a new university way of thinking is to be developed in Nuremberg, which is also intended to enable the interlinking of science and research with the economy.

photos

  • Administration building (2011)

  • eastern hall from the south (2011)

  • eastern transhipment hall to the north (2011)

  • eastern reloading hall to the south (2011)

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolf Hergert: The cargo handling halls at the Nuremberg South Station . Nuremberg April 2015, p. 2 ( online version [PDF]).
  2. ^ Wolf Hergert: The cargo handling halls at the Nuremberg South Station . Nuremberg April 2015, p. 3 ( online version [PDF]).
  3. ^ Wolf Hergert: The cargo handling halls at the Nuremberg South Station . Nuremberg April 2015, p. 5 ( online version [PDF]).
  4. ↑ a b c Wolf Hergert: The cargo handling halls at the Nuremberg South Station . Nuremberg April 2015, p. 7 ( online version [PDF]).
  5. ^ A b 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. 179 ( 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. 180 ( online version ).
  8. ^ Wolf Hergert: The cargo handling halls at the Nuremberg South Station . Nuremberg April 2015, p. 8 ( online version [PDF]).
  9. ↑ Katja Auer: Nuremberg is planning a huge new building area . sueddeutsche.de, May 12, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2017
  10. ^ NN: message , nordbayern.de, December 19, 2014, accessed on November 9, 2017
  11. ^ Claudine Stauber message , nordbayern.de, May 12, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2017
  12. ↑ Hidden places in Nuremberg: Former Südbahnhof , contribution to Franken Fernsehen , September 22, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2017
  13. ↑ Forgotten in the south - the reloading halls at Nuremberg's Südbahnhof on museen.nuernberg.de, accessed on February 21, 2018
  14. ↑ Despite criticism: Demolition of the Nuremberg reloading halls has started on nordbayern.de, June 14, 2018, accessed on June 17, 2018
  15. ↑ Söder: From now on we plan and then build! Land for the Technical University of Nuremberg handed over to the Free State of Bavaria on bayern.de, October 9, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018