Neuwied station
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 Reception building
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | KNE |
| IBNR | 8000276 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 1869 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Neuwied |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Neuwied |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 25 ′ 52 " N , 7 ° 28 ′ 25" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Neuwied station is a hub of public transport in the west of the Rhineland-Palatinate town Neuwied . It is located on the right-hand Rhine route and is the starting point for the route to Koblenz over the Urmitzer Rheinbrücke. There is a bus station on the station forecourt . In the urban area there is also the Engers train station , also on the right-hand Rhine route.
history
When the left Rhine route was opened in 1857 , there was a station near Weißenthurm called Neuwied . The ferry traffic between Neuwied and Weißenthurm was carried out by the railway company from 1860 onwards.
Today's Neuwied station was opened in 1869, at the same time as the right-hand Rhine route. In the first years, especially after the opening of the Westerwaldbahn (1884), the Engers station was more important than the Neuwied station. Only after the construction of the Kronprinz-Wilhelm-Brücke (predecessor of today's Urmitz railway bridge ) between Engers and Urmitz and the opening of the Neuwied – Koblenz railway line in 1918 did the station gain in importance, especially after the Westerwaldbahn ceased operations.
In the Second World War was the reception building destroyed about 75%. After the Second World War, due to the need to look after refugees and former prisoners of war , Caritas, headed by Maria Mechelen , opened the station mission. On December 22, 1947, near the provisional Wiedbrücke in Neuwied, a serious railway accident occurred when the express trains D 269 and D 48 collided, 42 people died and 116 injured.
When rebuilding the reception building, the responsible Federal Railway Directorate in Mainz decided because the non-contemporary forms bear witness to an outdated architectural style and the reconstruction would have been made easier if the bombs had completely destroyed the old building , despite the fact that around 25% of the historical building fabric had been preserved demolish and replace with a new building in the style of the 1950s.
At the beginning of October 2011, the first construction phase to modernize Neuwied station was completed. As part of this construction phase, the platforms were made accessible with two elevators. In addition, the staircases were renewed and new wall and floor coverings with an integrated guidance system for the blind were laid in the underpass. In preparation for the second construction phase, the platform edge in the area of the elevator of the central platform of tracks 2 and 3 was increased to 55 centimeters and the roof in need of renovation was replaced by a modern roof. Dynamic script indicators were also set up. This conversion cost 1.7 million euros, which were paid out of the economic stimulus package .
As part of a second construction phase, the renovation and elevation of the house and central platform was planned. The modernization of the travel center in the train station was completed in December 2012. This measure cost 60,000 euros. The second phase of construction began in summer 2014 and was officially completed on November 28, 2014.
construction
Neuwied station has a goods and a passenger area.
Freight depot
The Neuwied freight station , which is operationally integrated into the Neuwied station, has two loading tracks with a total loading area of 1,827 square meters. Freight wagons can only be loaded via the loading lane, and only one of the two loading tracks is electrified.
Passenger station
Passenger traffic at Neuwied Bahnhof is handled on two platforms with a total of four platform edges (three through tracks and one butt track ).
Neuwied station is currently not served by long-distance passenger trains. There is a connection to the Intercity and Intercity Express networks via Koblenz .
In terms of local rail passenger transport , Neuwied station is served by the following local transport lines:
| line | Line name | Line course | Tact |
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| RE 8 | Rhein-Erft-Express | Mönchengladbach - Rheydt - Cologne - Cologne / Bonn Airport - Bonn-Beuel - Linz - Neuwied - Engers - Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein - Koblenz | Hourly |
| RB 10 | Rheingau line | Neuwied - Koblenz city center - Koblenz - Oberlahnstein - Kamp-Bornhofen - Sankt Goarshausen - Rüdesheim - Wiesbaden - Frankfurt-Höchst - Frankfurt | Hourly |
| RB 27 | Rhine-Erft Railway | Mönchengladbach - Rheydt - Cologne - Cologne-Porz - Bonn-Beuel - Bad Honnef (Rhine) - Linz - Bad Hönningen - Neuwied - Koblenz city center - Koblenz | Hourly |
Station forecourt
A significant upgrade of the station and its surroundings went hand in hand with the complete redesign of the station forecourt, which was completed in October 2008 and cost a total of 5.6 million euros. As part of this redesign,
- the bus station renewed and converted to eleven bays (twelve bus parking spaces were also created),
- built a parking facility for bicycles,
- 100 park & ride spaces created.
literature
- Kurt Wolfram: The economic development of the city of Neuwied . Rhein- und Wied-Druckerei, Neuwied 1927 (dissertation at the University of Cologne).
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (KNE) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.6 MiB; last accessed on April 10, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julius Strüder, Rolf Strüder (ed.): Images and figures from the past of the city of Neuwied. For the 300th anniversary 1653–1953. Strüder, Neuwied 1953.
- ↑ City of Neuwied on the history of the train stations ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Heinz Falck and Ernst Geissler: Railway buildings as an expression of a modern design will . In: Bundesbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): The Bundesbahndirektion Mainz. Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Mainz Railway Directorate . Carl Röhrig, Darmstadt 1956 = special print from Die Bundesbahn 22/1956, p. 62.
- ↑ Frauenbüro Neuwied (ed.): Von Frau zu Frau, Part II , Verlag Peter Kehrein, 1995, ISBN 978-3980326650 , pp. 140/141.
- ^ Martin Weltner: Railway disasters. Serious train accidents and their causes. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7654-7096-7 , p. 16.
- ^ Heinz Falck and Ernst Geissler: Railway buildings as an expression of a modern design will . In: Bundesbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): The Bundesbahndirektion Mainz. Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Mainz Railway Directorate . Carl Röhrig, Darmstadt 1956 = special print from Die Bundesbahn 22/1956, p. 62.
- ↑ Oliver Schumacher: Federal economic stimulus program: 1.7 million euros were invested in Neuwied station. Deutsche Bahn AG, October 4, 2011, accessed on January 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Oliver Schumacher: DB travel center in Neuwied station opened after modernization. DB Mobility Logistics AG, December 17, 2012, accessed on March 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Barrier-free train stations in the city and district of Neuwied? , AK-Kurier, June 3, 2014
- ↑ Plan of the goods loading point ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Station forecourt was renewed ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ministry of Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture, October 24, 2008
