Oberhof train station (Thür)

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Oberhof (Thür)
The reception building of the Oberhof train station
The reception building of the Oberhof train station
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation UOF
IBNR 8012525
Price range 6th
opening 1884
Profile on Bahnhof.de Oberhof__Thuer_
location
City / municipality Oberhof
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 41 '3 "  N , 10 ° 42' 35"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '3 "  N , 10 ° 42' 35"  E
Height ( SO ) 639  m
Railway lines

Railway stations in Thuringia
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The Oberhof (Thür) station is a through station of the Deutsche Bahn in the city of Oberhof in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia, which has no longer been used as a scheduled passenger train service since December 2017 .

It is located on the Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen railway line at 40.1 km near the apex at an altitude of 639  m above sea level. NN , about five kilometers south of the in about 800  m above sea level. NN height located Oberhof village center.

history

Oberhof station around 1897

In 1883 the station was built west of the portal of the Brandleitetunnel and inaugurated on August 1, 1884. Due to the growing passenger traffic in the up-and-coming holiday resort, extensive renovations followed in 1910/11. A multi-storey, representative reception building was created. The platforms were relocated outside and accessed via a covered corridor and covered stairs. In 1965 a repair was carried out with the installation of a counter hall. In the GDR, the local station had the additional designation of the station of German-Soviet friendship .

Between 1993 and 1996 the reception building was partially refurbished and converted into a biological sewage treatment plant . The station was registered by the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology on March 18, 1996 in the monuments book of the Free State of Thuringia. The protection status refers not only to the reception building, but to the entire station system. In 2006 the reception building was partially renovated (roof and truss renewed, some new windows, facade, heating system).

In 2003, in the course of the expansion of the Erfurt – Würzburg line for 140 km / h and tilting technology, the new platform systems were built and in mid-2005 the interlocking was shut down with the commissioning of the electronic interlocking in Arnstadt. The station building was auctioned off by Deutsche Bahn AG in 2014 and sold for a minimum bid of 25,000 euros. Since the timetable change on December 10, 2017, Oberhof station is no longer served.

Train traffic

Oberhof station 2012

At the time of the steam locomotive operation , trains stopped in Oberhof to take water . In addition, a brake test was carried out before the following descents . In the 1930s, special trains ran from Erfurt to Oberhof when there was enough snow . Lorries with posters advertised this in Erfurt, and a corresponding flag was also hoisted on the tower of the Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt . In addition, a large number of special trains were used for sporting events, for example at the ski championships in February 1951 up to 120,000 spectators came on a weekend, including 48 special trains. Since most holiday guests traveled by train until the end of the 1980s, Oberhof station was so important for passenger traffic that D-trains also stopped there.

After plans to close the station became known, the Thuringian Railway Initiative launched a signature campaign in August 2015 to preserve Oberhof station and continue train traffic. Instead of the 3,245 valid signatures submitted, however, 11,000 would have been necessary for a petition.

In the 2016/2017 timetable period, three lines served the station:

At the timetable change in December 2017, Oberhof station was closed to passenger traffic after 132 years of use. The reasons were the low number of passengers with 150 boarding and disembarking passengers per day and the long distance from the train station to the center of Oberhof. Alternatively, there is a bus connection from Zella-Mehlis train station .

Railway systems

Platforms and signal box

The station has two platforms, platform 2 is used by trains in the direction of Würzburg, platform 1 by trains in the direction of Erfurt. Platform 1 is 165 meters long, platform 2 is 200 meters, and both are 55 centimeters high .

To the southwest of the reception building there is a storage group on the same level as the platform tracks, while the main track towards Zella-Mehlis is downhill from the exit signal . The now single-track storage group originally had three tracks, especially for winter sports trains. A loading ramp was available for freight cars.

To the east of the train station, behind the exit signal, is the portal of the fire control tunnel . In addition, the Pfannbach, which flows in the direction of Zella-Mehlis, is directed via a cascade into a canal below the platform. In the main building there is a branch of the rescue control center and a tunnel rescue room with a power plant from the 1950s. The facility is mandatory for train accidents in the tunnel. The Zella-Mehlis fire brigade also maintains a two-way fire engine (see tunnel assistance ).

literature

  • Georg Thielmann, Markus Schmidt: From Erfurt to Schweinfurt . EK-Verlag Freiburg 1999, ISBN 3-88255-441-X .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.bahnstatistik.de/BfVerzU.htm
  2. Sales prospectus , February 2014
  3. Small question from the member of parliament Harzer (DIE LINKE), printed matter 6/3788 Thuringian Landtag, April 21, 2017
  4. thueringer-allgemeine.de, August 28, 2014
  5. Signatures for Oberhof station are not enough , in: insuedthueringen from February 2016. ( [1] )
  6. Platform information on Oberhof (Thür) train station ( memento from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 8, 2016