Oberkotzau train station
| Oberkotzau | |
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 Oberkotzau station, west side
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Wedge station |
| abbreviation | NOKP |
| IBNR | 8000287 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1846/1865 |
| Website URL | Station profile of the BEG |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Oberkotzau |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Oberkotzau |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ N , 11 ° 55 ′ 55 ″ E |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The Oberkotzau Station is an operating agency of the Bamberg-Hof railway and the branching here stretches to Weiden and to Cheb in the municipality of Oberkotzau . At the beginning of the 20th century, a large marshalling yard was built at the northern end of the station towards the courtyard . The historic, now unused for railway operation reception building is a cultural monument .
Early years of the station
The history of the railway in Oberkotzau began in 1846 with the construction of a stop at the station guard post 192 , at the level of the Jakobuskirche on the then Kappelbrücke. Two years later the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn (see also the Bamberg – Hof line ) was opened and Oberkotzau had a railway connection. Together with the other railway lines Eger / Cheb-Selb-Oberkotzau and Weiden-Oberkotzau , the newly created infrastructure and industrialization set in motion a sustainable economic upswing, which was also associated with a noticeable increase in population and an expansion of the town. In 1865 - in the course of the opening of the line to Selb and Eger / Cheb - the station building with a goods hall and a machine house was built. Just like Hof's main train station , Oberkotzau, with its border location in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the transition to the Kingdom of Saxony , the Thuringian states and Austria-Hungary, was an important transshipment point for goods and people. Workers from Bohemia and Saxony settled on site and found work on the railroad and in the factories . This led to the formation of a Catholic parish in the almost exclusively Protestant area. Since 1861, the railway stop was also postal agency , later was royal Bavarian Post at the opening of the station on the site with its own building as a post expedition represented before 1893's with the separation of post and rail in today's participatory spaces related.
Marshalling yard
Around 1900, an important marshalling yard was built at the northern end of the station towards Hof . This became very important in the first half of the 20th century and was even connected to Hof Central Station with a third track. At the end of the Second World War , the marshalling yard assumed a central function after the facilities in Hof were destroyed. With the demarcation of the border and the Iron Curtain , rail freight traffic in the region fell sharply and the marshalling yard was shut down piece by piece. The third track between Hof and Oberkotzau, which was only used for goods traffic, was finally dismantled. At the beginning of the 1970s, at the end of the steam locomotive era at the Hof Bahnbetriebswerk , what was left of the marshalling yard served as a parking space for locomotives that were no longer needed.
Reception building
The former station building is now a monument . It is a two-storey hipped roof building with a pilaster structure . The style is to be addressed as classicism or neoclassicism . The building was erected in the wedge between the route to Selb – Eger / Cheb and the route to Bamberg and Regensburg. A few years after its completion, the building was extended with a porch. Another special feature was a circumferential towing roof , which was badly damaged in 2011 due to the snow loads and was then removed.
In October 2012 the "Förderverein Bahnhof Oberkotzau" acquired the reception building. The development association had the porch torn down around which the towed roof, which had already been torn down, was one of the original features. The reason was the dilapidated fabric of the building section. In May 2017, discussions between the friends' association and the market town of Oberkotzau became known. The aim of the discussions is the purchase and subsequent renovation of the remains of the building by the market.
traffic
Today's operation is controlled by a signal box , which - also in a wedge position - is in front of the former reception building. The signal box was partly remote-controlled from Hof Hbf until the beginning of 2013.
The trains on the following lines stop at Oberkotzau station:
| Train type | Routing | Clock frequency |
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| ag | Hof - Oberkotzau - Marktredwitz - Kirchenlaibach (- Bayreuth ) | Hourly |
| ag | Münchberg - Oberkotzau - Hof - Bad Steben | Every two hours |
| ag | Hof - Oberkotzau - Selb | Hourly |
| OPB | Hof - Oberkotzau - Selb-Plößberg - Cheb / Eger - Marktredwitz | Every two hours |
In addition, all trains leaving Hofer Hauptbahnhof to the south pass through Oberkotzau station.
The first and last two RE trains to and from Nuremberg stop in Oberkotzau, as does the last RE train from Bamberg .
Station area (2015)
Exhibition in the former waiting room, 2014
Manual pump to supply the air raid shelter with breathing air
literature
- Denis André Chevalley: Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
- Helene Gerhardt: A little story about a big train station . 1955. ( PDF )
- Herbert Neudert: The railway in Oberkotzau . In: 750 years of Oberkotzau market - Festschrift of the Oberkotzau market for the 750th anniversary . Oberkotzau 1984.
- Markt Oberkotzau (ed.): Illustrated story (s) . Hof 2013. p. 34ff.
- Förderverein Bahnhof Oberkotzau eV: 150 years of the Oberkotzau - Asch railway line / 150 let železniční trai Oberkotzau - Aš . Oberkotzau 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmuth Ackermann: The post in Oberkotzau . In: 750 years of Oberkotzau market - Festschrift of the Oberkotzau market for the 750th anniversary . Oberkotzau 1984.
- ↑ http://www.frankenpost.de/lokal/hofrehau/hof-land/Oberkotzau-Verein-ersteigert-historischen-Bahnhof;art2438,2139961
- ↑ Frankenpost, edition of the city and district of Hof, from May 20, 2017