Patsch station

Slap
Data
Operating point type	Through station
Platform tracks	2
abbreviation	I H2
IBNR	8101337
opening	1876 ​​as a train station
Profile on ÖBB.at	No. 2262
location
City / municipality	Slap
state	Tyrol
Country	Austria
Coordinates	47 ° 11 '37 "  N , 11 ° 24' 57"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '37 "  N , 11 ° 24' 57"  E
Railway lines
Brennerbahn
List of train stations in Austria

Patsch is a train stop of the Brennerbahn Innsbruck – Brenner Pass near Patsch . The former station buildings, which were listed, were demolished in 2012. The stop is so remote that it is run as a separate locality Patsch-Bahnhof or Patsch-stop .

location

Patsch station ( group of houses )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Innsbruck-Land  (IL), Tyrol
Judicial district	innsbruck
Pole. local community	Slap
Locality	Slap
Coordinates	47 ° 11 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 2"  E
height	794  m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H.	0 (2013)
Building status	0 (2013)
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Patsch (70338 000)
Topographical identification: group of houses (2001) outdated Source: STAT : Ortsverzeichnis ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS

The Patsch train station is about 9 kilometers south of Innsbruck . It is located at 794  m above sea level. A. Höhe above the Sill Gorge, south of Patsch, directly opposite Schönberg in the Stubai Valley , not far from the Europa Bridge on the Brenner motorway.

The Brennerbahn climbs continuously up the Wipptal and has gained a good 200 meters in altitude since Innsbruck. The settlements in the area lie on the shoulders of the Wipptal valley at the level of the Tyrolean low mountain range of around 1000 meters, which is why the Brennerbahn runs far below the villages on the slope of the narrow Sill Gorge. The stop can only be reached on a steep, winding road, another 100 meters below the last village of Patsch, the village of Kehr .

history

Freight train with 1020  007-9 near Patsch

The station was laid out as early as 1867 when the Brenner Railway was built (the Innsbruck – Bozen line opened on August 21, 1867), and a reception building was built directly below Kehr. There was also a station keeper's house here. In 1910/11 a new reception building was built 300 meters into the valley (south) in an orographically more favorable location. The old building was used as a staff house, later as a residential building, and at last a small farm was operated here at times. Because of the low frequency, Patsch was only run as a stop from 1994, operations in the reception building were discontinued and a bus shelter was built on the valley side. The S-Bahn Tirol rapid transit train has been running here for a number of years, but the station is only kept twice in each direction on weekdays - primarily for some students to Innsbruck.

As typical representatives of the station architecture of the time of the monarchy, the two station buildings were placed under monument protection in 1999 , and the station keeper's house was demolished. The Austrian Federal Railways  (ÖBB) could not find any new users due to the location, but the houses had largely become dilapidated until the 2000s due to vacancy and vandalism. Therefore, an application was made to the Federal Monuments Office to revoke the protection status. This found support from the municipality of Patsch, for which the water supply and building security of the remote houses was a great burden. The Federal Monuments Office determined the preservation of the architectural monuments in an expert opinion as "not realizable", and the monument value insofar as not extraordinary, because the "architecture on the Brennerbahn is 'sufficiently documented' by the remaining objects" and these are also more accessible for those interested in architecture . In the course of the renovation work on the Brenner route, the two buildings were then demolished in August 2012 and the rubble was disposed of by rail.

During the renovation work in Matrei, a track construction train operated by a private construction company went unmanned and derailed not far from the former train station. Some of the furniture fell into the Sill Gorge, and people were not harmed.

Station building

The old reception building from 1867 was a two-story building with a medium risalit . The substructure was made of solid stone ashlar masonry, in the middle an arched door - last bricked up - led into the interior. The upper floor was plastered smooth. It was an original design by Wilhelm von Flattich , from which all the stations on the Brenner Railway come.

The younger reception building was also two-story, with a characteristic T-shaped floor plan, with a simply decorated wooden roofing with double stands in the recess on the track side. The basement was designed in plaster banding with pseudo- corner blocks in the ( neo- renaissance ) Ringstrasse style, the upper floor with the corner blocks pulled under the eaves plain in rough plaster .

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  Reception building 1867 (photo 2012)

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  Reception building 1911, back side of the valley (photo 2012)

Web links

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

• Disused train stations in Patsch. In: forum.strassenbahn.tk. May 6, 2012, accessed March 28, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

• 70338 - Slap. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Admission building, Patsch station. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved January 1, 2014 . 
• Reception building, former Patsch train station. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved January 1, 2014 . 

1. ↑ so in the local directory of Statistics Austria, Volume Tirol , p. 65
2. ↑ so in the Austrian map of the BEV, status 2013: Detail, AMAP online
3. ↑ Stillgelegter S-Bahn station in the south of Innsbruck , manni, in Sagen.at: Forum , Post May 6, 2012 - Photo documentation of the state of preservation of the buildings.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Last station: demolition - The Austrian Federal Railways stuck to their wish to raze the disused station to the ground . In: Der Standard online, July 2, 2012.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Patsch wants to get rid of the station - In the conflict over the demolition of the old station building in Patsch, the municipality also intervenes: It wants to shake off the block on the leg. . Christoph Mair in Tiroler Tageszeitung , April 18, 2012 (article online).
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Signal for Patsch station is finally canceled - After a long struggle it is clear: The old station buildings in Patsch will be demolished. The monument protection was surprisingly lifted. . Christoph Mair in Tiroler Tageszeitung , June 30, 2012 (article online).
7. ↑ The renovation of the Brenner Railway has started , tirol.orf.at, June 11, 2012
8. ^ "Ghost procession" plunged into the depths , tirol.orf.at, August 12, 2012
9. ↑ Illustration: Patsch station - completely abandoned, only a lonely water wagon stands on a short track in what is actually a very extensive station… , bahnbilder.de, mid-January 2008.

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