Pforzheim-Weißenstein train station
| Pforzheim-Weissenstein | |
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 Pforzheim-Weißenstein train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | TPW |
| Price range | 7th |
| opening | June 1, 1874 |
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| City / municipality | Pforzheim |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 51 ′ 56 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 40" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 289 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Pforzheim-Weißenstein station is the station of the Pforzheim district of Dillweißstein and is located on the Nagold Valley Railway from Pforzheim Hbf to Hochdorf (b Horb) . Since the place Dillweißstein was not created until 1890 by merging the places Dillstein and Weißenstein and Dillstein had its own breakpoint earlier , the station has kept its original name to this day.
history
The station went into operation on June 1, 1874 with the opening of the Pforzheim– Calw section . It was built by the Royal Württemberg State Railways (KWSt.E.) according to their plans on the Baden area. The two-story reception building that has been preserved to this day also dates from this period . From 1911 to 1914 the hall was expanded to include the bay area with an underpass to the central platform and a passage to the goods hall. In 1972 a new signal box was installed along with electrical signals and points. With the transfer of the management to the Pforzheim-Brötzingen station in 1984, these facilities were dismantled.
Renovation and use as a clubhouse and museum (since 1988)
After the abandonment of passenger traffic in 1980 and subsequent damage by vandalism, the listed station building was left to decay for a long time. In 1988 the association “Eisenbahnfreunde Pforzheim e. V. “the building, which was badly damaged by a fire in 1982. Since then, the association has been maintaining and renovating the building and using the former Weißenstein train station as a clubhouse. At the same time, it operates the "Museum in the station", the largest and most important exhibit of which is the station building itself. The museum shows the history of the station, but also exemplifies the history of the railway in the entire Pforzheim area from the time of the Royal Württemberg State Railways to the present day. The museum is open every first Sunday of the month.
passenger traffic
Between the beginning of the 20th century and the 1960s, bath trains from northern Germany and the Ruhr area also stopped in Pforzheim-Weißenstein, bringing travelers to the health baths and climatic health resorts of the Black Forest via Frankfurt am Main , Karlsruhe and Pforzheim.
After its temporary closure at the beginning of the 1980s, the station went back into operation in December 2008 and has been served hourly by DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH ever since . Regional trains on the Pforzheim - Horb line stop there , some of which continue to Tübingen . The current train boarding station is no longer directly at the station building, but behind it, with glazed waiting shelters and train indicators.
literature
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny: The railway in the northern Black Forest . tape 1 : Historical development and railway construction . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-88255-763-X .
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny: The railway in the northern Black Forest . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-88255-764-8 .
