Porta Westfalica train station
| Porta Westfalica train station | |
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| Location in the network | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | HPTA |
| IBNR | 8004868 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1847 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Porta_Westfalica |
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| City / municipality | Porta Westfalica |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 14 '37 " N , 8 ° 55' 15" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Porta Westfalica (until 1984 Porta ) is located in the Porta Westfalica on the right bank of the Weser in the East Westphalia Minden-Lübbecke . From here you have access to the districts of Hausberge (right bank of the Weser) and Barkhausen (left bank of the Weser) in the city of Porta Westfalica .
The station is located at the Hamm-Minden railway (KBS 370) and is on the Station wages with the Löhne-Rheine railway connected (KBS 375).
history
The railway line between Hamm (Westf) and Minden (Westf) was opened on October 15, 1847 by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as the last part of their main line and continuation of the connection (Cologne-) Deutz – Düsseldorf – Duisburg– built in previous years. Dortmund – Hamm opened. From 1856 the Hannoversche Westbahn used the route towards Osnabrück.
The breakthrough in the Weser presented the railway planners with immense problems. The Weser flowed here to close to the foot of the Jakobsberg and from there in a sharp curve to the northwest to the site of today's train station, the forecourt and the main road . The river bed was relocated to the left bank of the Weser in Barkhausen for the two-track railway construction at that time and the old river bed was filled in. The first station building from 1847 was placed opposite the entrance of the old sandstone tunnel. For this, however, space also had to be created on Jakobsberg by resolution of the railway company, the mountain was excavated here at a height and width of around 100 meters. The broken material was used to level the station square and to fill the railway embankment in the Hausberger Weseraue.
The station was built in the Norman style, had a three-story, polygonal tower and looked more like a summer palace than a train station. The railway company named the new station Porta and not Hausberge, because the community of Hausberge refused to pay a subsidy for the construction of the building.
When the railway line was widened to four tracks from 1911, the current station building was built in 1913–1916 south of the old building. For this it was necessary to change the course of the river again in the breakthrough valley and to shift it further to the west. Retaining walls were built on the right bank of the Weser and are still there today. The new building was erected on the filled-in former course of the Weser, which required a special foundation: the foundation walls had to be driven down to the stony subsoil and are partly designed like a vault. The old station building remained until 1953, when it was demolished in the course of the construction of the new Weser bridge . The new building was plastered white, the tracks were lower on the banks of the Weser than the entrance hall on the mountain.
The station was designed to be particularly large, given the scenic location at the mountain cut between the Wiehen and Weser mountains, and large excursion traffic was expected . The Kaiser Wilhelm monument on the opposite bank was reached via a bridge. There was a bus connection to the Porta stop on the left bank of the Weser, between 1954 and 1965 the Minden trolleybus served this route. The Minden tram also ended at the Porta until 1959 .
On January 20, 1944, there was a serious train accident at Porta station . Shortly after passing through the station, the express train D 3 (Cologne – Berlin) stopped due to an emergency braking. The following DmW [12] 103 (Aachen – Berlin) had already received permission to enter from the station's dispatcher, which resulted in the trains colliding. 79 people were killed and 64 were injured in the accident.
In 1984 the Porta train station was renamed to today's name Porta Westfalica. In 1973 the surrounding communities were united to form the city of Porta Westfalica .
With the construction of new road connections through the breakthrough valley of the Weser, including the Weserauentunnel , the transport connections of the train station changed significantly in the 1990s. A new bridge over the Weser was built, which now no longer crosses the Weser north but south of the station. As a result, there is no longer a bus connection from the train station to Barkhausen, as the buses from Hausberge go directly over the Weser.
In 1993, the station was divided into several operating points: The access point for passenger traffic was spun off into the Porta Westfalica Hp operating point and became a stop , and a Porta Westfalica junction was set up. Since then, the station has only consisted of the equipment for freight traffic on the freight line. These systems are now out of operation.
Use of the reception building
After Deutsche Bahn sold the building in the 1990s, Gerd Langwald bought the vacant property in 1996. He converted it into a discotheque , which he initially ran on his own. In 2007 he leased the disco to a Bad Oeynhauser merchant who set up the disco PW there. The lease expired in 2012, a subsequent use is not known. For some time the former station building has been used by the company "PW | Event | Hall". Since the business is not particularly profitable from this discotheque, only special events take place here.
Station facilities
The four-track line is divided into a passenger and freight line, each with two tracks. Until the reception building was sold, the station tracks could be reached with a passage through this building and a set of stairs . The staircase, d. H. Both the bridge and the stairs to the two platforms , built over in a uniform architectural style. After the reception building was sold in private hands and subsequently used as a discotheque, the previous access was dismantled. At the same time, two platforms were dismantled to one platform, via which two directional tracks, which are now used for passenger traffic, can be reached. A narrow external staircase, which allows access around the building, was newly laid out. Between November 2007 and the end of 2009 an access bridge with an elevator was built and the platform modernized. The aforementioned discotheque is located in the reception building.
service
The station is served by the following regional express lines for local rail passenger transport:
Transport links
The train station is located directly on the B 482 . The district of Barkhausen can be reached via the Weser bridge, local mountains in a few minutes on foot. Buses to Hausberge, Holzhausen , Kleinenbremen and Minden run over the B 482 . Until February 2017, due to the unfavorable location of the station, the stop in the direction of Minden or Kleinenbremen could only be reached with a long walk and a dangerous road crossing. The station forecourt has been rebuilt since February. Two bus stops and other extras such as a charging station for e-cars and numerous parking spaces for bicycles have been added. The buses from Hausberge and Lerbeck can easily reach the bus stop. The descent in the direction of the local mountains is not a big problem, as only one lane has to be threaded. On the descent in the direction of Lerbeck, due to the high volume of traffic, it is sometimes not easy and safe to cross the lane and join the flowing traffic. A special traffic light with bus priority circuit was built for this purpose. An induction loop embedded in the lane recognizes the bus and stops the flowing traffic. The bus can easily leave the bus stop.
Local transport network
Porta Westfalica station is part of the Westfalentarif tariff association . The NRW tariff and the Lower Saxony tariff also apply . The Lower Saxony ticket can be used in the direction of Bielefeld to Herford . Until August 1, 2017, the station belonged to the regional tariff association Der Sechser of the association OWL Verkehr .
literature
- Karl-Peter Ellerbrock, Marina Schuster (Ed.): 150 Years of Cologne-Minden Railway. (Catalog for the series of exhibitions and events of the same name.) Klartext, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-88474-560-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Website from Team Porta, accessed in March 2008
- ^ Karl-Peter Ellerbrock and Marina Schuster (eds.): 150 years of Cologne-Minden Railway. Catalog for the series of exhibitions and events of the same name on behalf of the Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation, Essen 1997, p. 192
- ↑ New plans for the old train station. Mindener Tageblatt of November 10, 2011. Retrieved on November 10, 2011