Probstzella station

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Probstzella
Bahnhof-Probstzella2.jpg
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network former separation station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation UPR
IBNR 8010288
Profile on Bahnhof.de Probstzella
location
City / municipality Probstzella
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 31 '41 "  N , 11 ° 23' 2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '41 "  N , 11 ° 23' 2"  E
Height ( SO ) 365  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Thuringia
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The Probstzella train station is located on the south-eastern edge of the Thuringian community of Probstzella in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district , 1.3 kilometers from the Bavarian border. The station has been a transit station on the Leipzig – Gera – Probstzella railway since October 1, 1885 , which is continued in Bavaria by the railway to Hochstadt-Marktzeuln . He served after World War II to 1990 as a border station in the German domestic rail traffic. The border clearance building was the last of its kind to be preserved in a German-German border station until 2008, but was then demolished.

history

Railway station in 1921

The station was put into operation on August 8, 1885 with the completion of the Eichicht –Probstzella section by the Prussian State Railways . On October 1, 1885, they opened the 1.7 km long section to the state border near Falkenstein and leased it to the Bavarian State Railways , which in turn had built the gap from there via Ludwigsstadt to Stockheim . Probstzella is the southernmost station on this route in Thuringia.

It is the starting point of the Probstzella – Schmiedefeld line , which was opened in 1898 and which was tied through to Neuhaus am Rennweg in 1913 .

Initially, the station was a transition point and border station between the Royal Bavarian State Railways and the Prussian State Railways. There the locomotive change between Prussian and Bavarian machinery and the found Umladehallen the Güterabfertigung instead. The travelers first had to change to trains operated by the other railway administration; the first through trains in the form of express trains between Berlin and Munich did not exist until 1897.

The station had the status of a Lokeinsatzstelle the operating workshop Saalfeld he owned from 1923 a railway depot , the end of 1993 was dissolved.

The route between Bavaria and Central Germany is of great importance as the main route. It was electrified on May 15, 1939. In 1939 two long-distance express trains ran daily, up to eleven express trains, two express trains and eight passenger trains.

In April 1945 traffic was interrupted by the war; but it could soon be resumed, and in November 1945 the electrical contact line was restored. Continuous operation failed due to the possibility of switching the traction power supply through, because Thuringia and Bavaria separated the border between the American and Soviet occupation zones . In 1946, the catenary had to be dismantled on Soviet-occupied territory as a reparation payment . In 1950, the stretch from the border to Probstzella station was electrified again so that the steep incline to Steinbach am Wald would not have to be driven by steam locomotives. In Probstzella, the locomotive exchange between the electric DB traction vehicles and the steam locomotives and, from the mid-1960s, the diesel traction vehicles of the DR took place, which had previously taken place in Ludwigsstadt. This was the only electrified crossing between DB and DR. With the start of electrical operation, the border controls on the freight trains , which previously took place on the border at the border, were moved to Probstzella station.

The second track between Saalfeld and the border was also dismantled in 1946, and operations had to be carried out on a single track. The access offer was thus limited. In 1947, one express train and three freight trains drove over the border crossing every day.

Facing north

On September 20, 1961, the Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt ordered the construction of a 347 meter long connecting curve between the Frankenwaldbahn and the railway line to Neuhaus am Rennweg . This had already been planned in 1936 in order to avoid the change of direction in Probstzella, now the internal traffic should bypass the station in connection with the border security. On October 2, 1961, construction work began north of the station; on December 9, 1961 this route was inaugurated. The occupied Probstzella stop was built on the single-track curve (in the timetable: Probstzella Hp with the note “The distance between Probstzella Hp and Bf is 700 m”), the office building of which was inaugurated on November 2, 1964. It was shut down on May 23, 1993.

Until the timetable change on May 27, 1995, the Intercity trains on the Berlin – Munich route stopped in Probstzella due to a locomotive change. In the same year, the Frankenwaldbahn was expanded to double-track and electrify again. Since then, only regional trains have stopped in Probstzella. In addition, trains stop in freight traffic if they need an additional locomotive to push them on the ramp to Steinbach.

In 2017, the MDR produced an episode of the documentary series Mysterious Places on the history of the Probstzella border station, which was broadcast for the first time on July 10, 2017 on ARD .

Border inspection post

Border inspection post building (October 2008)

A separate building was erected at Probstzella station in 1976 for border control . It is a four- story masonry building . On the ground floor, the building had check-in and control rooms as well as a 20-meter-long control corridor that all those entering and leaving had to pass. It also contained the offices of the GDR border troops , passport control units and customs .

After the German reunification in federal property, the building was left to decay. In May 2007 it was auctioned by the community of Probstzella for 3500 euros with the aim of demolishing it. The Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology informed the community in August 2008 that the building would not be placed under monument protection because of its shabby condition .

Contemporary historians spoke out against the demolition project. There were plans to keep part of the former border station as a museum . In December 2008, the troop and authority building was torn down. On November 6, 2010, a border station museum opened in the historic station building, which presents the history of border controls at inner-German border stations in detail.

Platforms

Track plan of the Probstzella station
track Length in m Height in cm
1 342 34
2 310 34
3 310 34

traffic

line route Cycle (min)
RE Franken-Thuringia Express :
Leipzig - Naumburg - Jena - Saalfeld (Saale) - Probstzella - Kronach - Lichtenfels - Bamberg - Erlangen - Nuremberg 		120
RE Saalfeld - Probstzella - Ludwigsstadt - Pressig-Rothenkirchen - Kronach - Lichtenfels - Bamberg - Erlangen - Nuremberg 120

literature

  • Roman Grafe : The border through Germany. A chronicle from 1945 to 1990 . Siedler-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88680-744-4 .
  • Ralf Roman Rossberg : Border over German rails 1945–1990 . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-88255-829-6 .
  • Ulrich Rockelmann, Thomas Naumann: The Frankenwaldbahn. The story of the steep ramp over the Franconian Forest . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-88255-581-5 .
  • Wolfgang Künzel: The rail travel across the inner-German border between Probstzella and Ludwigsstadt . Ed. Transnet local authority Saalfeld, 2007.
  • Thomas Frister: Probstzella, contemporary history: pictures of a GDR border crossing point . EK-Verlag GmbH, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8446-6209-2 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 100 years of the Frankenwaldbahn in: Eisenbahn Magazin 1/1986, p. 21 ff.
  2. ↑ Bahnbetriebswerk Probstzella on frankenwaldbahn.de
  3. ^ OTZ: future of the Probstzella depot uncertain
  4. ^ Wolfgang Beyer: Railway in the Sonneberger Land . Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag Neustadt / Coburg, 2004, ISBN 3-9807748-5-6 . P. 113
  5. ^ Ulrich Rockelmann / Thomas Naumann: The Frankenwaldbahn. The story of the steep ramp over the Franconian Forest. EK-Verlag Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-88255-581-5 , p. 140.
  6. ↑ a b Mysterious places: The Probstzella border station, ARD, July 10, 2017 ( online )
  7. ^ Moritz Miebach: "Last Station GDR" , in: One day , undated .
  8. ↑ Harald Lachmann: A concrete building as a tourist destination. (No longer available online.) In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. September 1, 2008 ;formerly in the original .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives );@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de
  9. ↑ Ute Häffner: "Grenzgeschichten in Probstzella" , in: TLZ.de , November 4, 2010.
  10. ↑ a b Platform information on Probstzella station ( memento from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on deutschebahn.com