Röthenbach railway station (Allgäu)
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 The train station seen from the north
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | MRTA |
| IBNR | 8005138 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1853 |
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| City / municipality | Röthenbach (Allgäu) |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 37 '14 " N , 9 ° 57' 12" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 705 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The Röthenbach (Allgäu) train station is the train station of the Bavarian-Swabian community of Röthenbach (Allgäu) and is located in the Oberhäuser district . It lies on the Munich – Lindau railway line and is at the northern end of the Rentershofener railway embankment , which is considered to be the largest man-made embankment in the world.
history
The station was opened in the course of the completion of the Oberstaufen - Aeschach section of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn on October 12, 1853. On July 12, 1893, the Vizinalbahn from Röthenbach to Weiler im Allgäu was opened. The line to Scheidegg via Lindenberg was opened on October 1, 1901.
The use of the track was now regulated as follows:
| track | direction |
|---|---|
| 1 | Weiler / Scheidegg |
| 2 | Kempten |
| 3 | Lindau |
Since the hat industry was located in Westallgäu - especially in Lindenberg and Weiler - the station developed into an important passenger , freight and marshalling yard as the hat became increasingly fashionable .
Towards the end of the Second World War , there were repeated shelling of low- flying aircraft around the station, and in some cases bombing took place.
In 1954 - after the miracle of Bern - the special train of the German national team drove through the Röthenbach station at slow speed and was cheered by hundreds of people on the platform.
Thanks to savings made by the Deutsche Bundesbahn , passenger traffic to Weiler (1960) and Scheidegg (1966) was discontinued. In 1991 the line to Weiler was completely closed, and in 1993 to Lindenberg.
In 2007, barrier-free access to the tracks was created using an underpass . Track 1 was dismantled, so that only tracks 2 and 3 are left today. Due to the creation of a P + R facility - with a bus transfer facility and parking spaces - and public toilets , the adjacent goods hall was demolished in 2010.
In 2011, the municipality of Röthenbach bought the station building from Deutsche Bahn and closed the heated waiting area in the building in 2014. As a result, the building was no longer open to the public with immediate effect.
In 2016, a so-called video travel center was built, where passengers can communicate with a travel advisor using a screen, microphone and loudspeaker .
Infrastructure
The station is located on route kilometer 114.39 of the Allgäu Railway and has outer platforms on the following two tracks:
| track | Usable length | Platform height | direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 171 m | 55 cm | Kempten |
| 3 | 171 m | 55 cm | Lindau |
The station building consists of two two-story, gable-facing buildings with a gable roof , which are connected by a single -story gable roof. The head buildings are each provided with a bay window with a triangular gable on the outward facing eaves. The walls of the reception building are plastered on the ground floor and clad with wood from the first floor. On the track side, the protruding gable roof of the intermediate structure forms a platform canopy. In the single-storey intermediate building there is a waiting room that has not been accessible since 2014. On the track side, a signal box with a hipped roof is attached to the northern end of the building . There are two ticket machines at the station building . A bus transfer facility, as well as parking spaces and a public toilet are located north of the station.
The switches and signals of the station have been set since 1974 by a track plan pushbutton interlocking of the type Sp Dr L60 from Lorenz , which bears the designation Rf . The signal box Rf is housed in the signal box front building at the reception building.
As a result of the electrification of the Munich – Lindau railway via Memmingen , a siding is to be built at the Röthenbach (Allgäu) station .
traffic
Train traffic
The following regional transport lines serve the Röthenbach (Allgäu) train station:
| line | course | Clock frequency |
|---|---|---|
| ALX | Lindau - Hergatz - Röthenbach (Allgäu) - Immenstadt - Kempten - Kaufbeuren - Buchloe - Munich | Every two hours |
| RE |
Allgäu-Franken-Express : Lindau - Hergatz - Röthenbach (Allgäu) - Immenstadt - Kempten - Kaufbeuren - Buchloe - Augsburg - Nuremberg |
Every two hours |
| RE | Lindau - Hergatz - Röthenbach (Allgäu) - Immenstadt - Kempten - Kaufbeuren - Buchloe - Augsburg | |
| RE | (Lindau / Wangen -) Hergatz - Röthenbach (Allgäu) - Immenstadt - Kempten - Memmingen - Ulm | individual trains |
Bus transport
The Röthenbach (Allgäu) train station forms a hub with the local public bus service and is served by the following bus lines:
| line | course | Tact |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Röthenbach (Allgäu) , train station - Lindenberg, bus station - Scheidegg, panorama | hourly |
| 12 | Röthenbach (Allgäu), train station - Weiler, train station - Lindenberg, bus station | hourly |
| 73 | Röthenbach (Allgäu), Bf - Isny , Kurhaus | hourly |
literature
- Markus Hehl: Railway in the Allgäu. 150 years of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn . EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993 ( Eisenbahn-Kurier Spezial 46, ISSN 1434-3045 )
- Hartmut Klust: Röthenbach - Weiler , Gera-Nova-Verlag
Web links
- 150 years of the railway in the Lindau district , Karl Schweizer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board on the embankment
- ^ Röthenbach (Allgäu) - hamlet. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Alteneder, W., Schüssler, C .: The branch lines of the BD Munich, Bonn 1987, p. 141
- ↑ bayern collector: The post office in West Allgäu. 2012, accessed May 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Anna Feßler: Many Röthenbachers can tell a story about the train station. Der Westallgäuer, November 22, 2011, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ^ Gerd Zimmer: collapse and occupation in the Westallgäu in 1945 . In: Yearbook of the Lindau district 1995 .
- ↑ Winfried Striebel: The miracle of Bern: The triumphal procession. Augsburger Allgemeine, December 7, 2010, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ^ Ingrid Grohe: The railway - also a prestige project. Der Westallgäuer, 23 August 2013, accessed on 29 March 2017 .
- ^ Röthenbach (Allgäu) - hamlet. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Olaf Winkler: The goods hall is about to be demolished. Der Westallgäuer, November 5, 2009, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Olaf Winkler: Park and ride facility is almost finished. Allgäuer Zeitung, October 9, 2010, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ^ Röthenbach municipality buys the station. Allgäuer Zeitung, December 16, 2011, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Olaf Winkler: Bahn leaves travelers in the Westallgäu in the cold. Der Westallgäuer, December 7, 2013, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Bettina Buhl: Video Travel Center: Bahn is again relying on personal advice in Röthenbach. Der Westallgäuer, October 6, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn: Platform information for the Röthenbach (Allgäu) station ( memento of the original from March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on deutschebahn.com, accessed on March 29, 2017.
- ↑ List of German signal boxes on stellwerke.de, from October 26, 2015, accessed on April 4, 2017.
- ^ Ingrid Grohe: Siding: Electrification has indirect effects on the train station in Röthenbach. Der Westallgäuer, January 29, 2015, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Timetables for the Lindau district
