Rheydt-Geneicken station

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Rheydt-Geneicken
Reydt-Geneicken reception building, 2010
Reydt-Geneicken reception building, 2010
Data
Location in the network Terminus
abbreviation KRYG
opening February 1, 1870
Conveyance January 31, 1985 (PV)
location
City / municipality Mönchengladbach
Place / district Rheydt
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 10 '14 "  N , 6 ° 27' 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '14 "  N , 6 ° 27' 24"  E
Railway lines

Mönchengladbach – Stolberg (km 3.05)

Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The station Rheydt-Geneicken is a railway station in Mönchengladbach districts Rheydt and Bonnenbroich-Geneicken . The station on the Mönchengladbach – Stolberg railway was opened in 1870 and closed in 1985 to passenger traffic. Since then it has been used exclusively for freight traffic. The former station building and the former dispatcher - interlocking stand as monuments under preservation .

history

The station went into operation on February 1, 1870 with the section from Gladbach (today: Mönchengladbach Hbf ) to Rheydt-Odenkirchen . The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft extended the route in 1873 via Jülich to Stolberg . In addition to the facilities for passenger traffic, the station also included loading facilities for freight traffic and a marshalling yard . Several companies had a siding in the station.

In 1908, the Rheydt – Cologne – Ehrenfeld line went into operation, creating a direct connection between Rheydt-Odenkirchen and the Rheydt main station and on to Gladbach. Before the Second World War, the Reichsbahndirektion Köln therefore tried to close the section from Gladbach to Rheydt-Odenkirchen, which was probably not done for strategic reasons.

During the Second World War , the station was affected. Five years after the end of the war, the Rheinische Post reported that the station was still a bleak sight, as not all of the tracks were available. According to the 1950 timetable, 43 trains stopped in Rheydt-Geneicken every day, around 80 trains in total passed the route. The closure of the line was also on the plan again at this time. Since the large companies connected in Geneicken were still dependent on the railway, the project was not carried out.

In the years that followed, traffic between Rheydt-Odenkirchen and Mönchengladbach Hbf increasingly shifted to the parallel connection along the Rheydt – Cologne – Ehrenfeld and Aachen – Mönchengladbach routes . Nevertheless, the line was electrified in 1968. On January 31, 1985, the German Federal Railroad stopped freight traffic between Rheydt-Geneicken and Rheydt-Odenkirchen and passenger traffic between Mönchengladbach Hbf and Rheydt-Odenkirchen. The installed contact wire was removed again and the line between Geneicken and Odenkirchen dismantled the following year. The route has been used as a cycle path since then.

The remaining part of the route is mainly used for transformer transports by GE Grid GmbH.

The tracks end in front of the former passenger station north of Mühlenstrasse / Schlossstrasse. The tracks in the station have been dismantled. From 1996 to about 2016 there was still a car on a track remnant in front of the restaurant.

Reception building

Former reception building, 2014

The station building dates from 1899. In the lower area were the service rooms and the waiting rooms of the 1st and 2nd as well as 3rd and 4th carriage classes. A train station restaurant was also attached . The upper floor served as living space for the station master. After the partial closure of the line, the station building was without function, only the northern head of the station remained in operation. The city of Mönchengladbach acquired the building from the Federal Railroad in 1988 with the intention of creating a meeting place for the southern district . At the same time, she put the building under monument protection.

Due to a lack of financial resources, the project was not carried out. In the early 1990s, a private investor was finally found who bought the building from the city and opened a restaurant on the premises in 1996. The restaurant was closed at the end of 2014 and in 2016 the building was sold to another investor who has been using it as an art academy since autumn 2017.

Signal boxes

Former signal box Gf, 2011

The station had two mechanical signal boxes . The switchman's signal box , Gn ( G eneicken N ord), was located at the north head at Bonnenbroicher Strasse . The dispatcher performed his duty in the signal box Gf ( G eneicken F ahrdienstleiter) on Düsseldorfer Strasse. Both streets were crossed at the same level. From 1954 trolleybuses used the level crossings. After the route electrification in 1968, these had to be ironed at the level of the level crossings . The vehicles covered the short stretch with an auxiliary drive .

After the partial shutdown, the existing points were converted to local operation, making the signal boxes superfluous. The signal box Gn was demolished, the signal box Gf, however, has been a listed building since May 3, 1988. The building houses a kiosk with a standing café.

Monument description

The train station is a two story, traufständig standing to the former track body brick apartment building hip roof with a solid roof for the coverage of the outside staircase to the upper floor. The ground floor has small square or upright rectangular windows for exposure. Floor- dividing cornice made of basalt lava blocks, which partially protrudes on the east side. On the upper floor, which originally housed the railway equipment (signal box technology) that is missing today and protrudes over three layers of brick on the west side, generous windows on the former track structure and the level crossing . An extension was added to the former tensioning room.

The property is worthy of protection as a monument for urban planning, local history and economic history reasons.

literature

  • Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Rhineland . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-396-9 .
  • Herbert Marx: Railway in Mönchengladbach . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1997, ISBN 3-927587-28-1 .
  • Hans Schweers, Henning Wall: Railways around Aachen. 150 years of the international route Cologne - Aachen - Antwerp . Schweers and Wall, Aachen 1993, ISBN 3-921679-91-5 .

Web links

Commons : Rheydt-Geneicken station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) City of Mönchengladbach, November 16, 2018, pp. 17, 47 , accessed on April 23, 2019 (entries D 014 and O 006).
  2. ^ A b André Joost: Route archive 2521 - Mönchengladbach - Rheydt-Odenkirchen. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c d train station. Heimatverein Geneicken-Bonnenbroich, 2007, accessed on December 20, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Achim Bartoschek: NW 1.06a Mönchengladbach-Rheydt. In: Railroad cycling. June 27, 2013, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Aerial photos of the geoportal of the city of Mönchengladbach - the car can be seen for the last time on the photos from the 2016 vintage
  6. ↑ A floating wagon . In: Rheinische Post . March 5, 2011 ( rp-online.de [accessed June 8, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Next stop: nod. In: RP Online. March 5, 2011, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Investor wants to convert Geneickener Bahnhof into an art academy. In: RP Online. October 27, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Move to the KUNST-BAHNHOF. In: KUNSTAKADEMIE Mönchengladbach. August 11, 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2018 .
  10. ^ André Joost: Operational Office Archive Rheydt-Geneicken. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  11. ^ Jürgen Lehmann: The trolleybus operation in Rheydt 1952-1973. Retrieved December 20, 2014 .