Rolandseck train station
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 Rolandseck station building
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| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | KROL |
| IBNR | 8005153 |
| Price range | 5 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Remagen |
| Place / district | Rolandseck |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 37 '53 " N , 7 ° 12' 25" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Rolandseck train station in the city of Remagen , district Rolandseck , was built from 1856 to 1858. Its reception building is considered an important cultural monument of Rhenish art history and early German railway construction. In terms of local rail passenger transport , Rolandseck is the northernmost stopping point in Rhineland-Palatinate on the left-hand side of the Rhine . The trains of the Mittelrheinbahn Cologne – Koblenz – Mainz stop here every hour . Since September 29, 2007 the reception building has been part of the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck . The Siebengebirge Rhine ferry to Bad Honnef is located directly below the train station at river kilometer 640 .
Since the station formed the end point of the railway line from Cologne from 1856 to 1858 and was also intended as a transfer station for navigation on the Rhine, it was equipped with a comparatively large building and extensive track systems. With the extension of the railway line to the south, the importance of the railway operations ceased and the railway facilities were gradually dismantled. Even simple overtaking tracks no longer existed in the 1980s; from an operational point of view, this made it a mere stopping point , and it was never important for long- distance passenger rail transport . The magnificent station building, on the other hand, was able to be preserved and established the station's significance as an “artist station” since the 1960s.
history
The Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn opened the line from Cologne to Bonn on February 13, 1844 , part of the later left-hand Rhine route. As early as 1846, the company in Berlin had asked to be allowed to extend the route to Rolandseck. The Ministry of Finance had refused the request for military reasons. Finally, in 1853, the “Allerhöchste Cabinets Ordre” issued preliminary approval to continue building the line to Rolandseck. The new end point should be as close as possible to the Rhine to enable easy transfer to steamers . The chief engineer for the construction of the Emil Hermann Hartwich line also made the floor plans for the Rolandseck station. At the end of the line, the building was designed so that society meetings could be held in it. Because at that time Rolandseck was the epitome of Rhenish romanticism with the legendary Rolandswerther Rolandsbogen . Construction began in 1856 and the station was completed in 1858.
The Rolandseck train station became the meeting point for the prominent society, who switched from the private railway terminus to the Rhine ship or the carriage. Queen Victoria of Great Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II. , Otto von Bismarck , Ludwig Uhland , Karl Simrock , the Brothers Grimm and Friedrich Nietzsche were there, as well as the musicians Johannes Brahms , Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt . Bernhard Shaw wrote about the train station and Guillaume Apollinaire wrote some of his early poems here. There were many festivals and concerts in the old train station.
Atelier for artists
After the Second World War , the station building was no longer in use. In 1958, the President of the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate decided to demolish the "oversized" rooms and build a small building for it. The demolition was postponed, however, and in 1964 Johannes Wasmuth appeared and had the plan to use the reception building as an apartment, gallery and studio for artists. In a short time the station became a center of cultural life. The names Hans Arp , Oskar Kokoschka , Bruno Goller , Günther Uecker , Gotthard Graubner , Stefan Askenase , Yehudi Menuhin , Hans Richter , Martha Argerich , Martin Walser and Marcel Marceau are representative of many others. In 1966, the artist group ZERO solemnly dissolved here .
After the death of Johannes Wasmuth, the cultural life in the station ended for the first time.
Arp Museum
After extensive renovation and renovation work from 2001, the former reception building was reopened on October 22, 2004.
Due to structural measures at the beginning of the 20th century, the station building could not be returned to its original condition. The renovation measures were aimed at restoring the structural condition from 1906 with a veranda and pale green facade painting. The whitewashed ceilings in the ballroom were exposed so that the stucco work can be seen again.
The basement is now the entrance level. The basement and ground floor serve as exhibition areas. The ballroom on the second floor with an outside terrace and a view of the Rhine and the Siebengebirge with the Drachenfels is now used as a museum café and bistro.
A special feature of the building is the design of its functional rooms by contemporary artists. Following a tradition established by Johannes Wasmuth, who had the sanitary rooms of the train station and bistro painted with colorful ironic quotes from art history by the British painter Stephen McKenna , additional functional rooms were equipped with the help of artists in the course of the renovation: the sanitary room by Maria Nordman , the bistro by Anton Henning , the library by the Swiss Thomas Huber , and the museum's heliport were created as part of the Ingold Airlines project by Res Ingold .
Veranda on the 1st floor
Outside view of the basement with works by Hans Arp (spring 2007)
Ballroom
Arp: Moving dance jewelry, sculpture in front of the museum
Arp Museum from the southwest
Sculpture bank
Since 2000, the Arp Museum has been developing the “ Sculpture Bank Remagen ” along the banks of the Rhine between Rolandswerth, past the Rolandseck train station, to Remagen, in collaboration with the city of Remagen.
investment
The train stop has two side platforms, each of which can be reached by stairs from Freiligrathstraße. The platform in the direction of Cologne can be reached without steps via Hans-Arp-Allee. The platform in the direction of Koblenz can be reached without steps from the Am Kasselbach street.
The station's only ticket machine is set up under the railway bridge over Freiligrathstrasse.
service
Today's Rolandseck train stop is served by the following line for local rail passenger transport:
| line | Train run | Tact | operator |
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| RB 26 |
MittelrheinBahn : Cologne-Dellbrück - ( Cologne / Bonn Airport ) - Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne Central Station - Cologne West - Cologne South - Hürth-Kalscheuren - Brühl - Sechtem - Roisdorf - Bonn Hbf - Bonn UN Campus - Bonn-Bad Godesberg - Bonn-Mehlem - Rolandseck - Oberwinter - Remagen - Sinzig (Rhein) - Bad Breisig - Brohl - Namedy - Andernach - Weißenthurm - Urmitz - Koblenz-Lützel - Koblenz city center - Koblenz Hbf - Rhens - Spay - Boppard Hbf - Boppard-Bad Salzig - Boppard-Hirzenach - Sankt Goar - Oberwesel - Bacharach - Niederheimbach - Trechtingshausen - Bingen (Rhein) Hbf - Bingen (Rhein) Stadt - Bingen-Gaulsheim - Gau Algesheim - Ingelheim - Heidesheim (Rheinhessen) - Uhlerborn - Budenheim - Mainz-Mombach - Mainz Hbf |
60 min | trans regio |
literature
- Judith Loosen: Rolandseck station . The reception building. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03206-3 .
- Hermann Josef Roth : DuMont art travel guide Bonn: from the Roman garrison to the federal capital - art and nature between the Voreifel and the Siebengebirge . DuMont, Cologne 1988, ISBN 978-3-7701-1970-7 , pp. 261/262.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 470 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Picture timetable Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Boppard (–Bingerbrück) , Deutsche Bundesbahn, Bundesbahndirektion Köln, timetable sheet 9, annual timetable 1985/86, valid from June 2, 1985