Sömmerda train station
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Tower station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | USD |
| IBNR | 8010328 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | August 14, 1874 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Soemmerda |
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| City / municipality | Sömmerda |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 9 '56 " N , 11 ° 7' 41" E |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Sömmerda train station is the train station of the Thuringian district town of Sömmerda . It is the junction of public transport in the entire Sömmerda district and the only tower train station in Thuringia. It was opened in 1874. With the commissioning of the even more important Erfurt – Sangerhausen railway in 1881, two lines cross here.
Location and structure
The Sömmerda train station is located at kilometer 12.6 of the Straussfurt – Großheringen railway line (Pfefferminzbahn). On the crossing Sangerhausen – Erfurt railway line, it is 44.9 km. With regard to the location in the network, one speaks of an intersection station . The design is a tower train station . On the southwest side of the station, the Pfefferminzbahn is connected to the Erfurt-Sangerhäuser route via a connecting curve.
The train station is a good one kilometer northeast of the Sömmerda city center. There are residential and industrial areas in the immediate vicinity . The adjacent streets are Bahnhofstrasse , Schillerstrasse and Lessingstrasse .
Are at the Pfefferminzbahn the neighboring stations no longer in the passenger operated Weissensee train station , about five kilometers to the west. To the east this is the Kiebitzhöhe stop , just under six kilometers away. On the other route, the Großrudestedt stop is about eight kilometers to the south, and the Leubingen stop to the north is about five kilometers away.
history
The first railway line reached Sömmerda on August 14, 1874. It was the peppermint railway that connected Straussfurt in the west via Sömmerda with large herring in the east. At that time, the Sömmerda train station was not yet of any particular importance for traffic. It was Kölleda to be seen as the operational center of the route. The size of the track system was rather modest. There was the continuous main track as well as a bypass track and two loading tracks . One of these loading tracks had a ramp . In addition to a small reception building, there was also a house platform and an intermediate platform as well as a small goods shed .
When the second and more important Sangerhausen – Erfurt railway was opened by Sömmerda on October 24, 1881 , the station had to be expanded into a tower station in order to be able to link the two lines. The Erfurt-Sangerhäuser route was built on a dam , as it ran through a wetland . This was cheaper than draining. The non-level construction of the lines was also of great benefit to the military , as it could not be stopped by rail blockades when troops were deployed. In order to be able to connect the two routes with each other, a connecting curve was created in this context. Additional freight transport facilities such as a goods shed, an open loading siding and a ramp were built on it.
The station building built on the peppermint railway was retained. Only a small woodshed was built on the main line (Sangerhausen – Erfurt). Due to the advancing industrialization , both the number of passengers and the volume of goods traffic increased rapidly. This made it necessary to convert the tracks in the upper part, which took place in 1898. The main line's wooden shed was replaced by a semi-solid building with a larger waiting room . In addition, the house platform and the intermediate platform were extended.
In 1936, further major changes took place at the station. In the course of war preparations , the Dreyse works were expanded. This was accompanied by a renewed expansion of the station. Many working people commuted to Sömmerda, but also to Erfurt and Kölleda . The trains should be dispatched more quickly due to the expansion. Track 3 was relocated in the upper part of the station . A central platform with a wooden roof was also created. This was followed by the expansion of the reception building on the main line to the building of the entire station. A wooden roof was also added to the platform of the peppermint railway. However, his building only served as a waiting room. The freight tracks were extended and two sidings built. Up until the end of the Second World War, there were no further changes to the train station and track systems.
After the end of the war, reparations were paid to the Soviet Union . In Sömmerda, this particularly affected the upper section of the station. Track 3 has been removed. Also points to the station exit towards Erfurt were affected. Flanking - safety switches had to be dismantled. This state of affairs would continue into the 1970s .
In 1961 the track and points were renewed in the lower part of the station. The platforms there were also modernized. There was a further upswing in rail traffic through the expansion of an office machine factory, almost half of the workforce arriving by rail. But many workers who were on their way to Erfurt or Kölleda used the station. Track 3, which was dismantled after 1945, was rebuilt in 1972 and used primarily as a freight and bypass track. Crossing safety switches were also installed again.
In 1974, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the peppermint line, a vehicle show took place in the station.
At the beginning of the 1980s , the station's water tower was demolished. The water cranes still remaining at that time were also removed. The reception building was not modernized until 1986. It was also re-plastered. The reception hall, waiting rooms and the train station restaurant were redesigned. In addition to benches and wastepaper baskets, the platforms were given modern-looking station signs and information boards. The station forecourt was also redesigned.
In 1993/94 there were more and more cracks in the reception hall. At the beginning of 1995 it had to be closed by the building authorities . The reason for this was ground shifts due to a floor slab that was too heavy and the removal of a retaining wall in 1986. The hall was demolished in the spring of 1996. It was then planned to create a modern glass-steel construction. This should house a ticket office and some smaller shops. The planned costs of around 300,000 marks seemed too high, so that no construction work began for a year.
Further demolition work took place in September and October 1996. The double crossing points on the ramp track of the freight station and the track connection from the freight station towards Großheringen were removed. These measures should presumably reduce the high costs of maintaining the points.
New plans for the reception building came up in 1997. The plans for the steel and glass construction had evidently been rejected. Instead, work began on the street side of the building in order to conceal unsightly spots after the demolition. There were further demolition plans for the station restaurant and for a central building built in 1898, because there were no users. It was planned that ticket issuance and station management would move into the remaining brick building.
Since June 30, 1997, the upper part of the station has been unoccupied due to rationalization measures except for ticket issuance. Since then, the dispatcher has been housed in the former station building of the peppermint railway. In this context, the switches to the siding from the direction of Sangerhausen were also removed. Light signals now replace shape signals . At the beginning of 1998 the ticket office moved. Since the aim was to increase the safety of travelers, the construction of a platform underpass to the central platform was started in the spring of 1998 while operations continued . The necessary construction clearance was created on the station forecourt after some outbuildings had been demolished. On November 19, 1998, the new underpass was opened to the public. Also elevators were built to accessibility to create. The post of the so-called “passenger securing”, who secured the transition from platform 1 to platform 2 in the upper part with a hand barrier, could thus be deleted.
In January 1999, additional outbuildings were demolished and the site leveled. During this construction work, track 1 was closed to traffic. In addition, the station square was redesigned and a covered bicycle parking facility was built. The investment volume was 5.5 million DM.
The line was electrified by the end of the 1990s . On December 9, 2007, passenger traffic on the Straußfurt – Sömmerda section was discontinued, the Buttstädt – Großheringen section followed on December 9, 2017. Since then, regional trains have only operated on the Pfefferminzbahn between Sömmerda and Buttstädt.
Traffic figures
| year | tickets sold | General cargo receipt |
General cargo shipping |
Carloads reception |
Truckloads of shipping |
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| 1895 | 77,000 | 1,200 t | 1,700 t | 16,000 t | 12,300 t |
| 1900 | 88,800 | 1,700 t | 1,200 t | 31,100 t | 19,900 t |
| 1913 | 134,000 | 3,600 t | 2,300 t | 49,800 t | 54,800 t |
| 1924 | 184,700 | 2,500 t | 1,800 t | 40,000 t | 25,600 t |
In 1938 there were 255,000 travelers and a turnover of 133,000 tons.
Investments
Platforms
For barrier-free access, platform 1 can be reached via a ramp and platform 2/3 (island platform) via an elevator. Platforms 4 and 5 are barrier-free, but they are significantly lower than the floor of the railcars used. Platform 5 can be reached via a crossing.
| track | Length in m | Height in cm |
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| 1 | 146 | 55 |
| 2 | 146 | 55 |
| 3 | 146 | 55 |
| 4th | 85 | 28 |
| 5 | 80 | 26th |
Signal boxes
In the course of time the following signal boxes were built in Sömmerda:
| designation | function | Type | Installation | Decommissioning | Remarks |
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| So | El | June 28, 1997 | in operation | ||
| Sr | Fdl | mech | June 28, 1997 | whether Bf | |
| Ss | Ww | mech | June 28, 1997 | whether Bf | |
| Su | Fdl | mech, type Jüdel | August 27, 2008 | unt Bf; until August 26, 1997 Ww | |
| Suf | Fdl | E 12/78 | August 27, 2008 | in operation | |
| Sw | Ww | mech, type Jüdel | August 27, 2008 | and Bf |
Transport links
In the timetable year 2019/20 the following lines operate in Sömmerda:
- RE 10 Erfurt – Sömmerda – Sangerhausen – Güsten – Magdeburg (alternating every two hours with RB 59) ( Abellio Rail Central Germany )
- EB 27 Sömmerda – Buttstädt (every two hours, with compression to hourly mornings and afternoons) ( Erfurter Bahn )
- RB 59 Erfurt – Sömmerda – Sangerhausen (every two hours, with compression to half-hourly intervals in the morning and afternoon, alternating with RE 10) ( Abellio Rail Central Germany )
Crossing area in the tower station
Tracks 1-3 (above)
Tracks 4-5 (below)
literature
- Günter Fromm, Michael U. Kratzsch-Leichsenring: The Sömmerda railway junction and its routes . Verlag Rockstuhl , Bad Langensalza 1999, ISBN 3-932554-59-0 , p. 167-181 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
- ^ Michael Dittrich: IBNR directory. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
- ↑ DB Station & Service AG: Station price list 2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) P. 81 , archived from the original on August 6, 2017 ; accessed on August 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Query of the course book route 594 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 595 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Günter Fromm, Michael U. Kratzsch-Leichsenring: The Sömmerda railway junction and its routes . Verlag Rockstuhl , Bad Langensalza 1999, ISBN 3-932554-59-0 , p. 28 .
- ↑ a b Sömmerda station equipment. DB Station & Service, accessed on September 18, 2019 .
- ↑ signal box list. Entries S. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .