Saalfeld (Saale) train station
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 View of the train station
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | US |
| IBNR | 8010309 |
| opening | 1871 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Saalfeld__Saale_ |
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| City / municipality | Saalfeld / Saale |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 39 '3 " N , 11 ° 22' 29" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 211 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Saalfeld (Saale) train station ( referred to as Saalfeld (Saale) or Saalfeld (S) by Deutsche Bahn ) is the train station in the city of Saalfeld in southeast Thuringia . It was an ICE stop on the Berlin - Munich line until December 2017 and belongs to station category 3.
history
The railway reached Saalfeld on December 20, 1871 on the Gera – Saalfeld line from the northeast. The train station was also laid out at that time. It was planned from the outset as a railway junction and was given the then undeveloped areas east of the Saale , opposite the old town, as generous operational areas. The Saalbahn from Naumburg via Jena to Saalfeld was put into operation as early as 1874 . This gave the city another rail connection to the northeast. The Frankenwaldbahn over the Rennsteig to Lichtenfels was inaugurated in 1885. After the Saxon-Bavarian Railway, a second, faster route from Berlin to Munich was completed and the importance of the Saalfeld train station grew significantly. It was the last major train station before the 400-meter climb to the Franconian Forest .
Further routes to Saalfeld were opened from Erfurt in 1895 , from Katzhütte / Königsee in 1900 , from Hof in 1907 and from Sonneberg in 1913 . The express train service has been running through Saalfeld since 1886. In 1900 the first renovation and expansion measures took place. From 1934, the station was extensively rebuilt, the freight yard expanded and new signal boxes were built. On May 15, 1939, after the station had been electrified, electric train operations in the direction of Nuremberg began. The section to Göschwitz was electrically accessible from February 15, 1940.
During the Second World War, the strategically important train station was destroyed, especially during heavy American air raids on April 9, 1945. After the division of Germany, its importance declined as traffic between central Germany and Bavaria declined. However, interzonal trains ran via Saalfeld , as the Frankenwaldbahn was one of two rail connections between the GDR and Bavaria, along with the eastern route via Hof. The second track between the Saaleck junction near Naumburg and Probstzella and the systems for electric train transport were dismantled in 1946 as reparations to the Soviet Union .
After the German reunification, the importance of the station increased again. In 1994/1995 the Saalbahn / Frankenwaldbahn was electrified again and double-tracked. Until the opening of the new Ebensfeld – Erfurt line, it was the most important line between Berlin and Munich, while the importance of the second line via Hof has declined. As a result, the station was expanded into a modern long-distance traffic stop and received, among other things, three new and barrier-free platforms with a platform height of 76 cm. The reception building was renovated and a new building was added. The marshalling yard located directly next to the passenger station on its east side has been closed.
On September 5, 2013, to 11:10, came as a result of cross ride on the Southern Entrance of a railcar of Erfurt railway with an Intercity together, that of Munich to Berlin was traveling. Around 200 people had to be evacuated from the trains, but there were no injuries.
On December 3, 2013 there was a major police operation in the train station. After a perpetrator tried to rob the station kiosk, he hid in an empty ICE while on the run. The train traffic was interrupted for several hours.
In January 2016, Deutsche Bahn offered the former Saalfeld (Saale) depot with its locomotive shed for sale. The almost 15,000 square meter property includes a roundhouse with a turntable and 24 stands. It also includes an administration building, a social building, a warehouse, a former oxygen storage facility and garages. Around 400 railway workers were once employed here. In 1905 the engine shed was expanded from 16 to 24 stalls. The diameter of the turntable was first 16 meters, then 20 and then 23 meters. Steam locomotives were stationed in Saalfeld until 1986. In 1978, 44 steam locomotives were still in regular service here. The interest group Bahnbetriebswerk Saalfeld has been using the Bahnbetriebswerk since 2018.
The station has been controlled by an electronic signal box from Siemens in Leipzig since 1997 . Up to 200 people are still employed at the Saalfeld train station today. Of these, 120 go to the freight transport subsidiary DB Schenker Rail. There are another 30 at DB Netz and DB Station & Service . In addition, there is train cleaning, which will be affected by the discontinuation of long-distance transport from December 2017.
With the commissioning of the high-speed line Nuremberg – Erfurt in December 2017, the station lost its status as a system stop for DB long-distance traffic. An alternative compression of regional traffic did not take place. The last ICE was adopted by around 200 people on December 9, 2017. The mayor of Saalfeld gave a farewell speech.
Due to the Stadler KISS car set taken over from the Westbahn on the new IC line between Dresden and Rostock, there is a nightly transfer from the plant in Vienna to the said route. Because of this journey, Saalfeld train station has benefited from another intercity stop since March 2020.
Station building
Bus station in front of the reception building
Class 642 diesel multiple units in the station
Platforms (2017)
Platforms (2017)
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Platforms
The platforms are barrier-free with lifts to each platform, which can be reached via the barrier-free pedestrian tunnel.
| track | Length in m | Height in cm |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 302 | 76 |
| 2 | 302 | 76 |
| 3 | 377 | 76 |
| 4th | 377 | 76 |
| 5 | 222 | 76 |
| 6th | 222 | 76 |
Transport links
Long-distance transport
In 2020, two IC lines of Deutsche Bahn, lines 17 and 61, will currently stop at Saalfeld station .
| line | route | Clock frequency | EVU |
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| IC 17 | ( Warnemünde -) Rostock - Berlin - Leipzig - Halle - Jena - Saalfeld - Lichtenfels - Bamberg - Fürth - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau - Schärding - Vienna | a pair of trains | DB long-distance transport |
| IC 61 | Leipzig - Naumburg - Saalfeld (Saale) - Lichtenfels - Bamberg - Nuremberg - Stuttgart - Pforzheim - Karlsruhe | a pair of trains | DB long-distance transport |
Since the opening of the new Ebensfeld – Erfurt line at the timetable change on December 10, 2017, the Intercity Express traffic has been discontinued. From 2023, by 2030 at the latest, an intercity connection between Leipzig-Jena-Saalfeld-Karlsruhe is to be established.
Local transport
In the 2019 timetable, the Saalfeld (Saale) train station will be served by the following lines:
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| EBx 12 | Saalfeld (Saale) - Pößneck - Weida - Gera - Zeitz - Leipzig | 120 * | Erfurt Railway |
| RE 15 | Saalfeld (Saale) - Rudolstadt - Kahla - Jena Saalbf | 120 | Abellio |
| RE 42 | Leipzig - Naumburg - Jena-Göschwitz - Saalfeld (Saale) - Kronach - Bamberg - Nuremberg | 120 (Leipzig – Saalfeld) 60 (Saalfeld – Nuremberg) |
DB Regio Bavaria |
| EBx 47 | Saalfeld (Saale) - Rottenbach - Stadtilm - Arnstadt - Erfurt | individual trains | Erfurt Railway |
| EB 22 | Saalfeld (Saale) - Pößneck - Weida - Gera - Zeitz - Leipzig | 120 * | Erfurt Railway |
| EB 23 | Saalfeld (Saale) - Rottenbach - Stadtilm - Arnstadt - Erfurt | 60 | Erfurt Railway |
| RB 25 | Saalfeld (Saale) - Orlamünde - Jena Paradies - Naumburg - Weißenfels - Merseburg - Halle | 60 | Abellio |
| EB 32 | Saalfeld (Saale) - Wurzbach - Bad Lobenstein - Blankenstein | 120 | Erfurt Railway |
Remarks:
* The overlapping of lines results in an hourly train offer on some routes
Web links
- Infrastructure and some allowable speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saalfeld as a business location. (PDF) Part 1: From the intersection of two trade routes to the business location. P. 4 , accessed on June 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Peter Scholz, Klaus Moritz: Train collision in Saalfeld: over 200 train passengers evacuated. Ostthüringer Zeitung , September 6, 2013, accessed on September 8, 2013 .
- ^ Klaus Moritz: Man in Saalfeld holed up after attempted robbery in an empty train. Ostthüringer Zeitung (online), December 3, 2013, accessed on December 3, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Thomas Spanier: Railway depot with locomotive shed on offer: Sale at the Saalfeld freight station. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . January 29, 2016, accessed June 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Robin Kraska: Open house in the Saalfeld engine shed. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. December 9, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Signal box list. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Spanier: The Saalfeld railway junction faces an uncertain future: from the end of 2017 without the ICE. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . September 4, 2014, accessed June 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Martin Hauswald: End of an era: last ICE leaves Saalfeld. In: otz.de. December 9, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Germany March 9, 2020: New DB Intercity double-decker trains (ex WESTbahn) on rails. In: info24news.net. Info 24 - Public Transport Switzerland - Europe, March 9, 2020, accessed on July 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Platform information on Saalfeld (Saale) train station ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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
- ↑ Report of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from November 9, 2015 ( memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
