Schwäbisch Gmünd railway station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | TSG |
| IBNR | 8000329 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | July 25, 1861 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Schwaebisch_Gmuend |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neoclassicism |
| architect | George of Morlok |
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| City / municipality | Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 48 '4 " N , 9 ° 47' 18" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Schwäbisch Gmünd station was opened in 1861, is located northwest of the city center of Schwäbisch Gmünd on the Remsbahn and is an intercity stop. Around 140,000 people live in its catchment area.
The station is used by 4,800 travelers and visitors every day.
history
Planning and construction
For the routing of the Remsbahn in the urban area and the location of the station , three alternatives were discussed in 1858:
- south of the city
- north of the city but south of the Rems
- north of the Rems
The first variants would have required interventions in built-up areas or in green spaces, and the future expansion of the city would have been impaired. So the decision was made for the route north of the Rems, where the train station was the furthest away from the city center. It was necessary to relocate the river bed of the Rems, which should also protect the city from flooding.
As was common in Württemberg in the 1850s and 1860s, the design of the station building was the responsibility of the chief engineer for the route construction, in the case of the Remsbahn Georg von Morlok . The building follows the neoclassical station architecture of earlier Württemberg models. Typical of Morlok's buildings of this era are the small bell top that accentuates the center and the pilasters between the round arches on the ground floor.
Installation
The official acceptance run of the Remsbahn section Schorndorf – Gmünd took place on June 29, 1861 in a festive setting with great participation by the population. An official opening trip with guests of honor followed on July 18, 1861, and on July 25 the scheduled service between Stuttgart and Wasseralfingen began. The track system initially had 25 points , a turntable and a water station with two water cranes . A ticket from Gmünd to Stuttgart cost 81 cruisers in class II and class III. Class 51 cruiser.
Reconstruction from 1907
In order to cope with the increased traffic and to connect the planned branch line to Göppingen , the Hohenstaufenbahn , the station was rebuilt from September 16, 1907 to 1910. An island platform and the underpass leading to it were built here; a level crossing east of the reception building was replaced by a street underpass. To the south of the main tracks, west of the reception building, where the goods shed stood until then, two butt tracks and a turntable for the Hohenstaufenbahn were built. To the north of the main tracks, two locomotive sheds were demolished in order to build the new goods handling facility there. The second track of the Remsbahn was extended from the former Deinbach block station to Gmünd and put into operation on April 27, 1910. After the renovation, the railway station track system had 116 points and two turntables; the station became one of the 24 first class stations in Württemberg. The Gmünd – Wäschenbeuren section of the Hohenstaufen Railway was opened on August 1, 1911.
In 1923 the east industrial track was built , which as a main track connected industrial operations in the city north of the Remsbahn to the freight station, including a branch of the Friedrichshafen cogwheel factory on the Ziegelberg from 1937 ; In 1936 the West industrial track followed , which ran south of the main line.
Second World War
As a result of the Second World War , from the end of 1944, bombing attacks and gunfire from Allied fighter-bombers repeatedly claimed fatalities and injuries in the station and on the surrounding railway lines and hindered rail traffic by destroying tracks and vehicles. On April 19, 1945, a bomb hit destroyed a railway bridge west of the train station and thus interrupted the connection on the Remsbahn to Stuttgart.
post war period
The freight yard to the north of the passenger tracks , where around 14,900 freight cars arrived in 1959, was shut down a few years ago; the tracks were dismantled in 2013.
Renovation 2013/2014
As part of the 2014 State Garden Show and the associated planning in Schwäbisch Gmünd, the train station and the surrounding area were redesigned. A pedestrian bridge crossing the tracks was initially planned, which, in addition to the south side and the island platform, should also connect the north side, which was not previously directly connected. This plan was rejected. Starting in 2013, the railway carried out an extensive renovation of the station area, whereby instead of the pedestrian bridge, the existing underpass was expanded and extended to the north and equipped with elevators. The renovation measures, including the elevation of the platforms, cost 6.4 million euros. During the horticultural show, the area of the former freight station will serve partly as a parking lot, partly as commercial space and will then be completely redesigned into a commercial estate. The east-west thoroughfare through Schwäbisch Gmünd, which ran around 100 meters south of the train station as Bundesstraße 29 until 2013 , was relieved of through traffic by the Gmünder Einhorn-Tunnel , and passes directly in front of the train station to enable a coherent garden exhibition area. The extensive renovation work was completed on April 17, 2014.
Latest story
In June 2019, Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland took over the operation of local passenger transport from Deutsche Bahn. This continues to serve the station in long-distance traffic. On July 29, 2019, an Intercity 2 set was christened Remstal in the station in the presence of the Minister of Transport Winfried Hermann , the Lord Mayor Richard Arnold and the Christian deans Robert Kloker and Ursula Richter .
Furnishing
Since the general renovation in 2014, the station has three barrier-free accessible platforms , which are connected by an underpass, which has been known as the Pleuer Passage since 2014 . Elevators are also available. On the side of the house platform was the 500th conveyor belt installed in a train station, which is made clear by a bronze notice board. It was dismantled on May 16, 2013 in the course of renovation work on the pedestrian underpass.
At the house platform is through track 1; The through track 2 and the through track 4 are on the island platform, while the stump track 3 coming from Stuttgart has no platform and is located at the western end of the island platform.
The station building from 1861 is still used as such. The public facilities existing there today include a kiosk, a snack bar and a restaurant. In addition, a Deutsche Bahn travel center was located there until 2019, which has since been operated in the same way by the new local transport operator Go-ahead.
traffic
The InterCity trains on the Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Nuremberg line operated by DB Fernverkehr stop at the station . The Go-Ahead serves regional traffic with an Interregio-Express every two hours (offset by 60 minutes to the IC) between Aalen and Karlsruhe main station . Regional trains run every half hour from Stuttgart to Aalen, which run every hour via Aalen to Ellwangen and every two hours to Crailsheim.
Long-distance transport
| line | route | Main clock frequency |
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| IC 61 | Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Stuttgart - Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen - Nuremberg - ( Bamberg - Lichtenfels - Saalfeld - Jena - Leipzig ) | Every two hours (odd hour) |
Regional traffic
| line | route | Main clock frequency | operator |
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| IRE 1 | Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen | Every two hours (even hour) | Go ahead |
| RB 13 | Stuttgart - Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen (- Ellwangen - Crailsheim ) | Every half hour, to Ellwangen every hour, to Crailsheim every two hours | Go ahead |
| RB 13 | Schorndorf - Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen | two connections on Fri / Sat, Sat / Sun and before public holidays; in Schorndorf change from / to Stuttgart ( S 2 ) |
Go ahead |
Connection
To the west of the reception building is the city's central bus station (ZOB); on the forecourt, which is accessible at ground level, there are taxi parking spaces and a bicycle parking facility; To the east is a park-and-ride parking garage.
photos
Railway station with town around 1900
Railway station with city 2006
Station with city 2020
Eckhart Dietz : Incoming , cast stainless steel 1996
literature
- einhorn, illustrated magazine for cultivating the idea of home in the city and district of Schwäbisch Gmünd . No. 47 . Schwäbisch Gmünd June 1961 (8th year, special issue on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Remsbahn).
Web links
- Location and course of the railway systems as well as signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
- Station information from DB Netz (PDF; 156 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article on the renovation of the train station on gmuender-tagespost.de from April 21, 2012.
- ^ DB Station & Service AG (ed.): Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart 2015, p. 17 ( online ).
- ↑ a b c d Felix Klaus: 100 years Schwäbisch Gmünd railway station . (in: einhorn , p. 143 ff.).
- ^ Helmut Mende: Railway and urban planning . (in: einhorn , p. 154 ff.).
- ↑ Roland Feitenhansl: Heilbronn station - its reception building from 1848, 1874 and 1958 . DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2003, ISBN 3-937189-01-7 , p. 173 .
- ^ Kurt Seidel: The Remsbahn. Railways in East Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8062-0483-7 , pp. 44 ff .
- ^ ET: A big event in the press . (in: einhorn , p. 150 ff.).
- ↑ Seidel: Die Remsbahn , p. 71 ff.
- ↑ a b Seidel: Die Remsbahn , p. 112 ff.
- ↑ State Garden Show: Urban Development ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2009 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. . City of Schwäbisch Gmünd.
- ↑ Schwäbisch Gmünd Blog: The New Boulevard ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . City of Schwäbisch Gmünd.
- ↑ Train at the destination on time at gmuender-tagespost.de (accessed on March 24, 2016).
- ↑ Manfred Laduch: Intercity christened "Remstal" , article from July 29, 2019 on remszeitung.de.
- ↑ Railway station and Pleuer-Passage opened , press release of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd from April 17, 2014.
- ↑ All tickets still in the travel center , article from March 22, 2019 on gmuender-tagespost.de.
