Schwäbisch Hall train station
| Schwäbisch Hall train station | |
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 Track systems and platform
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | TSHL |
| IBNR | 8005449 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1862 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Schwäbisch Hall |
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| City / municipality | Schwäbisch Hall |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 6 '29 " N , 9 ° 44' 2" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Schwäbisch Hall Train Station is a passenger station in the city of Schwäbisch Hall .
location
Schwäbisch Hall station is located a little southwest of Hall's old town at the beginning of an old, southwestern loop of the Kochers valley ("station bay") to the lower slope of the river, around 30 meters above the level of the river. The terrain was partly heaped up quite high for the construction of the railway systems, which can still be seen from the ascent from Zollhüttengasse, for example from the burial of the powder tower at the west end of Zollhüttengasse, which was formerly important for the city fortifications and therefore much more prominent at the time. The station building itself stands on a land platform with a steep slope towards the Steinbacher Straße, which is passed along it. However, the station is not barrier-free. The train station can be easily reached from the city center / employment office via an elevator, which is often defective due to vandalism .
Typology
The design of the Haller Bahnhof is a through station on the railway line that runs through it along the valley axis from approximately Tullau in the south to the Haller Tunnel in the north . Because of the traffic-unfavorable location on the left middle slope, a step had to be created for the track body for the connecting stretch directly in the southwest in the upper Muschelkalk , above which the bare rock stands vertically today.
history
Construction of the train station
Schwäbisch Hall train station is on the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line , which was built at the request of the population and a resolution of the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies from 1860 and was then known as the "Kocherbahn". The Heilbronn –Schwäbisch Hall section was opened in 1862, the continuation from there to Crailsheim in December 1867. The station originally had three platforms connected by crossings, a goods handling facility , a signal box that was demolished in 1968 and several sidings .
Loss of importance due to the Murrtalbahn
About 10 years after the Schwäbisch Hall train station was built, another connection from Stuttgart to Crailsheim was built with the Murrtalbahn , via which Nuremberg could be reached on a shorter route than via Aalen . The Murrtalbahn flowed into the Kocherbahn at the Hessental, which was not yet incorporated into Hall at the time, on the right edge of the Kochertal incision and completely avoided the Schwäbisch Hall train station on the left slope of the valley. As a result, this city station lost its importance despite its more central location compared to the one in the later district of Hessental.
Damage in World War II and the post-war period
On February 23, 1945, an air raid completely destroyed the three-story station building, killing eight people. After the Second World War , makeshift buildings were initially built. The new building was opened in 1955. On May 24, 1965, Queen Elizabeth II arrived here on a special train .
Today the station has only one platform, the sidings were removed after 1988. The signal box, which has existed since 1986, has been remote-controlled from Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental since 1997. In 2013, platform 1 was modernized. In addition, the station building, which had been closed for a long time, was temporarily open for over three months from summer 2013 for an exhibition “Social Plastic Stadtbahnhof21” by the art association Gleis 1 , based in Waldenburg station . Pictures, sculptures, objects and installations on the subject of trains, traffic and mobility were presented. According to the initiator Hans Graef, this was intended to revive the station “in anticipation of the tram”. It stayed in the entrance building with its art exhibition until February 15, 2016, since then it has been closed and unused again.
Station building around 1900
Railway station around 1910, in the foreground the freight yard, behind it the signal box
Track systems 1989
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business
Schwäbisch Hall station is served by RE trains on the Crailsheim – Heilbronn route and the RB trains on the Hessental – Öhringen route, each of which runs every two hours. Rail freight traffic is no longer handled here.
Web links
Files: Bahnhof (Schwäbisch Hall) - local collection of images and media filesIndividual evidence
- ^ "Transport policy in Schwäbisch Hall" - Schwäbisch Hall action alliance against Stuttgart 21 invites you to a discussion. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Pictures on the city history of Schwäbisch Hall
- ↑ Schwäbisch Hall station in the city's directory of buildings.
- ↑ Holger Kötting: Signal box list , accessed on August 19, 2016.
- ↑ Construction work at Hall train station will start on March 18 - replacement platform for travelers . In: Haller Tagblatt from March 14, 2013.
- ↑ The station becomes an art gallery . In: Haller Tagblatt from June 26, 2013.
- ↑ The station in Hall is empty again - the city is looking into new uses . In: Haller Tagblatt from March 16, 2016.