Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental train station
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.jpg) Track systems 1989
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | TSHT |
| IBNR | 8000330 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | December 1867 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Schwaebisch_Hall-Hessental |
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| City / municipality | Schwäbisch Hall |
| Place / district | Hessental |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 5 '49 " N , 9 ° 46' 1" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The station Schwäbisch Hall Hessental (until after 1933 Hessental) is the more important of the two railway stations of the district town of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg . In the separation station , which belongs to the Deutsche Bahn station category 4 , the Waiblingen – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental (Murrbahn) line branches off from the Crailsheim – Heilbronn (Hohenlohebahn) line.
location
Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental train station is about four kilometers from the city center in the Hessental district . In the immediate vicinity of the train station is the "Breitloh / Karl-Kurz-Areal" industrial area on the site of the former Kurz barrel factory, which was one of the largest companies in the city of Schwäbisch Hall until insolvency in 1998.
history
The station facility was built in December 1867 as a continuation of the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line, then known as the Kocherbahn and ending at Schwäbisch Hall city station , which was built from 1860 onwards at the request of the population and a resolution of the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies. The station building was not built until twelve years later, when the line from Waiblingen via Backnang and Gaildorf to Hessental was completed. By connecting the line, the station was operationally upgraded compared to the more centrally located city station.
The Hessental concentration camp was a satellite camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace that existed from summer 1944 to April 1945 . In the summer of 1944 it was set up in a former barracks camp of the Reich Labor Service at the Hessental train station. The first occupation with 600 prisoners took place on October 14, 1944.
On December 1, 1988, the SpDr L 60 type relay interlocking was put into operation, gradually including the surrounding stations in the remote control: in March 1989 Sulzdorf and Gaildorf West , on January 1, 1990 also Schwäbisch Hall.
After the opening of the border of the GDR the unkte Haller Tagblatt on 19 January 1990: "Kissing the GDR Murr railway awake?" In fact, stopped in Schwäbisch Hall Hessental 1991 four express pairs of Görlitz , Dresden and Leipzig . Otherwise, the timetable included eleven express trains, rarely local trains. But the offer in long-distance transport was soon reduced. After 1996 the hourly service for Regional Express and Regionalbahn came ; all that remained was the express train Milano - Nuremberg and two pairs of interregional trains on the Stuttgart - Nuremberg line . The other Intercity Karlsruhe –Nuremberg go via Aalen .
In 1995, a plaque commemorating the “death march” from Hessental-Allach to Dachau in April 1945 was placed on the side of the house platform . On it one learns:
“With the evacuation of the Hessental concentration camp prisoners on April 5, 1945, which was initiated from this station, the so-called death march began. […] Near Sulzdorf, the hungry and ill-treated people had to leave the bombed train and were driven on on foot. A large number of the prisoners did not survive the march. "
At a distance of 250 meters, behind the former loading street , is the very inconspicuous memorial , on which a two-axle freight car has also been placed.
In 1995 the railway line from Backnang via Hessental to Crailsheim was electrified. The branch in the direction of Heilbronn via Haller Stadtbahnhof is still without a contact wire.
business
Until the Second World War , the station was only given one express train stop. This changed after 1950 when it was possible to board four pairs of express trains and two pairs of express trains. For some of these trains, the route beyond Nuremberg to Hof had been extended. After 1961, Hessental had also become a stopover for the Stuttgart – Dresden interzone train (on Fridays to Berlin ).
Long-distance trains (on the Stuttgart – Nuremberg route) only stop here if they do not run on their regular route via Aalen, but are rerouted via Backnang and Hessental, for example due to construction work. The station building typical of East Württemberg is still inhabited.
Today (2014) stop in Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental the two-hourly RE and RB trains on the Öhringen or Heilbronn route to Crailsheim or the Stuttgart-Nuremberg route.
The trains to and from Backnang either drive into the overtaking track or via the main track of that route. The switch at the Ostkopf is the critical point when the trains to and from Backnang cross in Hessental.
Track systems
In 2014, Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental station had three platform tracks on a house platform and a central platform . Track 1 and track 2 are the continuous main tracks of the Hohenlohebahn. Track 1 on the house platform is used for trains to and from Öhringen and on to Heilbronn, while the central platform with tracks 2 and 3 is used by trains on the main Stuttgart – Crailsheim line. Siding 3 lies with the track without platforms 4 a passing loop .
To the west of the station there was an approximately 1.5 kilometer long siding to the former military airfield . Some of the sidings in the west of the station are still connected to the former sidings. The continuous route, running on an embankment, ends at the former railway bridge over Bühlertalstraße L 1060, which was demolished due to its dilapidation; on the other side of the Hessental industrial area in Gründle there are still tracks on a short section to Raiffeisenstrasse.
Web links
- Location, tracks and some allowable speeds of the station on the OpenRailwayMap
- Tracks in service facilities (TSHT) , DB Netz AG (PDF)