Schwenningen (Neckar) railway station

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Schwenningen (Neckar)
Ring train in Schwenningen station
Ring train in Schwenningen station
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RSCV
IBNR 8005490
Price range 6th
opening 1869
Profile on Bahnhof.de Schwenningen__Neckar_
location
City / municipality Villingen-Schwenningen
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 3 '36 "  N , 8 ° 32' 8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '36 "  N , 8 ° 32' 8"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Schwenningen (Neckar) Station is one of two stations in Villingen-Schwenningen . The other is Villingen (Black Forest) .

location

The station is located on the Neckar , south of Schwenningen city center. It is 695 meters above sea ​​level on the Rottweil – Villingen railway line . Originally the station was 540 meters long and up to 56 meters wide. The facility included a station building and a goods shed .

history

Schwenningen owes its connection to the railway to Johannes Bürk , who established the route via Schwenningen in order to promote the local watch industry , which also included his own factory. The original plans were to run the route via Niedereschach .

The station promoted Schwenningen's economic boom as an industrial city . The watch industry attracted workers from far away, including from the Stuttgart area. This explains why 436,410 travelers were counted in 1907, although Schwenningen only rose from village to town that year.

The station building was not completed until 1872.

Due to the industrial importance of Schwenningen, the station was the target of Allied air raids several times during World War II .

Investments

Listed signal box from 1869

On the opposite side of the tracks, but to the west of the reception building, were once the freight yard buildings . After the site had been remediated and the last known duds had been defused , the site could be used for the 2010 Villingen-Schwenningen State Horticultural Show .

A historic signal box belongs to the station . It was built in 1869. Here the points were set using mechanical levers. It is located opposite the reception building on the Neckar. The building is no longer used for rail operations, but is a listed building . In the course of the state horticultural show, the pedestrian underpass that once connected the reception building with Neckarstrasse was shortened. It only extends beyond the second platform and the signal box, which has been secured with a new base.

literature

  • Harald Lode: The Schwenningen a. N. in the past and present: Festschrift for the station festival on May 23, 1992 , 1992

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Schwenningen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gerhard Jehle: Places of work, places of administration, dwellings: The industrial architecture in Villingen and Schwenningen until 1945 (buildings) , Diss., 2001 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg von Morlok : The Royal Württemberg State Railways: Review of their construction during the years 1835–1889 taking into account their historical, technical and financial moments and results , 1890, p. 138
  2. ↑ http://www.villingen-schwenningen.de/tourismus/ueberblick/stadtgeschichte/schwenningen.html?Fsize=2
  3. ↑ Gerhard Jehle: Places of work, places of administration, dwellings: The industrial architecture in Villingen and Schwenningen until 1945 (buildings) , Diss., 2001 ( PDF ), p. 133