Schwerte railway station (Ruhr)
| Schwerte (Ruhr) | |
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 Station building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | ESRT |
| IBNR | 8000037 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | April 1, 1867 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Schwerte__Ruhr_ |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Swords |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '30 " N , 7 ° 33' 31" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 127.4 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Schwerte (Ruhr) station is a railway junction in the central district of Schwerte in North Rhine-Westphalia . According to the North Rhine-Westphalian Monument Protection Act, it is classified as a cultural monument. The station is classified in station category 4.
history
The station was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on April 1, 1867 with the Hengstey - Holzwickede section of the railway line from Hagen to Unna and opened to traffic. On June 1, 1870, the section from Schwerte to Arnsberg of the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway went into operation. This made Schwerte an important hub, especially for the many coal trains between the Ruhr area and Central Germany . The rapidly developing shunting operation led towards the end of the 19th century to the construction of a roundhouse , a workshop and numerous train formation and stabling tracks. The line to Iserlohn was added in 1910 and that to Dortmund-Hörde in 1912 . From 1911 the nearby Geisecke marshalling yard was built on the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway . When the track system was expanded, several overpasses and underpasses were built in order to largely exclude the possibility of obstructions to the train movement with the shunting movements. With 2,000 wagons a day, the two-sided marshalling yard reached its full capacity in 1913.
When looking for a suitable location for a railway repair shop , Schwerte was chosen due to its convenient location on several main routes . The first preparatory work began in the summer of 1914 on the 2.5 hectare site in Schwerte Ost, which had been used for agriculture until then. The First World War and delays in the approval and financing procedures delayed the continuation until January 1, 1919. Cost increases and strikes repeatedly disrupted the progress of the construction work. The factory was finally opened on October 1, 1922. It comprised three large transfer platform fields , a locomotive straightening hall, a forge, a turning shop, a boiler forge and a foundry as well as storage and administration buildings. First, the Prussian classes G 7 , G 8 , G 10 , G 12 , T 12 , T 14 , T 16 , P 8 and P 10 were repaired in swords.
The economic boom associated with the railway brought the city four times the population between 1885 and 1910. The construction of the Kreinberg settlement in Schwerte-Ost began in 1920 and was completed in 1935. This settlement served as a factory settlement for the workers of the railway repair shop, where around 1,600 people were employed in 1925. The following years, marked by crises, brought short-time work and layoffs with them. From 1933 the workforce increased again. In 1938 around 1,100 locomotives were repaired by over 2,300 workers, including class 03 and other express locomotives from 1936 . In 1942 the repair of the 20,000th locomotive was celebrated.
In June 1940 the station became one of the main targets of the British Bomber Command in the Ruhr area. The heaviest air raid on Schwerte followed on May 31, 1944 , when American bombers attacked the marshalling yard. Over 217 people were killed.
Since numerous workers were called up to the front during the Second World War or assigned to other services, women were increasingly employed in the railway repair shop established in Schwerte-Ost in 1922. In 1942 the working week there was increased to 63 hours. In 1944, a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp was set up, and the imprisoned people were forced to work in the repair shop. 4000 people were employed there that year.
In 1945, operations ended at Geisecke station, which had been one of the largest marshalling yards in West Germany during the Second World War. Due to the war damage, the repair shop was also closed for two weeks. In 1949, the 30,000th locomotive left its halls, and in 1961 the 40,000th repaired locomotive was recorded. The Deutsche Bundesbahn mainly maintained class 42 , 50 and 56 locomotives in Schwerte . To compensate for the declining number of steam locomotives, the maintenance of freight and special wagons increasingly came to the fore in the 1960s, and snowploughs, blasting and boiler wagons were also serviced. In 1966 the closure of the repair shop was considered for the first time, which at the end of that year only had 1200 employees. The steam locomotive repair ended on October 25, 1967 with a workforce of 700 workers. Allocating all DB's own low-loader wagons, dismantling decommissioned locomotives and reconditioning drag shoes , instruments and lamps employed just under 500 people until 1980. In 1983 the plant was finally closed.
Until 2007, the station systems were controlled by electromechanical interlockings, there were still form signals .
In 2011 the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) followed an application from the city administration of Schwerte and the Association of Railway Friends in Schwerte and named an ICE under the name Schwerte .
In 2018 and 2019, the platforms were modernized, which the raising of 38 cm to 76 height over rail level , the installation of the visually impaired included and modernization of roofs. In addition, an elevator was retrofitted on every platform. For this purpose, the previously existing second staircase had to be removed from the platforms of tracks 1/2 and 3/4.
traffic
Long-distance passenger rail transport
Long-distance trains have not stopped in Schwerte since 2002, the hourly ICEs on the Berlin – Cologne route run through. At the beginning of 2016 it was announced that from December 2019 intercity trains on the Frankfurt – Münster route will again stop in Schwerte.
At the beginning of the 20th century, express trains stopped in traffic between the Cologne area and central and eastern Germany, from the 1930s trains between Bad Wildungen and Arnhem . In 1941 there was a continuous front-line express train from Brest-Litowsk-Bebra-Arnsberg-Aachen-Brussels-Ostend.
The D-Zug pair from Amsterdam to Bad Wildungen ran until 1991, and D-trains ran to Kassel, Leipzig and Berlin. Interregio line 22 last operated with a system stop in Schwerte in 2002.
Local rail transport
At the station Schwerte (Ruhr) four lines stop of local transport. Every hour you can take the regional transport to all larger neighboring cities such as Dortmund, Hagen , Münster , Cologne or Düsseldorf . The following table lists all the local rail passenger transport lines that serve Schwerte.
Local public road transport
The table below lists all bus routes that serve Schwerte.
| line | course | operator |
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| R30 | Schwerte ZOB - Werner-Steinem-Platz - Ruhrtalmuseum - Ev. Hospital - Schützenstraße - Gänsewinkel school center - Lichtendorf Sölderstraße - Geisecke Naust - Geisecke train station - Geisecke Post - Rheinen wave pool - Hennen Marktplatz - Hennen train station - Kalthof Sterkenkamp - Kalthof Mitte - Schapker Weg - Ortlohnstraße - main post office - Iserlohn town hall - Unnaer Platz - Iserlohn city train station | DB Westfalenbus |
| C31 | Holzen Heideweg - Erikastraße - Holzen Zum Prinzenwäldchen - Holzen Luisenstraße - Nickelfabrik - Schwerte ZOB - Werner-Steinem-Platz - Ruhr Valley Museum - Ostenstraße Stadtbad - Wittekindstraße - Grammar School - Hermannstraße - Kreinberg - Römerstraße - Schwerterheide | Vehling Reisen (on behalf of VKU) |
| C32 | Schwerte ZOB - Werner-Steinem-Platz - Ruhr Valley Museum - Villigst Alte Lay - Villigst Bachstraße - Ergste Elsebad - Ergste Railway Station - Ergste Amtshaus - Ergste Im Wietloh | Quecke Reisen (on behalf of VKU / BRS) |
| C33 | Schwerte ZOB - Catholic Hospital / RTG - Bergische Straße - Osthellweg - Agnes-Miegel-Straße - Regenbogenstraße - ZOB / Bahnhof, Schwerte - Catholic Hospital - Schwerte Post - ZOB / Bahnhof, Schwerte - Regenbogenstraße - Agnes-Miegel-Straße - Osthellweg - Bergische Straße - Catholic Hospital, Schwerte - Schwerte Post - Schwerte ZOB | Quecke Reisen (on behalf of the VKU) |
| R50 | Schwerte ZOB - Werner-Steinem-Platz - Ruhrtalmuseum - Ev. Hospital - Schützenstraße - Gänsewinkel school center - Lichtendorf Sölderstraße - Geisecke Post - Geisecke train station - Geisecke parish hall - Lichtendorf, Dortmund | DB Westfalenbus |
| 430 | Schwerte ZOB - Schwerte Post - Talweg - Bergstrasse - Freischütz - Schwerter Wald - Berghofen center - Kleiberweg - THU. Hear Bf | DSW21 |
| 594 | Schwerte ZOB - Werner-Steinem-Platz - Wandhofen - Tannenstrasse - Reichshofstrasse - Ruhrbrücke - Külpestrasse - Turmstrasse - Bauhaus - Hagen main station | DB Rhineland bus |
Other train stations in Schwerte
Schwerte has another station in the city, the Ergste stop on the Dortmund – Iserlohn railway line , which the Ardey Railway ( RB 53 ) serves every hour . The Schwerte Ost station on the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway is only used for freight traffic, passenger trains have not stopped here since mid-1983.
Web links
- NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 435 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 455 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of course book route 433 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ City administration Schwerte - List of all monuments in Schwerte (PDF; 290 kB), accessed on February 10, 2013
- ↑ Station category list 2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service AG, December 16, 2016, archived from the original on February 15, 2017 ; accessed on February 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Knots on the edge of the pot in: Lok Magazin 5/2018, p. 40 ff.
- ↑ André Joost: Operating Offices Archive Schwerte (Ruhr). In: NRWvbahnarchiv. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Holger Kötting: Signal box list , accessed on August 19, 2016
- ↑ PM ICE Schwerte will soon be roaming Germany (PDF file; 55 kB)
- ↑ Local compass: Thanks to new elevators: Schwerte train station is now barrier-free. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Article in the Ruhrnachrichten from January 27, 2016 , accessed on January 27, 2016
- ↑ https://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/Staedte/Schwerte/Web-Artikel-1285659.html
