Schwetzingen railway station
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 Schwetzingen station in May 2011
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | RSZ |
| IBNR | 8005494 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 4th August 1870 |
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| City / municipality | Schwetzingen |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 23 '0 " N , 8 ° 34' 43" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Schwetzingen station is a through station in the Baden-Württemberg district town of Schwetzingen , near the Schwetzingen town center. It is located at kilometer 13.6 of of Mannheim via Hockenheim and Graben-Neudorf to Karlsruhe leading Rheinbahn . Furthermore, a route from Neu-Edingen / Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld, used almost exclusively for freight traffic , joins the Rheinbahn north of the station . Until 1967 there were direct connections to Heidelberg and Speyer from Schwetzingen on the Heidelberg – Speyer railway . From this route today is that there the leg Schwetzingen- exists industrial area Hockenheim- Talhaus for freight transport.
The station is classified in station category 4 of DB Station & Service . It has three platform tracks and is only served by local trains operated by Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) . Its address is Bahnhofsanlage 1–3 .
history
With the opening of the Mannheim- Schwetzingen- Hockenheim - Waghäusel - Graben-Neudorf - Eggenstein - Karlsruhe line of the Baden Rheinbahn on August 4, 1870, the Schwetzingen station was opened. The building owner of the line and the station was the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways .
By a Baden law of February 2, 1870, a Baden concession of April 3, 1872 and a Bavarian-Baden State Treaty of November 23, 1871, the Heidelberg - Eppelheim - Plankstadt –Schwetzingen section became the same on December 10 , 1873 year on the established in 1865, ship's bridge to Speyer completed railway line Heidelberg Speyer opened. The Heidelberg-Speyer-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was the client and, until nationalization on July 1, 1894, the owner of this route ; the operators - as with the Rheinbahn - were the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways. With the opening of this line, Schwetzingen station became a small railway junction .
On June 1, 1880, the route from Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld to Schwetzingen , which was mainly used for freight traffic, was put into operation, which branches off to the north from the Rheinbahn.
On December 12, 1910, a tram line from Schwetzingen to Ketsch was opened by the Rheinische Schuckert Society . In Schwetzingen there was a siding to the tram line Schwetzingen - Plankstadt - Eppelheim - Heidelberg of the Heidelberg tram and mountain railway (HSB) since 1927 . Due to a sharp drop in passenger numbers, the railway was shut down on March 31, 1938.
The Heidelberg – Schwetzingen – Speyer railway was bombed on October 13, 1941 during the Second World War , but not so badly damaged that rail traffic was impossible. The Speyer ship bridge, which was only replaced by a permanent bridge in 1938, was blown up in 1945 by retreating German armed forces . After the section Oftersheim –Speyer was interrupted due to the blasting of the Rhine bridge towards the end of the Second World War, this section was closed. In 1967 the traffic between Schwetzingen and Heidelberg also ended. Only a short branch line from Schwetzingen train station to the Hockenheim- Talhaus industrial area remained for freight traffic. As a result, the station also lost its status as a railway junction.
The Rheinbahn was electrified in the 1950s .
The Heidelberg – Eppelheim – Plankstadt – Schwetzingen tram line operated by the Heidelberger Straßen- und Bergbahn-Gesellschaft AG (HSB), which ran between 1927 and 1974, ran through the middle of the villages in a passenger-friendly manner and represented strong competition for the Heidelberg – Schwetzingen – Speyer line In demand, the remaining part of the railway line in passenger and freight traffic was shut down on February 1, 1967. A few years later, however, the Heidelberg – Schwetzingen tram line also came to an end because, in addition to the financial situation of HSB, the concessions for this route also expired and the new railway overpass in Schwetzingen was pending.
From February to September 2017, the platforms will be upgraded to the S-Bahn standard and the equipment will be modernized accordingly. Here, the previously inaccessible platform access tunnel will be equipped with passenger lifts. The renovation costs around 5.2 million euros, of which the city, which also takes on the planning costs of 1.3 million euros, pays 1.3 million euros.
From December 2019 there will be direct connections from Schwetzingen to Frankfurt Hbf . For this purpose, the regional train line 67 Frankfurt– Neu-Edingen / Friedrichsfeld was extended to Schwetzingen.
Reception building
The stately reception building of the Schwetzingen train station now houses a DB travel center and several offices . One of the Eckert Group's newsagents, which had existed since 2008, was closed in the summer of 2014, the main reason being the lower profitability due to the opening of a nearby Kaufland branch in 2010. In 2007, the station building, which was built in 1876 and whose facade is a listed building, was bought by iib bought up and completely refurbished in the following period.
Track systems
Schwetzingen station has three platform tracks on a house platform and an island platform , of which only tracks 1 and 2 are used in regular traffic, while track 5 can be used for overtaking slower trains or trains that end here unscheduled. The platforms are not yet barrier-free , but this will change with the scheduled start of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn to Karlsruhe. Tracks 2 and 5 on the central platform can only be reached through a pedestrian underpass that begins at the station building. Siding 5 are 7 Platform loose tracks, which occasionally even as sidings used for freight trains.
| track | Usable length | Platform height | Current usage |
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| 1 | 215 m | 76 cm | Trains in the direction of Hockenheim / Karlsruhe |
| 2 | 215 m | 76 cm | Trains in the direction of Mannheim / Biblis |
| 5 | 215 m | 76 cm | Siding; Trains in the direction of Neu-Edingen |
traffic
passenger traffic
The station is usually served every hour by regional trains on the RB 2 line (( Biblis -) Mannheim Hbf - Karlsruhe Hbf ). In the weekday rush hour , this cycle is compressed to half an hour, sometimes even to a quarter of an hour. However, not all trains run to Karlsruhe, but end or begin in Waghäusel or Graben-Neudorf . In addition, there are occasional regional express trains between Mannheim and Karlsruhe during rush hour , stopping at least in Graben-Neudorf, Waghäusel, Hockenheim , Oftersheim and Schwetzingen. Since the timetable change in December 2019, regional trains on route 67 to Frankfurt / Main have been running every two hours, creating a direct connection to the Rhine / Main region.
| Train type | Route | Clock frequency |
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| RB 2 | Karlsruhe main station - Graben-Neudorf - Waghäusel - Hockenheim - Schwetzingen - Mannheim main station - Mannheim-Waldhof - Lampertheim - Biblis | Hourly (plus individual repeater trains every half hour in rush hour) |
| RE 2 | Karlsruhe main station - Graben-Neudorf - Waghäusel - Hockenheim - Schwetzingen - Mannheim main station | individual trains in rush hour |
| RB 67 | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Darmstadt Hbf - Bickenbach (Bergstrasse) - Bensheim - Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) - Weinheim (Bergstrasse) - Neu-Edingen / Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld - Schwetzingen | Every two hours |
Freight transport
Connection to local public transport
From 1910 to 1938 the Schwetzingen – Ketsch tram operated . Between 1927 and 1974 the tram line Heidelberg – Eppelheim – Plankstadt – Schwetzingen of the HSB also ended in Schwetzingen. Today, the bus routes of the Busverkehr Rhein-Neckar (BRN) run to the neighboring communities and the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg , all of which stop at the bus station in front of Schwetzingen station.
Schwetzingen belongs to the tariff area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). A special rate applies within the city: since the beginning of 2002 a single trip for adults in the Schwetzingen city bus has cost 50 cents, children only pay 25 cents.
future
The integration of the line RB 2 Mannheim – Karlsruhe into the system of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar as the new line S 8 is planned. The new Hirschacker and Schwetzingen Nord S-Bahn stops are being built in the Schwetzingen urban area .
The platforms at Schwetzingen train station were raised to 76 centimeters in order to enable level entry into the S-Bahn trains that then operate here. The platforms were also brought to a uniform length of at least 140 meters. The renovation was completed in October 2017.
literature
- Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 23-25 .
Web links
- Information on public transport in Schwetzingen on the city's website
- Information on Schwetzingen train station as of July 2019
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further evidence:
Individual evidence
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- ↑ The Imperial Cathedral of Speyer - History - Timeline ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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 Schwetzingen station is being expanded to meet the needs of the S-Bahn. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, February 28, 2017, archived from the original on March 20, 2017 ; Retrieved March 19, 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.
- ↑ Martin Pischelsrieder: Schwetzingen: New train connections from December 2019. In: Radio Regenbogen. August 31, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Volker Widdrat: Train passengers can no longer shop. Schwetzinger Zeitung, July 17, 2014, accessed on March 1, 2017
- ^ Schwetzingen railway station - development towards a zero heating cost office building. ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2017 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. Information on the renovation on the website of the planning company, accessed on March 1, 2017
- ↑ deutschebahn.com: platform information - Schwetzingen station. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 10, 2017 . ( 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.
- ↑ Volker Widdrat: "Great longing" comes true. Schwetzinger Zeitung, March 1, 2017, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ Elevators in the station are in operation. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. July 30, 2018, accessed December 21, 2019 .
