Soltau (Han) Süd train station
| Soltau (Han) South | |||
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| Operating point type | Freight depot | ||
| Location in the network | Terminus | ||
| Design | Terminus | ||
| Platform tracks | 0 | ||
| abbreviation | HSOS | ||
| opening | 1910 | ||
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| City / municipality | Soltau | ||
| country | Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Coordinates | 52 ° 58 '47 " N , 9 ° 50' 43" E | ||
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| Railway stations in Lower Saxony | |||
The Soltau (Han) Süd station is a freight yard and former small station in the Lower Saxony city of Soltau .
As a crossing station on the two railway lines Lüneburg - Soltau and Celle - Soltau , it is still important in the freight transport network of the East Hanoverian Railways (OHE).
The station was closed to passenger traffic in 1961. Previously, the OHE trains ran from there to Lüneburg , Celle and Neuenkirchen . Passengers who wanted to change from the OHE trains to the trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) had to walk several hundred meters between the two stations. The connections to Lüneburg and Celle were relocated to the neighboring DB station Soltau (Han) from 1961 , and passenger traffic to Neuenkirchen was discontinued.
Description of the former small train station
The small station for passenger traffic was a terminal station with two platforms. The routes to Celle and Lüneburg were served on a central platform directly in front of the station building, and another platform with access to the route to Neuenkirchen was just around the corner. Other buildings at the small train station included a goods and storage shed and a shelter for a trolley .
history
Construction and opening of the small railway lines
As early as 1894, there were initial considerations for the construction of small railways between Soltau and Celle or Lüneburg. On November 26, 1903, the Ministry of Public Works in Berlin agreed to the extension of the Celle – Bergen line to Soltau. In 1905 the district administrator of the Soltau district suggested a detour to connect Wietzendorf to the railway. On July 25, 1908, the GmbH Kleinbahn Celle-Soltau, Celle-Munster was finally founded with a share capital of 3.3 million marks. After a lengthy approval process, construction work on the Celle – Soltau railway began on March 16, 1909 . The small railway received its own small station Soltau Süd southeast of the state station Soltau (Han). The opening ceremony on April 22, 1910 took place after the maiden voyage in Soltau.
From December 1905, a railway connection between the Böhmestadt and Lüneburg was officially planned in Soltau . As the operators of the Kleinbahn Winsen - Evendorf , who were about to complete the Winsen - Evendorf line , protested against the rival line, the discussion dragged on and implementation was temporarily postponed in January 1907. The supporters of the branch line between Lüneburg and Soltau did not give up and personally submitted a petition to the emperor. It was not until early 1911 that the Lüneburg – Soltau small railway was finally founded. On June 11, 1913, the Lüneburg – Soltau line was opened with a special train from Soltau. In Hützel there was a connection to the Winsen - Hützel line to Winsen (Luhe) . An originally planned direct connection from Soltau to Winsen was not implemented.
For a long time Neuenkirchen was not taken into account in the railroad planning in the region. The citizens of Neuenkirchen had long wanted a railway connection to Soltau and in 1913 the minister responsible promised to participate in the establishment of the small railway Soltau – Neuenkirchen . Planning was initiated shortly before the First World War and completed after the war. On May 15, 1920, operations on the Soltau - Neuenkirchen line , a twelve-kilometer branch line , officially began. The small railway Lüneburg – Soltau took over the management , it provided the locomotives and the staff. Due to the small number of passengers, passenger traffic was temporarily suspended again in 1928.
In 1922, the three small railways agreed to share the small train station in Soltau, the name of which later changed several times. The names were Soltau (Han) Klbhf. (from February 1941), Soltau Süd (from May 1941), Soltau (Han) Süd (from October 1942) and Soltau Süd Klbf. (from May 1943). Since 1941 the name always included the addition South . The Soltau Süd train station had a direct rail connection to the Soltau (Han) train station and the timetables at that time indicated the transfer options at the state train station.
In 1944 the three small railroad lines were merged with other small railways in the region to form the Osthannoverschen Eisenbahnen (OHE).
Second World War and subsequent cessation of passenger traffic
On February 22, 1945 there were heavy bombing raids on the station. The station was bombed again on April 11, 1945, and the train service was temporarily interrupted. Only after the end of the war in August 1945 did trains start running again, and from 1947 passenger services were again offered on the route to Neuenkirchen. The destroyed signal box at the Soltau Süd train station was replaced in 1946 by a standard signal box from the VES company from Berlin. In 1947 the station was renamed Soltau (Han) Süd again. In 1949 the station was extended by a barrier system on Celler Straße .
From May 28, 1961, passenger trains from Lüneburg and Celle stopped directly at the Soltau (Han) station to make it easier to change trains. The Soltau (Han) Süd station was closed to passenger traffic. Because the rerouting of the train from Neuenkirchen would have been too complicated - a change of direction (a so-called head turning ) would have been necessary - passenger traffic on this route was finally stopped on May 28, 1961.
In 1965 the construction of a DR signal box began , which went into operation on August 14, 1966 under the name Ssf . In 1968 the Böhme Bridge at the station was renewed. On April 30, 1970, the remote control line Celle – Soltau went fully into operation, followed in 1973 by the Soltau – Hützel line (SEL technology).
On May 30, 1975, passenger traffic between Bergen and Celle was completely stopped; from May 21, 1977, passenger trains no longer ran on the Lüneburg - Soltau route. Since then, freight trains have been running almost exclusively on the two routes that stop at the Soltau Süd freight yard. Occasionally, individual museum train rides are still on the OHE routes to Lüneburg and Celle , e.g. B. with the Heide-Express of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verkehrsfreunde Lüneburg e. V. offered. In addition, the "anteater", a historic Wismar railcar built in 1937, travels from Soltau via Bispingen to Döhle in the summer . These journeys are boarded at Soltau (Han) train station.
Freight traffic at the Soltau (Han) Süd station
On May 1, 1977, the railway maintenance facility at Soltauer Bahnhof was dissolved. In 1984 a superstructure material store with a portal crane was built.
In 1986 goods traffic on the Soltau - Neuenkirchen route was discontinued. In 1996 the line was closed and later partially dismantled.
Today mainly agricultural products and wood are transported on the OHE routes to Lüneburg and Celle. In the past, important shippers included the Lüneburg saltworks and mixing plants for road building materials in Drögenindorf and Hambostel . A potato flake factory was located directly at the Soltau Süd freight yard on today's loading street . In the 1980s, the complete fertilizer plant in Embsen loaded up to a million tons annually, which made up around 30 percent of the total OHE volume. Until the plant was closed in 1989, three freight trains ran daily. In 2006 there were only about three freight trains per week on both routes. Through traffic has decreased significantly.
In 2000 the remote control technology between Soltau and Hützel was taken out of service and the Soltau signal box was abandoned. Since then, it has been operated from Celle Nord.
literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 10: Lower Saxony 2 . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 .
Web links
- Historical and current pictures of the small and freight yard Soltau (Han) Süd
- Timetable of the OHE on kdtroeger.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ingo Hütter, Thorsten Bretschneider: The East Hanoverian Railways . EK-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-730-5 , history of the small railways Lüneburg - Soltau and Soltau - Neuenkirchen ( chapter online [PDF]).
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Bargmann : From the Thirty Years' War to the end of the First World War 1620 to 1919 (= The city of Soltau in the history of Lower Saxony . Volume 2 ). 2005, ISBN 3-933802-14-8 , The New Infrastructure, pp. 152-172 .
- ↑ Timetable of the Kleinbahn Lüneburg – Soltau from May 15, 1935. In: kdtroeger.de. Retrieved September 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Lüneburg-Süd - Hützel (Lüneb.) - Soltau-Süd (OHE, mountain railway). In: eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de. Retrieved September 21, 2015 .
