Stuttgart-Österfeld train station

Stuttgart-Österfeld train station
View from the southeast, bus stop next to the STEP industrial park and the Österfeldtunnel on Nord-Süd-Straße . In the background the NWZ of the university ( natural sciences )
Data
Operating point type	Breakpoint
Platform tracks	2
abbreviation	TSOS
IBNR	8005779
Price range	4th
opening	April 17, 1993
location
City / municipality	Stuttgart
Place / district	Österfeld
country	Baden-Württemberg
Country	Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 44 '15 "  N , 9 ° 7' 0"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '15 "  N , 9 ° 7' 0"  E
Railway lines
Connecting train of the S-Bahn Stuttgart , Gäubahn (without platforms)
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg

The Österfeld station in the Stuttgart district of Vaihingen is located at the confluence of the main line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn and the overground Gäu line, built here in 1985 . Österfeld is the S-Bahn stop between the Stuttgart-Vaihingen and Stuttgart University stations , the last one is in the ( Hasenberg ) tunnel of the connecting line. The regional and long-distance trains on the Gäu Railway have no other stop in the city except at the main station. On the route from there to Vaihingen / Böblingen, the trains passed another, older tunnel, which is also called the Hasenberg tunnel .

In terms of rail operations , the station is not a train station , but a stopping point . A park-and-ride car park ("Österfeld") with 514 spaces is connected to the station . There are no other public transport options at the station. Above the station is the STEP (Stuttgart Engineering Park) business park with numerous office spaces, including the former Debitel headquarters. The VDI House and the Michael Bauer Waldorf School are also close to the station .

history

In the preliminary draft of the connection path of the S-Bahn Stuttgart in the 1960s, a breakpoint was Dachswald provided. The stop should be half a kilometer south of the junction of the Gäubahn in a straight line and rise in a southerly direction at 10 per mille.

From the end of the 1970s, the planners of the S-Bahn line between the University of Pfaffenwald and Stuttgart-Rohr through Vaihingen assumed that the capacity of the existing double-track Gäubahn line would not be sufficient for the S-Bahn and other traffic. They presented several alternatives, including: building an underground north-south crossing through Vaihingen with a station in the center of Vaihingen, or four-track expansion of the section of the Gäu Railway through Vaihingen with a stop at the previous Vaihingen train station . The Stuttgart municipal council demanded that the federal and state governments implement the underground variant in the spirit of Vaihingen. When the federal government and the state refused, the city demanded an additional stop, the later Österfeld station, in order to develop the residential areas of Vaihingen north of the Nesenbach Viaduct . The traffic group Stuttgart (VVS) came after investigations to the conclusion that a startup is not justified such a station simultaneously with the opening of the S-Bahn line through the expected traffic volume, an option for a later construction, however, should be kept open. The line was opened in 1985 in the above-ground and four-track variant, with space left between the tracks for the later installation of a central platform at the location of the later Österfeld station . This advance construction work caused additional costs of 2.45 million DM , of which the city contributed 0.35 million DM.

In 1990, the company Hewlett-Packard (HP) planned to move to an open area near the site intended for the station, and announced the creation of 3,500 jobs in the final stage. Lord Mayor Manfred Rommel demanded an obligation from the then Federal Railway Directorate Stuttgart to redeem the construction option so that the local council could change the development plan for the settlement of HP. The Federal Railway Directorate expected that the longer travel times due to the additional stop would make the use of additional S-Bahn trains necessary, and demanded the construction of a park-and-ride facility to increase the number of passengers and thus the cost-effectiveness of the station, including the The station should be put into operation in the spring of 1993, in time for the opening of the International Horticultural Exhibition in 1993 on the Killesberg , in order to relieve parking spaces and roads near the exhibition site. Due to the length of the administrative processes, construction work could only begin in July 1992. Despite the time pressure, work was carried out mainly at night in order to maintain the S-Bahn traffic. This led to high construction costs of over DM 15 million. The station was opened on April 17, 1993, in time for the IGA. The car park and the station were not accepted by the visitors to the IGA.

However, HP postponed its settlement plans. In accordance with the contract, the city of Stuttgart took over the resulting loss of income by changing the distribution key for the costs of the VVS to be borne by Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG .

Later, the Böblingen- based company finally revoked its construction plans because it was able to create the necessary work space through structural extensions. Instead, the city built the STEP (Stuttgart Engineering Park) business park on the spot , with the striking building by debitel . This skyscraper is still an outstanding landmark, but after the company merger no longer houses the Debitel headquarters.

traffic

In 2003, the station was used by around 4050 people on average working days. By overlapping the S-Bahn lines S1, S2 and S3, there is a 5-minute cycle during rush hour and a 10-minute cycle to Vaihingen and downtown Stuttgart outside rush hour. The journey time to Stuttgart main station is 13 minutes.

S-Bahn lines

line	route	annotation
S 1	Kirchheim (Teck) - Wendlingen - Plochingen - Esslingen - Neckarpark - Bad Cannstatt - Central Station - Schwabstraße - Österfeld - Vaihingen - Rohr - Böblingen - Herrenberg (repeater trains in rush hour traffic between Esslingen and Böblingen.)
S 11	Neckarpark - Bad Cannstatt - Central Station (deep) - Schwabstraße - Österfeld - Vaihingen - Rohr - Böblingen - Herrenberg	Only at home games of VfB Stuttgart
S 2	Schorndorf - Weinstadt - Waiblingen - Bad Cannstatt - Central Station - Schwabstraße - University - Österfeld - Vaihingen - Rohr - Airport / Exhibition Center - Filderstadt (Repeater trains in rush hour traffic between Schorndorf and Vaihingen.)
S 3	Backnang - Winnenden - Waiblingen - Bad Cannstatt - Hauptbahnhof - Österfeld - Vaihingen - Rohr - Airport / Fair (due to the opening of the new fair, trains to the airport run on weekends, in the late evening only traffic to Vaihingen, repeater trains during rush hour between Backnang and Vaihingen) .

See also

• List of train stations in Stuttgart

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jürgen Wedler, Manfred Thömmes, Olaf Schott: The balance sheet. 25 years of planning and building the Stuttgart S-Bahn . Ed .: Deutsche Bundesbahn, Bundesbahndirektion Stuttgart. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-925565-03-5 , pp. 151 ff .
2. ↑ Abbreviations of the operating points , bahnseite.de
3. ^ "Österfeld" car park - operator's website
4. ^ Heinz Bubel: S-Bahn Stuttgart - planning and preliminary design . In: Railway technical review . tape 18 , no. 7 , 1969, ISSN  0013-2845 , pp. 256-274 .