Trier West train station
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 former station building , built around 1913, street side
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| abbreviation | STRW |
| opening | May 25, 1860 |
| Conveyance | 1983 ( passenger traffic ) |
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| City / municipality | trier |
| Place / district | Trier-West |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 45 '7 " N , 6 ° 37' 26" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Trier Westbahnhof - 1878-1903 Trier left the Moselle - was the first station in the city of Trier . It is located on the Trier western route, which is largely only used by freight trains .
history
On May 25, 1860, the last section of the Saar line to date was opened with the end point Trier and the city was thus connected to the railway network. The route runs to the left of the Moselle , and Trier received a train station in what is now the West district . A first station building was replaced by a representative building in the 1870s . With the opening of the "Wilhelm-Luxembourg Railway" on 29 August 1861 was achieved from Trier about hedgehogs and Luxembourg . In 1871 the route was extended northwards via Ehrang , so there was a direct connection through the Eifel to Cologne .
With the construction of the (upper) Moselle line up to 1878, which ran over Ehrang and the newly built Pfalzel railway bridge on the right side of the Moselle through Trier, the Moselle side of Trier, on which the Trier core city is located, was also developed technically. A new train station, today's Hauptbahnhof , was built northeast of the city center. With its inauguration in 1878, this train station was given the name "Trier rechts der Mosel", the train station in the west was named accordingly "Trier links der Mosel". In 1889 the Moselle route from Koblenz also reached Trier on the right bank of the Moselle. The station on the line from 1878 thus acquired greater importance in the course of the year, so that in 1903 it was renamed "Trier Hauptbahnhof" and the station to the left of the Moselle was renamed "Trier West". In 1912/13 (according to another source 1914 to 1916) a new station building was built a little north of the old station at the level of the Roman bridge, which still exists today. The railway operations office was located in the old building until 1925. It was demolished after World War II .
Trier West was served by passenger traffic until 1983 , before passenger traffic on the route between Ehrang and the Konzer Moselle Bridge ended. Ever since the majority of passenger transport has been handled by today's main station, freight traffic on the western route has been of comparatively high importance and still runs on this route today. Of the former railway facilities, there is only one siding on the double-track line. In the former station building that has been preserved and is no longer owned by Deutsche Bahn , accommodation for homeless men has now been set up by the Caritas Trier regional association under the name “Benedikt-Labre-Haus”.
Planned new building
In 2014, the Trier-West area was included in the funding for urban redevelopment west. In this context, the new Trier-West stop near the Roman bridge is to be opened on the then reactivated western route in December 2024 .
literature
- Sebastian Schnitzius: Development of the railway in the Trier area . Published by the Deutsche Bundesbahn , 1984
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schnitzius, p. 39
- ↑ see sketch from: Organ for the Progress of the Railway System, 4th supplementary volume, 1870
- ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Royal Railway Directorate in Trier
- ^ Emil Zenz: History of the City of Trier in the First Half of the 20th Century, Volume 1: 1900–1914, p. 270
- ↑ Schnitzius, p. 34
- ↑ Schnitzius, p. 39
- ↑ Gottfried Kentenich : The history of the city of Trier from its foundation to the present day, including p. 894