Vaihingen (Enz) Nord train station
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 Vaihingen (Enz) Nord train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 to September 30, 1990 1 to December 13, 2002 |
| abbreviation | TVN |
| opening | October 1, 1853 |
| Conveyance | December 13, 2002 (passenger traffic) December 15, 2003 (freight traffic) |
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| City / municipality | Vaihingen an der Enz |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 57 '19 " N , 8 ° 59' 12" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 242 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Vaihingen (Enz) Nord station was on the Württemberg West Railway and was the starting point for the Vaihingen Stadtbahn . In the course of the partial commissioning of the high-speed line Mannheim – Stuttgart on September 30, 1990, the Federal Railroad relocated the Westbahn and opened the Vaihingen (Enz) station between Vaihingen an der Enz and its Kleinglattbach district . Vaihingen (Enz) Nord remained as the terminus of the Vaihinger Stadtbahn until it was closed on December 13, 2002. The tracks of the Western Railway were only kept up to this point to connect this station and the continuation to Illingen was dismantled.
history
opening
In the 1840s, several designers worked on a rail link from Stuttgart to the Baden border. The city of Vaihingen had a good chance of a connection. Oberbaurat Karl Etzel presented, among other things, a route draft in February 1844. Accordingly, the route would have left the northern line at Tamm and would have run via Unterriexingen, Vaihingen, Illingen and Maulbronn to Bretten. But Etzel revised his proposal again fundamentally and suggested that the Westbahn branch off only in Bietigheim and follow a relatively straight course via Großsachsenheim and Illingen to the Eckenweiher Hof .
On October 1, 1853, the Royal Württemberg State Railroad opened the line. The stopping point planned for Vaihingen was in an open field and was named Sersheim . The closest was the hamlet of Kleinglattbach one kilometer away and the village of Sersheim two kilometers away. A three kilometer long road connected the city of Vaihingen with the train station. The sandstone reception building, which still exists today, has two floors and was later added to on the eastern side. The goods shed that stood east of the building is no longer preserved.
For Vaihingen, the distance to the new means of transport had a negative effect. Industrialization began only very slowly, the population declined. In 1868 the Landkaffee Manufaktur ( Heinr. Franck & Sons ) gave up their headquarters in Vaihingen and moved to Ludwigsburg .
Several possibilities to get a direct rail connection were not realized. In September 1862, the state railway checked a connection from Illingen via Vaihingen and Weil der Stadt to Calw . Representatives of the city traveled to Stuttgart on October 26, 1862 to point out the importance of the project to King Wilhelm I. Even King Charles I received the delegation again. But in February 1865, the Baden government approved that the Nagoldthalbahn to Calw could begin its route in Pforzheim .
Renaming
In the meantime, the city administration had negotiated with the state railway to rename the Sersheim station to Vaihingen-Sersheim , which was carried out in 1863. At the end of 1873, the member of the Vaihingen Regional Office demanded that the Western Railway be moved south between Sersheim and Illingen. The government refused.
In 1874 the city council commissioned the Stuttgart engineer Sigle to design a railway line from Vaihingen-Sersheim station to Ditzingen or Renningen . Both variants were very popular, but could not be built due to a lack of financial resources. The same happened to a later draft, also to Ditzingen, which was not approved in 1890.
Only the Vaihingen-Sersheim-Enzweihingen railway line, approved on July 14, 1903, eased the seclusion from the Western Railway. It was created from a narrow-gauge railway proposed in April 1896 from Vaihingen-Sersheim via Vaihingen and Markgröningen to Ludwigsburg. Already in July 1896 there were disagreements between the participating cities and municipalities and the city administration tried more to create a standard gauge branch line. It was officially opened on October 15, 1904.
In 1905, Sersheim was given a nearby breakpoint. This led to the renaming of Vaihingen-Sersheim to Vaihingen (Enz) Staatsbahnhof in 1906 . In 1923, when the Württemberg State Railroad had already merged into the Reichsbahn, the third renaming took place in Vaihingen (Enz) Reichsbahnhof . After the Second World War, this name also became obsolete and the Federal Railway Directorate named the station Vaihingen (Enz) Nord in 1950.
Shutdown
On September 30, 1990, the Federal Railroad began operations at Vaihingen (Enz) station on the Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line. For this purpose, she relocated the Westbahn so that the two lines cross in the new station. Vaihingen (Enz) Nord remained connected for freight traffic through the Aischbach junction.
On December 13, 2002, the Vaihingen Stadtbahn was shut down and passenger traffic at Vaihingen (Enz) Nord station ended. The station was still available for freight traffic until the timetable change on December 15, 2003.
Web links
literature
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Kraichgau. Railway history between the Rhine and Neckar . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-769-9 .
- Andreas M. Räntzsch: Stuttgart and its railways. The development of the railway system in the Stuttgart area . Uwe Siedentop, Heidenheim 1987, ISBN 3-925887-03-2 .