Villingen train station (Upper Hesse)

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Villingen (Oberhess)
Bahnhofstrasse 69 (Villingen) 02.JPG
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 2
opening June 1, 1890
Conveyance after 1967
location
City / municipality Hunger
Place / district Villingen
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 30 '27 "  N , 8 ° 55' 49"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '27 "  N , 8 ° 55' 49"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Villingen (Upper Hesse) train station is a former train station in the Hungen district of Villingen in Central Hesse . It is on the Friedberg – Mücke railway line .

history

The Hungen - Laubach section of the Friedberg – Mücke railway line - and with it the Villingen (Upper Hesse) station - was opened on June 1, 1890. The main part of this railway line (from Wölfersheim - Södel to Mücke ) is closed today, on the Hungen-Laubach section, passenger traffic was stopped as early as 1959, whereas freight traffic was not until 1999. The last freight train from Laubach to Hungen passed on December 21, 1998 former train station Villingen.

From June 1, 1890, Villingen was the starting point of a branch line to Ruppertsburg and on to the Friedrichshütte company there . This branch line was initially schmalspurig traced out and pulled by horses, so Villingen insofar as transfer station functioned. On April 1, 1899, the line was converted to standard gauge and the horses were replaced by locomotives . The branch line was initially only used for factory traffic , i.e. the transport of Friedrichshütte employees and, above all, goods. The line was used for public passenger transport from December 1, 1907. The branch line to Ruppertsburg has not been in operation since May 31, 1959.

Railway systems

Reception building

The station building was built in 1890 with the opening of the line to Laubach. The upper floor is clapboard. A signal box was housed in a porch on the track side of the building . A goods shed with a small ramp is built on the northern side . The reception building is a single cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

Tracks and platforms

The station formerly had three tracks, of which track 1 was the continuous main track on the Hungen – Mücke line. Track 2 was west of it on the loading street , but also had a 105 meter long raised platform . The southern extension of track 2 behind the switch connection to the main line to Hungen ended at a combined head / side ramp. Track 3 lay east of track 1, ended at the ramp of the slightly recessed goods shed and was only accessible via a switch connection from the main track to Ruppertsburg. The house platform was obviously usable on both sides, since according to a plan from 1959 train journeys from Ruppertsburg were also allowed to take place on this track. Three single points and a double crossing point were laid in the station.

Until passenger traffic ceased, the station had entry signals for all directions and two exit signals on platform 2.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are still planning documents of the Deutsche Bundesbahn up to at least 1967, on which the station is designated as Bf. Villingen , which indicates that it was still used as a goods tariff point or similar at that time. was in operation.
  2. ↑ Hungen – Mücke route. Railway lines in Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Michael Meinhold et al.: Die Vogelsberger Westbahn , MIBA-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-86046-052-8 , p. 10
  4. ↑ a b Villingen – Ruppertsburg line. Railway lines in Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 7, 2016 .
  5. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hesse , p. 813
  6. ↑ Forgotten tracks , accessed on April 7, 2016, text under the penultimate row of images
  7. ↑ Entry in the electronic register of monuments, accessed on August 13, 2019
  8. ^ Michael Meinhold et al .: Die Vogelsberger Westbahn , MIBA-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-86046-052-8 , p. 11
  9. ↑ A site plan of the Deutsche Bundesbahn of Villingen station dated August 1960 no longer shows these signals; Here, track 3 and the stump track have already been dismantled, as have all the switches except for the two that connect track 2 to track 1.