Vlotho train station

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Vlotho
2013-10-10-0636-Vlotho station.JPG
Location Inselbahnsteig, view towards Bad Oeynhausen (north), left in the foreground the beginning of the barrier-free entrance, center of the picture the old reception building, left in the background the Amtshausberg
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation HVLO
IBNR 8006091
Price range 6th
opening 1875, expanded 1908/09
Profile on Bahnhof.de Vlotho
Architectural data
Architectural style Gothic brick building
architect Wilhelm Köster, Herford (1908)
location
City / municipality Vlotho
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 10 '19 "  N , 8 ° 51' 49"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 10 '19 "  N , 8 ° 51' 49"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The vlotho station is a station on the railway line Elze wages in the East Westphalian town of Vlotho in the Herford district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The route connects the cities of Löhne , Hameln and Hildesheim and is used by the Weser Railway for local passenger transport . All buildings including the reception building have not been used for their original purpose since 1992 and are no longer owned by Deutsche Bahn.

Plant and importance

2006: Vlotho station on the slope of the Amtshausberg . The row of trees to the right of the B514 shows the course of the track, a little above to the right in the middle of the picture the former sugar factory
Former, on-site blocked entrance to the underpass
Barrier-free access to the underpass (location of the photographer) has been free since April 2013, from the direction of the bus station, in the background Vlotho town hall

The Vlotho station is classified by Deutsche Bahn in station category 6 . It is located on federal highway 514 northeast of the city center on the western bank of the Weser . The town hall of Vlotho is in the neighborhood . In 2012, barrier-free access to the underpass to the platform was created from the city's bus station.

Railway bridge over the Weser east of the train station

service

The route is served every hour (every two hours on weekends) by the RB 77 Weser Railway ( Bünde - Löhne - Rinteln - Hameln - Hildesheim Hbf - Bodenburg ). The operator is the NordWestBahn . Be used Alstom Coradia LINT -Dieseltriebwagen.

The station is located in the area of ​​the Westphalian tariff and the NRW tariff ; for the latter, it is the tariff limit towards Lower Saxony . The scope of the Westphalian tariff also includes the Rinteln train station. The Lower Saxony tariff is also valid .

Platforms

track Length in m Height in cm use
1 175 55 Trains in the direction of Hildesheim
2 175 55 Trains in the direction of Löhne and Bünde

Monument protection and building history

The former station building is made of exposed brickwork, provided with gable roofs or a hipped roof and covered with tar paper. The facade is structured by decorative masonry as well as surrounding cornices and pilaster-like projections. In the upper area of ​​the axially laid out building there are stucco decorations in the middle around a round window. To the left and right of the building there are bay-like porches, which are also provided with decorative masonry. Some of the flat arched windows have been replaced with newer ones.

The original planning of the system was in the hands of a department engineer from the Hanover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , who had acquired the concession to build the railway line between Elze and Löhne. The two-storey main building with a basement was 22.60 m long and 11.00 m wide and had a central projection of 12.30 m wide. The extensions made in 1908/09 and harmoniously coordinated with the original building go back to the architect Wilhelm Köster, who settled in Herford in 1892. Among other things, he was considered a specialist in the construction of tobacco factories at home and abroad. In addition, he planned and built many representative factory owner's villas from the late Wilhelminian era .

history

Until 1945

After initial reservations, in 1845 most of the merchants in Vlotho campaigned for their own station on the Cologne-Minden Railway . For centuries the Vlothoer Weserhafen was a transshipment point for the Ravensberger Land and for Lippe as well as for the freight traffic to and from Bremen and Thuringia . They feared economic disadvantages from its decline. The cause had already taken place and were imminent changes in the infrastructure (road and path network, as well as increasing development by rail traffic). Not long afterwards, the people of Vlotho supported the idea of ​​a direct rail connection from Minden via Vlotho to Paderborn . In this way, Vlotho was able to remain primarily connected to the northern Lippe, which was previously done through haulage. Finally, a route called Löhne – Vienenburg was realized . During the construction of the railway, also known as Löhne – Hamelner, there is evidence that migrant workers from non-German-speaking countries worked for the first time, in Vlotho it was Poland.

Construction work in Vlotho began in 1872 with the demolition of twelve residential buildings on lower Langen Strasse. Many residents were dissatisfied, they feared that the high embankment would rob them of light and air. During the construction of the freight station in 1874 a landslide destroyed a house. On June 30, 1875, the Löhne – Hameln line was officially opened with the first passenger train. Among the guests of honor there was none of the Vlotho dignitaries who had been forgotten to invite.

The new line closed a gap between the Elze – Goslar (handed over in 1853) and Löhne – Osnabrück (1855) lines and was therefore of importance for east-west traffic. At that time, the station building and a small goods shed belonged to the Vlothoer Bahnhof. In 1907 the switchman interlocking was built. In the years 1908–1911 the necessary double-track expansion of the line took place. The station building was expanded in 1909 by additions to an area of ​​around 800 m². The goods shed was expanded in 1923. In 1934 there were renovations in connection with the existing service apartments. In the same year, toilet facilities were installed in the building, which were accessible from 1968 by an external staircase from the station forecourt.

In the last days of the Second World War, the railway bridge over the Weser was exposed to attack by Allied bombers, but was not destroyed in an impassable manner. When, on April 3, 1945, a tank division of the approaching American troops was already in what is today the district of Exter , German pioneers tried to make it more difficult to cross the Weser by blowing up this bridge. In contrast to the road bridge located downstream, they only partially succeeded. During the reconstruction after the Second World War, the rail connection between the stations in Vlotho and Veltheim (Porta Westfalica) was only repaired on a single track in 1946 .

Although it is located near the Weser harbor, when the station was built there was no direct track connection there. Shortly before the First World War, the Gebr. Tintelnot sugar factory located on the border with Rehme (see also Bundesstrasse 514 ) was given its own track. The terminus of the Herford small railways , which connected Vlotho to Wallenbrück via Bad Salzuflen and Herford , was located near the Reichs- or later federal railway station and existed from 1903 to 1962.

1945 and after

Track diagram of the Vlotho train station in the 1980s

After the war, as a result of the positive economic development, traffic also increased significantly on the Löhne – Hameln route. The fuels required from the nearby Veltheim joint power station from 1959 onwards were transported in large parts by rail. In passenger transport, passengers could use trains directly to and from Braunschweig , Aachen or Mönchengladbach . The train stations in Veltheim and Eisbergen were administratively subordinate to the Vlotho train station .

The gradually increasing shift in transport and passenger traffic from rail to road had consequences. While in 1961 an average of 55 freight trains and 65 passenger trains passed the Vlotho station every day, this number had fallen to three freight trains and 22 passenger trains in 1992. The three freight trains served the Veltheim joint power station with coal for electricity generation. The daily average ticket sales had also shrunk from 600 to 30 pieces, luggage from 50 to 5 pieces. The building complex had become unprofitable. In the course of rationalization the goods handling was closed in June 1975. The goods shed changed to a private owner. The switchman interlocking burned down in October 2011 and was demolished.

The former station building, which was listed in 1988, was sold by the Deutsche Bundesbahn to a private individual in 1992. He left the building empty because, in his opinion, a re- use concept had not been implemented. In 2007 the city bought back the building, which had meanwhile become increasingly dilapidated, from the community of heirs of the first buyer. The station building was still empty and was left to decay only in a makeshift way.

Political discussion about the station building

West view of the reception building (from the B514) with the sign for the citizens' group in March 2013

An initiative went public in July 2010. She called for a redevelopment decision suitable for historic monuments and a sustainable utilization concept. This application was not dealt with at the following council meeting, but was postponed because, according to the city's mayor, “there is a serious interested party available who wants to use a large part of the building himself and who wants to rent out another part.” These negotiations should first be awaited, afterwards If the result is negative, the mayor also "suggests a final resolution". In August 2011 an investor was expected for the station.

In March 2012, after the withdrawal of a possible investor, the SPD parliamentary group submitted an application: the station building was to be used for the last time by May 2012, after which it was demolished. The Vlotho FDP then announced that “four Vlotho council groups” (meaning CDU, SPD, Green List Vlotho, Left) had “duped the Vlotho citizens for so long”. The FDP had already submitted an application for demolition in 2008, which had been rejected by the other parliamentary groups. A business made possible by an FDP member, in which a plot of land adjacent to the train station would have been released by the owner if at the same time permission to build a game hall in the Vlotho district of Uffeln had been granted, was rejected in the city council by “self-appointed moral guards” .

The city administration was considering removing the building from the list of monuments and tearing it down. In May 2012, the city council decided almost unanimously to remove it from monument protection. "The eyesore must disappear" said the group chairman of the CDU, "the thing is through" the group chairman of the FDP. In July 2012, the mayor of Vlotho reported on "intensive talks" with a possible investor, the demolition plans would then be off the table. In November 2012 it became known that the monument office had prohibited the demolition of the building. When asked, the mayor once again announced that there was someone seriously interested in investing in the station. At the same time, the city council decided to provide funds for a building to be demolished in the following year.

On April 25, 2013, the association “Bürgerbahnhof Vlotho e. V. ”. He fought to repeal the demolition decision and to renovate the station by means of a cooperative and to fill it with life. Those in Leutkirch (Allgäu) and Cuxhaven were viewed as comparable, previously successful projects. On July 3, 2014, at a council meeting, the demolition decision was revoked for the time being. As of September 1, 2015, the cooperative was entered in the register of cooperatives at the Bad Oeynhausen district court. On May 2, 2019, the citizens' association decided to dissolve it because "a revival can be excluded" and the purpose of the association "cannot be achieved".

The building of the former freight yard was demolished at the end of February 2020.

literature

  • History workshop Exter (ed.): Vlotho und die Eisenbahn (= contributions to local history. Edition G09 [1996 ff.] / O05 [2016]), ISSN  1619-7828 .
  • Karl Großmann: History of the city of Vlotho . Vlotho 1971, DNB  720233585 .
  • Thorsten Heese: New ways through the country - 150 years of the railway in the Herford district . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1997, ISBN 3-89534-206-8 .
  • Michael Bahls: The Hanover-Altenbekener Railway, Kenning Verlag, ISBN 978-3927587779
  • Josef Högemann / Stefan Högemann: Eisenbahnchronik Weserbergland, EK-Verlag, ISBN 978-3882555936

Web links

Commons : Vlotho train station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DB station list, as of January 2013 ( memento of July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 315 kB).
  2. ↑ Bodo Kohlmeyer: The new station entrance will be brighter . In: Vlothoer Anzeiger . December 31, 2012 ( online ( memento from January 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de, accessed on June 26, 2017 [accessed on February 27, 2013]). New train station access is getting brighter ( memento of the original from January 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vlothoer-anzeiger.de
  3. ↑ a b Platform information on Vlotho station ( memento from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: deutschebahn.com, 2016.
  4. ^ Status of the description according to the monument list of the city of Vlotho from June 1996.
  5. ↑ Section Münster / Herford: LWL awards Herford factory owner's villa as Monument of the Month for August. In: industrie-kultur.de. August 27, 2009, accessed February 11, 2016.
  6. ↑ When the train came ( Memento from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: lippe2web.eu. September 5, 2013, accessed on April 1, 2018 (source: Heimatland Lippe. 01/1980 - by Hans-Peter Adler).
  7. ↑ Thorsten Heese: New ways through the country - 150 years of the railway in the Herford district. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1997, ISBN 3-89534-206-8 .
  8. ^ A b Karl Großmann: History of the city of Vlotho. Vlotho 1971, DNB 720233585 , p. 288 ff.
  9. ^ Karl Großmann: History of the city of Vlotho. Vlotho 1971, DNB 720233585 , p. 289.
  10. ^ A b c Graf / Rinne / Sieber: Vlotho und die Eisenbahn (= Exter History Workshop (Hrsg.): Contributions to local history. Edition G09 [1996-2003]), ISSN  1619-7828 .
  11. ↑ Michael Bahls: The Hanover-Altenbekener railway. Kenning, Nordhorn 2006, ISBN 3-927587-77-X , p. 160.
  12. ↑ (va): Preserve and preserve the station building from collapse. In: Vlothoer Anzeiger. July 15, 2010; online ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Oliver Plöger: Station pushed. Administration still wants to hold talks. (No longer available online.) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. July 17, 2010, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Oliver Plöger: At the train station “still on the right track”. The city remains confident, but the purchase contract has not yet been signed / tenants are missing. (No longer available online.) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. August 16, 2011, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Oliver Plöger: SPD calls for the station to be torn down. Property negotiations without a conclusion / Dahm: “Urbanize and develop space”. (No longer available online.) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. March 14, 2012, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Oliver Plöger: "Four factions as self-appointed moral guards". According to the FDP, the rescue of the Vlotho train station could fail at an unapproved entertainment center on Höferweg in Uffeln. (No longer available online.) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. March 15, 2012, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .
  17. ↑ a b Oliver Plöger: The station is about to be demolished. Mare: "We have reached our limits" / Soon no more monument? ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. May 25, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
  18. ↑ Oliver Plöger: Rescue for the Vlotho train station possible. Possibly found an investor. (No longer available online.) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. July 6, 2012, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .
  19. ↑ (ela): Günter Lienen poses the station question. Mayor Bernd Stute speaks of two interested parties in the council. (No longer available online.) In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. November 22, 2012, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Template VIII / 267.
  21. ↑ Kai Wessel: We want to save the station. In: Westfalen-Blatt . February 27, 2013; online ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  22. ↑ Oliver Plöger: Leutkirch as a shining example ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: vlothoer-anzeiger.de. April 6, 2013, accessed April 9, 2013.
  23. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt. Regional edition of the Vlothoer Zeitung. September 19, 2015, p. 9.
  24. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt, regional edition Vlothoer Zeitung. May 13, 2019, p. 9.
  25. ^ Joachim Burek: The ruins are falling: the demolition of the ailing freight yard has begun. In: Westfalen-Blatt. February 27, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 .