Wangen railway station (Allgäu)
| Wangen (Allgäu) | |
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 Entrance building from the street side
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | TWW |
| IBNR | 8006200 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | July 31, 1880 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Cheeks__Allgaeu_ |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Wangen in the Allgäu |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 41 '21 " N , 9 ° 49' 51" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 570 m above sea level NN |
| Railway lines | |
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Kißlegg – Hergatz (km 13.3) |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The station Wangen (Allgäu) is the station in Wangen im Allgäu , district of Ravensburg . It is located on the Kißlegg – Hergatz railway line and belongs to the DB Station & Service .
Location and structure
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The station is located at kilometer 13.3 on the Kißlegg – Hergatz railway line .
The reception building can be reached via Bahnhofstrasse, which connects the station with the old town of Wangen to the south. The operations center has two main tracks , each with a platform edge , two entry signals , four exit signals and two switches . There is also a level crossing in the station area, and Ravensburger Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 32 ) crosses the two tracks in the east . The signaling system is controlled and monitored by the Wf interlocking, a Sp Dr L30 relay interlocking from Standard Elektrik Lorenz .
In addition to the reception building, there is also a building with the relay technology for the signal box.
The partially covered house platform on track 1 was 30 centimeters high and 156 meters long before the renovation, the intermediate platform on track 2, which was reached via a level crossing, was up to 36 centimeters high and 247 meters long.
history
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The "Eisenbahnkomitée", founded in 1861 in the Oberamtsstadt Wangen , tried to connect to the Württembergische Südbahn , which opened in 1850, or the Bavarian Allgäu Railway , which had opened between Immenstadt and Lindau in 1853. At first the deputations to Stuttgart had little success, and the Bavarian, at that time foreign, plan for a Memmingen – Wangen – Lindau route, thus across Württemberg territory, rather aroused displeasure in Stuttgart. As a result of the Wangen talks with "foreign countries", the government was even encouraged not to build a rail link. So first the roads to Hergatz , the next Bavarian train station, and Ravensburg on the southern line were expanded.
From 1870 the next station in Wuerttemberg was the one in Kißlegg as the provisional (until 1872) end point of the line from Herbertingen , on June 11th 1876 the construction of the Kißlegg – Wangen line was finally decided by the state parliament moved there. The first test train reached Wangen on July 26, 1880, and on July 30 and 31 the opening was celebrated in Wangen in the presence of Hermann von Mittnacht . In mid-July 1890 the topographically equally difficult route was opened in the city of Hergatz , dams with wooden construction . This laid the foundations for an increased industrialization of Wangen.
The original one-story and rather simple reception building was replaced by the current one in 1902. It was largely preserved, in the picture on the left (at the dispatcher) a building was built in front of the original outer wall. The platform roofs attached to the side structures were replaced by one on the central structure. With the decline in freight traffic to the point of complete cessation, the station was rebuilt to its two tracks today, an auxiliary building and the goods shed (still visible on the aerial photo) were demolished around 2010. The siding to the cellulose factory on Atzenberg also no longer exists.
The route Geltendorf – Lindau via Buchloe, Memmingen and Wangen is to be electrified by 2020, the level crossing on Ravensburger Straße is to be replaced by an underpass, the platform systems at the station itself are to be renewed and an underpass built. The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the platform renewal took place on April 9, 2019. To resume traffic on October 6, 2019 after the first construction break for electrification and the construction of two bridges, the new platforms and the underpass were also put into operation, the elevators are to follow in June 2020.
literature
- Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-872-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes. Entries W – We. In: www.stellwerke.de. October 26, 2015, accessed October 15, 2016 .
- ↑ DB Station & Service : Wangen (Allgäu) ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on deutschebahn.com, from August 29, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2018.
- ↑ Jan Peter Steppat: Reduced grants "are a mean thing" , Schwäbische Zeitung, January 28, 2016, accessed on October 16, 2016.
- ↑ Bernd Treffler: Barrier-free renovation of the train station in Wangen starts . Schwäbische Zeitung, April 9, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019.
- ↑ Bernd Treffler: Not everything is running smoothly at the “new” Wangen train station . Schwäbische Zeitung, October 7, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019.
- ↑ pama: Station elevators are in operation in Kißlegg - but in Wangen only in June. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
