Warnemünde train station
| Warnemünde | |
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 Reception building
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| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | WWM |
| IBNR | 8013236 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | September 30, 1903 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Warnemuende |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Rostock |
| Place / district | Warnemünde |
| country | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 10 '38 " N , 12 ° 5' 27" E |
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| Railway stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
The Warnemünde Train Station is located in the same seaside , a district of the Hanseatic city of Rostock . It is the end point of the Rostock S-Bahn . In addition, some long-distance trains run to the station. Until 1995 it was the starting point for ferries to Gedser in Denmark . The station building and some other facilities at the station are under monument protection .
location
The passenger station is not far from the center of Warnemünde on an island between two branches of the Warnow estuary , the Old and New Streams, a few meters from the Baltic Sea . The station bridge , a wide swing bridge for pedestrians , connects it with the town center to the west. To the east of the train station is the Warnemünde Cruise Terminal with berths for cruise ships and the departure point for the ferry to the other bank of the Neuer Strom and the sea canal to Hohe Düne .
The station is at the end of the Neustrelitz – Warnemünde line at kilometer 126.5, counted from Neustrelitz Hbf. South of the passenger station were the freight station facilities, and the Warnemünde shipyard stop is also located in this area.
history
The first train station (until 1903)
In 1886 the German-Nordic-Lloyd opened the Lloyd Bahn to Warnemünde. The main concern was the connection between Berlin and Denmark. The line with the two ports in Warnemünde and Gedser was put into operation in connection with the establishment of the railway on June 26, 1886 and replaced the mail steamer connection from Rostock to Nykøbing Falster . The travel time from Berlin to Copenhagen was reduced to 12 hours. Warnemünde station was a terminus station with a reception building at the end of the track. Immediately adjacent and accessible through a covered corridor was the departure point for the steamers to Gedser in a 450 meter long basin.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the waterways in Warnemünde were rebuilt. The New Stream was created as a connection to Rostock for wider ships, the Old Stream lost its importance as an approach to Rostock. The Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn , which had taken over the railway and the mail steamer line in 1894, and the Danish State Railways planned to convert the steamer connection into a railway trajectory. In order to allow direct transport of railway wagons to Denmark, a new train station and a ferry port were built east of the Alter Strom, which made direct loading possible.
Construction work began in 1900. The city of Rostock took over the filling of the new station area, the reconstruction of the jetties, the construction of the new, 1.1 kilometer long lake canal and the construction of a swing bridge over the old river to connect the station with the village.
The station building of the old station stood in the way of extending the route. That is why the tracks were led directly through the middle section of the building with the former reception hall, creating a kind of "tunnel".
Further development
On September 30, 1903, the work was finished and the new station went into operation. The tracks of the old train station served as a freight yard ever since. In 1935/36, outer platform 6 was built in the station on the Neuer Strom side.
In 1911 the line to Rostock was expanded to two tracks, but the second track went to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment after the Second World War in 1945 . The ferry service, which was continued in times of war despite all political difficulties, was not stopped until May 1, 1945 and resumed on May 10, 1947, mainly at the instigation of the Danish side. The ferry systems survived the war without major damage.
After the Second World War, the Warnow shipyard was built. For the transport of workers, a stopping point was built in 1949 on the area of the freight station to develop the adjacent Warnow shipyard. Until 1959 it was only used for rush hour traffic, since then it has been a public stop.
In 1962 the ferry beds were rebuilt. For decades, international traffic to Denmark consisted of two direct train pairs, the daytime Neptune and the night train Ostsee-Express, from the early 1960s to the late 1980s . There was also an express train to Berlin from and to the afternoon ferry to Gedser.
The passenger train connection to Rostock has been known as the S-Bahn since 1974 . After the section from Rostock main station to Bramow had already been double-tracked again, the rest of the line was then also double-tracked. Between Marienehe and Warnemünde shipyard, the route was relocated to the west near the new residential areas of Evershagen , Lütten Klein and Lichtenhagen . An additional island platform was built at the Warnemünde shipyard stop, for which a track from the freight station was dismantled. In 1985 the Rostock - Warnemünde route was electrified. The “tunnel” through the old station building stood in the way of electrification. This part of the building was demolished, only the western part of the building remained and served as a residential building.
In 1988 a new GSIII Sp68 central interlocking went into operation in the station, which controls traffic to Bramow and replaces three old mechanical interlockings.
After the political change in the GDR , there was an upswing in international travel. A third train to Denmark has been set up. However, the connection of the ferry terminal to the road network proved to be unsuitable for the increased vehicle traffic. Car ferries from the Rostock seaport on the eastern Warnow side handled most of the traffic. On September 23, 1995 the ferry traffic from Warnemünde to Denmark and thus the passenger traffic by rail in this relation was stopped, the facilities of the ferry station had been idle ever since. Several attempts to restart operations were unsuccessful, and the handling facilities were removed in 2014/2015.
In 1992 the passenger station with its historical buildings was renovated. Platform 1/2 was roofed throughout in 1999.
At the end of 2007, the disused siding to the shipyard was put back into operation in the freight yard . The area around the Warnemünde shipyard stop and the former freight station was also redesigned. The pedestrian bridge has been replaced by a tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists. A road bridge was built south of the stop, over which the vehicle traffic is directed to the cruise terminal and the Warnemünde - Hohe Düne ferry. The level crossing between the passenger and freight station was closed after the bridge was completed. Residential buildings are to be built on the site of the dismantled freight station.
The start of construction for the renovation of the station, originally planned for 2012, has been postponed to September 2018. The pedestrian underpass, which is not suitable for the handicapped, was dismantled and replaced by a level crossing in the northern area of the station. In addition, two new long-distance platforms (platforms 4 and 5) with a length of 370 meters each will be built. There are three direct entrances to the quay from platform 5. The existing track diagram interlocking will be replaced by a digital interlocking . It should go into operation in 2019 and be the second such signal box in Germany. After the interlocking had been controlling the section adjoining the station to the south in the first commissioning stage since September 2019, the second commissioning stage (with the station) followed for May 2020. Two old interlockings are to be replaced by the new system. The signal box is to control the section between Rostock-Bramow and Warnemünde with a total of 21 points and 66 signals. A total of around 65 million euros was invested.
Investments
Passenger station
The station consists of a modernized covered head platform with tracks 1 and 2, a wide, V-shaped central platform with a platform roof each on head track 3 and on the former through track 4. This was followed by track 5 with an intermediate platform and the side platform without roofing to the east from platform 6, on which the trains to / from Berlin stop for passengers of the cruise ships calling at Warnemünde . Access to tracks 1 to 4 is direct from the station forecourt, and until 2019 a pedestrian tunnel led to platform 6 and the passenger quay on Neuer Strom. During the renovation work in 2019/2020, it was replaced by a level crossing and the northern track sections were removed. The remnants of the intermediate platform on track 5 were removed during the renovation, the track is now used to move locomotives. The track on the outer platform was given the new number 5 as part of the renovation work.
Up until the turn of the millennium there were a few sidings southeast of this track, now there is a paid parking lot here. To the east of the track is the former signal box , which at times served a model railway club as accommodation and space for a model railway system .
The station building is north of the platforms on the station forecourt. On the central platform between tracks 3 and 4 there is a building with the former grand ducal waiting room.
Several parts of the station are under monument protection. These include the reception building, the stately waiting room on middle platform 3/4, this platform itself with its roofs on cast-iron columns, the former post office and the old signal box on the east side of the station. The swing bridge over the Alter Strom , which connects the station and town, is also a listed building.
Old train station, freight yard, Warnemünde shipyard stop
Until 1903 the line ended in a terminus about 650 meters south of today's passenger station. The area of the old station then served as a freight yard . Parts of the track system were retained until 2013, which were then removed for the renewal of the platforms of the Warnemünde shipyard stop and for the preparations for the development of the area with residential buildings. The Warnemünde Werft stop is in the area of the former freight station . After renovation in 2013/2014, there are now two renewed outer platforms, a tunnel with stairs and ramps, which connects the south-eastern platform with the north-western and the new bus system located there and the town. Before that there was an outside platform on the south-eastern side of the shipyard for trains in the direction of Warnemünde and an island platform for trains in the direction of Rostock, which were connected by a pedestrian bridge.
The shipyard stop was part of the Warnemünde train station. When it was rebuilt in 1903, the reception building of the old station was largely retained; the tracks to the new Warnemünde station crossed it further north. During the work on the electrification of the route in the early 1980s, the building was largely demolished, only the western part of the house was initially retained. For the development of the new residential area Am Molenfeuer with the streets Zum Zollamt and Am Wendebecken , it was completely demolished in December 2014.
Ferry station
To the north of the passenger station was the ferry station with the ramp systems for pulling the railway wagons on and off the ferries to Gedser in Denmark . The track numbering followed that of the passenger station, starting with 7. Two ferry beds were available for the trajectories , which were built over in 2014/2015 by a new bank reinforcement and thus removed.
Today's passenger traffic
The station is the end point of the S-Bahn to Rostock, which runs every quarter of an hour ( every 7½ minutes during rush hour ). In the long-distance-hour clock Two run daily during the season in the Intercity the line 17 to Dresden over Berlin as well as during the season at the weekend Intercity line 56 to Leipzig via Magdeburg and Halle (Saale) . Until the end of 2014 Warnemünde was also served by the Interconnex from Leipzig via Berlin. The Warnemünde Express , a direct excursion train, connected Berlin and Warnemünde on the weekends of the summer season until 2019. The passenger trains mostly only use tracks 1–4. Since the beginning of the 2000s, platform 6 on the eastern outer platform has generally only been used for special trains for cruise ship passengers and for night-time parking of S-Bahn trains.
There is no direct transition to urban buses and trains. There is a ferry connection across the Warnow (Neuer Strom) south-east of the train station to Hohe Düne .
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| IC 17 |
Warnemünde - Rostock Hbf - Neustrelitz - Berlin - Elsterwerda - Dresden
Warnemünde - Rostock Hbf - Neustrelitz - Berlin - Leipzig Hbf - Jena Paradies - Passau Hbf - Vienna Hbf |
120 (May to October)
seasonally daily, except Saturday |
DB long-distance transport |
| IC 56 | Warnemünde - Rostock central station - Schwerin - Wittenberge - Magdeburg - Halle (Saale) - Leipzig central station | a pair of trains a day, only seasonally | |
| S 1 | Warnemünde - Rostock-Lütten Klein - Rostock Hbf | 15 together with S2, S3; in peak hours 7½ | DB Regio Nordost |
| S 2 | Warnemünde - Rostock-Lütten Klein - Rostock Hbf - Schwaan - Güstrow | 60
120 (Sat + Sun) |
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| S 3 | Warnemünde - Rostock-Lütten Klein - Rostock Hbf - Laage - Plaaz - Güstrow | 60
120 (Sat + Sun) |
literature
- Lothar Schultz: The Lloydbahn, Neustrelitz – Rostock – Warnemünde. Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-08-9 , pp. 80–83, 90–97 and 148–154.
- Lothar Schultz, Peter Wilhelm, Klaus Pfafferott: 150 years of the railways in Rostock . transpress, 2000, ISBN 3-613-71124-9 .
- Lothar Schultz: 130 years of the Rostock Railway . German Model Railway Association of the GDR, 1980, DNB 208847839 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 181 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b c d e Lothar Schultz, Josef Temmen: The Rostock S-Bahn - Warnemünde . Kenning Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-933613-69-8 , pp. 41-45.
- ↑ North German Latest News. November 17, 2007, p. 19.
- ↑ The main construction period at the Nordkreuz has begun. ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) RSAG, September 26, 2011.
- ↑ Bahn-Report 6/2008, p. 35.
- ↑ Abuses around the former freight yard should be eliminated. (PDF; 4.6 MB). on: rostock-heute.de. P. 5.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG, Passenger Transport Division, Marketing eCommerce: Construction project Warnemünde Bahnhof | BauInfoPortal of Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved July 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Bahn wants to put second digital interlocking into operation. In: Freiepresse.de. March 23, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Frank Haberlandt, Olaf Körner, Ingo Buhlke, Frank von Oppenkowski: First insights into the construction project DSTW Warnemünde . In: The Railway Engineer . tape 70 , no. November 11 , 2019, ISSN 0013-2810 , p. 20-23 .
- ^ Bahn: Nationwide second digital signal box for Warnemünde. In: welt.de. November 11, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ News in brief . In: Railway courier . No. 7 , July 2020, ISSN 0170-5288 , p. 9 .
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Rostock. ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 39 kB)
- ^ Gerhard Lau: Monuments of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. Part 2 . Redieck & Schade, 2002, OCLC 248305878 .
- ↑ The tunnel house is coming away. on: www.nnn.de , December 6, 2014.
- ↑ From Berlin with the Warnemünde Express: there in the morning - seven hours of sun, beach and sea - and back in the evening! Deutsche Bahn website. Retrieved July 15, 2016.