Wartha train station (Werra)
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 The buildings of the train station from the southwest (2013)
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station , former separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| abbreviation | UWAR |
| opening | 1907 |
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| City / municipality | Eisenach |
| Place / district | Waiting |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 ′ 27 " N , 10 ° 12 ′ 34" E |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Bardo (Werra) Bahnhof is the former train station of the municipality Warta (Werra) in Thuringia . The former border station is located in the north of what is now Eisenach . Until the 1960s, the station on the Thuringian Railway was the separation station for the branching line to Schwebda via Creuzburg , Mihla and Treffurt .
history
On September 25, 1849, the last section of the Thuringian Railway between Eisenach and Gerstungen was opened. In 1907 the railway line from Wartha to Treffurt was completed. In this context, the Wartha train station was set up near Wartha, where the new line branched off from the Thuringian Railway. Trains between Eisenach and Treffurt or Eschwege made heads here.
On May 8, 1945, two freight trains collided in the station and there was a serious explosion in which the station building caught fire and burned out. When the inner-German border closed , the station became a border station. Until the completion of the Förtha – Gerstungen railroad in 1963 , the entire rail border traffic between Eisenach and Bebra was handled here, right next to the road border crossing at Wartha / Herleshausen , after which the crossing was still used for freight traffic until 1978. After 1963, the Gerstungen station became the new border station .
In 1969 the remaining railway line to Mihla was shut down and dismantled. From August 1, 1978, when goods traffic was discontinued, railway operations ceased, only during the construction of the nearby Hörschel bridge on today's Federal Motorway 4 in 1983, individual materials were still transported to Wartha. The border crossing point at Wartha train station was dismantled in 1985 and the rail connection at the border was interrupted.
With the opening of the inner-German border in 1990, the track gap immediately west of the station was closed and the line via Herleshausen to Gerstungen was gradually put back into operation. The Wartha train station has since served as an alternative and overtaking point as well as a depot . Two of the former station buildings have been preserved. One of them, the former reception building, houses technical systems, the unused second is marked by vandalism and left to decay. The station is not used for passenger transport. In 2005, a loading station for road salt was built on the north side of the station .
gallery
The former station building
Outbuilding (former train station restaurant)
