Weißenfels train station

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Weissenfels
Entrance building, street side (2011)
Entrance building, street side (2011)
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation UW
IBNR 8010368
opening June 6, 1846
location
City / municipality Weissenfels
country Saxony-Anhalt
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 12 '17 "  N , 11 ° 58' 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '17 "  N , 11 ° 58' 16"  E
Height ( SO ) 107  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt
i16 i18

The White Rock Station is a place of business of the railway line Halle-Bebra and the branching here route to Zeitz in the field of city Weissenfels in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The station is located at the 32.0 kilometer of the Halle – Bebra railway line . It is also the starting point for a route to Zeitz (km 0.0).

It is located well north of the city center and near the banks of the Saale . The street Am Güterbahnhof and Bahnhofstrasse are adjacent. Landstrasse 206 (Merseburger Strasse) is crossed at the western end of the station.

The Großkorbetha station is located about eight kilometers to the northeast. The Leißling stop is a good five kilometers away in a south-westerly direction . On the line that branches off to Zeitz, the next station is the Weißenfels West stop, which is almost four kilometers away, and the distance to the town center is even greater than that of the train station.

history

On June 6, 1846, the Weißenfels station went into operation on the Halle – Bebra line , which was already double-tracked. Thus Weißenfels was temporarily the end of this route. By 1849 the line to Bebra was completed.

Plans from 1845 still provided for the station building to be erected to the south on the Saale side. This would have been the place where the second building, still preserved today, stands. A platform with two adjacent tracks was also built. A coke shed was built in the western area of ​​the station . A track plan from 1857 shows the existence of over 30 points. Furthermore, there was already a wagon shed, a locomotive shed, a turntable , a water station and a toilet. There was only one platform track, which was relatively long so that trains from both directions could stop at the platform.

Initially, lignite dominated freight transport .

At the street crossing with Merseburger Straße there was a mechanical full barrier system with four barrier booms. In 1857 the first major reconstruction took place after the lines to Leipzig and Gera were built.

On February 9, 1859, the line to Zeitz was added. This led to Weißenfels becoming a connecting station . In this context there was a major reconstruction of the track system.

Entrance building seen from the Saale (2013)

Another renovation of the track system took place towards the end of the 1860s. New freight and loading tracks were added. The construction of a second reception building also began in 1870. A third track from Zeitz was led into the station. It ended in two butt tracks south of the existing platforms. Because of the trains coming from Zeitz, the platform was also expanded.

From May 1941, the section between Camburg –Weißenfels– Großkorbetha was electrically accessible. In 1946 the overhead line was switched off and dismantled as part of the reparation payments to the Soviet Union. At the end of 1959, electric train operations between Halle and Weißenfels were resumed. In 1967 the electrification of the western routes to Camburg and Neudietendorf was completed.

The renovation of the underpass and the construction of a new platform on platform tracks 1 and 2 began in the 2010s. In 2013, the work was completed. The investment volume was around 755,000 euros. The northern platform with tracks 3 and 4 had already been modernized.

In 2011/12, a new bus station was built , which should better connect bus and train.

Investments

Platforms and tracks

Platforms with regional trains (2009)

Currently (2017) the station has the following platform tracks:

number Platform height Net length
1 55 cm 174 m
2 55 cm 174 m
3 76 cm 323 m
4th 76 cm 323 m

Reception building

Reception building (2009)

The station building is a listed building .

In 2016 the city of Weißenfels bought the station building from Deutsche Bahn .

The facade was refreshed on the occasion of Saxony-Anhalt Day 2010. The city of Weißenfels continues to endeavor to obtain funding from the Revita program of the state of Saxony-Anhalt for an extensive renovation of the building.

Currently (2017) it is largely unused. A local association is considering opening a museum on the Weissenfels railway history.

Signal boxes

Before the electronic interlocking was commissioned , the following interlockings were built:

designation function Type
Wb Fdl
Wm Ww SuH 1912
Where Fdl SuH 1912
WrI Ww SuH 1912
WrII Ww SuH 1912
Wv Ww SuH 1912
Ww Ww SuH 1912

When the interlockings were taken out of service on December 12, 1999, an electronic interlocking from Siemens went into operation on the same day , which is remotely controlled by an operations center in Leipzig .

traffic

According to an article published in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in 2013 , there are more than 3000 passengers every day.

Long-distance transport

line Course of the journey Cycle (min) operator
ICE 28 Hamburg-Altona  - Berlin  - Leipzig  - Weißenfels  - Jena Paradise A pair of trains DB long-distance transport
IC 51 Leipzig - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Erfurt - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Dortmund - Düsseldorf - Cologne A pair of trains
IC 61 Leipzig - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Jena Paradise - Nuremberg - Stuttgart - Karlsruhe A pair of trains

Since the commissioning of the Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle high-speed line in December 2015, long-distance traffic on the Halle – Bebra railway line in the section between Erfurt and Halle / Leipzig has been significantly reduced.

In the past, trains stopped on the following connections:

Up until 2001 Weißenfels was served by interregional trains, which followed a similar route. D-trains were still running until 1998 .

Regional traffic

line Course of the journey Cycle (min) operator
RE Leipzig - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Jena Paradies - Saalfeld - Lichtenfels - Bamberg - Nuremberg 120 DB Regio Bavaria
RE 16 Halle - Merseburg - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Bad Kösen - Apolda - Weimar - Erfurt 120 Abellio
RE 18 Halle - Merseburg - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Bad Kösen - Jena Paradise - Jena-Göschwitz 120 DB Regio Southeast
RB 20 Leipzig - Bad Dürrenberg - Weissenfels - Naumburg - Apolda - Weimar - Erfurt - Gotha - Eisenach 060 Abellio
RB 25 Halle - Merseburg - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Camburg - Jena Paradies - Orlamünde - Saalfeld 060
RB 76 Weißenfels - Teuchern - Deuben - Zeitz 060 (Mon-Fri)
120 (Sat-Sun) 		DB Regio Southeast

literature

  • Georg Thielmann, Roland Pabst: The Thuringian trunk line . Wachsenburgverlag, Arnstadt 2006, ISBN 3-935795-00-9 , p. 118-119 .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Weißenfels  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  2. ^ Michael Dittrich: IBNR directory. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f IG Eisenbahn in Weißenfels: Minutes of the twenty-seventh meeting of the interest group “Eisenbahn in Weißenfels”. (PDF) April 3, 2013, pp. 12–16 , accessed on August 10, 2017 .
  4. ^ Halle – Bebra railway line. In: rbd-erfurt.de. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Weissenfels – Zeitz railway line. In: rbd-erfurt.de. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Werner Drescher: The Saalbahn - The history of the railway between Großheringen, Jena and Saalfeld . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-88255-586-6 , p. 44
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Kirsche: Railway Directorate Erfurt 1882-1993 . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-933254-76-4 , p. 87.
  8. ↑ Sachsen-Anhalt station program: Weißenfels. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .
  9. ^ Bärbel Schmuck: New bus station with an unusual roof. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . September 5, 2012, accessed August 14, 2017 .
  10. ^ DB Station & Service AG: Weissenfels station. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; accessed on August 14, 2017 . 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.deutschebahn.com
  11. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  12. ↑ a b Andreas Richter: Traffic junction Weißenfels - problem case train station. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . April 2, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Kunick: Is the Weißenfels train station completely deserted? In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . June 21, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Andreas Richter: Will a deserted train station get a museum? In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . June 8, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  15. ↑ signal box list. Entries W. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  16. ^ Andreas Richter: Urban development: Lichtblick in Weißenfelser Bahnhof. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . April 13, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Long-distance transport database. Weissenfels. In: grahnert.de. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .