Welver station
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| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | EWVE |
| IBNR | 8006323 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1850 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Welver |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 36 '59 " N , 7 ° 57' 24" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
Welver is a stop (since 1991) and a former train station in Welver in the Soest district . It is located on the Hamm – Soest railway line ; the Welver – Dortmund Süd line that previously branched off here was closed in 1968 and later dismantled.
history
On October 1, 1850, the region received a railway connection with the opening of the Hamm – Soest – Paderborn – Warburg line of the Royal Westphalian Railway Company . The train station between Hamm and Soest was named "Welver", although all of the facilities were within Meyerich's district. The reason for this is presumed to either avoid confusing the name “Meyerich” with “Meiderich” (Duisburg) or to take into account the supra-local meaning of the name “Welver” (through parish and former monastery). In 1880 a train station was opened in neighboring Borgeln .
In 1876 the Welver - Dortmund Süd - Sterkrade railway was put into operation. The station thus became a hub and also gained importance for the surrounding communities. The area around the train station became the new focus of the settlement, which tied the two kilometers apart villages Kirchwelver and Meyerich closer together in the course of the following decades.
Today this area is the traffic and economic center, the so-called "central place", while the mentioned villages are located on the outskirts. Shortly afterwards, a post office was opened in the new district “am Bahnhof”. Pharmacy, dairy, savings and loan fund, grocery stores, grain and animal feed trade and craft businesses settled near the train station. The inns also benefited. Travelers from the surrounding area far from the railroad came to Welver, parked their carriages in the stables of the inns and strengthened themselves before continuing their journey. Business travelers stayed here on their sales trips to the surrounding villages. In the summer the buyers came from the big cities, bought fruit here and sent it by train in large baskets to the clients in the industrial centers. The first doctor to practice in Welver, Otto Köster, moved into his living room and practice in house No. 90 (today the parking lot / demolished in 1974). There was even a bowling alley here in this area of the new settlement (Wilhelm Huffelmann's restaurant in house No. 90a - later Bergmann's hairdresser). Christian Wiemer set up the first station inn around 1880. Later he opened the regionally known Buchenwald inn.
service
Welver station is served by the RB89 line, called Ems-Börde-Bahn . It runs in a north-westerly direction to Hamm and Münster and in a south-easterly direction to Soest and Paderborn .
| line | course | Tact |
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| RB 89 |
Ems-Börde-Bahn : Münster (Westf) Hbf - Münster-Hiltrup - Rinkerode - Drensteinfurt - Mersch (Westf) - Hamm-Bockum-Hövel - Hamm (Westf) Hbf - Welver - Borgeln - Soest - Bad Sassendorf - Lippstadt - Dedinghausen - Ehringhausen - Geseke - Salzkotten - Scharmede - Paderborn Hbf - Altenbeken - Willebadessen - Warburg (Westf) Status: timetable change December 2019 |
Münster (Westf) –Paderborn: 30 min. Paderborn – Warburg (Westf): 120 min |
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost: