Wittenberge train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | WW |
| IBNR | 8010382 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | October 15, 1846 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Wittenberg |
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| Architectural style | classicism |
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| City / municipality | Wittenberg |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 0 '7 " N , 11 ° 45' 46" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 24 m |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Wittenberge train station in the Brandenburg city of Wittenberge is located almost exactly in the middle of the Berlin – Hamburg railway line and is of national importance as a railway junction.
Around 5,000 passengers use the station, which is served by around 100 passenger trains. For a long time, the station was the one with the most long-distance passengers in Brandenburg.
Infrastructure
Route connections
The station was built in 1846 at km 126 of the Berlin – Hamburg line. In 1851 the Wittenberge – Stendal line was opened. From 1870 the branch line Wittenberge – Buchholz ran from here , leading to the northwest over the Dömitzer Elbe bridge and via Dannenberg (Elbe) to Buchholz in the north heath . This made the Wittenberge station an important railway junction between Berlin and Hamburg. The station building of what was then the wedge station was built between the western tracks of the Magdeburg line and the eastern tracks of the Berlin-Hamburg railway.
Reception building
The station building was built in 1846. It is a two-storey, three-axis building in the classical style. The architect was Friedrich Neuhaus , who also designed other station buildings, including the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) and the Hagenow Land station . In 1889 and 1923 the building was expanded.
The municipal housing association plans to buy and renovate the reception building.
Access and platforms
The train station is about 1.3 kilometers from the city center on the eastern edge of the city of Wittenberge. The station building with the main platform can be reached from the west via several streets directly adjacent. After the extensive renovation carried out by 2004, the edge of the platform is 375 meters long and 55 centimeters high; another 60 meters or so of the platform in the southern part are not directly on the through tracks.
From the central portion of the receiving building two further extend in the direction north island platforms of 405 meters in length with a height of 76 centimeters, respectively. They are connected to the house platform by a 65 meter long underpass.
Barrier-free access is achieved with a wheelchair ramp next to the three steps on the street along the reception building and for the island platforms with elevators next to the staircases.
Depot
A workshop building was built in the south of the station with the construction of the Berlin – Hamburg line in 1846, which over time was expanded to become a depot . Because of its location halfway between Berlin and Hamburg, it was important for the maintenance, provision and replacement of locomotives. In 1872 a roundhouse and turntable were built there. North adjacent came in 1889, another, larger roundhouse with 16 stalls added, which is still preserved and restored. It has been used as a railway museum by the Salzwedel steam locomotive friends since mid-2012 . Again next to it is a rectangular shed with formerly six, today still five locomotive stands, which was acquired in 2010 by Eisenbahnfahrzeugbau Wittenberge as a workshop building. Two water towers are still preserved today, one of which is still operational. With the electrification of the line completed in 1997 and the comparatively low-maintenance electric locomotive operation, the depot largely lost its previous importance.
Water tower of the Wittenberge depot
Roundhouse in April 2012
Vehicles in the Wittenberge depot
Administration building of the Bw Wittenberge
Forecourt of the Wittenberge depot
DB Wittenberge plant
In 1875 the Berlin-Hamburg railway company began building a "main railway workshop" in Wittenberge, which was put into operation on January 2, 1876. One year later, the main workshop was responsible for 141 locomotives, 246 passenger cars and 2779 freight cars, and was also responsible for maintaining the points until 1924. After the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920, the Wittenberg main workshop was run as the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk (RAW); she was subordinate to the Reichsbahndirektion Altona .
Starting in 1928, railcars with combustion engines were also repaired in the RAW Wittenberge and, from 1932, the express railcars of the Reichsbahn were serviced. The land area of the facility on the eastern side of the route opposite the station building comprised 244,000 square meters with 22 kilometers of track systems, of which 52,000 square meters were built on.
In September 2017, after a construction period of 24 months, DB Vehicle Maintenance opened a new wheelset workshop, in which 20 million euros were invested in order to be able to refurbish more wheelsets for the ICE fleet in the future. Around 110 employees work in the Wittenberg wheelset production. More than 10,000 wheelsets leave the factory every year (as of 2017).
Wittenberge substation
In 1987, a substation of the type decentralized converter / converter stations was built 600 meters south of the station building, in the east-facing curved track on Bad Wilsnacker Landstrasse , and connected to the catenary .
expansion
The Wittenberge station has been extensively renovated since 2000 as part of the expansion of the Berlin-Hamburg railway. It lost its status as an island train station. All tracks are now on the east side of the reception building. The so-called "Magdeburg side" lost its tracks, the line from the direction of Stendal was swiveled south of the building to the Berlin side. The number of tracks was also significantly reduced. As part of the construction work, 280,000 tons of earth were moved, around 22 kilometers of track renewed, 120 points removed and 42 installed and 32 kilometers of overhead lines replaced.
The speed of travel in the direction of Berlin was increased from 70 km / h (in 1996) to 160 km / h; an increase to 197 km / h would be possible using the ICE-T tilting technology . However, Deutsche Bahn has decided not to use arc-fast driving at speeds over 160 km / h. In the direction of Hamburg, the permissible speed in the platform area is 200 km / h. According to other information, only 30 km / h were permitted in sections before the start of the conversion. The renovation was intended to reduce operating costs, simplify transfers and free up 18 hectares of land for urban development.
The planning approval procedure ran in mid-1997 . The start of construction was planned for the same year. The planned costs at the beginning of 1997 were around 110 million DM. A total of 76 million euros were invested, including seven million euros in new platforms.
On August 30, 2000, the start of construction was celebrated in the presence of the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . The renovation should cost 152 million DM (78 million euros).
The rebuilt station was opened on August 24, 2004, also in the presence of Federal Chancellor Schröder.
Transport links
The station is served by both IC / EC trains from DB Fernverkehr and local trains from DB Regio and the East German Railway . Most ICEs pass the station without stopping. A few buses run as the "Arendsee Express" to Salzwedel via Arendsee . The line was set up after the cancellation of the trains on the Salzwedel – Geestgottberg line . The following lines stopped at the station in the 2016 timetable:
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| ICE 28 | Hamburg - Ludwigslust - Wittenberge - Berlin | individual trains | DB long-distance transport |
| EC 27 | Hamburg - Wittenberge - Berlin - Dresden - Praha | 120 | DB long-distance transport |
| IC 56 | Leipzig - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Halle - Magdeburg - Schwerin - Rostock - Warnemünde | a pair of trains | DB long-distance transport |
| RE 2 | Wismar - Schwerin - Wittenberge - Neustadt - Nauen - Berlin - Königs Wusterhausen - Lübben - Cottbus | 120 (Wismar – Wittenberge) 60 (Wittenberge – Cottbus) |
East German Railway |
| RE 6 | Wittenberge - Perleberg - Pritzwalk - Wittstock - Neuruppin - Hennigsdorf - Berlin-Spandau - Berlin Gesundbrunnen | 60 | DB Regio Nordost |
| S 1 | Wittenberge - Osterburg - Stendal - Tangerhütte - Magdeburg - Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen |
60 (Mon-Fri) 120 (Sat-Sun) |
DB Regio Southeast |
literature
- NN: Salzwedel and Wittenberge. Two Bw in flight . In: railway magazine . No. 2/2012 . Alba publication, February 2012, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 24–28 (with a large-format aerial photo from October 22, 2011).
Web links
- DB Projekt Verkehrsbau Construction project "Hamburg - Berlin", page 5 ( Memento from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Tempo 200 is allowed in the Wittenberge train station in the future . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 203 , August 31, 2000, pp. 27 .
- ^ Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum: Wittenberge station. October 8, 2015, accessed February 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Barbara Haak: Wittenberge station: New inner workings are easily feasible. In: svz.de. April 11, 2018, accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Steam locomotive friends in Salzwedel
- ^ Eisenbahn-magazin 2/2012, pp. 25–28.
- ↑ Heinz Muchow: How the agricultural town of Wittenberge developed into an industrial city Publisher: Books on Demand (August 14, 2001) ISBN 978-3-8311-2355-1
- ^ Brandenburg: New wheelset workshop in the Wittenberge plant. In: LOK Report. September 25, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018 .
- ^ A b Hans-Jürgen Kielke: Reconstruction of the Wittenberge train station “Liberation from the island situation ” . In: Roland Heinisch , Armin Keppel , Dieter Klumpp, Jürgen Siegmann (eds.): Expansion of the Hamburg – Berlin route for 230 km / h . Eurailpress, Darmstadt 2005, pp. 112–116.
- ↑ a b Wittenberge: renovation of the station begins . In: Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit mbH (publisher): Info-Brief , ZDB -ID 2668166-3 , issue 2/1997, August 31, 1997, p. 5.
- ↑ Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit mbH (Ed.): Current: Project 2 and 3 . Issue 1/1997, January 1997, p. 6.
- ↑ Announcement of the conversion of the long-distance train station in Wittenberge completed . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 10/2004, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 428.