Wohlen station

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Wohlen station
Station building
Station building
Data
Location in the network Connecting station
Platform tracks 3 (SBB) + 1 (BD) + 1 (WM)
abbreviation WHERE
IBNR 8502213
opening June 23, 1874
Profile on SBB.ch No. 2213
location
City / municipality Well
Canton Aargau
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 662 816  /  244510 coordinates: 47 ° 20 '54 "  N , 8 ° 16' 12"  O ; CH1903:  662,816  /  244510
Height ( SO ) 423  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Wohlen station of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is the station of Wohlen in the canton of Aargau . It was opened in 1874 and is located on the Aargau Southern Railway . It is also the starting point of the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn and the Wohlen-Meisterschwanden-Bahn , although there is no longer any passenger traffic on the latter.

investment

The facility is located just under half a kilometer southwest of the village center, diagonally across from the Reformed Church . It is oriented from northwest to southeast and has a total of eight tracks. The 55 meter long reception building with a hipped roof and two storeys in the middle is built in the classical style. It has a red-brown facade with sandstone-colored risalits . Adjacent to it is a goods shed of the same length with a loading ramp , which however no longer serves this purpose. The station building was built according to the plans of the SCB architect Fechter, who was also the site manager for the building. There is an SBB travel center in the reception building. In the anteroom is the Domino 67 interlocking, which has been remote-controlled from Olten since 2004 .

Track 1 on the house platform is only rarely used. Between tracks 2 and 3 there is a 250-meter-long roofed central platform on which all passenger traffic is handled. Tracks 4 and 5 serve as crossing and passing tracks for transit goods traffic. Track 6 has a covered side platform for the now closed Wohlen-Meisterschwanden-Bahn and is otherwise used for parking. Two shorter tracks that ended at the goods shed from the south-east were removed. Two passenger tunnels connect the station square with the middle platform, one of them also with the Farnbühl residential area on the south side. Separated from the rest of the facility by the forecourt, below the church is the terminus of the narrow-gauge Bremgarten-Dietikon railway , consisting of two butt tracks and a short covered side platform. To the southeast of the station there was a transition between the standard gauge and the narrow gauge network until 2016, so that freight trains could run on a three- rail track without reloading to Bremgarten West.

offer

View of the middle and house platform
Goods shed
No longer used side platform of the Wohlen-Meisterschwanden-Bahn
Platform of the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn on the forecourt, behind the reformed church

Trains on the S26 of the Aargau S-Bahn run from Rotkreuz via Lenzburg to Aarau , as do trains on the S25 from Muri to Brugg . In addition, direct trains on the S42 line of the Zurich S-Bahn run to and from Zurich in the evening and morning peaks . Wohlen is the western end point of the half-hourly S17 of the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn .

Postbuses to Dottikon , Hägglingen , Mellingen, Heitersberg , Muri and Uezwil run from the forecourt of the station . The Limmat Bus company operates a bus line to Meisterschwanden as a replacement for the disused Wohlen-Meisterschwanden railway. In addition, a local bus network consisting of six lines provides for the fine development.

Bus transport

Postbus

Limmat bus

Local bus Wohlen

  • 1 train station - Halde - Hochwacht - train station
  • 3 Bahnhof - Industrie West
  • 4 Train station - Bünzmatt - Rigacker - Anglikon
  • 5 Bahnhof - Bifang - Gewerbering - Junkholz
  • 8 Train station - canton school - train station
  • 9 Train station - Haldenschulen - train station

history

From 1835 there was a daily stagecoach connection between Lenzburg and Wohlen. Although the carriage traffic was continuously expanded, it soon no longer met the growing demands. In particular, the influential, up-and-coming straw industry required a connection to the Swiss railway network. Various companies convinced the community assembly to participate in the Aargau Southern Railway with half a million francs . On June 23, 1874 the 13.3 km long section Rupperswil –Lenzburg – Wohlen was opened, the 9.7 km long section Wohlen– Muri followed on June 1, 1875. The reception building and the goods shed were only completed in the second year of operation; In addition, there was a mail car depot, a turntable and a water station with a crane. The Wohlen-Bremgarten Railway opened a 7.0 km long branch line to Bremgarten on September 1, 1876 . With the completion of the Muri – Rotkreuz section (17.9 km), the entire length of the southern railway was open to traffic from December 1, 1881, and seven months later it was connected to the Gotthard railway .

The SBB took over the Südbahn and the Wohlen-Bremgarten-Bahn on January 1st, 1902. In the following years they built an extension to the reception building and a washing facility for freight cars. By taking over, converting and electrifying the Wohlen-Bremgarten-Bahn, the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn was able to start continuous narrow-gauge operation between Wohlen and Dietikon on February 8, 1912 , with the section to Bremgarten West still for standard-gauge freight trains using a three -rail track remained passable.

In the first four decades the station was called “Wohlen-Villmergen”. This changed on 18 December 1916, the opening of over Villmergen leading Wohlen-Meisterschwanden train with which the expansion was completed at the railway junction. In 1927 the southern railway was electrified, and in 1930 the Wohlen– Dottikon section was expanded to double-track. The double-lane expansion of the Wohlen– Boswil section was a long time coming, but until 1981 there was still a 700-meter-long single- lane section due to a level crossing southeast of the station - a bottleneck on the transit goods route between Hamburg and southern Italy .

At the end of the 1970s, the SBB planned a fundamental renovation of the Wohlen station. The corresponding project was approved in a referendum in June 1980, and the groundbreaking ceremony was on September 30 of the same year. Previously, the station had an intermediate platform that could only be reached by crossing several tracks and thus represented a security risk. A new middle platform, accessible without rails, and a side platform for the Wohlen-Meisterschwanden lift were created. The station building was renovated and the forecourt was adapted to the changed needs of pedestrians and bus passengers. The converted train station was officially inaugurated in August 1982 as part of a four-day festival. On May 31, 1997, the Wohlen-Meisterschwanden-Bahn stopped passenger traffic; A short section into the industrial area remained, which is used sporadically for freight traffic. The station restaurant was closed due to a lack of tenants and replaced in 2008 by a Coop Pronto store .

In 2011, planning began on a comprehensive redesign of the train station. From May 2018 it was completely renewed and rebuilt. The central platform was widened and at the same time increased to 55 cm to enable stepless entry into the low-floor wagon. In addition, a second underpass was built to the bus stops. After eight months of construction, the work was completed on November 26, 2018. The Wohler voters approved a project on June 10, 2018 that includes the renovation of the station square. A new and significantly expanded bus station and an underground park-and-ride facility will be built by 2021. In addition, the ticket counter from the 1980s will also be torn down and a new and modern SBB travel center will be built in the station building from mid-2019. The partners involved in the planning of the station conversion agreed in June 2018, after long hesitation on the part of SBB, to demolish the goods shed. The narrow-gauge tracks of the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn are to be led into the station on the area that will be freed up, so that the previous terminus on the other side of the square can be omitted. This sub-project is to be implemented by 2023.

literature

  • Emil Wohler, Fritz Stäuble, Lorenz Stäger, Heini Stäger: Wohlen station 1874–1983 . Kasimir Meyers Sons AG, Wohlen 1983.
  • Anne-Marie Dubler , Jean-Jacques Siegrist : Wohlen - History of law, economy and population of an early industrialized community in Aargau . In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau . tape 86 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1975, ISBN 3-7941-1367-5 , p. 620-621 .
  • Werner Stutz: Railway Stations in Switzerland - From the Beginnings to the First World War . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 , p. 183 .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Wohlen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Stutz: Railway stations in Switzerland from the beginning to the First World War . Orell Füssli, 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 , page 183.
  2. ^ Bahnhof Wohlen (AG): Coop Pronto opened. Swiss Federal Railways, March 12, 2008, accessed on June 1, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Andrea Weibel: The new underpass at Wohlen station is under construction. Aargauer Zeitung , May 11, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Johanna Lippuner: The new station underpass is ready - many passers-by did not even know why it was being built. Aargauer Zeitung , November 26, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Andrea Weibel: Wohlen says very clearly yes to the new Bahnhofplatz for 17.75 million Aargauer Zeitung , June 10, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Toni Widmer: Breakthrough in planning: the BDB train station is to be relocated. Aargauer Zeitung , June 14, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018 .