Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line
The Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line is an electrified double-track main line in Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony . It runs from Magdeburg via Köthen and Halle (Saale) to Leipzig .
history
Construction began on January 24, 1838. For the first time in German railway history, it had to be taken into account that the line touched several countries: in addition to the kingdoms of Prussia (Magdeburg, Halle) and Saxony (Leipzig), it also crossed the Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen . The line was licensed by Prussia on November 13, 1837, and by Anhalt on September 18, 1840.
Opening dates:
- June 29, 1839: Magdeburg– Schönebeck (Elbe) (14.9 km)
- September 7, 1839: Schönebeck - Saale bridge near Calbe (12.4 km)
- June 19, 1840: Saale bridge - Köthen (22.6 m)
- July 22, 1840: Köthen – Halle (35.7 km)
- August 18, 1840: Halle – Leipzig (33.2 km)
On August 18, 1840, the entire line from Magdeburg to Leipzig was finally opened. Since the Magdeburg train station in Leipzig was right next to the Dresden train station , it was possible to transfer from Magdeburg to Dresden (the Leipzig-Dresden railway was opened in 1837). Later, a short connecting line made it possible to transfer through coaches.
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Since the state border between the kingdoms of Prussia and Saxony ran between the districts of Modelwitz (today part of Schkeuditz ) and Hänichen (today the city border between Schkeuditz and Leipzig), a connection contract was signed with the Leipzig-Dresden railway company for the section of the line located on Saxon territory . It was not until April 29, 1874 that the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway company bought the route in Saxony with effect from January 1, 1875.
On January 15, 1843, the double-track expansion of the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway, which had begun in 1842, was completed, and on November 1 of the same year the scheduled freight traffic began.
Until 1873, the trains of the Magdeburg-related railway companies departed from two different stations, as the city fortifications did not allow a common station: There was one station for the trains to Wittenberge and Hamburg and the Leipzig station for the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway as well as the trains to Berlin , Braunschweig and Halberstadt .
On June 1, 1876, the Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway Company was connected to the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Railway Company , which was nationalized by the Kingdom of Prussia by law of December 20, 1879. The Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway was subordinated to the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate Magdeburg. From April 1, 1895, the Halle – Leipzig section was under the newly founded Halle Railway Directorate.
On May 1, 1912, the Prussian section of Leipzig Central Station, where the Magdeburg line also ended, went into operation.
On April 1, 1920, the Magdeburg-Leipziger Eisenbahn merged with the other Prussian State Railways in the Reichseisenbahnen, from which the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft emerged on August 30, 1924 .
In 1920, the electrification of the Halle – Leipzig section began, which was first used on December 19, 1922 with an electric locomotive. Only on October 7, 1934 was the end-to-end electrification of the entire line from Magdeburg to Leipzig completed.
In 1946 the electrical systems were dismantled as a reparation payment. After the Soviet Union returned electric locomotives and equipment in return for deliveries of wagons, electric train operations could be resumed on September 1, 1955 on the Halle – Köthen section. The opening was celebrated with a locomotive train consisting of class E 44 locomotives . The Köthen – Schönebeck section followed on December 29 of the same year, the Schönebeck – Magdeburg section on January 12, 1957 and the Leipzig – Halle section on December 20, 1958. This made it possible to drive the entire route electrically again.
After 1990, the section between Magdeburg and Halle was largely upgraded for a top speed of 160 km / h. The Halle – Leipzig S-Bahn line was completed by December 2004 . A third and, in sections, a fourth track for the S-Bahn was built between Halle Hbf (Main station) and Gröbers. The Halle Messe, Dieskau and Gröbers stations were newly built on these tracks, and the Leipzig-Wahren station with the Lützschena section of the station was completely rebuilt. Together with construction work on the Leipzig-Wahren-Leipzig Hbf railway line, investments totaling 239 million euros were made in the course of this project. With the renovation of the Leipzig Messe station to incorporate the Eltersdorf – Leipzig high-speed line, the Magdeburg – Leipzig line was shortened by several kilometers in 2002. It has since ended in the Leipzig Messe Süd section of the station. The tracks leading to the Leipzig Hbf train station were transferred to the 6411 Trebnitz – Leipzig route , the original to the high-speed route towards Gröbers and Erfurt. With this conversion, the Wiederitzsch – Leipzig Messe Süd arc became single-track through the dismantling of the Magdeburg – Leipzig line.
Between 2014 and 2016, several new platforms were built at the Zöberitz, Niemberg, Stumsdorf and Weißandt-Gölzau stations.
With federal and state funds, the Calbe (Saale) Ost station was also made barrier-free . The three platforms were rebuilt to a length of 155 meters. The old reception building will then be torn down so that a bus interface and parking spaces can be created.
By 2025, the superstructure and control and safety technology as well as five bridges at the Köthen railway junction and between Köthen and Stumsdorf will be renewed so that passage speeds can be increased. The passenger traffic systems in Köthen station, which currently still have many elements from the imperial era, and in Arensdorf are also being completely rebuilt.
The section between Magdeburg and Halle is to be equipped with digital interlockings and ETCS by 2030 as part of the “starter package” of Digital Rail Germany , as part of the TEN core network corridor Scandinavia-Mediterranean .
service
The section between Magdeburg and Halle is served by a regional express line. It runs every hour, be used with electric locomotives of the series 146.0 -covered pull trains of usually three double-decker cars . Between Magdeburg and Schönebeck (Elbe) , the S1 line of the Mittelelbe S-Bahn runs on the same route, between Magdeburg Hauptbahnhof and Magdeburg-Buckau on separate tracks . It is served by class 425 electric multiple units, which were modernized in 2015. A two-hour regional express line to Erfurt and a two-hour regional train line to Aschersleben between Magdeburg and Schönebeck (Elbe) also use the route.
Between Halle and Gröbers or Wahren, the line is operated by lines S3 and S5 of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland with multiple units of the type Bombardier Talent 2 . The S5 trains run between Halle (S) and Gröbers on the long-distance railway tracks and then use the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line towards Leipzig / Halle Airport . The S3 line runs between Halle (S) Hbf and Gröbers via the S-Bahn tracks, route 6053, between Gröbers and Leipzig-Wahren via the main tracks and from Wahren to Leipzig Hbf via the direct route 6382 .
The route is used every two hours by the IC lines 55 and 56 , which overlap every hour . The Intercity trains only stop in Magdeburg Hbf, Köthen, Halle Hbf, Leipzig / Halle Airport and Leipzig Hbf. Schönebeck is served by individual journeys on line 55. These trains run between Gröbers and Leipzig Hbf on the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line . Since the end of 2015, Intercity-2 trains with class 146.5 locomotives have been used on the lines . Previously, the intercity trains were driven with class 101 electric locomotives , rarely also with class 120 locomotives . There is also a lot of freight traffic on the route. On the end section between Leipzig-Wahren and Leipzig Messe Süd via Wiederitzsch, no more passenger trains have been running as scheduled since December 2004.
literature
- Alfred von der Leyen: To the prehistory of the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 52, No. 47 (June 22, 1912), pp. 765–768.
- Peter Beyer: Leipzig and the beginnings of German railway construction. The route to Magdeburg as the second oldest German long-distance connection and the struggle of merchants to establish it. 1829-1840. Böhlau, Weimar 1978 ( Treatises on Trade and Social History 17, ISSN 0065-0358 ).
Web links
- East Corridor project website of DB Netz
- Tradition of the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line in the holdings of the Magdeburg Railway Directorate in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau Department
Individual evidence
- ↑ Route data on www.sachsenschiene.de
- ^ Schweers + Wall: Eisenbahnatlas 2007/2008, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 ; Pp. 45, 57-58, 130-131
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn: opening dates 1835-1935, route lengths, concessions, ownership structure Berlin 1935, reprint Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 No. 1839/2
- ^ Julius Michaelis: The Magdeburg-Leipzig railway. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations of September 13, 1861, p. 277.
- ^ Manfred Berger : Historische Bahnhofsbauten I, 3rd unaltered edition, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-344-70701-9 , p. 145.
- ↑ Other main railways in Saxony-Anhalt. Ministry for State Development and Transport Saxony-Anhalt, archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; Retrieved March 22, 2013 .
- ↑ New and improved local transport offers for the timetable change of Deutsche Bahn AG in Saxony-Anhalt. Deutsche Bahn AG, online at pressrelations.de , November 29, 2004, accessed on March 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Zöberitz traffic station. In: Saxony-Anhalt station program. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Railway station program Saxony-Anhalt, traffic station Niemberg. In: Saxony-Anhalt station program. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Stumsdorf traffic station. In: Saxony-Anhalt station program. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Traffic station Weißandt-Gölzau. In: Saxony-Anhalt station program. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Modernization push for small train stations (including list of measures). Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure , June 16, 2016, accessed on June 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Ministry of State Development and Transport: Press release no .: 076/2017 - Reconstruction of the Calbe (Saale) station is funded by the state. July 6, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
- ^ DB press office Leipzig: Modernization of the infrastructure between Magdeburg – Köthen – Halle. Archived from the original on July 27, 2017 ; accessed on July 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Alexander Schierholz: Further construction sites for the railway: renovation of the Koethen station begins - Halle on schedule . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on July 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Digital Rail Germany #####. (PDF) The future of the railroad. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, September 2019, p. 10 f. , accessed on May 2, 2020 .