Basel Badischer Bahnhof

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Basel Bad Bf
The Badischer Bahnhof (opening on September 13, 1913)
The Badischer Bahnhof
(opening on September 13, 1913)
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 10
abbreviation RB ( DB )
BAD ( SBB )
IBNR 80-00026 (DB)
85-00090-1 (SBB)
opening September 13, 1913
(predecessor at different location: May 1, 1855)
Profile on SBB.ch No. 90
Architectural data
Architectural style Homeland security style
architect Karl Moser
location
City / municipality Basel
Canton Basel city
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 612 709  /  268 484 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '1 "  N , 7 ° 36' 27"  O ; CH1903:  612709  /  268 484
CH-m 263  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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Station sign "Basel Bad Bf"

Basel Badischer Bahnhof , officially Basel Bad Bf , is one of six train stations in the Swiss city ​​of Basel . After an initial temporary arrangement from 1855 to 1862 and the first permanent construction on the site of today's Basel Sample Fair , it was erected from 1913 at its current location on Schwarzwaldallee between the districts of Hirzbrunnen and Rosental. With an average of 20,000 travelers per working day, the Badischer Bahnhof is the second largest train station in Basel after the Centralbahnhof Basel SBB with 135,000 travelers.

Together with the other railway stations owned by the Federal Republic of Germany on Swiss territory ( Riehen , Riehen Niederholz , Herblingen , Thayngen , Neuhausen Bad Bf , Beringerfeld , Beringen Bad Bf , Neunkirch , Wilchingen-Hallau and Trasadingen ) it is one of the last train stations that are still in direct federal possession after the rail reform in Germany .

All long-distance and regional trains of the Deutsche Bahn and Swiss Federal Railways between Germany and Switzerland stop in front of or after the Basel SBB station at this station, where they connect to the regional lines in the direction of Waldshut - Schaffhausen - Singen on the Hochrheinbahn or to Zell im Wiesental on the Wiesentalbahn and to Offenburg and Karlsruhe on the Oberrheinbahn . The Badischer Bahnhof is also part of the trinational Basel S-Bahn network .

From 1935 to 1948 the station was called Basel Deutsche Reichsbahn (short: Basel DRB ). In the announcements of long-distance trains coming from Germany, the Badische Bahnhof is referred to in English as Basel German Station , the SBB station as Basel Swiss Station .

history

In March 1838, the Grand Duchy of Baden began building a railway line with a gauge of 1,600 mm from Mannheim via Heidelberg , Karlsruhe , Offenburg and Freiburg im Breisgau to the south towards the Swiss border. This line was called " Badische Hauptbahn " or " Rheintalbahn ". A Swiss or Basel-Stadt railway commission wanted the railway to be continued into the city of Basel and contacted the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1842.

In January 1851 the Rheintalbahn reached Haltingen near the Swiss border. Because the two governments could not yet agree on the railway station in Basel, passengers were taken to Basel in horse-drawn buses from there .

On July 27, 1852, a state treaty, which is still valid today, was concluded between the Grand Duchy of Baden and Switzerland on the continuation of the Baden railways across Swiss territory. The start of construction was delayed even further. The Basel government pushed for a terminus station , while Baden insisted on a through station so as not to hinder the planned continuation of the railway towards Waldshut . In 1854, the Basel government had various building construction plans, but it was still not possible to agree on a project and construction was further delayed.

On December 9, 1854, the Rheintalbahn began to change gauges to standard gauge . The renovation was essentially completed on March 26, 1855.

The first Baden train station (1855 to 1913)

The first Baden train station stood at today's Messeplatz. At that time, this place was outside of the actual settlement area on the outskirts of Basel. Today's Riehenring was then called Bahnhofstrasse, but in 1904 the street was renamed Riehenring.

Provisional (1855 to 1862)

On February 19, 1855, the standard-gauge railway line from Haltingen to Basel went into operation and the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways put a temporary wooden structure into operation as a reception building at the planned location of the station. The Baden State Railways immediately built on the extension of their railway line towards Singen (-  Konstanz ) and were able to put it into operation on February 2, 1856 to Säckingen .

On April 10, 1859, Basel and the railway finally agreed on the construction of a permanent reception building, and construction work began in May of the same year.

Definitive construction (1862 to 1913)

Badischer Bahnhof from 1862

The reception building, designed by the Karlsruhe architect Karl Joseph Berckmüller , provided for an entrance tower protruding from the vestibule, with adjoining central structures on the left and right and further wing structures. The open arcade vestibules dominated the street side. On May 1, 1862, the station could finally be opened. When the continuous line to Constance went into operation in 1863, the waiting rooms and restaurant rooms had to be enlarged. The Basel connecting line to the Swiss Central Railway station, which opened in 1873, required further structural adjustments.

Over the years, the tracks of the Baden railway got in the way of urban development and a solution was sought. In 1892, the Baden State Railways wanted to expand the station facilities and there were even proposals to convert the through station into a terminal station. But the city of Basel wanted to ban the all-cutting railway from the growing neighborhoods. From 1899 negotiations took place with the Grand Duchy of Baden about a redesign of the railway systems and in March 1900 the parties agreed to relocate the Baden passenger station to Schwarzwaldallee and to convert the other railway systems. Shortly afterwards, construction work began on the new track system. First, the local freight station near its original location was significantly expanded and, as the first stage of rail renewal, it was opened in 1905.

Since 1878 there has been a transport post office in the immediate vicinity of the Badischer Bahnhof, which was responsible for handling postal traffic with the Deutsche Reichspost . The transport transit office had a total traffic of almost 3.5 million items in 1912. This traffic was too big for the old rooms in the Badischer Bahnhof. Instead of moving into the new building of the Badischer Bahnhof, the Fahrposttransitbüro was relocated to a new building in the Centralbahnhof in 1913 . The post office Basel 17 Transit was merged with the parcel transit office

From 1913, when the railway system was relocated to the new location, the Basel Autumn Fair and, after the First World War, the Basel Sample Fair were held on the old station area . In the meantime, the old reception building served as a factory and warehouse. It was canceled on December 21, 1923.

Today's Badischer Bahnhof (since 1913)

Portal to the train station
Interior view of the counter hall, seen from the main entrance. Access to and from the platforms is on the left.

In 1906, construction work began on the actual railway facilities, which were relocated to the edge of the city and built in a new elevation throughout. This freed Kleinbasel from all level crossings and the tunnels and passages for streets and pedestrians could be created at the level of the terrain.

However, when it came to the design of the facade of the new train station, opinions differed and further quarrels delayed the construction of the reception building. But in the end the design by the Swiss architect Karl Moser (1860–1936), from whom the Pauluskirche (Curjel und Moser office, Karlsruhe) and the Antoniuskirche in Basel also come , prevailed . In 1908, the Federal Post and Railway Department approved the project proposed by the General Management of the Baden State Railways. In the spring of 1910, construction work on the reception building could begin. In 1911 the façades of the central building were made of yellowish Keuper sandstone , which was obtained from Siegelsbach . This was followed by the construction of the tower and the counter hall vaulted with a reinforced concrete ceiling.

In the summer of 1911, the shell of the new Badischer Bahnhof on Schwarzwaldallee was finished and the dome hall of the central building was already lined with wood. On the evening of August 12th, for unknown reasons, fire broke out in the scaffolding and destroyed the shell. The big fire delayed the commissioning of the station by a few months.

The company MAN AG presented in 1912 the vast of five 20 and 24-meter bays existing concourse on. The customs clearance systems for the through trains were relocated to the corresponding platforms .

The reception building of the new Badischer Bahnhof was ready on September 11, 1913 and opened on September 13, 1913. It became the most expensive station of the Baden State Railways, the entire project (including the filling of the embankment and the relocation of the line) cost 65 million francs (adjusted for inflation, that would be around 600 million today).

Swiss post office in the Badischer Bahnhof

In 1852, the Swiss Confederation signed a contract with the Grand Duchy of Baden, which regulated "the continuation of the Baden railways across Swiss territory" and the construction of the Baden railway station. Art. 20 provided for a Swiss post office within the station building, which the Baden Railway should provide free of charge. On November 18, 1862, the post office called "Basel Badischer Bahnhof" was opened at the corner of Riehenring and Rosentahlstrasse.

On September 14, 1913, the post office moved into the new building of the Badischer Bahnhof and started operations at the Schwarzwaldallee location, where the post office is still located today. During the First World War, the station was occupied by Swiss troops, which is why the post office was closed from August 2, 1914 to September 13, 1919.

In 1935, the National Socialists renamed the Badischer Bahnhof to “Basel Reichsbahnhof”, whereupon Switzerland intervened, as this designation could give the impression that Basel belongs to Germany. The German authorities then changed the station name to "Deutscher Reichsbahnhof Basel". Because of these two changes of name, the post office also had to change its postmark, first to "Reichs B." or "RB", then to "DRB". Since 1948 the station has been officially called "Badischer Bahnhof" again and the postmarks were accordingly changed to "Basel Bad. Train station ”changed.

Cooperation between the post office and the Deutsche Reichspost

From 1913, the Swiss post office took over the German internal reloading service of the railway mail “against compensation”, for which the Swiss post officials were given a room within the German customs border of the Badischer Bahnhof. In an agreement of 1935 between the Reich Ministry of Post and the PTT , the “compensation for services in the interest of the German postal service”, in particular for the “procurement of the domestic German postal service”, was negotiated and determined. Presumably to increase efficiency, it handled the purely domestic German mail that ran through the Badischer Bahnhof junction. For this reason, tempered German imperial post of PTT wage of seven workers, which resulted in an amount of CHF 35,000 per year (this came even material costs 1'434 CHF). The internal German reloading service was carried out by the employees of the post office in Basel Badischer Bahnhof until the end of the Second World War. This also maintained mailboxes on the platforms, which were then removed in 1940 for "foreign exchange reasons", presumably to prevent Swiss francs from being sent abroad. The collective use of the Badischer Bahnhof infrastructure was already regulated in the 1933 contract. It was about the so-called baggage and express goods tunnels, which connected the tracks underground and thus accelerated the loading of mail. Said systems were leased equally by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft to the Swiss Post and the Deutsche Reichspost , with the respective rental share being proportional to the use.

The Badischer Bahnhof in World War II

While the Badische Bahnhof was still occupied by Swiss troops at the beginning of the First World War, the operation of the station remained in the hands of the Deutsche Reichsbahn until the end of the Second World War .

After Hitler came to power in January 1933 , a swastika flag was hung on the station tower in March 1933 . This led to protests in front of the building and violent clashes between protesters and the police. The workers' newspaper Basler Vorwärts suspected police protection for the Hitler rag , but it was not until 1940 that showing the Nazi flag in Switzerland was banned.

Since there were letter boxes for the Swiss Post on the platforms , letters could be sent abroad from here without being checked by the police; the boxes were not dismantled until 1940. Passenger traffic fell to a minimum. From May 1940, passport and customs control was relocated to the Reich territory in Weil am Rhein , Lörrach-Stetten and Grenzach . From then on, all internal transfer traffic to the Wiesentalbahn and the Hochrheinbahn was handled via the Weil am Rhein station . The traffic between Weil am Rhein and Lörrach was diverted to German territory via the bypass . The trains to the Hochrheinbahn ran without stopping on the freight tracks behind the main hall of the Badischer Bahnhof. Windows and doors had to remain closed. During the passage through Switzerland, the train was accompanied by SS guards after several attempts to escape in Swiss territory.

During the war, a large part of the "Italian coal" traffic was handled via the Badischer Bahnhof. 25 to 30 coal trains passed the border between the German Empire and Switzerland every day . The transports became necessary because Great Britain had prevented the shipment of coal to Italy , an ally of Germany . Like Switzerland, Italy was dependent on coal imports because it had no coal reserves of its own. Since goods transport had to be paid for in the local currency, the Badische Bahnhof sometimes became one of the Reichsbahn's most important sources of foreign currency income .

During the war years was at the station compliance with the provisions in the German Reich, the Central European Summer Time , while Switzerland with the exception of 1941 and 1942 at the Central European Time held. This was specifically noted in the Deutsche Reichsbahn timetables.

Swiss buyback plan during the war

During the Second World War, the Swiss economy exported a considerable part of its goods to Germany. Estimates assume that for the years 1941–1942 “60 percent of the Swiss arms industry, 50 percent of the optical industry and 40 percent of the machine industry worked for the Reich.” Due to the resulting German trade deficit , Germany owed Switzerland around one at the end of 1944 Billion Swiss Francs. The Finance Department then suggested that illiquid Germany should settle at least part of its debts with the return of the Badischer Bahnhof and the associated railway systems. It relied on Article 38 of the treaty of 1852 between Switzerland and the Grand Duchy of Baden , which, among other things, regulated the construction of the Baden railway station. This envisaged a right of repurchase for Switzerland for the station and for all German railway systems on Swiss territory. The repurchase of these railway systems - such existed in the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Schaffhausen - should reduce German debt by 100 million francs. In this context, the Finance and Customs Department found that "whatever can be saved should be saved before the armistice (...)."

In addition to the financial aspect, there were other reasons that justified a buyback from a Swiss point of view. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the Badischer Bahnhof as a National Socialist enclave was increasingly perceived as a danger. In a "strictly confidential" letter in October 1944, various offices (including the general directorates of SBB and PTT ) were invited to a conference to discuss a possible buyback. The conference found several problems that arose from the special location of the Badischer Bahnhof and justified repatriation:

The military department stated that the station “from a military point of view (...) posed a danger to Switzerland”. It was feared that the Allies would bomb the station with collateral damage to the city ​​of Basel . In addition, in the event of a German attack, no “preparations for destruction of the German railway systems could be made” (attaching explosives). “The numerous German railway personnel” was associated with espionage activities - over a hundred Reichsbahn employees were arrested in the course of the war on suspicion of espionage or sabotage. "Higher officials" also had "service telephone connections" that did not run over the Swiss telephone network, which meant that censorship could be circumvented.

The federal police referred to uncontrolled border crossings of "undesirable elements" in which Reichsbahn employees were repeatedly involved. In addition, she mentioned meetings in the station canteen and "undesirable gatherings in the goods halls" and even suspected German ammunition depots in the basement of the station.

Despite financial and security reasons, the intention to buy back remained with a secret plan that was never implemented, although even the Allies spoke out in favor of a buyback. However, Switzerland operated the Badischer Bahnhof on a fiduciary basis from the end of the war and returned responsibility to Germany in 1953.

Development after the Second World War

Original platform hall. The houses were border crossings between the German and the Swiss part of the platforms
The platforms in 2015

Mid-1980 was a switchboard type SpDrL 60 in operation. The system comprised 180 points, 300 signals, 510 train routes and 750 shunting routes . In addition to the passenger station, the signal box also controlled the Riehen crossing station on the Basel – Zell (Wiesental) line and a junction to the Basel-Muttenz marshalling yard .

The system replaces eight mechanical interlockings , some of which have been in operation since 1913, and a DrS interlocking that went into operation in 1956. The construction work began in autumn 1976, the construction costs were estimated at 24.5 million DM . The system was operated by two dispatchers , and by one during times of low activity. 42 employees could be transferred to other departments.

In 1981/82 the platform hall was extensively renovated . However, the German Federal Railroad thought this construction project too expensive, so they tore down the imposing hall and instead covered the platforms with banal flat roofs.

At the end of the 1980s, the Migros Basel cooperative planned to core out large parts of the station building and set up a shopping center in it. As a result, on February 14, 1989, the Monument Council applied for the building to be listed as a historical monument. The government council accepted the application on April 9, 1991, but limited the protection to the building envelope and a few rooms. Both the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Heimatschutz appealed against this decision for contradicting reasons. The appellate court essentially followed the applications of the homeland security and placed the station building, including the interior, largely under protection. On November 2, 1994, the Federal Court upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal.

In 2005/06 the customs clearance was fundamentally rebuilt. The so-called “mother track” went into operation for the 2006/07 annual timetable. Since then, the trains can be tied from tracks 5-11 to the Basel connecting line in the direction of Basel SBB . The Grenzach goods entrance that is out of operation , d. H. the level-free entry of the Wiesental and Hochrheinbahn has not yet been reactivated.

At present (2015) a direct, underground connection between the Badischer Bahnhof and the SBB train station, the so-called “ heart ”, is being considered in order to be able to further develop the regional S-Bahn.

architectural art

Karl Moser , the architect of the Badischer Bahnhof, always sought close cooperation with artists and thus contradicted the programmatic demands of the avant-garde of modern architecture at the time. Today architects often team up with artists.

The four statues above the entrance and the gable relief are works by the artist Oskar Kiefer . The statues represent the four elements of fire, water, air and earth, which come together in the steam locomotive. The gable relief shows Mercury , the patron god of travelers.

The two “partner fountains” in front of the entrance were designed by Carl Burckhardt . The fountains symbolize the confluence of the Wiese and Rhine rivers and thus represent the link between the Wiesentalbahn and the Hochrheinbahn , which were connected via the Badischer Bahnhof. The northern well stands for the meadow and shows a woman being pushed by a bull, the southern well stands for the Rhine and shows a man being pushed by a horse. Burckhardt was inspired by the Wittelsbacher Brunnen , which he knew from an academic year in Munich in 1898. In early drafts, people still ride on the backs of animals; it was only later that Burckhardt found the current form in which they are pushed by the animals that represent the power of water.

The fountain was planned as early as 1914, but Burckhardt was only able to start work after the end of the war in 1918. The fountain was inaugurated in 1921. Both fountain basins received their water from six sinks each and a small fountain. The development of traffic later led to the elimination of the stairs between the two fountains, which largely made them lose their charisma. Currently (2015) the wells are not in operation, the well troughs are filled with earth and serve as borders.

  • Original situation (the "Rhein" fountain is covered by the tram)

  • Situation in 2015 with the two fountains "Wiese" and "Rhein"

  • Fountain "Wiese" (status 2015)

  • "Rhine" fountain (status 2015)

  • The four elements, statues above the entrance

  • Mercury, gable relief

  • Station tower

links

Long-distance transport

International long-distance transport

On the Frankfurt am Main - Milan route, a pair of EuroCity Express trains runs in the morning via Lucerne - Gotthard Base Tunnel - Bellinzona - Chiasso and returns in the afternoon via Domodossola - Simplon Tunnel - Brig - Lötschberg Base Tunnel - Bern . The connection is operated daily with the ETR 610 , which is already used in Italian traffic, later the frequency is to be increased and switched to the new EC250 "Giruno" .

Long-distance transport within Germany

  • IC Basel Badischer Bahnhof - Freiburg - Karlsruhe - Frankfurt  - Hanover  - Hamburg
  • IC Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel Badischer Bahnhof
  • IC "Baden-Kurier" Basel Badischer Bahnhof - Freiburg - Karlsruhe - Bruchsal - Stuttgart - Ulm - Munich

Regional traffic

DB Regio

Basel S-Bahn

city ​​traffic

Of the BVB -powered tram lines :

Of the BVB operated bus lines :

Bus line operated by the SWEG :

Connections in planning

The Basel railway junction is to be upgraded with various projects. These include a diameter line between the German railway station and the main train station and new stops on the Black Forest and bridge in Dornach , and a rail link to the Euro Airport .

In addition, the Basel S-Bahn is to be relaunched, which means that there will be many new connections. In long-distance traffic, the clocks are to be increased at the same time. Here are a few examples:

Special features as a border station

Separation DE / CH

Swiss law largely applies on the site of the train station (e.g. required coverage of liability insurance for network access with CHF 100 million in Switzerland , but only EUR 25 million in the EU ), unless the international treaty provides for an explicit exception (in particular for employees from the Federal Republic of Germany).

Although the Badischer Bahnhof is on Swiss territory, it is partly a German customs territory due to the treaty originally concluded between the Grand Duchy of Baden and Switzerland . If you change between two German destinations at the Badischer Bahnhof (comparable to a transit station), you have not left the German customs area. Several international treaties regulate the powers of German and Swiss civil servants in the station and on moving trains, including customs issues, as well as permission for German military personnel traveling individually to use the station.

In the case of asylum seekers with a residence permit or tolerance in Germany, the use of the Badischer Bahnhof was considered to be an illegal border crossing until autumn 2018, after which a service agreement between the German and Swiss authorities came into force, according to which a pure change also counts as a domestic German connection.

Until Switzerland joined the Schengen Agreement on December 12, 2008, identity checks and customs checks for travelers entering or leaving the Badischer Bahnhof took place at counters between the platform underpass and the reception hall. On international trains, this happened on the train. So it could happen that a traveler from Basel SBB to the Swiss train station Riehen on the Wiesentalbahn had to show his passport without having left Switzerland. Since December 12, 2008, such controls have only been possible within the scope of random samples by the Swiss border guards or the German customs and German federal police , as the regular ID controls have been omitted as a result of joining the Schengen Agreement.

In the past, the overlong platforms 1 and 2 (tracks 2 to 5) were divided into a southern, Swiss part and a northern, German part. The trains always arrived in the part of the country of origin and were brought forward to the other part of the platform after customs control and the locomotive change. The train station still has a south underpass at the height of the tower with an exit to the city of Basel on Bahnhofplatz . This used to be used by inner-city travelers. After the Second World War, the underpass into the city was closed with a gate. It could only be used to change platforms in the station. Every now and then the gate to the city was opened when a special train brought travelers who were attending one of the major events in the nearby Basel exhibition center . With the relocation of the tram stop from Rosentalstrasse to the station forecourt , the desire for a shorter route to the trains grew. On January 17, 2014 the access was fully opened again. From the station forecourt, Rosentalstrasse leads in the direction of Messeplatz with the Basel Exhibition Tower, which can be seen from afar, and continues over the Middle Rhine Bridge into the center of Grossbasel .

North of the passenger station is the former Basel Badischer Bahnhof marshalling yard of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and today's Deutsche Bahn . Its southern part has been closed. The remainder is now only used for local freight traffic , the purely inner-Swiss port station Kleinhüningen Hafen of the Swiss Federal Railways , which is connected with a short branch line and is used as a container transshipment station. The border between Germany and Switzerland runs through this part of the station. The Badische freight station is demolished in large parts and new buildings of Erlenmatt quarter overbuilt.

The Federal Police (Germany) are police officers at the Badischer Bahnhof, i.e. on Swiss territory. In addition, there is a post office of the Swiss Post (see also: PTT post office ), a Swiss police station and an honorary consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany located in Badischer Bahnhof .

Other DB institutions in Switzerland

Other stations operated by DB in Switzerland are on the Wiesentalbahn line in neighboring Riehen ( Riehen Niederholz and Riehen ) and on the Hochrheinbahn in the canton of Schaffhausen ( Herblingen , Thayngen , Neuhausen Bad Bf , Beringerfeld , Beringen Bad Bf , Neunkirch , Wilchingen -Hallau and Trasadingen ). The next DB train stations, which are completely or actually on German territory, are Weil am Rhein ( Upper Rhine Railway ), Grenzach (High Rhine Railway ) and Lörrach-Stetten (Wiesental Railway).

The Badische Bahnhof is also the seat of the representative for the German railway lines on Swiss territory at Deutsche Bahn AG ( DB Netz AG, Swiss Infrastructure). Since September 1998 Jürgen Lange has been the representative of the group management for the German railways on Swiss territory.

Currency and tariff systems

Despite its location entirely in Switzerland, the station is fully operated by Deutsche Bahn. The prices in the travel agency and at the counters are calculated in euros . Payment in Swiss francs is also possible. Information about a possible foreign surcharge for payments with German credit cards is attached to the ticket machines . In the station bookstore , however, the printed (converted higher) franc price must also be paid for German newspapers , magazines and books. The goods in the various shops in the station can also be paid for in euros or francs.

In passenger traffic to and from Germany , the train station is treated like a train station operated by Deutsche Bahn AG ( federal railway assets ). Only Swiss tariffs apply to journeys within Switzerland via the Badischer Bahnhof (with the exception of the Baden-Württemberg ticket , which is valid either with the S-Bahn or Regional Express to Basel SBB ). The station is in tariff zone 10 of the Northwestern Switzerland tariff association (TNW) and in tariff zone 8 of the Lörrach regional transport association (RVL). The German free transport is also recognized, the same applies, due to the international treaty, also via the Basel connecting railway to the SBB station, here even long-distance trains are released.

Picture gallery

  • There is a grocery store belonging to the Swiss Coop chain in the station

  • This is also something special: the Swiss post office " Die Post AG " in a DB train station

  • DB Group accident rescue vehicle. These are also located in the entire Swiss infrastructure of Deutsche Bahn.

  • Only Swiss taxis operate here.

  • But long-distance and city buses from Germany and Switzerland also stop at Badischer Bahnhof.

  • Until 2014 the tables of the Swiss customs had to be passed to get into the reception building.

  • Civilian emergency vehicle of the Federal Customs Administration . The Basel-Stadt canton police and the German federal police are also active here.

  • Forms for the import of dutiable goods into Switzerland. Despite the Schengen Agreement, goods subject to duty must be declared.

  • General agency of the Federal Railroad Fund and the Representative for the German railway lines on Swiss territory (Representative: Jürgen Lange)

Culture

The Helmut Förnbacher Theater Company resides in the southern part of the reception building . The " Gare du Nord - Bahnhof für Neue Musik ", the first experimental music center in Switzerland, has been located in the premises of the former Buffet I and II restaurants in the northern section since 2002 . a. Christoph Marthaler and Herbert Wernicke have already staged theater performances. The ensemble of the “Gare du Nord” is the “ Ensemble Phoenix Basel ”. The Buffet I is now called "Bar du Nord" a multifunctional event space in which u. a. Football matches are regularly broadcast on the big screen.

Traction converter

In 1935, an operational system for coupling the traction current network with the public network with the help of mercury-vapor converters was put into operation at the Badischer Bahnhof. The system built by AEG had a transmission capacity of 5.4  MVA .

Trivia

In 1860 Niklaus Emanuel Merian-Seeber (1828–1872) bought building land across from the first Baden railway station and built an inn with its own brewery. The opening was on March 16, 1862. He called the inn "Warteck" . The reason for the choice of the name is not known, the most likely theory is that it referred to the cabs waiting there for passengers from the arriving trains. After the station was relocated to its new location in 1913, the Warteck brewery, which had since developed into a larger company under new ownership, opened a restaurant opposite the new station with the name “Neues Warteck”. The previous Warteck was renamed “Old Warteck”.

literature

  • The Badischer Bahnhof in Basel , ed. with the participation of experts by Frobenius AG , Verlagsanstalt, Basel, Basel: Frobenius, 1914
  • Deutsche Bundesbahn, Operations Office Basel (ed.); Klaus Valk (Red.): The Badischer Bahnhof in Basel: for the 70th anniversary at the current location and on the occasion of the completion of the extensive renovation work . Deutsche Bundesbahn, Basel Operations Office, Basel 1983.
  • Albert Kuntzemüller : Basel and the Badische Bahnhof. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1950. pp. 51–67.
  • Albert Kuntzemüller : From the Badischer Bahnhof in Basel. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1952. pp. 136–155.
  • Albert Kuntzemüller : A hundred years Badischer Bahnhof Basel. In: Swiss Archive for Transport Science. Vol. 10, No. 2, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1955, pp. 168–181.
  • Adolf J. Schmid : 150 years of Basel Badischer Bahnhof. In: Badische Heimat . Born in 82, Freiburg i.Br. 2002, pp. 798-803.
  • Werner Stutz: Railway Stations in Switzerland - From the Beginnings to the First World War . Publishing house, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-85572-018-5 .
  • Adolf J. Schmid : 150 years of Basel Badischer Bahnhof. In: Badische Heimat . Born in 82, Freiburg i.Br. 2002, pp. 798-803.
  • Alex Amstein: The Badischer Bahnhof from 1913 in Basel. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 8-9, 2005, pp. 395-399.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German course book summer 1939. Deutsche Reichsbahn, Berlin 1939, p. 93.
  2. ↑ own experience
  3. ↑ a b c SR 0.742.140.313.61 Treaty of July 27, 1852 between the Swiss Confederation and the Grand Duchy of Baden regarding the continuation of the Baden railways across Swiss territory (with a subsequent declaration). Federal Chancellery - P, accessed on June 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Hans Kobschätzky: route atlas of the German railways from 1835 to 1892 . Alba, Düsseldorf 1971, DNB 720172276 , p. 17.
  5. ↑ The Swiss Central Railway was integrated into the newly founded Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 1902 .
  6. ^ Alfred Dietiker: From the post office Basel 17 Transit and its exchange of parcels with other countries . In: Postal Magazine . No. 2 , 1932, p. 56-68 .
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