Berchtesgaden main station

Berchtesgaden main station
View from the forecourt to the reception building
Data
Location in the network	Terminal station , formerly connecting station
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	4th
abbreviation	MBG
IBNR	8000885
Price range	5
opening	October 25, 1888
Website URL	stationsdatenbank.bayern-takt.de
Profile on Bahnhof.de	Berchtesgaden_Hbf
Architectural data
Architectural style	Home style
architect	Ernst Stroebel
location
City / municipality	Berchtesgaden
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	47 ° 37 '36 "  N , 12 ° 59' 57"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '36 "  N , 12 ° 59' 57"  E
Height ( SO )	540  m
Railway lines
Freilassing – Berchtesgaden ( KBS 954 ) Berchtesgaden – Königssee ( Triftplatz ; closed) Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein (closed)
Railway stations in Bavaria

Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof is the terminus of the Freilassing – Berchtesgaden railway in the Bavarian market of Berchtesgaden . Berchtesgaden is the smallest municipality in Germany with a main train station . The train station is the central traffic junction of the Berchtesgaden valley with bus connections to all municipalities. It belongs to station category  5 of DB Station & Service . The building is now privately owned.

Until 1938, a connection continued via Marktschellenberg to the Salzburg local train station ( Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein railway and Hangender Stein – Salzburg railway ). The Bavarian Green Electricity and the Salzburg Red Electricity operated cross-border on this joint line . Up until 1965, the Königsseer Bahnhof (Königsseer Bahnhof ) was the starting point for the Königsseebahn to Königssee within walking distance of the main train station (opposite Triftplatz ) .

location

Aerial photo of the main train station (2010)

The train station is located southwest of the higher historical market center of Berchtesgaden in the valley of the Ramsauer Ache on the federal highway 305 . It is bordered to the south by Ramsauer Strasse and the station forecourt. To the east, Bahnhofstrasse borders the railway facilities, to the west of the station is the street called “Am Güterbahnhof” .

history

Berchtesgaden station (1893)

One year after the opening of the Freilassing-Reichenhall railway line in 1866, the project for the extension to Berchtesgaden was awarded, which was supported by the administration of the Bavarian mining, smelting and salt works. This project planning was not completed until 1884.

On May 29, 1886, the extension of the Freilassing – Reichenhall railway to Berchtesgaden was approved by the Bavarian state parliament . The Berchtesgaden train station was built next to the Frauenreuth salt works. The line was officially opened on October 25, 1888. At that time the station had three tracks, on one of the tracks there was a platform. The other two tracks were loading tracks. A locomotive shed and a three-story station building were also part of it. The Berchtesgaden community was not satisfied with the station because it seemed too small for them.

At the end of 1905, the Royal Bavarian State Railways began building the Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein line , which was initially steam-powered and was mostly referred to as the “ local railway ”. On July 16, 1907, the Berchtesgaden– Marktschellenberg section , at that time still Schellenberg Markt , was opened, and on October 1, 1907, it was completed to Hangender Stein. On January 15, 1908, electrical operations began between Berchtesgaden and Hangender Stein. From July 1, 1909, with the electrification of the Austrian connection route, there was continuous electrical operation on the entire route between Salzburg and Berchtesgaden. There was a common line, on this run green painted vehicles of the Royal Bavarian State Railways to Salzburg and red painted vehicles of the Salzburg Railway and Tramway Company (SETG) to Berchtesgaden. Since then, the rail connection in Berchtesgaden has also been known colloquially as Green Electric .

Post bus to Hintersee (1907)

As one of the first Postbus routes, the Berchtesgaden – Hintersee connection was established in 1907 from the forecourt of the station .

The Königsseebahn went into operation on May 29, 1909 . For the route to Königssee , a separate train station (Königsseer Bahnhof) was set up on Triftplatz opposite Berchtesgaden train station , as well as a connecting track between the two train stations.

In 1913 the Berchtesgaden train station became the main train station, and on August 7, 1916, electrical operations between Berchtesgaden and Bad Reichenhall began. To relieve the station, three tracks were laid in Bischofswiesen ; there was no money for the renovation of the Berchtesgaden main station during the First World War and the following years. Only in 1932 was another track laid, the station received a platform underpass and a goods hall , which was built on the site of the old salt works.

Because of the state visits to his second residence, which Adolf Hitler had established with the Berghof and the “ Small Reich Chancellery ” near Berchtesgaden , a more representative main station in Berchtesgaden was necessary. The Deutsche Reichsbahn had the new building built from 1937 to 1940 in an architecture typical of the Nazi era , a mixture of neoclassicism and Heimatstil , and opened it on February 1, 1940. Parallel to the reception building, the station was in an outbuilding with a new one mechanical signal box. A new post office was connected to the station building. In addition, the station was expanded to five platform tracks, four were on two island platforms and another on the house platform . The facilities for freight traffic were hardly expanded at the time. For this purpose, a separate Berchtesgaden Nord branch should be created.

On October 2, 1938, the local line to Salzburg was discontinued in order to begin construction of a double-track main line and the expansion of the road connection. The tunnel of the planned main line south of the main train station was driven and still exists today, due to the Second World War and its consequences, the connection was not completed. After a bomb was dropped in Bad Reichenhall on April 25, 1945, train traffic on the route to Freilassing was also interrupted until summer 1945.

Interior view, west side with fresco (2013)

East Side Fresco (2013)

In 1940 and 1951 the large frescoes on the east and west sides of the interior of the station concourse were created by Maria Harrich - so far it has not been clarified whether the frescoes (and if so, in which order) were painted one after the other or both were revised in 1951.

In the past few decades, long-distance traffic to all parts of Germany, except for one intercity per day to and from Hamburg, was discontinued. With this exception, the station is now only served by local transport.

The tracks for freight traffic were dismantled, but in return a new loading ramp was created for the Bundeswehr .

Infrastructure

Platforms of the train station

The station has four platform tracks, which are connected to the main platform by a non-barrier-free pedestrian underpass :

• Track 1: platform height 38 cm, length 210 m
• Track 2: platform height 38 cm, length 215 m
• Track 3: platform height 38 cm, length 210 m
• Track 4: platform height 38 cm, length 33 m

The platforms have dynamic passenger information. A bus station has been set up on the station forecourt .

traffic

The station is served by around 20 trains every day, every hour from the Berchtesgadener Land Bahn with the Berchtesgaden – Freilassing line as S 4 of the Salzburg S-Bahn . In addition, the intercity train pair Königssee of the Deutsche Bahn runs once a day between Berchtesgaden and Hamburg . It is classified as a regional express south of Freilassing . Local transport tickets are valid on this section.

Train type	route	Clock frequency
IC 26 / RE	Königssee: Hamburg-Altona  - Hamburg  - Hanover  - Göttingen  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Würzburg  - Augsburg  - Munich East - Freilassing (further as RE) -  Berchtesgaden	a pair of trains
SU /	( Salzburg Hbf -) Freilassing  - Bad Reichenhall - Berchtesgaden	hourly

Picture gallery

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  Station entrance; the double track connection visible in the foreground was replaced in 1981 by two single track connections. The engine shed, which was demolished in the first half of the 1980s, can be seen on the left.

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  Railway station in April 1986, on the area freed by the demolition of the locomotive shed there is now a building materials trade. Since the end of the 1982/1983 winter timetable, the long-term use of the BR 144.5 on the route has also been history; they were replaced by BR 140 locomotives.

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  In May 1980, 144 507-1 shunted a couple of passenger carriages with a sister machine in the station before they took over the E 799 to Kassel. The engine shed is on the left and the loading tracks for freight traffic can be seen in the background.

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  North-east exit towards Salzburg, seen from the tunnel portal. The stump track visible in the picture on the left once established the connection to the Königsseebahn.

literature

• Erich Preuss , Klaus Pöhler: German railway stations - The large track plan book. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86245-130-2 .

Web links

Commons : Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Query of course book route 954 at Deutsche Bahn.
2. ↑ For Berchtesgaden– Hintersee see Friedrich Schelle: Walks through Berchtesgaden and the surrounding area 1860–1920 . Photos with captions. 2nd Edition. Plenk Verlag, Berchtesgaden 1977 (unpaginated, therefore no page indication possible).
3. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Berchtesgaden Baudenkmäler , PDF file, p. 5 (of 32).
4. ^ Christian Fischer: Everything is a facade. In: Berchtesgadener Anzeiger . 10/11 November 2007 and November 15, 2007.
5. ↑ Hellmut Schöner : Berchtesgaden through the ages. Supplementary Volume I, 1982, p. 64 f.
6. ↑ Platform data of the station. (No longer available online.) In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn AG, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on December 1, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.