Bochum Central Station
Bochum Hbf | |
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Bochum main station - north facade
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Location in the network | Separation station |
Design | Through station |
Platform tracks | 8th |
abbreviation | EBO |
IBNR | 8000041 |
Price range | 2 |
opening | 1957 |
Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bochum_Hbf |
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City / municipality | Bochum |
country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '43 " N , 7 ° 13' 22" E |
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Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia |
Bochum Hauptbahnhof is the most important train station in the city of Bochum and the central hub for all public transport. It was rebuilt from 1955 and given its purpose in 1957. With its station building in the style of post-war modernism , it is considered one of the most important new German train stations of the 1950s.
Traffic station
Rail transport
Trains of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr , regional and long-distance traffic stop at the four central platforms with a total of eight tracks .
In regular operation, the Glückauf Bahn runs to Gelsenkirchen on track 1. All other regional and long-distance trains on tracks 3–4 towards Essen and on tracks 5–6 towards Dortmund or Witten . The trains of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr run on tracks 7-8.
Long-distance transport
line | Line course |
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ICE 10 | Berlin Ostbf - Hanover - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne / Bonn Airport |
ICE 41 | Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Munich |
ICE 42 | Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Siegburg / Bonn - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Munich |
ICE 47 | Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart |
IC / EC 30 | ( Westerland -) Hamburg-Altona - Münster - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mannheim - Stuttgart / (- Freiburg - Basel - Zurich - Chur ) |
IC / EC 32 | ( Berlin Südkreuz - Hanover -) Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mannheim - Stuttgart (- Lindau - Innsbruck / Munich - Salzburg - Klagenfurt ) |
IC 55 | Leipzig - Magdeburg - Hanover - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne |
Individual trains that go beyond the usual routes of the lines, as well as reinforcement trains on weekends, are not listed here.
Local transport
The Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg and Bochum – Gelsenkirchen railway lines meet at Bochum's main train station .
Connecting track 2 the largely Bochum freight depot abandoned to the branch Prince of Prussia on the route from North Station to Bahnhof Langendreer . In addition to a scheduled journey on the Glückauf Railway at 05:34 since 2009, it is used for individual train passages and as a sideline in the event of operational disruptions.
The creation of a new connection from Recklinghausen to Bochum is being discussed both in the VRR and at the municipal level . According to the citizens and politicians, this should bring rush hour traffic on the congested Autobahn 43 onto the rails and thus represent a real alternative for commuters. Although the Recklinghausen town hall has already spoken out in favor of implementation, there is no feasible plan in sight.
Bochum light rail
The six-track Stadtbahn station Bochum Hauptbahnhof is the most important crossing point between the Bochum lines. At Buddenbergplatz, the south entrance of the Hauptbahnhof, the operations control center and technical control center of Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG (BOGESTRA) are located.
The first underground level "-1" is a distribution level. The side platforms for two meter-gauge tracks on which tram lines 306, 308, 316 and 318 run are located on level “-2”, under the station forecourt . The two middle platforms in the direction of Bochum Rathaus and Ruhr-Universität and Laer are located on level "-3", deep below the actual main station . The inside are the standard-gauge tracks for the U 35 line , and the meter-gauge tracks for the tram lines 302, 305 and 310 on the outside.
Route of the tram lines and the U35 campus line:
U35: Herne Schloss Strünkede - Herne Bf - Riemke - Bergbau-Museum - Bochum Hbf - Ruhr University - Hustadt (also runs on weekends as NachtExpress)
302: Gelsenkirchen Buer Rathaus - VELTINS-ARENA - GE-Schalke - Heinrich-König-Platz - Gelsenkirchen Hbf - Wattenscheid - Westpark - Bochum Hbf - Altenbochum - Laer Mitte (- Langendreer S)
305: Höntrop Church - Weitmar - Bochum Hbf - Altenbochum - Laer Mitte - Langendreer S (only runs Mon-Sat from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. every 30 minutes and increases the number of 310 on the Höntrop - Langendreer route)
306: Herne Wanne-Eickel Hbf - HER-Eickel - Hordeler Straße - Hamme - Bochum Hbf (only when VFL Bochum matches - Vonovia Ruhrstadion - Rottmannstraße) (also runs on weekends as NachtExpress)
308: Hattingen Mitte - HAT-Winz Baak - Linden - Weitmar - Bergmannsheil - Schauspielhaus - Bochum Hbf - Vonovia Ruhrstadion - Grumme - Gerthe Mitte - Schürbankstrasse
310: Höntrop Church - Weitmar - Bochum Hbf - Altenbochum - Laer Mitte - Langendreer Markt - Witten Papenholz - Witten Town Hall - Witten Heven Dorf (runs until autumn 2020 the same route from 305 to Langendreer S)
316: (Herne Wanne-Eickel Hbf - HER-Eickel -) Hordeler Straße - Hamme - Bochum Hbf - Vonovia Ruhrstadion - Grumme - Heinrichstraße (only runs Mon-Fri every 15 minutes from 6 am to 9 am and from 12 pm to 8 pm and reinforces the 306 in Hamme and Herne and the 308 in Gerthe)
318: Dahlhausen S - Linden - Weitmar - Bergmannsheil - Bochum Hbf (- Vonovia Ruhrstadion - Grumme - Gerthe Mitte - Schürbankstraße) (only runs in the evenings and on Sundays and public holidays to Gerthe and runs on weekends as a night express)
Bus transport
The bus station for city traffic is located on the station forecourt named after Kurt Schumacher . There are also other stops in the immediate vicinity of the station:
- Bochum Hbf / Boulevard on Massenbergstrasse
- Buddenbergplatz at the south exit of the train station
- Private long-distance buses use the bus stop on Wittener Straße
line | course | |
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SB 37 | Bochum Hbf - Bochum-Wiemelhausen - Bochum-Stiepel - Hattingen-Welper - Hattingen Mitte S - Niedersprockhövel - Haßlinghausen bus station - Schwelm train station - Ennepetal bus station | |
336 | Dortmund-Lütgendortmund S - Ruhrpark bridge - Bochum - Harpen - Bochum- Grumme - Bochum town hall - Bochum main station | |
339 | ||
345 | Bochum-Dahlhausen S - Bochum- Oberdahlhausen - Bochum-Wattenscheid- Eppendorf - Bochum- Ehrenfeld - Bochum West Bf - Bochum Town Hall - Bochum Hbf - Bochum- Laer - Bochum- Werne - Bochum-Langendreer S - Bochum-Langendreer Knappschaftskrankenhaus | 20 min |
349 | Bochum Hbf - Wiemelhausen, Wasserstraße - Weitmar, Blankensteiner Straße / Stiepel, Haarstraße | 20 min. |
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353 | Castrop-Rauxel Münsterplatz / Bf. South - Bochum- Gerthe - Bochum- Hiltrop - Bochum- Grumme - Bochum town hall - Bochum Hbf - Bochum- Wiemelhausen - Bochum- Weitmar - Bochum- Sundern | |
354 | Bochum- Riemke , Zillertal - Planetarium - Bochum Town Hall - Bochum Hbf - Bochum- Weitmar - Bochum-Wattenscheid- Eppendorf, Munscheider Str. | 60 min |
355 | Bochum-Harpen, Ruhrpark - Werne, Wallbaumweg - Langendreer - Langendreer Nord / Somborn, Schulze-Vellinghausen-Straße | 20 min. |
356 | Bochum main station - Wiemelhausen, Wasserstraße - Steinkuhl, Alte Markstraße - Querenburg, Ruhr University / Stiepel village church / Stiepel, Haarstraße | 20 min. |
365 | Bochum Hbf - Schauspielhaus - Eppendorf Mitte - Höntrop Church - Wattenscheid , August-Bebel-Platz - Wattenscheid, REAL market | 30/60 min. |
368 | Wanne-Eickel Hbf - Bochum - Hordel - Bochum-Hamme Amtsstrasse - Bochum Town Hall - Bochum Hbf - Bochum- Altenbochum - Bochum-Ruhrpark / UCI | 20 min |
NE 1 | Bochum Hbf → Bochum Town Hall → Bochum West Bf → Bochum - Ehrenfeld → Bochum- Wattenscheid-Mitte, August-Bebel-Platz → Bochum- Hordel → Bochum- Hamme Amtsstraße → Bochum-Feldsieper Str. → Bochum- Grumme, Vierhausstraße → Bochum Hbf | 60 min |
NE2 | Bochum Hbf - Grumme - Hiltrop - Gerthe - Kirchharpen - Kornharpen - Grumme - Bochum Hbf | 60 min. |
NE3 | Bochum Hbf - Altenbochum - Laer - Werne - Langendreer - Laer - Altenbochum - Bochum Hbf | 60 min. |
NE4 | Bochum Hbf - Wiemelhausen - Stiepel - HAT-Welper - Hattingen Mitte - Niedersprockhövel - Haßlinghausen | 60 min. |
NE5 | Bochum Hbf - Stahlhausen - WAT-Eppendorf - Dahlhausen | 60 min. |
NE 6 | Bochum Hbf → Bochum, town hall → Bochum West Bf → Bochum- Ehrenfeld → Bochum-Wattenscheid- Höntrop Church → Bochum- Wattenscheid Bf → Bochum- Wattenscheid-Mitte, August-Bebel-Platz → Bochum- Westenfeld → Bochum-Wattenscheid- Höntrop, Zilleweg → Bochum-Wattenscheid- Höntrop S → Bochum-Wattenscheid- Höntrop Church → Bochum- Ehrenfeld → Bochum West Bf → Bochum Town Hall → Bochum Hbf | 60 min |
NE7 | Bochum Hbf - Steinkuhl - Querenburg - Hustadt - Weitmar - Wiemelhausen - Bochum Hbf | 60 min.
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NE10 | Bochum Hbf - BO-Wattenscheid - GE Hbf - GE-Schalke - Buer Rathaus | 60 min. |
history
Bergisch-Märkischer train station
The old main station emerged from the Bochum station of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which started operating the first railway line through Bochum's urban area at the beginning of the 1860s with its Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg line .
Located on the southwestern edge of the historic city center, north of the emerging Ehrenfeld district, it was in a favorable position to the important heavy industrial companies such as the steelworks of the Bochumer Verein or various coal mines ( e.g. Engelsburg and Friederika collieries ). The access for passengers was not ideal due to the peripheral location, and the space available in the Gleisdreieck between the main line and the branching line to Herne-Rottbruch and Königsallee , which opened in 1870, was inadequate in view of the increasing volume of traffic.
After the nationalization of the large railway companies by the Prussian state, the name Bochum Süd was assigned to the Bergisch-Märkisches Bahnhof to distinguish it from the Bochum railway station of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . The latter is east of the city center and was named Bochum Nord . From Bochum south of the old Bochum Main eventually became.
Old main station
The original Bochum central station was a few hundred meters further west of today's central station on Königsallee . During the Second World War , his station building was almost completely destroyed in British bombing raids , as was large parts of Bochum's inner city.
The reconstruction was used by the city planners to change the layout of the city center and the routing of some main roads in order to achieve a previously unadjusted adaptation to the strongly increased population of the city. The main station, which could no longer be expanded in its old location, was to be moved closer to the city center.
Catholic Day Station
In order to be able to carry out the construction of the new main station as undisturbed as possible, a temporary station called a Katholikentagbahnhof was built in place of the destroyed reception building in time for the 73rd German Katholikentag in 1949 . It is located to the west of today's main train station on Viktoriastraße. The building, which is now a listed building, was used by the Deutsche Bundesbahn as a training facility after the opening of the current main station until around 1994 and fell into disrepair in the following years. Since 2010 it has been a club under the name Rotunda .
New main station
The focus and basis of the reorganization and reconstruction of the city center was the relocation of the main train station by around 650 meters to the east. The new location should offer good access to the important facilities of a big city.
Other locations were also considered for the new station. We were looking for a central location with enough space for the trams and buses to stop. After carefully weighing up all aspects, the decision was made for the current location.
The new construction of the train station was also the basis for changing the inner-city transport system. The entire road network was aligned with the train station. The mass traffic can now flow away quickly, as it is located on two arterial roads to the south and is connected to all other important roads through the inner ring.
The new main station should give visitors an impression of Bochum's business life. So were in his environment, z. B. in the Huestraße, high-quality shops are located. The Huestrasse connects the train station and the city center with all major urban facilities. Vocational schools, chambers of industry and commerce , the administration of the municipal utility and the main post office are in the immediate vicinity.
Construction work
After a council decision of June 1953, the project “relocation of the Bochum Hbf train station” began in February 1954. The laying of the railway systems and the erection of the reception building are to be seen as two separate sections.
All tracks and signals had to be relocated and connected to the new signal box. This relay interlocking was technically state-of-the-art, so the execution of train operations could be significantly rationalized. Driving operations could be maintained during the entire construction work. A total of 250,000 cubic meters of soil was moved in order to raise the embankment by more than four meters to a length of 2.1 kilometers.
The Scharpenseel brewery used to be at the current location of the railway systems . It was completely destroyed in the war. There were also allotment gardens and a cemetery on a hill where Christian and Jewish graves were located. The approximately 800 graves were relocated and the hill was removed.
First the large structures were built. These include two road underpasses with ten platform bridges and two platform bridges, passenger, baggage and post tunnels and the retaining wall between the platforms and the building.
Test drillings were used to investigate rumors that there should be air raid shelters under the construction site. Standing in a bucket, workers lowered themselves into the tunnel system through a shaft only one meter in diameter. They discovered branching corridors around 150 meters long, some of which were still in the shell, some of which had already been bricked up. There were benches and chairs there, but also shoes and clothes that the users had forgotten after the last all-clear. According to the chronicler, these objects were handed over to the lost property office. The bunkers were filled with concrete.
Reception building
The groundbreaking ceremony took place in February 1954. On October 12, 1955, the foundation stone was laid for the reception building. Pictures of the old Bochum train stations, a model of the new train station and tickets from Bochum to Hamburg, Munich (return tickets!) And Bonn were walled up in a copper cover in the western cellar. Three Bochum newspapers from October 12, 1955 also found their place there.
The space for the station building was limited by the tapering streets and the railway body. The architect H. Ruhl, then only 22 years old, had the task of making optimal use of the very narrow and long building plot. He decided to let the building hold its own against the newly built houses in the neighborhood by its length and not its height. The requirement of city planners for changing building heights is taken into account, for example, in comparison with the construction of vocational schools.
The reinforced concrete skeleton construction would not have been necessary for the number of floors, but offered the option of glazing the ground floor area over a large area.
An initial plan was to build a glass roof over the hall and a helipad on the building. That was probably too futuristic for the town planners and the railroad management, and they decided on the current shape. The elongated building can be seen as an architectural expression of a train that is moving at high speed.
Left part of the building
34,000 m³ of enclosed space was far more than the space required by the railway administration. In addition, a hotel, a café and a cinema were planned in the left part. These were new ways of using a train station for the time. The glass pulpit of the station cafe is supported by fragile supports and protrudes from the main structure.
The vestibule
The strictly orthogonal but light main wing is complemented with tension by the organic curve of the butterfly-shaped canopy, which can also be found in the platform roofs. The model is said to have been the Roma Termini train station . The canopy is 46.50 meters wide and 24 meters deep, with a mass of 600 tons.
The generous use of glass surfaces in the hall and the protrusion of the vestibule from the main building created a visual connection and a turn towards the city. These ideas were subsequently blurred by fixtures and the stairway to the tram and only worked out again later.
Right part of the building
In the right part of the building the baggage and express goods acceptance was located. The railway offices were located on the floors above. The entire main wing consists of four storeys, has a length of 146 meters, a depth of 14.4 meters and an enclosed space of 34,000 m³. The building was constructed from 1954 to 1957 under the direction of Wilhelm Bangen.
Provisional operation started on May 30, 1957. The first train left at 4:25 am. Three days later, on June 2, 1957, Bochum celebrated the electrification of the line with Transport Minister Seebohm.
Conversions
After opening in 1957, the first major renovation of the station followed at the end of the 1970s. This consisted of three elements:
- Construction of the S-Bahn line 1. For this purpose, the southernmost platform number four, for which space had already been reserved during the new construction, was built with tracks 7 and 8. Track 7 had previously been used by freight trains and had no edge of the platform; the signal tower was free.
- Construction of the connecting curve to the line to Herne. Until 1979 the trains ran from Langendreer to Herne via the Bochum Nord station . With the establishment of the Riemker curve , these trains were introduced into the main station from 1979, the section to Langendreer was taken over by the S-Bahn from 1983. The short butt track 1 was laid on the northernmost platform one so that the trains that end here do not have to occupy platform 2, which is still used by freight trains.
- Construction of the underground light rail system . For this purpose, a two-storey tower train station with a distribution level above was built using an open construction method on three levels below the reception building and Kurt-Schumacher-Platz . When the square was restored, the central bus station was redesigned and the appearance of the foyer was changed by adding a staircase leading to the distribution level. In the course of this construction work, the rear entrance and Buddenbergplatz were completely rebuilt.
Between 2004 and 2006, the station building, including the access systems and platforms, was extensively renovated during ongoing operations and the interior was redesigned. The official opening of the renovated main station was on May 29, 2006. The station forecourt was also modernized, and the direction towards the city center across the main road was emphasized again.
DB signal box
The building of the former signal box Station stands at the rail platform between the tracks 7 and 8. The German Federal Railroad took it in 1957 along with the new train station in operation. It was equipped with the push button technology from Siemens , which was current at the time . After renovations in the 1970s, the Wf signal box at Wattenscheid station as well as the Bochum-Eppendorf station sections and the route to Bochum-Riemke opened in 1979 were also remotely controlled from here. In September 2008, DB Netz AG introduced a new signal box labeled " CBI Bochum North 2nd stage of construction" in service and took Station out of service.
Web links
- Description of this sight on the route of industrial culture
- Tour Bochum - Central Station
- Historical pictures of the old train station
- Pictures from the signal box Bhf
- Description of the EBO operating point
- Description of the access point Bochum Hbf
- Bochum Central Station , description and track plan
Individual evidence
- ^ Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg (Hrsg.): Handbook for special railway technology . Volume 1: Railway construction . Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 4th enlarged and improved edition. 1877, Part 2, Tab. XXXV above (after p. 706): Bochum train station (site plan and track plan).
- ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 .
- ↑ https://www.rotunde-bochum.de/