Duisburg freight yard
Duisburg Güterbahnhof is a former freight and marshalling yard in the city of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located between the federal motorway 59 (A 59) in the west, the reception building of the Duisburg main station in the north and the tracks of the main station in the east. The area of around 35 hectares extends south-west of the main train station (Hauptbahnhof) to the south-west of its railway facilities for a length of 1.6 kilometers in a north-south direction to the Hochfeld junction of the A 59.
history
The site has been used in a variety of industrial and commercial ways since the middle of the 19th century. Typical railway use began in 1864 with operational systems and buildings (reception building, locomotive and goods sheds, etc.) of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company , the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rheinische Railway Company . Use by heavy industry (rolling mills and steelworks) in the central area of the site has been proven from 1873 onwards.
In the southern area of the site there was a railway workshop with a locomotive shed and turntable before 1900. From the 20s of the 20th century, an expansion of the railway systems can be recorded. The industrial plants have been dismantled or converted into other factory uses. The transshipment halls and loading streets were set up. 1945, after the Second World War , the change from the previous industrial use (factories) of the site to its main use by railway systems is complete. In addition to the actual railway systems, there are a number of storage areas and warehouses on the site. The freight depot's facilities are currently out of order. The goods halls are empty and are no longer used. The track systems and a signal box are also no longer in use, the tracks have largely been dismantled.
On July 24, 2010, the 2010 Love Parade took place in Duisburg on the site of the former freight yard under the motto The Art of Love . For the first time, it was an event in a fenced area. The accident at the Love Parade 2010 caused by the crowds in the entrance area, in and around the underpass at Karl-Lehr-Strasse, resulted in 21 people dead by July 28, 2010. At least 652 other people were injured in the event, about 40 of them seriously. The deaths and the unexplained accident occurrence and its causes were immediately the subject of investigations by the Duisburg public prosecutor's office .
Station facilities
The station comprised a marshalling yard and an actual freight yard located directly next to it. The marshalling yard had a drainage hill with two track brakes at its southern end and, further north of it, another, smaller shunting system for express freight traffic with a drainage hill without a track brake. Both runoff mountains were operated in a south-north direction. The loading facilities for local traffic and a general cargo reloading hall were located in the northwest part of the facility.
Current condition
The disused station has now been demolished with the exception of the reloading halls (No. 1 to 5) and a forwarding building further south-east, which were still in ruins. There is now a construction machinery trade in the former forwarding company.
The southern access for vehicles and people to the site is via the underpass of Karl-Lehr-Straße. The approximately 400 meter long underpass, located approximately one to two kilometers south of the main train station, connects the areas on both sides of the railway site in an east-west direction. The underpass is interrupted in three places. The east ramp and the west ramp lead up to the railway area. They are about 100 meters long. The two ramps to the former goods halls and the outdoor area are delimited on both sides by vertical walls. Between the railway embankment and the embankment of the A 59, there is a short stretch of road (eight meters) without walling (embankments).
Access for vehicles and people from the main train station from the north is via the street Am Güterbahnhof between the motorway and the former track area.
In the very south of the site there is a former DB access to the Sternbuschweg / Düsseldorfer Strasse intersection, near Engelbertstrasse and the Grunewald DVV depot.
The demolition of the former goods halls began in July 2020.
Area development plan
As part of the development planning for the city of Duisburg, a plan for the further use of the area was presented in 2009. The construction of an office park with the name Duisburger Freiheit is planned . The plans for this were drawn up by the British architect Norman Foster . Foster has already designed many other buildings in Duisburg (including the inner harbor ). When it comes to the structural mix of the new site, Foster + Partners are also orienting themselves towards the successful concept of the inner harbor.
After the planning for this had made slow progress for a long time, there were plans for a factory outlet center on the site, but these were stopped by a referendum in September 2017. As a result, the plans for the Duisburger Freiheit are again to serve as the basis for further planning for the site.
As part of the expansion of the A 59, the area will also receive two independent motorway exits, Hochfeld and Zentrum .
See also
Web links
- Track plan of the northern section 1978 (Eilgutbahnhof, reloading hall; Duisburg Hbf with storage station)
- Track plan of the southern section 1978 (freight marshalling yard, remains of the depot)
- Photo documentation of the abandoned Duisburg freight yard on Lost-Place.org
- https://www.am-alten-gueterbahnhof.de/ - project page for the new development of the area
Individual evidence
- ↑ Development plan 1129 of the city of Duisburg
- ↑ Loveparade criminal proceedings: Anonymized charge . lg-duisburg.nrw.de, December 12, 2017, page 2.
- ^ WDR: Duisburg: demolition of the old freight yard. June 9, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Duisburg freedom to www.duisburg.de ( Memento of 26 September 2015, Internet Archive ) (accessed on 13 October 2013)
- ↑ An article about Duisburger Freiheit on www.derwesten.de (accessed on March 13, 2011)
- ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: DOC referendum in Duisburg has been counted: The result is very close . ( derwesten.de [accessed on March 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Ulla Saal: Application in the Duisburg Council: Back to "Duisburger Freiheit" . ( nrz.de [accessed on March 10, 2018]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 25.4 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 20.7 ″ E