Leipzig railway junction
The Leipzig railway junction is the largest railway junction in Saxony . It links eight double-track and two single-track main lines as well as a branch line . Two other branch lines were shut down in the 1990s.
It connects the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line , the Central German S-Bahn (until December 2013: Leipzig-Halle S-Bahn), the Leipzig City Tunnel , the expanded Leipzig / Halle – Berlin , Leipzig – Dresden , Leipzig – Hof , Leipzig – Chemnitz and other routes in the existing network. Leipzig Hauptbahnhof , with a floor area of 83,640 square meters, is the largest terminal station in Europe in terms of area , and is the hub of Leipzig's inner-city traffic and central German local and long-distance traffic . Leipzig's main train station has a daily passenger volume of 120,000 commuters, travelers and visitors.
The complex expansion of the railway junction began in 2002.
history
As early as 1859, Leipzig had developed into an important railway junction: In addition to the 1837/39 inaugurated Leipzig-Dresden Railway later drove a year, the Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway Company on its main line, since 1842, the Saxon-Bavarian Railway and in 1856 the Thuringian Railway to Halle and Erfurt. The facilities of the Dresden , Magdeburg and Thuringian train stations were built on the then northern edge of Leipzig in the immediate vicinity of each other. The Bayerischer Bahnhof and the Eilenburger Bahnhof were each about two kilometers southeast of it .
Due to the competition between the Prussian State Railways and the Royal Saxon State Railways , many parallel structures emerged, such as the two shunting yards: Engelsdorf (b Leipzig) was built by the Royal Saxon State Railways, Leipzig-Wahren originally belonged to the Prussian State Railways. The Leipziger Güterring , inaugurated in 1905–1906, connected the goods facilities of both administrations, bypassing the inner-city passenger stations.
The Leipzig node was included in the electrification of the German rail network in 1914 . Leipzig Hauptbahnhof was completed in 1915, with separate facilities again being built for both railway administrations. During this time, the railway systems that are essentially still in existence today were built, which were restored after the destruction of the Second World War . This infrastructure has been fully modernized for the first time since June 2002.
With the City-Tunnel Leipzig , a connection was established under the city center from the main train station to the Bavarian train station with additional stops at the market and at Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz . The Leipzig main station was transformed from a pure terminus to a combined terminus and through station. At the main station of the tunnel over a West ramp in the routes is to truth and to Leutzsch and a north ramp height freely to Eilenburg and to Bitterfeld involved.
traffic
Long-distance transport
Leipzig is connected to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn by several Intercity-Express and Intercity lines. The two intercity lines IC 55 and IC 56 condense together between Leipzig and Hanover at hourly intervals.
| line | Line course | Clock frequency |
|---|---|---|
| ICE 28 | Berlin - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig - Jena - Saalfeld - Bamberg - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich | Every two hours |
| ICE 28 | Leipzig - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Berlin - Hamburg | Every two hours |
| ICE 50 | Dresden - Riesa - Leipzig - Naumburg - Weimar - Erfurt - Eisenach - Fulda - Frankfurt (Main) Süd - Frankfurt Airport long-distance train station | Every two hours |
| ICE 50 | Leipzig - Naumburg - Weimar - Erfurt - Eisenach - Fulda - Frankfurt am Main main station , individual trains to Saarbrücken or Wiesbaden | Every two hours |
| IC 28 | Berlin - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig - Jena - Saalfeld - Bamberg - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich | Individual trains |
| IC 50 | Leipzig - Erfurt - Eisenach - Fulda - Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof - Frankfurt Airport long-distance train station - ( Mainz - Wiesbaden ), as a replacement for ICE 50 | Every two hours |
| IC 55 | Dresden - Riesa - Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Cologne | Every two hours |
| IC 56 | Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Hanover - Bremen - Oldenburg - Leer - Emden - Norddeich Mole | Every two hours |
Apart from the regular connections, individual trains connect Leipzig with:
- Prague ( EuroCity )
- Saarbrücken ICE 50
- Düsseldorf , Bonn , Koblenz , Mainz , Mannheim , Stuttgart , Ulm , Kempten , Oberstdorf IC 55
- Hildesheim , Schwerin IC 56
With the commissioning of the new lines towards Erfurt (and on to Nuremberg), ICE trains have been running to and from Munich (via Ingolstadt) since 2017.
Regional and S-Bahn traffic
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
|---|---|---|---|
| RE 6 | Leipzig - Belgershain - Bad Lausick - Geithain - Burgstädt - Chemnitz | 60 | Transdev |
| RE 10 | Leipzig - Eilenburg - Torgau - Falkenberg - Doberlug-Kirchhain - Calau - Cottbus | 120 | DB Regio Nordost |
| EBx 12 | Leipzig - Pegau - Zeitz - Bad Köstritz - Gera - Weida - Pößneck - Saalfeld | 120 | Erfurt Railway |
| RE 13 | Leipzig - Delitzsch - Bitterfeld - Dessau - Zerbst - Biederitz - Magdeburg | 120 | DB Regio Southeast |
| EBx 13 | Leipzig - Zeitz - Gera - Weida - Zeulenroda - Mehltheuer - Hof | 120 | Erfurt Railway |
| RE 42 | Leipzig - Bad Dürrenberg - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Jena - Saalfeld - Bamberg - Erlangen - Nuremberg | 120 | DB Regio Bavaria |
| RE 50 | Leipzig - Wurzen - Oschatz - Riesa - Priestewitz - Radebeul East - Dresden | 60 | DB Regio Southeast |
| RB 20 | Leipzig - Bad Dürrenberg - Weissenfels - Naumburg - Apolda - Weimar - Erfurt - Gotha - Eisenach | 60 | Abellio |
| EB 22 | Leipzig - Pegau - Zeitz - Bad Köstritz - Gera - Weida - Pößneck - Koenitz - Saalfeld | 120 | Erfurt Railway |
| RB 110 | Leipzig - Borsdorf - Grimma - Leisnig - Döbeln | 60 | Transdev |
| RB 113 | Leipzig - Belgershain - Bad Lausick - Geithain | 60 | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 1 | Leipzig Miltitzer Allee - Leipzig-Plagwitz - Leipzig - Leipzig Market - Leipzig-Stötteritz | 30th | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 2 | ( Jüterbog -) Wittenberg / Dessau - Bitterfeld - Delitzsch - Leipzig - Leipzig Market - Leipzig-Stötteritz | 30th | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 3 | Halle-Trotha - Halle - Schkeuditz - Leipzig - Leipzig Market - Leipzig-Connewitz (- Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz) | 30th | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 4 | Hoyerswerda - Falkenberg - Eilenburg - Leipzig - Leipzig Market - Leipzig-Stötteritz - Wurzen (- Oschatz) | 30th | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 5 | Halle - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Leipzig - Leipzig Market - Markkleeberg - Altenburg - Gößnitz - Zwickau | 60 | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 5X | Halle - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Leipzig - Leipzig Market - Markkleeberg - Altenburg - Gößnitz - Zwickau | 60 | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 6 | Leipzig Fair - Leipzig - Leipzig Market - Leipzig-Connewitz - Markkleeberg - Borna - Geithain | 30th | DB Regio Southeast |
Freight transport
The Engelsdorf (b Leipzig) freight station, opened in 1906, and the Leipzig-Wahren station were the two large marshalling yards in the Leipzig rail hub.
The shunting operation in Leipzig-Wahren was discontinued in 1994. On July 2, 2001, the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Strasse opened a transshipment station for container transport on the premises of the Wahren freight yard after a three-year construction period . This is located right next to a freight center. With a peak throughput of 500 TEU , it replaced the previous systems in Leipzig-Stötteritz and Halle (Saale). This was expanded to block train length at the end of 2005 and a second crane runway was added in 2017. Both crane runways each span four 700 m long tracks. 220,000 TEU can be handled annually. The Trans-Eurasia-Express container train to Shenyang in China has started from here every day since September 2011 .
The Engelsdorf freight yard, which is currently still in operation, is a one-sided marshalling yard with 26, after the expansion of the subordinate group at interlocking D 31 directional tracks. The entry group at the western end of the marshalling yard is located on the Leipziger Güterring with double-track connections to the south and north . For trains arriving from Dresden that end at Ostberg , there is a siding to the approach group of the Westberg . After the new construction of the Halle (Saale) freight station , regular operations are to be discontinued.
literature
- Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways. transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 , pp. 154-164.
- Railway junction Halle / Leipzig Partial junction Leipzig. (PDF, 2.5 MB) Partial node Leipzig. DB Projektbau , 2003, archived from the original on July 10, 2012 ; accessed on June 22, 2016 .
- German Bundestag (Ed.): The Federal Government's answer to the minor question from the MPs Stephan Kühn, Dr. Anton Hofreiter, Daniela Wagner, other MPs and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN - printed matter 17/2826 -. Future development of the Leipzig railway junction (PDF; 133 kB). Printed matter 17/2939 of September 15, 2010.
Web links
- Rail infrastructure Leipzig on the OpenRailwayMap.
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Sunday, modern Talent 2 trains also on the S-Bahn between Halle (Saale) and Leipzig. Deutsche Bahn AG, September 27, 2013, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; accessed on November 29, 2015 .
- ^ Station profile Leipzig Hbf - further information, data & facts. www.bahnhof.de , archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; Retrieved February 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Torsten Höfig: The Hauptbahnhof station: crossing point between city and long-distance traffic . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bauoberleitung / Construction supervision City-Tunnel Leipzig (ed.): City-Tunnel Leipzig: Chronicle of the development of a Saxon traffic project . Strom & Strom, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939516-07-1 , p. 50-57 .
- ↑ Without a source
- ↑ Leipzig-Wahren transshipment station went into operation. ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Medienservice Sachsen, July 2, 2001.
- ↑ DUSS Terminal Leipzig-Wahren. (PDF) DUSS, September 2017, accessed on December 17, 2018 .
- ↑ DB Schenker starts rail transport to China. on: verkehrsrundschau.de , September 29, 2011.