Ellerbahnhof
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 24.36 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 55.2" E
The Ellerbahnhof was from 1897/1905 to 1979 operated station of Cologne-Bonn railway (KBE) in Bonn .
The Ellerbahnhof was located in the north-west of Bonn on the corner of Vorgebirgsstrasse and Ellerstrasse. It was built for the narrow-gauge foothills of the KBE and went into operation in 1897. Ellerstrasse and Ellerbahnhof were named after Peter Innocenz Eller, alderman of the city of Bonn, who died in 1893.
Coming from Dransdorf , the tracks of the Vorgebirgsbahn led from today's stop at Brühler Straße to Ellerbahnhof and from there through Vorgebirgsstraße and Maxstraße to Friedrichsplatz, today's Friedensplatz in downtown Bonn.
From 1905, the newly built standard gauge Rheinuferbahn of the KBE also ran through the Ellerbahnhof. The route of the Rheinuferbahn branched off from the current route at Hersel station and ran via Buschdorf and the former KBE station at Bonn's North Cemetery to Ellerbahnhof. Initially, the Hersel - Ellerbahnhof section was only used for freight traffic. From 1906 the passenger trains of the Rheinuferbahn ran to the Ellerbahnhof and on through Ellerstraße and Thomastraße to the Bonn terminus of the KBE ( Rheinuferbahnhof ) in the immediate vicinity of the Staatsbahn station (today Bonn Hauptbahnhof ). The Rheinuferbahn was electrified from the start and largely had two tracks. The section between Ellerbahnhof and Rheinuferbahnhof was single-track and ran in road traffic. The very tight curve between Ellerbahnhof and Ellerstraße led to a train derailment in 1909.
By 1929 the foothills railway was converted to standard gauge and electrified. The line from Ellerbahnhof to Friedrichsplatz was shut down, and from 1929 the Vorgebirgsbahn used the tracks of the Rheinuferbahn towards the city center. In 1954, passenger traffic ended at Ellerbahnhof due to the relocation of the KBE routes in Bonn. The section through Ellerstraße was closed. In 1969 the station lost the direct connection to the Rheinuferbahn in Hersel and was only accessible via one track from the Vorgebirgsbahn.
The Ellerbahnhof was the Bonn freight yard of the Cologne-Bonn Railways until 1979. It had several loading tracks, goods sheds and various sidings, including to the directly adjacent wholesale market hall.
After the closure in 1979, the track systems of the Ellerbahnhof were removed, some former warehouses and one of the two loading streets remained standing until around 1989. Larger parts of the area were used for car recycling. Until 1988 the annual punk rock festival "Schrottkultur" took place there, which was of great importance in the regional punk scene. After 1990 the remains of the Ellerbahnhof were demolished.
Today there is an office building on the site that housed the headquarters of the Federal Railway Authority until April 2009 , a car dealership and other businesses.
literature
- Claudia Kroth: The Cologne-Bonn Railway - 100 Years of the Rheinuferbahn: 1906–2006 . Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-7616-2003-9
- Eduard Bündgen: The Cologne-Bonn Railways 1891 - 1992 . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-88255-502-5
Individual evidence
- ^ Ellerstrasse in the Bonn street cadastre