Eschweiler Central Station
| Eschweiler Central Station | |
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 Entrance building of the Eschweiler main station
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Passenger station |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | KE |
| IBNR | 8001886 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | September 1, 1841 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Eschweiler_Hbf |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Eschweiler |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '48 " N , 6 ° 15' 8" E |
| Railway lines | |
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High-speed line Cologne – Aachen (KBS 480) |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof is the largest of today on Eschweiler located city railway stations . It is on the high-speed route Cologne – Aachen in a slight curve. The local trains of the Regional Express lines RE 1 ( NRW Express ) and RE 9 ( Rhein-Sieg-Express ) stop here every hour in both directions. On March 24, 1987, the station building, including the former toilet and petroleum house, was added to the city of Eschweiler's list of historical monuments as No. 35.
location
The train station is located about 800 meters from the city center in the Röthgen district . The Ichenberger Tunnel is located in the western entrance of the station, in the direction of Aachen . About 750 meters from the station, on the edge of downtown, is located on the main route running parallel to the Eschweiler Talbahn the Euregiobahn -Haltepunkt Eschweiler West .
Operating facilities
In the quality rating of the Rhineland Local Transport Association from the end of 2014, the station received an overall rating of 91.7% (139th place out of 190 stations). This corresponds to the rating “acceptable with minor, negligible defects”. At the end of 2013, the station received a slightly better result with an overall rating of 92.86% (95th place out of 187 stations). The central station's ticket machine code is 3053.
Reception building
The listed reception building on the side is two-storey and has a flat sloping roof. It was opened in 1872 as the successor to the first reception building built in 1860. On the track side, the platform roofing of the house platform, supported by cast-iron columns , is directly connected to the station building .
In later years, the reception building was supplemented by further single-storey extensions for catering and business, while the toilet building, which had been separate until then, was connected to the reception building. The extension of the counter hall was demolished again in 1970, the station was renovated in 1986 and the entrance hall was extensively changed. The city of Eschweiler later bought the station building and had it renovated again in 2007 and 2008. It currently houses offices and a dental practice as well as a kiosk, toilet facilities and a travel agency that also sells tickets for Deutsche Bahn .
Signal box Ehf
From 1963 to July 2020, rail operations in Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof were controlled by the Ehf signal box . It was manned around the clock by a dispatcher and was located at the Jägerspfad level crossing . It was a relay interlocking or track diagram interlocking of the type Sp Dr S2 made by Siemens .
As part of the 1st construction phase of the 2nd extension section of the extension line 4 project , the Jägerspfad level crossing was closed to road traffic on April 17, 2020 and demolished the following night.
The Ehf signal box was taken out of service on the night of July 3rd to 4th, 2020 after 57 years of operation. Since then, Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof has been controlled by the locally responsible dispatcher for the Düren parking area from the Duisburg operations center. The signal box building is to be demolished by the end of 2020.
Tracks
Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof has four tracks:
- Track 1 for trains stopping on schedule in the direction of Aachen
- Track 2 is a continuous main track (regular track in the direction of Aachen) without a platform
- Trains stopping and passing through platform 3 in the direction of Cologne
- Track 4 is used in both directions, mostly for freight trains evading to be overtaken, and in exceptional cases also for passenger traffic
history
Opening of the Rheinische Eisenbahn
In mid-1841, a railway tunnel was built on the Ichenberg in the course of the construction of the railway line, and on August 22, after the completion of the Cologne – Aachen trunk line of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE), the first test run of a train from Cologne to Aachen through the Eschweiler area took place instead of. The official opening of the Rheinische Eisenbahn as a single-track line took place on September 1st, and Eschweiler became a railway station with a Rheinische Bahnhof Eschweiler (Rh.). There were two trains daily in both directions. To mediate the mail traffic between the train station and the city, which essentially only consisted of today's old town north of the Inde , seven omnibus trips were set up every day, which also transport people. In 1878 this bus operation was discontinued. Freight traffic was opened on November 2nd.
Since the route through Eschweiler runs significantly more south than planned, the main station is not on the upper Poststrasse (today: Jülicher Strasse ) as originally planned , but in the suburb of Röthgen .
In 1847 a Hoesch plant was opened at Eschweiler (Rh.) Station , which produced railroad tracks until 1876.
In 1848 the railway line was expanded to two tracks.
Expansion and name change
On April 26, 1858, Eschweiler was granted the Prussian town charter, and on December 28, the extension of the station building at Eschweiler (Rh.) Station was opened. At the end of 1860, the RhE built a reception building at the station and in 1872 a new station building, which is still in use today. On October 1, 1873, the opening of the second Eschweiler railway line, the valley line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , resulted in the suspension of mail from Eschweiler to Jülich on the same day. This second route runs through Eschweiler about 500 m away, parallel to the main route and crosses under it at the Dreibogenbrücke in the Aue district. None of the Eschweiler train stations are on either route.
In 1897, the route of the Aachen tram between the Eschweiler town hall and the main train station was opened. In 1911 the Eschweiler (Rh.) Train station was given its current name, Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof.
During the occupation
After the armistice was signed at the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918, rail traffic was suspended from December 1 to 19, and Eschweiler was occupied by the French and Belgians. The Allied occupation of the Rhineland lasted until 1929, and from 1919 to 1921 the 1st Régiment Mixte des Zouaves et Tirailleurs, the so-called Moroccans, was in the city. On June 2, 1920, near the main train station, the factory worker Jakob Koch and the police sergeant Karl Schmitz, who rushed to his aid, were shot by French-African occupation soldiers. The gunmen were acquitted by a French military court on October 13th. Today a memorial plaque in the small park in front of the reception building commemorates this act.
On January 22, 1923, the railway was shut down again after the French occupation set up a regional railway . In October there was a coup attempt by separatists who wanted to found a Rhenish republic . On November 16, 1924, the management returned the railway to the German Reichsbahnverwaltung .
Second World War
On November 21, 1944, the Sticher Berg railway bridge and the three-arch bridge as well as the Ichenberg tunnel were blown up. In March 1945, the three-arch bridge was makeshift repairs by US pioneers , so that rail traffic was resumed.
post war period
It was not until 1948 that the tram line to the main station was reopened after the destroyed Indebrücke was rebuilt and used by line 22 of ASEAG (Vaals – Eilendorf – Atsch – Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof). In 1954 the tram was discontinued and replaced by the bus.
On July 1, 1958, a unit of the Bundeswehr moved to the Donnerberg camp and Eschweiler became a garrison town again; the Eschweiler main station was therefore important for the soldiers on their way to the site. In August 1962, construction began for the slitting of the Ichenberg tunnel with a length of 255 m due to the electrification of the main line and for the construction of a new tunnel tube with a length of 90 m. The line from Cologne to Aachen has been fully electrified since May 18, 1966.
In the 1970s, the extension to the counter hall was demolished.
On January 1st, 1984, the Federal Railroad stopped the collection of general cargo at Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof, which from then on took place via Aachen. On May 4, 1985, the ceremony to mark the establishment of the partnership with the southern English city of Reigate & Banstead took place in the town hall , and on September 26, 1989 the redesigned station forecourt with 147 parking spaces was renamed Reigate-Banstead-Platz .
At the end of the 1990s, counter operations in the station building were discontinued, but a few years later a travel agency took over the ticket sales, so that today the station is the only station with staff service in the Aachen city region, apart from Aachen Hauptbahnhof , Stolberg Hauptbahnhof and Herzogenrath station . It has been a smoke-free train station since October 19, 2006 . On March 13, 2007, eight new blue name plates with the inscription "Eschweiler Hbf" were attached and the three old white signs removed.
After the purchase of the reception building by the city of Eschweiler, it was rebuilt in 2007 and 2008: It houses a kiosk, a toilet facility, a travel agency with a DB license, a dental practice and other offices. The travel agency opened on June 16, 2008; At the same time, the car park was expanded by around 40 spaces.
In July 2014, the underpass of the Eschweiler main station was given the lettering Eschweiler and Charlemagne by graffiti artists Lars Kesseler and Sidney van den Berg . A total of 180 spray cans were used for this. The financing was provided by the city of Aachen and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .
future
Deutsche Bahn is working on extensive renovation measures at Eschweiler Central Station as part of the 1st construction phase of the expansion section II of the expansion line 4 project for the high-speed line Cologne – Aachen. By raising the platforms to 76 centimeters above the top of the rails and building two elevators , barrier-free access is to be achieved. A new platform roof, three weather shelters and the renovation of the pedestrian underpass and the associated staircases are planned , taking into account the protection of historical monuments .
The measures are currently underway and should be completed by the end of 2020.
traffic
Eschweiler main station is connected to the following public transport lines:
The station is the Thalys Paris - Cologne - ( Dortmund ) and the ICE Frankfurt (Main) - Brussels through without scheduled stop.
See also
Web links
- Current departure schedule from Eschweiler Hbf. Deutsche Bahn
- Reinhard Gessen: Eschweiler Central Station. In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region.
- André Joost: Eschweiler Hbf. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Betriebsstellearchiv.
- André Joost: Eschweiler Hbf. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Bahnhofsinfo.
- Tracks in service facilities (KE) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directory of operating locations (status 04/2018). ( CSV ; 1.6 MB) DB Netz , April 2018, accessed on August 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Station price list 2018 (PDF; 3.78 MB) DB Station & Service , March 8, 2018, accessed on August 18, 2018 .
- ↑ List of monuments (Part A) Monuments in the area of the city of Eschweiler. In: www.eschweiler.de. City of Eschweiler , December 1, 2015, p. 10 , accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Station quality 2014. (PDF; 3.70 MB) Quality of the stations of the local rail passenger transport (SPNV) in the area of the special purpose association Nahverkehr Rheinland 2014. (No longer available online.) Nahverkehr Rheinland , June 2015, p. A10 , archived from the original on 30 July 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Station quality 2013. (PDF; 2.11 MB) Quality of the stations of the local rail passenger transport (SPNV) in the area of the special purpose association Nahverkehr Rheinland 2013. (No longer available online.) Nahverkehr Rheinland , November 2014, p. A5 , archived from the original on 30 July 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Burkhard Thiel: Eschweiler Hbf. In: Zielbahnhof.de. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
- ^ A b André Joost: Signal box Eschweiler Hbf Ehf. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Fact sheet ABS 4 and modernization of Eschweiler main station. (PDF; 139 kB) Deutsche Bahn, December 5, 2018, p. 1 , accessed on July 19, 2020 .
- ^ Plan of the planned rail route from Cologne to Eupen. (JPG; 253 kB) or the Prussian part of the great railway between Cologne and Antwerp. In: Railway in Stolberg. Roland Keller, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ^ A b c d Karl Meurer: Excerpts from "The Railway - History of the City of Eschweiler in Data" . In: Eschweiler Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Series of publications by the Eschweiler Geschichtsverein . No. 12 , 1991, ISSN 0724-7745 , pp. 121-128 .
- ^ Wilhelm Bender: Eschweiler during the occupation from 1918 to 1929 . Ed .: Eschweiler History Association . Eschweiler 1991 ( table of contents [accessed January 30, 2016]).
- ↑ Soon Emperor Karl is laughing in the underpass. In: Aachener Nachrichten . July 16, 2014, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Graffiti artwork in the railway underpass: A real asset. In: Aachener Nachrichten . July 27, 2014, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Lee Beck: Kaiser Karl is now also available as sprayed art. In: Aachener Nachrichten . August 11, 2014, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Expansion section 4, expansion section II - Eschweiler area. (PDF; 2.81 MB) DB Netz, July 2018, accessed on July 19, 2020 .
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