Fürth (Bavaria) Central Station

Fürth (Bay) Hbf
Entrance building seen from the station forecourt
Data
Location in the network	Separation station
Platform tracks	6 regional and long-distance railway tracks 2 S-Bahn tracks 2 subway tracks
abbreviation	NF
IBNR	8000114
Price range	2
Website URL	Station profile of the BEG
Profile on Bahnhof.de	Fuerth__Bay__Hbf
Architectural data
architect	Eduard Rüber
location
City / municipality	Fuerth
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 28 '12 "  N , 10 ° 59' 25"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '12 "  N , 10 ° 59' 25"  E
Height ( SO )	297  m
Railway lines
Fürth - Cadolzburg (KBS 808) Fürth - Würzburg (KBS 805, 807) Nuremberg - Bamberg (KBS 820, 890.1) Ringbahn Nuremberg
Railway stations in Bavaria

Fürth (Bavaria) Hauptbahnhof (abbreviated: Fürth (Bay) Hbf ) is the central railway junction in the Bavarian city ​​of Fürth .

Transport offer

Regional connections exist eastward to neighboring Nuremberg . About one kilometer west of the station, after crossing the Rednitz on the Siebenbogenbrücke, the route fans out in three directions: To the north, the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway (route 820) leads towards Bamberg ; to the west, the Nuremberg – Würzburg railway (course book line 805), from which the Zenngrundbahn (course book line 807) branches off to Markt Erlbach in Siegelsdorf ; Finally, to the southwest, the Rangaubahn (course book route 808) leads to Cadolzburg . The Cadolzburg route is driven every half hour, the route to Markt Erlbach every hour. Since December 12, 2010 the S-Bahn line S1 has been running here to Hartmannshof and Bamberg .

Long-distance transport

Until the 2003 timetable change , the station was a stop for IC trains that connected Nürnberg Hbf via Fürth with Würzburg Hbf and Frankfurt am Main . Until the timetable change in 2009, the City Night Line connection to Berlin-Lichtenberg and Munich Hbf stayed in Fürth main station . With the elimination of the two night train stops, Fürth lost its last long-distance connection. In the timetable year 2013/14, however, the IC from Stralsund stopped in Fürth in 1989 .

Fürth has also been a long-distance stop again since March 8, 2020. Once a day (except Sunday) there is an InterCity line 17 to / from Warnemünde. Due to the Stadler KISS car set taken over from the Westbahn on the new IC line between Dresden and Rostock, there is a nightly transfer from the plant in Vienna to the said route. Because of this trip, Fürth train station has benefited from another intercity stop since March 2020.

From 2030 at the latest , the intercity line from Zurich to Leipzig should also stop in Fürth.

line	Line course	offer
IC 17	Vienna - Passau - Regensburg - Nuremberg - Fürth - Erlangen - Bamberg - Lichtenfels - Leipzig - Berlin - Rostock - Warnemünde	a pair of trains

Local transport

Line / type of train	VGN line	Line course			offer
RE		Mainfrankenbahn : Würzburg - Rottendorf - Kitzingen - Neustadt (Aisch) - Siegelsdorf - Fürth - Nuremberg			60-minute intervals
RE		Franken-Thuringia Express : Nuremberg - Fürth - Erlangen - Bamberg	- Schweinfurt - Würzburg		120-minute intervals
			- Lichtenfels - Saalfeld - Jena - Leipzig
			- Lichtenfels	- Coburg - Sonneberg	120-minute intervals
				- Kronach - Saalfeld
			- Coburg (- Sonneberg)		120-minute intervals
RB		Mainfrankenbahn: Neustadt (Aisch) - Emskirchen - Siegelsdorf - Fürth - Nuremberg			30-minute intervals
RB		Fürth - Zirndorf - Cadolzburg			30- / 60-minute intervals
RB		( Nuremberg -) Fürth - Siegelsdorf - Wilhermsdorf - Market Erlbach			60-minute intervals
		( Bamberg -) Forchheim - Erlangen - Fürth - Nuremberg - Lauf - Hersbruck (- Hartmannshof)			20/40 / (60) minute intervals

Connection to city traffic

Fürth Hauptbahnhof underground station

Since December 7, 1985, the 150th anniversary of the German Railways , Fürth main station has been connected to the Nuremberg subway network with the U1 line . At the beginning of 2006 the first construction work began to connect Fürth to the Nuremberg S-Bahn , which has been in Fürth since December 12, 2010.

The station forecourt is one of the most important bus hubs. Seven of eleven city ​​traffic lines and five lines to the surrounding area stop or start here , for which a dynamic passenger information system has been installed. There are also parking spaces and taxi ranks available on the station square .

history

Bavarian troops leave Fürth train station "with never-ending hurray and farewell greetings", August 1914 (German postcard)

Ludwigsbahnhof

Fürth's first train station was a good 100 meters further north, on Fürther Freiheit. This Ludwigsbahnhof was built as the terminus in Fürth of the Ludwigsisenbahn Nürnberg – Fürth, which opened on December 7, 1835, and was one of the first in Germany . In 1922, the Ludwigsbahn stopped operating and the tracks were used by the Nuremberg-Fürth tram until 1981; however, the course of the route is still clearly recognizable through the alignment of today's Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse. The old train station was demolished in 1938 when the NSDAP needed a parade ground on Schlageterplatz, today's Fürther Freiheit.

On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the railway from Nuremberg to Fürth in August 2010, the Ludwigsbahnhof was reconstructed in its original size as part of the “Time Travel” exhibition on the Fürther Freiheit.

Central Station

With the construction of the connection between Fürth and Rottendorf and the relocation of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn over the Fürth Bogen, a new station building became necessary. The architect Eduard Rüber was commissioned . In the years 1863/1864, a rectangular building with a wide central projection was built on the north side of the new line at Bahnhofsplatz 9 . On the long sides of the two-storey reception hall there are partly coupled double windows. The platforms were covered with cast iron stands, some of which have survived to this day.

In mid-1971, the hundredth track diagram interlocking in the area of ​​the Nuremberg Railway Directorate went into operation at Fürth main station for a total of 17 million  D-Marks . It replaced ten old signal boxes and saved 66 jobs. At that time, around 550 train journeys and 1300 shunting journeys passed the station every day.

Today the through station has nine tracks (including a passing track for freight trains) and eight platform edges with a length between 140 and 421 meters. In the 1970s, the Bahnhofs-Center was built right next to the reception building at the confluence of Gebhardtstraße with Bahnhofsplatz. The railway underpass, which was laid out in 1901, was extended in 1985 as part of the underground construction work to Karolinenstraße and since then has provided a direct connection from the southern part of Fürth to the train and underground railway and the city center. Until then, you had to use the station underpass about 80 meters to the east, it was opened on December 17, 1929 and cost 228,500 RM at the time  .

For the expansion of the Nuremberg S-Bahn, the old house platform with the platform roof was torn down between 2009 and 2011 and a new central platform with tracks 20 and 21 was built in its place. During the construction work there was a temporary platform at the eastern end of the station for local traffic towards Nuremberg.

As part of the expansion of the section between Nuremberg and Fürth, an electronic interlocking was built in the Fürth main station in 2009 . Since it was fully completed in 2011, it has been used to control both the train station and the section to Nuremberg with a total of 87 main signals and 94  axle counters .

and display information about the image

Station building (1863/64) with side wings (1902/04) and vestibule (1914)

In March 2018, plans became known to dismantle a number of tracks and switches in the southern part of the station.

Web links

Commons : Fürth (Bayern) Hauptbahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Platform information for Fürth (Bay) Hbf station on the Deutsche Bahn website
• Tracks in service facilities (NF) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
• Representation of the station on the OpenRailwayMap
• Website of the main station Fürth www.hauptbahnhof-fuerth.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Germany March 9, 2020: New DB Intercity double-decker trains (ex WESTbahn) on rails. In: info24news.net. Info 24 - Public Transport Switzerland - Europe, March 9, 2020, accessed on July 4, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Georg Paul Rieß: “From Fürth's story - by Georg Paul Rieß. Chronicle writer. 1914. Fourth year ”. Fürth 1914 (official city chronicle, single copy in the Fürth city archive). P. 81.
3. ↑ Fürth celebrates 175 years of the German Railway. fuerth.de, 2010, pp. 20–23 , accessed on September 30, 2017 (PDF). 
4. ↑ Report central signal box Fürth (Bay) in operation . In: Die Bundesbahn , year 45 (1971), issue 15, ISSN  0007-5876 , p. 752
5. ↑ Bernd Jesussek: Bridge City Fürth . Städtebilder-Verlag, Fürth 1993, ISBN 3-927347-25-6 , p. 32 .
6. ↑ One billion for Bavaria's rail network . In: DB Welt , regional edition south, edition September 2009, p. 21
7. ↑ Siemens Mobility: Order from Deutsche Bahn for the innovative electronic interlocking ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Simis D from Siemens ; Press release from December 18, 2008
8. ↑ Railway line no. 5900 Nürnberg Hbf-Bamberg, railway km 6.230 to 7.444 Project “Dismantling of several tracks and switches in the area of ​​the Fürth (Bay) Hbf station”. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office, March 28, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 5, 2018 (German).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.