Fürth crossing

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The Fürth crossroads looking towards Fürth around 1845.

The Fürther Kreuzung was a traffic junction that was set up in Nuremberg in 1844 near the city limits of Fürth at the intersection of the Ludwigseisenbahn and the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn . It was the first transfer station between two railways in southern Germany.

history

On August 25, 1844, the name day of King Ludwig I , the Nuremberg – Bamberg section of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn opened, one year after the corresponding section of the Ludwig-Donau-Main Canal went into operation. The train schedule came into effect on October 1, 1844. From August 25, 1844, the Ludwigs-Süd-Nordbahn crossed the track of the Ludwigsbahn, continued the Nürnberg-Fürther Chaussee (today Fürther Straße ) and 200 meters further north at Doos the Pegnitz . In addition, the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal and the Nürnberg-Fürth Chaussee, which runs parallel to the Ludwigseisenbahn, crossed to the west in the immediate vicinity. A traffic junction that was complicated for the time had emerged.

According to the provisions of the royal “ privilege ”, the Ludwig Railway Company had to create a connection; it was created in the form of an " evade ". The opening of the "Fürth Crossing" took place on October 15, 1844. Freight wagons could be transferred directly between the state railway and the Ludwigsbahn via the connecting track. The corresponding freight traffic was particularly strong in the direction of Fürth; to Nuremberg less, as there was a separate state train station there . Only the construction of a gas works on Plärrer in 1852 brought a positive upswing in this direction. It is possible that the historic locomotive shed in Fürth was already being built at this time at what is now the city ​​limits underground station . For the passenger traffic, the Fürth crossing developed into a focal point at times. While travelers to Fürth first had to get off at the Nuremberg train station in order to travel the entire route to Fürth with the Ludwigsbahn, from 1845 - the exact time can no longer be determined - they could change at the Fürth intersection. The diverse intersection of different traffic routes at the Fürth intersection became a “very lively picture of the mighty progress of time” and became a popular motif of painters and lithographers .

In 1848 the Royal State Railroad set up a stop in Nuremberg-Muggenhof and Poppenreuth in protest of the Ludwigsbahn-Gesellschaft , which immediately had a negative impact on the number of passengers on the Ludwigsbahn. With the opening of the Nuremberg – Würzburg railway line via Fürth on June 19, 1865, another bridge was added over the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal, at the Fürth intersection there was no possibility of changing passenger traffic. The thirty-year “Privilegium” of the Ludwig Railway Company for rail traffic between Nuremberg and Fürth had expired, so that in 1865 Fürth was able to connect to the German rail network with a line via Nuremberg.

Both routes competed with each other in local passenger traffic all the more since the Fürth state train station and the Ludwig train station in Fürth were close to each other. The Ludwigs-Eisenbahn had previously stopped the feeder traffic to the Fürth crossing, as most of the passengers boarded the state railway in Poppenreuth or directly at the crossing. Due to the other flourishing business, the directorate wanted to concentrate on the main task and in 1861 already thought of giving up traffic to the Fürth intersection. When the feeder traffic was discontinued, horse transport on the Ludwig Railway also ended. The remaining three horses, the harness and stable props were auctioned on October 2, 1862.

When the Ludwigs-Süd-Nordbahn was relocated in 1876, the previous Gleisdreieck at the Fürth intersection with the transfer station no longer existed. The Fürth intersection was abandoned (there are no structural remains today), the station relocated and opened to traffic on May 15, 1876 with the simultaneous renaming of Nürnberg-Doos . At this nearby stop, free loading tracks were added to compensate . Furthermore, the tracks between the Fürth crossing and Großgründlach could be removed. The stone railway bridge over the Pegnitz was converted into a road bridge. In 1899 the Fürth intersection was incorporated into Nuremberg as part of the former municipality of Höfen and is now part of the Doos district . The official name Fürther Kreuzung was not canceled until 1982.

literature

  • Fürth history workshop : Railway town of Fürth. Fürth 2007. ISBN 3-927347-66-3 . P. 16 f.
  • Alexander Mayer: On water, on land and in the air. A traffic story in Fürth . Erfurt 2010. ISBN 978-3-86680-594-1 . P. 59 ff.
  • Wiltrud Fischer-Pache: Fürth intersection . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 316 ( full edition online ).
  • Wolfgang Mück: Germany's first steam train. The royal privately owned Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth. Fürth 1985. (2nd edition). P. 210 ff.
  • Hans-Peter Schäfer: The beginnings of the Franconian railway . Würzburg 1985. ISBN 3-8003-0257-8 . P. 41 ff.
  • Adolf Schwammberger: Fürth from A to Z. A history dictionary . Reprint of the 1968 edition with unchanged text. Neustadt an der Aisch: Verlag für Kunstreproduktionen Schmidt, 1984, ISBN 3-923006-33-0 , p. 108 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayer: On water, on land and in the air. 2010. p. 59 ff.
  2. ^ Royal Privilege of February 19, 1834, second condition
  3. ↑ a b c d Mayer: On water, on land and in the air. 2010. p. 62 ff.
  4. ^ Royal privilege of February 19, 1834.
  5. ↑ Wiltrud Fischer-Pache: Fürth intersection . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 316 ( full edition online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '46.3 "  N , 11 ° 1' 2.2"  E