Flensburg train station
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 The Flensburg train station, cultural monument in the southern part of Flensburg from 1928 (photo 2016)
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| Operating point type | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | AF |
| IBNR | 8000103 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | December 1, 1927 |
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| City / municipality | Flensburg |
| country | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 46 '28 " N , 9 ° 26' 12" E |
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| Railway stations in Schleswig-Holstein | |
The Flensburg station is the station of the city of Flensburg . From here routes lead to Kiel , to Hamburg via Schleswig and Neumünster and towards Fredericia in Denmark . The station plays a supraregional role in cross-border rail traffic between Germany and Denmark.
The station counts around 5,000 travelers and visitors every day as well as around 70 arrivals and departures.
history
On April 1, 1854 on the railway line Flensburg-Tonning first from outside the city Holzkrug (now there Flensburg-Soft station), also located on 4 October from in the city, later called "English Station" terminal station received the operation . This station at the southern end of the Flensburg Fjord in Flensburg's old town was officially opened on October 25th by the Danish King Friedrich VII , the namesake of the railway line.
The English train station had a first one-story station building in 1855 based on a design by the in-house architect of the railway company Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll ; its red brick facade was structured with several horizontal strips of sandstone. It contained rooms for the chief officer, the post office, a waiting room and a ladies room ; the swampy subsoil did not allow any more. In addition to a goods expedition, there were two buildings that served as a storage shed and customs packing room until it was demolished in 1934. In 1883 this building was demolished and replaced by a representative state train station by the architect Johannes Otzen , who became known as a church builder .
Ten years after the railway was built, in 1864, the line to Woyens in North Schleswig and soon on to Fredericia was opened. In 1869, today's shorter route to Schleswig and Rendsburg was finally put into operation.
Otzens State Railway Station around 1900
The Prussian train station from a different perspective, also around 1900
Its traffic-hindering system due to changed traffic routing was replaced in 1928 by today's train station, which was built on the site of the mill pond on an elaborate pile foundation. The old central building was then converted into a dispatch building for the central bus station built in place of its track system . In its new function as a central bus station, the building appeared again on a postcard as “Germany's first motorway yard”.
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On February 1, 1927, the "Nordschleswigschenschleife" was inaugurated, which saves you having to worry about your head in the old Flensburg train station. The new station was opened on December 1, 1927. The station in the old town was still used as a freight station and was later dismantled. However, to this day there have been repeated considerations to build a new train station in the center of the city or to expand the Flensburg-Weiche stop into the new central train station. After the introduction of the Kiel line in the new Flensburg train station in 1927, a park was created in place of the Kiel train station. Only the name “Alter Bahnhof” for the transfer point to the port railway is reminiscent of the old “Englischer Bahnhof” .
Under pressure from Lord Mayor Wilhelm Sievers , the police president renamed the square in front of the new train station, today Am Bundesbahnhof , to Adolf Hitler facilities on March 23, 1935 - a decision that was reversed on the day of the surrender on May 8, 1945 .
Since 1959 the line to Husum via Löwenstedt has been without passenger traffic. It was dismantled in the 1970s. In 1981 the last passenger trains ran on the Flensburg-Weiche – Lindholm railway line . In 1996 the Neumünster railway line and with it the station were electrified.
After the university was relocated to the Sandberg in the early 2000s, bus services to the train station were expanded, which significantly improved connections for citizens.
From the timetable change in 2007 to the end of 2015, Flensburg was part of the Deutsche Bahn ICE network . In long-distance traffic , a pair of Intercity Express trains on the Aarhus - Hamburg - Berlin route stopped . Before the connection was closed, the Danish side demanded that Germany should optimize the speed of the route. As a result, it was decided to draw up a report in the Flensburg town hall . The aforementioned abolition of the ICE, which was also justified by the fact that the Danish State Railways no longer wanted to rent the ICE trains from Deutsche Bahn, occurred in the middle of the preparation of the report, in which it was assumed that the ICE connection was feasible again . Deutsche Bahn announced at least long-term plans to better integrate Flensburg into the ICE network. Since December 2007 the ICE has stopped at Flensburg station and also in the suburb of Padborg . The Danish side also suggested relocating the long-distance traffic stop to Flensburg Weiche station to reduce the journey time. Due to the better proximity to Padborg, an ICE could increase the speed more quickly after the two stops. If the Padborg stop were omitted, the speed would also be increased.
In this regard, there are also considerations - suggested, among others, by the Pro Bahn passenger association - to build a new passenger station on the Flensburg port railway at the level of the central bus station (ZOB) . The central location at the central bus station is seen as an advantage in these proposals and it is assumed that this could increase the number of passengers. In 2015, an expert opinion on possible future Flensburg rail traffic was published, which took a closer look at various options submitted by the city. Not all planned cases provided for the preservation of the previous station. One option was to upgrade the previous station. Further options provided for a shift of long-distance traffic to Weiche. With this option, the regional trains to Kiel should be operated by a station at the central bus station or by today's train station. Depending on the degree of expansion, costs of between 28 and 59 million euros were forecast. In November 2016, the decision was made to keep the station at its current location.
As part of the Germany cycle , a draft of the BMVI provides for the long-distance train station to be relocated to the Flensburg-Weiche stop, as well as two further stations in the Exe and ZOB area and the Flensburg-Weiche-Lindholm railway line , which connects Flensburg and Niebüll, to reactivate. Regional trains are to run every hour from Hamburg and Niebüll via Flensburg-Weiche to the central bus station, while the Danish State Railways offer long-distance trains from Aarhus every two hours to the Flensburg central bus station and via the new Altona Nord station to Hamburg central station.
Transport and operation
Station facilities
The Flensburg train station is a particularly impressive ensemble of clinker brick expressionism of the 1920s with some outbuildings, some of which are under monument protection . This also includes the former post office building , the "Fw" signal box and the "Fo" bridge signal box , which was considered the most modern of its time when it was built. Also the Carlisle Park belongs to this ensemble.
A lack of care has afflicted this monument from the time of the Weimar Republic . Large parts of the buildings have been empty for a long time after many functions (such as rail mail , baggage check-in, restaurants, cinema operations) were abandoned. The listed signal boxes, which have been decoupled from operations after electrification and the construction of a central signal box in the Weiche district, are also unused. In the mid-1990s and 2003, Deutsche Bahn submitted demolition requests for the “Fw” and “Fo” signal boxes, which were rejected by the Monument Office; the deterioration of the signal boxes continues.
The middle of the three platforms had been closed since 1981 and was dismantled in 2009. The roof of the "Kieler Bahnsteig" (tracks 4 and 5) was renewed in 2008. In 2010, the main platform with tracks 1 and 2 (trains to and from Hamburg and Denmark) was completely overhauled. As part of this, the two remaining platforms received elevators, new stairs and new paving with guide strips for the blind. The listed platform roof on track 4/5 was renovated. The tunnel was renovated and equipped with new advertising and information showcases.
Railway depot and railway maintenance office
Until 1994, the Flensburger Bahnbetriebswerk ( BW ), where diesel locomotives were serviced, refueled, etc. was located in the immediate vicinity of the Flensburg train station . Shunting work also took place here and trains could be parked. There was also a turntable there . Almost 100 people were employed around the Flensburg depot . In the course of the electrification of the lines, it lost its importance and was closed for economic reasons. Until 2009 there was also a local railway maintenance office (BM) in the Flensburg train station . The employees of DB Netz AG , the control and safety technology, are based in the building of the former BM Flensburg . The Flensburg train station also has a service point that is maintained by DB Station & Service employees . DB Regio AG also has a location at Flensburg train station . In addition, DB Fahrwegdienste has stationed a vegetation troop for route maintenance at Flensburg train station.
Only the sidings ( storage group Flensburg ) remain of the former depot, which are rented and used by DB Regio Schleswig-Holstein.
stretch
- Neumünster – Flensburg railway line
- Kiel – Flensburg railway line
- Flensburg – Fredericia railway line
- Flensburg – Niebüll railway line (passenger traffic until 1981)
- Flensburg – Husum railway line (passenger traffic until 1959)
- Flensburg harbor railway (without traffic)
Tracks
The station has four platform tracks. Since the interlocking systems were renewed in 1996, the tracks have not been numbered starting from the station building, but "mirrored", unlike the usual practice. The numbering begins with platform 5 near the station building and ends at platform 1, which is furthest away from the station building. Originally there were four shunting and through tracks between the station building and track 5. Track 5 is the first platform track, its number has remained unchanged. Track 4 (previously 6) is on the same platform. Track 3 (formerly 7) on the disused platform now only serves as a through and siding track, while track 8 opposite was completely dismantled in the course of electrification. Tracks 2 and 1 used to be divided into two sections (as tracks 9 and 10), as the border control post was in the middle of the platform and trains to and from Denmark stopped in the eastern section "b" until border controls were abolished.
- Track 5: Long-distance and regional trains from and to Neumünster / Hamburg Central Station and in the direction of Denmark
- Track 4: Regional trains to and from Kiel Hauptbahnhof
- Track 2: Long-distance and regional trains from and to Neumünster / Hamburg Central Station and in the direction of Denmark
- Track 1: Long-distance and regional trains from and to Neumünster / Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and in the direction of Denmark
Tracks out of the Flensburg train station, in the direction of Neumünster. On the right, in the background, the old signal box. (2016)
Building of the old railway maintenance office, network district Flensburg until 2009. Today used as a workshop and social room. (2016)
Flensburg train station, seen from the Schleswiger Straße bridge. (2016)
Train relations
In long-distance traffic , the Eurocity from Aalborg to Hamburg stop in Flensburg. These operate in Germany as Intercity . In addition, one pair of intercity trains each provides direct connections from Flensburg to Munich and Cologne at the weekend .
In addition, there was an interregional connection between Flensburg and Hanover until 2002 . After this long-distance transport service by Deutsche Bahn was discontinued , the state of Schleswig-Holstein ordered replacement services from the private rail company Flex Verkehrs-AG after a short-term tender . This started operation with modern electric locomotives of the ES64U2 Taurus series from Siemens Dispolok and used passenger coaches.
The InterRegio replacement service known as Flensburg-Express (FLEX) was listed in the timetable under the train type FLX . After the insolvency of Flex Verkehrs-AG, the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn operated this train service every two hours from Padborg (DK) to Hamburg Hbf with stops in Flensburg, Tarp , Schleswig, Rendsburg, Nortorf , Neumünster and Elmshorn until December 2005 . Since December 2005 this traffic has been served again by the DB Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein as Schleswig-Holstein-Express . Since the timetable change in December 2010, trains have only run to Flensburg.
The DB Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein also runs regional services between Neumünster and Flensburg with RE and RB trains every hour to two hours.
The Flensburg – Kiel connection is currently (2016) also operated by DB Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein every hour.
| Train type | Line designation | Line course | Remarks |
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| IC | Intercity | Flensburg – Hamburg – Cologne | |
| IC | Intercity | Flensburg – Hamburg – Munich | |
| IC | Intercity | Flensburg – Aarhus | |
| IC / EC | Intercity / Eurocity | Aarhus – Hamburg | in Germany as IC |
| RE 7 | Regional Express | Flensburg – Hamburg | |
| RE 72 | Regional Express | Flensburg – Eckernförde – Kiel |
Miscellaneous
"Please step back from the platform edge!"
The station master Lorenz Petersen (1864–1921) wrote German railroad history on April 16, 1897 at the Prussian state train station when the 43-year-old spontaneously shouted to the travelers when he was handling the 11 o'clock train to Tönning : "Please step back from the platform!" Because the request was formulated unusually precisely and clearly for the circumstances at the time, it was incorporated into the official railway jargon as an instruction that is still valid today, thanks to a journalist who happened to be present with contacts to the Berlin Reichsbahndirektion . Petersen was not able to assert any copyrights to his statement in court, but he succeeded in creating another language with the sentence “The instructions of the railway staff must be obeyed!”, Which was also adopted in the official language of the railway.
2015 refugee crisis
The refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 led to "chaotic conditions" in September at Flensburg train station, the transit station on the Jutland line between Central Europe and Scandinavia. On the way to Sweden via Denmark, which closed its border for a short time, up to several hundred refugees passed the train station every day. The travelers were helped by a growing network of volunteer helpers and interpreters, who at peak times looked after up to one and a half thousand people a day and distributed clothes, food and toys.
literature
- W .: The opening of the new passenger station in Flensburg. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 67, No. 49 (December 8, 1927), pp. 1355–1360.
- Holger Kaufhold, Eckhard Klein, Detlef Schikorr: 150 Years of the Railway in Flensburg - From the Southern Schleswig Railway to the Deutsche Bahn AG . Ges. Für Flensburg City History Volume 58, LOK Report, Sigmaringen 2004, ISBN 3-935909-22-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 408
- ↑ Querying the course book route 146 from Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 131 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Flensburg train station . In: mobile . No. 5/6 , May 2020, ISSN 0949-586X , ZDB -ID 1221702-5 , p. 85 .
- ↑ Holger Kaufhold, Eckhard Klein, Detlef Schikorr: 150 Years of the Railway in Flensburg - From the Southern Schleswig Railway to the Bahn AG , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935909-22-5 , p. 21ff
- ^ Dieter Pust : Flensburger street names (= series of publications of the Society for Flensburg City History . Volume 61 ). Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , Am Bundesbahnhof, p. 10 .
- ↑ Joachim Pohl: New report in Flensburg: The dream of a better train. In: Flensburger Tageblatt. January 23, 2014, accessed June 28, 2014 .
- ↑ German ICE railcars are no longer supposed to go to Denmark. (No longer available online.) In: Der Nordschleswiger. January 12, 2016, archived from the original on January 12, 2016 ; accessed on January 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Joachim Pohl: Rail: Every two hours an ICE to Flensburg. In: Flensburger Tageblatt. March 21, 2015, accessed January 13, 2016 .
- ^ J. Schulz: Pro rail concept for rail traffic around Flensburg. In: nah.sh. Local transport association Schleswig-Holstein, February 24, 2011, accessed on May 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Bad user rate: who still takes the train in Flensburg? In: Flensburger Tageblatt. December 22, 2016, accessed May 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Expert opinion on the future rail structure in Flensburg , dated December 11, 2015; Retrieved on: May 3, 2018
- ^ Gertz Gutsche Rümenapp: Future railway structure in Flensburg. (PDF; 2.3 MB) City of Flensburg, September 25, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2018 .
- ^ Joachim Pohl: Flensburg: Majority relies on the existing train station. In: Flensburger Tageblatt. November 18, 2016, accessed May 2, 2018 .
- ↑ SMA: Target timetable Germany cycle Second expert draft Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg / Lower Saxony / Bremen. BMVI, May 7, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Old signal box in Flensburg: On the way to the ruin. In: www.shz.de. March 21, 2018, accessed March 21, 2018 .
- ^ Wolfram Eicke: Platform 2, Flensburg station . In: Horst Kutzer (Hrsg.): Flensburg: a reading book . the city of Flensburg in stories, anecdotes, diaries, letters, travelogues and children's stories as well as poems from then and now. 2nd Edition. Husum printing and publishing company, Husum 1993, ISBN 3-88042-306-7 , p. 33-34 .
- ↑ Escape through Europe Denmark closes down. In: tagesschau.de . September 10, 2013, archived from the original on September 11, 2015 ; accessed on September 28, 2015 .
- ^ Antje Walther: Incident: Panic before the bus departure. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . September 28, 2015, accessed September 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Karsten Sörensen: Saturday evening in Flensburg: 1500 refugees at the train station - Flensburg helpers exhausted. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . September 13, 2015, accessed September 28, 2015 .