Coburg freight yard

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The Coburg freight yard is located at kilometer 131.940 on the Eisenach – Lichtenfels railway line , about one kilometer southwest of Coburg city ​​center. The freight station was opened in 1903 and was used for general cargo traffic until 1997 . In 2000, the Deutsche Bahn closed the station as a tariff point for cargo traffic, with which freight traffic was discontinued. In 2007, the track system was extensively dismantled to create a couple of sidings.

Track systems

history

Former engine shed, demolished in 2015
Northern signal box

At the end of the 19th century, the Coburg station , a combined passenger and freight station, had reached its capacity limits. After three years of negotiations with the city, the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate in Erfurt , which had been responsible since 1895, began planning a separate freight station in the south of the city in 1898. The choice of location in favor of the area south of the slaughterhouse was due , among other things, to the industrial operations that existed at the time in connection with the area, Hofbrauhaus Coburg , municipal gas, water and electricity works . The city made an area of ​​7.9 hectares available free of charge. Construction work began in the autumn of 1901. The area was gained by relocating and straightening the Itz and extensive embankments. The freight yard comprised a central freight shed with several loading ramps, an overnight building, a water tower and a four-sided locomotive shed . Commissioning was on August 1, 1903. Coburg companies and haulage companies followed suit and built their warehouses and branch offices on the site. Glass wholesaler Ernst Knoch had a warehouse built in 1926. The master carpenter Eduard Heß carried out the roof construction with the Zollbau lamellar construction . The duchy erected a tax office building with railway customs clearance and inspection shed at the entrance to the freight yard around 1905, in which the customs office will also be located in 2020.

In 1912 the freight yard was expanded to include a new ramp with a roof and an attached storage shed.

In 1938 the slaughterhouse got its own siding. In 1950 the Städtische Werke Überlandwerke Coburg received a siding with a bridge over the Itz, which was shut down in 1990.

The four-person locomotive shed with turntable was in operation until the opening of the depot in Calendarweg in 1921. Afterwards it was used as a machine hall and rail bus depot, and finally as a workshop for trucks for a forwarding company. The 17 meter high water tower had a capacity of 100 cubic meters. It was destroyed in April 1945 by a low-flying attack.

In 1942, the area of ​​the freight yard reached its greatest expansion with an area of ​​8.6 hectares. The station had a goods handling facility with subsequent loading ramps on three tracks, three open loading tracks, a maximum of 600 meters long sorting tracks for the different directions and groups and a drainage mountain , which was served by an approximately 400 meter long pull-out track at the southern end.

During the Second World War, the freight yard was the target of two air raids. A locomotive was shot at in September 1944 and on April 8, 1945, three days before units of the 11th US Armored Division , an ammunition train exploded.

In 1950 the sorting tracks were electrified. In 1955 there were 30 warehouses and spaces. In 1979, the Deutsche Bundesbahn inaugurated a container transshipment point. On November 1, 1989, double-track operation between the passenger station and the freight station was discontinued.

With the end of general cargo transport by Deutsche Bahn in 1997, general cargo handling in Coburg was discontinued on September 1, 1997. As a result, wood and scrap were still loaded until the goods tariff point of the loading point and thus the operation ended on January 1, 2000.

Until the end of 2007, the two signal boxes with construction-time technology from the Max Jüdel railway signal construction company from Braunschweig were in operation. With the extensive dismantling of the track systems to two through tracks and five stub tracks as well as the leveling of the drainage mountain in early 2007, the installation of light signals and cable laying work for the use of an electronic interlocking , which went into operation in December 2007, began.

Freight transport

Former general cargo hall
Warehouse with Zollinger roof, demolished in 2015

The freight yard mainly served economic purposes. He had a local distribution function for the city of Coburg and the district of Coburg, the connected routes to Neustadt , Rodach , Rossach and Hofsteinach via Ebersdorf . But it was also of military importance for the garrison town of Coburg .

The main tasks of the freight station were general cargo traffic and wagonload traffic. In the case of general cargo traffic, the Coburg small goods shipments were sorted according to the destination and loaded into direction trolleys, which were then shunted in groups in one direction of receipt. Incoming trains were regrouped for wagonload traffic. In one direction, local freight trains for the surrounding branch lines and in the other direction freight trains from the freight wagons of the incoming branch lines and the Coburg general cargo wagons were put together. The compilations were mostly made with shunting trips over the drainage mountain.

In 1911, for example, over 53,000 tons of coal for the municipal works were delivered via the freight yard in 1911 and the Coburger Hofbräu AG exported 5,500 tons of beer through it. In 1913, 153,000 tons of goods were handled. In 1929 up to 500 freight wagons were handled every day.

In 1964 150,000 tons of goods were handled in Coburg. A total of 553,900 tons were received and dispatched via the freight yard on the access routes.

At the time of the closure in 1997, it was third in the area of ​​general cargo in the former Nuremberg division.

Conversion of the site

Illuminated freight yard during the design days

In 2013, the City of Coburg acquired 6.1 hectares of the freight yard area, on which a volume for science, technology and design is to be created according to the framework plan .

In 2014, the Coburg Design Days took place for the first time in the former 1230 square meter general cargo hall (parcel hall). In the summer of 2015, empty halls, such as the engine shed, were demolished. This made it possible to expand the provisional parking spaces that had been in place since 2012 for Brose employees.

The costs for the development and removal of contaminated sites were estimated at 18.5 million euros in 2015. In September 2017, the Ernst Faber Bridge, which spans the Itz, was opened to better develop the area in the south. The total costs, including the removal of contaminated sites and ancillary costs, amounted to 4.4 million euros.

According to the updated framework plan, an area for the university is planned in the north, in the area of ​​the slaughterhouse, followed by an area for start-ups with the possibility of living there for a short time (youth hostel, boarding house). In the south there is the planned cultural site Globe , interim theater of the Coburg State Theater , with ancillary buildings. A parking garage is planned opposite. The parcel hall (formerly general cargo hall) in the middle is to be converted into an event center for four million euros.

See also

Web links

Commons : Güterbahnhof Coburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Historische Gesellschaft Coburg eV and the Coburg State Archives: Exhibition "Coburg Gbf., 1901-1997", Coburg Designtage 2015
  2. ↑ a b Steffen Dietsch, Stefan Goldschmidt, Hans Löhner: The Werrabahn . Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810681-3-9 , p. 83 f.
  3. ↑ a b c d Coburg freight yard - history from 1901 to today, 31st Coburg Design Days
  4. ^ A b c Steffen Dietsch, Stefan Goldschmidt, Hans Löhner: The Werrabahn . Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810681-3-9 , p. 185.
  5. ↑ Steffen Dietsch, Stefan Goldschmidt, Hans Löhner: The Werrabahn . Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810681-3-9 , p. 255.
  6. ↑ Cargo handling as a problem of railroad logistics in the 20th century-October 17th, 2016.pdf Prof. Dr. Richard Vahrenkamp, ​​Logistik Consulting Berlin, lecture at TU Berlin on October 17th, 2016 General cargo handling as a problem of rail logistics in the 20th century
  7. ↑ Steffen Dietsch, Stefan Goldschmidt, Hans Löhner: The Werrabahn . Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810681-3-9 , p. 207.
  8. ↑ Christoph Winter: City buys old freight yard. In: np-coburg.de , September 27, 2013.
  9. ^ Simone Bastian: Demolition work at the Coburg freight yard. In: infranken.de , August 5, 2015.
  10. ↑ Simone Bastian: This is what the Coburg freight yard area could look like in the future. In: infranken.de , March 27, 2015.
  11. ↑ Ulrike Nauer: Ernst Faber Bridge is open. In: infranken.de , September 8, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 57 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 38 ″  E