Gütersloh main station
| Gütersloh Hbf | |
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 Entrance to the station concourse
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | EGLO |
| IBNR | 8002461 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 1847 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Guetersloh_Hbf |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Gutersloh |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 54 '25 " N , 8 ° 23' 5" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Gütersloh Hbf train station is located in Gütersloh on the electrified, four-track main line Ruhrgebiet - Hanover , a section of the former Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft that opened in 1847 . The two platforms for regional and long-distance traffic are located on the double-track "Personenbahn" Hamm (Westf) Pbf - Minden (Westf) Gbf (route 1700) , while the also double-tracked "Güterbahn" Hamm Rbf Hvn - Minden (Westf) Gbf ( Route 2990) has no platforms and is only used when passenger trains are diverted. From this route the Warendorfer Bahn branches off to Münster in Rheda-Wiedenbrück . In the reception building now houses a DB Travel Center , where tickets can be purchased. There is also a restaurant / bistro , a bakery with a mini supermarket , a train station bookshop and a bike station with luggage storage.
Offer
In long-distance traffic , the station is served every two hours by IC line 55 Cologne - Wuppertal - Hanover - Magdeburg - Leipzig . On Fridays and Sundays, additional Intercity runs every two hours on the Stuttgart / Karlsruhe – Cologne – Berlin Südkreuz line . Some ICE trains also stop at the edge of the day .
There is a 30-minute cycle between Gütersloh and Hamm in local public transport. Since December 2006 there have been three travel options per hour to Bielefeld. The following lines stop in Gütersloh Hbf:
Local transport tariffs
The station is in the area of the regional network tariff “Der Sechser” ( OWL Verkehr GmbH ). In addition, a transition tariff to the "Münsterland tariff" ( Verkehrsgemeinschaft Münsterland ) to Warendorf or Ahlen and the NRW tariff apply .
Train station connection
There is a central bus station directly opposite the main station . From here, the urban area of Gütersloh is accessed by a star-shaped city bus network operated by Stadtwerke Gütersloh . In addition, there are regional bus connections to neighboring cities.
Within walking distance, beyond the main post office and Friedrich-Ebert-Str. the Gütersloh North Station of the Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE), formerly passenger transport by railway Ibbenbüren-Hövelhof operation. This terminus is still used sporadically today for the museum railway operation of the " Teuto-Express " as the end point.
See also: Local transport in Gütersloh
history
Gütersloh's first station building was built in 1845–1847 by the “Cöln-Mindener-Eisenbahn” at the end of today's Kökerstr. built, supplemented with two side wings in 1876/77, and at the turn of the century the "Royal Railway Directorate Hanover" added another extension. The location was beyond today's retaining wall at the height of Stohlmannplatz. After the classical reception building had to give way to the four-track extension of the Hamm – Minden railway line , the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) opened a representative new reception building on December 21, 1925 at the current location on what was then the "Queckwinkel". The extensive redesign of the extended railway facilities, in which all level crossings were replaced by road underpasses , came to an end in August 1932 with the completion of the new goods handling facility on the other side of the freight railway on Langen Weg. The counter hall and the south wing (with ticket issuance , express goods and baggage handling ) were damaged by aerial bombs on March 14, 1945 and blown up by American soldiers in April 1945. For more than six years, ticket sales and pastry handling had to take place in a makeshift hut on the station forecourt . The German Federal Railroad (DB) included the remaining north wing (station restaurant and waiting room ) in the reconstruction. On the foundations of the previous building, a new south wing was built, extended to the central axis, which was re-inaugurated on October 3, 1951. With the completion of the reception hall in between in a simpler form typical of the time, today's main station has been the south-eastern end of the immediate city center since 1953 .
Electrification and speed tests
The first test train pulled by the E10 438 electric locomotive drove into Gütersloh Hbf on September 25, 1968, the official opening special train with the 112 498-1 locomotive on September 29, 1968. Since that day, the section between Hamm and Wunstorf has been electrified and the important connection between the Ruhr area and Hanover is continuously electrically accessible.
Since 1973, Gütersloh Hbf has repeatedly acted as the starting point for test runs and high-speed runs by the Bundesbahn-Zentralamt (BZA) in Minden, on which a class 103 electric locomotive reached a speed of 252.9 km on the straight section of the route between Gütersloh and Neubeckum, which was prepared as a test section / h reached. In 1979 the Deutsche Bundesbahn put the 58 km long section between Brackwede and Hamm into operation as one of the first high-speed lines in Germany; Since then, the platforms on the two main tracks 2 and 3 have been passed at a maximum speed of 200 km / h as scheduled. On November 26, 1985, an ICE / V test train with high-ranking passengers set a new German record for wheel / rail vehicles and a world record for three-phase rail vehicles after passing through Gütersloh main station near Neubeckum at 317 km / h.
Developments since 2005
The display boards on the platforms had been defective since December 2005 and were repaired by Deutsche Bahn in October 2008. From February 2010 the station was extensively renovated. Deutsche Bahn invested around three million euros from funds from the economic stimulus packages. All four platform edges of the two island platforms have now been built from scratch and provided with guide strips for the blind . In addition, extensive measures were taken to illuminate and equip the station. In addition, the platforms received passenger elevators , which were put into operation on December 23, 2011. The freight elevators that were used temporarily until then have now been dismantled.
If the resumption of passenger train traffic on the TWE route to Harsewinkel and Verl , which the VVOWL is aiming for, is to be realized, the trains should stop directly on platform track 1 for easy transfer via a new track connection with the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn and thus the main station from the current purely through- going upgrade to the connecting station . In 2016, the fundamental decision on the state funding required for implementation is to be made.
Trivia
Last train crier of the Federal Railroad
Gütersloh was the last train station in the Federal Republic of Germany where a conductor (officially known as the "gatekeeper") on the platforms, and in the event of delays in the reception hall and waiting rooms, announced the arrival of passenger trains by shouting out loud. The case used hand bell bronze was at the instigation of the Gütersloh factory owner Carl Miele in Miele cast and was donated to the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Until his retirement in June 1957, Ludwig Hunke, who had carried out this task since 1940, gained a certain popularity as a Gütersloh original with his winning character and wit among travelers and locals alike. Out of consideration for the war disabled railroader, the Deutsche Bundesbahn had postponed the introduction of station loudspeakers in Gütersloh for so long.
Visit from Queen Elizabeth
During a ten-day state visit on May 26, 1965 at 12:35 p.m., the English Queen Elizabeth II arrived on platform 4 in Gütersloh Hbf. The 380-meter-long special train D Esn 24525, hauled by two diesel locomotives of the DB class V 200.0 , consisted of 15 cars, including two saloon cars for the Queen, a saloon car for Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , and a car for the Queen's cloakroom. After the acceptance of an aircraft parade by the Royal Air Force , the guests of state left Gütersloh in the special train D Han 4711 Gütersloh in the direction of Brackwede at 2:40 p.m. and returned at around 0:25 a.m. to take the special train D Mst 3761 over the Teutoburg Forest Railway could be transferred to the secured military airport area on Marienfelder Strasse , where the British monarch and her prince consort slept in the parlor sleeping car parked in a quiet place near the officers' mess.
literature
- Werner Menninghaus The Cöln-Mindener Railway in East Westphalia - From Planzug 1 to Intercity Verlag Uhle & Kleimann 1983, ISBN 3-922657-27-3
- Anette Gantenberg, Milena Karabaic (eds.) From the Rhine to the Weser - with the Cologne-Mindener Railway from Deutz to Minden Klartext Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-88474-580-8
- Rudolf Herrmann From Planzug 1 to ICE 4 - the 170-year history of the Gütersloh station, self-published by Herrmann in Gütersloh 2017, approx. 150 pages
Web links
Deutsche Bahn AG:
- Tracks in service facilities (EGLO) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of the route 1700 : Hamm (Westf) Pbf ↔ Minden (Westf) Gbf
- Description of line 2990 : Hamm Rbf Hvn ↔ Minden (Westf) Gbf
Image gallery on Turntable Online:
- Welcome to Gütersloh! : 23 pictures from September 1st, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 400 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Stephan Grimm: Gütersloh in old pictures - Gütersloh train station 1945. Newspaper article Neue Westfälische from July 31, 2001.
- ↑ Local researcher Rudolf Herrmann has worked on the history of the Gütersloh train station . Newspaper article Neue Westfälische from November 4, 2009, accessed on May 26, 2012.
- ↑ A Christmas candy for elevators in the train station . Newspaper article Die Glocke from December 1, 2011, accessed May 26, 2012.
- ^ TWE reactivation: The decision will be made in 2016. In: Die Glocke. May 8, 2015, accessed May 9, 2015.
- ^ "The history of the last hand bell" by Federal Railway Chief Inspector Gerhard Supplie, then station master in Gütersloh, on May 30, 1958 on the occasion of the handing over of the bell by the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover to preserve tradition
- ↑ VIPs in Gütersloh ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Spotting Group Gütersloh - Flugplatz Gütersloh from 1937 to the present day, accessed November 22, 2013
