Geestemünder train station
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The Geestemünder Bahnhof was a train station in Geestemünde , now part of Bremerhaven . From 1862 to 1914 it was the only passenger station at the mouth of the Weser. It was conveniently located for the ports on Hanoverian (Prussian) territory south of the Geeste . The ports of Bremen north of the Geeste were much more productive.
history
When Bremerhaven was founded, the Kingdom of Hanover and the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen agreed to expand the transport links; but initially it only referred to Landstrasse (later Reichsstrasse 6 ). In 1859, the joint construction of the railway from Bremen to the mouth of the Geeste was tackled. The landfills in the lowlands made the route expensive. The people of Bremen would have preferred a more western route through the Wesermarsch . As agreed, Hanover and Bremen shared the cost of five million Reichstalers . The "Geestebahn" was put into operation in January 1862. At the same time, a branch line to Bremerhaven was set up, for which the Bremen Senate alone had to pay. In the province of Hanover , Geestemünde became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 .
The 62 km long route ended in a terminus on Bahnhofstrasse. It was called Bahnhofsallee from 1889 and was named after Mayor Wilhelm Klußmann in 1914 - after the opening of Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof . Today's Max-Dietrich-Straße, then also part of the bend in Bahnhofstraße, led to the reception building. On the west side of the trading port, the tracks were laid so close to the quays that goods could be loaded directly with loading gear . Iron hydraulic cranes handled the heaviest loads on the pier. Coal was poured directly into the cargo hatches via lintel scaffolding . In addition to the fast, efficient and inexpensive cargo handling, participation in the big business of emigration should be tapped. Despite a connection to Bremerhaven in Bremen and a later horse-drawn tram , the Geestemünder Bahnhof remained a bottleneck. At the end of the 19th century it was too small for 300,000 travelers a year.
Branch line to Bremerhaven
In front of the station, a single-track branch line branched off for freight traffic to Joh. C. Tecklenborg on the left bank of the Geeste, to the shipyards on the Geesthelle and to the Bremerhaven ports. It ran along Schultzstrasse and crossed Kaistrasse and a brick dam over the main canal. There was a station keeper's house there, which was demolished in the 1920s and transported stone by stone to Wollingst . The stones were recycled for the Friends of Nature House. From the Geesthelle a track led over Leher Tor im Bogen (Bogenstrasse) to the Old Port and from there in a different direction to the southwest end of the New Port .
Since the branch line was only intended for the transport of goods, passengers for the emigrant ships had to leave the train in Geestemünde. With the 7.5 million emigrants from all over Europe (including 3.7 million Germans) completely overwhelmed, the local haulage contractors could not cope with the task in the sense of North German Lloyd . After tough negotiations, closed passenger transport was therefore permitted on the single-track branch line. Those who did not emigrate and only made a visit to Bremerhaven had to get off the train in Geestemünde.
When the Kaiserhafen was built, there was a second track from 1902. It was declared the main line in 1905 and led via the freight yard (Zollinland station in Moltkestraße / Pestalozzistraße , level with Zollinlandstraße) to, among other things, Lloyd-Halle II. From the Rotersand customs office , trains could reach Kaiserhafen II in the other direction.
Railway stations in Bremerhaven
The Bremerhaven train station was at the New Harbor and had more of the character of a freight station. Today Columbusstrasse runs there , where the German Emigration Center is located. From 1914 to 1918 the wounded from the First World War were also transported to the Bremerhaven hospital on this route. At that time the Kaiserhafen I had already been laid out and expanded with the Kaiserschleuse and Lloyd-Halle II. Therefore, the branch line was extended in 1897 and the customs inland station was built. Remnants of this freight yard can still be seen on Moltkestrasse. The construction of Imperial Ports II and III required another relocation to the north. When the large railway loop over Speckenbüttel and Weddewarden was built, the inner-city tracks were dismantled in 1921–1923.
Branch to Cuxhaven
The railway to Cuxhaven has been branching off behind Ludwigstrasse since 1896. It crossed the Leher Chaussee (today Elbestraße) and followed today's course of the route. Since there were major traffic disruptions on Weserstraße (Weserlust) and on the roads to Spaden and Langen , the new route with a kilometer-long embankment was built from 1908 . It began in a long right-hand bend at Grünhöfe and led over the Witches' Bridge to Lehe and Bederkesa . A track triangle was created between the Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf train station and the Geestemünde-Süd district , which connected the access to the Geestemünde train station / freight station with the new route. At the same time, Bremerhaven Central Station and Bremerhaven-Lehe Station were laid out. The new stations were opened in the summer of 1914 just before the First World War. The Geestemünder Bahnhof was shut down and converted into a freight yard. The old buildings from the Hanoverian era were demolished. Only the post office was preserved until the 2000s.
Geestemünde freight yard
The main administrative building of the North Sea German Deep Sea Fishery was later located on the station grounds . The Geestemünde freight yard was built south of the passenger station and was called Bremerhaven-Geestemünde from 1947. Squeezed between George Street and the Eastern railroads was the depot . It had a roundhouse with a turntable . The steam locomotives - especially the Prussian T 16.1 and the DR class 41 - could take coal and water there. The freight station could be approached from the north (imperial ports) via the curve of the track triangle on the southern edge of Geestemünde-Süd . After the new Wulsdorfer ramp was built (1963), the station was electrified , but soon shut down with the decline of the shipyards and general cargo traffic. The approach from Wulsdorf to the old Geestemünder train station is now a bicycle and hiking trail. The original character of the two-track system has been preserved.
Until the 1960s, the stump of the branch line was the only rail connection of the Rickmers shipyard . The track crossed the tram at Elbinger Platz and at the beginning of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße . A shunting attendant secured the intersections. Nevertheless, on August 27, 1969, there was a fatal collision between a DB class V 60 locomotive and a tram train on line 2.
See also
- Fish shipping station (Geestemünde)
- History of Bremerhaven
- Rail traffic in Bremerhaven
- Bremerhaven tram
literature
- Walter Bollen: Railway station by the sea. The railway on the Lower Weser . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2006. ISBN 978-3897573437 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt der Männer vom Morgenstern 2/2014
- ↑ a b c Lars U. Scholl : Geestemünder Bahnhof (Klußmannstrasse / corner Riedemannstrasse) , in ders. (Ed.): Bremerhaven - a port history guide . German Maritime Museum / Ditzen, Bremerhaven 1980, p. 105 f.
- ↑ Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt 6/2004
- ^ Map of Lehe, Bremerhaven and Geestemünde (Meyers 1905)
Remarks
- ↑ The bridge was named after the Achgelis company on Elbestraße (next to the naval operation school ). The company's founders came from Sandstedt . Opposite, on the Oldenburg side of the Weser, lies Golzwarden . The company founder was a nephew of Hermann Allmers , whose father came from Osterstade ( Peter Raap ).
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 51.4 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 13.6" E