Gelsenkirchen main train station
| Gelsenkirchen main train station | |
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 Gelsenkirchen main train station at night as seen from the taxi rank
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | EG |
| IBNR | 8000118 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | 1847 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Gelsenkirchen_Hbf |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Gelsenkirchen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 30 '16 " N , 7 ° 6' 5" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The main station Gelsenkirchen is a train station of Deutsche Bahn . The routes from Oberhausen and Essen run together from here to Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof and branch off there to Münster or in the direction of Dortmund . Gelsenkirchen main train station is connected to ten railway lines, six of which are passenger services. It has the abbreviation EG in the operating point directory . The address is Bahnhofsvorplatz 10, 45879 Gelsenkirchen .
More than 35,000 people are in Gelsenkirchen's main train station every day - a good half of them are Deutsche Bahn passengers. This is difficult to define because the station is located on a pedestrian zone and there is a link to local transport in Gelsenkirchen . The timetable includes 402 passenger trains of almost all types up to the Intercity-Express . The platforms are covered on the western half. Tracks 4/5 and 6/7 also have escalators and since spring 2006 all platforms have been accessible by lifts, making the station barrier-free .
Between May 2005 and June 2006 the station was completely redesigned and given a new look. It is under video surveillance with several cameras, and it is also a station on the German Football Route NRW . The associated plaque at the north exit is lost. The deportation of young Jewish people is remembered at the southern entrance .
history
From 1847 to 2005
Gelsenkirchen station was opened in 1847 together with the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn .
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Since then, the main station has been fundamentally rebuilt twice. The first time this happened in 1904, because the capacity of the old station was no longer sufficient. Since then it has been a central station . In the course of this construction work, the tracks that were previously at ground level were raised so that the increasing traffic from Gelsenkirchen to Bochum could pass the main station unhindered.
The second new building was carried out from 1982 to 1983. This was and is still highly controversial today. A component secured when the station building was demolished in 1904 and a representation of its outline was installed at the south exit. The window with Gelsenkirchen branches of industry was used on the facade of a commercial building at the southern end of the Bahnhofstrasse pedestrian zone. During the second new building, the station center was also built, which today offers uniform opening times (from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) (excluding catering).
Gelsenkirchen main station today
In preparation for the 2006 soccer World Cup , the main station was rebuilt. The station itself has been given a completely new look. Around 15 million euros were invested in the renovation of the main station. For this purpose, the following construction measures were carried out:
- Renovation of the platforms (with guidance system for the blind and elevators)
- Extension of platform 1 for air conditioning
- Redesign of the passage
- Travel center directly at the distribution level
- Taxi rank near the train station
- Elevators to the platforms
- new shops for retail and catering
- Renovation of the underground station; Lowering of the not yet adapted sections of the platforms in order to be able to carry out the stadium traffic ( Gelsenkirchen Hbf - Veltins-Arena ) with a double traction .
The official opening took place on June 8, 2006.
In May / June 2019, DB Station & Service, in cooperation with Ruhrkohle AG and the city archive, installed various historical photos of local mines as well as the text and QR code of the Steigerlied as a reminder of the mining industry in the area of the travel center. There is also an original jersey from the farewell game against Bayer Leverkusen, which is on the opposite facade. The item of clothing bought by the railway at auction was worn by Benjamin Stambouli in the game and calls the mine Graf Bismarck .
Retail in the main train station
ReiseZentrum in the main train station (letter "Z" has now been replaced)
ReiseZentrum during the renovation
Platforms during the renovation (view to the east)
from the air
service
Long-distance transport
In the 2018 timetable for long-distance passenger transport , Gelsenkirchen Central Station is the system stop for various Deutsche Bahn intercity lines.
In addition to individual trains on line 30 and ( every two hours) on line 35 , the Intercity line 32 (four times a week, each with a pair of trains ) has stopped in Gelsenkirchen since December 2016 .
The Hamburg-Cologne Express (HKX) made a stop in Gelsenkirchen until August 2017 ; Since March 23, 2018, one or two pairs of trains on the FLX 20 line from Flixtrain have been operating as a successor to the HKX.
Since June 2018, Gelsenkirchen has been one of the ICE train stations again , even if only with a connection on the edge of the day. In December 2018, a pair of ICE trains on line 47 Münster - Stuttgart - Münster was added. The 2019/2020 timetable change brought the daily stop of an ICE on line 30 Hamburg – Cologne in the late evening.
| line | Line course | Tact |
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| ICE 30 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Dammtor - Hamburg Hbf - Hamburg-Harburg - Bremen - Diepholz - Osnabrück - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | Indent |
| ICE 42 | Munich - Nuremberg - Würzburg - Aschaffenburg - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Gelsenkirchen - Recklinghausen - Münster | Indent |
| ICE 47 | Münster - Recklinghausen - Wanne-Eickel - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart | a pair of trains |
| IC 30 | Fehmarn-Burg - Oldenburg - Lübeck - / Flensburg - / Rostock - Hamburg-Harburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Recklinghausen - Wanne-Eickel - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | Vacation and weekend traffic |
| IC 32 | Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Gelsenkirchen - Recklinghausen - Münster - Osnabrück - Hanover - Wolfsburg - Berlin - Berlin East | a pair of trains (Sun, Mon-Fri) |
| EC 32 | Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Augsburg - Munich - Prien - Freilassing - Salzburg - Klagenfurt | Indent |
| IC 35 | Norddeich Mole - Rheine - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz (individual trains continue to Stuttgart or Konstanz ) | Every two hours |
| FLX 20 | Hamburg-Altona - Osnabrück - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | 1-2 train pairs |
Local transport
The following local rail passenger transport lines stop at Gelsenkirchen Central Station:
Lines RE 2 (hourly) and RE 42 (every half hour) offer a total of three journeys per hour on the Münster – Essen route.
Bus and tram
The following tram and bus lines also operate at Gelsenkirchen Central Station:
- Trams : 107, 301 and 302 in the light rail station under the main train station
- Bus lines at the bus station : SB 29, SB 36, 194, 348, 380, 381, 382, 383, 385, 388, 389; Night buses : NE 10, NE 11, NE 12, NE 13, NE 14.
Administration and management
Gelsenkirchen main station and about a dozen other stations in the region, including in Herne , Gladbeck and Castrop-Rauxel , are subordinate to the Essen station management.
See also
Web links
- Description of this sight on the route of industrial culture
- Tracks in service facilities (ground floor) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
Further evidence:
- Old postcards on Gelsenkirchen stories
- Track plan from 1975
- Current map
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof - 170 years the gateway to the wide world - Issue 13 (2017) Ed: Heimatbund-gelsenkirchen.de
- ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/gelsenkirchen/gleisschluss-fuer-die-wachsende-grossstadt-gelsenkirchen-id212669907.html
- ↑ Mining jerseys are a novelty
- ↑ DerWesten: Finally no more changing trains: From now on you can take the train from Gelsenkirchen to Berlin . ( derwesten.de [accessed on February 10, 2018]).
- ^ Radio Emscher Lippe: New non-stop rail connection between Gelsenkirchen and Berlin. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
Visitor center and anchor points (from west to east): Museum of German Inland Shipping | Inner harbor Duisburg | LVR Industrial Museum Oberhausen | Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord | Gasometer Oberhausen | Aquarius Water Museum | St. Antony Hut | Villa Huegel | Nordsternpark | Zeche Zollverein World Heritage Site and Zollverein Coking Plant | Ewald colliery | Marl Chemical Park | Railway Museum Bochum-Dahlhausen | Henrichshütte | Centennial Hall Bochum | Recklinghausen substation | German Mining Museum | Nightingale colliery | Henrichenburg ship lift | DASA | Hansa coking plant | Zeche Zollern II / IV | Hohenhof | Hagen Open Air Museum | Lindenbrauerei Unna | Maximilian Park Hamm
Themed routes (in ascending order by number): 1. Duisburg: City and Harbor | 2. Industrial cultural landscape Zollverein | 3. Duisburg: industrial culture on the Rhine | 4. Oberhausen: Industry makes the city | 5. Krupp and the city of Essen | 6. Dortmund: triad coal, steel and beer | 7. Industrial culture on the Lippe | 8. Erzbahn-Emscherbruch | 9. Industrial culture at Volme and Ennepe | 10. Brine, steam and coal | 11. Early industrialization | 12. The past and present of the Ruhr | 13. On the way to the blue Emscher | 14. Canals and shipping | 15. Lanes in the area | 16. Westphalian mining route | 17. Rhenish mining route | 18. Chemistry, Glass and Energy | 19. Workers' settlements | 20. Entrepreneur villas | 21. Bread, grain and beer | 22. Myth of the Ruhr Area | 23. Parks and Gardens | 24. Industrial nature | 25. Panoramas and Landmarks | 26. Sacred buildings | 27. Iron & Steel | 28. Water: works, towers and turbines | 29. Bochum - industrial culture in the heart of the district | 30. Gelsenkirchen | 31. Industrial Culture and Bauhaus Route | by bike
Railway Museum Bochum-Dahlhausen 
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Dahlhausen railway station |
Hattingen train station |
Ruhr Valley Railway |
Henrichshütte |
Railway line Hattingen - Schee - Silschede with the Sprockhövel train station |
Ennepetal station |
Kruiner Tunnel |
Haspe - Voerde - Breckerfeld railway line |
Harkort coal railway |
Viaduct of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft |
Goldberg tunnel |
Hagen Central Station |
Ruhr-Sieg route |
Herdecke Ruhr Viaduct |
Railway repair shop Schwerte and Kreinberg settlement |
Upper Ruhr Valley Railway and Langschede Station |
Hamm train station |
Kamen train station |
Seseke Bridge |
Immermannstrasse depot |
Local Transport Museum Dortmund |
Turnout construction hall machine factory Germany |
Dortmund Central Station |
Dortmund railway bridge ensemble |
Dortmund depot |
Water tower Dortmund Südbahnhof |
Zeche Zollern II / IV |
Recklinghausen Central Station |
Herne train station |
Wanne-Eickel main station |
Local history and natural history museum Wanne-Eickel |
Railway depot Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck |
Gelsenkirchen Central Station |
Dorsten station |
RBH Logistics |
Werksbahn Bochumer Verein and Erzbahn |
Bochum Association |
Bochum Nord railway station and steel bridges of the Rheinische Bahn |
Bochum Central Station |
BOGESTRA head office |
Langendreer train station (with the cultural center ) |
Tram depot Witten and garden city Crengeldanz |
Switch factory Witten |
Witten Central Station |
Ruhr Viaduct Witten |
Mine and field railway museum Zeche Theresia | Railway systems of the Nachtigall colliery and the Muttental |
Zollverein station |
Rheinische Bahn in Essen |
Locomotive factory and works railway Krupp |
Essen Central Station |
Railway Headquarters Essen |
Villa Hügel and train station Essen-Hügel |
Ruhr Bridge Steele |
Kupferdreh station and Hespertalbahn museum railway | " Hundebrücke " and " Deilthaler Eisenbahn " |
Kettwig railway bridge |
City viaduct and Ruhr bridge Mülheim |
Roundhouse and Camera Obscura |
Railway repair shop Speldorf with the old turning shop |
Tram depot Speldorf |
Bridge landscape Ruhraue |
Shunting yard , railway repair shop Wedau and railway settlement Wedau |
Water Tower Rheinhausen-Friemersheim and railway settlement Rheinhausen-Friemersheim |
Duisburg-Hochfelder Railway Bridge |
Lifting tower "Homberg-Ruhrorter Rheintrajektanstalt" |
Duisburg Central Station |
Green path |
HOAG route |
Thyssen works railway |
House Knipp Railway Bridge |
Rhine bridge Wesel |
Oberhausen Central Station |
LVR Industrial Museum Oberhausen