Halle (Saale) Central Station

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Halle (Saale) central station
Reception building
Reception building
Data
Location in the network Junction station
Design Island station
Platform tracks 4 to 13 (1 to 3 under construction)
abbreviation LH
IBNR 8010159
Price range 2
opening October 8, 1890
Profile on Bahnhof.de Halle__Saale__Hbf
Architectural data
architect Friedrich Peltz
location
City / municipality Halle (Saale)
Place / district Area of ​​the DR (Halle)
country Saxony-Anhalt
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 28 ′ 41 "  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 12"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 41 "  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 12"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt
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Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof is the most important passenger station in the city of Halle (Saale) in southern Saxony-Anhalt . It is located in the east of the city center and belongs to station category 2. As a station for long-distance and regional rail traffic , Halle's main station is also the most important transport hub in the region and the state of Saxony-Anhalt. In addition, it is integrated into the network of the S-Bahn Central Germany .

The station is particularly frequented by students and commuters. Around 36,000 travelers and visitors are counted every day. In 2015, up to 30,000 people entering, leaving or switching were counted. 600 long-distance and local passenger trains as well as the S-Bahn stop at the station.

investment

Pedestrian underpass in the train station

Halle (Saale) Hbf station is an island station . The station building is located in the middle between tracks 7 and 8.

The station has a total of 13 platform tracks, 10 of which are covered by station halls. Small shops and restaurants are located in the station halls.

The Halle freight yard is located northeast of the passenger station's tracks .

history

Railway stations as the forerunners of the main train station

In mid-1840, the Magdeburg-Köthen-Halle-Leipziger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft - initiated by the then city councilor Matthäus Ludwig Wucherer , who advocated a route from Magdeburg to Leipzig via Halle - built the first station in Halle, which was opened from 1845 to 1847 by connecting the Thuringian Railway was rebuilt again. The specialty of the line between Magdeburg and Leipzig is that it was the first cross-border rail connection from Prussia through Anhalt-Köthen to Saxony and is considered the second German long-distance railway.

Creation of the main train station

The main station on a postcard from around 1900

The station soon became too small as a result of additional route connections, but could not be expanded due to the problems of the various railway companies agreeing on an overall concept. On October 8, 1890, after the nationalization of a company and after five years of construction, the new passenger station was opened. Friedrich Peltz was entrusted with the design and construction .

Modifications of the main station

Reception building with the old curtain wall (March 1984)
212 001 in Halle in front of a blue and white curtain wall (September 1983)
Interior view of the dome (2015)

The station concourse was spared major bomb damage during World War II , only the first and second class dining room received a light bomb hit.

In 1967 the S-Bahn was opened and a new platform was added on the west side. It was built outside the western platform hall on a previous locomotive traffic track, received a platform roof and is barrier-free from Ernst-Kamieth-Straße. In 1967/68 the station concourse was given an aluminum curtain wall in the style of the architecture of the time, which gave the reception building from the station forecourt the typical socialist-modern look. This curtain wall was removed again in 1984. The domed hall, the vestibule and the east dining room were renovated. When Riebeckplatz was rebuilt in 1967 according to the idea of ​​a car-friendly city , the tram stops were moved far from the main train station under the overpass bridges on what was then Thälmannplatz. The consequence were extremely unfavorable transfer conditions with long distances. It was not until 2005 that these were again significantly improved with another redesign of Riebeckplatz and the area around the main train station.

In 2002 the reception building was extensively renovated, converted and equipped with retail sales areas. To integrate the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line , which is currently under construction, the southern access road was extensively rebuilt over a length of five kilometers between 2005 and 2011.

For the future, further expansion measures are planned for the Halle railway junction with an investment volume of around 400 million euros. On September 26, 2012 the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new train formation facility in Halle , which cost 146 million euros, took place. A second expansion stage includes the northern integration of the Berlin – Halle / Leipzig expansion line (VDE 8.3) and the renewal of the track and contact line systems in the station area. Two new electronic interlockings replace 20 previous interlockings. At the end of October 2012, the associated financing agreement for 252 million euros was signed, of which the federal government is contributing 223 million euros. Further financing agreements are still pending (as of June 2013).

The railway junction has been refurbished since September 2014 for more than 500 million euros. Among other things, the new and upgraded lines as well as the freight station will be integrated and all platforms of the main station will be demolished and rebuilt. The integration into the high-speed lines should take place between 2015 and 2017 and the main station itself should be rebuilt in 2016 and 2017. The project, which was repeatedly postponed for financial reasons, is considered to be the largest infrastructure project by Deutsche Bahn in Saxony-Anhalt. The maximum permissible speed in the station area is to be increased from 40 to 160 km / h.

At the beginning of December 2013, Deutsche Bahn tendered a Europe-wide package that included, among other things, the dismantling of 28 kilometers of track and 71 switches and the construction of 22 kilometers of track and 150 switches. The measures should be implemented between August 2014 and March 2017.

As part of a five-day full closure, four kilometers of track and 54 new points went into operation on November 28, 2015. This made it possible to bypass the east side to be converted first. In the 2016 annual schedule, the east side of the main train station was to be closed and rebuilt for one year, and the west side should follow in the 2017 annual schedule. The renovation should be completed in 2018.

On May 2, 2016, Deutsche Bahn announced a construction delay. The condition of the track troughs on the east side had turned out to be worse than expected. This should not be completed until the end of 2017 and the west side should then be rebuilt by the end of 2019. An additional makeshift platform and additional switch connections should improve the quality of operations. This makeshift platform 13a was built on the track of the freight bypass route 6349 (Halle Gbf, Hg12 - Halle Hbf Al). During the renovation of the east side, it was only accessible via Delitzscher Strasse. The costs for two construction phases, which were awarded in August 2014 for 49 million euros, were 84 million euros at the beginning of July 2016, taking inflation into account. During the renovation, the short cantilevered roof in the stair area of ​​the platform 11/12, which was not built until the Second World War (after the renovation 12/13), was completely eliminated.

Signal box Hp 5 (December 2015)

A striking landmark of the station was the Hp 5 bridge signal box located in the southern driveway . It was an electromechanical signal box of the 1912 design. The building was demolished on May 22, 2017 when the Halle node was completely closed. From November 22, 2017, 10 p.m. until the morning of November 30, 2017, the railway junction was closed, around the electronic signal box and the converted east side of the station (tracks 8 to 13) were put into operation. The west side (tracks 2 to 6) was then closed for further renovation. During the construction period, tracks 1 and 1a will be used by the S3 of the S-Bahn Central Germany and the Harz-Elbe-Express.

Platform tracks 4 to 7 (previously 3 to 6) went back into operation on December 2, 2019. The node was partially blocked from November 25 to 28, 2019 (morning) and then completely blocked until December 2, 2019 (morning). Subsequently, tracks 1 to 3 (previously 1a, 1 and 2) will be modernized by 2021. The total cost of the renovation is 800 million euros. In addition, the arcades under the railway tracks on the western side of the station were renovated.

An initially planned connection of long-distance traffic from Berlin to Erfurt and Magdeburg to Leipzig on a common platform in each direction, including level-free entry and exit, was waived for cost reasons.

In the area of ​​the station, Halle Saale Hbf (West) is one of the five ETCS route centers for the new routes of the German Unity No. 8 transport project .

The Halle area is to be equipped with digital interlockings and ETCS by 2030 as part of the “starter package” of Digital Rail Germany , as part of the TEN core network corridor Scandinavia-Mediterranean .

Transport links

Long-distance transport

With a total of 146 regular arrivals and departures per day in long-distance traffic, the main station was the fourth most important node in the network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the 1989 summer timetable.

Halle was served by various City Express trains from 1976 to 1991 .

The station is currently at the intersection of the Berlin – Erfurt and Dresden – Magdeburg connections. Halle is regularly connected to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn by two intercity lines and four intercity express lines . Since December 2018, the first international connection on the new Erfurt – Halle line has existed with a pair of trains on ICE line 91 . In addition, individual trains on other IC and ICE lines also stop in Halle, start or end here. The two Intercity lines 55 and 56 combine the offer between Leipzig and Hanover to an hourly service. The Berlin – Halle railway line was expanded by 2006. Long-distance traffic in the direction of Erfurt has been on the Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle high-speed line from Halle-Ammendorf station south of Halle since December 13, 2015 .

Since December 15, 2019, trains on FlixTrain line 10 Berlin – Stuttgart have stopped at Halle's main station. This connection was terminated for the time being in March 2020 .

In 2017, 3200 people entering and leaving long-distance transport were counted per day, in 2018 it was 5000 by March 15.

line Train run over Halle Cycle (min) Vehicle use comment EVU
ICE 11 Berlin - Halle - Erfurt - Frankfurt (- Mannheim - Stuttgart - Munich) a pair of trains ICE-T , ICE 4 DB long-distance transport
ICE 15 Berlin  - Halle  - Erfurt  - Frankfurt (- Darmstadt - Mannheim - Saarbrücken ) 120 ICE-T , ICE 3 ICE Sprinter DB long-distance transport
ICE 18 ( Kiel -) Hamburg  - Berlin - Bitterfeld  - Halle  - Erfurt  - Bamberg  - Nuremberg  - Munich 120 ICE 1 , ICE 4 DB long-distance transport
ICE 29 (Warnemünde - Rostock–) Berlin  - Halle  - Erfurt  - (Coburg) - Nuremberg  - Munich Five pairs of trains ICE 3 ICE Sprinter DB long-distance transport
ICE 91 Berlin  - Halle  - Erfurt  - Coburg - Nuremberg  - Passau - Linz - Vienna

Vienna  - Linz - Passau - Nuremberg  - Coburg - Erfurt  - Halle  - Berlin (–Neustrelitz - Rostock )

a pair of trains ICE-T only Fri to

Rostock

DB long-distance transport
IC 17 Vienna - Passau - Nuremberg - Jena Paradies - Halle - Leipzig - Berlin Hbf - Neustrelitz - Warnemünde a pair of trains IC 2 ( Stadler KISS ) DB long-distance transport
IC 55 Dresden  - Riesa  - Leipzig  - Halle  - Magdeburg  - Braunschweig  - Hanover  - Bielefeld  - Dortmund  - Wuppertal  - Cologne 120 IC2

Single train with ICE-T

DB long-distance transport
IC 56 Leipzig - Halle  - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Hanover - Bremen  - Oldenburg  - Leer  - Emden  (- Norddeich Mole) 120 IC2 DB long-distance transport
FLX 10 Stuttgart Hbf - Heidelberg - Darmstadt - Frankfurt (Main) Süd - Fulda - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Halle - Berlin Südkreuz - Berlin Hbf (deep) 1 pair of trains (FLIXTRAIN) by March 20, 2020 Leo Express

Regional and S-Bahn traffic

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
RE 3 Halle  - Bitterfeld - Wittenberg  - Jüterbog  - Berlin - Eberswalde  - Greifswald  - Stralsund single move DB Regio Nordost
RE 4 Halle  - Könnern  - Aschersleben - Halberstadt  - Wernigerode - Vienenburg  - Goslar 120 Abellio
RE 8 Halle  - Eisleben - Sangerhausen - Berga-Kelbra  - Nordhausen - Leinefelde 120 Abellio
RE 9 Halle  - Eisleben - Sangerhausen  - Nordhausen  - Leinefelde  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe 120 Abellio
RE 16 Halle  - Merseburg  - Weißenfels  - Naumburg  - Apolda  - Weimar  - Erfurt 120 Abellio
RE 18 Halle  - Merseburg - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Jena Paradise  - Jena-Göschwitz 120 DB Regio Southeast
RE 24 Halle  - Könnern - Sandersleben  - Aschersleben - Gatersleben - Halberstadt 120 Abellio
RE 30 Halle  - Köthen  - Calbe  - Schönebeck - Magdeburg-Buckau  - Magdeburg 060 DB Regio Southeast
RB 25 Halle - Merseburg - Weißenfels - Naumburg - Jena Paradies - Orlamünde  - Saalfeld 060 Abellio
RB 47 Halle - Halle-Trotha - Wallwitz - Könnern - Baalberge  - Bernburg 060 (Mon-Fri)
120 (Sat-Sun)
Abellio
RB 75 Halle - Teutschenthal - Röblingen - Eisleben (- Sangerhausen - Nordhausen) 060 (Mon-Fri)
120 (Sat-Sun)
Abellio
S 3 Halle-Trotha - Halle - Schkeuditz - Leipzig Hbf - Leipzig-Stötteritz - Wurzen (- Oschatz) 060 (Trotha – Halle)
0 30 (Halle – Wurzen)
individual trains (Wurzen – Oschatz)
DB Regio Southeast
S 5 Halle - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Leipzig Hbf - Leipzig-Connewitz - Altenburg  - Zwickau 060 (Halle – Altenburg)
120 (Altenburg – Zwickau)
DB Regio Southeast
S 5X Halle - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Leipzig Hbf - Leipzig-Connewitz - Altenburg - Zwickau 060 DB Regio Southeast
S 7 Halle - Halle-Silberhöhe - Halle Neustadt - Halle-Nietleben 030th DB Regio Southeast
S 8 Halle - Landsberg - Bitterfeld - Wolfen - Dessau 030 (Halle – Bitterfeld Mon – Fri)
0 60 (Halle – Bitterfeld Sat – Sun)
120 (Bitterfeld – Dessau)
120 (Bitterfeld – Wittenberg)
DB Regio Southeast
Gräfenhainichen - Wittenberg (- Jüterbog)
S 9 Halle - Delitzsch - Eilenburg 060 (Mon-Fri)
120 (Sat-Sun)
DB Regio Southeast

Inner-city transport links

Station forecourt with tram crossing

In local public transport , the main station is connected via tram lines 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 12 as well as city bus lines 30 and 44 operated by HAVAG . The tram stops are on the west side next to platform 1a (lines 2 and 5) and on Delitzscher Strasse under the bridges on the west side (lines 4, 7, 9, 10 and 12). There is a connection via Schkopau, Merseburg and Leuna to Bad Dürrenberg via the Halle – Bad Dürrenberg tram route with line 5 running on it. The city's central bus station is at the western exit of the station .

Halle (S) Hbf train station is near Riebeckplatz , one of the busiest crossings in eastern Germany . There are multi-lane roads to the north ( Landesstraße 50 , former B 6 towards A 14 ), south (B 6 towards Leipzig , B 91 towards Merseburg and A 38 ), west ( B 80 to Halle-Neustadt and Lutherstadt Eisleben ). To the east there is another connection to the A 14.

literature

  • Ralf Jacob: Halle (Saale) main station: history and tradition, future and vision . VGN Verlag Neddermeyer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-941712-50-8 .
  • DB ProjektBau (Hrsg.): Railway node Halle (Saale) - electronic interlocking with track plan conversion . August 2014 ( vde8.de [PDF; 875 kB ; accessed on August 12, 2015] brochure).

Web links

Commons : Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  19. Also Germany with ETCS Level 2 . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 2 , 2016, p. 76-78 .
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  21. Ralph Seidel: The influence of changed framework conditions on network design and frequencies in long-distance rail passenger transport in Germany . Dissertation at the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2005, p. 48 .
  22. City Night Line route map. (PDF; 721 KiB) (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn, November 2014, archived from the original on August 7, 2015 ; accessed on August 12, 2015 .
  23. New route, new stations: Flixtrain is heading for new stops in East Germany . In: Spiegel Online . October 9, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 26, 2019]).
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