Aachen Schanz stop
| Aachen Schanz | |
|---|---|
 View of the platforms
|
|
| Data | |
| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | KASZ |
| IBNR | 8070704 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | June 13, 2004 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Aachen_Schanz |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Aachen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 46 '12 " N , 6 ° 4' 25" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Aachen Schanz stop was reopened on June 13, 2004; it is located in Aachen on the Aachen – Mönchengladbach railway line . DB Station & Service runs the stop in station category 5.
history
The refurbishment of the Aachen Schanz train station in 2004 was part of the transport policy step-by-step concept for Aachen 2000-2010. For the barrier-free access to the western platform systems, part of the former sports field of the first gym in the Rhineland, which was built in 1866 by city architect Friedrich Joseph Ark , had to be used.
Naming
The name Schanz goes on at the beginning of today's Liege street located Liege Schanze , a medieval kennel of the outer city wall Aachener back. This fortification, the only one of its kind in the outer Aachen city wall, which was built between 1300 and 1350, was intended to protect the city from enemy attacks in the area of a morphological ridge . The tower without a name stood in the city wall at the site of today's train station . Badly damaged by French attacks on March 13, 1676, the kennel complex was razed in 1850 .
Location and infrastructure
The barrier-free stopping point is located between Aachen Hbf and Aachen West train station on the western edge of the city center. It is the station with the shortest footpath to the old town or to Aachen Cathedral . At the same time, the train station forms a hub between local public transport from the region and the city's medical centers ( Luisenhospital , Franziskushospital , Alexianer Hospital and University Clinic ). There is a hostel at the northern exit . The next taxi stand is in the immediate vicinity on Vaalser Straße, there is also a parking lot with a Cambio CarSharing station. The stop has two outside platforms with a useful length of 145 meters and a platform height of 760 millimeters. The platforms can be reached through entrances from Vaalser Strasse and from the Boxgraben / Lütticher Strasse intersection, of which only the latter access is barrier-free with elevators . Another barrier-free access leads from the street An der Schanz to the western platform 1.
Planned platform extension
From December 13, 2020, the use of double traction units from Siemens Desiro HC in RRX preliminary operation on the Wupper Express is planned. To do this, the platforms at the Aachen Schanz stop must be extended. Due to lawsuits in the planning approval procedure, it is not possible to extend the platforms in due time. Therefore, the rear multiple unit has to be locked in both directions with the start of operations without passengers via the Schanz stop and a longer evacuation stop has to be planned in Herzogenrath for trips to Aachen. A completion of the platform extension in Aachen Schanz is not foreseeable. According to DB Station & Service , it will only be possible to block the route for construction work in summer 2023.
traffic
Aachen Schanz is approached by the following lines for passenger traffic:
Railway lines
At night, the Wupper-Express also runs the usual route to Düsseldorf main station and on to Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station , where the train ends. This connection enables flights departing from Düsseldorf Airport to be reached early in the morning .
Bus routes
You can also change to public bus lines to the main building of RWTH Aachen University , to the University Clinic, to Campus Melaten, to the city center as well as to Belgium ( Kelmis ) and the Netherlands ( Vaals and Maastricht ). There are four bus stops , two each at the southern end (Jakobstraße) and two at the northern end (Vaalser Straße), which are served depending on the route of the bus route.
According to the earlier traffic planning of the city of Aachen, the Aachen Schanz train station was to form one of the two hubs of local public transport with the planned campus railway , which was to connect the university centers of the city and the euregional surrounding area .
Artwork Mural Global
In May 2005, to increase the attractiveness of the station, a large-scale mural was installed as part of the worldwide Unesco- sponsored artist project Mural Global . The work of art was erected on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Agenda 21 partnership between Aachen and Cape Town . It was created as a collaboration between Uta Göbel-Groß ( Herzogenrath ), Brele Scholz (Aachen) and the painters Thulani Shuku and Dathini Mzayiya from Cape Town. Deutsche Bahn changed the timetable at short notice for the work on the artwork. When designing the work of art, particular importance was attached to the double-decker trains of the Wupper Express, which frequently run here . The artists deliberately created the hidden details at eye level on the upper floor.
See also
Web links
- Current departure plan from Aachen Schanz . Deutsche Bahn . Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- Aachen-Schanz (PDF; 352.45 kiB) In: Stop location plans. Aachen Transport Association . May 9, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- André Joost: Aachen Schanz branch . In: Betriebsstelleinfo . André Joost. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
- André Joost: Aachen-Schanz access point . In: Bahnhofsinfo . André Joost. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Station price list 2019 (PDF; 300 kB) DB Station & Service , December 14, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2019 .
- ^ Haldor E. Jochim: Modern regional rail traffic: Requirements for a concept for the greater Braunschweig area. (PDF; 1.17 MiB) FH Aachen , March 4, 2011, accessed on November 7, 2013 .
- ^ Carl Rhoen : The fortifications of the free imperial city of Aachen . Anton Creutzer, Aachen 1894 ( ULB Düsseldorf , ISL Aachen [accessed on May 7, 2016]).
- ^ A b Reinhard Gessen: Aachen-Schanz. In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region. Reinhard Gessen, accessed on November 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland, 20th meeting of the main committee, item: 12.4, operating program RE 4, 5th June 2020
- ↑ Axel Costard: Campusbahn - an innovative transport system electrifies Aachen. City of Aachen, January 11, 2012, accessed on November 7, 2013 .
- ^ Mural Global. Color fever e. V., accessed November 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Train passengers experience the atmosphere from Khayelitsha and Cape Town. In: Aachener Nachrichten Aachener Zeitungsverlag, May 28, 2005, p. 15.
- ↑ 2005 Welthaus - Schanz train station, Aachen. In: Agenda 21 Partnership Aachen-Cape Town. Arnold François, accessed November 7, 2013 .