St. Ottilien stop
| St. Ottilien | |
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 Entrance building from the street side
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| Operating point type |
Stop until 1967: stop |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | MOTN |
| IBNR | 8005656 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | June 30, 1898 |
| Website URL | Stationsdatenbank.de |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Home style |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Eresing |
| Place / district | Saint Ottilien |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 5 '41 " N , 11 ° 2' 54" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 595.3 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The St. Ottilien stop is a stop on the Ammerseebahn from Mering to Weilheim . It is located at the Sankt Ottilien monastery in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Eresing . The station has a platform track and belongs to category 6 of DB Station & Service . Around 50 trains of the Bayerische Regiobahn (BRB) stop in St. Ottilien every day .
The St. Ottilien stop was put into operation on June 30, 1898 on the Ammerseebahn, which opened at the same time. It is the only train station in Germany that has only served to connect a monastery since it opened and to this day. In 1967 the station from the station became the breakpoint downgraded. The 1939 built station building is under monument protection .
location
The St. Ottilien stop is about two kilometers northeast of the center of Eresing, east of the Sankt Ottilien monastery. The station building is to the west of the main line and has the address Am Bahnhof 1. To the north of the stop, the road to Türkenfeld and Pflaumdorf crosses the railway line with a bridge. The old quarry stone bridge was demolished in July 1992 and replaced by a new steel structure. At the southern end of the platform there was a restricted level crossing on the road to Pflaumdorf until 1992 . After its shutdown, a pedestrian crossing was set up in the same place. To the west of the reception building is the St. Ottilien Jewish Cemetery, built in 1945 .
The Ammerseebahn from Mering via Geltendorf and Dießen to Weilheim is a single-track and non-electrified main line . It is run by Deutsche Bahn as the route book 985 Augsburg –Weilheim.
history
Initial considerations for the construction of a railway line from Augsburg via Mering to the west bank of the Ammersee and further in the direction of the Alps already existed in the 1870s. In 1886, the planning of a local railway from Augsburg to Dießen was approved. Originally the route was supposed to cross the Bavarian Allgäu Railway from Munich to Lindau in Türkenfeld . Since there were difficulties in acquiring land there, the Sankt Ottilien monastery convinced the Augsburg Railway Directorate to run the route via Sankt Ottilien and to set up the crossing station with the Allgäu Railway in Geltendorf. In addition to the Geltendorf crossing station , which is about 1.5 kilometers away , the monastery requested a stopping point directly in Sankt Ottilien. Since the monastery was willing to pay the additional costs that this would incur, the Sankt Ottilien stop was included in the planning and the previously planned Pflaumdorf stop one kilometer further south was deleted. In the fall of 1896, construction of the Ammerseebahn line from Mering to Weilheim began.
On June 30, 1898, the Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the section from Mering to Schondorf with the St. Ottilien stop. The extension to Weilheim followed on December 23 of the same year. The stop initially only consisted of the continuous main track with a bulk platform and a loading track branching off in the direction of Greifenberg . A simple corrugated iron hut next to the main track served as the station building .
In 1913 the Ammerseebahn was raised from the local line to the main line due to the increasing traffic . The previous train station was no longer able to cope with the sharp rise in traffic during the First World War . In 1914 the station received a paved platform that was long enough to accommodate hospital trains. At the same time, the Bavarian State Railways built a wooden station building with a hipped roof , which largely replaced the previous corrugated iron hut. To the north of it a makeshift goods shed was built from a converted car body and some smaller ancillary buildings.
In 1922, the Bavarian Group Administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn built a two-storey residential building for the railway staff south of the reception building, which is provided with a steep gable roof , bat dormers and a cornice . After 1925, the wooden station building was given a signal box so that the corrugated iron hut could be completely eliminated.
In 1939 the St. Ottilien stop was rebuilt a second time on a larger scale. The Deutsche Reichsbahn built a new brick reception building in the Heimat style with a saddle roof, clock tower, open waiting hall and an attached goods shed. The wooden building and the temporary goods shed were dismantled. The Reichsbahn also changed the location of the loading track, which then branched off in the direction of Geltendorf.
In 1967, the then Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) stopped freight traffic in Sankt Ottilien and closed the loading track. The stop thus became operationally a stop. In 1969, the Augsburg Federal Railway Directorate planned to close the restricted level crossing on the road to Pflaumdorf in the south of the stop. The municipality of Eresing and the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien rejected this. Nevertheless, from December 1, 1970, the DB limited the barrier service so that the level crossing was only passable on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. In 1976, the municipality again rejected another attempt by the DB to completely block the crossing. After the renovation of the bridge north of the stop, the level crossing was finally shut down on December 21, 1992 and replaced by a pedestrian crossing.
In mid-1999, Deutsche Bahn put the first ticket machine into operation in St. Ottilien. In October 2002 the DB stopped selling tickets at the counter and closed the reception building. In 2003 the old house platform from 1914 was replaced by a barrier-free elevated platform, which was opened in June 2004. During the renovation, the DB set up a makeshift platform.
construction
Reception building
The first station building in St. Ottilien was a simple corrugated iron hut that was used for ticket sales and as an office. With the construction of the wooden reception building in 1914, the corrugated iron hut was largely replaced, but remained as an auxiliary building at the station. After 1925 it was finally no longer needed and moved to Marienweg between Geltendorf and Sankt Ottilien, where it served as a pumping station until the 1980s . In 2001 the hut, which was in poor condition, was restored to its original condition and set up again at the Sankt Ottilien stop south of the platform.
In 1914 the Bavarian State Railways built the first fortified station building in St. Ottilien. It was a small single-storey wooden building with a hipped roof, which consisted of a traffic and a service room. Between 1925 and 1930, the Deutsche Reichsbahn added a signal box extension to the building on the track side, which took up the control lever of the loading track, which was previously in the open. In 1939 the wooden building was dismantled and rebuilt in a modified form in Eresing on the main road. There it served as a tool shed and was demolished in April 1998.
In 1939 the Deutsche Reichsbahn built the third station building of St. Ottilien north of the wooden building, which is now a listed building. Its construction is similar to that of the building opened in Riederau a year earlier . It is a single-storey brick building with a gable roof, which is kept in the local style. Until it was closed, the building consisted of a waiting room with a ticket office, a service room and a goods hall to the north with loading ramps on both sides. In the south of the building there is a half-open waiting room, which is also covered by the gable roof. At the southeast corner of the waiting hall, the roof is supported by a mighty quarry stone pillar, to which a flat archway made of quarry stone adjoins on the south side of the building . The waiting hall is designed as an open wooden beam construction. In the past, the waiting hall was separated from the platform by a wooden platform barrier, some of which is still there today. A mural was originally attached to the south gable of the building showing four men and women harvesting grain. In the 1950s it was replaced by a new motif depicting a missionary in an African village. On the roof of the building is a roof turret with an onion hood covered with wooden shingles . The square turret originally had a clock on each side and painted the four seasons. In the 1950s, the clocks were simplified and finally removed entirely. In October 2002 the DB closed the ticket office and the waiting hall. The building, which was no longer needed, was sold to the Sankt Ottilien monastery and stood empty until March 2008. A photo studio has been located there since April 2008.
Platform and track systems
From the start, the track systems of the stop consisted of the continuous main track with a bulk platform and a loading track connected to the main track on both sides with track sockets on the head and side ramps . The lever for the switch of the loading track was outside on the platform. In 1914, the Bavarian State Railways built a paved 105-meter-long platform that was long enough for hospital trains. In 1939, the Deutsche Reichsbahn changed the position of the loading track, which from then on branched off directly in front of the railway house and was only connected on one side in the direction of Geltendorf. In 1967 the loading track was shut down and subsequently dismantled so that the stop became a stop. From autumn 2003 to June 27, 2004, Deutsche Bahn built a new, barrier-free 55 centimeter high and 121 meter long platform. The platform lamps with decorative mandrels and curved arms from the 1930s were replaced by modern lamps. The train station in Sankt Ottilien never had main signals .
traffic
passenger traffic
From December 24, 1898, passenger trains stopped between Mering and Weilheim in St. Ottilien. As the volume of traffic in the monastery was relatively low, the stop was passed through by some passenger trains and by the express trains that ran from 1913 onwards without stopping. In 1939 nine passenger trains stopped in the direction of Weilheim and seven in the direction of Mering in St. Ottilien. After the Second World War , the number of trains stopping in St. Ottilien increased. As a result of rationalization, the DB replaced many local trains with express trains in the 1980s , which again reduced the number of stops. In 1990, only four local trains stopped in St. Ottilien. With the Werdenfels cycle , Deutsche Bahn introduced the hourly cycle on the Ammerseebahn for the 1995 summer timetable .
Since December 14, 2008, trains of the Bavarian Regiobahn (BRB) have been running every hour from Augsburg-Oberhausen to Schongau , which are driven by LINT 41 diesel multiple units . During rush hour, the BRB uses additional repeater trains from Geltendorf to Peißenberg every hour, which run every half hour on this section. Today, the breakpoint is mainly frequented on weekdays by school traffic from the area.
Freight transport
Due to its location at the monastery, the St. Ottilien stop had a wide range of goods traffic. Every year up to 40 truckloads of coal were delivered from Castrop-Rauxel to heat the monastery . In general cargo transport , freight wagons drove from Sankt Ottilien to the overseas ports in Hamburg and Bremen . Until the 1960s, the DB served the station in local freight traffic with a "collector" who delivered or picked up cars at all stations along the route. In the 1950s, freight traffic increasingly shifted to the road and was finally stopped altogether with the end of coal deliveries in 1967.
See also
literature
- Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn. Traffic development in western Upper Bavaria . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71033-8 , pp. 51-55 .
- Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7455-9 , pp. 122-125 .
Web links
- Alwin Reiter: Description of the St. Ottilien train station on ammerseebahn.de.
- Georg Sattler: Photo documentation of the St. Ottilien stop on doku-des-alltags.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abbreviations of the operating points on michaeldittrich.de, accessed on January 14, 2017.
- ↑ Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 51 .
- ↑ List of monuments for Eresing (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on March 31, 2018.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 985 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Alwin Reiter: Planning for the Pflaumdorf stopping place ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2016 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. at ammerseebahn.de, accessed on March 31, 2018.
- ↑ Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 12-14 .
- ^ Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 73 .
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 122-123 .
- ↑ a b c d Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 52 .
- ↑ a b c d Alwin Reiter: St. Ottilien ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2016 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. at ammerseebahn.de, accessed on March 31, 2018.
- ^ Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 124 .
- ↑ a b Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 123 .
- ↑ Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 53-54 .
- ↑ a b c Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach . 2011, p. 125 .
- ↑ DB Station & Service: St. Ottilien station equipment ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on deutschebahn.com, March 1, 2018, accessed on March 31, 2018.
- ↑ Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 94 .
- ↑ Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 93 .
- ↑ Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn . 1996, p. 97-100 .
