Braunschweig main station
| Braunschweig main station | |
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 Braunschweig Central Station and Berliner Platz, September 2006
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | HBS |
| IBNR | 8000049 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | October 1, 1960 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Braunschweig_Hbf |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Erwin Dürkop |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Braunschweig |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 15 '8 " N , 10 ° 32' 23" E |
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| Railway stations in Lower Saxony | |
The Braunschweig main station , 1.6 kilometers southeast of the Braunschweig city center, opened on October 1, 1960. The crossing station with 8 platform tracks is one of the more than 80 stations in the second-highest price class 2 of DB Station & Service and replaced the late classicist old station , a terminal station south of the old town. As an example of modern architecture from the 1950s, the reception building is a listed building.
history
Ostbahnhof
The Braunschweig Ostbahnhof was originally located on the site of today's main train station and its premises. This was opened in 1871, initially called St. Leonhard Station and renamed on August 1, 1889. The Ostbahnhof was mainly used for freight traffic and was used for shunting .
Location of a new central station
Due to the growing volume of traffic in the post-war period , the need for a new central station became more and more urgent, the construction and location of the old Braunschweig terminus station had long been unfavorable and no longer appropriate. It was decided to build a new through station in what is now the Viewegs Garten district, southeast of the center, and the plans for relocation from the 1930s were resumed.
The laying of the tracks for the new main station began as early as the 1930s. The final location was a compromise that kept costs and demolition as low as possible.
The first considerations and drafts for a new train station already appeared in 1870 in Carl Tappe's city expansion plan . Even then, today's location was favored.
Several plans from 1870 to 1934, u. a. The Rincklake station plan from 1889 envisaged a new station in the area of today's exhibition center near Eisenbüttel or between Eisenbüttel and the old station. In 1889, a train station rotated 180 degrees was proposed at the same location. Another unusual consideration was the idea from 1908 to move the future main train station in a north-south direction at the end of today 's Jasperallee . However, this idea was not very well received because an intact bourgeois residential area would have had to be cut through at this point.
No agreement could be reached for years. The renovation of the old station was rejected because it would require higher costs than the construction of a new station. The considerations for a new through station turned out to be difficult because Braunschweig was already densely built around the old town at the end of the 19th century. A new track route could only have been laid out with great effort.
Between 1909 and 1932 there were specific plans for a new through station in the area of today's exhibition center, i.e. south of the old station. The planning had progressed so far that even plans and concepts for the design of the urban space were drawn up. The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz was to be built north of the train station. From Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz, a new, wide main street in north-south direction was to connect the new train station with the old town. On the plans, a residential area was already shown northeast of the train station and the square. For the realization, however, the south pond in the Bürgerpark would probably have had to be heaped up with earth for the tracks east of the train station and parts of the industrial buildings (Feldschlößchen brewery etc.) on today's Böcklerstrasse would have to be demolished.
In 1938, however, the design from 1870 was discussed again, the first planning began, tracks were laid. The Second World War brought the work to an early end. In the 1950s, planning was resumed and in 1953 it was decided to keep the location planned in 1938.
planning
In 1956, contracts were signed between the city of Braunschweig, the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Braunschweigische Staatsbank for the construction of the through station. In May 1956 an ideas competition for the new central station was announced, 51 suggestions were submitted. On May 28, 1956, the earthworks for the platform tunnel began. On June 27, 1956, the jury announced the result of the architectural competition . Two second prizes were awarded to Bundesbahnoberrat Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Dürkop in Hanover and to J. Kiesewetter in Bayreuth .
construction
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new building was carried out on February 19, 1957 by the then Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm . The platform tunnel was completed on November 7, 1958, and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on November 21, 1958 .
The foundation stone for the station building was laid on March 24, 1959 , and its topping-out ceremony took place on October 15, 1959. After three years of construction and ten years of planning, the new Braunschweig main train station was opened on October 1, 1960. The model was the Roma Termini train station in Rome .
use
The main station has been connected to the InterCity network since 1979 and to the ICE network since 1993 . In May 1993 a regional express ran from Braunschweig to Magdeburg for the first time .
The reception building has been a listed building since 1993 .
On 25 and 26 October 2003 a new was electronic interlocking commissioned, the between United Gleidingen and Weddel controls 84 points and 102 signals and from the operations center Hannover is remotely controlled.
Until 2010, the only way to get to the platforms in Braunschweig train station with a bicycle, stroller or wheelchair was to use the former post tunnel outside the station hall at the eastern end of the platform. However, its use is prohibited (at least without being accompanied by railway staff) by signs. Alternatively, bicycles and strollers can of course also simply be carried up the stairs by pedestrians. During Eintracht Braunschweig football matches , this tunnel is occasionally used to escort guest fans to the parking lot and the shuttle buses parked there to the Eintracht stadium (accompanied by the police). The opposing and sometimes rival fans therefore do not run through the station hall and do not come into contact with the home fans.
Initially, three elevators were installed only to platforms 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8, using part of the space of the eastern stairs. After the RegioStadtBahn planning could no longer be implemented, platform 1/2 was retrofitted; now there is an elevator to all platforms.
Surroundings
Extensive construction work began in the vicinity of the new main station. The main goals were the realization of the continuation of the Wilhelminischer Ring , the ring-shaped road system that was planned by Ludwig Winter in the 19th century , the construction of the Bahnhofplatz and Bahnhofstrasse, which was to connect the new train station with the center of the city, which is just under 2 kilometers away. In the course of these measures, several houses were demolished. In August 1958, demolition work began on the houses on Heitbergstrasse to make room for the new street layout. In February 1960 residential buildings on Friedrichsplatz were demolished. Berliner Platz was built in front of the train station and was only converted in the 1960s and 1970s. In the course of relocating the main station, the main post office was also relocated from the city center to Berliner Platz.
In 1970 a pedestrian overpass across Berliner Platz was completed between the main train station and the hotel atrium (clearance on June 15, 1970, canceled in 1999), and a tavern was built with it .
In the following years, the station district was included in redevelopment measures. The first section was completed in 1992, the second in June 2006.
Local transport terminal
From 1999 to 2000, a local transport terminal was built directly in front of the reception building for Expo 2000 . The inauguration of the weather-protected system with a 100 meter long roof took place in May 2000. At the same time, the first rails (standard gauge additional track) for the planned standard gauge RegioStadtBahn were laid in the area of the main station. Lines 1, 2, 3 and 10 of the RegioStadtBahn should also stop at the local transport station from around 2014. In the first stage of expansion, they should connect the main station with the north station and with Salzgitter , Goslar , Bad Harzburg , Schöppenstedt , Gifhorn and Uelzen . The trains of the planned RegioStadtBahn should use two currently unused platforms in the local transport station that have not yet had a siding. The connection to the rail network of the DB should be made in the immediate vicinity via a ramp up or down onto the embankment. The plans for the RegioStadtBahn were abandoned in 2010.
In 2005 a new tram connection was opened over the Heinrich-Büssing-Ring to the main station. It connects the main train station with the districts of Heidberg , Melverode and Stöckheim in the south of Braunschweig. The new branch to Stöckheim was put into operation on October 15, 2006.
Transport links
Local transport
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The main train station has connections and transfer options with the following local transport lines:
tram
Tram 1 Stöckheim - main station - town hall - Wenden
Tram 2 Heidberg - main station - town hall - Siegfriedviertel (only in the evening and on Sundays / public holidays)
Tram 5 Hauptbahnhof - Center - Weststadt - Broitzem
Tram 10 Hauptbahnhof - Center - Boe, Lincoln Settlement
bus
419 Hauptbahnhof - Ostring - Westring - Exhibition Grounds - Hauptbahnhof
429 Central Station - Exhibition Grounds - Westring - Ostring - Central Station
420 Wolfenbüttel Bahnhof - Hauptbahnhof - City Hall
431 Helmstedter Straße - Rautheim - Stöckheim - Melverode - Heidberg - main station
436 Central Station - Kralenriede - Airport
411 Mascherode - Bebelhof - Central Station - Town Hall - Lehndorf - Lamme
461 Central Station - Center - Lehndorf - PTB - Völkenrode
601 620 Salzgitter-Lebenstedt - main train station
603 631 Salzgitter-Bad - Central Station
730 Wilhelmstrasse - Central station - Sickte - Evessen - Schöppenstedt
Regional traffic
Braunschweig is served by the following lines.
| KBS | line | route | Tact | operator | Vehicles in regular operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 313 | RE 50 | Wolfsburg - Braunschweig - Lengede - Hoheneggelsen - Hildesheim | 30 min (BS – WOB in peak hours)
60 min |
metronome ( enno ) | Alstom Coradia Continental |
| 310 | RE 60 | Braunschweig - Peine - Lehrte - Hanover - Löhne - Osnabrück - Rheine | 120 min
Braunschweig - Hanover 30 min with RE 70 |
Westfalenbahn | Stadler KISS |
| 310 | RE 70 | Braunschweig - Peine - Lehrte - Hanover - Löhne - Bielefeld | 120 min
+ Amplifier to Hanover 60 min |
Westfalenbahn | Stadler KISS |
| 310 | RB 40 | Braunschweig - Helmstedt - Magdeburg - Castle |
60 min 120 min (Helmstedt-Burg / Sat-Sun) |
DB Regio Southeast | BR 146 with 3 double-decker cars |
| 353 | RB 42 | Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel - Vienenburg - Bad Harzburg |
60 min
Wing with RB 43 in Vienenburg |
erixx | BR 622 |
| 353 | RB 43 | Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel - Vienenburg - Goslar | 60 min wing with RB 42 in Vienenburg | erixx | BR 622 |
| 352 | RB 44 | Braunschweig - Salzgitter-Thiede - Salzgitter-Lebenstedt | 60 min | DB Regio North | BR 648 |
| 312 | RB 45 | Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel - Schöppenstedt | 60 min + individual amplifiers for peak hours | DB Regio North | BR 648 |
| 358 | RB 46 | Braunschweig - Salzgitter-Ringelheim - Seesen - Osterode - Herzberg |
60 min (Mon-Sat) 120 min (Sun) |
DB Regio North | BR 648 |
| 115 | RB 47 | Braunschweig - Gifhorn - Wittingen - Uelzen | 120 min + individual amplifiers for peak hours | erixx | BR 622 |
| 352 | RB 48 | Braunschweig - Salzgitter-Thiede - Salzgitter-Lebenstedt | 60 min (Mon-Fri) | DB Regio North | BR 648 |
Long-distance transport
Braunschweig is connected to the Deutsche Bahn long-distance transport system with two ICE and two InterCity lines . The ICE lines 12 and 13 condense on the Berlin – Frankfurt (Main) route together to an hourly rate , while the Intercity lines 55 and 56 serve the Leipzig – Hanover route every hour.
| line | route | Clock frequency | Vehicles in regular operation |
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| ICE 11 | Berlin Central Station - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Würzburg - Munich | one train a week at night | |
| ICE 12 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Berlin Central Station - Braunschweig - Göttingen - Fulda - Frankfurt am Main - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Offenburg - Freiburg - Basel Badischer Bahnhof - Basel SBB (- Interlaken Ost ) | Every two hours | |
| ICE 13 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Braunschweig - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt Airport | Every two hours | |
| IC 55 | Dresden - Riesa - Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne | Every two hours | |
| IC 56 | Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Hanover - Bremen - Oldenburg - Leer - Emden | Every two hours |
Apart from the regular connections, individual trains connect Braunschweig with:
- Düsseldorf , Bonn , Koblenz , Mainz , Oberstdorf IC 55
- Norddeich Mole , Potsdam , Cottbus IC 56
architecture
The eight-storey office building of the reception building is 98 m long and 29 m high and forms an architectural end to Kurt-Schumacher-Straße.
Influential are the art - and natural stone façade made of green serpentine with copper elements and the large disc facade at the entrance. The building is closed on the left by a restaurant building and on the right by a retail space .
At the top of the left half of the facade of the office building is an analog clock made of copper. The DB logo and the metal lettering “HAUPTBAHNHOF” are located above the entrance area.
Others
- A Rembrandt painting stolen in Berlin in 1959 was found on October 22, 1961 after an anonymous phone call in a locker at the main train station.
- To mark the 150th anniversary of the railway in Germany, an event with live broadcast by Deutschlandfunk took place on June 1, 1985 in the main train station . 18,000 people attended the event with an exhibition train.
- On September 29, 1996, the ICE 597 was the first ICE to be named a university; it is called "Carolo-Wilhelmina" after the Technical University of Braunschweig .
- The tracks that lead to the main train station are mainly on embankments in the city. In some cases, rubble and rubble from the old town, which had previously been destroyed up to 90% in the Second World War , were used to fill them up.
- The main station has a total of 850 parking spaces for bicycles . There are 471 parking spaces in the guarded bike station in the basement of the main train station. There are also two paid car parking spaces (Central Station North and Central Station South) with a total of 560 parking spaces .
- The white lines on the station forecourt run to the red pillars of the reception building and continue in the reception hall.
- A steam locomotive of the 01.10 series (with the number 01 1063) has been standing north of the station building since April 1977 . The reconditioning of this locomotive, which was put into service in 1940, after it retired from scheduled service, was the last to be carried out by the Braunschweig repair shop before its closure in 1977.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Query of the course book route 310 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 358 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 313 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 353 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 115 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b c d e Norbert Jonscher: Braunschweiger Bahnhof turns 50. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . October 1, 2010, pp. 22-23.
- ↑ Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations , born in 1889
- ^ Karl-Heinz Löffelsend: The Helmstedt. Braunschweig 2006, p. 54 ff.
- ↑ a b c Braunschweig Central Station 1960
- ↑ City expansion plan for the city of Braunschweig, designed by city architect Carl Tappe in 1870
- ^ ESTW Braunschweig in operation. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , ISSN 1421-2811 , issue 12/2003, p. 528.
- ↑ The elevators run in the station. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from June 3, 2010.
- ↑ newsclick.de
- ↑ Timetable period: December 13, 2015 - December 10, 2016. ( PDF ) Accessed on December 12, 2015 .
- ↑ DB Netz AG: ICE-Netz 2014. ( PDF ) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 21, 2014 ; Retrieved December 17, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ DB Netz AG: EC / IC-Netz 2014. ( PDF ) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; Retrieved December 17, 2013 . 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.
- ^ Steam locomotive monument in Braunschweig 1977. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2014 . 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.
literature
- Federal Railway Directorate Hanover (Ed.): Central Station Braunschweig 1960. Published jointly for the opening of the new Braunschweig Hauptbahnhof on October 1, 1960 by the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover, the city of Braunschweig and the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Braunschweig 1960.
- G. Lages, A. Trapp , IHK Braunschweig (ed.): The Braunschweiger economy and the new train station. Braunschweig 1960.
Web links
- Braunschweig Central Railway Station Monument: Historical Significance - Existing - Planning - Assessment , City of Braunschweig, Information Document of the Preservation of Monuments 1/1999 (PDF)
- Track systems and signals on the OpenRailwayMap