Karlsruhe main station

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Karlsruhe main station
Main entrance with mansard roof and the original stand core [1]
Main entrance with a mansard roof and the original stand core
Data
Location in the network Junction station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 16
abbreviation RK
IBNR 8000191
Price range 1
opening 1913
Profile on Bahnhof.de Karlsruhe_Hbf
location
City / municipality Karlsruhe
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 59 '38 "  N , 8 ° 24' 2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '38 "  N , 8 ° 24' 2"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Karlsruhe Train Station is a train station in the Württemberg Baden- city of Karlsruhe . It belongs to the highest station category  1 of DB Station & Service and is the third largest station in Baden-Württemberg with around 60,000 travelers per day. It is located in the south-west of Karlsruhe and, along with the Karlsruhe-Durlach train station, is one of two long-distance train stations in Karlsruhe.

history

old trainstation

Reception building in the early 20th century
City map from the period 1910-1913 with the main train station roughly in the middle

In the course of the construction of the Baden main line between Mannheim and Basel , a train station was also built in Karlsruhe. The infrastructure design came from the Baden civil engineer Franz Keller . The reception building was designed by the Karlsruhe university professor Friedrich Eisenlohr . The former station building site was in the Gewann "Nachtwaide", located on today's Kriegsstrasse between Ettlinger Tor and Mendelssohnplatz, about 500 meters south of Karlsruhe's market square . The building land was previously owned by the margraves.

To the west of the station, the railway line should run through the outdoor area of ​​the restaurant "zum Grünen Hof" owned by the widow Höck and the associated bowling alley. As compensation for the expropriation, she received 1,800 guilders and a piece of the adjacent Domanialwiese to relocate the bowling alley. Construction was prepared as early as August 1841, after the Öhmd harvest, the earthworks began.

A company for the construction of railway wagons was formed under the direction of Emil Keßler and Theodor Martiensen - the later Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe - which set up its workshops in Beiertheim in front of Ettlinger Tor. When the English engineer Bailli and the mechanic Erhardt joined the company, the company also began building locomotives. The first South German locomotive, "Badenia" , was completed in 1841 , and the second, "Karlsruhe", was completed the following year. At the end of February 1843 the third locomotive, "Der Rhein", was added.

Test drives of the locomotives began at the end of March, and the first test drive to Heidelberg took place on April 1, 1843. On April 10, 1843, the line was opened to the public.

The station had two platforms. From the beginning it was designed as a through station . A locomotive depot was built south of the station, with a freight yard and a central workshop to the east .

As with all railway lines built in Baden , the track width of the tracks was initially 1,600 millimeters. In 1855 the gauge was changed to standard gauge . In the following years, further routes were connected to the Karlsruhe train station: in 1859 the connection to Stuttgart , 1863 the Maxaubahn with connection to the Palatinate, 1870 the Rheinbahn to Mannheim, 1879 the Kraichgaubahn and 1895 the strategic railway from Graben-Neudorf via Rastatt to Haguenau . The tracks ran at ground level, the individual railway lines had narrow radii due to their proximity to the buildings.

The increasing rail traffic and the resulting long closing times of the level crossings cut up the steadily growing city and hindered its expansion. After several years of discussion, in which, among other things, raising the tracks was considered, the Baden state parliament decided in 1902 to relocate the station to a site one kilometer south of the previous location.

After the new station opened in 1913, the previous station lost its function as a railway station and was used as a market hall until the 1960s . Today the Badisches Staatstheater is located on the former station area . Some of the remaining track systems remained in operation for decades as siding , but are now completely no longer operated by the railway. The freight yard was used until the mid-1990s, the repair shop until 1997. Ludwig-Erhard-Allee has now been laid out on the premises of the freight yard, and the repair shop area was built on with apartment blocks and office buildings.

New train station

Aerial view from the south
Reception and counter hall with barrel vault

The new station building, which is still in use today, was built around a kilometer south of its predecessor, between Südstadt and the marshalling yard . Construction according to August Stürzenacker's plans began in 1910, and the station was opened on the night of October 22-23, 1913. The station and the access tracks were built on what was formerly Beiertheimer district and also took up a considerable part of the city ​​garden and the garden behind the Stephanienbad. The then oldest Canadian poplar in Europe had to be felled there.

The platforms and the access routes were placed on an embankment, with access via a pedestrian underpass . The reception hall is on the north side of the track system. The building has both classicist and Art Nouveau features . To the east of the station building there is a second underpass, which originally served as an exit for arriving passengers, in which the underground car park access has meanwhile been mainly installed and which has been home to paid, secure bicycle parking spaces for a few years, so that pedestrians can safely use the underpass again. A five-aisled, steel station hall , similar to the hall of the Wroclaw Central Station completed a few years earlier , covers five island platforms . At a later time, an eleventh track was created and, in the 1980s, two platforms with three additional tracks were laid south of the station concourse. To the west of the station building, a wing station for the Maxau Railway with four stub tracks (“Maxaubahnhof”) was created, in which the lines to the Palatinate and to Graben-Neudorf (via Eggenstein ) ended. The construction of the new station also had an impact on the access routes. The previous train stations at the Mühlburger Tor in Karlsruhe, Beiertheim and Rüppurr were no longer available . The stations in Mühlburg and Durlach were rebuilt elsewhere and the tracks on the line to Mühlacker, which had previously ended in Durlach, were extended to the new central station, resulting in a four-track route between Durlach and Karlsruhe. The opening of the Karlsruhe-West train station to passenger traffic was also new .

View of the station forecourt in west direction, the station building on the left, 1955

The forecourt of the station was designed by Wilhelm Vittali . The square with a rectangular floor plan is surrounded by a continuous arcade . Two hotel buildings form the end of the square to the east and west; to the north, the passage to the city garden and the commercial building border the square. The station forecourt forms a typical ensemble of urban architecture from the last few years before the First World War . To the east of the station, the railway post office was built, which had a siding to both the railroad and the tram .

A week before the station opened, a tram line was set up between Ettlinger Tor and the new station, which - after removing the access tracks to the old station - was connected to the city center. For the Albtalbahn was 1915 Ebertstraße 300 meters west of the station, a new railway terminal , the Albtalbahnhof .

Development of the station

The station was damaged in the air raids of World War II , but was later rebuilt. The period after 1950 was characterized by continuous modernization of the station and the forecourt. In mid-1958, the Rhine Valley Railway was continuously switched to electrical operation . In 1969, the renovation of the station forecourt began, whereby - in keeping with the spirit of the times - a pedestrian underpass was created and car and tram traffic was reorganized. In 1977 a new track map push button interlocking (type Sp Dr) was put into operation.

At the end of the 1980s, instead of the original express freight station, the station was given three through tracks 12-14 and an underground car park under the track field. This was supposed to be the impetus for a redesign of the area adjoining the train station to the south - although this was not implemented until 2018. With the start of the Intercity Express service to Karlsruhe, two platforms were lengthened and modernized and the access stairs were supplemented with lifts and escalators .

In 1995, the forecourt of the station was redesigned, with the pedestrian underpass closed and the tram stop rebuilt. In 1996, a track connection was created between the western track apron of the main train station and the Albtalbahnhof, via which the city ​​rail lines S7 and S8 (until December 2016: S4 and S41) from Karlsruhe to Rastatt and from December 2010 the line S51 to Wörth am Rhein from the railway network to the Can pass over the tram network. As a result, it was possible to dispense with the two stub tracks 103 and 104, which were closed in the mid-2000s, so that the main station still has 14 through tracks 1-14 and the two stub tracks 101 and 102.

In 2008, the Pro-Rail Alliance named the station “Station of the Year” in the “City with more than 100,000 inhabitants” category.

business

TGV in Karlsruhe on the way to Frankfurt
Intercity in Karlsruhe main station

The Karlsruhe main station is classified by Deutsche Bahn AG as a long - distance hub station. It is served in long-distance traffic by Intercity Express trains to Berlin , Hamburg , Dortmund , Basel , Zurich and Interlaken Ost. Intercity trains run to Stralsund , Cologne , Nuremberg , Munich and Constance . The station is also served by TGV trains to Frankfurt , Marseille , Paris and Stuttgart . In local transport there are connections with Regional Express trains to Neustadt an der Weinstraße , Mainz , Stuttgart, Konstanz and Basel as well as local transport and S-Bahn connections to the Karlsruhe area. According to the DB, the main station receives around 60,000 passengers and visitors every day.

The tracks are designed for regular service, with tracks 1–4 on the Mannheim – Basel route, tracks 5–8 on the Heidelberg – Rastatt route, 9–14 on the Pforzheim – Rastatt route and tracks 101 and 102 on the Karlsruhe– route. Serve new town. The through tracks 1-14 can be approached from all lines, the tracks 101 and 102 only from the direction of Wörth and Durmersheim .

To the west of the station is a parking group with a turntable and the Karlsruhe depot of the DB Regio. A second group of wagons is located east of the station. A connecting track allows shunting trips from the main station to the Karlsruhe freight yard.

According to DB, 130 long-distance trains, 133 regional trains and 121 S-Bahn trains serve the station every day (as of June 29, 2011).

Long-distance transport

130 long-distance trains stop at the station every day, mainly Intercity Express and Intercity trains on the Rhine route and TGV Duplex between Paris and Stuttgart or Frankfurt am Main and Marseille .

line route Clock frequency
ICE 12 East Berlin - Braunschweig  - Frankfurt  - Mannheim  - Karlsruhe  - Offenburg  - Freiburg  - Basel  (- Bern  - Interlaken ) Every two hours
ICE 20 ( Kiel  -) Hamburg  - Hanover  - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe  - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe  - Baden-Baden  - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich (-  Chur ) Every two hours
ICE 26 ( Ostseebad Binz  - Stralsund  -) Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Gießen  - Frankfurt - Heidelberg - Karlsruhe Every two hours
IC 30 ( Greifswald ← Stralsund ←) Hamburg - Bremen  - Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne - Koblenz  - Mainz  - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Karlsruhe  - Baden-Baden - Offenburg a pair of trains
EC 30 Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Karlsruhe  - Baden-Baden - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich or Interlaken two pairs of trains a day
IC 35 Emden  - Lingen  - Münster  - Recklinghausen  - Duisburg  - Cologne  - Koblenz  - Mannheim  - Karlsruhe  - Offenburg - Constance individual trains at the WE
ICE 43 (Hanover - Dortmund  -) or. ( Amsterdam  - Duisburg  -) Cologne  - Frankfurt Airport  - Mannheim - Karlsruhe  - Offenburg - Freiburg - Basel Every two hours
IC 60 ( Basel Bad  - Freiburg - Offenburg - Baden-Baden -) Karlsruhe  - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich Every two hours
IC 61 Karlsruhe  - Pforzheim  - Stuttgart - Aalen  - Nuremberg (- Bamberg - Lichtenfels - Saalfeld (Saale) - Jena Paradies - Weißenfels - Leipzig ) Every two hours
ICE / TGV 82 Paris Est  - Strasbourg  - Karlsruhe  - Mannheim - Frankfurt two pairs of trains a day
ICE / TGV 83 Paris Est  - Strasbourg  - Karlsruhe  - Stuttgart (- Ulm  - Augsburg  - Munich ) five pairs of trains daily
TGV 84 Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe  - Baden-Baden - Strasbourg - Mulhouse-Ville  - Belfort-Montbéliard  - Besançon Franche-Comté  - Chalon-sur-Saône - Lyon-Part-Dieu  - Avignon  - Aix-en-Provence  - Marseille-Saint-Charles a pair of trains daily
ICE 85 Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Baden-Baden - Freiburg - Basel - Lucerne - Bellinzona - Lugano - Chiasso - Monza - Milano Centrale a pair of trains daily

Night trains

The night trains have been operating as ÖBB Nightjet since December 2016 . The previous connections as City Night Line were discontinued at the same time. In addition, the Flixnight runs on weekends . In addition, a night train between Paris and Moscow, operated by the Russian railways RŽD , stops once a week .

genus Line course Remarks
NJ 470/471 ÖBB Nightjet
Hamburg - Berlin - Halle - Frankfurt South - Mannheim - Karlsruhe  - Offenburg - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich 		a pair of trains
EN 452/453 Moscow – Berlin – Paris
Moskva  - Vyasma  - Smolensk  - Orsha  - Minsk  - Baranavichy  - Brest  - Terespol  - Warsaw  - Poznan  - Rzepin  - Frankfurt  - Berlin-Lichtenberg  - Berlin Central Station  - Erfurt  - Frankfurt South - Karlsruhe  - Strasbourg  - Paris Est 		one pair of trains per week, EN 452/453
FLX NIGHT Hamburg-Altona  - Hamburg  - Hanover  - Karlsruhe  - Freiburg  - Lörrach Autozug a pair of trains on Saturdays and Sundays

Regional traffic

An Interregio-Express on platform 9
line route Clock frequency
IRE 1 Karlsruhe  - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen (Enz)  - Stuttgart Hourly
IRE 1 Karlsruhe  - Wilferdingen-Singen - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen (Enz)  - Stuttgart - Schorndorf  - Aalen Every two hours
RE 2 Black Forest Railway
Karlsruhe  - Baden-Baden - Achern  - Offenburg - Villingen  - Singen  - Constance (-  Kreuzlingen ) 		Hourly,
HVZ half-hourly to Offenburg
RE 4 Südwest- Express (SÜWEX)

Karlsruhe - Germersheim - Speyer - Ludwigshafen - Frankenthal - Worms - Mainz - Frankfurt

Every two hours
RE 6 Karlsruhe - Wörth - Kandel - Landau - Neustadt Hourly
RB 2 Karlsruhe - Graben-Neudorf - Waghäusel - Schwetzingen - Mannheim (- Lampertheim - Biblis ) Hourly, repeater trains Mannheim – Karlsruhe,
HVZ repeater trains (Graben-Neudorf -) Waghäusel - Mannheim
RB 51 Karlsruhe - Wörth - Kandel - Landau - Edenkoben - Neustadt Hourly
RE 4 (KA-OG & KA-NB)
RB (OG – BS) 		Karlsruhe  - Baden-Baden  - Offenburg  - Freiburg  - Müllheim  - Neuchâtel / Basel Bad - ( Basel SBB ) Hourly

Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn

Karlsruhe main station is the start and destination station of line S 3 of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn on the route from Karlsruhe via Bruchsal, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Speyer to Germersheim. The next transfer options from Karlsruhe to the other lines of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn are in Bruchsal ( S 4 , S 33 ) and in Heidelberg ( S 1 , S 2 , S 4 , S 5 and S 51 ). As part of the second expansion stage, the route from Karlsruhe via Graben-Neudorf and Schwetzingen to Mannheim is to be integrated into the route network as the future S 9 line from 2019 .

line route Clock frequency
S 3 Karlsruhe Hbf  - Karlsruhe-Durlach  - Bruchsal  - Heidelberg  - Mannheim - Ludwigshafen  - Schifferstadt  - Speyer - Germersheim Hourly, half-hourly during peak hours, individual trains in the evening from Schifferstadt in the direction of Kaiserslautern, on weekdays a pair of trains to Homburg

Karlsruhe light rail

AVG GT 8-100C2S 807 on February 25th, 2008 in Karlsruhe HBF.jpg
AVG GT 8-100D2S-M 879 on April 28, 2008 in Karlsruhe HBF.jpg
AVG GT 8-100D2S-M 907 on March 10, 2008 in Karlsruhe HBF.jpg


Light rail vehicles in the platform hall, older and newer generations as well as "express trains"

Karlsruhe main station forms a junction for the S-Bahn of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar and the light rail of the Stadtbahn Karlsruhe .

Most trams stop at platforms A and D on the station forecourt, which are shared by the city ​​tram (platforms B and C) and the bus.

line route Clock frequency
S 1 Linkenheim-Hochstetten  - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen  - Karlsruhe-Neureut  - Karlsruhe market square  - Karlsruhe station forecourt  - Karlsruhe-Rüppurr  - Ettlingen city  - Busenbach  - Bad Herrenalb four times an hour during peak hours, forms with S 11 ten
-minute intervals , 20-minute intervals between Neureut and Hochstetten,
hourly only to Neureut,
twice an hour only to Ettlingen (weekdays + Saturday peak
hours ), on Sundays twice an hour, of which only once to Neureut
S 11 Linkenheim-Hochstetten - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen - KA-Neureut - Karlsruhe market square - Karlsruhe station forecourt  - KA-Rüppurr - Ettlingen city - Busenbach - Langensteinbach  - Ittersbach 30-minute intervals, every hour to Hochstetten (weekdays + Saturday, high season), on Sundays every hour on the entire route
P. 31 Karlsruhe  - Karlsruhe-Durlach - Bruchsal - Ubstadt  - Odenheim Hourly, Mon-Fri afternoons in traction operation with S 32 to Ubstadt Ort every 20 minutes

drives out of the station concourse

P 32 Karlsruhe  - Karlsruhe-Durlach - Bruchsal - Ubstadt - Menzingen Hourly, Mon-Fri afternoons in traction operation with S 31 to Ubstadt Ort every 20 minutes

drives out of the station concourse

S 4 Albtalbahnhof - Karlsruhe station forecourt - Karlsruhe market square - Karlsruhe-Durlach - Grötzingen  - Bretten  - Eppingen  - Schwaigern  - Heilbronn station forecourt Heilbronn Pfühlpark - Weinsberg  - Öhringen  - Öhringen-Cappel three times an hour from Albtalbahnhof in the direction of Heilbronn / Weinsberg, once as an “express train” and once only to Bretten / Eppingen
P 51 Karlsruhe market square - Karlsruhe station forecourt - Karlsruhe West - Maximiliansau  - Wörth - Jockgrim  - Rheinzabern  - Rülzheim  - Bellheim  - Germersheim Hourly (only on weekdays)
S 7 Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Durmersheim - Karlsruhe station forecourt - Karlsruhe Tullastraße / VBK Hourly
P 71 Achern - Baden-Baden - Rastatt - Muggensturm - Karlsruhe individual trains

drives out of the station concourse

S 8 Karlsruhe Tullastraße / VBK - Karlsruhe Bahnhofsvorplatz - Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof - Durmersheim - Rastatt - Gernsbach  - Gaggenau  - Forbach - Raumünzach - Schönmünzach - Baiersbronn - Freudenstadt Stadt - Freudenstadt Hbf - Eutingen im Gäu - Bondorf (-  Herrenberg ) Every half hour between Freudenstadt Stadt and Freudenstadt Hbf,
hourly between Karlsruhe Tullastraße and Freudenstadt Stadt
,
every two hours between Freudenstadt Hbf and Bondorf, once in the evening to Herrenberg
P 81 Karlsruhe main station - Rastatt  - Gaggenau  - Gernsbach  - Forbach - Baiersbronn  - Freudenstadt city - Freudenstadt main station Every two hours, "express train"

drives out of the station concourse

Karlsruhe tram

Trams depart from the station forecourt on the north side.

line route Clock frequency
2 Wolfartsweier  - Aue  - Auer Straße / Dr. Willmar Schwabe - Tullastrasse / Verkehrsbetriebe - Durlacher Tor - Rüppurrer Tor - Central Station  - ZKM  - Karlstrasse - Europaplatz - Yorckstrasse - Municipal Clinic  - Siemensallee - Lasallestrasse Ten minute intervals

Every 20 minutes on Sundays and in peripheral locations

3 Tivoli - Central Station  - Karlstor - Europaplatz - Mühlburger Tor - Art Academy / University  - Neureut-Heide Ten minute intervals

Every 20 minutes on Sundays and in peripheral locations

4th Europaviertel - Waldstadt  - Hirtenweg / Technologiepark - Hauptfriedhof  - Durlacher Tor - Marktplatz - Europaplatz - Karlstraße - Central Station  - Tivoli Ten minute intervals

Every 20 minutes on Sundays and in peripheral locations

particularities

Since December 2014, the central station in Karlsruhe in the offer is AIRail the Lufthansa involved.

literature

Movie

  • Ticket to Ride - Stories from Karlsruhe Central Station. Documentary, Germany, 2019, 44:59 min., Script and director: Julian Gräfe, Stefan Tiyavoraboun, production: SWR , series: Zug um Zug , first broadcast: June 19, 2019 on SWR television , synopsis by ARD , online video.

Web links

Commons : Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Deutsche Bahn AG:
Further sources:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Linde : The new passenger station in Karlsruhe in Baden. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Vol. 64 (1914), No. 4, Col. 245f.
  2. ↑ DB - The train stations • Data and facts. ( Memento from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: bahnhof.de , February 15, 2012.
  3. ^ A b c d e f g h i j k l Friedrich von Weech : Karlsruhe: History of the city and its administration . Volume 2: 1830–1852, Book IV: Karlsruhe during the reign of Grand Duke Leopold . Verlag der Mackolt'schen Buchhandlung und Buchdruckerei, Karlsruhe April 1898, Badische Landesbibliothek: O43 A 1024.2, Die Eisenbahn , p. 108–113 ( blb-karlsruhe.de - digitized version of the Badische Landesbibliothek ).
  4. ^ Winner 2008: Karlsruhe and Schwerin. Karlsruhe and Schwerin are the most customer-friendly. In: Allianz pro Schiene , 2008, accessed on June 28, 2020.
  5. ^ Rheintalbahn. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Travel, service and shopping for 55,000 travelers and visitors every day. ( Memento from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: bahnhof.de , June 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ Expansion of the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn. Target state. In: ausbau-rheinneckar.de. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .