Heilbronn freight yard
| Heilbronn freight yard | |
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 Heilbronn freight yard 2007
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| Operating point type | Freight depot |
| abbreviation | TH G |
| opening | 1896 |
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| City / municipality | Heilbronn |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 8 '12 " N , 9 ° 11' 45" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Heilbronner freight station (official name until 1985: Heilbronn marshalling yard , colloquially often Böckinger rail yard called) is a marshalling yard of Deutsche Bahn in Heilbronn .
geography
The train station is located between the Heilbronn district of Böckingen and the Neckar . It borders in the east on the Stuttgart –Heilbronn ( Frankenbahn ) railway line and in the north on the Karlsruhe –Heilbronn ( Kraichgaubahn ) line. The railway area extends over a length of 2 km and a maximum width of 500 m and includes 26 tracks. The drainage mountain is located at the southern end of the facility .
Until September 24, 1995 there was a connecting track between the Kraichgaubahn and the freight yard. The track ran between the former Heilbronn depot and Leonhardstraße, crossed Ludwigsburger Straße and finally led to the Kraichgaubahn. Via this connection, freight trains to and from Karlsruhe could enter or leave the freight yard directly without shunting.
history
Due to the strong growth in rail freight traffic, the Royal Württemberg State Railways (KWSt.E.) considered building a marshalling yard for Heilbronn that was separated from passenger traffic as early as 1884 . In 1896 Heilbronn was in second place after Stuttgart in rail freight transport in Württemberg . The eleven tracks of the Heilbronn main station were no longer sufficient for these quantities of goods.
Due to Heilbronn's location in the Neckar Valley, it was difficult to find a suitable site on which a correspondingly large system could be built. That is why one had to resort to the district of the then independent municipality of Böckingen.
The construction of the marshalling yard was passed by law on May 10, 1890, and construction began on June 24, 1890. The tracks on the Stuttgart – Heilbronn line had to be relocated to the east, with the upper Böckinger See being reduced in size. The “lower” lake had dried up and filled up as early as 1873–1884, the “upper” lake was assigned to the municipality of Böckingen by the Württemberg state in 1881 for use. The new station was opened in October 1896, and the construction work was largely completed on February 29, 1897.
For Böckingen, the wide layout of the station was a certain obstacle to development, and the noise repeatedly caused anger among the residents. The run-off mountain of the station had no optical signals, so the train driver was guided by an acoustic horn signal. Due to the shunting operations, the peace of the dead in the adjoining old cemetery at the Pankratius Church was seen as endangered, so that a new cemetery was built at the northern end of the village by 1906 .
In 1932, an average of eight freight trains with around 50 wagons each went in and out of the station. When the Heilbronn canal port was completed in 1935, the train station often reached its limits. Up to after the Second World War , up to 2000 wagons rolled through the station every day at peak times.
During the heavy bombing raids on Heilbronn and Böckingen between September 1944 and March 1945, the marshalling yard was frequently hit and badly damaged.
As early as 1949, 1500 wagons again left the station, which is why there were considerations to build a larger marshalling yard between the Heilbronn-Sülmertor station and Neckarsulm station and to give up the facility in Böckingen. However, this project was never realized.
Since the tracks in Böckingen were no longer sufficient, especially in autumn for the beet campaign, three 750 m long tracks were built in 1975 in the south of the station, parallel to the Frankenbahn in the direction of Stuttgart. This so-called marshalling yard (officially station Part Heilbronn-Klingenberg) is used up to the present for the re-clamping of locomotives for a change of direction and as an extension of the marshalling yard.
In the area of the southern entrance to the station there was a serious railway accident on August 12, 1984 when a night express train crossed a track change at too high a speed. Three people died, 35 were seriously injured and 21 were slightly injured.
Through the station passed through freight trains on the Mannheim - Nuremberg route , which changed direction and locomotive.
Today's meaning
With the increasing relocation of goods to the road, the importance of the Heilbronn marshalling yard decreased more and more. With effect from June 2, 1985 it was therefore converted into a satellite of the Kornwestheim marshalling yard as the "Heilbronn Güterbahnhof" . Since then, the shunting tasks have only extended to the local area.
The most important goods are coal, salt and automobiles. In addition, mineral oils, chemicals, wood, cement clinker, scrap and metals are transported through the station. The required freight cars bring four trains a day from the Kornwestheim marshalling yard to Heilbronn.
DB Cargo Deutschland employs 30 people in Heilbronn and is responsible for assembling the trains and distributing the freight wagons to customers. This currently requires 15 of the 26 tracks in the freight yard.
Around 90,000 freight wagons pass through the station every year, around 18,000 of which go to the Heilbronn industrial and port railway . The majority of customers are located in the Heilbronn urban area. Further customers are in Walheim, Öhringen and Bad Friedrichshall.
literature
- Roland Rösch: The railway in Böckingen . In: Christhard Schrenk (Ed.): Böckingen am See - A Heilbronn district yesterday and today . City of Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures . 3. Edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1966 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn, 14). Page 54, No. 72: Böckinger See
- ↑ Current track plan of Heilbronn Gbf station on the Deutsche Bahn website (PDF; 248 kB)
- ↑ a b Andreas Tschürtz: The big freight trains just roll past . In: Heilbronner Voice of June 19, 2008, p. 33
