Heilbronn main station

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Heilbronn main station
Heilbronn Hbf Reception building O 20071228.jpg
City side of today's reception building (2007)
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Crossing station
Platform tracks
  • 7 railroad tracks
  • 2 tram tracks (in front of the train station)
abbreviation TH
IBNR 8000157
Price range 2
opening March 6, 1874
Profile on Bahnhof.de Heilbronn_Hbf
Architectural data
Architectural style Post-war modernity
architect Emil Schuh and Hellmut Kasel
location
City / municipality Heilbronn
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 8 '34 "  N , 9 ° 12' 29"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '34 "  N , 9 ° 12' 29"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof (short: Heilbronn Hbf ) is the largest and most important passenger station in the city of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg . There has been a rail link into the city since 1848, and the main train station has been at its current location since 1874. The original main station , which was destroyed by air raids in World War II , was replaced after the war by a new building in the style of post-war modernism that is still in use today . The main station building stands today as a testimony of the architecture of the 1950s under monument protection .

In the course of time, the main station has developed into a hub in regional traffic, as the railway lines from Mannheim or Heidelberg , Karlsruhe and Crailsheim meet the Frankenbahn line from Stuttgart to Würzburg . Since 2001, light rail trains , which are operated according to the so-called Karlsruhe model , have also been running across the forecourt of the station. Around 12,000 travelers use the station every day.

location

The main train station is located about one kilometer west of the city center of Heilbronn on an island almost one kilometer wide, around which the Neckar old arm flows to the east and the Neckar Canal to the west. Beyond the Neckar Canal in the southwest is the nearby Heilbronn freight station . The street running almost exactly to the east with Bahnhofstrasse , Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke (over the Neckar-Altarm) and Kaiserstrasse connects the main station with the historic center of Heilbronn around the market square .

history

Previous buildings

First train station from 1848

Lithograph of the first Heilbronn train station, as it did around 1855

After a railway line operated by locomotives was opened in Germany for the first time in 1835, the various German states began building numerous new railway lines in the period that followed. In this context, the Royal Württemberg State Railways built the Northern Railway between 1844 and 1848 as a rail link between the state capital Stuttgart and Heilbronn further north.

The old station today

This also made the construction of a terminal station with a reception building in Heilbronn necessary. The planning of this building the railway engineer and architect was Karl Etzel instructed consisting of a distinctive three-storey building in the years 1848/1849 Heilbronner sandstone in Rundbogenstil of Classicism gave rise. However, the building was only opened one year after the completion of the railway line on August 2, 1849, the waiting rooms followed on August 16, 1849. At the time, the tracks were still in the course of today's Bahnhofstrasse , the station forecourt was on the side facing away from the city .

With the opening of the Kocherbahn to Schwäbisch Hall on August 4, 1862 and the extension of the northern line to Jagstfeld (today: Bad Friedrichshall Hbf ) on September 11, 1866, it was clear that the previous station would no longer be able to cope with the growing traffic. This led to the construction of the second station , which opened not far from its predecessor in 1874. The building of the first Heilbronn train station remained, however, burned down during the air raid on the city on December 4, 1944. As early as 1948, however, it was used again with a new, simplified roof structure. It was used by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for registration and administration in the post-war period and housed social rooms for the regional bus company Stuttgart . The building has been preserved as a cultural monument to this day. Since its restoration for 3.5 million euros in 2004 and 2005, it has housed the management and administration of the Heilbronn Kolping educational institution and its evening grammar school .

Second train station from 1874

The second train station around 1900

The change in the route and the intensification of traffic led to the opening of the city's second train station or first main train station in 1874 at the current location with the tracks north of the building. It was built according to plans by Conrad Schurr and Otto Bonhöffer in the neo-renaissance style as a through station.

During this time, the plans for a rail connection between Heilbronn and Karlsruhe also fell , which was first opened as Kraichgau Railway on October 10, 1878 in the section between Heilbronn and Schwaigern , before the entire line could be put into operation on August 7, 1880 .

Station forecourt and what was then the main train station in 1904
Aerial view of the train station and its surroundings in 1918

On December 1, 1896, work began on building a tram in Heilbronn , whose main line from the main train station to Harmonie and on to the Fusilier barracks began operations on May 29, 1897. The line network of the Heilbronn tram was expanded further by 1928, a branch line connected the main station with the Heilbronn Südbahnhof , where it was possible to transfer to the trains of the Bottwartalbahn, which opened in December 1900, to Marbach am Neckar .

The station building was destroyed in the devastating air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944. The building was also damaged in street fighting in 1945.

A strange event occurred after the end of the Second World War in the ruins of the destroyed train station. The artist Joseph Beuys , who later became famous, arrived as a returning soldier by train at Heilbronn Central Station in the evening, where an officer should have given him the papers he needed for his onward journey. But since he refused, this meant that Beuys should have spent the night in the waiting room of the main train station. To prevent this, Beuys turned the man over and switched off the main power for the station in the destroyed counter hall of the station building. In the ensuing chaos, Beuys was able to steal his confiscated papers and continue his journey unnoticed. His well-known quote

"The mysteries take place in the main station, not in the Goetheanum."

- Joseph Beuys

refers to this fact. The act he called Aktion Hauptstrom can also be found in some of his works.

In 1956, the ruins of the destroyed train station were finally torn down. The foundations continued to be used in the construction of today's station building from 1958.

Today's train station from 1958

Since January 1, 1997, Heilbronn main station has been part of the newly created transport association Heilbronner Nahverkehr , in whose zone A it is located.

At the end of the 1990s, the curve connecting the Kraichgaubahn to the Heilbronn Gbf station section (route 4911), which ended in the Heilbronn Hbf Em station section, was shut down. In the early 2000s, the western track apron was rebuilt and the Heilbronn Stadtbahn line started there.

The street side of the station building in 1970, at that time still without the tram stop that exists today

As part of the station renaissance program , Deutsche Bahn had the station's reception hall partially rebuilt around the turn of the millennium. With the aim of making previously unused areas usable for travelers, a new DB travel center based on the design by Michele de Lucchi was built in the former luggage storage area. The original storage cellar of the station restaurant , which is located approximately at the level of the underpass, has been converted into a hygiene center with an adjoining area for lockers . Particular attention was paid to reinforcing the original interior design of the station. At the time, these measures cost Deutsche Bahn 3.7 million Deutschmarks. In addition, today's station bookstore and a company restaurant were newly created.

In 2011 four passenger elevators were installed to the platforms, which cost around 3.1 million euros.

On August 5, 2012, a station festival took place in Heilbronn, which was also attended by the Baden-Württemberg Transport Minister Winfried Hermann . The reason for this was the 150th anniversary of the Hohenlohebahn route in the section from Heilbronn to Schwäbisch Hall. A special train in the form of the historic TEE Rheingold long-distance train brought the guests of honor from Heilbronn to Öhringen main station .

Between 2012 and 2014, the platforms were to be increased from 36 to 55 centimeters, the lighting system was to be renewed and the visual design of the underpass improved. According to estimates from the planning period, this should cost 3.6 million euros, of which the city of Heilbronn should pay around 1 million euros. This should now  happen from March 20, 2017 to the end of 2018 - shortly before the Federal Horticultural Show . The part of the platform roof leading to the bicycle and taxi parking spaces is to be demolished by the end of June 2017.

At the end of 2019, the decommissioning of track 216 (formerly track 21) was approved.

Accidents

  • On November 6, 1853, the first railway accident documented for Heilbronn's main train station occurred, in which the standing boiler of Class III locomotive 11 of the Royal Württemberg State Railways , named “Besigheim”, exploded. At the time of the crash, the steam locomotive was in the cleaning pit in front of the locomotive shed. The accident claimed one person and three people were seriously injured. The reason for the explosion was not a fault on the part of the locomotive staff, but a weak point in the design. This was eliminated in all subsequent locomotive constructions.
  • On December 20, 1922, a freight train coming from the north ran over the entry signal for Heilbronn Central Station and then collided with the 406 passenger train on the way.

Buildings

Reception building

Hellmut Kasel was in charge of the construction management of the main building from 1958, which was based on a preliminary design by Emil Schuh . Its canopy is exemplary of the flighted roof architecture of that time.

Main entrance to the station (December 2007)

The reception building is a 120 m long concrete and glass construction; a copper band is attached to its roof skin. Its central part is a 40 m long, 11.5 m wide and 7.5 m high stretched hall with a glass front. The floor of the lobby is covered with Jura tiles, the walls are clad with Jura and travertine tiles. The ceiling is a Rabitz construction with fields made of blue plaster.

Vertical and horizontal lines structure the entire lobby. The south-eastern long side facing the city consists almost entirely of glass. Anodized light metal strips structure the spacious glazing and hold it together at the same time. At night, a strip of light illuminates the canopy in front of the entrance.

West wing: girl with fish, wall mosaic and stained glass window

The restaurant area used to be located southwest of the reception hall ; Friedrich Knödler's stained glass windows have been preserved there to this day .

Reception hall (March 2007)

This south-west wing comprises a large open terrace on the ground floor and a restaurant on the upper floor. The furnishings from the 1950s have been preserved to this day, with elm and maple wood lining the walls. A wall mosaic by Friedrich Knödler is said to have been in the café on the upper floor at the time . In the staircase there is a statue of a girl with a fish by Hermann Koziol ; You can look into the lobby through its windows on the upper floor.

Northeast wing: Traveling by train - Heilbronn and the world

The eastern end of the station is a three-story administration building. On the adjacent wall of the reception building is the colorful metal relief made of silicate paint and wrought iron from 1958 by Peter Jakob Schober : Traveling by train - Heilbronn and the world . The theme “Federal Railroad” was the motif for a mural made of silicate paint, which was placed in front of a line framework made of wrought iron. On the one hand symbols for the place and on the other hand symbols for the world are used. Kilian's Church , grapes and industry should stand for Heilbronn and water, railway signs, sun, guitar and bridge for the world.

The premises of the Heilbronner Bahnhofsmission , which can be reached from the platform on platform 1, are also housed in the northeast wing .

Stained glass window at the exit to the underpass (December 2007)

underpass

The large station hall can be exited to the platforms via a passage room , the so-called barrier hall . The platform barriers were originally located here , so access to the trains was only possible with a valid ticket or a platform card. Since the widespread abolition of the platform barriers in West Germany at the beginning of the 1970s, the platforms in Heilbronn Central Station can also be accessed without a ticket. In September 2017, as part of an art and culture project by the city of Heilbronn, a public street piano specially designed for this purpose was set up in the barrier hall, which could be played by everyone.

At the exit from the barrier hall into the pedestrian underpass there are stained glass windows created by Valentin Saile based on motifs by Erich Henschel , which advertise the beers of the “Kiliansbräu” brand from the Cluss brewery . In addition to various beer glasses and the distinctive lettering of the Cluss brewery, the Kiliansbräu coat of arms can also be seen, which depicts the drinking St. Kilian and bears a capital C as a reference to the brewery. The Cluss beers were originally brewed in Heilbronn itself, today this is done by the Dinkelacker brewery .

When it opened in 1958, the main station had only five platform tracks that could be reached through an underpass made of steel bridges. After 1959 the new platform tracks 6 and 7 were added, which is why the underpass had to be extended using a reinforced concrete structure . The different times when the underpass was built can still be seen today. The underpass will be modernized by 2019 and equipped with a light installation of different colors to make the route to the platforms brighter and thus more pleasant for travelers.

Signal box

The signal box Hf seen from the direction away from the tracks.

In the 1950s, ten signal boxes were still required to control train traffic around Heilbronn main station. It was only with the construction of used to this day relay interlocking Heilbronn dispatcher (abbreviated Hf ) of 1965 was the control of the trains will be summarized in a signal box. The simple building was designed by the later Federal Railway Director Hellmut Kasel , who also managed the construction of the reception building at Heilbronn main station. As part of upgrading the Hohenlohebahn for light rail operations in the section from Heilbronn to Öhringen , the relay interlocking was connected to a modern electronic interlocking . In addition to the interlocking one is usually overhead line revision motor coaches of the series 708.3 parked.

The Heilbronn Canal signal box (abbreviated as Hk ), which is also located in the main train station , is no longer in operation today.

Depot

On the track plan from 1895, the systems for maintaining locomotives can be seen at the bottom right.

The origins of the depot at Heilbronn main station go back to the opening of the first railway line leading to Heilbronn in 1848, when the former station facility was also connected to an extensive workshop area. On this area there was mainly a five-track, rectangular locomotive shed with an area of ​​22 by 17 meters and a wagon shed with an associated transfer platform . Above all, the opening of the new main train station in 1874 and the general increase in traffic made numerous expansions of the maintenance systems for locomotives necessary. Until 1893 the Heilbronn workshop was subordinate to the workshop office in Aalen .

With the construction of the marshalling yard in Böckingen , the number of locomotives stationed in Heilbronn also had to be increased. Since no major extensions were possible at the main station, a new workshop was built in the area of ​​the future marshalling yard between 1893 and 1895 . This is where the freight and shunting locomotives will be located in the future, while the passenger and express train locomotives will remain at the main station.

The first major air raid on the city's railway facilities, which took place on September 10, 1944, only caused limited damage. In the momentous bombing of Heilbronn on December 4, 1944, the facilities of the Heilbronn Hbf railway depot were almost entirely destroyed. After the destruction of the Second World War, the Heilbronn Hbf depot was only temporarily restored to working order by German and American railway workers. In the 1950s, the previously independent depot was dissolved and incorporated into the nearby Heilbronn-Böckingen depot. After sufficient capacity had become free in the Böckinger depot, all steam locomotives were maintained there from September 1, 1953. Only the Heilbronn diesel traction vehicles were serviced in the facilities of the former depot at the main station until further notice.

On January 1, 1960, five diesel locomotives of the class V 60 , five diesel multiple units of the class VT 60 5 , four rail buses of the type VT 95 and two rail buses of the type VT 98 were at home in the former railway depot Heilbronn Hbf . There were also eight small locomotives of performance group II . To compensate for the class 74 4-13 steam locomotives of the Heilbronn-Böckingen depot, which were retired in April 1960 , the number of class V 60 diesel locomotives in the area of ​​the former Heilbronn Hbf depot was increased to 13 in July 1960. From March 1, 1961, the diesel locomotives were also repaired in the Heilbronn-Böckingen depot, which is why the systems at the main train station became superfluous and could therefore be abandoned. Today, on the site of the former depot at the main train station, there is a paved station car park with over 500 parking spaces.

ABX hall

In the period shortly after the end of the Second World War, the great destruction of the railway systems by bombing did not allow freight traffic from Heilbronn, instead it had to be switched to the stations in Neckarsulm and Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld . From October 1, 1945, the Heilbronn main train station could again be operated by freight traffic, although this initially had to take place in the open air due to the lack of a suitable building. A provisional building erected in 1949 turned out to be far too small for the rapidly growing traffic. For this reason, the Deutsche Bundesbahn built a new goods handling hall for Heilbronn from 1951 until it went into operation on March 31, 1952, which at the time was one of the most modern in West Germany and also included lounge and washrooms.

The 2019 Federal Horticultural Show , which will take place in Heilbronn, will extend over the former industrial site north of the main train station, the so-called fruit shed area. In 2011, the city of Heilbronn bought the goods handling hall, now known as the ABX hall, from Deutsche Bahn and wants to integrate it into the Federal Garden Show as an industrial monument . This is intended to establish a reference to the previous use of the garden show grounds. In a planning workshop, five architects' offices presented their concepts for a new use of the ABX hall. It was initially unclear whether the ABX hall should be preserved after the end of the Federal Horticultural Show, and it was ultimately demolished in 2020.

Forecourt

The station square on the occasion of a funeral procession in 1905.

On the occasion of the new construction of the main train station in 1874, the street leading to the future train station was expanded, and in 1877 the street previously known as Landturmstrasse was given its current name, Bahnhofstrasse . Heilbronn manufacturers and merchants built their villas along the new street, some of which ( Villa Münzing and Villa Adelmann ) have been preserved to this day. In the years 1887 and 1888, the station square was laid out in front of the main station, which was characterized by a monumental fountain. As a result, numerous representative buildings such as the Hotel Royal , the Hotel Kronprinz or the Hotel Vaterland were built on Bahnhofsplatz . During the Second World War, large parts of the station square as well as the adjacent station suburb and the main station itself were destroyed. What is left of the original development on the station square is only the post office no. 2 , which as cultural heritage under conservation is.

The striking station clock is attached to the city side of the station building and is visible from the forecourt.

In the fall of 1958, a new roofing for the bus stop in front of the main train station was built, which was designed by Heinrich Röhm . The 20 m long and 3.40 m wide roof of the lower hall was particularly noteworthy, which is described in the literature as a “sleek, airplane-like construction”. It rested on five pillars. The roof was replaced in 1980 by a honeycomb-shaped hanging structure.

Roofing of the tram stop on the forecourt (December 2007)

In 2001, a new roof was built for the Heilbronn tram stop and for bus traffic, designed by Fritz Auer , Carlo Weber and Götz Guggenberger . The slightly curved roof, suspended at a height of eight meters due to the tram overhead line, rises towards the station building. By covering it with glass plates, the monument conservation requirements towards the reception building could be met. The roof covers an area of ​​1,100 m² and rests on six pillars.

In November 2013 the Heilbronn municipal council decided to designate the previously unnamed station forecourt as Willy-Brandt-Platz in future . This officially took place on December 18, 2013, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt . The bus and light rail stops in front of the train station have been officially called Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof / Willy-Brandt-Platz since the 2013/2014 timetable change in December 2013 .

traffic

The station is classified in DB station category 2.

As one of the few major city train stations in Germany , Heilbronn Central Station did not have a permanent connection to long-distance traffic until 2019 . For the 2019 Federal Garden Show in Heilbronn, the city has been served by an Intercity Express train pair for the first time since April 29, 2019 , which connects Cologne and Stuttgart via Heilbronn Monday through Friday . On weekends there is an Intercity from Mainz / Wiesbaden to Heilbronn on Saturdays , which returns on Sundays.

The predominantly semi-automatic platform announcements are now remote-controlled from the 3S headquarters in Mannheim's main train station .

View from the Wartberg to the tracks of the main train station (in July 2007)
Same point of view, at night (2013)

Long-distance transport

history

Particularly noteworthy with regard to long-distance traffic is the luxury train Paris-Karlsbad-Express , which was run via Heilbronn from 1906 to 1914 due to the congestion at Stuttgart main station. It connected the Paris Ostbahnhof via Deutsch Avricourt , Strasbourg , Karlsruhe , Heilbronn, Crailsheim , Nuremberg and Eger with the spa town of Karlsbad . In the direction of Karlsbad, the train reached Heilbronn main station at around 7:10 a.m., the train in the direction of Paris left Heilbronn main station at around 9:20 p.m. The travel time over the entire route was then around 17.5 hours. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 put an end to this connection. In the years before the Second World War , the Deutsche Reichsbahn ran some important express trains via Heilbronn, as this was the shortest route between the cities of Stuttgart and Berlin as well as Stuttgart and Hamburg . In 1934 the pair of trains D 11 / D 12 and D 15 / D 16 connected Stuttgart via Heilbronn to the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin, and the pair of trains D 13 / D 14 also ran between Schaffhausen and Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof. The latter pair of trains even carried through wagons , which enabled connections from Heilbronn to Rome without changing trains . After the outbreak of World War II, express train traffic was increasingly thinned out. In 1941, however, destinations such as Konstanz , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin could still be reached from Heilbronn without having to change trains. At the beginning of 1945 long-distance traffic around Heilbronn had to be completely stopped due to the war.

In 1971 the Deutsche Bundesbahn introduced the new, comfortable intercity trains - although Heilbronn was not to be part of the future intercity network. From the summer of 1973, the Deutsche Bundesbahn therefore offered so-called City-D trains (DC for short), which were supposed to quickly connect the city to the nearest intercity train stations. Three City-D-Zug lines with a stop in Heilbronn were offered, specifically the DC line “Frankenland” (Nuremberg– Saarbrücken ), the DC line “Hohenloher Land” (Nuremberg – Mannheim) and the DC line “Neckarland” (Würzburg or Frankfurt – Stuttgart). Since the demand for the new trains was too low, the supply had to be reduced as early as 1975, and in 1978 the DC trains were completely discontinued. Also in the 1970s were direct through coaches from Heilbronn to Paris, which were transported from Heilbronn with the express trains 1555 and 1756 over the Elsenz valley route and were only added to long-distance trains as the journey continued.

In 1983 and 1984 the Heilbronn main station even stopped for a short time for a wing train of the Trans-Europ-Express (TEE) “ Rheingold ” - one of the flagships of the German Federal Railroad. The wing train with the train number TEE 16/17 connected Munich via touristically interesting, scenic railway routes including via Heilbronn and the Neckar Valley route with Mannheim, where it was merged with the actual train of the Rheingold and ran together with it to Amsterdam . This enabled connections from Heilbronn to the Netherlands without having to change trains. The Trans-Europ-Express trains stopping in Heilbronn even carried a club car with a bar, in which small music performances and tourist presentations took place.

Until the end of the 1980s, Heilbronn was a stop for numerous express trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In the 1987 timetable year, for example, there were express trains to Wilhelmshaven , Hamburg , Kiel , Passau , Lindau , Nuremberg (all once a day), Saarbrücken (twice a day), Hof (3 times a day), Frankfurt am Main (4 times a day ) and Stuttgart. In the following years, the number of express trains stopping in Heilbronn was gradually reduced. From the 1989 timetable, the D 2196 / D 2197 “North Sea Express” ran from Stuttgart to Westerland (Sylt) via Heilbronn, which was the last remaining long-distance train pair in Heilbronn from 1991. With the end of the D-trains, the "Nordsee-Express" was replaced in 1993 by the Interregio IR 2310 / IR 2311, which ran with a stop in Heilbronn between Emden and Stuttgart. This connection was canceled in mid-1996. From June 1, 1997, the “ Rennsteig ” interregional connection was offered via Heilbronn, which connected Stuttgart with Erfurt or Eisenach once a day . During the world exhibition Expo 2000 in Hanover , a long-distance train was run once a day from Stuttgart via Heilbronn to Hanover Messe / Laatzen station. Since the discontinuation of the "Rennsteig" interregional connection between Stuttgart and Erfurt with train numbers IR 2402 / IR 2403 on June 9, 2001, Heilbronn main station is no longer served by long-distance trains.

The railway company derschnellzug.de GmbH, founded in 2014 and based in Heilbronn, attempted to offer private long-distance transport on three routes within Germany in 2015 and 2016. The planned lines D1 from Stuttgart to Hamburg and D2 from Karlsruhe to Dresden should have operated via Heilbronn according to the plans. Line D1 was originally planned to start at the beginning of April 2015, but this could not be realized due to the high line occupancy. The next scheduled start of operations for December 13, 2015 also had to be postponed. After the start date announced for mid-March 2016 could not be kept due to problems with train path allocation, the main investor of the project withdrew his commitment. Since then, the company has not been active.

Present and Future

From April to October 2020, Deutsche Bahn will run an ICE from Stuttgart to Berlin via Heilbronn. The reason for this is the high-speed route Mannheim – Stuttgart , which is closed due to construction work . This ICE only stops in Heilbronn and Würzburg between Stuttgart and Berlin. Specifically, it is the ICE 1098/1099. From July 31 to September 2020 this ICE will be extended to the Baltic Sea resort of Binz . Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe is served as an additional stop in front of Berlin.

In the longer term - probably from 2028 - Deutsche Bahn also wants to connect the city with an intercity line running every two hours from Bamberg via Schweinfurt , Würzburg, Heilbronn, Stuttgart and Reutlingen to Tübingen .

First IC in Heilbronn on May 1st due to the bank holiday during the week

Regional traffic

Status: 06/2020

line route Tact
RE 8 Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Heilbronn - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Osterburken - Lauda - Würzburg 60 min
RE 10a Tübingen - Reutlingen - Plochingen - Esslingen - Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Heilbronn - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Mosbach-Neckarelz - Eberbach - Heidelberg - Mannheim 120 min
RE 10b Tübingen - Reutlingen - Plochingen - Esslingen - Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Heilbronn - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Bad Wimpfen - Sinsheim - Meckesheim - Heidelberg - Mannheim 120 min
RE 80 Hohenlohe Express

Heilbronn - Weinsberg - Öhringen - Waldenburg - Schwäbisch Hall - Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental - Crailsheim

60 min
RB 18 Tübingen - Reutlingen - Plochingen - Esslingen - Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim-Bissingen - Heilbronn - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Osterburken 60 min
S 4 twice a day as a Kraichgau sprinter , otherwise as an express train

Karlsruhe - Bretten - Eppingen - Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Heilbronn Pfühlpark - Weinsberg

60 min
S 4 Karlsruhe - Bretten - Eppingen - Schwaigern - Leingarten - Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Heilbronn Pfühlpark 60 min
S 4 (Karlsruhe -) Schwaigern - Leingarten - Heilbronn main station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Heilbronn Pfühlpark - Weinsberg - Willsbach - Eschenau - Öhringen 15/30 min
P 41 Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Heilbronn Industrieplatz - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Gundelsheim - Mosbach-Neckarelz - Mosbach 60 min
P 42 Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Heilbronn Industrieplatz - Neckarsulm - Bad Friedrichshall - Bad Wimpfen - Bad Rappenau - Grombach - Sinsheim 30 min

Westfrankenbahn , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, will operate train services on the Hohenlohebahn between Heilbronn and Crailsheim at least until December 2031 . Since December 2019, the regional express trains will run every 60 minutes during the week (instead of only every 120 minutes previously) and also stop in Willsbach and Wackershofen , and a new connection will be set up late in the evening. Modernized diesel multiple units of the 642 series are to be used, which will then also provide sockets and free WiFi.

In addition to the S 4 trams , there will be faster regional express connections between Heilbronn and Karlsruhe on the Kraichgau Railway from December 2022 . With a journey time of 70 minutes, the two main train stations are to be connected to one another every hour. The operator of this connection will be DB Regio , which will use Alstom Coradia Continental trains .

City bus routes

Stadtwerke Heilbronn's public transport company operates a dense network of city bus routes.

line course
1 Klingenberg - Böckingen - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Town Hall - Harmonie - Pfühlpark - Rampachertal / - Trappensee (- Jägerhaus - Waldheide )
5 ( University - Sontheim station -) Böckingen - main station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - town hall - Harmonie - Europaplatz - industrial square
8th Biberach - Frankenbach - Schanz Nord - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Port Authority - Future Park - Container Terminal - Neckargartach - Böllinger Höfe
10 Frankenbach - / Schanz Süd - Heilbronn Clinic - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - City Hall - Allee Post - Hohenstaufenstraße - Herbert-Hoover-Siedlung
12 Neckargartach - Europaplatz - Harmonie - Town Hall - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Port Authority - Future Park - Container Terminal - Neckargartach
13 Allee Post - Town Hall - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Vocational School Center (Haselter) - Ziegeleipark - Westfriedhof
61 Flein - Sommerhöhe - Hessenhof - Südbahnhof - Allee Post - Town Hall - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Schanz Nord - Frankenbach - Kirchhausen / ← Böllinger Höfe
62 Flein → Sommerhöhe → Hessenhof → Südbahnhof → Allee Post → Rathaus → Hauptbahnhof / Willy-Brandt-Platz → Schanz Nord → Frankenbach → Böllinger Höfe
64 Flein - Sommerhöhe - Hessenhof - Südbahnhof - Allee Post - Town Hall - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz
N1 Night bus west route: Großkraftwerk - Industrieplatz - Europaplatz - Harmonie - City Hall - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Theresienwiese

if necessary, continue to the districts of Böckingen, Klingenberg, Neckargartach, Frankenbach, Kirchhausen and Biberach to get off

N2 Night bus east route: Gazebo / Viehweide - Theresienwiese - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - City Hall - Harmonie - Berliner Platz

If necessary, further stops in Heilbronn, in the districts of Sontheim and Horkheim as well as in Flein to get off

FW1 Horkheim - Sontheim - Heilbronn Südbahnhof - Heilbronn Käferflug - Heilbronn Town Hall - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz
FW2 Neckargartach - Frankenbach - Böckingen - Heilbronn Theresienwiese - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz

Regional bus routes

Numerous regional bus routes, most of which are operated by DB Regiobus Stuttgart , depart from the bus station southwest of the train station . Due to an extension of the car shed for light rail vehicles directly next to the bus station and the recently rather unsatisfactory condition of the bus stop system, it is to be rebuilt in 2018. In the course of this, five stopping bays for regional buses with seating and canopies as well as a new bus turning loop along the western Bahnhofstrasse will initially be provisionally created. The old and future location of the bus station are only a few meters apart.

line course
631 Heilbronn main train station / bus station - Heilbronn town hall - Weingärtnergenossenschaft - Erlenbach - Binswangen
641 Heilbronn Hbf / Busbahnhof - Heilbronn Town Hall - Heilbronn University - Flein - Schozach - Ilsfeld - Auenstein - Helfenberg - Söhlbach - Beilstein (- Marbach am Neckar )
642 Heilbronn Hbf / bus station - Heilbronn town hall - Donnbronn - Untergruppenbach - Abstatt - Auenstein - Beilstein
644 (Heilbronn Hbf / bus station -) Beilstein - Billensbach - Etzlensendung - Stocksberg - Prevorst
645 Heilbronn Hbf / bus station - Heilbronn town hall - Donnbronn - Untergruppenbach - Happenbach - Unterheinriet - Oberheinriet (- forecourt )
651 Heilbronn main station / bus station - Heilbronn town hall - Flein - Rauher Stich - Talheim - Neckarwestheim (- Lauffen am Neckar / - Kirchheim am Neckar )
660 Heilbronn main train station / bus station - Nordheim - Dürrenzimmern - Brackenheim
661 Heilbronn main train station / bus station - Heilbronn town hall - Heilbronn- Klingenberg - Nordheim - Nordhausen - Dürrenzimmern - Brackenheim - Güglingen - Zaberfeld - Leonbronn - Ochsenburg
662 Heilbronn main train station / bus station - Heilbronn town hall - Heilbronn-Klingenberg - Nordheim - Nordhausen - Hausen an der Zaber - Dürrenzimmern - Brackenheim
669 Lauffen am NeckarHeilbronn-Sontheim → Heilbronn University → Heilbronn Town Hall → Heilbronn Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz
683 (Heilbronn main station / bus station -) Bonfeld - Fürfeld - Kirchardt - Gemmingen

Private transport

The DB Bahn Park runs northeast for motorists station a round open around the clock, pay and display car 511 parking spaces. There are additional parking spaces between Bahnhofstrasse and Frankfurter Strasse and in the nearby experimenta car park .

On the southern end of the station building, right next to the taxi stand and in the station car park , Flinkster also offers car sharing .

safety

To the north of the station building is the Heilbronn Federal Police Station , which is responsible, among other things, for security at stations and railway systems in and around Heilbronn. In addition, at several points in the main train station, it is indicated that the station is monitored around the clock for the safety of travelers . Some vehicles from Heilbronn - such as the trams - are also monitored by video for security reasons.

The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior published figures from the Baden-Württemberg police on crime at Heilbronn Central Station in the past . For the year 2014, a statement shows 94 crimes committed for the main station, the clearance rate in the same year was 81.9%. A year later, in 2015, the number of cases decreased to 88, of which 80.7% were cleared up. In the following year, 2016, the number of crimes fell significantly to 52 offenses. 86.5% of these cases could be resolved. The trend for 2017 showed a further decline in the number of criminal offenses. Cases processed exclusively by the Federal Police were not included in the statistics published by the State Ministry.

As part of the 3-S concept ("service, safety and cleanliness") of Deutsche Bahn, Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof had its own 3-S headquarters until August 1, 2007 . After its closure, the 3-S headquarters in Mannheim is now jointly responsible for Heilbronn main train station.

literature

  • Roland Feitenhansl: Heilbronn railway station - its reception building from 1848, 1874 and 1958 . DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2003, ISBN 3-937189-01-7 .
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Web links

Commons : Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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