Hildesheim Central Station
| Hildesheim Central Station | |
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 Station forecourt
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 9 |
| abbreviation | HHI |
| IBNR | 8000169 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | May 6, 1884 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Hildesheim_Hbf |
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| City / municipality | Hildesheim |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 9 '38 " N , 9 ° 57' 14" E |
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| Railway stations in Lower Saxony | |
Hildesheim Hauptbahnhof is the most important train station in the city of Hildesheim and belongs to station category 2. It is served by Deutsche Bahn , enno , erixx and NordWestBahn trains. In addition to regional trains, Intercity Express trains between Frankfurt am Main and Berlin (lines 11, 12 and 13) also stop in Hildesheim every hour .
history
The first train station from 1846
The first Hildesheim station was opened by the Royal Hanover State Railways as a terminal station of the southern Kreuzbahn on July 12, 1846 north of today's Kaiserstraße, around today's Bahnhofsallee. For the construction of the railway, the area of the Marienfriedhof, which opened in 1832, was also cut. After the construction of the Hanover Southern Railway , the Kreuzbahn was extended on September 15, 1853 to the Nordstemmen station on the Southern Railway. The reception building of the first Hildesheim main station was a half-timbered building with a slate roof.
The Hanover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HAE) planned the construction of a railway line from Löhne to Vienenburg , which should also lead via Hildesheim. Since it became insolvent before this line was completed, the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft (MHE) took over the construction and operations management of the HAE and opened the line on May 19, 1875, which the Braunschweigische Eisenbahngesellschaft continued to build to Goslar on May 1, 1883 .
For the additional traffic, the HAE relocated an additional track from Nordstemmen to Hildesheim, but they first had to build a provisional station, the later Hildesheim Ost station, as they were not allowed to use the state station. Only after the nationalization of HAE and its parent company MHE did the trains stop at the state train station from May 20, 1880.
The new train station in 1884
Even without the additional traffic, the station was already too small, and so after long negotiations - the railway wanted to keep the old location, the city wanted to build new ones further north - and after long planning, the new main station under Mayor Gustav Struckmann was changed to the current one Relocated and opened there on May 6, 1884. For this purpose, the railway line had been moved north. The reception building was designed by Hubert Stier in the neo-renaissance style. It was connected by a tunnel to a wide island platform on which a waiting room and a restaurant were built. The old station building was removed and rebuilt in Dissen-Bad Rothenfelde , where it still stands today.
In 1888 the single-track railway to Braunschweig was put into operation, with long-distance trains going east to Magdeburg and Berlin. Regional traffic on this line and the line to Bad Salzdetfurth , which was opened in 1901, ended at the east end of the island platform, on today's tracks 14 and 15. In 1909, another through platform was added for tracks 6 and 7.
The passenger trains of the Hildesheim-Peiner Kreis-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which opened in 1896, also ended at Hildesheim Central Station until they were discontinued in 1964.
The story since 1945
Although the station building was only slightly damaged in the bombing raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 1945 , it was torn down in 1959 and the structures on the island platform were also removed. Today's reception building was built in the functional style of the time and opened in 1961.
On May 29, 1965, electric train operations began on the Nordstemmen – Lehrte line ; the line towards Braunschweig has been electrified since May 30, 1976.
The city was connected to the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg of the ICE network , which opened in 1991, via the Hildesheim loop .
On March 26, 2006, a new electronic interlocking to control the Hildesheim rail junction went into operation. In addition to the main train station, it controls around 12 km of adjacent route sections. With investments of 52 million euros, seven signal boxes around 60 years old were replaced. With the new points built into this framework, the entry and exit speed on the long-distance tracks of the main train station was increased from 40 km / h to 80 km / h.
In 2009, the long-planned double-track expansion of the railway line towards Braunschweig began in order to remove this single-track bottleneck in the ICE network. The line has been double-tracked since December 9, 2012.
The station building was refurbished and rebuilt from 2013 to August 2016, a refurbishment of the pedestrian tunnel to the tracks is planned for 2020.
traffic
Long-distance transport
| line | Line course | Clock frequency |
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| ICE 11 | Berlin - Hildesheim - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Würzburg - Munich | one train a week at night |
| ICE 12 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Hildesheim - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt (Main) - Mannheim - Freiburg - Basel (- Interlaken Ost ) | Every two hours |
| ICE 13 | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Braunschweig - Hildesheim - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt Airport | Every two hours |
Regional traffic
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU | Vehicle material |
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| RE 10 | Hanover - Hildesheim - Salzgitter-Ringelheim - Goslar - Bad Harzburg | 60 | erixx | Alstom Coradia LINT 54 |
| RE 50 | Hildesheim - Braunschweig - Wolfsburg | 60 | metronome | Alstom Coradia Continental |
| RB 77 | Hildesheim - Hameln - Löhne - Bünde | 60 | NordWestBahn | Alstom Coradia LINT 41 |
| RB 79 | Hildesheim - Bad Salzdetfurth - Bodenburg | 60 | NordWestBahn | Alstom Coradia LINT 41 |
Train
Hildesheim Central Station has been on the Hanover S-Bahn network since December 2008 . S-Bahn trains run every hour to Hanover Central Station via Barnten and Sarstedt (S4) as well as via Lehrte (S3) . To this end, the platforms on tracks 4/5 and 6/7 were completely renewed in 2008.
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU | Vehicle material |
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| S 3 | Hildesheim - Sehnde - Lehrte - Hanover | 60 | DB Regio North | Series 424 / 425 |
| S 4 | Hildesheim - Sarstedt - Hanover Fair / Laatzen - Hanover - Langenhagen - Bennemühlen | 60 | DB Regio North | Series 424/425 |
Former DB Autozug terminal
From 2000 to 2014 the station had a terminal for loading vehicles onto car trains . In 2010 it was the only terminal in Lower Saxony and there were connections with Lörrach , Munich , Innsbruck (Austria), Alessandria (Italy), Bozen (Italy) and Narbonne (France).
Renovation of the station after 2013
At the beginning of the 2000s there were several plans for converting Hildesheim's main train station into a shopping center, and a completely new building was also under discussion. The controversially discussed plans were delayed for years until the last investor finally withdrew after the financial crisis in 2010. Among other things, the design for a new building was supposed to cut off the station square and to be architecturally interchangeable. In addition, the Hildesheim retailers feared competition from the planned additional retail space and the corresponding vacancy of retail space in the train station and in the northern city. However, hopes were also placed in the project to give the neglected northern area of the pedestrian zone, which ends at the main station, a successful completion and to generally upgrade the social problem area of the main station.
In May 2013, Deutsche Bahn and the city presented new plans for a pure modernization of the station: the pavilion in the reception building will be dismantled, existing stairs will be reactivated, and the building will be comprehensively modernized. The platform to platform 1 will also have an elevator for barrier-free access. A total of around 9.5 million euros is to be invested. Construction began in 2013 and was originally scheduled to be completed in mid-2015. Completion was delayed due to problems during the construction work; the redesigned station concourse was finally inaugurated on August 11, 2016. The renovation of the passenger tunnel to the tracks was supposed to start in 2017, but was postponed to 2020. The platforms were renovated in 2006. Parallel to the renovation of the station, the forecourt was also largely redesigned and the bus station provided with new roofed platforms.
Interior view after the renovation, 2016
See also
literature
- Michael Bahls: The Hanover-Altenbeken Railway. Kenning, Nordhorn 2006, ISBN 3-927587-77-X , pp. 207-218.
Web links
- The tracks of the main train station on the OpenRailwayMap
- Panoramic view of Hildesheim main station
- Views of the second station before the Second World War and afterwards with the war damage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Querying the course book route 360.3 from Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 360.4 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of course book route 372 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 313 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 320 from Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of course book route 373 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b The railway in Hildesheim. Hildesheim Central Station. LarsBrueggemann.de, accessed on August 8, 2008.
- ^ History of the diocese and the city of Hildesheim: Modern times. Eichfelder.de, accessed on August 8, 2008.
- ^ Johannes Heinrich Gebauer: History of the city of Hildesheim. Volume 2 . Hildesheim 1924.
- ^ Opening of the main building on May 6, 1884. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 40, October 4, 1884, pp. 407–408, accessed on January 1, 2013.
- ^ Building description in: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 41, October 11, 1884, pp. 419–420, accessed on January 1, 2013.
- ↑ see: The Grande Dame in Dissen / Bad Rothenfelde. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of January 6, 2012, accessed on February 27, 2015.
- ^ Message New ESTW in operation . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 5/2006, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 212.
- ↑ a b Modernized Hildesheim main station officially opened ( memento from August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Deutsche Bahn press release of August 11, 2016, accessed on the same day.
- ^ Bahn is shunting the car train , Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung of December 8, 2014, (accessed on February 27, 2015)
- ↑ on the history of construction and planning cf. Hildesheim train station is delayed. NDR, accessed on September 2, 2016.
- ↑ Press release of Deutsche Bahn AG: Modernization of the Hildesheim train station is progressing. ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Burger King moves into the train station. Article in the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, June 12, 2015, accessed on July 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Passage in the train station: 400,000 euros for lighting? Article in the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, March 9, 2019, accessed on March 9, 2019 .