Hof Hauptbahnhof

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Hof Hbf
Reception building
Entrance building seen from the southern, Bavarian wing
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 5 through
tracks 2 end tracks
abbreviation NHO
IBNR 8002924
Price range 3
opening (1848) / 1880
Website URL stationsdatenbank.bayern-takt.de
Profile on Bahnhof.de Hof_Hbf
Architectural data
Architectural style Neo-renaissance
architect Georg Friedrich Seidel
location
City / municipality court
Place / district Bahnhofsviertel
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 18 '29 "  N , 11 ° 55' 24"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '29 "  N , 11 ° 55' 24"  E
Height ( SO ) 495  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Bavaria
i11 i16 i18

Hof Hauptbahnhof (officially Hof Hbf ) is the most important train station in the Upper Franconian city ​​of Hof . The station has always had supraregional importance.

It lies at the intersection of the Saxony-Franconian main line Dresden – Hof – Nuremberg and the Berlin – Leipzig – Hof – Regensburg – Munich route. When it opened in 1880, it was a shared station on the border between the Bavarian and Saxon state railways . This can still be seen today in the large extent of the railway systems and the imposing reception building. After the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the station became a through station for around 20 years. From 1945 to 1990 the Hof train station was again a border station, this time between the SBZ / GDR and the American occupation zone / West Germany , before the border disappeared due to German reunification .

The station has a central signal box, a container terminal, a customs office and a railway depot. There used to be goods handling and a parcel station.

stretch

north Hof (Saale) Oberkotzau south
Hof Hauptbahnhof Oberkotzau train station

In Oberkotzau the main routes meet Willow Oberkotzau and Bamberg-Hof and the branch line Cheb-Oberkotzau . They run together as the Bamberg – Hof route to Hof Central Station. Shortly after the Q-Bogen, a railway bridge in the city, the lines split again into the main line Leipzig – Hof and the branch line Hof – Bad Steben .

Hof's main train station is located between two bridges across the Saale . In the south, the Moschendorfer Brücke crosses the river between Oberkotzau and Hof in the Moschendorf district , in the north the train changes between Hof and Feilitzsch in the Unterkotzau district and the river side at the Unterkotzau viaduct.

history

First Hof train station

After the first Hof train station north of the city center from 1848 no longer met the increased operational requirements, the Bavarian and Saxon railway administrations jointly built a spacious through station west of the city between 1874 and 1880 , which was also the transition point and border station between the Royal Bavarian State Railways ( K.Bay.Sts.B.) and the Royal Saxon State Railways (K.Sächs.Sts.EB). The new central station was connected to the city center with the Hof tram , which was newly created in 1901 . Today buses are replacing the tram. The station consisted of two parts, in each of which all operating facilities (locomotive shed, coal bunker, depot, storage groups, etc.) were present. The southern side belonged to the Royal Bavarian State Railways, the northern side to the Royal Saxon State Railways.

The station building was designed by the architect Georg Friedrich Seidel (1823–1895), who has been employed by the Royal Bavarian State Railways since 1856 . It was laid out in mirror symmetry , like the entire station. The border between the two railway administrations ran through the middle of the reception building. A magnificent royal hall was set up in the reception building .

The symmetrical structure of the station was given up after the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The duplicated and thus superfluous buildings were gradually demolished or used for other purposes. The royal Bavarian and royal Saxon coats of arms are still located above the entrance portal on Bahnhofsplatz and in the main hall on the track side. The fully preserved and restored Königssaal now houses a snack bar and a bookstore.

Unterkotzauer bridge

On April 8, 1945 between 12:17 p.m. and 12:26 p.m., the main station and the adjacent residential areas were badly damaged in an attack by the United States Army Air Forces . There were extensive concentrations of bombs on the west and east heads, both locomotive sheds and some buildings in the repair shop were badly hit.

Hof Central Station, 1986

Form signals were still present in Hof Hbf until 1974 . On September 22, 1974, a new signal box next to the station building with a modern Siemens Sp Dr S 60 relay interlocking with two dispatchers (Fdl North and Fdl South) and light signals was put into operation. The signal box district controlled from Hof ​​includes the Hof Hbf train station, the adjacent routes to Feilitzsch , Oberkotzau and Hof-Neuhof and the Hof-Neuhof train station . Until mid-January 2013, the Oberkotzau train station was also remote-controlled at night . Most of the old signal box buildings were demolished. The clubhouse of the model railway club MEC Hof is located in the former signal box 8 at the northern exit of the station (at the bridge Q-Bogen ). As part of the electrification of the station, the old pedestrian bridge over the tracks, the steel truss bridge known as the air walkway , was replaced by a higher suspension cable bridge.

New pedestrian bridge Luftsteg

Between 2010 and 2013, the section of the Saxony-Franconian main line from Reichenbach (Vogtl) station above Bf to Hof was electrified. The official ground-breaking ceremony took place on September 30, 2010 in Hof's main station, and at the beginning of 2012 the first catenary masts were erected in Hof's main station. Since the 48th calendar week in 2013, the Hof train station and the subsequent railway line towards Plauen have been fully electrified. A converter station was built in Hof to generate the traction current . Since the timetable change on December 15, 2013, electric locomotives and double-decker cars have been taking over some of the services between Hof and Dresden, all other trains will continue to run with diesel multiple units.

Deutsche Bahn announced that it would close the toilets at the main train station from July 1, 2015. The city of Hof announced that it would take over the operation of the toilets.

In mid-June 2015, Deutsche Bahn announced that it would sell the station building from December 2015.

In 2018, the SPD parliamentary group in Hof's city council applied for the city to be included in the Deutsche Bahn City Ticket.

future

In the future there are several big issues:

Significance in German rail traffic

The Hofer Hauptbahnhof has a checkered history in terms of its importance in German rail traffic.

Länderbahn era until the 1920s

During the Länderbahn era , as mentioned above, it was an interface between the Bavarian and Saxon state railways, which required frequent locomotive changes in Hof with corresponding personnel and material costs and duplicate operating systems.

Reichsbahn until 1945

After the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, this effort was unnecessary. Hof was at this time through the main lines that meet here to Bamberg ( railway line Bamberg – Hof ), Leipzig ( railway line Leipzig – Hof ) and Regensburg ( railway line Weiden – Oberkotzau ), the branches branching off at Oberkotzau to Eger ( railway line Eger – Oberkotzau ) and Branch lines in the Hof area became an important hub for rail traffic between Dresden , Leipzig, Nuremberg , Bamberg, Regensburg and Pilsen and regional traffic and was regularly served by long-distance trains.

Passenger traffic from 1945

Reception building

After the Second World War , the inner-German border was to the north and east of Hof ; the city had once again become the interface between two railway companies. The Höllentalbahn was interrupted, the Hof – Eger railway line was only used for freight traffic, and one of the two tracks was dismantled from the Hof – Plauen railway line as a reparation payment . All trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (with the exception of the interzonal trains from Munich and Nuremberg to Leipzig and Dresden and the transit trains to Berlin ) began and ended in Hof. A locomotive change was carried out in Hof for the interzonal and transit trains: In Hof, the trains to the GDR were hauled by locomotives from the Deutsche Reichsbahn, trains from the GDR were hauled by locomotives from the Deutsche Bundesbahn. No border controls were carried out in Hof ; these took place on the train or at the Gutenfürst border station .

At the beginning of the turn of 1989 that came trains with refugees from the German embassy in Prague in court and were greeted by West German politicians.

After the fall of the Wall, the importance of Hof's main train station in rail traffic initially increased again. The Hof − Plauen line was completely double-tracked again. A fast regional connection with tilting technology multiple units of the 610 series went into operation between Hof and Nuremberg in 1991 , which was heavily used by passengers transferring from Saxony and Thuringia. Interregio connections between Stuttgart and Dresden (via Nuremberg, Hof and Chemnitz, the Saxony-Franconia Magistrale ), as well as to Munich and Berlin (via Regensburg, Hof and Leipzig) were established and the night train pairs Munich - Berlin and Stuttgart - Dresden met Daily in both directions in Hof and exchanged through cars. In 2001 Hof became an ICE stop after the Nuremberg - Dresden connection had been upgraded to an ICE line with ICE-TD vehicles . After that, Hof's importance for long-distance rail traffic decreased continuously. After the ICE-TD trains were discontinued, the Nuremberg - Dresden line was initially operated as an intercity line with trains from the 612 series and replaced in 2006 by regional trains between Nuremberg and Dresden. Regional trains (with a change in Regensburg, Hof and Leipzig and more frequent stops) were also used instead of the Munich-Berlin Interregio line, which increased passengers on the Munich-Nuremberg-Bamberg-Leipzig-Berlin ICE line, but for passengers in the The north-east Bavarian region meant longer travel times, as the journey to Munich or Berlin now required a longer journey to Nuremberg or Bamberg.

With the introduction of a nightly shutdown on the Marktredwitz – Regensburg route, the intersection of the night train routes Munich – Berlin and Stuttgart – Dresden was relocated to Nuremberg. Meanwhile, a continuous regional express runs between Hof and Munich every three hours.

Railcar of the type Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 from agilis on the house platform

Since the InterCity connection was converted into an Interregio-Express service , travel time on the Nuremberg – Hof – Dresden route has been reduced by 39 minutes, although Hof Hbf is officially no longer a long-distance stop.

The Vogtlandbahn also runs daily to Zwickau and the alex to Munich main station . Both are operated by the Länderbahn .

In mid-2011, agilis Verkehrsgesellschaft took over operations on the non-electrified local transport routes in Upper Franconia around the cities of Bamberg , Bayreuth , Coburg and Hof . 38 Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 railcars are used there.

Freight transport

The freight yard with the former marshalling yard is located on the west side of the station . The marshalling yard was used briskly until the 1990s and served the sidings of several commercial enterprises located there (including freight forwarders , a mineral oil dealer with its own tank farm and a scrap dealer ). On the east side of the station, between the passenger station and the Saxon (northern) depot, was the rail post hall , where mail trains were handled. In addition, at the northern end of the neighboring Oberkotzau station there was a small shunting group with five tracks as a remnant of an earlier marshalling yard, which until the middle of the 20th century was connected to the freight yard in Hof by a third track between Hof and Oberkotzau. After a few years of standstill around the year 2000, a Hof forwarding company opened a container station in the Hof freight yard, which has already expanded several times. There are still twelve tracks in the freight yard, a drainage mountain at the northern end and a pull-out track at the southern end, from which the push-off operation was carried out. The shunting group in Oberkotzau station was dismantled around 2000 and the rail post hall was shut down in the 1990s. Only the Deutsche Post branch between the former rail post hall and the passenger station was in operation as a relic of rail mail traffic until mid-2015.

After demolition work in the area of ​​the old container terminal, the Hof Freight Transport Center has been under construction as a new multimodal interface since April 2018 . The state of Bavaria is funding this investment by the city of Hof with 6.5 million euros.

Railway depot Hof

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Former Saxon (northern) round locomotive shed, later a storage hall for regional buses, in 2012 only available as a torso

Emergence

When the old station opened in 1848, Bavarian and Saxon locomotive and wagon sheds were already in place in Hof.

New train station

During the construction of the new station in 1880, a Saxon railway depot was built north of the reception building. The Bavarian counterpart stood south of it. Together there were four turntables with the associated round sheds.

Reichsbahn time

After the end of the Länderbahn era in 1920, the Saxon depot (Bw) was merged with the Bavarian one.

On April 1, 1941, the Hof Bahnbetriebswerk belonged to the Hof Maschinenamt of the Regensburg Railway Directorate. The locomotive stations Helmbrechts, Marktredwitz, Schwarzenbach am Wald, Selb Stadt, Weißenstadt, Wiesau (Oberpf), Wunsiedel and Zell (Oberfr) as well as the station locksmiths Oberkotzau Rbf and Marktredwitz were assigned to the Bw.

As early as 1926, it was one of the first depots for what was then the Reichsbahn to receive standardized steam locomotives . Hof was one of the three depots in Germany that carried out the comparison of the two-cylinder express locomotives of the 01 series and the four-cylinder locomotives of the 02 series . Hof developed into a special factory for the four-cylinder locomotives, so that on May 15, 1935, all 02 series, ie 02 001-010, were stationed in Hof. Shortly afterwards the two 02.1 (former 04 ) were added. The standard locomotives supplemented the Bavarian S 3/6, which had previously been used exclusively in express train traffic . From 1936, the 01 series locomotives returned to Hof, and the 02 series were gradually converted into two-cylinder 01s during this period. The S 3/6, now referred to as the 18 series, remained parallel in Hof until 1957, after which the 01 series handled express train traffic alone.

In the 1930s, machines of the 96 series were briefly stationed in Hof.

Federal Railroad Time

In 1950 the following series were in the portfolio of the Hof depot:

The depot became known to railway fans especially at the end of the steam locomotive era on the DB, as it was the last depot of the Federal Railroad to use the 01 series express locomotives . The Hofer Betriebswerk was responsible for the covering of many express trains that ran through the yard for decades.

End of the steam locomotive era

Express train with two class 01 locomotives (1974)

The use of the 01 series ended in Hof - and thus in western Germany - in 1973. The Hof depot was associated with the 01 series for almost 50 years, from development to shutdown. Today the driving wheel set of 01 088 on the modern factory premises reminds of this time. Thereafter, the last steam locomotives in Hof were class 50 and 86 locomotives , which were retired by 1975.

Driving wheel set of 01 088 as a monument in the "Bw" yard.

New diesel depot

With the end of steam operation in the early 1970s, the southern facilities of the railway depot were demolished and replaced by a new building. This successor to the Bavarian depot has been modernized and expanded over the decades and is still in operation. The Saxon plants, however, were shut down in the 1970s and then largely demolished. Only the former engine shed 3 remained. It was used as a bus garage for many years, but in 2012 it was only available in fragments and without a roof.

From 1975 Hof was a pure diesel depot. Until the 1990s, the series 211 (V 100) and 798 (rail bus) , and later the 628 series, were at home. The plant subsequently lost its importance and was at times threatened with closure.

Tilting technology center

After the modernization with an investment volume of four million euros in the years 2000 and 2001 and the expansion of the technical basis for tilting technology multiple units of the 612 series for regional traffic and the diesel ICE series 605 (the latter up to the Z position in December 2003) the continuation secured.

On September 2, 2001, a major accident occurred in the Hof depot. The ICE-TD 605 009 fell from the lifting platform and was badly damaged. The vehicle was initially held as a spare parts dispenser and, after the Z-position of the 605 series, was transported to Chemnitz for scrapping in the night of April 18-19, 2004 with low-loaders .

The depot is the headquarters of DB Regio Nordostbayern and is home to 53 units of the 612 series , 3 units of the 628 series , 18 units of the 610 series and one unit of the 641 series .

traffic

Hof's main train station is considered the hub of northeast Bavaria and has been the connection between Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia since it was founded.

Deutsche Bahn specifies the number of passengers at Hof Central Station as 5000 people per day (as of 2017).

In 2013, the transfer figures were given as 7,000 to 8,000 passengers per day, which made the station the fifth largest transfer station in Bavaria.

Regional traffic

Line /
type of train 		Line course Clock frequency
alex north Hof - Marktredwitz - Schwandorf - Regensburg - Landshut - Munich Every two hours
RE 3 Hof - Plauen - Zwickau - Chemnitz - Dresden Hourly
RE Hof - Marktredwitz - Nuremberg Every two hours
RE Hof - Münchberg - Bayreuth - Nuremberg Every two hours
RE Main-Saale-Express :
Hof - Münchberg - Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg - Lichtenfels 		Every two hours
RE Main-Saale-Express :
Hof - Münchberg - Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg - Lichtenfels - Bamberg 		Every two hours
EBx 13 Hof - Gutenfürst (- Mehltheuer - Zeulenroda - Gera - Leipzig ) Hourly
RB 2 Hof - Plauen - Herlasgrün - Reichenbach - Neumark - Zwickau single trips
ag Bad Steben - Naila - Selbitz - Hof - Marktredwitz - Kirchenlaibach - Bayreuth Hourly
ag Hof - Schwarzenbach - Münchberg (- Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg) Every two hours
ag Hof - Rehau - Selb-Plößberg - Selb town Hourly
OPB 2 Hof - Rehau - Selb-Plößberg - Aš - Cheb - Marktredwitz Every two hours

City bus

The main station stop is located directly in front of the station building at the long-distance and regional bus stop.

line Line course Clock frequency

(Status: Dec. 2018)

5 Central station - bus station - Breslaustraße every 15 min
8th Alsenberger Strasse - Central Station - Bus Station - Lindenbühl every 60 min

Night line

line Driving history Tact
15th Bus station - town hall - university - Breslaustraße - main train station - bus station every 60 min

Long-distance bus

The Flixbus stop on the Berlin - Passau and Berlin - Zurich lines is in front of the main train station .

Track numbering in the main train station

House platform (left) and tracks 2, 3 and 4

There are not tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., as usual, but tracks 1a (southern stump track on the house platform), 1b (northern stump track on the house platform), 2 (house platform ), 4 and 6 (second platform), and 8 and 10 (third platform). The southern sections of the continuous tracks are marked with a, the northern sections with b (2a / b etc.).

The missing numbers are or were assigned to operating tracks that are not used for regular passenger train traffic. The continuous tracks 3 and 7 have no platforms. They are only used for shunting trips and for parking. The butt tracks 5 and 9 at the southern ends of the two island platforms are used to park railway vehicles.

The platforms are connected by an underpass. Each platform has its own elevator.

Art at the main train station

Memorial to the refugee trains from Prague

Two works of art remind of the German reunification at the main station . A memorial commemorates the first refugee train from Prague , which arrived in Hof on October 1, 1989 at 6:14 a.m. It contained 1210 refugees from the GDR who were hoping to leave the country at the embassy in Prague . They finally reached Hof in special trains via Dresden and Plauen . The memorial is located at the rear exit of the train station and consists of three large, vertical-format concrete slabs . In the upper third, edited photographs of the refugees are incorporated. The design goes back to Florian Rothbauer from the State Technical School for Product Design of the State Vocational School Center for Product Design and Testing Technology in Selb in 2009. According to an information board on the monument, it is intended to remind people of the “courage and perseverance of the people” who represented a “milestone in overcoming the division of Germany”.

To the south-east of the station there is another monument on a circular area of ​​a parking lot. It is a steel sculpture on a concrete base with the inscription “9. NOV 1989 ". The work of the artist Peter Kalb was installed on November 9, 1990.

See also

literature

  • C. Asmus: Hof - depot and train station . Merker Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1984 ( Eisenbahn-Journal special edition, ISSN  0720-051X ).
  • Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border. A Saxon-Bavarian post-war story . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-728-2 ( Eisenbahn-Kurier ).
  • Beatrice Sendner-Rieger: The stations of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn 1841-1853 . German Society for Railway History eV (DGEG), Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-921700-57-4

Web links

Commons : Hof Hauptbahnhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald G. Dill, Karlhein Hetz: The air war in Northeast Bavaria . Späthling, Weißenstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-926621-95-5 , p. 86 ff .
  2. ↑ stellwerke.de: List of German interlockings (accessed on November 20, 2009)
  3. ↑ News from October 4, 2010 at eurailpress
  4. ↑ Electricity through the Vogtland . In: DB Welt , Region Southeast . No. 1 , 2014, p. 17 .
  5. ↑ Bahn closes the toilet in the main station . In: Frankenpost . June 18, 2015, p. 9 (short version online ).
  6. ↑ City wants to manage the station toilet . In: Frankenpost . June 20, 2015, p. 1 .
  7. ↑ Bahn wants to sell Hofer Hauptbahnhof . In: Frankenpost , Naila edition . June 19, 2015, p. 15 .
  8. ↑ https://www.frankenpost.de/region/hof/SPD-will-das-City-Ticket-fuer-Hof;art83415,6481689
  9. ↑ https://www.frankenpost.de/region/oberfranken/laenderspiegel/Gruenes-Licht-fuer-VGN-Beitritt;art2388,6617291
  10. ↑ https://www.bahnausbau-nordostbayern.de/habenprojekt/planungsstand.html
  11. ↑ https://www.frankenpost.de/region/oberfranken/laenderspiegel/Scheuer-schlaegt-Batteriezuege-vor;art2388,6416171
  12. ↑ https://www.hoellennetz.de/
  13. ↑ http://www.bayreuth.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Karte-Oberfranken-Achse.pdf
  14. ↑ The Upper Franconian diesel network transport contract signed. Bavarian Railway Company , February 13, 2009, accessed on April 18, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Post office on Bahnhofsplatz closes . In: Frankenpost . June 18, 2015 ( online ).
  16. ^ Aigner: start of construction of the Hof freight transport center. Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Building and Transport, April 23, 2018, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
  17. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, directory of machine offices, depot, railroad car depot, locomotive stations, locksmith's shops and relief trains valid from April 1, 1941
  18. ↑ http://www.lokdata.de/ accessed on June 4, 2013
  19. ↑ Brief description of the Hof depot on traktionswandel.de (accessed on January 13, 2012)
  20. ^ The Deutsche Bahn AG in Upper Franconia. Deutsche Bahn, accessed on June 1, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Grube promises to upgrade Hof's main train station . In: Frankenpost . August 1, 2013, p. 7 ( online ).
  22. ↑ Information board at the memorial, February 2020