Cologne Central Station
| Cologne Central Station | |
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 Aerial view from the southeast
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Junction station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 11
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| abbreviation | KK |
| IBNR | 8000207 |
| Price range | 1 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Köln Hbf |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Cologne |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '33 " N , 6 ° 57' 29" E |
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1 Kilometers start in Cologne Messe / Deutz |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Cologne Central Station is the main railway junction of Cologne and is located downtown next to the Cologne Cathedral . With around 350,000 travelers and visitors every day, as well as around 1200 arrivals and departures, it is one of the most frequented long-distance train stations of Deutsche Bahn . The transit station with its eleven tracks heard - along with the on the other side of the Rhine located Köln Messe / Deutz - to the 21 stations of the highest price category 1 of DB Station & Service . From its southeastern exit, the railway line leads in a tight curve to the Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine to Deutz on the right bank of the Rhine .
The main station is the transfer point between long-distance passenger transport ( ICE , Thalys , IC / EC , Flixtrain , ÖBB Nightjet ) and local passenger transport ( regional train , Regional-Express and S-Bahn Rhein-Sieg or Cologne and Rhine-Ruhr ).
From the reception building there is access to the inner-city traffic of the Cologne Stadtbahn via the two underground stations Dom / Hauptbahnhof and Breslauer Platz / Hauptbahnhof of the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB), which belong to the Rhein-Sieg transport association (VRS) with the S-Bahn . The station forecourt is considered part of the cathedral environment ; There is direct stair access (also by elevator) to Cologne Cathedral and the surrounding Domplatte via it .
history
Predecessor Centralbahnhof
Around 1850 there were five different operators in Cologne and the independent city of Deutz until 1888: On the left bank of the Rhine (Cologne side) these were the Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BCE), the Cöln-Crefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CCE) and the Rheinische Eisenbahn -Gesellschaft (RhE); on the right bank of the Rhine in Deutz the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) and the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME). This also resulted in various train stations outside the city walls of Cologne that were not connected to one another by rail.
After the controversial location of the new railway and road bridge at the cathedral had been determined in 1854, considerations followed as to how the structure, later known as the cathedral bridge , could be connected to the existing freight and temporary passenger station on the banks of the Rhine ("Rheinstation" on Trankgasse ). Plans to lower the wagons with elevators quickly gave way to the realization that a central train station would have to be created to connect the rail traffic on the left and right of the Rhine. In 1857, the city released the area of the Old Botanical Garden of the Universitas Studii Coloniensis, which was dissolved in 1798, for the construction of the train station. This location was also controversial: on the one hand, the only green space within the old city walls was abandoned; In addition , fears were expressed by the cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner , among others , that in the event of a war the train station, as a traffic junction, could be the target of attacks that would also affect the cathedral. The plans were nevertheless implemented; Coming from the bridge, the railway line was laid across Maximinenstrasse rising from the Rhine and then crossing the Eigelstein at ground level - between Ritterstrasse and Weidengasse - through the medieval city wall.
The so-called "Centralbahnhof" was built from 1857 according to the plans of Hermann Otto Pflaume on behalf of the RhE, which had taken over the BCE in the same year. The station was opened in 1859 together with the cathedral bridge . The Centralbahnhof was a combined terminus and through station : The RhE trains from the west ended at four head tracks, while the CME trains from the cathedral bridge touched the station on two through tracks.
The Centralbahnhof quickly reached its capacity limits, but the RhE as the operator had only limited interest in expanding the station, as this would have mainly benefited the competing companies. Serious planning for an enlarged main station could therefore only be started after the nationalization of the railway companies around 1880.
Central Station
Two planning variants were pursued for the new main station:
- New construction of a large main train station on open space north of Venloer Straße and graduation of the central train station to the secondary train station, or
- Replacement of the Centralbahnhof by a new building at the same location with the track system being raised based on the model of the Berlin Stadtbahn with the construction of two subordinate passenger stations ( Cöln West and Cöln Süd ) on the Stadtbahn route and a freight bypass.
While the government in Berlin advocated the second variant, there was a split in Cologne. Politicians argued that the new station building was too big for the narrow space between the Rhine and the cathedral. Merchants who owned land near the train station, on the other hand, feared a loss of value if the train station was relocated. On January 9, 1883, the Cologne city council finally decided, with a majority of one vote, the second option, the retention of the location at the cathedral, according to the disposition plan of engineer E. Grüttefien, Berlin. Construction work began in 1889. The tracks were raised by six meters, half of the free space under the tracks was filled with earth and a new station building was built according to plans by the Aachen architect Georg Frentzen . The foundation stone was laid on May 7, 1892. In the course of the new construction of the station, numerous surrounding houses were demolished.
In 1894 the large three-part platform hall, which is based on the platform hall of London St Pancras station , was completed. With the largest span of 64 meters at the time, the central hall spanned today's tracks 2 to 7 and the two 13.5-meter-wide aisles, tracks 1 and 8. In the 255-meter-long hall, a two-storey waiting room building with iron framework, ceramics and small , bronze-colored domes and from which the travelers could easily reach all the tracks in the central hall. In the middle of the hall, trains from the west and east ended at four head tracks in front of the waiting room building. There were also two through tracks on each side.
The platform hall was partly built on the foundation of the Centralbahnhof. However, this was not completely backfilled during construction, so that today the cables for the station's power supply are located there.
In the course of a restructuring of the entire railway traffic (1909–1915), the most visible signs of which were the new “Südbrücke” and the four-track “Hohenzollernbrücke”, the waiting room building in the hall was removed and all tracks were converted into through tracks. A ninth track was also set up on the north side. The entire area under the tracks was now used. Only the first and second class waiting rooms in the Trankgasse and Johannisstraße areas survived the Second World War and the subsequent renovations and are now used as a restaurant and event center for the Alter Wartesaal .
A tunnel was created from the old main post office, which was about 200 meters west of the main train station, through which letters and parcels could be transported directly to and from the train station. At the place of the post office there is now a retirement home ; However, the tunnel and the associated underground facilities still exist and are used for the storage and provision of food and drinks for dining cars .
Reconstruction and new construction
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During the Second World War, Cologne Central Station was badly damaged by air raids. For a few years after the war, it was considered whether the main station should not be rebuilt on the site of the Gereon freight yard - where the Mediapark is now located . Therefore, the reconstruction of the main station took place very slowly and the people of Cologne had to be content with makeshift solutions for a decade.
First, in 1953, the destroyed western long building was replaced by a modern building with baggage handling and a hotel. The old station building, which was only slightly destroyed and temporarily repaired, was only demolished in 1955, one of the main reasons for this was its perception as a symbol of Prussian rule. A demolition of the platform hall, similar to that at Cologne-Deutz station , was also planned. The roof structure was always heavily soiled by the soot from the steam locomotives, so that hardly any daylight could get inside. However, the demolition was not carried out for cost reasons; Electrification began in 1957 and this problem was remedied in the long term.
On September 23, 1957, the new reception building was opened, which was built according to the plans of the architects Schmitt and Schneider and has a distinctive, shell-shaped roof structure and a high, fully glazed facade facing the station forecourt. On the north side of the main station, a second forecourt was created in 1945 through the evacuation of the originally densely built-up area on Maximinenstrasse, Domstrasse, Hofergasse, Hermannstrasse and the relocation of Goldgasse to Breslauer Platz .
Expansion from 1975
In the course of the S-Bahn construction up to 1991, the entire railway line, the station and the Hohenzollern Bridge were expanded by two independent tracks. First, in 1975 the main train station was expanded by two tracks (10 and 11) and in 1989 the Hohenzollern Bridge with the S-Bahn main line was extended to six tracks. The tracks and the additional platform are elevated with free-standing concrete mushrooms. An extension by two tracks to the north has already been considered structurally.
In the 1970s, a track plan signal box was put into operation, which is manned by seven employees. Two dispatchers (for the areas east and west) control a six kilometer long area between Cologne-West and Cologne-Deutz. It replaced five plants.
1989–1991 the platform roofing in front of the hall and between the hall and entrance hall was replaced by a design by the architects of the neighboring Ludwig Museum ( Busmann + Haberer with Stefan Polónyi ) and the listed hall itself was extensively renovated (1987).
Modernization around 2000 and operation until today
From 1997 to 2000, Cologne Central Station was modernized for around 200 million Deutschmarks. The official inauguration of the modernized main station took place on March 29, 2000. A shopping center, the so-called “Colonaden”, was built on the entrance level, comprising 70 shops and restaurants with over 11,500 square meters of retail space and around 700 employees. The space required for this had previously been used as luggage storage and storage space or was lying fallow. The individual shops are connected to a network of supply routes. The first fully automatic luggage storage system in Europe was also installed during the modernization; to this day it is the only one of its type in Germany. It has almost 1000 compartments on three underground levels that can be accessed by computer. Around 20,000 pieces of luggage are stored here every month. Initially there were a few failures in the system, so that checked baggage could no longer be removed and had to be forwarded by Deutsche Bahn. A 3-S control center was set up to carry out the announcements on the platforms and for video surveillance of the station.
The track systems have longitudinal inclinations of up to 7.9 per thousand . This repeatedly leads to accidents caused by trains rolling away. From 2009 to mid-2013, 13 such incidents were registered. The trains affected usually started rolling during brake tests . Railway employees were slightly injured in the accidents.
On the first floor above the travel center there is a DB lounge for first-class travelers and frequent travelers . This waiting area is located directly on platform 1 and can also be accessed from this platform.
On New Year's Eve 2015/2016 there was massive sexual assault and theft in the station area and on the Domplatte .
On October 15, 2018, an arson attack was carried out on a fast-food restaurant and its guests, and a hostage-taking began in a pharmacy, which was soon ended by a special police unit.
Planning
At a rail summit of Deutsche Bahn , the federal government and the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia on March 31, 2010 in Düsseldorf, it was decided that the station should be expanded by another S-Bahn platform with two S-Bahn tracks at Breslauer Platz by 2019. It is now planned to complete these tracks by 2030. According to estimates, the costs amount to 60 million euros.
The platform on track 1 was to be expanded by a security area for the ICE traffic to London - St Pancras planned from 2016, thus enabling people and luggage control. To date (as of April 2019), neither the connection to London nor the expansion of the S-Bahn route have been implemented. The railroad named the reason for problems with the approval of the ICE trains by the authorities in Belgium and France. A new schedule was not given. The necessary crossing of the entire western track apron by trains departing towards London is considered operationally difficult.
In December 2014, Deutsche Bahn tendered the first planning services for an electronic interlocking for Cologne Central Station across Europe. It should take over S-Bahn traffic in 2020 and long-distance and regional traffic in 2024. An additional track connection is provided between tracks 7 and 8 at the transition to the Hohenzollern Bridge. S-Bahn traffic is to be converted by the end of 2021, and regional and long-distance traffic by the end of 2024. The performance of the S-Bahn tracks between the main train station and Messe / Deutz is to be increased by 30 percent through ETCS and platform extensions.
In April 2019, plans by the architect Paul Böhm became known who would like to move Cologne Central Station underground. Above ground, a park will then lead from the Mediapark over the Hohenzollern Bridge to Deutz . The model for Böhm's vision is a converted former elevated railway line in New York . The High Line is a crowd puller in Manhattan . There had been several plans to relocate the main train station in the past.
traffic
Cologne Central Station is one of the hubs for European long-distance transport. Cologne has long-distance routes on both sides of the Rhine. Therefore, the main station on the left bank of the Rhine forms a unit with the Cologne Messe / Deutz train station on the right bank of the Rhine and is connected to this via the Hohenzollern Bridge. Long-distance trains from the Ruhr area , southern Germany , Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium meet at the main station . Cologne Messe / Deutz (deep) connects two further Intercity Express lines on the right bank of the Rhine . In the past, a direct connection, such as a treadmill across the Rhine, was considered, but these controversial ideas were rejected as too expensive for the time being.
Eleven routes converge in a star shape at the Cologne rail hub. More than 310,000 boarding and disembarking passengers and 1,220 trains are counted every day. The trains departing from Cologne Central Station can together transport up to 70,000 people per hour. This train density is the highest in Germany.
Cologne Central Station, together with the Hohenzollern Bridge, is a central bottleneck in rail traffic in the Cologne region. Long-distance traffic mainly loads the southeast exit on four tracks in the direction of Deutz; the regional traffic predominantly the west side. The access routes from Hürth-Kalscheuren and from the direction of Steinstraße are being operated at the limit of capacity. It is hardly possible to expand the offer. Changes to the track plan are not possible with the existing signal box. Overloads should also occur in the time horizon of 2030 and beyond. Measures to expand capacity are being discussed within the railways and as part of studies on the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan; concrete solutions are not yet known.
On the adjacent Hohenzollern Bridge, trains are delayed by an average of one minute. In order to improve punctuality, the number of double occupations of tracks is to be increased from 20 to 60 per day and the catering supplies of long-distance trains are only to be replenished if at least seven minutes are available. The minimum headway time for the S-Bahn is 3.3 minutes, 2.5 minutes would be needed to cope with the traffic demand.
| left bank of the Rhine | Rhine | on the right bank of the Rhine | ||
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| Hbf | Hohenzollern Bridge | Fair / Deutz | ||
Long-distance transport
Cologne Central Station is the hub of numerous Intercity Express and Intercity lines, which usually reach Cologne Central Station every hour or two hours. Furthermore, night trains of the ÖBB under the name ÖBB Nightjet run to the station. The Flixtrain starts the journey to Berlin or Hamburg here.
| line | Course of the journey | operator | |
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| ICE 10 | Berlin East - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm ( wing ) - | Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - Cologne / Bonn Airport | DB long-distance transport |
| Hagen - Wuppertal - Cologne (- Bonn - Koblenz ) | DB long-distance transport | ||
| ICE 30 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 31 | Kiel - / Hamburg-Altona - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Hanau - Würzburg - Nuremberg - ( Regensburg - Passau /… - Ingolstadt - Munich ) | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 42 | (Hamburg - Bremen -) Münster - Recklinghausen or Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Siegburg / Bonn - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 43 | (Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal -) Cologne - Siegburg / Bonn - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 45 | Cologne - Cologne / Bonn Airport - Montabaur - Limburg - Wiesbaden - Mainz (- Stuttgart ) | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 49 | (Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen -) Cologne - (Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne / Bonn Airport -) Siegburg / Bonn - Montabaur - Limburg - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 78 | Amsterdam - Arnhem - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt (/ - Basel) | DB long-distance transport | |
| ICE 79 | Brussels - Liège - Aachen - Cologne - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt | DB long-distance transport | |
| THA 80 | Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf Airport - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Aachen - Liège-Guillemins - Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid - Paris Nord | Thalys | |
| IC 30 | ( Westerland -) Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Munster - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Stuttgart as EC from Mannheim further Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich - / Interlaken Ost |
DB long-distance traffic / SBB | |
| IC 31 | Kiel - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Hanau - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau | DB long-distance transport | |
| IC 32 | Berlin-Südkreuz - Berlin - Berlin-Spandau - Wolfsburg - Hanover - (Bielefeld - Hamm - Dortmund) or (Münster - Recklinghausen ) - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Stuttgart - Ulm | DB long-distance transport | |
| IC 35 | Norddeich Mole - Emden - Münster - Recklinghausen - Wanne-Eickel - Gelsenkirchen - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz | DB long-distance transport | |
| IC 37 | Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz - Kobern-Gondorf - Treis-Karden - Cochem - Bullay - Wittlich - Schweich - Trier - Wasserbillig - Luxembourg | CFL / DB long-distance transport | |
| IC 55 | Dresden - Riesa - Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm - Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne | DB long-distance transport | |
| FLX 20 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Osnabrück - Munster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | Flixtrain | |
| FLX 30 | (Leipzig - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Berlin Südkreuz -) Berlin - Berlin-Spandau - Hanover - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | Flixtrain | |
| NJ 40421 |
ÖBB Nightjet Düsseldorf -Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South -Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau -Wels - Linz -Amstetten - St. Pölten - Vienna Meidling - Vienna(car train system) |
ÖBB Nightjet | |
| NJ 421 |
ÖBB Nightjet Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich - Kufstein - Wörgl - Jenbach - Innsbruck |
ÖBB Nightjet | |
| NJ 425 |
ÖBB Nightjet Bruxelles Midi - Bruxelles-Nord - Liège - Aachen - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich - Kufstein - Wörgl - Jenbach - Innsbruck |
ÖBB Nightjet | |
| NJ 50425 |
ÖBB Nightjet Bruxelles Midi - Bruxelles-Nord - Liège - Aachen - Cologne - Bonn-Beuel - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau - Wels - Linz - Amstetten - St. Pölten - Wien Meidling - Vienna ( Car train system) |
ÖBB Nightjet | |
Most major cities in Germany, as well as in neighboring countries to the west, can be reached within a few hours via various high-speed routes.
The Thalys runs via Aachen and Brussels to Paris , the ICE International runs from Brussels to Frankfurt, both high-speed trains alternate every hour.
NJ 421 and NJ 40421, as well as NJ 491 and NJ 40491, which come from Hamburg-Altona, will be winged and reunified in Nuremberg: NJ 421 runs together with NJ 40491 to Innsbruck, while NJ 40421 continues with NJ 491 to Vienna. With two trains, four connection-free connections are possible.
With a total of 403 regular arrivals and departures per day in long-distance traffic, Cologne Central Station was the most important node in the network of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1989 summer timetable. With 383 regular long-distance traffic arrivals and departures, it was the second most important node in the Deutsche Bahn network in the 1996 summer timetable (after Hanover main station).
| target | Travel time (ICE) | Travel time (IC) | comment |
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| Amsterdam | 2:37 | 3:57 | |
| Basel | 3:52 | 4:44 | |
| Berlin | 4:20 | 5:59 | |
| Brussels | 1:48 | 3:21 | |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1:04 | 2:20 | |
| Hamburg | 3:59 | 3:59 | |
| Hanover | 2:40 | 3:05 | |
| Leipzig | 4:51 | 6:06 | |
| Luxembourg | - | 3:21 | |
| Munich | 4:20 | 5:58 | |
| Paris | 3:15 | - | in Thalys |
| Stuttgart | 2:13 | 3:28 |
Regional and S-Bahn traffic
Cologne Central Station is also the hub of numerous regional express and regional train lines, which usually reach Cologne Central Station every half or hour:
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Cologne Central Station is integrated into the Rhein-Sieg S-Bahn network . From Monday to Saturday during the day, the S-Bahn runs every 20 minutes, otherwise every 30 minutes. Northwest of the S-Bahn stop Cologne Hauptbahnhof is the S-Bahn stop Köln Hansaring and east the S-Bahn stop Köln Messe / Deutz . All lines that serve the main train station also do the same at these stations. The current regional train line RB 25 counts as a preliminary operation to the S-Bahn network.
Light rail
Below the main train station there are two stations of the Cologne Stadtbahn . The subway stations Dom / Hauptbahnhof and Breslauer Platz / Hauptbahnhof are located on the same stretch of tunnel that passes under the main station in a 120-degree curve. The station Breslauer Platz / Hauptbahnhof was relocated in the direction of the Hauptbahnhof by December 2011 and completely redesigned.
The following lines currently operate at the Breslauer Platz / Hauptbahnhof stop (every ten minutes during the day, line 18 every five minutes). At the Dom / Hauptbahnhof stop, line 5 runs in addition to the two lines below.
| line | Course of the journey |
|---|---|
| 16 | Niehl Sebastianstr. - Ebertplatz - Breslauer Platz / main station - Cathedral / main station - Neumarkt - Barbarossaplatz - Chlodwigplatz - Rodenkirchen - Wesseling - Bonn Hbf - Bonn-Bad Godesberg |
| 18th | Thielenbruch - Buchheim - Mülheim - Ebertplatz - Breslauer Platz / main station - Cathedral / main station - Neumarkt - Barbarossaplatz - Klettenberg - Hürth - Brühl - Bonn main station |
Bus transport
The following bus lines operate at the Breslauer Platz / Hauptbahnhof bus station:
The following bus lines operate from the Dom / Hbf bus stop :
| line | Course of the journey |
|---|---|
| 172 |
Widdersdorf - Lövenich station  - Weiden - Müngersdorf - Eupener Strasse - Aachener Strasse / Gürtel - Hans-Böckler-Platz / Station. West - Friesenplatz - Dom / Hbf only operates during peak hours. The section Widdersdorf - Eupener Straße is only served in the load direction |
| 173 |
Weiden , Lübecker Strasse - Junkersdorf - Eupener Strasse - Aachener Strasse / Gürtel - Hans-Böckler-Platz / Bf. West - Friesenplatz - Dom / Hbf only operates during peak hours. The Weiden, Lübecker Straße - Eupener Straße section is only served in the load direction |
"Airport" Cologne main station
As part of the AIRail program, the main station has the airport code ( IATA code ) QKL . Passengers take a regular Intercity Express to Frankfurt Airport long-distance train station and board a plane there. Baggage check-in and check-out took place at the main train station until the end of 2007; since then, baggage has only been checked in in Frankfurt.
Regular events
For the first time on December 6, 1950, the station book dealer Gerhard Ludwig (1909–1994) organized the so-called Third Waiting Room in his bookstore in the main station , his political and cultural “ Cologne Wednesday Talks ”, which had become an authority . Prominent guests from all over the republic regularly took part in talks from politics, culture and sport or read from their latest publications. On July 4, 1956, the “Wednesday Talks” ended after 269 episodes due to renovations. Carlo Schmid wrote a farewell greeting in the guest book. The tape recordings were broadcast by WDR in 1990 .
In the summer, steam train trips “around Kölle” with departure from platform 1 took place at times in cooperation with the Dieringhausen Railway Museum .
literature
- Friedhelm Ernst: Transport hub Cologne . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-88255-253-0 .
- Ernst Kraft: The renovation of Cologne Central Station (1909 to 1914). In: Journal of Construction. Vol. 65 (1915), No. 1, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-91994 , pp. 49-86. (With additional illustrations on pages 13 to 17 in the atlas of the 1915 year, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-92068 .)
- Cologne main station and its platform hall - modern traffic center and monument . (= Special print from "Die Bundesbahn" issue 6/87). Darmstadt 1987.
- Ulrich Krings: German metropolitan railway stations of historicism . Volume I and II. Inaugural dissertation . Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Cologne 1981.
- Ludwig Rotthowe: Cologne oddities. Special signals. In: LOK MAGAZINE. No. 248 / Volume 33/2002. GeraNova Zeitschriftenverlag, Munich, ISSN 0458-1822 , pp. 100-103.
- Horst Semmler: 150 years of the Bonn - Cologne railway. Kenning Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-927587-23-0 .
- Udo Kandler: The Railway in Cologne - From the 1930s to the present day . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-243-0 .
Web links
Deutsche Bahn AG:
- Cologne main station on bahnhof.de with map (PDF; 0.53 MiB)
- Tracks in service facilities (KK) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.808 MiB)
- Location plan of the shops at shopping station.de (advertising association Hauptbahnhof), DB Station & Service AG
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
Further evidence:
- Köln-hbf.de (private website)
- Rhenish industrial culture: Cologne Central Station
- Representation of the track system as well as some signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cologne Central Station . In the shadow of the cathedral. In: mobile . No. November 11 , 2019, ISSN 0949-586X , ZDB -ID 1221702-5 , p. 46 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Secret of Cologne Central Station. Westdeutscher Rundfunk website in Cologne , February 6, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2015.
- ↑ Peter Fuchs, Chronicle of the History of the City of Cologne , Volume 2, 1991, p. 289.
- ↑ a b c d Peter Berger, Michael Bause: The old heart of the main train station . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . October 23, 2015 ( online ).
- ↑ Cologne Central Station in new splendor. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 5/2000, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 198.
- ↑ Claudia Bleier: Too steep gradient: Unbraked trains at the main station . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . June 19, 2013 ( similar version ).
- ↑ New Year's attacks on women: What is known so far. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved January 6, 2016 .
- ↑ New S-Bahn platform at Cologne Central Station , accessed on January 5, 2020.
- ↑ Two new tracks for the main train station. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . March 31, 2010, accessed January 4, 2013.
- ↑ ICE Cologne-London put on hold. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Security gate at Cologne train station . In: Rheinische Post . (Online edition), April 14, 2011.
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