Hochneukirch station
| Hochneukirch | |
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 The Hochneukirch stop in 2008
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | KHOK |
| IBNR | 8000390 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1873 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Hochneukirch |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Juchen |
| Place / district | Hochneukirch |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 6 '12 " N , 6 ° 27' 57" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Hochneukirch stop is one of two rail traffic stops in Jüchen in the Rhine district of Neuss . It is located on the Rheydt – Cologne-Ehrenfeld railway and on the disused Mönchengladbach – Stolberg railway .
history
In 1873, Hochneukirch (at that time still Neukirchen, today to Jüchen ) was given a rail link on the eastern edge of the village, which further stimulated the emerging textile industry. The train station (at kilometer 11.8) is connected to the town center by Bahnhofstrasse. Here the Mönchengladbach – Stolberg railway met with the Rheydt – Cologne-Ehrenfeld railway, which then extended together on the route to the Rheydt-Odenkirchen station.
Route
In 1873 the place received a rail connection from Mönchengladbach to Stolberg. The first train of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ran from Mönchengladbach on the Hochneukirch – Stolberg railway, which was later extended to Stolberg , via Jülich to Eschweiler-Aue .
In 1889 the railway line to Cologne was opened to traffic. When the line was built, it was brought up to the east parallel to the existing one.
The reception building is still preserved today and has contained the Hf signal box since 1964. This signal box was given up when the ESTW technology was introduced in 2007. The central platform is equipped with a bus shelter and a ticket machine. To the south of the reception building, the former goods shed is still preserved today.
History of origin
The city of Mönchengladbach and the Chamber of Commerce submitted an application to the Railway Minister to lay the Rheydt – Cologne-Ehrenfeld railway between Mönchengladbach and Grevenbroich via Giesenkirchen instead of Hochneukirch. Mönchengladbach hoped that this would improve the development of its hinterland. Industry and the population of Hochneukirch wanted a route via Hochneukirch to Grevenbroich and Cologne. The factory owner Peter Busch got in touch with some of the members of parliament he knew in the Berlin state parliament and Pastor Martin Köllen turned to the chief steward of the Empress Augusta, Count Nesselrode-Ehreshoven. Thanks to the Count's mediation, Köllen was able to communicate his wishes to the Minister of Railways Maybach in writing. Thanks to his personal commitment, the railway line through Hochneukirch was opened to traffic in 1889. In gratitude for their commitment, Hochneukirch honored Peter Busch and Martin Köllen by giving the streets to the left and right of the train station their names.
To get to Hackhausen, the tracks had to be crossed. In the first few years this level crossing was unsecured, but barriers were put up after an accident. In 1909 a second line was to be built from Erkelenz via Wanlo and Keyenberg to Hochneukirch, which was never built due to lack of money. In 1911 a railway bridge was built between Hochneukirch and Hackhausen.
Decline
In 1967 the bridge had to be raised by 60 centimeters and lined because the line was electrified with overhead lines. The old railway bridge was demolished in 1988 and replaced by a new reinforced concrete bridge. On May 30, 1980, passenger traffic on the line to Stolberg was stopped and the tracks on the line to Jülich were dismantled. Freight traffic to Ameln continued until June 1, 1984. In 1987 freight traffic was also stopped. Today there are still two tracks to Rheydt and Cologne with the high track numbers 9 and 10, due to the fact that tracks 1–8 were removed when the line to Jülich was demolished. The discontinuation of the Stolberg route meant that the placement of the well-preserved reception building looks unusual today. This is about 40 meters from the central platform. The underpass to the central platform is also in the open. The area around the station, lying fallow for decades between the remaining tracks and in front of the station building, is now a car park. This was part of a project in the course of which 41 senior-friendly apartments including common rooms were created in the Hochneukircher train station and in the new buildings next to it. The road to this small building area was named Falkensteinstraße after a local Jewish extended family.
service
The train station is served by the RE8 and RB27 lines, which together run every half hour to Mönchengladbach , Cologne and Koblenz .
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
Individual evidence
- ^ Carsten Sommerfeld, Jüchen: New living at the train station . In: ngz-online, October 13, 2010, online , accessed October 2, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/rhein-kreis/sport/neue-strasse-erinnert-an-juedische-familie-aid-1.3065124