Koblenz Central Station
| Koblenz Central Station | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 10 |
| abbreviation | KKO |
| IBNR | 8000206 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | May 1, 1902 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Koblenz_Hbf |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neo-baroque |
| architect | Fritz Klingholz |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Koblenz |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 21 '2 " N , 7 ° 35' 21" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
Koblenz Hauptbahnhof is a crossing station in Koblenz and the most important train station in the Rhine - Mosel - Lahn area. The main station with stops for Intercity / Eurocity , Intercity-Express and EuroNight trains is located in the southern suburb below Fort Konstantin and was put into operation in 1902 as part of the southern city expansion.
The city's most important passenger station is located directly on the left-hand Rhine route , right at the confluence of the Moselle route and the Lahn Valley Railway , which is linked to the right-hand Rhine route beyond the Horchheimer railway bridge . It is frequented by around 40,000 travelers and visitors every day. On the Bahnhofplatz in front of it there is a bus station and a pavilion with shops.
history
Rheinbahnhof
After a railway connection between Cologne and Bonn had already been completed in 1844 and an extension to Rolandseck had existed since 1856 , the railway line has now been expanded to Koblenz. The first train of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft drove into Koblenz on November 11, 1858 over the newly built Moselle railway bridge on the left-hand Rhine route. With the construction of the bridge and the Rhine railway, the Prussian city fortifications were broken through for the first time . With the cheering of the population and in the presence of Princess Augusta , the train with the garlanded locomotive "Windsbraut" ran in the provisional, half-timbered Rheinbahnhof ( 50 ° 21 ′ 37 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 24.4 ″ E ) on Eisenbahnstrasse one of which a northern section is still preserved today as Fischelstrasse.
The route from Koblenz to Bingerbrück was extended in 1859 and the old Rheinbahnhof was replaced by a solid structure from 1858–1859. The station consisted of a two-storey central building with seven axes , the middle three were highlighted like risalit , and four-axis wings , which were closed by two-axis pavilions. The main building and pavilions supported a mezzanine floor . In the building there was a richly decorated prince's room for the arrival of high-ranking personalities.
From 1864 the railway network was further expanded and the Pfaffendorfer bridge over the Rhine was inaugurated. It was initially a pure railway bridge and connected the left with the right Rhine route . During the construction period of the Pfaffendorfer Bridge, the Stolzenfels – Oberlahnstein trajectory was used as an interim solution for the early connection of the left and right Rhine route . The last railway trains crossed the Pfaffendorfer Bridge at the beginning of the First World War in August 1914.
With the commissioning of the new main station, the Rheinbahnhof was decommissioned in 1902. In World War II, when airstrikes in 1944 seriously damaged the building was eliminated at the beginning of the 1960s. Today you will find the street Am Wöllershof and the ramp to the parking decks of the Löhr-Center at this point .
Moselle station
The Moselle railway bridge in Güls was inaugurated in October 1878, and the Horchheim railway bridge over the Rhine was completed the following year . In 1879 the Moselle route was put into operation and at the same time the Moselle railway station ( 50 ° 21 ′ 7 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 18 ″ E ) was completed. Due to the rayon regulations , the building was constructed as a half-timbered building in the Swiss style. It was located to the right below Fort Konstantin between Karthäuserstraße and Löhrstraße at the level of today's parking level 3 under Bundesstraße 9 . This completed the expansion of the Koblenz railway network and a section of the strategic railway line between Berlin and Metz , the so-called Kanonenbahn , was put into operation. The Moselle railway station was replaced in 1902 by the massive building now located directly below Fort Konstantin.
Construction of the main train station
The Prussian city fortifications of Koblenz were abandoned in 1890 and completely demolished. The city's settlement area was now able to break out of the narrow city limits for the first time. A new and rapidly growing settlement area was created south of the wall, the southern suburb . Maintaining two stations turned out to be very inconvenient, as through trains stopped twice within 900 meters and train travelers who came from Trier and wanted to continue north on the right bank of the Rhine had to walk or take a cab from the Moselle to the Rhine station. The demands for a central train station grew louder and the planning for the construction of a new and larger passenger train station began. In his first plan for the southern expansion of the city in 1889, the important Prussian town planner Josef Stübben envisaged a central train station, which should make the new district particularly attractive.
An amicable settlement was reached with the Prussian Ministry of Railways in 1894. After that, the small Rheinbahnhof in Eisenbahnstraße and the Moselbahnhof were given up. In the new southern suburb , a splendid central station was built in the area of the Moselle station from 1899 to 1902 based on drafts by the government master builder Karl Biecker , which the agricultural inspector Fritz Klingholz reworked . The Centralbahnhof , as its official name was then, was inaugurated on May 1, 1902. By raising the railway line through the city center to the Moselle, the city was divided in two.
The main train station was built in the style of a palace with central and side pavilions, but for functional reasons but omitting strict symmetry. The facades were made of tuff and yellow sandstone in a neo-baroque shape. The station building is 96 meters long. The platforms spanned a hall construction. In the north wing there was a richly decorated prince's room with direct access to platform 1 via a still preserved outside staircase (imperial staircase), on which Kaiser Wilhelm II first arrived in Koblenz in 1905.
On August 1, 1926, the spelling of Koblenz was also changed in terms of rail technology. "Koblenz Hbf.", "Koblenz Moselbf.", "Koblenz Rheinbf." And "Koblenz-Lützel" were no longer written with C, but with K.
The depot at Koblenz main station was given up in 1935. The services were then taken over by the Koblenz-Lützel and Koblenz-Mosel railway depots .
World War II and after
During the Second World War , the station was the target of air raids by the Allies . B. on December 4, 1944 and December 11, 1944. The station building and the tracks were badly damaged by air raids. The reconstruction of the reception building began in 1949 in a simplified form. The platform hall and tower building were no longer built. In contrast to the historical original, the repairs were simplified and building decoration was largely dispensed with. Functional roofs were installed over the platforms in 1953.
The left stretch of the Rhine was electrified in two stages . On May 29, 1958, electrical operation was initially taken up on the Remagen – Mainz section, although the traction change took place in Koblenz, as the Remagen station's capacity was insufficient. On the also electrified Mainz – Mannheim railway , trains could continue to run with electric traction in the already largely electrified southern German area. On May 5, 1959, the Cologne – Remagen section was finally put into operation electrically. Two years later, the right Rhine route was electrified, and in 1974 the Moselle route to Trier followed.
The main station underwent further changes in 1967 with the commissioning of a new signal box and in 1977 with the renovation of the reception hall. The interior was largely redesigned from 1982 to 1983, after which a travel center was opened in 1984.
In 1998, the redesign of the station square began, which also included the station building itself and should be completed by the 100th anniversary in 2002. Due to the Holzmann bankruptcy, the renovation date was postponed. The inauguration of the converted main station took place in May 2005, which now presents itself to travelers with a modern station hall as well as DB travel center, shops, restaurants and bars.
On August 1, 2006, one day after an explosive was found in Dortmund Central Station , a propane gas cylinder with an explosive device was also discovered in an abandoned suitcase at Koblenz Central Station. The two regional trains in which the explosive device was found originated in Cologne . According to investigations by the Federal Criminal Police Office, it must be assumed that there was an attempted terrorist attack by Lebanese terrorists, which only missed its target due to technical errors. An explosion of the explosive devices would probably have cost many victims , as it did in London in 2005 . Thereafter, there were several bomb threats for Koblenz main station, which however turned out to be irrelevant.
On September 22nd, 2008 work began on converting the station to make it barrier-free . All freight elevators in the northern area of the platforms were demolished, including the loading elevator at the central branch of DB Regio. The former baggage tunnel was renovated and instead of the freight elevators, glass elevators were installed there, which have been publicly available since June 2010. Platform 1 was rebuilt and given a new roof. This turned out to be a bit complex, as the old roofing contained asbestos-containing Eternit panels. For this reason, the platform was closed for a few months until May 2010 and the trains entering and leaving normally there were relocated to other platforms. The station mission , which is now located next to the north entrance, is also new ; the barracks on platform 4/5 have been demolished. After platform 1, the other platforms were also modernized one after the other, most recently platforms 8 south and 109 were renewed from June to August 2013. All platforms were equipped with new furniture in the corporate design and with a tactile guidance system for the blind .
Structural structure
The Koblenz main station stands on the west side of the station square and has a representative reception building that has been preserved in its size despite the effects of the war. The longitudinally extended, two-storey reception building is designed as a three-part cuboid structure and, in the fashion of the time of construction, is based on baroque palace buildings. The large, raised middle section with the entrance hall originally had a lantern structure . On both sides there are low gallery buildings that are closed off by corner pavilions. In the northern corner pavilion was the hall for the highest lords and princes' rooms with the imperial staircase to platform 1, which was uncovered in 2002. The monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm II is attached to the outside . The management was originally located in the southern corner pavilion. The wrought-iron canopies have been preserved at the main and imperial entrances (northern corner pavilion) . The entire building has hipped mansard roofs of different heights .
Inside, only the stucco on the vaults of the hallway in front of the former 3rd and 4th class waiting room in the northern corner pavilion remains of the lavish furnishings from the time of construction . At the beginning of the red sandstone embankment wall along Löhrstrasse in the area of the northern train station is an obelisk made of light sandstone.
Bahnhofplatz
The Bahnhofplatz was laid out together with the Hauptbahnhof in 1900 as part of the southern urban expansion. The large square has been named after it since 1902. After it was destroyed in the Second World War, only the reception hall of the main train station remained from the original building. During the reconstruction in the 1950s, the square was enlarged and rebuilt inconsistently.
In the years 1998 to 2000 the station square was redesigned. In addition to a bus station with all the important bus connections in the city of Koblenz and the region, there is now a large pavilion with shops and an information point for tourists. There is also a taxi rank, the main post office in Koblenz, two banks , the federal police station , the Rheinische Landesbibliothek Koblenz and a large underground car park under the premises . On September 28, 2009, the new building of the Koblenz therapy center was inaugurated on the southeast side . The wider environment was also modernized. The former Toto Lotto high-rise , which was built between 1954 and 1956 and is now a listed building, was completely modernized from 1998 to 1999. The long-distance bus stop is near the Bahnhofplatz on Neversstraße.
traffic
Koblenz's main train station has a total of ten platform tracks on four platforms , seven of which are through tracks (1 to 5, 8 and 9) and three head tracks (104, 105 and 109).
Almost all tracks (1 to 5, 8 and 104) can be approached from the northern left-hand Rhine route, only the three western ones (5, 8 and 9) from the Moselle route. From the south, only the eastern tracks (1 to 5 and 105) can be used on the left Rhine route, while all tracks can be reached from the Lahntalbahn or the right Rhine route (apart from the northern end track 104).
In long-distance traffic , Intercity Express , Intercity and EuroCity and EuroNight trains stop in Koblenz . In regional transport, regional express and regional train lines serve cities within a radius of around 200 kilometers in the direction of Saarbrücken , Bonn, Cologne , Mönchengladbach , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Oberhausen , Wesel , Limburg , Weilburg , Wetzlar , Gießen , Boppard , Bingen , Mainz , Rüdesheim , Wiesbaden and Frankfurt .
Long-distance transport
In long-distance passenger station in Koblenz is served by the following lines:
| line | Line course | Tact |
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| ICE 10 |
Berlin Gesundbrunnen - Berlin - Berlin-Spandau - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm (wing) Train part 1: Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf Airport - Düsseldorf (- Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne / Bonn Airport ) or (- Cologne - Düren - Aachen ) Train part 2: Hagen - Wuppertal - Cologne (- Bonn - Andernach - Koblenz ) Status: timetable change December 2016 |
60 min |
| ICE 31 | ( Hamburg-Altona - Bremen - Münster -) Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt - ( Würzburg - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt - Munich ) | three pairs of trains |
| IC / EC 30 | Hamburg-Altona - ( individual trains Westerland -) Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Stuttgart ( two pairs of trains Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Chur / Interlaken Ost ) | Two-hour intervals |
| IC / EC 31 | ( Fehmarn Castle or Kiel -) Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Passau | Every two hours / 2 pairs of trains as ICE |
| IC / EC 32 | (Fri / Sun: Berlin - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm -) Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Stuttgart ( one pair of trains Ulm - Augsburg - Munich - Salzburg - Klagenfurt , one pair of trains Ulm - Lindau - Innsbruck ) | Two-hour intervals |
| IC 35 | Norddeich Mole - Emden - Lingen - Rheine - Münster - Recklinghausen - Gelsenkirchen - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz (- Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart / Konstanz ) | Two-hour intervals; from KO individual trains |
| IC 37 | Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz - Cochem - Bullay (DB) - Wittlich - Trier - Wasserbillig - Luxembourg | a pair of trains daily |
| IC 55 | Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg - Braunschweig - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm - Dortmund - Duisburg or Wuppertal - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Stuttgart - Ulm - Oberstdorf | a pair of trains |
| NJ |
ÖBB Nightjet Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport Regional Station - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau - Wels - Linz - Amstetten - St. Pölten - Vienna Meidling - Vienna (car train system) |
a pair of trains daily |
| NJ |
ÖBB Nightjet Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport Regional Station - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich - Kufstein - Wörgl - Jenbach - Innsbruck |
a pair of trains daily |
Regional traffic
Here is an overview of all local rail passenger transport lines that stop at Koblenz Central Station:
RE 1 and RE 11 run between Koblenz and Trier in double traction . In Trier, the train is winged accordingly .
Monument protection
The Koblenz main station is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Südliche Vorstadt at Bahnhofplatz 2 .
Koblenz Central Station has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Max Bär : From the history of the city of Koblenz. 1814-1914. Krabben, Koblenz 1922. ( digitized version )
- Reinhard Kallenbach : Koblenz's story retold. Mittelrhein Verlag, Koblenz, 2012, ISBN 978-3-925180-03-3 .
Web links
- Koblenz city history - Part 36: Koblenz people fight for city expansion. In: Rhein-Zeitung. 20th July 2012.
- Koblenz Central Station. In: Structurae
- Platform roofing (1953). In: Structurae
- Tracks in service facilities (KKO) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
- Koblenz Central Station. In: regionalgeschichte.net.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 470 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 471 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 690 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 625 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ February 26, 1850. Railway construction on the Middle Rhine. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: State Main Archive Koblenz
- ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 23, 1903, No. 47 (from June 13, 1903), pp. 289–293.
- ↑ Official notices from the managing administration. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 66, No. 29 (July 22, 1926), p. 798.
- ^ Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939-1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48; Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1 , p. 220.
- ^ Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939-1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48; Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1 , p. 227.
- ^ Bomb finds in Koblenz and Dortmund. In: Spiegel Online . August 1, 2006.
- ↑ platform refurbishment Koblenz central station - blocking of the platforms in the track 8 South and track 109 in the period from 17.06.2013 - 31.08.2013. Retrieved August 28, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Ulrike Weber (edit.): City of Koblenz. City districts (= General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate Directorate for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 , p. 348-351 .
- ↑ Ulrike Weber (edit.): City of Koblenz. City districts (= General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate Directorate for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 , p. 348 .
- ^ Koblenz central bus station - Koblenz central bus station and bus stop , accessed on June 8, 2014.
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz. Mainz 2020, p. 35 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
