Lindau main station
| Lindau Hbf | |
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 West wing of the station building, in front of it sidings (2008)
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| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | MLI (DB), L (ÖBB) |
| IBNR | 8000230 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | March 1, 1854 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Lindau_Hbf |
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| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Lindau (Lake Constance) |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 32 '45 " N , 9 ° 41' 2" O |
| Height ( SO ) | 398 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
Lindau Hauptbahnhof ( Lindau City until May 15, 1936 ) is the largest train station in the city of Lindau (Lake Constance) and at the same time its only long-distance stop .
Geographical location
The Lindau main station, which acts as a border station towards Austria , is located on the island of Lindau in Lake Constance in the immediate vicinity of the Lindau harbor . It is connected to the mainland via the four- track Lindau Bodenseedamm . The dam and the Landtorbrücke road bridge , which runs about 500 meters to the east, separate the Kleiner See from Lake Constance. The railway systems further separate the main island from the rear island . A pedestrian bridge and the Thiersch bridge for road traffic create the connection over the tracks.
Infrastructure
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The station is the end point of the Bavarian Allgäu Railway and is largely designed as a terminal station in the area of the platforms . The station building is parallel to the tracks. It was built between 1913 and 1921 in the Baroque style of the Heimat , and is a listed building . It suffered a lot during the twenty years of discussion about the reconstruction of the Lindau railway junction, as hardly any investments were made.
To the west of the reception building are a small marshalling yard and the former depot . Its dismantled systems are now used for vehicle maintenance. The station has two electromechanical signal boxes that went into operation in 1924 and are equipped with light signals .
history
Lindau is the end point of the Allgäubahn coming from Munich via Kempten and the Ludwigsbahn coming from Augsburg . The south-western section of the route from Munich-Kempten to Lindau was opened on March 1, 1854, but the first Lindau station building was not completed until December 2, 1854.
From 1869 to 1939 the port was a ferry for freight wagons to Romanshorn ( Switzerland ) and 1873 to 1899 for consistency . In 1899, as part of the Bodenseegürtelbahn, the Friedrichshafen – Lindau line was put into operation, but it ends in Aeschach. There it joins the Allgäu Railway and made the trajectory to Constance superfluous.
The Lindau – Bludenz railway leads via Bregenz and Dornbirn to Bludenz . In the past, the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) had its own ticket office in Lindau's main train station , which was replaced by a ticket machine . Freight trains have been able to bypass the terminal station on the island since 1878 by using the Aeschach curve on the mainland.
A serious accident occurred on July 21, 1905: due to a shunting error in the (then) Oberreitnau station on the Allgäu Railway, a number of freight wagons got onto the track leading downwards towards Lake Constance, started rolling, drove through Lindau Central Station and fell on it sea-side end in the port, whereby the scaffold of the trajectory was damaged.
The route to and from Austria was electrified on December 14, 1954 and is still the only railway line with overhead lines that reaches Lindau. In Lindau's main train station, tracks 1 to 3 and two sidings are provided with overhead lines. Also, electric locomotives of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) run on schedule to Lindau.
In the course of the Bahnhof 21 project , the terminal station on the island was to be abandoned and replaced by a through station on the mainland. The project failed.
service
Long-distance transport
In long- distance passenger rail transport , DB's Eurocity line 88 offers regular connections from Munich via Lindau to Zurich . In Lindau, the Eurocity trains switch between German diesel and Swiss electric traction.
With the long-distance traffic offensive , the EC 88 should be replaced by a two-hour ICE 4 service by 2030 at the latest . From December 2020, however, SBB's ETR 610 will initially operate on this route six times a day and replace the locomotive-hauled EC. From the same date, all long-distance trains will no longer stop at the current main train station, but rather the Lindau-Reutin station in the Reutin district on the Lindau mainland, which will be newly built by then .
In addition, Deutsche Bahn wants a two-hour direct, tourist-oriented connection between Saarland with new IC-2 cars on the new Intercity line 62 (Saarbrücken - Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Stuttgart - Ulm - Friedrichshafen - Lindau) with new IC-2 carriages, which is expected to be available from December 2029 and the Lake Constance region . The prerequisite for this is the electrification of the southern runway , which is currently under construction .
| line | course | Clock frequency |
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| EC 88 | Munich - Buchloe - Memmingen / Kempten - Lindau - Bregenz - St. Gallen - Winterthur - Zurich (- Basel ) | four pairs of trains a day |
From December 2010 to December 2013, a railjet was connected to Lindau every day . The return train ran to Bregenz as a regional express with a stop in Lochau-Hörbranz and from Bregenz as a Railjet to Vienna, as the Railjet replaced a regular regional express or S-Bahn on the Lindau – Bregenz route. In addition, a single wrong daily Intercity - train pair of German line 32 of Munster over Lindau to Innsbruck . As a result of the construction work on the Ulm – Friedrichshafen line, it has been replaced by an Intercity Express (ICE) as far as Stuttgart . In earlier years, express trains (Ex) operated by ÖBB to Lindau, among other things, there were direct connections to the Austrian capital Vienna . Today, most of the Austrian long-distance trains end or begin in neighboring Bregenz .
Regional traffic
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The Lindau main station is served from three different directions for local rail passenger transport. Lindau is the terminus for all regional trains. The main reasons for this are the various railway companies in the region, namely DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben and alex towards Bavaria , DB ZugBus regional transport Alb-Bodensee towards Baden-Württemberg and ÖBB towards Austria .
Regional express trains (RE) run every hour to and from Friedrichshafen and connect to Stuttgart . They are supplemented by regional trains (RB) that run every hour to and from Friedrichshafen.
Every morning an Interregio-Express drives to Singen and a regional train arrives from there.
The alex (until 2010: Arriva-Länderbahn-Express) to and from Munich and the Allgäu-Franken-Express as a regional express (RE) from and to Nuremberg run to and from Hergatz . In addition, individual regional express trains run to and from Ulm via Kempten. Regional trains run in the same direction to Kißlegg or Aulendorf.
The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) offer regional express trains (REX) to Feldkirch and Bludenz . In addition, Lindau's main train station is the terminus of line 1 Vorarlberg S-Bahn .
| Train type | course | Clock frequency |
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| IRISHMAN | Lindau - Friedrichshafen city - Radolfzell - Singen - Schaffhausen - Waldshut - Basel Bad | individual trains |
| RE | Lindau - Friedrichshafen city - Ravensburg - Aulendorf - Biberach - Ulm - Plochingen - Stuttgart | Hourly |
| ALX | Lindau - Hergatz - Immenstadt - Kempten - Kaufbeuren - Buchloe - Munich | Every two hours |
| RE | Lindau - Hergatz - Immenstadt - Kempten - Kaufbeuren - Buchloe - Augsburg (- Nuremberg ) | Every two hours |
| RE | Lindau - Hergatz - Immenstadt - Kempten - Memmingen - Ulm | individual trains |
| RE | Lindau - Hergatz - Wangen - Kißlegg - Leutkirch - Memmingen - Buchloe - Munich | a pair of trains |
| REX | Lindau - Bregenz - Dornbirn - Feldkirch (- Bludenz ) | (Half) hourly |
| RB | Lindau - Wasserburg - Friedrichshafen City (- Friedrichshafen Harbor ) | Hourly |
| RB | Lindau - Hergatz - Wangen - Kißlegg (- Bad Waldsee - Aulendorf) | Every two hours |
| RB | Lindau - Hergatz - Wangen - Kißlegg - Leutkirch (- Memmingen) | individual trains |
| S. | Lindau - Bregenz - Dornbirn - Feldkirch - Bludenz | Every two hours |
| S. | Lindau - Bregenz - St. Margrethen | single move |
city traffic
On the station forecourt, the Lindau city bus runs with lines 1 and 2, sometimes also with amplifiers from lines 3 and 4, as well as the school bus line 31. This connects the main station with all Lindau districts and the neighboring communities of Bodolz - Enzisweiler and Weißensberg .
future
After several attempts, the railway infrastructure in the Lindau area has been modernized and rebuilt since 2016 . The first groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 24, 2016. Long-distance passenger traffic will be relocated to a new train station on the mainland. For this purpose, today's Lindau-Reutin freight yard is being converted into a passenger and storage station with four platform and a few sidings. For the main station, the restructuring means a downsizing of the operational facilities: The number of platform tracks will be reduced from eight to six and the length of the track shortened in order to build a level crossing to the rear island south of the buffer stops. Of the five tracks that have not yet been electrified, the three remaining will also be equipped with an overhead line. The parking facility and the filling station for diesel traction vehicles will be relocated to Reutin on the mainland. An electronic interlocking in Reutin, which (currently; until a later migration to an operations center) is remote-controlled from Immenstadt, has taken over control of the Lindau railway systems since March 2020 . The hub for regional traffic will remain here. With the renovation, the name “Hauptbahnhof” will disappear and the operating point will be renamed “Lindau-Insel”.
Further stations in Lindau
Other stations in the urban area of the breakpoint Lindau- Aeschach and the freight station Lindau-Reutin . In the past there were also Lindau- Zech (from May 15, 1936 and until after the Second World War: Lindau-Siebertsdorf), Lindau Langenweg, Lindau Strandbad, Schönau , Oberreitnau and Rehlings. As part of the modernization of the railway systems in the Lindau area, the Lindau-Aeschach stop is to be modernized and new stops are to be built in Hergensweiler , Oberreitnau, Schlachters and Weißensberg .
literature
- pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau . In Eisenbahn-Revue International 12/2016, p. 606f.
- Harald Schönfeld: island idyll with an expiration date. Lindau Hbf - receipt or end? In: railway magazine . No. 9/2012 . Alba publication, September 2012, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 30–34 (article on the history and future plans of the Inselbahnhof).
- Christian Wüst: Lummerland in Lake Constance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43/2014 . SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, October 2014, ISSN 0038-7452 , p. 133 ( spiegel.de [accessed on October 23, 2014]).
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (MLI) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 172 KiB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau , p. 606.
- ↑ Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes , accessed on February 14, 2017
- ↑ Lindau Central Station on bf-l.zielbahnhof.de, accessed on March 15, 2020
- ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979.
- ↑ Biggest customer offensive in the history of DB long-distance transport. In: deutschebahn.com. DB Group, accessed on October 12, 2015 .
- ^ Zurich – Munich: New fleet, more connections and shorter travel times | SBB. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
- ↑ pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau , p. 606.
- ↑ construction site blog | ABS 48: upgraded Munich-Lindau border D / A. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
- ↑ pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau , p. 60 7.
- ↑ pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau , p. 606.
- ^ Data BD Augsburg
- ↑ pd / an: Groundbreaking ceremony in Lindau , p. 607.
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