Ludwigsbahnhof (Nuremberg)

Ludwigsbahnhof (1870)

The Ludwigsbahnhof at Nürnberger Plärrer was both the first Nuremberg and the first German train station and, together with the Fürth Ludwigsbahnhof, represented one of the two terminal stations of the Ludwigseisenbahn . On December 7, 1835, the first German railway (and the locomotive " Adler ") to the Fürth Ludwigsbahnhof .

history

Ludwigsbahnhof (center) after electrification, 1905

Model of the first station building in the Nuremberg Transport Museum

Ludwig Railway Monument at its first location on Plärrer, 1891

The Ludwigsbahnhof was officially opened on December 7th, 1835 with the maiden voyage of the eagle in the presence of numerous onlookers. However, the namesake King Ludwig I did not visit the station until August 17, 1836 and then took a trip on Germany's first train. Here, honor gates designed by Professor Heideloff from Nuremberg were set up in his honor in front of the train stations in Nuremberg and Fürth, and the station was described as follows:

“In Nuremberg there are two sheds on the sides of the railway, each 51 feet long and 28 feet wide for the installation of the cars, which can be brought from one shed to the other via four turntables and the American plate rail connection. The beam of the roof of the coach house is 17 feet above the ground so that the steam car with its aligned chimney does not touch it. Each of these sheds rests on 14 pieces of 16 foot and 5 inch long, 10 inch diameter pillars. The roof is covered with slate, the sides are closed with slats, these rest on oak base sleepers. The flat rails on which the wheel flanges run are made of rolled iron. There are notches on the sides of these rails to accommodate the wheel flanges of the cars. In the coach house there is a bricked-up hole 14 feet long, 4 feet wide and 3 feet high between the railway tracks, over which the steam and other wagons are placed if the same work has to be done. "

Due to the growing volume of traffic, the original building was replaced by a larger new building in 1872. When the Nuremberg-Fürth tram network went into operation in 1881, a transfer hub was created. For the Nuremberg railway network , however, it soon became insignificant, as the much larger state central station had already been built at Königstor in 1846 . In addition to the state railways, the emerging competition from the tramway on Fürther Strasse, which had been running in parallel since the end of 1881 and electrified since 1896, finally led to the insolvency of the Ludwigseisenbahn on October 31, 1922 and thus to the cessation of operations at the Ludwigsbahnhof. The Ludwig Railway Monument , unveiled in 1890, was located in front of the building and was moved to the city limits between Nuremberg and Fürth in 1927 when the tram tracks were laid. Since 1993 it has been located on Fürther Straße at the eastern exit of the Bärenschanze underground station .

The station building survived the Second World War unscathed, but was demolished in 1951 for the reorganization of the streets on the Plärrer and the construction of the Plärrer high-rise . Since 1980 the Plärrer station of the Nuremberg subway has been in the immediate vicinity .

Web links

Commons : Ludwigsbahnhof Nürnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Ludwigsbahnhof in Nuremberg and Fürth on nuernberginfos.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwigsbahnhof Nuremberg on nuernberginfos.de, accessed on January 25, 2018
2. ^ Ludwigsbahnhof Nuremberg on nuernberginfos.de, accessed on January 25, 2018
3. ^ Ludwigsbahnhof Nuremberg on nuernberginfos.de, accessed on January 25, 2018

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '54.7 "  N , 11 ° 3' 51"  E