Lutherstadt Wittenberg Central Station
| Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf | |
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.jpg) Reception building, 2017
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | LW |
| IBNR | 8010222 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 1859 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Lutherstadt_Wittenberg_Hauptbahnhof |
| Architectural data | |
| architect |
Franz Schwechten (building from 1877 to 2015) |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Lutherstadt Wittenberg |
| country | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 52 '3 " N , 12 ° 39' 39" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 71 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt | |
Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hauptbahnhof (until December 10, 2016: Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) is the most important train station in the eastern part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt with over 5000 passengers per day . It is one of seven train stations in Lutherstadt Wittenberg .
According to other information, a total of 3700 travelers and visitors use the station every day. 155 passenger trains stop on the six tracks every day.
In 2017 the station was voted station of the year by the Pro Schiene Alliance .
Location and name
The train station is about one kilometer east of the historic city center of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. The railway line Berlin – Halle and the Roßlau – Falkenberg / Elster railway line in an east-west direction cross in the station.
Originally the station was only called Wittenberg , later Wittenberg (Prov Sachs) . After the city was given the nickname "Lutherstadt" in 1938, the station has also been called Lutherstadt Wittenberg since the end of World War II . In December 2016 it was named Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hauptbahnhof .
history
On August 28, 1841, the Anhalter Bahn , built by the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BAE) , reached Wittenberg from Köthen and Dessau . As early as September 10, 1841, the line was in operation all the way to the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin. In this context, the first station building was also erected in 1841 on the route north-west of the city wall. It has been preserved to this day and is considered one of the oldest train station buildings in Germany, but is no longer used as such. It is located on the street Am Alten Bahnhof . However, the original route is no longer visible in the cityscape.
The railway facilities were redesigned with the construction of the first railway bridge over the Elbe in 1859, which connected Wittenberg to Bitterfeld on August 3, 1859 . In the same year a new station building in the style of a Swiss house was built. It was located on the city side of the track system at about 95.0 km of today's route kilometers.
On October 15, 1875, the Wittenberg – Falkenberg (Elster) line was opened by the BAE. Wittenberg had increasingly become a railway junction. On November 13, 1877, the third station building in the city was inaugurated. The architect and builder was Franz Schwechten .
From 1888 to 1921, the Wittenberg tram connected the station with the city center as a meter-gauge horse-drawn tram.
On April 16 and 20, 1945, the station was destroyed by Allied air raids. Only the outer walls of the station building remained; it was rebuilt between 1948 and 1951.
Electric train operations began in 1978 , first on the Berlin – Halle (Saale) line, and then from 1985 on the Roßlau – Falkenberg (Elster) line.
In the spring of 1996, extensive renovation work began on the station as part of the German Unity Transport Project No. 8.3 (Berlin – Leipzig / Halle expansion line). Three platforms on the Berlin – Halle (Saale) railway line and a 42 m long pedestrian tunnel were completely rebuilt by 1998. While access to the station was previously only possible via a street between the tracks on the lines to Bitterfeld and Dessau, there has now been a direct west exit to the city. The new bus station is located on the newly created forecourt. An electronic signal box replaced several old signal boxes. A new route following the construction of the new Elbe bridge allows the station to be driven through at speeds of up to 160 km / h.
Renovation 2015–2016
The station was converted into the second “Green Station” in Germany. For this purpose, the reception building has been replaced by a new building. Construction work was originally scheduled to begin in June 2012 and be completed by the end of 2013. On March 7, 2011, Saxony-Anhalt's then construction and transport minister, Karl-Heinz Daehre, presented the idea of Germany's first climate-friendly train station. Above all, natural building materials were used, and renewable energies such as sunlight are used. The city of Wittenberg has redesigned the area around the train station and created additional Park & Ride spaces. The state is contributing 50 percent of the planned cost of the project of 3.3 million euros. The new station building was built to the west of the tracks. The old station building was demolished at the end of 2015.
Construction began in mid-2015, and the 658 square meter new reception building was opened in December 2016. It is supplied energy self-sufficient. For this purpose, a geothermal system with 35 kW heating and 18 kW cooling capacity and a photovoltaic system with an annual output of 20,500 kWh were built. Rainwater is collected through the roof and processed for the sanitary facilities. The waiting area has 24 seats, USB charging stations, WiFi and LED lighting. Platform 5/6 (Falkenberger side) has also been renewed and the pedestrian tunnel has been extended. At the same time, NASA and the city are converting the bus station, the commuter parking spaces and the bicycle station.
The station became the second “green” station in Germany. This is how DB describes train stations that are operated in a climate-neutral manner.
300,000 visitors were expected at the station for the closing service of the Evangelical Church Congress on May 28, 2017. In fact, around half of the 120,000 visitors to the festival service traveled to and from the festival by train, with over 100 shuttle trains in use.
Investments
The station building, opened in 1877 and demolished in 2015, was located on an island between the tracks. The tracks to the south of the building are not connected; the line to Dessau crosses the line to Bitterfeld. In the north there is a common track field for both lines, there are also the facilities for freight traffic.
The reception building designed by Franz Schwechten was designed like a basilica so that the reception hall received daylight. In the design, Schwechten was based on the styles of the Italian Renaissance . After the destruction in the Second World War, only the outer walls remained, the entire interior design came from the post-war period.
To the west of the former reception building is the Berlin – Halle (Saale) line with platform tracks 1-4, with track 4 as the main platform at the former reception building. Tracks 2 and 3 on an island platform designed for long express trains are the continuous main tracks. The platforms are covered and connected by a tunnel. Track 1 is an outside platform on the western side of the track system, which can be reached directly from the new forecourt.
East of the former reception building is the Roßlau – Falkenberg (Elster) line with platform tracks 5-7, although until 2013 only track 6 was used by passenger trains according to the schedule. Its platform was not covered and only accessible from the house platform (platform 5) by crossing the platform. In the course of the renovation in 2016, an island platform with a roof was also created here, which can be reached through the pedestrian underpass and is barrier-free. With the new station building to the west of the tracks, the station is no longer an island station.
The pedestrian underpass is to be extended in the direction of Elstervorstadt in order to shorten walking distances to residential areas, the vocational school center and a new large car park. Completion is scheduled for 2020.
Connected to the station is the former Lutherstadt Wittenberg depot located around two kilometers to the northeast .
Transport links
Lutherstadt Wittenberg main station offers connections to the north to the federal capital Berlin and to the south to Halle (Saale) and Leipzig . To the west there are regional train connections to Dessau-Roßlau and from there to Magdeburg , to the east to Falkenberg (Elster) and from there to Cottbus and Hoyerswerda . ICE and IC trains also stop at Lutherstadt Wittenberg main station. The historic city center is around one kilometer from the train station.
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| ICE 11 | Hamburg - Berlin - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig - Erfurt - Frankfurt - Stuttgart - Munich | 120 | DB long-distance transport |
| ICE 28 | Hamburg - Berlin - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig - Erfurt - Bamberg - Nuremberg - Munich | 120 | DB long-distance transport |
| FLX 30 | Leipzig - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Berlin Südkreuz - Berlin Hbf - Berlin-Spandau - Hanover - Bielefeld - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Aachen | two to four pairs of trains per week (line currently only runs between Berlin and Cologne) | Flixtrain |
| RE 3 | Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Jüterbog - Berlin - Eberswalde - Greifswald - Stralsund | 120 | DB Regio Nordost |
| RE 14 | Dessau - Roßlau - Coswig - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Annaburg - Falkenberg | individual trains | DB Regio Southeast |
| RB 51 | Dessau - Roßlau - Coswig - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Annaburg - Falkenberg |
60 (Dessau – Wittenberg) 120 (Wittenberg – Falkenberg) |
DB Regio Southeast |
| RB 55 |
Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Pretzsch - Bad Schmiedeberg - Bad Düben - Eilenburg (Sat – Sun in the summer season) |
individual trains | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 2 | (Jüterbog -) Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Graefenhainichen - Bitterfeld - Delitzsch - Leipzig - Leipzig-Stötteritz | 120 | DB Regio Southeast |
| S 8 | (Jüterbog -) Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Graefenhainichen - Bitterfeld - Landsberg - Halle | 120 | DB Regio Southeast |
literature
- Peter Bley: 150 years of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway . alba, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-87094-340-8 .
Web links
- Track system and some permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
- Information and pictures about the new construction of the "Green Station" at bastellen-doku.info
- Delivery to Wittenberg station in the holdings of the Reich Railway Directorate in Halle in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Sachsen-Anhalt railway station development program (PDF file; 4.31 MB)
- ↑ a b c Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Train station for a good climate . In: mobile . May 2017, ISSN 0949-586X , ZDB -ID 1221702-5 , p. 98 .
- ^ Station of the year Lutherstadt Wittenberg , allianz-pro-schiene.de, accessed on September 1, 2017
- ↑ Wittenberg main station. The new green building is open In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, December 9, 2016
- ^ A b Hilmar Spanel: On the history of the railroad in and around Wittenberg 1841–1991. Series of publications by the Wittenberg City History Center, issue 14. Wittenberg 1991, pp. 34 and 93
- ↑ Status report on German unity transport projects ( Memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 608 kB)
- ↑ Lutherstadt Wittenberg station gets a new climate-friendly reception building.
- ↑ Built for the Luther year . In: DB World . No. 11 , 2015, p. 6 .
- ↑ Green Gate to Lutherstadt . In: DB World Region Southeast . No. 7 , 2015, p. 17 .
- ↑ Special DB traffic around the Evangelical Church Congress ran perfectly . In: point 3 . No. 12 , 2017, p. 23 ( online [accessed June 28, 2017]).
- ^ Manfred Berger , Historical Station Buildings, Vol. 1, Saxony, Prussia, Mecklenburg and Thuringia , Transpress-Verlag (1980), p. 160
- ↑ Irina Steinmann: Wittenberg Central Station: Gate to the East is being realized. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. February 2, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .