Mönchengladbach main station
| Mönchengladbach main station | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Passenger station |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 9 |
| abbreviation | KM |
| IBNR | 8000253 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | 1851 (train station), 1908 (station building) |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Moenchengladbach_Hbf |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Mönchengladbach |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 '48 " N , 6 ° 26' 46" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Mönchengladbach main station is the largest station in Mönchengladbach in front of the Rheydt main station and, together with the ZOB Hauptbahnhof / Europaplatz, forms the city's central transport hub. Long-distance trains have been running again since December 2009, and numerous local transport lines stop at Mönchengladbach Central Station as scheduled . The station replaced the first station in M.-Gladbach, which opened in 1851, in 1908, belongs to price class 2 and is a crossing station .
location
The main train station is at Europaplatz 1 and is located in the city center of Mönchengladbach. The pedestrian zone Hindenburgstrasse with numerous retail stores begins directly at the station forecourt, on the rear also accessible through the pedestrian tunnel of the station there is a bicycle station , two grocery stores , some specialist stores, the vocational college Platz der Republik for technology and media and the Vitusbad swimming pool.
Monument protection
Mönchengladbach Central Station with its reception hall, the basic structures, the station tunnel with the original wall tiles that have been preserved, the staircases with the railings and the load-bearing parts of the platform hall are significant for the history of the city of Mönchengladbach. It was therefore entered under No. E 029 on February 6, 1991 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
Redevelopment
The main station has been completely renovated since 2009 by the railways, the state and the city. Construction work officially began on September 21, 2009. The first phase of construction primarily concerned the lobby of the station. Then work was carried out on the second section (lobby and shops). The renovation was paused at the end of November 2010 because the intended anchor tenant McDonald’s did not want to sign the contract with Deutsche Bahn. However, DB found a new anchor tenant in the IhrPlatz drugstore chain and construction work continued. The work was repeatedly interrupted and postponed in the following years for various reasons. The entrance hall was without doors for two years because Deutsche Bahn couldn't find a company to carry out the work. The renovation of the listed station tunnel is planned for 2020.
Route connection
The routes built by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft branch off at Mönchengladbach Central Station . The Aachen – Mönchengladbach railway approaches him from Aachen from the south, north of the station the Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf railway connects to the station and continues in a curve to the east in the direction of Neuss . These two lines together form the KBS 485. The Duisburg-Ruhrort – Mönchengladbach (KBS 425) line also begins north of the station via Viersen and Krefeld to Duisburg . The connecting line to the Krefeld – Rheydt railway line, which used to lead to Mönchengladbach-Neuwerk , ran parallel to the line to Viersen as far as Eicken, but it has already been dismantled.
Finally, at the southern end, there is the former beginning of the Mönchengladbach – Stolberg railway line , which used to be used for trains to Cologne as far as Hochneukirch . However, the tracks only lead to the Rheydt-Geneicken station (industrial area Mitte) and are used exclusively for freight traffic. Since the closure of the Rheydt-Geneicken – Rheydt-Odenkirchen section, trains to Cologne have only run first to Rheydt Hauptbahnhof and then via the connecting route from Rheydt Hauptbahnhof to Rheydt-Odenkirchen.
Track occupancy
(As of 2020)
| track | Line (s) and goals | particularities |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | RB 33 towards Aachen Hbf | |
| 2 | RB 34 from / to Dalheim | |
| 3 | RB 33 towards Essen Hbf RB 35 from / to Gelsenkirchen Hbf |
RB 35 only Monday to Friday |
| 4th | RE 42 from / to Münster (Westf) Hbf | |
| 5 | RE 4 towards Aachen Hbf | |
| 6th | RE 8 from / to Koblenz Hbf RB 27 from / to Koblenz Hbf |
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| 7th | RE 4 towards Dortmund Hbf RE 13 towards Hamm (Westf) Hbf RE 13 towards Venlo |
RE 13: The trains change direction in Mönchengladbach Hbf. |
| 8th | no scheduled traffic | Passage and through track |
| 9 | S 8 from / to Hagen Hbf |
Operating facilities
There are nine platform tracks in Mönchengladbach main station, which are spanned by a station hall . Tracks 8 and 9 are used almost exclusively by S-Bahn trains. Next to it there are two platform-less tracks, which are only rarely used as siding. The freight station used to be located east of the main line to Düsseldorf. After its demolition, only three tracks remained as overtaking tracks.
Depot
To the north of the main train station, at the fork in the routes to Viersen and Neuss, is the Mönchengladbach depot with a diesel locomotive filling station. In addition, there used to be a car wash (which had been shut down for a long time) (dismantled in autumn 2013), a turntable and a roundhouse which housed numerous steam locomotives. Only parts of the locomotive shed and the pit of the turntable are still preserved. Most recently, there were still class 515 accumulator railcars for use on the Iron Rhine to Dalheim and small locomotives ( Köf II ) at home in Mönchengladbach .
The former maintenance hall for passenger coaches in the Mönchengladbach depot was last opened by the Steam Railway Association Rur-Wurm-Inde e. V. used. However, the association ceased operations at the beginning of June 2008 and dissolved. However, the facilities are currently still being used to park passenger coaches from private providers.
View from platform 1 to the ZOB and Haus Westland
Regional trains
Tunnel with platform access
South track system
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Local transport
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The following local rail transport lines operate at Mönchengladbach Central Station:
Furthermore, numerous bus routes run from the central bus station to the station forecourt to all city districts and the surrounding area.
Long-distance transport
For a long time, after the abolition of the express train route Cologne - Eindhoven and the Interregio Aachen - Erfurt, there was no long-distance traffic in Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof . Thus, the city of Mönchengladbach was the largest city in terms of population with no long-distance traffic connection in Germany. Occasionally, ICE still stopped at Mönchengladbach Central Station when it was diverted from the Oberhausen – Arnheim railway via Mönchengladbach – Eindhoven on the way to Amsterdam (e.g. due to construction work or a line closure) .
Deutsche Bahn announced in October 2009 that Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof would be reconnected to the national long-distance network when the timetable changes on December 13, 2009. After the timetable change, there is now an IC and ICE connection between Berlin and Mönchengladbach on Fridays and Sundays . The IC connections are made to and from Aachen.
On December 13th, the new long-distance line was opened with a welcome party.
In addition, since the timetable change in December 2013, the IC train pair 2222/2223 Aachen – Mönchengladbach – Krefeld – Berlin has been running Mondays to Fridays.
The routes of the long-distance connections are as follows:
| Train number | Days of traffic | Line course |
|---|---|---|
| IC 2222 | Mon-Fri | Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm (Westf) - Bielefeld - Hanover - Wolfsburg - Berlin-Spandau - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Ostbahnhof |
| IC 2223 | Mon-Fri | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Berlin Hbf - Berlin-Spandau - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm (Westf) - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Krefeld - Mönchengladbach - Aachen |
| IC 1918 | Friday | Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm (Westf) - Bielefeld - Hanover - Wolfsburg - Berlin-Spandau - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Südkreuz - Dresden |
| ICE 1046 | Friday | Berlin Ostbahnhof - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm (Westf) - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Mönchengladbach |
| IC 1919 | Sunday | Dresden - Berlin Südkreuz - Berlin Hbf - Berlin-Spandau - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Bielefeld - Hamm (Westf) - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Mönchengladbach - Aachen - Düren - Cologne |
Temporary long-distance transport 2010/2011
Due to construction work at Arnhem train station , additional ICE connections ran in the summer holidays 2010 and 2011 as well as in the autumn holidays 2010, which were not included in the regular timetable. A separate timetable has been posted for the summer and autumn connections. The ICE to and from Frankfurt am Main ran five times a day; the ICE to Basel once a day.
| ICE train numbers | Traffic period | Line course |
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| ICE | 25 Jul to 22 Aug 2010, 16 to 24 Oct 2010, 23 Jul to 28 Aug 2011 |
Frankfurt (Main) - Cologne - Mönchengladbach - Eindhoven - Utrecht (- Amsterdam ) |
| ICE | 25 Jul to 22 Aug 2010, 16 to 24 Oct 2010, 23 Jul to 28 Aug 2011 |
Basel - Freiburg (Breisgau) - Offenburg - Karlsruhe - Mannheim - Frankfurt (Main) - Cologne - Mönchengladbach - Eindhoven - 's-Hertogenbosch - Utrecht - Amsterdam |
The ICE 235 from Amsterdam to Basel SBB drove via Mönchengladbach, but did not stop there. The same applied to the CityNightLine trains operated by Deutsche Bahn to and from Amsterdam.
Web links
Deutsche Bahn AG:
- Tracks in service facilities (KM) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 194 kB)
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
Individual evidence
- ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 433 kB) City of Mönchengladbach, November 16, 2018, p. 19 , accessed on May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Dieter Weber: Central station is being renovated. In: RP Online. April 23, 2009, accessed May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Milena Reimann: Mönchengladbach main station has doors again after two years. In: RP Online. December 21, 2018, accessed May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Central station remains without doors for another winter. In: RP Online. September 27, 2018, accessed May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Sebastian Radermacher, Dieter Weber: ICE: Gladbach no longer on the siding . In: Rheinische Post . October 7, 2009 ( rp-online.de [accessed May 3, 2019]).
- ↑ Andreas Gruhn: Large train station for the ICE . In: Rheinische Post . December 14, 2009 ( rp-online.de [accessed May 3, 2019]).
- ↑ New intercity connection from Aachen Hauptbahnhof to Berlin Hauptbahnhof from December 16 . ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Deutsche Bahn press release from September 16, 2013. Accessed on January 15, 2014.