Meiningen Bavarian train station

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Meiningen Bavarian train station
The Bavarian Railway Station 2006
The Bavarian Railway Station 2006
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Design Terminus
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation AROUND
IBNR 8010230
Price range 4th
opening 1874 (Bavarian State Railways)
Conveyance 1920 (integration into
Meiningen station of the
Deutsche Reichsbahn)
Architectural data
Architectural style historicism
architect Ambros Trento
location
City / municipality Meiningen
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 34 '20 "  N , 10 ° 25' 14"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '20 "  N , 10 ° 25' 14"  E
Height ( SO ) 299.19  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Thuringia
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The Bavarian train station in the southern Thuringian town of Meiningen was an independent terminus from 1874 to 1920 in the immediate vicinity of the Meiningen train station of the Werra Railway and the Prussian State Railway . It still serves as the terminus of the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line and, like the railway line itself, was built and operated by the Royal Bavarian State Railways . After the state railways were dissolved in 1920, the Bavarian railway station was combined with the Prussian railway station to form a railway station for the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

history

Expansion plan not implemented
Realized site plan from 1877
Locomotive shed 1876
Bavarian train station in Meiningen around 1900

A state treaty dated March 21, 1868 between the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen and the Kingdom of Bavaria agreed to build a railway line from Schweinfurt to Meiningen. Both governments covered the costs for their own area. Construction work began on June 14, 1872 and the railway line was opened on December 15, 1874. In the interests of uniform rail traffic, the Royal Bavarian State Railroad operated the entire railway line, including the section on Saxony-Meiningen territory including the Bavarian train station in Meiningen on lease. During the project planning there were several different construction plans up to 1873, including a merger of four passenger platforms of both railway companies west of the reception building of the Werra Railway with a common station hall , but all of these could not be fully implemented mainly due to land issues. The Royal Bavarian Railway Construction Section decided on a terminus station west of the Werra Railway and south of the reception building of the Werra Railway, which was structurally and operationally completely separate from the existing station.

The doubling of the railway area made major structural changes necessary in the urban area around the station. Several roads had to be relocated and partially lowered, a road bridge had to be built as an overpass and a 90 m long road tunnel under the tracks. The Werrabahn station building, which had become too small in the meantime, was also to be structurally enlarged, but the Bavarian State Railroad built and maintained a smaller counterpart to the south of the existing building. The Bayerischer Bahnhof then developed into a complex, separate station area by 1877. In 1900, both reception buildings were connected with a single-storey half-timbered building with access to the tracks and loading ramp. In 1920, after the Bavarian State Railway was dissolved, the Bayerische Bahnhof was integrated into Meiningen Station and is still in operation to the present day. The locomotive depot with extensions was badly damaged in an air raid in the Second World War , used as a coal station after reconstruction and demolished in the late 1990s to make room for the new Meiningen fire brigade.

In 1945, the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line between Rentwertshausen and Mellrichstadt was interrupted because of the demarcation of the occupation zones . The division of Germany prevented continuous rail operations on this route until the political change in 1989/90. The trains in the Thuringian part of the Schweinfurt railway line only ran to Römhild (until 1972) and Rentwertshausen. After closing the gap in 1990/91, from September 28, 1991, there were again continuous trains from here to Schweinfurt. Since 2004, the Erfurter Bahn has been using the Bavarian part of the station as the departure point for its Lower Franconian shuttles and as an operating location.

At present, the covered platform with tracks 1B and 2B (platforms 3 and 4) is used for passenger traffic with trains that start and end here. Other tracks with their service facilities are used for technical supply and for parking the Lower Franconian shuttles of the Erfurt Railway as well as the parking of regional express trains of the Deutsche Bahn and shuttles of the South Thuringia Railway . The reception building, which once housed the Mitropa , is currently used by private institutions. From 2017 to 2021 it will be modernized and rebuilt together with the former reception building of the Werra Railway. Tenants and users will include railway authorities and private businesses.

The station

The Bavarian railway station was under the supervision of the General Directorate of the Royal Bavarian Transport Authority by the "Royal Railway Construction Section Meiningen", which was responsible for the section of the state border - Meiningen, from May 1870 to October 1876 under the direction of the section engineers Karl Güll (until August 1875), Karl Wiß (until January 1876) and Nikolaus Körper designed and built according to the plans of the architect Ambros Trient .

The terminus is 876 m long on the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line, kilometers 79.52 to 80.39, and forms the end point here. The station has 13 tracks plus connecting tracks and technical facilities for rail operations. The track numbers are marked with an additional "B" to distinguish them from the tracks of the Werra Railway. The platform with two tracks for passenger traffic and the loading platform are connected with a cross platform . Their location is in the northern area of ​​the railway site. Both platform edges are each 343 m long, of which 196 m are usable.

The classicistic limestone station building behind the cross platform delimits the railway area to the north. The square-shaped building has two full floors and a monopitch roof above with skylights protruding above them in the middle, which offer a clear view of the station. On the ground floor there were three waiting rooms of the I. to III. Class as well as several office rooms. Offices and apartments were located on the upper floor. The arched windows and cornices on the facade have been adapted to the appearance of the older reception building. A cube frieze is attached under the eaves, depicting petrified beam heads.

The “Royal Bavarian Works Institutions” also erected a number of operating buildings in 1874/75. The most important was the architecturally sophisticated locomotive depot with a turntable , five locomotive stands, workshops and accommodation at the southern end of the railway site. It was demolished in the 1990s. Other buildings were a switchman's house, a water house, a loading and unloading hall and two civil servants' houses. A tank farm south of the Lokremise that was added in the 1920s was destroyed in 1945, rebuilt and later demolished together with the remise.

Transport links

From 1874 to 1945 the Bavarian train station was the start and end point of the railway line to Schweinfurt . In addition, it was a stop for some express trains on the Berlin - Stuttgart route , where the trains " turned their heads " and until 1920 the locomotives of the Prussian State Railways and the Bavarian State Railways were changed. After 1945 this part of the station was the starting point for trains to Römhild and Rentwertshausen as well as express trains to Erfurt , Berlin and Dresden, among others .

At the present time there are mainly train connections from the Bavarian part of the station as start and end points to and from Schweinfurt and Erfurt.

line Line course Companies KBS
STx 50 Meiningen - Grimmenthal - Suhl - Zella-Mehlis - Arnstadt - Erfurt South Thuringia Railway 570
RB 44 Meiningen - Grimmenthal - Suhl - Zella-Mehlis - Plaue - Arnstadt - Neudietendorf - Erfurt South Thuringia Railway 570
RB 40 Meiningen - Ritschenhausen - Mellrichstadt - Bad Neustadt an der Saale - Münnerstadt - Ebenhausen - Schweinfurt / Bad Kissingen Erfurt Railway 815

→ see also: Meiningen train station

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Tino Avemark: The Meiningen train station through the ages . Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, pages 34–43.
  2. ^ RK-Bahn Entwicklung GmbH and Hellmuth Architects. Published in Meininger Tageblatt, April 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kosmaz Lutz: The building of the Bavarian railways right of the Rhine. Printed by and published by R. Oldenburg, Munich / Leipzig, 1883.
  4. ↑ a b Tino Avemark: The Meiningen train station through the ages . Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, pages 44-49.