Miltenberg main station
| Miltenberg Central Station | |
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 Entrance building, street side (2009)
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| Operating point type | former train station |
| Location in the network | former terminus |
| abbreviation | NM G |
| opening | November 12, 1876 |
| Conveyance | 2005 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Late classicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Miltenberg |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 42 ′ 12 " N , 9 ° 14 ′ 20" E |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
Miltenberg Hbf (until 1906: Miltenberg ; from 1977: Miltenberg Gbf ) was the first train station in the Bavarian city of Miltenberg from 1876 . Since it represented a permanent obstacle to operation as a terminal station , it was replaced in 1977 by the Miltenberg Nord station on the right Main Main and served as a freight station from then until 2001 .
history
prehistory
On October 1, 1854, the Royal Bavarian State Railways (KBayStsB) opened the Lohr - Aschaffenburg section of the Ludwigs-West-Bahn , the continuous connection between Bamberg and Frankfurt am Main . The railway left the places in the Mainviereck on the left as they route them over the Spessart ramp . Miltenberg, Obernburg and Stadtprozelten were increasingly sidelined in terms of traffic and thus economically. Nevertheless, for particularistic reasons , the Bavarian state showed no interest in creating a rail connection from Lohr to Aschaffenburg along the Main, since this would have enabled neighboring Baden to be connected to its own rail network in Wertheim or near Amorbach and thus competition for the Ludwigs-West- Railway created.
opening
On November 12, 1876, Miltenberg received a railway connection with the Aschaffenburg – Miltenberg line. The station was built in a close valley location on the left bank of the Main as close as possible to the old town. The particularist interests of Bavaria were decisive for this location: The station was deliberately designed so that an extension of the railway up the Main in the direction of Wertheim was not possible and a continuation to Amorbach – Seckach was only possible with a change of direction . Bavarian politicians accepted that Miltenberg could not gain any supra-regional importance in rail transport. The K.Bay.Sts.B. first opened the station as a "1st class rail expedition" and converted it into a "railroad administration" on December 12, 1876.
Extensions
With the opening of the railway line to Amorbach on April 15, 1880, a second line reached the terminus . From 1899, the Baden town of Seckach on the Baden Odenwald Railway could be reached via Amorbach . At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of the railway beyond Miltenberg up the Main: On May 21, 1906, the KBayStsB opened the local railway to Stadtprozelten. Since the left bank of the Main was partly Baden, the route ran completely along the right bank of the Main. At least now, the location of the Miltenberg train station turned out to be the wrong decision, as the connection in Miltenberg was only possible via a railway bridge over the Main in a position in front of the train station that left no space for an entrance curve to the Miltenberg central train station. So it was for trains from Wertheim Aschaffenburg - and vice versa - drove through a fairly complex operation required: They stopped first in Miltenberg North , then drove on the track towards Aschaffenburg, stopped and started after the operational maintenance of Miltenberg Hauptbahnhof back . Then they drove on to Aschaffenburg after another change of direction. This operation was like driving through a hairpin . In 1912, Miltenberg received a connection to the Lauda-Wertheim railway line through the extension of Stadtprozelten -Wertheim .
Detachment
At the latest with the introduction of end-to -end express train connections on the route Bodensee - Crailsheim - Aschaffenburg - Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof in the early 1950s, the operational conditions at Miltenberg Hauptbahnhof turned out to be unsustainable, so that in the 1960s plans for a renovation of the Miltenberg railway systems matured . As a possible solution, the Deutsche Bundesbahn investigated the relocation of all facilities to the previous right-hand Main Main Station Miltenberg Nord while retaining the old station as a freight station ("large solution") and alternatively only the relocation of the stop for continuous passenger trains to the north station and the goods handling ("small solution") . The DB decided on the big solution and in March 1972 released funds amounting to 1.45 million DM for a first construction phase: Miltenberg Nord was expanded into a train station, the feeder lines were rebuilt and a new freight hall was built. As early as the 1972 summer timetable, continuous train journeys Aschaffenburg – Miltenberg Nord – Wertheim were signaling possible, so that individual pairs of express trains could bypass the main station.
In 1975, the DB started work on the second construction phase, which expanded the tracks of the north station, provided a new reception building and a new goods handling facility and included new platforms with an underpass. The new station did not have a modern DR interlocking , but only an older type of electromechanical interlocking for reasons of cost . On May 22, 1977, the new "Miltenberg station" completely replaced the Miltenberg main station in passenger traffic, and from now on the main station was called "Miltenberg Güterbahnhof" (Miltenberg Gbf). Since the era of steam operation was already over, the DB dismantled the facilities for locomotive handling, the locomotive shed and the turntable that were no longer needed on the other side of the Mud . The total costs for the installation were DM 5 million.
Freight station from 1977
1990, took over car service line of the new Miltenberger station as part of rationalization measures on the Main Valley Railway and the control of the freight depot. The shape signals that were still in place were replaced by light signals , and the pull-out track that was last used as a siding was dismantled.
The freight yard was heavily frequented until the mid-1990s, and the track systems were still extensive. The freight station had a loading street as well as various sidings , also a connection to the bank of the Main with the possibility of transshipment to Main shipping. In addition, it was used to park freight cars and the railway maintenance office. From 1997, important customers, including a ceiling tile manufacturer in Amorbach and a manufacturer of ceramic goods in Kleinheubach, relocated their transports to the road. The DB then withdrew the Köf III shunting locomotive that had previously been stationed here, and the systems were only used for timber loading seasonally. As part of MORA C , the DB canceled all remaining customers at the end of 2001 - the last regular freight train left the station on December 20, 2001.
From 2002 onwards, the railway occasionally used the freight station to park construction trains during track work on nearby sections of the route, otherwise nature overgrown the facilities. In 2005, the entrance to the station was closed, and at the beginning of October 2007 the facilities - except for the reception building and goods handling - were completely dismantled. The area was converted into a commercial area and gradually made available to shops and restaurants.
Reception building
The reception building in the late Classicist style was clad in red Main sandstone . After the passenger station was relocated, the station building was initially used by the local railway maintenance office and as a residential building for railway employees. In 1981, following a tender, the building went to an investor who converted the apartments into rental apartments. The imposing reception building is a cultural monument according to the Bavarian Monument Protection Act .
literature
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main. Vol. 1: Historical development and railway construction . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-766-4 .
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main. Vol. 2: Design, operation and machine service . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-768-0 .
- Alexander Wörn: 30 years of Miltenberg station and farewell to the former Miltenberg main station . In: the rail bus . No. 6 , 2007, p. 65-67 .
