Nuremberg main freight station

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Nuremberg main freight station
Main building (2018)
Main building (2018)
Data
Operating point type railway station
Design Terminus
opening 1876
Conveyance 1999
location
City / municipality Nuremberg
Place / district Tafelhof (Nuremberg)
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '38 "  N , 11 ° 3' 53"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '38 "  N , 11 ° 3' 53"  E
Railway lines

Nuremberg marshalling yard - Nuremberg main freight station (km 5.9)

Railway stations in Bavaria
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The station Nuremberg Hauptgüterbahnhof (Hgbf) was only the freight serving station in Nuremberg and was located in the district Tafelhof .

history

backgrounds

With the population of Nuremberg growing towards the end of the 19th century , the amount of goods to be handled increased. In 1860 around 250,000 tons were handled, in 1900 it was already 1.85 million tons. Since the opening of the "Centralbahnhof" (now Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof ) in 1847, which initially handled both freight and passenger traffic, urban space problems in this area have steadily increased and capacity limits have been reached. A new location should solve these problems and not hinder the transport of goods any further.

Planning

In 1865, the Nuremberg city council proposed a new building in Gostenhof (west of the city) along the railway line between Nuremberg and Fürth at about Maximilianstrasse, where the Nuremberg West depot is now located. The advantages of this location would have been the connection to the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal , which runs next to it, in addition to large areas . In 1866, however, some larger Nuremberg industrial companies from the east of the city demanded a new freight yard east of what was then the "Centralbahnhof", against which the industrialists and factories from Fürth and the west of the city protested. This led to a compromise solution and the construction of the new main freight station was carried out in a constrained situation from 1867 to 1876 in the Kohlenhof district between Kohlenhofstrasse and the Steinbühler Tunnel .

business

The much too small area made itself felt as early as 1892. The then Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, Georg von Schuh, stated in a speech in the state parliament: “No one will dispute that the conditions at the train station in Nuremberg, both in terms of passenger and freight traffic, are very unfortunate and even untenable in the long term. “In the same year , the Bavarian State Railway Administration presented a comprehensive concept for the re-planning of freight and passenger traffic, which included the construction of a new marshalling yard in the Lorenzer Reichswald area with a required area of ​​around 340 hectares. This should enable freight traffic to bypass the “Centralbahnhof” bottleneck, which was the only connection between the seven main routes arriving in Nuremberg.

After the opening of the new marshalling yard in 1903, the main freight yard was only used for local freight traffic. Since January 28, 1907, the line between the marshalling yard and the main freight yard connected the two stations. After the Deutsche Bundesbahn ceased general cargo handling at many Nuremberg freight yards in 1976, the station remained together with the Südbahnhof and Fürth main station as the only general cargo reloading point.

Shutdown

Due to the decision of the 12th German Logistics Congress to reduce the number of freight yards in Germany to 35 by 2000, the handling of goods at the main freight yard was finally stopped in 1999. Then there were several discos in the old warehouses until 2015 . The track systems were used as operating tracks until 2010 and signal box 1 Nuremberg main freight station was shut down in mid-August of the same year after 64 years of service.

future

After the demolition work on the site of the former train station began in mid-2017, a new business park is to be built on the site and this will be re-developed for traffic as part of the expansion of the Frankenschnellweg . The GfK is planning by 2019 to purchase its new headquarters on Kohlenhof, in April 2018, the construction work began. The former main building of the freight yard is to be revitalized by the Aurelis by 2020 and act as a historical anchor point for the quarter. In addition to office space, it will also have retail and catering facilities.

photos

  • Disused tracks at the Kohlenhof (July 2012)

  • Reception building (2011)

  • Reception building and GfK area (2018)

  • Rear of the reception building (2018)

  • GfK site (2018)

  • Kohlhof area to the north (2018)

  • Kohlhof area to the west (2018)

See also

Web links

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

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  1. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 173 ( online version ).
  2. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 173 ( online version ).
  3. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 174 ( online version ).
  4. ↑ Quoted from: Martina Bauernfeind: Mayor Georg Ritter von Schuh: Urban development in Erlangen and Nuremberg under the sign of high industrialization 1878–1913 , (= Nürnberger Werkstück zur Stadt- und Landesgeschichte 60), Nürnberg 2000, p. 252.
  5. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 174 ( online version ).
  6. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 179 ( online version ).
  7. ^ Herbert Hieke: History of the Nürnberger Ringbahn . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . tape 86 . Nuremberg 1999, p. 180 ( online version ).
  8. ↑ Discothek Won am Kohlenhof must close on nordbayern.de, June 6, 2014, accessed on November 10, 2017
  9. ↑ Decommissioning of signal box 1 Nuremberg main freight station on bxf.de, from August 30, 2010, accessed on November 10, 2017
  10. ↑ Decision made: GfK moves to the Kohlenhof on nordbayern.de , October 15, 2016, accessed on November 10, 2017
  11. ↑ New GfK headquarters at the Kohlenhof: Offices for 2000 employees on nordbayern.de , from April 27, 2018, accessed on November 3, 2018
  12. ↑ Location map Nuremberg 2018-2020 [PDF] on nuernberg.de, from August 2018, accessed on November 3, 2018