New center Altona

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Aerial photo of the track systems 2010 (looking south)

Mitte Altona is a traffic and urban development project that is currently being planned to reorganize the Hamburg-Altona railway junction . The centerpiece is the decommissioning of the terminus station Hamburg-Altona and the expansion of the existing S-Bahn station Diebsteich the train station . Large areas of track will be dismantled and made available for urban development . These track systems include the Altona station with its track apron, the track systems of the former Altona freight station , the systems of the former Hamburg-Altona depot . In contrast, the Hamburg-Altona S-Bahn station will be retained.

The urban development project is carried out by ECE Projektmanagement according to plans by the Hamburg architect André Poitiers , the transport project by Deutsche Bahn . This has undertaken to take over the renovation costs for the property in full. Deutsche Bahn plans to invest 360 million euros in the project.

The planning approval decision was issued at the end of 2017, and construction work should begin in summer 2018. However, the Verkehrsclub Deutschland sued the project, and the Federal Administrative Court granted an urgent application from the VCD in August 2018. In February 2020, he announced that he would withdraw his lawsuit after a settlement with DB and the city. In the future, around 22,000 passengers are expected to get on, get off or change trains at the station every day.

history

Historically, the new development areas are in the former town of Ottensen, or in the Ottensen Flurmark. The first railway systems were built here as early as 1844 by the "King Christian VIII Ostseebahn". With the construction of the connecting line in 1865 between Altona and shoulder blade and in 1866 to Klosterthor (Hamburg), the large track triangle was created to the left of Ottensener Harkortstraße (formerly Rainstraße) in “Neu Land” and “In de Reien”. After 1890 the area for freight traffic was expanded. The areas passed into imperial or federal sovereignty.

The construction of the network expansions from 1950 to 1965 for the Hamburg S-Bahn with the transition from the connecting line west of the Holstenstrasse station to the north branching off to the Altona-Kaltenkirchen railway line in 1962 relieved the station, especially in regional traffic.

Since the electrification of the main line to Kiel in 1995, trains coming from Neumünster / Kiel have often bypassed Altona station via Hamburg Dammtor to the main station. The terminal station operation in Altona also causes some problems: The vehicle loading for motorail trains is handled directly via the terminal platform, which is also used by passengers on other trains along the barriers. About half of the regional trains from Schleswig-Holstein already end in Altona due to the overloading of the Hamburg-Altona connecting line, whereby travelers in the direction of the main train station have to take the S-Bahn the remaining distance between the two stations. By shifting freight train traffic to the Hamburg freight bypass, which was expanded after 2005 , more regional trains could pass through to the main station.

Since the mid-1990s, there have been considerations and rough plans to rebuild the entire station about 1.5 kilometers further north directly on the north-south main line at the current Diebsteich S-Bahn station as a through station. For inner-city traffic, this would also have the advantage that another east-west road connection could be built between Stresemannstrasse and Julius-Leber-Strasse (e.g., from Bahrenfelder Steindamm to Haubachstrasse).

In 1997 and 2004, Deutsche Bahn informed the city of Hamburg about its plans to dismantle Altona station after the construction of a new long-distance station in the area of ​​today's Hamburg Diebsteich S-Bahn station. The reason for this was the possibly necessary renovation of a railway bridge north of Altona station. Because of the noise generated by trains, this section of the route is also referred to by residents as the "squeak curve". More recent considerations for relocating the station go back to the urban development project Neue Mitte Altona . As part of the project, residential units and parking spaces are to be created on the Altona station site. The Senate of the City of Hamburg decided in December 2007 to initiate preparatory studies for the redesign of the Altona district. In 2010 the authority for urban development and the environment announced a competition. The aim of the competition was to develop ideas for redesigning the district. The winning design presented in November 2010 provided for the relocation of the Altona train station to Diebsteich. The areas freed up should be built on elsewhere.

In May 2012 it was decided to set up a reservation area ; In September 2012, the Hamburg parliament approved a master plan for the further development of Altona. Dirk Kienscherf , building policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, described the construction project as a “project of the century”. According to Hans-Detlef Roock from the CDU, the expansion of the station is Hamburg's second largest development project after the construction of HafenCity .

In mid-December 2014, Hamburg's First Mayor Olaf Scholz and rail manager Rüdiger Grube signed the contract for the relocation of Altona station. The plan approval procedure should be completed by the end of 2017. Commissioning is Template: future / in 3 yearsscheduled for the end of 2023 . 100,000 passengers per day are expected.

DB plans to invest 360 million euros in the project. Earlier estimates were around 300 million euros for the relocation of the station. For the planning (status: 2014) 13 million euros are earmarked.

On December 29, 2017, DB received the planning approval from the Federal Railway Authority. The text accompanying the publication of the planning approval decision shows that the Federal Railway Authority had already decided on December 7, 2015 that no environmental impact assessment was required for the project. Nevertheless, the Hamburg Authority for Economics, Transport and Innovation (BWVI), which is responsible for holding the public hearing, announced an environmental impact assessment in the Official Gazette on March 8, 2016. The Altona SPD member of the Bundestag Dr. Matthias Bartke therefore sent a request to the Federal Railway Authority to clarify on what basis the announced test was not carried out. Construction work is scheduled to begin in summer 2018. At the Higher Administrative Court of Hamburg u. a. the citizens' initiative Buffer stop filed a lawsuit against this decision and also requested that the construction work be stopped until a decision has been made. This is justified with the lack of a formal environmental impact assessment, deficits in the justification of the project and the weighing of options.

After negotiations and twelve rounds of talks in 2019 known as “fact checks”, the Hamburg Senate, DB and VCD agreed on a compromise. If the new Hamburg citizenship, to be elected at the end of February, agrees, the VCD intends to withdraw its lawsuit. The compromise provides for measures to increase performance at the new train station, improve public transport in the west of Hamburg and relieve the main train station. Among other things, by installing additional points and signals, the station should be able to handle up to 31 trains per hour at peak times. Additional platform tracks could be created later in the course of an S-Bahn tunnel running parallel to the connecting line, which was considered as part of the Germany cycle . The compromise also includes the establishment of a binding dialogue forum with disposal funds and participation rights, which is financed by DB and the City of Hamburg with a combined amount of up to 150,000 euros per year.

After the complaint has been withdrawn, DB could begin preparatory work. The main construction work is expected to start in 2021.

Construction project

Urban planning

According to the Authority for Urban Development and the Environment (BSU), preparatory investigations have been taking place in this connection since August 2009; in February 2010, the first drafts for the rebuilding of the track area, prepared for a preliminary study on behalf of the BSU, were published. The BSU writes: "Deutsche Bahn AG is planning to move the regional and long-distance train station in Altona north to the level of today's Diebsteich S-Bahn station" and since the end of May / beginning of June 2010 it has been inviting people to participate in information events for those affected and Interested parties are considered controversial.

In November 2010 it was announced that the design by the Hamburg architect André Poitiers won the tender for the master plan for the development of the site. This plan includes 2000 apartments and green spaces. An approx. 13 hectare part of the area between the current long-distance railway tracks and Harkortstrasse will be developed regardless of the pending decision on the relocation of the long-distance train station. In April 2011 the company ECE Projektmanagement , which builds and operates large commercial real estate, bought 60,000 square meters of the site from the Holsten brewery; In this planning area for a new “Mitte Altona” district, ECE wants to build apartments for the first time.

Deutsche Bahn's decision to relocate was delayed until mid-2014. The company justified this with imponderables after a soil survey revealed severe contamination. This means that the original plan to refinance a through station at Diebsteich through revenue from space can no longer be pursued and a new financing model must be found. Due to the nearby Eidelstedt depot, trains should continue to end.

In the first construction phase for the Neue Mitte Altona , 1,600 apartments are to be built.

The city of Hamburg was supposed to acquire the area of ​​the existing train station by June 30, 2015 for 38.8 million euros through the state office for real estate management and real estate and make it available to DB until the long-distance train station was relocated. This was done by the end of 2014. The second development phase of Altona Mitte is to be realized on the more than 13 hectare area and 1900 apartments are to be built.

Railway systems

On July 1, 2014, Deutsche Bahn announced that it would move the long-distance and regional train station to the location of today's Diebsteich S-Bahn station by 2023. An eight-track through station with six long-distance and regional train tracks as well as two S-Bahn tracks and a three-storey station building is planned . The aim is to renew the railway systems and relieve the Hamburg main station. The plan approval procedure is to begin at the end of 2015.

In the course of the new construction, 25 kilometers of new tracks, 48 ​​points and a new electronic interlocking are planned. The conversion is to take place during ongoing operations. The planned simple reception building is viewed by local politicians as inadequate. The new station is to be built almost entirely on the railway site.

The 410 m long platforms are to be roofed over a length of 240 m, the 210 m long S-Bahn platform over 140 m. Two 13- and 20-story high-rise buildings are to delimit the reception building at the sides.

The contract for the realization of the reception building on an area of ​​around 5500 m² was awarded in September 2017 to the project developer Procom and Haspa PeB , a subsidiary of the Hamburger Sparkasse . An architectural competition is to be announced in spring 2018, in which at least 15 offices are to take part. The procedure should be completed in summer 2018. Construction is scheduled to start in 2020.

The old track systems should be cleared by 2025. Deutsche Bahn will take over the renovation of the floor in the amount of up to seven million euros.

Reactions

The parliamentary group of the SPD described the relocation of the station as groundbreaking for the future development of Altona. Liane Melzer , head of the district office, said that the decision was the best gift for Altona's 350th birthday.

As spokesperson for urban politics for Die Linke , Heike Sudmann welcomed the expected noise reduction that would result from the relocation of the route, but was of the opinion that a shift in long-distance traffic towards the existing S-Bahn tracks would be sufficient. Her party colleague Robert Jarowoy called the decision a bad day for Altona, as the part of the city's identity would be robbed with the relocation of the station. At the same time, he criticized the insufficient public participation.

Web links

Individual evidence

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