Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg station
| Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg | |
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 Street side of the reception building
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | NNE |
| IBNR | 8000267 |
| opening | October 15, 1846 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg |
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| City / municipality | Neuenmarkt |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 5 '37 " N , 11 ° 34' 49" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 348 m |
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| Railway stations in Bavaria | |
The new market-Wirsberg Station is an operating agency of the Bamberg-Hof railway and the opening out here railway willow New Market Wirsberg in the municipality of New Market in Bavaria . It gained importance due to its location at the foot of the steep slope inclined plane .
location
The station is located in Neuenmarkt on the western edge of the Fichtelgebirge , in the administrative district of Upper Franconia in the Franconian part of Bavaria . It is located in the flat terrain of the wide Schorgast valley at 348 m above sea level .
history
The Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn from Lindau to Hof was the first line of the Royal Bavarian State Railways to be built between 1843 and 1854. The section from Lichtenfels to Neuenmarkt was opened on October 15, 1846. Originally, no train station was planned at the village of Neuenmarkt, as the route in the direction of Hof through the Rohrersreuther Tunnel was to be laid out differently. It was not until the abandonment of its construction and the resulting need for the use of push-pull locomotives that the town became a station. The first station consisted of only two through tracks, a locomotive station with a transfer platform and a total of seven points.
On November 1st, 1848, the route was extended over the inclined plane to Hof. The branch to Bayreuth was the first Bavarian leased railway to go into operation on November 28, 1853. Its tracks branched out from the existing line at the western head of the station, making Neuenmarkt station a wedge station . The Bayreuth Railway systems were located on the south side of the reception building. In the 1880s the station reached its capacity limit. With the reconstruction of the railway systems by 1892, the station grew to eleven tracks, around ninety switches, equipment for freight traffic and two roundhouse sheds . The track field was extended by about 500 meters in a south-easterly direction. The Bayreuth platform was moved to the north side, which meant that the station building lost its island location. The branches to Bayreuth and Hof have been re-routed and the south-eastern level crossing has been replaced by a bridge.
The previously insignificant village of Neuenmarkt experienced a surprising boom with the construction of the railway and the train station. As a "railway village" it experienced rapid development. The addition to the name “- Wirsberg ” for the train station is more recent, since 1892 it has referred to the nearby climatic health resort of the same name .
The ramp to Marktschorgast to the east of the train station overcomes 6.8 kilometers in height and 157.7 meters and has an average gradient of 23 ‰. In the days of steam locomotives, it was a challenge for both machines and people; most trains had to be pushed by push-pull locomotives . Therefore, Neuenmarkt station received a generously dimensioned depot . Its remaining systems have been used by the German Steam Locomotive Museum since 1977 . The smaller of the two roundhouse had gone up in flames after a bombing raid in April 1945 and was never rebuilt.
The trains to Bayreuth began and ended as a feeder initially on the southern and from around 1892 on the northern house platform . But as early as the 1860s there were the first non-stop passenger trains from Cologne via Neuenmarkt and Bayreuth to Vienna . The special trains and coaches to the Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival brought seasonal long-distance traffic, which in Neuenmarkt sometimes had to go crazy .
From 1896 to 1974 the trains to Bad Berneck and Bischofsgrün began and ended at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg station . However, the branch line Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg-Bischofsgrün only branched 2.8 kilometers southeast of the station in the district of Schlömen belonging to the community of Neuenmarkt from the single-track main line to Bayreuth. The last section, which was only operated as a freight connection , was shut down in 1993.
The station building dates from 1849. In 1870 and between 1892 and 1905 it was extensively expanded.
The Schlömener bend opened for traffic in the relation between Bayreuth and Hof has allowed an eastern bypass of the station since June 18, 2000.
Current situation
With the construction of the Hochstadt-Marktzeuln – Probstzella railway line, Neuenmarkt station lost part of its long-distance passenger traffic in the early twentieth century. Today the Intercity-Express trains on the Munich-Berlin route run exclusively on the Nuremberg-Erfurt high-speed line . The long-distance trains on the Saxony-Franconian main line have been circumnavigating the station on the Schlömener curve since 2000.
In 2014, regional express trains run by Deutsche Bahn , which come from Lichtenfels and are winged in Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg , as well as diesel railcars operated by Agilis for regional transport . Occasionally, special trips with steam-hauled trains take place over the inclined plane .
Southeast head to court ausfahrendem diesel railcars and freight shed
Meeting of railcars of three series at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg station, 2006
View from the northwest with two " whales " after strengthening at the exit towards Bamberg
Museum locomotive 50 3690 in front of the German Steam Locomotive Museum
Segment turntable and locomotive shed of the former depot
Security technology
When the railway systems were redesigned in 1892, mechanical interlockings were built at both station heads. The dispatcher was in the eastern signal box. In 1967 the mechanical signal boxes were replaced by a relay signal box, which is located in the reception building. The supervisory buildings on the platforms are not used during regular operations. These are only in operation for large events.
It is now planned to remotely control the relay interlocking from 1963 in the Marktschorgast station in Neuenmarkt.
literature
- Robert Zintl: Bayreuth and the railroad . Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3-8112-0780-6 .
- Jürgen Goller, Wolfram Alteneder: Railway junction Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg . Association of Friends of the DDM, Neuenmarkt 1982.
- Steffen Lüdecke: The Inclined Plane . 4th edition. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-88255-594-3 .
Web links
- Location, track systems, signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ^ Official map of the BayernAtlas
- ^ Website of the community of Neuenmarkt , accessed on May 2, 2014
- ↑ Steffen Lüdecke: The Inclined Plane , p. 142.
- ↑ Bernd Schmitt / Gerald Hoch: branch lines in Upper Franconia , p. 153 ff.