Neuoffingen railway station

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Neuoffingen
Railway station in Neuoffingen
Railway station in Neuoffingen
Data
Location in the network Separation station
abbreviation MNFG
opening August 15, 1876
Conveyance 1988
location
City / municipality Offingen
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 28 '58 "  N , 10 ° 20' 41"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '58 "  N , 10 ° 20' 41"  E
Height ( SO ) 440  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Bavaria
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The station Neuoffingen is a separation station in Offingen in the district of Günzburg . The station was put into operation in 1876. Passenger trains stopped there until 1988.

history

By a Bavarian law of April 29, 1869, the construction of a railway connection between Günzburg an der Donau and Donauwörth , the upper Danube Valley Railway , was commissioned. In 1873 the decision was made to build the Neuoffingen train station between Günzburg and Offingen. The station was built near the railway bridge over the Danube, in the middle of marshy land that had previously belonged to the Barons von Freyberg . To fill in the area, a hill near Offingen was removed, in the place of which the former Offingen sports field is located.

Reception building of Neuoffingen train station in 1902

Work took place on the route from Neuoffingen, which is on the main Augsburg – Ulm line , to Donauwörth for two years . On August 15, 1876, rail traffic was officially started on the new route. Passengers changed trains in Neuoffingen. In the age of steam locomotives, Neuoffingen was also needed to replenish water and material supplies and to carry out maintenance work. In 1889 the line was double-tracked and the station expanded.

From 1940 to 1945 there was an external detachment of the Augsburg prison on the north-western edge of the station with 80 prisoners, mostly French and English. At least one prisoner, Guernsey police officer Herbert Percival Smith, was killed as a result of ill-treatment and poor conditions of detention. Smith has a war grave in Augsburg's Westfriedhof . Survivor Frank Tuck of Guernsey wrote in August 1945: "We were constantly abused by the commandant and the guards, even the railroad engineers at work were fanatical Nazis and made life hell."

While the main line from Munich to Stuttgart had already been electrified in 1932 , trains on the Danube Valley Railway still ran with steam locomotives until around 1965, then also with diesel locomotives, before operations were electrified around 1980. In 1963 a new track diagram signal box was built, which made two old signal boxes superfluous.

The reconciliation cross near the Neuoffingen train station is a reminder of the forced labor camp there during the Second World War

Passenger trains stopped in Neuoffingen until 1988, since then you have to change trains in Günzburg in order to reach connections on the other route. Neuoffingen is one of the last brick railway stations in Bavaria under monument protection . The ensemble of various facilities is falling into disrepair due to lack of funds.

The interlocking (type Sp Dr S59), which was put into operation in 1963, is, according to information provided by Deutsche Bahn, in "very poor condition" in 2019 and should therefore be replaced. The connection to an electronic signal box (ESTW-A) is to be established in the station.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Neuoffingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hieber, Robert: Schwere Jahre: A historical look back at the time from 1930-1950 in Offingen and Schnuttenbach ; in: Unser Offingen , issue 3/2011 ; Markt Offingen (Hsgb), p. 22.
  2. ^ Letter from Frank Tuck to the British Red Cross, August 12, 1945, Guernsey Archives.
  3. ↑ Bernutz: preliminary design electronic interlocking Gunzburg / Neuoffingen. (PDF) G.016164039. DB Engineering & Consulting , May 10, 2019, pp. 8-10 , accessed on May 16, 2020 (File 20190503 Explanatory Report ESTW Günzburg.pdf in around ZIP archive (approx. 270 MB, path \ Attachments \ Attachment 14_Teil_1.zip \ Appendix 14 Part 1 \ Explanatory Report \ )).
  4. ↑ Planning approval according to § 18 AEG i. V. m. Section 74 (6) VwVfG for the “ESTW-A Neuoffingen; New construction of a modular building at the Neuoffingen location in Markt Offingen in the district of Günzburg, rail km 55.475 on the line 5302 Augsburg - Neu-Ulm. (PDF) In: eba.bund.de. Federal Railway Office, February 25, 2019, p. 4 , accessed on May 3, 2020 .