Pforzheim Central Station
| Pforzheim central station | |
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 Pforzheim Central Station
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| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Design | Through station (two stub tracks ) |
| Platform tracks | 7th |
| abbreviation | TPH |
| IBNR | 8000299 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | 4th July 1861 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Pforzheim_Hbf |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Helmuth Conradi |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Pforzheim |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 53 '37 " N , 8 ° 42' 11" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 280 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Pforzheim Hauptbahnhof established in 1861 north of Pforzheim town center as a transit station on the railway line from Karlsruhe to Mühlacker .
history
The first Pforzheim station was opened on July 3, 1861 on the Karlsruhe-Mühlacker line of the Baden State Railways . On May 29, 1863, the entire line to Mühlacker was completed, where there was a connection to the western line of the Württemberg State Railways from Stuttgart to Bruchsal . With the opening of the Enz Valley Railway to Wildbad (June 11, 1868) and the Nagold Valley Railway to Horb (June 1, 1874), Pforzheim developed into a connecting station with a considerable volume of traffic. Both routes were operated by the Württemberg State Railways; they were given their own platform tracks in the west of the station.
The station building, which was built in 1861, was a late classicist building, consisting of a long, single-storey central building and two-storey, transverse wing structures. The station building was built during the Second World War, when air raid on Pforzheim destroyed on February 23 1945th
New building in 1958
The new building of the reception building was opened in June 1958. The architect was Helmuth Conradi (1903–1973), who had already designed the reception building of the Heidelberg Central Station , which opened in 1955 . The defining component is the reception hall, which opens onto the station forecourt with a glass surface extending from the floor to the eaves . A very thin canopy marks the main entrance, its cladding with gold anodized aluminum plates indicates the importance of the watch and jewelery industry for Pforzheim.
Inside the hall, the ceiling strips that continue along the long wall are used for indirect lighting. The reception hall is framed by two granite wall surfaces, on the left without a window and on the right with a station clock and a large trapezoidal window, the service rooms open to the track side. The two wing buildings with the train station restaurant and a bus waiting hall step back behind the alignment line of the reception building.
In the counter hall there is a large wall relief by Josef Karl Huber , which embeds the gold city theme at the Black Forest Gate in a dynamic pattern of curved arches. The architect Conradi and the artist Huber met in an English camp for prisoners of war and spent two years there together. The building, which is considered to be "one of the most elegant and modern station buildings of the Deutsche Bundesbahn" of the post-war period , has been a listed building since 1989 . The occasion gave rise to plans by the railway to set up a travel center on the ground floor of the station instead of the previous counters. The monument office then placed the station under protection so that the necessary modifications did not affect the originality of the building.
The renovation of the main train station started at the beginning of February 2011. In June 2012, three elevators were put into operation, creating barrier-free access to the platforms.
In a second construction phase, starting in October 2015, the platforms on tracks 1, 2/3, 4/5 and 103/104 were raised to 55 centimeters above the top edge of the rails in order to enable easier and, in some cases, stepless access to the trains. The renovation cost 7.3 M €, of which the city of Pforzheim paid 1.8 M €.
To the west of the main train station, Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg is planning to build a depot with sidings between the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2019.
Offer
As a train station on the east-west connection from Paris via Strasbourg , Karlsruhe , Stuttgart and Munich to Vienna , Pforzheim was a stop on the Orient Express from 1883 . Wildbad, the end point of the Enz Valley Railway, was an important spa for decades and was the destination of through coach connections , with the wagons being changed over to the Enz Valley Railway trains in Pforzheim. The last through car connections to Wildbad were discontinued in 1995. The Nagold Valley Railway was mainly used for local traffic ; Between 1952 and 1964 an express train ran from Frankfurt via Pforzheim and Horb to Konstanz .
The Pforzheim main station lost its importance for long-distance traffic from 1991 , since since the commissioning of the high-speed line Mannheim – Stuttgart for long-distance trains between Karlsruhe and Stuttgart it has been possible to bypass Pforzheim using a connecting curve near Bruchsal. The lost long-distance connections are sometimes heavily criticized on site. In the 2010/2011 annual timetable, long-distance traffic from the station is limited to the Intercity line 61, which runs every two hours between Nuremberg and Karlsruhe. In local traffic, the main station is served by several regular lines, including an IRE , an RE line, an RB line and two lines of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn .
Long-distance transport
| line | route | Tact |
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| ICE 47 | Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Cologne - Frankfurt Airport - Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Stuttgart - Munich | a pair of trains |
| IC 61 | Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen - Stuttgart - Schorndorf - Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen - Ellwangen - Crailsheim - Ansbach - Nuremberg - Bamberg - Lichtenfels - Kronach - Saalfeld - Jena-Göschwitz - Jena Paradies - Naumburg - Weißenfels - Leipzig | Every two hours between Karlsruhe and Nuremberg, individual trains to Leipzig |
Regional traffic
| Line, type of train | route | Clock frequency |
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| IRE 1 | Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen (Enz) - Stuttgart | Hourly |
| IRE 1 | Karlsruhe - Pforzheim - Mühlacker - Vaihingen (Enz) - Stuttgart - Schorndorf - Aalen | Every two hours |
| RB 17A | Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim - Vaihingen - Mühlacker - Pforzheim - (Wilferdingen-Singen) | Every half hour to Bietigheim, every hour to Stuttgart |
| RB 17A Enztäler Freizeitexpress | Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Bietigheim - Vaihingen - Mühlacker - Pforzheim - Bad Wildbad | two pairs of trains in the summer months |
| RB | Pforzheim - Bad Liebenzell - Calw - Nagold - Horb (- Tübingen ) | Pforzheim - Nagold: half hourly (HVZ) Nagold - Horb: hourly Horb - Tübingen: two hourly |
| R99 , RB (" Klosterstadt-Express ") | ( Pforzheim /) Mühlacker - Maulbronn West - Maulbronn City | individual trains in the summer months |
| S 5 | Wörth Dorschberg - Wörth - Karlsruhe-Knielingen - Karlsruhe Duck fishing - Karlsruhe-Durlach - Söllingen - Pforzheim | Half-hourly |
| S 6 (" Enztalbahn ") | Pforzheim - Brötzingen - Neuenbürg - Höfen - Bad Wildbad - Bad Wildbad Kurpark | Hourly (+ amplifier) |
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (TPH) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 7.74 MiB)
- Location and track systems as well as some signals and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
- THE YEARS OLD MAIN RAILWAY STATION PFORZHEIM , reading sample
- At last! With great attention to detail, the DB beautifies the Pforzheim central station , reading sample
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 770 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 710.5 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 710.6 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 774 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ^ Manfred Berger : Historic train station buildings. (Volume III: Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Palatinate, Nassau Hesse). Transpress, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00267-8 , p. 150.
- ↑ a b c d Pforzheimer train station completely renovated: Wirtschaftswunderbahnhof in new splendor. In: SWR Aktuell. Südwestrundfunk Establishment under public law, October 13, 2017, accessed on October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ For a description of the building see Martin Schack: Neue Bahnhöfe. The station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948–1973. Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-49-3 , p. 43ff; Roland Feitenhansl: Avant-garde yesterday and today. Railway station buildings in Baden-Württemberg in the 1950s. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. News bulletin of the state monument preservation. ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.5 MiB) 3/2010 (39) ISSN 0342-0027 , pp. 134–140, here pp. 137f.
- ↑ Christoph Timm: Monuments of the post-war era in Pforzheim and their problems . In: Badische Heimat , issue 3/1995, pp. 421–440, here pp. 429–431.
- ↑ This assessment by Martin Schack: Neue Bahnhöfe. Nederbeyer, Berlin 2004, p. 187.
- ↑ Marek Klimanski: Finally: barrier-free to the platforms in Pforzheim Central Station. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung. June 26, 2012, accessed May 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Pforzheim main station building project. (No longer available online.) In: BauInfoPortal. Deutsche Bahn AG, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marek Klimanski: Five million euros for station-renewal. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung. October 29, 2015, accessed April 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Abellio builds a new depot in Pforzheim. In: abellio.de. Abellio, February 10, 2017, accessed February 11, 2017 .
- ^ A b Michael Block: Pforzheim Central Station: from showpiece to scandalous object. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung, May 4, 2008 (accessed on February 26, 2011).
- ↑ Martin Geier: The Enz Valley Railway. From the decommissioning discussion to the tram. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2003, ISBN 3-89735-249-4 , pp. 46, 127.
- ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Schar, Burkhard Wollny: The railway in the northern Black Forest. Volume 2: Design, Operation and Machine Service. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1995, ISBN 3-88255-764-8 , p. 107.
