Reichenbach (Vogtl) train station above train station

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Reichenbach (Vogtl) above Bf
Reichenbach (Vogtl) station above Bf, street side (2017)
Reichenbach (Vogtl) station above Bf, street side (2017)
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network former separation station
Design former Inselbahnhof
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation DRC
IBNR 8012739
opening May 31, 1846
Profile on Bahnhof.de Reichenbach__Vogtl__ob_Bf
location
City / municipality Reichenbach in Vogtland
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 37 '39 "  N , 12 ° 17' 44"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '39 "  N , 12 ° 17' 44"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
i16 i16 i18

The Reichenbach (Vogtl) ob Bf station is an operating point on the Leipzig – Hof railway line in Reichenbach in the Vogtland . It is only used for travel, freight facilities no longer exist. The last section of the railway line to Göltzschtalbrücke , which has branched off here since 1895 , was also shut down in the 1970s.

Between 1963 and 2012, the electrification of the route from the Leipzig and Zwickau directions via the Werdau triangular arch ended in Reichenbach . Thus, all trains, including the interzonal trains to the south, had to be re- spanned in the direction of Plauen upper station and Hof / Saale. Since the 1990s, however, trains hauled by diesel locomotives and also the ICE TD to Dresden have been running more and more on the electrified section , so that longer operating stops were hardly necessary in Reichenbach.

Since the station opened in 1846, there was a locomotive station, which later became the Reichenbach depot . From the late 1960s, Reichenbach was one of the five largest depots of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and it was also the first steam locomotive-free. The service, which was important until the early 1990s, was closed in 1999.

history

Surname

The station already had three different names during its operation, in detail these were:

  • until April 30, 1895: Reichenbach iV
  • until June 30, 1911: Reichenbach iV ob Bf
  • since July 1, 1911: Reichenbach (Vogtl) ob Bf

Emergence

As early as May 31, 1846, the first station was opened in Reichenbach together with the Werdau – Reichenbach section of the Leipzig – Hof railway line by the Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company . The reception building was a representative three-story building; in front of it was the roofed house platform. The further construction to Plauen was delayed by the construction of the Göltzschtalbrücke and the Elstertalbrücke until 1851. It was not until July 15, 1851 that the last section of the line could be opened with the Reichenbach – Plauen section.

The Voigtland state railway Herlasgrün-Falkenstein-Oelsnitz-Adorf-Eger was opened in 1865. Their trains began and ended until the opening of the much shorter connection between Plauen and Oelsnitz in Reichenbach in 1874.

Street side of the reception building, on what is now the station forecourt, there used to be tracks

At the beginning of the 1870s, the station was no longer sufficient for the increased transport services, so that the station had to be fundamentally expanded. The level crossing of the Reichenbach – Zwickau Chaussee was replaced by an underpass, the Reichenbach – Greiz Chaussee (today's B 94 and B 173 ) with an overpass. To the north of the previous station, the track system was generously expanded. In addition, a goods shed, a post office, several loading ramps and other buildings were built. A new station building was also built; the building with an area of ​​around 2000 m² was opened to traffic on April 5, 1877. Originally, the building was very similar to the Upper Train Station in Plauen , but it was destroyed in World War II and then rebuilt in a different way. Stucco elements are attached as decoration; There is a bell tower with a clock above the main portal. The former station building is located on a disused track section about 300 meters west of the current building (halfway to the also disused railway depot) and still serves as a residential building.

Reichenbach (Vogtl) station above Bf, track side (2017)

Similar to the upper Plauen station, Reichenbach was an island station with six tracks, three on each side. The island platforms 1/2 and 5/6 were accessible from the two house platforms 3 and 4 through underpasses. A third pedestrian underpass connected the street Am Bahnhof , later Fedor-Flinzer- Strasse , at the end of which (it was a dead end) under tracks 1 to 3 with the large waiting room in the station building. For vehicles and pedestrians coming from the direction of the city center, there was a large underpass (also under tracks 1 to 3) from Bahnhofstrasse, which led to the station forecourt in the middle of the tracks.

The facilities were expanded several times in the years that followed. The goods shed was enlarged, a drainage hill was set up, a few loading platforms were built, some signal boxes were built and the routes were extensively changed.

Extensions

When a secondary line to Göltzschtalbrücke via Oberreichenbach and Mylau was opened in 1895 , the Reichenbacher Bahnhof even got an additional platform (track 7) at the end of track 4 at the level of the goods handling for this railway line. At the same time, the other two train stations in Reichenbach were also built: Oberreichenbach (later Reichenbach Ost ) and the Untere Bahnhof (from 1902 the meter- gauge narrow - gauge railway Reichenbach – Oberheinsdorf ran from here to Oberheinsdorf via Reichenbach-Annenplatz and Unterheinsdorf) - the large Reichenbach station was then in Renamed upper station .

In the following decades, very little changed at the station, which reached its greatest extent in the 1930s. During the Second World War, the station was the target of Allied air raids several times, but they hardly caused any damage. In the heaviest attack on Reichenbach on March 21, 1945, the station was only slightly damaged. Major changes did not take place again until the GDR era, when tracks 87 to 94 were rebuilt for central coal handling. Various unloading facilities and a high-rise bunker made the previously labor-intensive bulk cargo handling considerably easier.

Dismantling and reconstruction (from 1963)

After the closure of the two branch lines that started in Reichenbach by 1963, the Obere Bahnhof was the only remaining station in Reichenbach used for traffic, but has retained its name to this day, which leads to the misinterpretation that Reichenbach still has other train stations today. With the end of the branch lines, track 7 (platform of the secondary railway) was demolished again, so that only the original six tracks remained. From 1963 to 2001 hardly anything changed at the station.

Class 140 locomotive parked in Reichenbach (2003)

In 2001 the station was extensively rebuilt. First, a new island platform was built (with tracks 7 and 8 in the correct style in terms of monument protection) next to track 6, which was connected to the existing underpass to the platform of tracks 5/6, the platforms of tracks 4 to 6 were renovated and with new display boards , Seating and elevators. In addition, two new bypass and sidings for freight traffic were built. Then tracks 1 and 2 as well as the associated underpass and the pedestrian and road tunnels were demolished. By 2006, a connection between Fedor-Flinzerstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse including a roundabout for the branching roads was built on the resulting open space, the station forecourt was redesigned with parking lots and taxi stands and connected to the expanded Bahnhofstrasse. The former platform of track 3 (directly at the station building, see photo) has been redesigned to become bus platforms A to D (A to C for regional buses and D for city traffic to Friesen and Mylau-Thälmannstraße) and equipped with modern display boards and seating on the Opposite the street, bus platform E was built for the continuous bus service towards the city center. At the end of the former platform 3 there was also a bus parking lot for regular services. The newly created bus station replaced the former central bus stop a few meters away. The remaining tracks were renumbered from 1 to 5 starting from the station building.

Reichenbach depot

A locomotive station was already in place when it opened in 1846; in addition to a boiler house, there was also a turntable and a wagon shed. The systems were located opposite the current station building, roughly level with the water tower. From the beginning, not only the vehicles were parked here, but also repaired. In addition to the locomotives for the Leipzig – Hof line, locomotives for the Voigtland State Railway Herlasgrün – Eger were also stationed here from 1865 onwards .

During the renovation of the station in the 1870s, two new, rectangular boiler houses were built with a turntable between them. There were also common rooms, a workshop and a cistern for the water supply.

With the increased traffic performance and the opening of the route from Reichenbach to Mylau, the facilities were too small in the 1890s. However, due to lack of space, no expansion could take place at the previous location. The new systems were on the other side of the Chaussee Greiz – Reichenbach - today's B 94 / B 173 - west of the station north of the route towards Plauen. In the fall of 1899 the foundation stone was laid for Locomotive Shed I, which, together with a turntable, was completed in 1900. As a result, the old systems were completely demolished. In the next few years the coal shed and the administration building were also completed. Since five tracks had to be bridged instead of two, the Chaussee received a new, pre-assembled steel bridge, which was opened to traffic in June 1901. The water tower with a capacity of 380 m³ was ready for use in 1903; it was supplied by the railway's own waterworks via a 4 km long water pipe from the Göltzsch . The pumping station delivered a maximum of 2400 m³ of water per day. A pond with a capacity of 8000 m³ was created as an additional buffer for times when there was little water. Shed II was completed in August 1904, so the new facility was completed. From then on, larger repairs were also carried out by locksmiths themselves in Reichenbach, previously workshop personnel were ordered from Werdau . With the new tasks, the workforce also grew; at the beginning of the 1870s, around 100 people were still employed, so the number rose to over 175 people by the beginning of the 1910s.

In the decades that followed, the facilities were gradually expanded. Before the First World War , a second water tower was built with a maximum of 380 m³ water volume. In the interwar period the workshop was enlarged, the administration building enlarged in 1925 and a hall for railcars and cars built in 1928. Major changes took place from the late 1930s. In 1938 a third turntable with a 150 t load capacity and 23 m diameter was installed, after which a third roundhouse was built from 1939 to 1942, which had a 46 m high central smoke outlet. The other two chimneys of the other sheds were also increased to 46 m. A canteen was built as early as 1941. In addition, other facilities - the material store, the workshop and a joinery - were newly built or enlarged. The modifications were completed in 1942 with the commissioning of a new slagging pit.

On April 10, 1945, engine shed I was badly damaged by an air raid, but the remaining facilities survived the Second World War largely undamaged.

In the spring of 1946 the canteen burned down, a new building was not completed until 1953, until then various temporary arrangements had been used. In 1956, a storm covered the entire roof of Shed I, which had only been temporarily repaired. After that, only the part used for the small locomotive maintenance was covered again.

Since the electrification of the line was to end in Reichenbach for the time being, a catenary spider was installed above turntable I in 1963. Since the electric locomotive stationing was relocated to Zwickau at short notice, the already prepared systems were dismantled. For the use of diesel locomotives, a makeshift filling station was built until a real filling station was later put into operation.

Locomotive deployment locations of the Reichenbach
depot / Reichenbach depot
Locomotive deployment point Period comment
from to
Adorf 1st July 1969 1997 dissolved
Braunichswalde July 1, 1970 1978 dissolved
Falkenstein January 1, 1967 1997 dissolved
Greiz January 1, 1962 September 30, 1962 Delivery to Bw Gera
Hirschberg August 19, 1948 December 31, 1952 Delivery to Bw Greiz
July 1, 1960 May 31, 1987 dissolved
Flour dear August 1, 1946 March 31, 1955 Delivery to Bw Greiz
1st July 1969 May 31, 1987 dissolved
Plauen (Vogtl) above Bf May 24, 1945 Delivery to Bw Adorf
October 7, 1945 May 25, 1949 Delivery to Bw Greiz
September 1, 1952 December 31, 1952 Delivery to Bw Adorf
Reichenbach and Bf 1945 September 30, 1962 dissolved
Saalburg July 1, 1960 May 21, 1977 dissolved
Schleiz August 19, 1948 December 31, 1952 Delivery to Bw Greiz
July 1, 1960 June 1, 1996 disbanded, since December 31, 1981
only staff deployment position
Schoenberg August 19, 1948 December 31, 1952 Delivery to Bw Greiz
July 1, 1960 July 1, 1992 disbanded, since 1981
only staff deployment position
Weischlitz August 19, 1948 December 31, 1952 Delivery to Bw Greiz
Werdau June 1, 1970 May 31, 1992 dissolved
Zeulenroda ob Bf January 1, 1955 December 31, 1955 Delivery to Bw Werdau
July 1, 1970 1972 dissolved
Zwickau June 1, 1970 December 31, 1993 Conversion into
an independent depot

As early as the 1950s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn closed numerous smaller depots, and the remaining independent departments were merged into so-called large Bws at the end of the 1960s . As early as 1962, the Greiz depot was incorporated into the Reichenbach depot, but was transferred to the Gera depot in the same year . At the end of the 1960s, Reichenbach developed into a large depot when the former Falkenstein depot, the Adorf depot in 1969 and the Zwickau depot in 1970 with a large branch in Werdau joined the Reichenbach depot. With the newly added locomotive deployment sites, Reichenbach was one of the five largest operating sites in the GDR. In 1970, for example, over 175 locomotives were stationed in Reichenbach and the branch offices, and more than 1,000 people were employed.

The water tower in the Bw area had to be blown up after a fire in 1972. Also in the 1970s the infrastructure of the depot was modernized considerably. This created a new workshop that also carried out major repairs itself.

After the turn of 1989/90, a branch of Regental Fahrzeugwerkstätten GmbH was established in Reichenbach , which took over vehicle repairs and repairs in the railway depot area from 1991. To this end, the company leased several parts of the plant.

With the merger between the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Deutsche Bundesbahn , the Reichenbach depot was converted into the Reichenbach depot in 1994 . The Zwickau locomotive depot became an independent depot, and the workshop was also removed from the Reichenbach depot. The Reichenbach depot was closed in 1999, and the Vogtlandbahn workshop has been located in Neumark (Sachs) station since 2000 .

Transport links

In addition to Plauen (Vogtl) ob Bf, Reichenbach (Vogtl) ob Bf was one of the two long-distance train stations in the Vogtland district . Most recently, only one pair of Vogtland Express trains from Plauen to Berlin was offered.

In local rail passenger transport, line RE3 stops as an express connection and the slower line RB2 stops at all stations. Regional and city buses complete the public transport offer . The station is part of the Vogtland transport association (VVV). In the 2019 timetable the Reichenbach (Vogtl) station will be served by the following lines:

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
RE 3 Dresden - Freiberg (Sachs) - Chemnitz - Glauchau (Sachs) - Zwickau (Sachs) - Reichenbach (Vogtl) - Hof (Saale) 060 Bayerische Oberlandbahn
(Central German Regiobahn)
RB 2 Zwickau center - Zwickau (Sachs) - Werdau - Reichenbach (Vogtl) - Plauen (Vogtl) - Adorf (Vogtl) - Bad Brambach (- Cheb) 060 (Zwickau – Adorf)
120 (Adorf – Bad Brambach) 		The Länderbahn
(Vogtlandbahn)

See also

literature

  • Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-88255-686-2 .
  • Rainer Heinrich: The Reichenbach / Vogtl depot. and its locomotives - Part 1: Diesel Locomotives 1964–1999 . Foto & Verlag Jacobi, Fraureuth 2010, ISBN 978-3-937228-35-8 .
  • Gero Fehlhauer: 110 years of the Reichenbach depot . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 3-86680-463-6 .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Reichenbach (Vogtl) ob Bf  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the postal address of the train station on www.bahnhof.de
  2. ↑ Tracks in service facilities at www.deutschebahn.com (PDF; 130 kB)
  3. ↑ a b c Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings , p. 14
  4. ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings , p. 19 f.
  5. ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and high-rise buildings , p. 230
  6. ↑ a b Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings , p. 14 ff.
  7. ↑ a b c d Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings , p. 207
  8. ^ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings , p. 17
  9. ↑ a b Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and high-rise buildings , p. 206
  10. ↑ a b Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings , p. 206 f.
  11. ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings , p. 208
  12. ^ Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Bahnbetriebswerke der DDR - 1949-1993 , transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71401-4 , p. 56
  13. ^ Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Bahnbetriebswerke der GDR - 1949-1993 , transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71401-4 , p. 15 ff.
  14. ↑ Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Bahnbetriebswerke der DDR - 1949-1993 , transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71401-4 , p. 55 f.