Schweinfurt Central Station

Schweinfurt Central Station
Reception building
Data
Location in the network	Crossing station
Design	End station (tracks 1, 2 and 83) through station (tracks 3 - 8)
Platform tracks	8th
abbreviation	NS
IBNR	8000032
Price range	3
opening	December 15, 1874
Website URL	Station profile of the BEG
Profile on Bahnhof.de	Schweinfurt_Hbf
location
City / municipality	Schweinfurt
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 2 '8 "  N , 10 ° 12' 42"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '8 "  N , 10 ° 12' 42"  E
Height ( SO )	217  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Rottendorf – Schweinfurt – Bamberg ( KBS 810 ) Schweinfurt – Mellrichstadt – Meiningen ( KBS 815 ) Gemünden – Bad Kissingen – Schweinfurt ( KBS 803 ) Kitzingen / Etwashausen-Schweinfurt (KBS 809)
Railway stations in Bavaria

Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof (abbreviated: Schweinfurt Hbf ) is the largest train station in Schweinfurt . Along with the Schweinfurt Stadt train station and the Schweinfurt Mitte stop, it is one of three operational train stations for passenger transport in the city, which counts around 7,000 travelers every day. It has station category 3 and consists of a combined through and terminus station , the latter area is currently not in use. The southern tracks belong to the freight yard , with the only container terminal in Lower Franconia . The checkered history of the station reflects recent German history, with a boom in the 1930s , World War II , German division and reunification .

The station is on Oberdorfer district and was in 1874 as Hauptpersonen-, goods and marshalling yard opened. It was called Oberndorf-Schweinfurt station until 1893 , then Centralbahnhof Schweinfurt until 1903/1904 and since then Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof . Up until the division of Germany , express trains ran between Berlin and Stuttgart via Schweinfurt, with through coaches there were connections to Switzerland and Italy . After the Second World War, only trains running east-west between Hof (Saale) and destinations in south-west Germany remained in Schweinfurt as a long-distance passenger rail service . After reunification and the reconstruction of the continuous Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line , the Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn set up new long-distance services in the north-south direction. The German railway introduced the long-distance connections over this route in 2001 again, with which the Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof lost its remote transport links.

The station is scheduled to December 2028 as part of the long-distance offensive in 2030 by Deutsche Bahn with an IC line Bamberg -Schweinfurt- Würzburg -Stuttgart- Tübingen reintegrated into the long-distance network. With a one-time changeover in Bamberg to the ICE trains on the high-speed lines of the German Unity No. 8 (VDE 8) traffic project opened in 2015 and 2017, it is to become the shortest connection on the Stuttgart-Berlin route.

The appearance of today's main station, including its surroundings, is considered an eyesore and has been criticized many times.

location

In the urban area

The main station is exceptionally far from the city center, in the Oberndorf district . The train station is 1.6 km (as the crow flies) southwest of the central bus station for city buses on Roßmarkt , the center of the city. To the middle of the old town further east , the market , there is a total of approx. 2 km. The location of the main train station, which is relatively far from the city center, was chosen in the 1870s so that it could also serve as a freight center for future industrial settlements (see: History ), which is why it is almost completely surrounded by large-scale industry today.

The reception building is located north of the up to 230 meters wide tracks, on Bahnhofsplatz and Hauptbahnhofstrasse.

See also: road traffic

Surrounding passenger, freight and bus stations (ZOB)

Junction at the east end of the main station,
over the Gerolzhöfer bridge over the Main ,
to Schweinfurt Sennfeld station

Station Oberwerrn Güterbahnhof Conn Barracks ¹	ZOB Bahnhofsplatz (regional and long-distance buses)	Schweinfurt train station City stop Schweinfurt Mitte ZOB Roßmarkt (city buses)
		Schweinfurt Sennfeld train station ²
Freight station Bergrheinfeld Waigolshausen station	Container Terminal Schweinfurt	Cargo handling at the port of Schweinfurt

¹ currently not in operation

² currently only freight traffic

history

Kingdom of Bavaria and the Weimar Republic

1852 was done with the first Schweinfurt railway station, the city railway station with the train yard at the opening of the Louis-Western Railway of Bamberg Schweinfurt connection to the railway network . The railway line was extended to Würzburg in 1854 . With the construction of the lines to Bad Kissingen (1871) and Meiningen (1874) Schweinfurt became a railway junction .

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Central station around 1903. The station building was destroyed in 1943 and rebuilt around 1950

At the end of May 1874, construction of the marshalling yard and central station began at a distance of 2.44 km from the first Schweinfurt station (today's city station) and the city center with the town hall, 1.82 km away . On 15 December 1874, passenger and freight main station was opened, first with a roundhouse on the south side, a second was added later. The Ebenhausen - Meiningen railway line went into operation at the same time as the station . Since the station belonged to Oberndorf, which was still an independent municipality at that time, its name was initially Oberndorf-Schweinfurt station. When the city had barely outgrown the medieval walls, the location of the new station in the middle of fields was chosen in order to keep as much space as possible for the expected industrialization around the station. These industrial settlements were realized by the end of the 1930s .

Former Railway Operations Office (1877)

Which also opened in 1874 reception building was standing just east of the present building and was in the Second World War destroyed. It was an approximately 150 m long, metropolitan reception building as a massive, elongated, two-winged system made of natural stone, with the main entrance in the middle and a west and an east wing. The 1st class restaurant in the east wing was a sophisticated hall in the style of a grand hotel, with a restaurant terrace and was also popular with the Schweinfurt bourgeoisie.

Schweinfurt tram
(1895 to 1921) at the main train station, in
front of the Bahnhof-Hotel Wetterich

In 1877 the railway operations office was opened 200 m east of the former reception building. On July 22, 1886, a hurricane swept over the city, causing severe damage and tearing off the roofs of all the platforms. In 1889 the underpass east (today's B 286 ) was built at the eastern end of the railway station tracks . The relatively large distance from the main train station to the city center was bridged from 1895 to 1921 with Bavaria's first municipal tram, the Schweinfurt tram , a horse-drawn tram with a tram depot on the Lower Wall. In 1898 electric lighting was introduced in the station. Since the incorporation of Oberndorf in 1919, the main station has been in the Schweinfurt city area. In 1926 the Diakonie Schweinfurt opened the station mission .

1930s

In the time before the Second World War , the main station was on the express train route between Stuttgart and Berlin . The 1939 summer timetable recorded the following pairs of D - trains :

• D 9/10 Konstanz / Singen - Stuttgart - Schweinfurt - Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof
• D 11/12 Tübingen / Stuttgart - Schweinfurt - Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof
• D 13/14 Rome - Schaffhausen - Stuttgart - Schweinfurt - Halle - Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof
• D 15/16 Stuttgart - Schweinfurt - Halle - Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof
• FD 7/8 Stuttgart - Schweinfurt - Leipzig - Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof

There were also through car races , u. a. from Hamburg , Milan , Genoa (- Ventimiglia ) and Naples .

In the east-west direction, express trains ran between destinations in southwest Germany as well as in Saxony and Silesia. The course book for summer 1939 lists the following connections:

• D 115/116 Saarbrücken - Mannheim - Würzburg - Schweinfurt - Bamberg - Hof (including with through coaches from / to Dresden)
• D 122/123 Schweinfurt - Bamberg - Hof - Dresden (including with through coaches from / to Saarbrücken and Bad Kissingen)

Second World War

American air raid on the industrial area around the main train station in 1943

The local, war- essential rolling bearing industry was a key industry for tank and aircraft construction. That is why the city had the best air defense in Germany. In spite of this, the large area of ​​the main passenger and freight station was very badly damaged, as it was located directly between large-scale industry, on which the American daytime attacks were precisely focused.

The station building was completely destroyed during the first air raid on the city on August 17, 1943, with the exception of two pillars that testified to the location in the post-war period . Not far north of the reception building, the so-called station bunker was built in 1942 , the high bunker A 10 Kirrdorfstraße (today: Wohlfahrtstraße) that still exists  today. In addition, from the direction of Erfurt , north of the entrance curve to the main train station, the three high- rise bunkers A 1 Nutzweg , A 2 Nutzweg and A 3 Am Wasserturm were built (the A 3 bunker still exists today). They were positioned in close succession along the railway line, although the area in what is now the Bergl district was not built up at that time, as the bunkers were also used by train travelers who were surprised by an air raid. During air raids, the trains from this direction only ran to Oberwerrn station . Travelers then had to walk into town. Because of the severe damage to the tracks of the main train station, a bypass curve was built not far to the west in August 1944, which added the existing curve of the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line (part of the Berlin – Stuttgart line) to a triangular track . The new curve was only used by freight and military trains. The station area with the tracks was literally plowed over by bombs at the end of the war, but was quickly repaired.

German division

Steam locomotive from the 1950s at the main station (2012)

The main station was now cut off from long-distance traffic in the north-south direction due to the division of Germany , as a result of which the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line between Mellrichstadt and Rentwertshausen was interrupted . From 1947 to 1950 the second track was dismantled on this route in West Germany between Schweinfurt and the inner German border . During the division of Germany, only long-distance connections between south-west Germany and Hof (Saale) remained in Schweinfurt , with through car connections to Dresden, despite the great importance of Schweinfurt's ball bearing industry with the manufacturers FAG Kugelfischer , Fichtel & Sachs and SKF , which at the time were among the 100 largest corporations in Germany In 1973, the Deutsche Bundesbahn upgraded the connections by introducing DC trains on the Hof - Bamberg - Schweinfurt - Heidelberg route . The last DC trains were converted back into normal express trains as early as 1978.

In 1961, the bypass curve at the western approach to the main train station was dismantled again due to a lack of demand. At the end of the 1960s, the idea was to extend the pedestrian underpass under the tracks to the north, under the Hauptbahnhofstrasse, to the northern sidewalk at today's AOK , with the city bus stops in the direction of Bergl (line 11) and Oberndorf (line 12). The idea was not implemented. In 1971 the Bamberg – Schweinfurt-Gemünden line was electrified , and the line to Würzburg followed a year later. The branch lines in the Schweinfurt area, on which the last local railway locomotives of the Bayerische GtL 4/4 series (from 1968 DB series 098) stationed in the Schweinfurt depot and procured by the Royal Bavarian State Railways were used, were gradually provided by the Federal Railroad to diesel locomotives, which ultimately led to the closure of the Schweinfurt depot , whose steam locomotives in 1974 still represented the largest inventory of the Nuremberg Railway Directorate. They were last used in 1975. In 1981 the Schweinfurt depot was closed and the two roundhouse sheds were demolished. The last Schweinfurt local train locomotive, the 98 886, was acquired by the city of Schweinfurt and erected as a memorial in front of the main train station from 1979 to 1998. It was then refurbished on loan from the city for the Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen and has been running museum trains on the Mellrichstadt – Fladungen railway ever since .

German reunification

Train destination indicator of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) from 1992: D-Zug Berlin - Erfurt –Schweinfurt– Würzburg

Shortly after the German reunification, which was Schweinfurt-Meiningen railway reopened continuously, as part of the former Berlin-Stuttgart D-train route. A short time later, express trains of the Deutsche Reichsbahn again ran via Schweinfurt main station, as they did before the Second World War . Initially with the new connection Berlin-Lichtenberg - Halle - Erfurt - Meiningen - Schweinfurt - Würzburg . In 1993 the pair of express trains 2152/2153 Würzburg – Schweinfurt – Berlin and the pair of express trains 2154/2155 Würzburg – Schweinfurt– Cottbus were offered. Just one year later, the Reichsbahn connection to Cottbus was given up again and replaced by the Deutsche Bahn with the Interregio (IR) pair of trains 2204/2205 Würzburg-Schweinfurt-Berlin. In the 1995/96 annual timetable, only the IR 2013/2014 Binz / Stralsund –Schweinfurt – Würzburg remained, which a year later was reduced to a former route of the Reichsbahn Würzburg – Schweinfurt – Berlin as IR 2202/2203 Rennsteig . For the 1997/98 timetable, the route to Stuttgart – Würzburg – Schweinfurt – Erfurt was changed and in 2001 it was completely discontinued.

Deutsche Bahn showed no will to maintain long-distance traffic on this route, although it connects Berlin and Stuttgart via the shortest route through the German center. Deutsche Bahn justified the rejection of the generally expected intercity connection with a point problem at the Würzburg main station . The Schweinfurt main train station has not been served by long-distance traffic for the second time since 2001 (until 2028: see article introduction).

present

Platforms (track 6 on the left and track 7 on the right) with double-deck cars

With the exception of the reception building, the station was comprehensively modernized and made barrier-free from 2016 to 2019 for a total of 10.5 million euros . Pedestrian underpasses and platforms can now be reached not only by stairs but also by three new lifts. A tactile floor guidance system (blind guidance system) was installed.

In 2019, the newly built underpass west for cyclists and pedestrians next to the tracks was pushed into the track.

Although Schweinfurt has the second highest in-commuter rate in Germany with 76.2% (2017) and 39,600 people commute to work in the city every day, plus thousands of schoolchildren, students and retail customers from a wide area, the main station currently only counts 7,000 travelers and visitors per day. More recently it has been criticized that the train station leads a shadowy existence. The reasons given were the great distance to the city center (see: Location ) and poor integration into the city bus network, which has led to political controversy since 2019.

See also: criticism

Transport links

Location in the network

Although the Schweinfurt main station is currently not served by long-distance traffic, it is well integrated into the network. With its location in the center of Germany and in the middle of the Frankfurt a. M. / Erfurt / Nuremberg / Stuttgart , with its four important ICE train stations.

Track systems at the eastern entrance to the main train station, with a regional train from Bamberg

Single track via Bad Kissingen / Gemünden	Single track / double track¹ via Erfurt	Single track via Stadtlauringen ²
Single track electrified via Gemünden ( Frankfurt a. M. )		Two-track electrified via Bamberg / Nuremberg
Two-track electrified via Würzburg / Stuttgart	Single track via Kitzingen ³

¹ Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line , second track dismantled from 1947 to 1950 as a result of the division of Germany

² Railway line (Schweinfurt) –Rottershausen – Stadtlauringen , passenger traffic in 1959 and goods traffic in 1960 discontinued, line dismantled in 1961

³ Kitzingen – Schweinfurt railway line , currently only freight traffic within Schweinfurt. Passenger traffic ceased in 1987, then military transports by the US Army until 2006 (see also: Dispute over reactivation of the Steigerwaldbahn )

Traffic importance

With 168 local trains a day ( Regional Express and Regionalbahn , 2017), the main train station is the most important regional distribution hub for Lower Franconia and in particular for Main Franconia due to its central location in the region. In Würzburg Central Station run every day while 190 local trains, but due to its remoteness Mainfränkisches many trains operate Middle Franconia and Baden-Wuerttemberg . In contrast to Würzburg, there will be no long-distance transport in Schweinfurt until 2028 (see: Article introduction).

However, there are very good long-distance transport connections with a one-time change in the nearby ICE stations in Würzburg and Bamberg , both of which are on high-speed routes. For example, Berlin Central Station can be reached from Schweinfurt in 3 hours and 25 minutes with a change in Bamberg to the ICE via the new high-speed line (see also: Article introduction).

Served routes

The following routes are currently operated in passenger transport:

• KBS 803 (Schweinfurt - Ebenhausen -) Bad Kissingen - Gemünden (Main) ( Gemünden – Ebenhausen railway line , Franconian Saale Valley Railway), single-track main line
• KBS 810 Würzburg - Schweinfurt - Bamberg ( Bamberg – Rottendorf railway line ), double-track main line, electrified
• KBS 811 (Schweinfurt -) Waigolshausen - Gemünden (Main) (Waigolshausen – Gemünden line , Werntalbahn ), single-track main line, electrified, passenger traffic only on Saturdays and Sundays
• KBS 815/570 Schweinfurt - Meiningen / - Erfurt (Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line ), single-track main line

Long-distance transport

Connection to the Intercity network 2028

The main station has not been served by long-distance traffic since 2001 (see: History, German Reunification ). It should be integrated into the Intercity network by December 2028 at the latest (see: Article introduction).

ICE diversions

In the event of diversions as a result of disruptions on Intercity Express routes in the greater Schweinfurt area, ICE trains run via the main station, but usually without stopping. As a result of route renewals, ICE trains are being rerouted for a long time via Schweinfurt. Since the modernization of the main train station (see: history, present ), several platform tracks have been so long that even the longest ICE trains can stop if required.

Project for the new Schweinfurt – Fulda line

The bad connection of the meeting and tourism location Bad Kissingen wants the district of Bad Kissingen with the long-term project rail transport development axis Fulda-Bad Kissingen Schweinfurt-Würzburg tackle, with a new line for long-distance transport of Schweinfurt the ICE train station Fulda . The technical implementation should be checked. The Würzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry also spoke out in favor of the development axis . The long-term goal is to develop the project by 2030 at the latest so that it is included in the federal transport infrastructure plan.

Long-distance buses

Long-distance buses stop at the Central Bus Station (ZOB) on Bahnhofsplatz with connections to many cities in Central Europe.

airport transfer

There are direct long-distance bus connections from the main train station to the following international airports :

• Erfurt-Weimar Airport
• Frankfurt am Main airport
• Leipzig / Halle Airport ( Schkeuditz )
• Nuremberg Airport
• Stuttgart Airport

Long-distance bus lines

There are direct long-distance bus connections from the main train station. a. to the following cities:

Amsterdam ( NL ) augsburg Baden-Baden Berlin Bielefeld Bochum Bonn

Braunschweig Chemnitz Dortmund Dresden Duisburg Dusseldorf Eger ( CZ )

Erfurt eat Frankfurt am Main Freiburg in Breisgau Gelsenkirchen Goettingen Isselburg (border NL )

Halle (Saale) Hamburg Hanover Heilbronn Jena Karlovy Vary ( CZ ) Karlsruhe

kassel Cologne Krefeld Leipzig Lörrach (border CH ) Magdeburg Mannheim

Mönchengladbach Munich Muenster Nuremberg Osnabrück Paderborn Pilsen ( CZ )

Prague CZ Strasbourg ( F ) Stuttgart Utrecht ( NL ) Wiesbaden Wuppertal Zurich ( CH )

Regional traffic

DB and Erfurt Railway

The main train station is integrated into the Deutsche Bahn network as follows (as of: 2013/2014 timetable) :

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Train entry 2017 from the east (from the direction of the Stadtbahnhof ), on the pedestrian walkway to Oberndorf

Train type	route	Transport offer
Regional Express 1	Frankfurt am Main - Hanau - Aschaffenburg - ( Würzburg ) - Schweinfurt Hbf - Bamberg	120-minute intervals
Regional Express ( Mainfranken-Thuringia Express )	Würzburg - Schweinfurt main station - Mellrichstadt train station - Grimmenthal - Erfurt	120-minute intervals
Regional Express (Franconia-Thuringia Express)	Würzburg - Schweinfurt Hbf - Bamberg - Erlangen - Nuremberg	120-minute intervals
Regionalbahn (Mainfrankenbahn)	( Schlüchtern - Jossa - Gemünden (Main) -) Würzburg - Schweinfurt Hbf - Bamberg	60-minute intervals
Erfurt Railway (EB 40) ( Lower Franconia Shuttle )	Schweinfurt city - Schweinfurt main station - Mellrichstadt train station (- Meiningen )	60-minute intervals
Erfurt Railway (EB 50) ( Lower Franconia Shuttle )	Schweinfurt City - Schweinfurt Central Station - Bad Kissingen (–Gemünden (Main))	60-minute intervals

₁ Main Spessart Express; On Saturdays and Sundays, two excursion trains run in each direction without the detour via Würzburg via the Werntalbahn direct from Gemünden (Main) to Schweinfurt.

Schweinfurt Hbf is a clock node , i. H. the trains of the three main lines meet there every hour on the hour and leave shortly afterwards. The three regional express connections (RE) and the trains of the EIB line 4 are integrated into this system . In the direction of Würzburg and Bamberg , two RE lines each overlap every hour, on the routes to Bad Kissingen and Meiningen or .  Erfurt also results from hourly alternating tours of the RE and EIB trains an hourly range. On the Würzburg – Bamberg axis, the RE cycle is supplemented by the additional use of regional trains.

Dispute over reactivation of the Steigerwaldbahn

For a long time there have been initiatives to reactivate passenger traffic on the Kitzingen - Schweinfurt main train station , the so-called Lower Steigerwaldbahn or, for short, the Steigerwaldbahn . At the beginning of 2019, a violent dispute broke out that has continued to this day and became a political issue . In August 2019, a new concept for reactivation was finally presented by the traffic planner Robert Wittek-Brix. A regional tram as an integral train, which will travel from Kitzingen from Schweinfurt Sennfeld station in one branch on the existing railway line to the main station and in a second branch via the city ​​center to the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line.

See: Steigerwaldbahn, required recommissioning

Regional buses

A regional bus node is located at the central bus station on Bahnhofsplatz. It is used by regional buses from Omnibusverkehr Franken (OVF) and Verkehrsgemeinschaft Schweinfurt (VSW) u. a. approached by the following lines:

8130: Schweinfurt - Aidhausen 8132: Schweinfurt - Ebertshausen / Reichmannshausen 8134: Schweinfurt - Werneck - Arnstein 8135: Schweinfurt - Wipfeld - Dipbach 8136: Schweinfurt - Rannungen 8137: Schweinfurt - Schwebheim - Volkach 8139: Schweinfurt - Obbach - Wasserlosen / Wülfershausen 8148: Schweinfurt - Werneck

8156: Schweinfurt - Haßfurt - (Eltmann) 8160: Schweinfurt - Gerolzhofen - Oberschwarzach 8165: Schweinfurt - Oberthulba - Hammelburg 8170: Schweinfurt - Stadtlauringen - Bad Königshofen 8171: Schweinfurt - Maßbach - Althausen 9305: Schweinfurt - Herlheim 9306: Schweinfurt - Untereuerheim - Donnersdorf - Traustadt - Gerolzhofen 9307: Schweinfurt - Gerolzhofen - Untersteinbach

city ​​traffic

Erfurt Railway and DB

City traffic is possible on two lines of the Erfurt Railway and one line of the DB Regionalbahn (see: Infobox Regionalverkehr ) between the main train station, Schweinfurt Mitte stop (City) and Schweinfurt Stadt train station (east of the old town).

bus

City traffic is possible with the regional bus (see: Regional buses ) between the ZOB Bahnhofsplatz and the city center. City bus stops of Stadtwerke Schweinfurt on lines 11 (Roßmarkt - Bergl), 12 (Roßmarkt - Oberndorf), 64 (South industrial area) and Campus Express (to the University of Applied Sciences ) are located on the east side of the station square.

Container terminal

Freight station at the main train station

The freight yard is located in the southern area of ​​the main station. Here in 1988 Container Terminal opened, with two railway tracks (up to 700 meters long), open spaces and air-conditioned halls with their own sidings. The company Translog Transport + Logistik GmbH operates the "Railport" with container and steel handling (annually 10,000  ISO containers and 150,000 tons of steel for the local large-scale industry, 2020). It serves the seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven every day . The operating company CLS Container Logistics Schweinfurt GmbH (a cooperation between Translog and CDN Container Depot Nürnberg GmbH) handles the transport and handling of imported and exported goods in overseas containers here. The transport on the last mile to the customers in Main Franconia is for the most part handled with our own semi- trailers.

Infrastructure

The main station has a relatively large infrastructure, with a total of 25 passenger and freight tracks as well as 18 train and bus platforms. The potential is currently (2020) not being exhausted.

Platforms

According to the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) for rail traffic in the European Economic Area , the usable platform length for long-distance traffic should be 400 meters, which was implemented on several platforms after the platforms were converted (see: History, Present ).

track	Platform height [cm]	Platform length [m]
1	38	188
2	38	400
3	38	400
5	35	360
6th	35	360
7th	35	460
8th	35	460
83	32	145

The main station has a total of eight platform tracks . Passenger traffic is currently (2020) handled on six of them: on five continuous platform tracks and one butt track (track 83). Two more butt tracks directly in front of the station building (tracks 1 and 2) are currently not required for scheduled operation since the trains from Bad Kissingen and Meiningen were extended beyond the main train station to the city train station, which is closer to the city center .

The total of eight platform tracks for passenger traffic are located on: a house platform (track 1); a platform consisting of a combination of tongue platform ( platform 2 west), house platform (platform 3 east) and central platform ( platform 2 east and platform 3 west); a central platform (track 5 and 6) and a combination of a central platform (track 7 and 8) with a stump track in the east on a tongue platform (track 83).

All platforms have a height of 38 cm, with the exception of track 83 with 32 cm. All platforms are through an underpass stairs and elevators barrier-free accessible.

Since track 4 does not have a platform edge because it is located between track 3 and 5 without a separating platform, it can only be used for passing traffic ( shunting , freight traffic , special trips).

Relay interlocking

Relay interlocking (1976)

To the east of the reception building and pavilion is the SpDrL60 relay interlocking, which was commissioned by Deutsche Bahn in 1976 .

Industrial tracks

On the south side of the main train station, industrial tracks lead to ZF Friedrichshafen AG's Schweinfurt plant north and Plant 2 of the Swedish ball bearing factories (SKF) . At the western end of the main station, an industrial track leads to the Schweinfurt building yard of the Bad Kissingen water management office .

No industrial track was laid in the large main factory of FAG Kugelfischer (today Schaeffler ) on the north side of the main train station, it should have crossed the meter-gauge track of the Schweinfurt tram that operated from 1895 to 1921 .

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The tracks are crossed by a 180 m long pedestrian walkway (called: Steg ), which connects the north side of the station with the south side. It was built in 1903, destroyed in the last war and then rebuilt. The footbridge has no elevators and can only be reached by stairs at both ends. It was created for commuters and creates a pedestrian connection between the large companies in the Oberndorf district (south side of the main station) and the platforms (north side of the main station).

Reception building

Not far west of the destroyed reception building, the Deutsche Bundesbahn built a modern, functional building in the style typical of the time in the early 1950s. With a small, single-storey counter hall and a building length of 84 meters, it is only half as long and, with two storeys, also lower than its larger, four-storey predecessor. The new building, with lower requirements, reflects the fall of the train station into provinciality as a result of the division of Germany (see: History ). Immediately to the east of the reception building was a pavilion from the same period, which was replaced by a modern steel pavilion in the style of the 21st century.

Reception building and train station pavilion house a tourist center of Deutsche Bahn , the railway mission , a packing station and six shops, service and gastronomy offers a total of about 700 square meters rental area. These include car rental , shops, a café and two amusement arcades . In addition, the reception building and its surroundings offer the usual equipment and services of a Category  3 train station . On the upper floor are u. a. Private company offices.

In the meantime, the reception building is increasingly coming under public criticism for its unsightly appearance (see: Criticism )

Omnibus depot

The Omnibusverkehr Franken (OVF) maintains the main train station is one of three depots .

criticism

Since the greater potential of the routes around Schweinfurt main train station for long-distance traffic will not be used, or will only be used via an intercity line from 2028 (see: Article introduction), there was criticism from the public regarding route congestion in the greater Schweinfurt area. Also because of the imbalance of 168 daily local transport connections ( Regionalexpress and Regionalbahn , 2017) without or only little long-distance transport from 2028. While the Aschaffenburg main train station, for example, has only 154 local transport connections, but 91 long-distance transport connections (both in 2017).

The ugliness of the station is also criticized:

“Schweinfurt has the same problem as thousands of other cities all over Germany: It has an ugly main train station. It seems like there was a competition between cities in the 50s and 60s to see who could build the ugliest central station. When visitors get off in Schweinfurt, they are initially disappointed. "

In addition, the lack of parking spaces and the lack of a parking garage at the main train station are criticized.

See also: Bahnhofsplatz

Station area

North side: Hauptbahnhofstrasse after 1896, with Kugelfischer's first factory buildings

Bahnhofsplatz

In the post-war period, a station square with an average size of approximately 115 x 130 m was laid out on the south side with the station building. The three remaining sides of the square were gradually surrounded by a mostly six-storey perimeter development until the 1980s. The appearance of the station square has often been criticized.

Central station north side

Central station north side: Hauptbahnhofstrasse with the former Wetterich station hotel and FAG high-rise		Central station south side: container terminal and ZF Friedrichshafen plant north, formerly Fichtel & Sachs

FAG Kugelfischer's main plant , with the FAG high-rise, is located on Hauptbahnhofstrasse on the north side of the Bergl district and belongs to the Schaeffler Group .

Central station south side

ZF Friedrichshafen  AG, formerly Fichtel & Sachs, is located on the south side of the Oberndorf district (see also: Industrial tracks ).

Road traffic

The 1.2 km long track field of the main train station is bounded in the east (city center side) by the underpass east ( Bundesstrasse 286 ). In the west, the underpass-west (today only bike and footpath) was replaced by the Franz-Josef-Strauss-Bridge (John-F-Kennedy-Ring). The station square and reception building, which are north of the track system, can be reached on both sides.

Web links

Commons : Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Track plan of the Schweinfurt Hbf station on the Deutsche Bahn website (PDF; 200 kB)
• Zeno.org: Bavarian State Railways, expansion status until 1912

Videos

• Video: Schweinfurt Central Station (11:08 am)
• Video: Special train (steam locomotive) drives through the main station (1:36)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Query of the course book route 810 at Deutsche Bahn.
2. ↑ Querying the course book route 815 at Deutsche Bahn.
3. ↑ Query of the course book route 803 at Deutsche Bahn.
4. ↑ Passenger traffic was discontinued on the Kitzingen - Gerolzhofen section in 1981 and on the Gerolzhofen - Schweinfurt Hbf section in 1987
5. ^ The Deutsche Bahn AG in Lower Franconia. Accessed June 3, 2020 (German). 
6. ^ Paul Ultsch: Back then in Schweinfurt. Volume 2: Development into an industrial city . 1st edition. Book and idea publishing company, Schweinfurt 1983, ISBN 3-9800480-2-0 , p. 94 .
7. ↑ Mittelrhein-Tageblatt: Rail traffic to Schweinfurt strengthened - DB plans IC connection. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Bayerischer Rundfunk: new ICE route Nuremberg – Berlin: Schweinfurt – Berlin 3 h 25 min. Archived from the original on June 23, 2018 ; accessed on December 2, 2017 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} mainpost.de: The station square raises many questions, December 3, 2019. Accessed on January 21, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} swity.de: Parking garage and redesign of the station forecourt? September 24, 2018. Accessed January 24, 2020 .  
11. ↑ BayernAtlas: Parcel map, area Schweinfurt main station. Retrieved January 17, 2020 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Paul Ultsch: Back then in Schweinfurt. Volume 1: When the city wall was still a boundary . 1st edition. Book and idea publishing company, Schweinfurt 1982, ISBN 3-9800480-1-2 , p. 89 ff .
13. ↑ ^{a b} BayernAtlas: Excerpt from position sheet 1: 25.000, No. 94 Schweinfurt (1842), with later additional entries of the railway lines; the Oberndorf-Schweinfurt station, which opened 20 years after the opening of the Schweinfurt – Würzburg railway line (1854), was subsequently added (see traces of etching). Retrieved January 17, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Measured in the BayernAtlas , historical map
15. ↑ Peter Hofmann: schweinfurtfuehrer.de/Hauptbahnhofsgaststätte. Retrieved January 13, 2020 . 
16. ^ Hubert Gutermann: Alt-Schweinfurt . 12th revised edition. Mediengruppe Main-Post, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-925232-22-2 , p. 72 .
17. ↑ Peter Hofmann: schweinfurtfuehrer.de/Geschichte
18. ↑ Deutsches Kursbuch, Summer 1939, Tables 417 and 420 , accessed on January 28, 2020
19. ^ Peter Hofmann: schweinfurtfuehrer.de/Bunker. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
20. ^ Peter Hofmann: schweinfurtführer.de / history of the railway in Schweinfurt. Retrieved January 13, 2020 . 
21. ↑ UEF: The locomotives of the local railway , accessed on January 28, 2020
22. ↑ privat-bahn.de: Vehicle list Eisenbahnfreunde Untermain eV (EFU), Thuringian-Fränkische Museumseisenbahn eV, Fränkisches Freilandmuseum (FFM) , accessed on January 28, 2020
23. ↑ mainpost.de: The main station becomes accessible, May 13, 2016. Accessed on January 24, 2020 . 
24. ↑ ^{a b c} Deutsche Bahn: Barrier-free renovation in Schweinfurt. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .  
25. ↑ mainpost.de: A bridge will be pushed in at the main station on Sunday, November 22nd, 2019. Accessed on January 24th, 2020 . 
26. ↑ The in-commuter rate of a place is the percentage of its in- commuters in relation to its population
27. ↑ ^{a b} BR24: Study confirms Schweinfurt's great economic power, April 30, 2018. Accessed on January 21, 2020 . 
28. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} The Deutsche Bahn AG in Lower Franconia. Accessed January 21, 2020 . 
29. ↑ mdr Thuringia: ICE route Erfurt-Nuremberg should be used again on Monday. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
30. ↑ mainpost.de: ICE route between Fulda and Würzburg closed in 2022, October 1, 2018. Accessed on January 25, 2020 . 
31. ↑ inFranken.de: Rails through the Rhön? May 14, 2018. Accessed on January 20, 2020 . 
32. ↑ routing Main-Spessart-Express. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017 ; accessed on December 6, 2017 . 
33. ↑ mainpost.de: IHK: Steigerwaldbahn would strengthen the region, July 20, 2018. Accessed on January 20, 2020 . 
34. ↑ mainpost.de: By train through the inner city of Schweinfurt, August 2, 2019. Accessed on January 19, 2020 . 
35. ↑ District of Schweinfurt: public transport route map. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
36. ↑ ^{a b c d} Deutsche Bahn / station profile Schweinfurt Hbf. Accessed on January 24, 2020 . 
37. ↑ Route map of the Schweinfurt city buses. (PDF) Retrieved January 4, 2017 . 
38. ↑ mainpost.de: From the deep-sea ship to the rail and off to Schweinfurt, February 22, 2020. Accessed on February 22, 2020 . 
39. ↑ Measured in the BayernAtlas
40. ↑ Deutsche Bahn / Schweinfurt Hbf equipment features. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
41. ^ Company database / Schweinfurt main station. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
42. ↑ SCHWEINFURTCITY, Campus ad: 4 unjustified prejudices against Schweinfurt, August 14, 2018. Accessed January 21, 2020 .