Siegburg Railway

Siegburg Railway
Map of the Siegburger Bahn
Course book section (DB) :	467
Route length:	11.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Dual track :	continuous
Power system:	1000 V = (1911–1961) 600 V = (1961–1974) 750 V = (from 1974)
Opening:	September 5, 1911
Stations:	15th
Driving time:	25 minutes
Main line 16 63 66 620.0 Bonn Central Station 18 Rheinuferbahn 16 63 , Vorgebirgsbahn 18 Bonn tram tunnel from main station / Dottendorf 61 62 620.7 Townhouse 620.8 district Court 620.9 to Auerberg 61 621.2 Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz / Beethovenhaus 621.8 Kennedy Bridge Konrad-Adenauer-Platz (old) 622.3 622.4 Konrad-Adenauer-Platz Siebengebirgsbahn to Oberkassel 62 623.4 Adelheidisstrasse 623.9 gardenstreet 623.9 Vilich 624.2 Right stretch of the Rhine 624.8 A 59 625.2 At the Herrengarten 625.2 Vilich-Müldorf 625.7 Federal Border Guard Road 626.1 Hangelar West 626.1 Handelstrasse 626.5 Richthofenstrasse 626.7 Hangelar middle 626.7 Udetstrasse 626.9 Graf-Zeppelin-Strasse 627.2 Bruno-Werntgen-Strasse 627.2 Hangelar East 628.2 Sankt Augustin place 628.2 Husarenstrasse 628.8 Arnold-Janssen-Strasse 628.9 Sankt Augustin monastery 629.1 East-west clasp 629.2 Sankt Augustin Center / University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg 629.5 Südstrasse 630.0 At the Lindenhof 630.1 Mendener Strasse 630.1 Sankt Augustin Mülldorf 630.2 Dam road 630.5 A 560 630.8 victory 630.9 Siegstrasse 631.1 Siegburg pliers (old route up to 2000) 631.1 Hohenzollernstrasse 631.2 Siegburg station tunnel 631.3 Siegburg train station 66 Victory route & SFS from Frankfurt Siegburg train station (at the station forecourt)

The Siegburger Bahn is the section of the Bonn Stadtbahn from Bonn Central Station to Siegburg to Siegburg / Bonn Station . Line 66 runs every 10 minutes on weekdays, every quarter of an hour in the evenings and on weekends and once an hour at night. The travel time from Bonn Hbf to Siegburg / Bonn train station is 25 minutes.

The Siegburger Bahn belongs to the electric railways of the city of Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (SSB), but since 2004 SWB Bus und Bahn (subsidiary of Bonner Stadtwerke ) has been responsible for the entire operational management .

history

On September 18, 1910, the SSB received the concession to build and operate a small railway (Siegburger Bahn) between Bonn and Siegburg for a period of 100 years. The line opened on September 5, 1911.

During the Second World War , the railway suffered considerable damage. Among other things, the bridges over the Rhine and the Sieg were blown up by the German troops. The reconstruction of the bridge over the Sieg was completed in December 1946 and the bridge over the Rhine only on November 12, 1949.

The originally single-track line between Vilich and Siegburg was expanded to double-track in 1953 to Hangelar. In 1960 the line was re-licensed to a tram together with the Siebengebirgsbahn in order to save costs. The second track was extended to Sankt Augustin-Mülldorf in 1967 and over the new Siegbrücke in 1980. In Bonn the route ended for a long time on the ramp of the Rhine bridge , from 1952 on at Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz. During the construction of the Stadtbahn, the Stadthaus stop was turned from 1975 onwards . Since the opening of the new trunk line tunnel in 1979, the line has been operated as tram line S (today line 66) with tram B , threaded into the trunk line tunnel and continued into the Rheinaue.

With the completion of the south bridge in 1981, the tram line S was extended, it now ended after another crossing of the Rhine in Ramersdorf on the Siebengebirgsbahn.

In Siegburg, the line was relocated from 1998: the now completely double-track line has ended in the basement of the newly built station on the high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main, which opened at the end of 2002 . The Siegburg-Zange stop was omitted in the course of the route relocation. With the connection of the ICE stop in Siegburg, the route has significantly increased in importance, as it now connects Bonn with a second long-distance train station.

Due to the higher frequency of use, the frequency was increased in the evenings and on the weekends in 2004. As part of the overall project for the renovation and acceleration of line 66 between Bonn Hauptbahnhof and Siegburg Bahnhof , the catenary in Beuel was renewed in the mid-2000s and the stops were converted to make them barrier-free (except for the Stadthaus , Sankt Augustin Markt until 2013/2015 and Vilich ). As part of the renovation and widening of the Kennedy Bridge at the end of August 2010, the light rail system was given its own track structure, which makes it independent of individual traffic.

Since the timetable change on December 15, 2013, a continuous hourly service has been offered on the weekend at night on the route between Bonn main train station and Siegburg train station.

Route

Bridge over the victory

From the inner tracks of the main train station, the route runs approx. 800 m underground to the old cemetery , before it comes to the surface with a ramp at the town hall . Directly behind the stop, she meets the tram route from Thomas-Mann-Straße. A few meters further on, the tram line from Wilhelmstrasse is connected by a triangular track . On a public transport lane, the route follows Oxfordstrasse, over Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz and Berliner Freiheit, before crossing the Rhine on the Kennedy Bridge . At Konrad-Adenauer-Platz the tram line branches off to Beueler Bahnhof, the Siegburger Bahn continues to follow Sankt Augustiner Straße ( B 56 ) on its own track, which, with the exception of an approximately 200-meter-long bottleneck between Combahnstraße and Kreuzstraße, goes to End maintains. After the Adelheidisstraße stop , the route changes from the middle of the street to the side. In the further course, the route remains largely parallel to the federal road. The right stretch of the Rhine and the federal highway 59 are crossed by bridges, each only a few meters away from those of the federal road. After the Sankt Augustin Mülldorf stop , the route climbs onto an embankment before crossing the 560 federal motorway and the Sieg . Behind the Siegbrücke, the route winds in several curves through the Zange district of Siegburg before it ends in the basement of the train station.

Stations

Townhouse

Stop Stadthaus (2015)

Stadthaus stop, situation before the renovation (2013)

The Stadthaus stop is at the foot of the new townhouse , which was inaugurated in 1978 and was built at the same time. The entrance at the western end crosses the tracks and the street “Am Alten Friedhof” with a bridge that ends in the mezzanine level of the town hall, on which the main entrance and the citizens' office are located. The stop itself was designed simply, only with mushroom roofs as weather protection; the flat platform was separated from the roadway by exposed concrete walls. From the beginning of September 2014 - preliminary work had already started in the spring - by the beginning of November 2015, the tram stop was made barrier-free at a cost of six million euros by equipping it with two elevators and, after the existing platform was demolished, into an elevated platform for light rail vehicles and a flat platform was divided as a substitute stop for trams. A glass and steel construction serves as the new roof.

A few meters east of the stop was the Landgericht stop , which was only served by trams, between the confluence of the Dottendorfer and Auerberger lines until the 1990s . Since stopping trams regularly caused waiting times and missed traffic light phases on the tram route, the stop was abandoned and replaced by the Stadthaus tram stop , which is located on Thomas-Mann-Straße and is about as far away from the tram stop of the same name as the old Landgericht stop .

Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz / Beethovenhaus

Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz /
Beethovenhaus, 2015

Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz /
Beethovenhaus (situation before the renovation), 2005

The Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz is the intersection of federal roads B9 and national highway 56 at the end of the ramp to the Kennedy bridge one of the most important transport hub in Bonn. From 1952 to the 1970s, it was the western terminus of the Siegburg Railway. The bus stop is frequented by around 20,000 passengers every day; in addition to the four railway lines, 14 bus lines also stop there.

From October 2005 to September 2006 the bus stop including the bus stops was completely rebuilt, the tracks were pulled apart and two central platforms, one behind the other, were built: a 90 centimeter high platform for light rail vehicles and a flat platform for low-floor trams. The former has been started on September 22nd. Furthermore, the stop received a new, 100 m long glass roof. In July 2006, the expansion of the entire square including road and pipeline construction began, which was completed at the end of 2007. The conversion was part of the overall project that was supposed to accelerate line 66 between Bonn and Siegburg.

Konrad-Adenauer-Platz

Konrad-Adenauer-Platz

The Konrad-Adenauer-Platz is the Beueler end of the Kennedy Bridge. The stop was long before the Siegburger and Siebengebirgsbahn branches. Due to the limited space and the different vehicles on the two routes, a barrier-free expansion was not possible for a long time. In January 2004, the previous stop was given up and replaced by two new stops a short distance away in Sankt Augustiner Straße and Friedrich-Breuer-Straße. Both new stops are designed as central platforms - the former as elevated, the latter as flat platforms. The expansion was carried out as part of the overall project to accelerate line 66 between Bonn and Siegburg.

Adelheidisstrasse

Adelheidisstrasse

The Adelheidisstraße stop is at the level of the Beueler Friedhof in Sankt Augustiner Straße at the transition from the street-level route to its own track structure north of the B 56. For a long time, the tram stopped in both directions in front of the intersection in the middle of the street. Traffic in the outer lane was stopped with separate traffic lights, while passengers got on and off using folding steps and sliding steps. A barrier-free expansion appeared to be too difficult because of the space available.

Finally, in 2005, the route of Sankt Augustiner Straße was widened out of town with retaining walls to create space for an elevated platform in the middle, which was designed similar to that on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz . At the same time, the Siegburger Bahn received its own railway body in the middle of the street from the Niederkasseler Straße intersection. The exit from the B 56 was additionally secured by a barrier.

Vilich

Vilich

The Vilich stop is at the intersection of the route with Gartenstraße and is one of the stops that existed when it opened in 1911. The stop is very simply equipped with temporary elevated platforms made of wood and weather protection made of sheet metal, as the current location will be given up in the medium term and the stop is to be relocated 200 meters further out of town. The stop is marked with the adjacent parking lot for Park & ​​Ride.

The new Vilich stop is scheduled to go into operation in 2026 and, as an intersection, will be located exactly above the current DB route. Stairs and elevators take you down to the new DB S-Bahn platform with two separate S-Bahn tracks. From there it is then possible to take the S13 towards Bonn-Beuel or Troisdorf / Cologne (via the airport). The groundbreaking ceremony and the start of construction took place on November 29, 2016.

Vilich-Müldorf

Vilich-Müldorf

The Vilich-Müldorf stop is also one of the stops that already existed when the line was opened, as can be seen from the station building that is still preserved today. In the second half of the 1990s, new elevated platforms were built away from the reception building.

Hangelar West

The Hangelar West stop was set up around 1960 on the western outskirts of Hangelar .

Hangelar middle

Hangelar middle

The Hangelar Mitte stop has existed as the Hangelar station since the Siegburg Railway opened. The station was of major importance to operations, which is why it was manned by experienced staff, for which a station building was built that was large enough to accommodate two apartments.

Hangelar East

The Hangelar Ost stop was set up in 1967 as part of the double-track expansion on the eastern outskirts of Hangelar near the airfield.

Sankt Augustin place

Sankt Augustin place

The Sankt Augustin-Ort stop was set up around 1960 under the name of old people's home and renamed at the end of the 1990s, later the structure was changed from two offset flat platforms to adjacent elevated platforms. It has a gated level crossing, bicycle boxes and a bus stop.

Sankt Augustin monastery

Today's Sankt Augustin Kloster stop already existed under the name Niederpleis-Menden when the Siegburger Bahn opened; at that time it was located in a small village that consisted of an inn and a few residential buildings that made up today's Sankt Augustin-Ort district developed. On August 28, 1930, she was named after the mission house St. Augustine of the Divine Word Missionaries in St. Augustine renamed. It got its current name after the founding of the city of Sankt Augustin in order to distinguish it from the other stops in the city area.

Sankt Augustin Center / University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Sankt Augustin Market (2006)

Conversion of the stop (2014)

The station was built around 1960 under the name Siegburg-Mülldorf West . After the community of Siegburg-Mülldorf became part of the newly founded community of Sankt Augustin through the community reform , the stop was named after the HUMA shopping center in Sankt Augustin Markt . The platform, which is remote from this, is connected to it by a pedestrian bridge with a bicycle ramp. Due to the parking spaces in the center, the stop for Park & ​​Ride is indicated. From December 2013 to October 2015, the stop was converted to make it barrier-free as part of the new HUMA shopping center at a cost of around 5 million euros. During the renovation, the existing platforms were demolished and rebuilt, and the previous bridge over the railway tracks was replaced by a new one, also suitable for cyclists and connected by lifts. The new platform roof is a steel and glass construction in the shape of a butterfly roof . When the timetable changed on December 14, 2014, the stop was already renamed Sankt Augustin Zentrum / Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg .

Sankt Augustin Mülldorf

Sankt Augustin Mülldorf

The Sankt Augustin Mülldorf stop belongs to the original inventory of the Siegburger Bahn, but was originally called Siegburg-Mülldorf . In August 1992, the stop was equipped with elevated platforms to be barrier-free. Some technical rooms were included in the design and received optical extensions of the roof structure. The walls facing the stop were artistically designed by Roger Suchy, which saved them from vandalism for many years .

Siegburg train station

Siegburg train station

The Siegburg Bahnhof stop has been in the basement of the newly built Siegburg / Bonn train station since 2000 . There is direct access from the light rail platforms to all other platforms.

Expansion plans (infrastructure)

During the construction of the S13 S-Bahn, the Vilich stop is to be relocated to the bridge over the right-hand Rhine route, where it will form a tower station with the new S-Bahn stop . In particular, the connection from Bonn city center and the federal district to Cologne / Bonn Airport would be significantly accelerated by this connection.

In Beuel on Sankt Augustiner Straße there are regular delays due to the use of the lanes by the tram for car traffic. A separate route in this area is therefore aimed for. According to the city, a reduction in the area of ​​the St. Josef and Paulus cemetery and the inclusion of properties between Kreuzstrasse and Combahnstrasse are being investigated. A schedule for implementation does not yet exist (as of March 2017) .

literature

• Hans-Georg Nolden: The Bonn – Siegburg tram . Rheinlandia Verlag, Siegburg 1995, ISBN 3-925551-99-9 .

Web links

Commons : Siegburger Bahn  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the SWB Bus und Bahn
• Local transport map Bonn 2003–2007 (PDF file; 337 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsche Bahn course book
2. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Höltge: Bergisches and Siegerland from Wuppertal to Bonn . In: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany . tape 5 . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1996, ISBN 3-88255-333-2 , p. 301 .
3. ↑ Rolf Kleinfeld: Line 66 will soon run all night. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. August 22, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2014 . 
4. ↑ On December 15th, the SWB's timetable changed: night traffic on route 66 and a number of additional trips. SWB, November 22, 2013, accessed January 29, 2014 . 
5. ↑ A lot of money for the renovation of a train station , General-Anzeiger , February 12, 2015
6. ↑ Road closures at night at the Stadthaus bus stop: steel structures for the roofs are lifted by crane , press release from the city of Bonn, August 11, 2015
7. ↑ Glass, steel and shiny gravel , General-Anzeiger , November 18, 2015
8. ↑ Stadtbahn stop Stadthaus: Easily and comfortably to line 66 ( Memento from March 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), City of Bonn
9. ↑ Stadtbahn stop Stadthaus: in future it will be easier to get on and off. City of Bonn, January 29, 2014, accessed on January 29, 2014 (press release). 
10. ↑ Expansion of the town house costs 6 million euros , General-Anzeiger , August 12, 2014
11. ^ "Stadthaus" tram stop becomes barrier-free , press release of the Federal City of Bonn, August 26, 2014
12. ↑ Start of construction of the 3 to 4-track expansion of the railway line from Troisdorf to Bonn-Oberkassel. (No longer available online.) DB press office, Düsseldorf, November 29, 2016, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on March 22, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Dominik Pieper: 40 years of Sankt Augustin - The story of Sankt Augustin began between the monastery and the pub. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. October 24, 2017, accessed May 2, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Michael Lehnberg: Rapid pace with the new Huma building. In: General-Anzeiger . August 27, 2014, accessed August 17, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Michael Lehnberg: Longer ways for a short time. In: General-Anzeiger . January 23, 2015, accessed August 17, 2018 . 
16. ^ Matthias Hendorf: City opens tram stop and bridge in the center. In: General-Anzeiger. October 20, 2015, accessed October 20, 2015 . 
17. ^ Starting shot for renovation of the Markt tram stop , press release by the city of Sankt Augustin, December 18, 2013
18. ↑ Ralf Johnen: Markt stop will be demolished. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . March 27, 2014, accessed August 17, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Gabriele Immenkeppel: Old cemetery stands in the way of the railway. In: General-Anzeiger. March 15, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .