Sonneberg (Thür) main station
| Sonneberg (Thür) central station | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | USO |
| IBNR | 8013008 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1907 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Sonneberg__Thuer__Hbf |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Home style |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Sonneberg |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 21 '19 " N , 11 ° 10' 8" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 387.25 m |
| Railway lines | |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Sonneberg Central Station was built as part of the construction work on the Eisfeld – Sonneberg railway line , the so-called Hinterlandbahn, and still has a central function in local public transport for Sonneberg and the surrounding area. He solved the as residential buildings still existing 1907 Old train station from which, together with the first section of the single-track railway line Coburg-Ernstthal am Rennsteig , a branch line of the Werrabahn , in the years 1857-1858 by the Werra Railway Company was built.
location
The Sonneberg train station is located at the 19.51 kilometer on the Coburg – Sonneberg line at a height of 386.41 meters above sea level and is located south of the city center. It is bounded in the north by the parallel downtown tangent. The station is on the route from Coburg to Ernstthal am Rennsteig and is the end point of the route from Eisfeld .
history
On November 2, 1858, the first Sonneberg train station was inaugurated as the terminus of the Werra Railway Company . It was not until 28 years later that the line to Lauscha was converted into a through station on October 1, 1886 . However, after the opening of the railway line to Stockheim on June 1, 1901 at the latest, it became apparent that the existing railway facilities, which had been taken over by the Prussian state railway in 1895 , were no longer able to cope with the volume of traffic. This is why the Royal Railway Directorate in Erfurt built a new station southeast of the old station from 1905, which was put into operation two years later in October 1907. The station was four times the size of the previous building and cost around 2.7 million marks . The platform roofs were first implemented in the Prussian State Railways network as a reinforced concrete structure by the construction company Dyckerhoff & Widmann .
With the inauguration of the hinterland railway on April 1, 1910, the station got its fourth connection to a railway line and was classified as a class 2 station due to the extensive freight station with a drainage mountain railway junction and with 27 tracks and 102 switches. There was greater destruction towards the end of the Second World War . The signal boxes were blown up by the German Wehrmacht , and storage sheds and 70% of the track and switch systems were destroyed in an air attack by US fighter-bombers. After the occupation of Thuringia by Soviet troops in July 1945, operations on the main routes to Coburg and Stockheim were closed. The train station lost much of its traffic importance. Four freight tracks and one railway station track had to be dismantled as reparations for the Soviet Union.
In 1952 the station name was changed to Hauptbahnhof, in 1971 the two signal boxes were replaced by new buildings and light signals were introduced. The transshipment at the freight station was still one of the most extensive in southern Thuringia , even if rail traffic could only be handled via the two branch lines to Ernstthal and Eisfeld with the switchback stations in Lauscha and Rauenstein.
After reunification , the line to Coburg was reactivated and tracks 3 to 6 were electrified. In 1997, through traffic via Ernstthal to Probstzella and Eisfeld was discontinued. Under the project name Umweltbahnhof Sonneberg , the station was rebuilt from 1997 to 1999. The station forecourt was redesigned and a central bus station was set up. In addition, a 220 m long foot and cycle path bridge was built over the track system with elevator towers to the platforms and the bus station. During this time, the station could only be reached from the south via Neustadt. The freight yard was closed in 1999, the track systems were converted to the five remaining platform tracks and one continuous freight track and two further freight track stumps between 2001 and 2002. In addition, an electronic signal box was installed and traffic to Lauscha-Neuhaus and Rauenstein-Eisfeld was resumed by the Thuringian Railway .
Platforms
The two central platforms are each accessible by an elevator .
| track | Length in m | Height in cm |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 110 | 55 |
| 2 | 210 | 30th |
| 3 | 210 | 30th |
| 4th | 251 | 30th |
| 5 | 251 | 30th |
Passenger train traffic
Single passenger trains were and are the rule at Sonneberg station. Only from 1937 there was an express train that traveled the 142 kilometers from Coburg via Sonneberg, Stockheim and Göschwitz to Weimar in three hours and about ten minutes . In addition, from 1954 and 1970, with interruptions, a pair of express trains ran via Saalfeld to Leipzig .
today
| line | route | Cycle (min.) |
|---|---|---|
| RE 49 |
Franconia-Thuringia Express :
Sonneberg - Rödental - Coburg - Lichtenfels - Bamberg - Erlangen - Nuremberg |
120 |
| RE 49 |
Franconia-Thuringia Express :
Sonneberg - Rödental - Coburg (- Bamberg - Erlangen - Nuremberg ) / (- Lichtenfels ) |
120 |
| STB 41 | Eisenach - Bad Salzungen - Meiningen - Hildburghausen - Eisfeld - Sonneberg (- Steinach - Neuhaus) |
60 120 (Sonneberg – Eisenach) |
In the 2020 timetable, the STB 41 line of the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn runs every hour to Neuhaus am Rennweg and every two hours between Eisenach and Sonneberg. This line is used by Stadler RS 1 regio shuttles of the 650 series.
The Franken-Thüringen-Express connects Sonneberg with Coburg , Lichtenfels , Bamberg and Nuremberg . There is an hourly service between Sonneberg and Coburg. These trains run every two hours via Lichtenfels and on a direct route to Nuremberg. The latter travel with double-deck coaches and two class 193 locomotives drawn on the high-speed line Nuremberg – Erfurt . These trains run between Coburg and Bamberg without stopping, the journey time is about half an hour shorter than via Lichtenfels. Some of these connections require a change in Coburg, the trains from Sonneberg then continue to Lichtenfels.
literature
- Wolfgang Beyer: Railway in the Sonneberger Land . Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, Neustadt / Coburg 2004, ISBN 3-9807748-5-6 .
Web links
- Railway in Sonneberg ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b platform information on Sonneberg (Thür) Hbf on deutschebahn.com