Stolberg (Rhineland) Central Station
| Stolberg (Rhineland) Central Station | |
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 Renovated reception building in 2014
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Crossing station |
| Design | Wedge station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | KST |
| IBNR | 8000348 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1888 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Stolberg__Rheinl__Hbf |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Stolberg |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 47 '41 " N , 6 ° 13' 10" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The wedge station Stolberg (Rhineland) Hauptbahnhof is located on the Cologne – Aachen railway line and is the largest passenger and freight station in the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the Aachen region in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
19th century
1841 Stolberg received at the time single-track railway line between Cologne and Aachen the breakpoint station Stolberg on Eilendorfer or later Eschweiler area about a kilometer from the northern Stolberg's city limits since the Stolberg valley is inconveniently located and made a detailed route impossible. The distant stopping point was set up by the operator of the line, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , under pressure from the Stolberg industry and served as a transshipment point for Eschweiler coal and Stolberg industrial products as well as luggage, cattle and passenger transport.
From 1846, the previously low passenger transports increased in Stolberg due to innovations and discounts in the tariff system. The transport of goods expanded steadily. In 1849 there were extensions with new track systems. Until 1850, the number of annual transports was around 24,000 people. The import volume was around 41,000 quintals and exports were around 185,000 quintals. After these and other expansions in the following years, the station in 1855 had a total of around 1.2 kilometers of track, ten switches and two car turntables .
On December 11, 1867, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft opened a line from Stolberg to Stolberg Spiegelmanufaktur with a length of 1.4 kilometers for goods traffic only . It was nationalized in 1880 and extended on September 15, 1881 by the Prussian State Railways to Stolberg-Hammer (2.4 kilometers), and on December 21, 1889 to Walheim (11 kilometers), where it began with the line opened on July 1, 1885 ( Aachen-Rothe Erde -) Walheim - Raeren (- Monschau ) meets . Today this section, like the line beginning in Rothe Erde, is known as the Vennbahn .
An extension of the Mönchengladbach – Eschweiler-Aue line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) to Stolberg followed in 1875. The “Stolberg BME” station was only a few hundred meters south of the “Stolberg RhE” station on the Cologne – Aachen line Rhenish Railway Company, today Stolberg (Rhineland) central station.
Another route, the Stolberg – Münsterbusch railway , led to Münsterbusch . The railway connection was put into operation by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1887 and completely removed after 1980.
Between 1886 and 1888 the current building of what was then the Stolberg (Rheinisch) station ( Stolberg (Rh) for short ) was built by the Prussian State Railways . It replaced the previous three station buildings for the four different routes. In 1935 the station came to the city of Stolberg and has been called Stolberg (Rheinl) Hauptbahnhof ever since . The first station building was located east of today's main station, as the Cologne – Aachen route was offset in this area from today's, and was accessed via Probsteistraße. In 1888, the facilities of the acquired private railways were merged and given today's station building on Rhenaniastraße. The complex due to its development from several station facilities was divided into districts I to VI for smooth operation. It was opened on October 16, 1888 as a wedge station and had platforms for the Cologne – Aachen, Herzogenrath – Alsdorf – Stolberg and Stolberg – Kohlscheid lines , some as stump tracks on the northern side and for the route to Walheim on the southern side.
Service apartments and the Stolberg post office 2 were housed in the station building. In the adjoining building there was a syringe house and toilet rooms. In 1897 a necessary extension of the counter hall was created. An office building built in 1899 next to the train station gave way to a new central signal box in 1986 . On the right side of the building, an annex was added to the post office wing in 1910, giving the building its present-day appearance. After being damaged in the Second World War , the Wilhelmine decorative elements are missing . The counter hall has been closed since the 1980s.
20th century
In 1935, the area around the main train station, together with some parts of the city, was removed from the city of Eschweiler into the city of Stolberg (Rhld.).
On December 31, 1962 the passenger traffic Stolberg-Walheim and 1991 the freight traffic Stolberg-Hammer- Raeren (B) was stopped. Until then, the station on this route was the customs station for goods from Belgium.
The Stolberger Eisenbahnbetriebswerk , which was built around 1885 on the former Stolberg Velau station on Münsterbachstrasse and provided locomotives and personnel to carry out freight and passenger transport, was attached to the marshalling yard and the station area . On February 28, 1978, the Stolberg depot was closed as a separate department and became a branch of the Aachen depot . In 1983, the branch office of the Aachen depot became the Stolberg base. The depot was finally closed and the facilities demolished.
From 1881 to 1959, the Stolberg main station was also connected to the Aachen tram network. The horse-drawn tram running from the main station to the market largely parallel to the route to Walheim was operated until 1897, and then electrically. In 1898 the tram was extended to Vicht (then the municipality of Gressenich ), in 1910 to Zweifall (then the district of Montjoie ). In 1959 the tram was shut down, and the operation of line 8 was taken over by buses. Since then, the main train station has been integrated into the ASEAG bus network.
21st century
In 2001, the Euregiobahn began operating between Heerlen and Stolberg Altstadt. Since the Euregiobahn to Weisweiler went into operation in 2005, Stolberg Hauptbahnhof has been an important hub in the Euregiobahn network. In 2009, a new platform was built for trains to and from Stolberg Altstadt on track 27 south of the reception building. In June 2010 the EVS Euregio Verkehrsschienennetz (EVS) took over the Stolberg main station including the reception building. Only the dispatcher interlocking and the continuous main tracks remained the property of Deutsche Bahn. As a result, in the same year the overhead line networks in the station were separated between the part of Deutsche Bahn and that of EVS. In 2010, extensive restoration work began on the reception building, which was converted into the operations center for the new EVS electronic interlocking , which has been in operation since June 2012. In 2012 the platform on track 43 was raised to 760 millimeters above the top of the rail. The DB part of the station has been renovated since 2017. In the course of this work, the platform on tracks 1 and 2 was also raised to 760 millimeters. The underpass to the platform is to be replaced by a bridge known as the Skywalk . To this end, a temporary bridge was first built in February 2017 and the underpass, which is no longer required, was filled in in June 2018. The Skywalk should be accessible via stairs and elevators and thus make the Stolberg main station accessible. The work should be completed in 2019. The Skywalk was opened in summer 2019 and direct access to the parking garage was created. The elevators that are still missing will be retrofitted and should go into operation in early 2020. The temporary footbridge was demolished in October 2019.
Route connection
The Stolberg main station is the junction of several former and still existing railway lines .
- The high-speed line Cologne – Aachen runs from the east through the freight station and then through the passenger station to the west.
- The Mönchengladbach – Stolberg (Eschweiler Talbahn) railway also leads to the station from the east .
- The Stolberg – Herzogenrath (Ringbahn) line comes from the north-west. It first crosses under the Cologne – Aachen line to the west, before threading into the station south of the main tracks. From this line the now defunct Stolberg – Kohlscheid railway branched off at the Quinx junction between Stolberg and Würselen-Merzbrück .
- The fourth line is the Stolberg – Walheim railway line , which leaves the station on the southern side of the reception building and thus wedges it together with the Cologne – Aachen line.
- The Stolberg – Münsterbusch railway used to lead to the southwest .
passenger traffic
In 2017, the passenger trains on the following lines of local rail passenger transport stopped at Stolberg Central Station :
A special operational feature is the wing of the Euregiobahn in the Stolberg main station. The separation takes place on the platform from track 43, the front part of the train continues on the Eschweiler Talbahn to Langerwehe or Düren, the rear part turns in the freight yard and continues with another stop at platform 27, to Stolberg-Altstadt. In the opposite direction, the two parts of the train are coupled in a technically appropriately equipped track ( passenger system ) in the freight station and then travel together to the passenger station. The part of the train from Stolberg-Altstadt only stops at platform 27, drives to the freight yard to turn and couple and from there to a stop at platform 1 to Aachen. In the evenings, on Saturday afternoons, and on Sundays and public holidays, wings and coupling are only carried out in a very few cases.
Freight transport
In 1927 up to 2,000 wagons left the station every day. More than 600 railway workers were employed at the station and in the depot. There was a customs office. In the 1930s, the station was one of the largest in Germany.
In terms of freight traffic, the station is important for the region due to the route to the Weisweiler power station (Eschweiler Talbahn). In 2011, the volume of goods handled was around 1.5 million tons and the trend is increasing. Berzelius Stolberg , the Eschweiler Röhrenwerk, a company with its own siding in the Stolberg Altstadt and Eschweiler-Aue stations, and the Schwermetall Halbzeugwerk company, which operates on the Stolberg – Walheim railway line, were the largest customers in 2011. As an infrastructure company, the EVS Euregio Verkehrsschienennetz (EVS) is also planning to reactivate the freight station. In Stolberg, EVS has 20 kilometers of track in the freight yard.
In 2013, 28 tracks in the eastern freight yard could be used as storage and transshipment tracks.
In the western part, more tracks are to be put back into operation. The Euregio Railport is being built in the freight yard. On around five hectares, the freight station offers 35 track and storage facilities with a total length of around 14 kilometers for transshipment. There are also areas in Camp Astrid, Eschweiler-Aue and Merzbrück. In September 2018, EVS and Düren's RATH temporarily prepared 28,000 square meters in the former District IV . The infrastructure should be developed by 2025. Additional tracks and transshipment facilities will be implemented in the area of the Eschweiler-Aue train station . Starting in January 2019, preliminary products for the Eschweiler pipe works ESW, which are currently still being handled in Stolberg freight yard area V in the Atsch (on Haldenstrasse) and delivered to the pipe works by truck, are to be reloaded at Eschweiler-Aue station from January 2019. The freight yard there was renovated by EVS and a large loading area was created. The RTB cargo , the cargo carrier the RATH Holding currently transported, lead ore of Flushing Stolberg
Trivia
Due to the immediate proximity of the Vegla polder and the Steinfurt sewage treatment plant as well as the waste dump of the Kali Chemie, there was an unpleasant smell - especially on warm days - also at the train station. Structural work on the Vegla polder, the Rhenania dump and the discharge of the Saubach into the Steinfurt sewage treatment plant and a treatment plant for seepage water (from the Vegla polder) on the northern company premises of Saint-Gobain Glass Germany , which was commissioned in 2007, have reduced the odor nuisance.
See also
literature
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Rhineland. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-9540039-6-9 .
Web links
Deutsche Bahn:
- Tracks in service facilities (KST) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 319.3 kiB)
- Current departure schedule from Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf. Deutsche Bahn , accessed on November 7, 2013 .
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- André Joost: Stolberg (Rheinl) main station. In: Betriebsstelleinfo. Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
- André Joost: Stolberg (Rheinl) main station passenger access point. In: Bahnhofsinfo. Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
further evidence:
- Stolberg Central Station. (PDF; 266.96 KiB) In: Stop location plans . Aachen Transport Association , April 4, 2013, accessed on November 7, 2013 .
- Roland Keller: Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf. In: Railway in Stolberg. Roland Keller, accessed November 7, 2013 .
- Reinhard Gessen: Stolberg. In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region. Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
- Stefan von der Ruhren: Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf. In: Railways in Aachen and the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. September 29, 2012, accessed November 7, 2013 .
- Guido Rademacher: Bw Stolberg. In: Railway in the Aachen area - Bahnbetriebswerke. Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station category list 2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service AG, December 16, 2016, archived from the original on February 15, 2017 ; accessed on February 14, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ Jürgen Lange: Stolberger Hauptbahnhof: renovation should now go quickly. In: Aachener Nachrichten . June 23, 2010, accessed November 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Company. Website of the EVS Euregio Verkehrsschienennetz GmbH, accessed on November 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Skywalk" as from the model kit. In: Aachener Nachrichten . October 29, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Jürgen Lange: Stolberger Hauptbahnhof: Skywalk is growing a little further. In: Aachener Zeitung . October 14, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Station service instructions for Stolberg Hbf. 1927 edition, page 4
- ↑ a b Jürgen Lange: 10 years Euregiobahn: Alsdorf is getting closer. In: Aachener Nachrichten . November 11, 2011, accessed November 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Outlook. Aachener Volkszeitung, accessed on August 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Jürgen Lange: Stolberg is to become a center for goods. In: Aachener Nachrichten . September 13, 2013, accessed November 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Jürgen Lange: "From today on, Stolberg is by the sea". In: Aachener Zeitung . September 14, 2018, accessed December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Jürgen Lange: Stolberger Hauptbahnhof as "Euregio Railport". In: Aachener Zeitung . July 14, 2016, accessed December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Jürgen Lange: In March it starts at the Rüstbach Viaduct. In: Aachener Nachrichten . December 17, 2018, accessed December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ current transport services of RTB Cargo on their website
