Witten main station

Witten main station
Reception building
Data
Location in the network	Crossing station
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	4th
abbreviation	EWIT
IBNR	8000251
Price range	3
opening	March 9, 1849
Profile on Bahnhof.de	Witten_Hbf
Architectural data
architect	Richard Sauerbruch
location
City / municipality	Witten
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 26 '8 "  N , 7 ° 19' 47"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '8 "  N , 7 ° 19' 47"  E
Railway lines
Wuppertal – Dortmund Bochum-Langendreer-Witten Witten – Schwelm (partially closed)
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Witten Hauptbahnhof is located in the southeast of downtown Witten in the Ruhr area . It was opened as Witten BME by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on March 9, 1849.

The present reception building from 1901, designed by the Witten architect Richard Sauerbruch, is a listed building and is part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

history

Postcard from 1900

Witten Hauptbahnhof is a connecting station for several railway lines. The main line of the BME had already been opened on December 20, 1848 initially only for freight traffic. On October 26, 1860, the BME began building its Ruhr area line at this station .

The station was initially called Bahnhof Witten West. The first location met with criticism and the station was moved south in 1901. On January 21, 1940, it was renamed Witten Hauptbahnhof.

The German Reichsbahn took then on 4 October 1926, the freight line on Witten height to Wengern East with connections to the Ruhr valley railway in operation. In Witten-Höhe, the passenger trains to Gevelsberg branched off from May 15, 1934 to November 30, 1979; this route was finally shut down at the beginning of 1983. Passenger traffic via Wengern Ost to Hagen-Vorhalle was only started with a delay of about three years, but was then only stopped on June 1, 1986.

On December 1, 1939, two trains collided near Witten. 15 people died and 17 others were injured.

New bus station

In 2000 the station was sold to the investors Radomir Zecevic and Markus Bürger.

On January 14, 2012, the new Witten bus station southeast of the main station was opened. With its relocation from the Kornmarkt to the new location, the connection of the bus network to the rail traffic should be improved. Until then, only some of the bus routes stopped at Witten main station. The trams stop at the neighboring Witten Bahnhofstraße stop .

See also : Witten – Schwelm railway line

business

Class 422 multiple unit on line S 5 in Witten

The southern branch of the Wuppertal – Dortmund railway line is used by both long-distance and local traffic, while the northern branch has only been used by local traffic since 1988 (since 1994: S-Bahn line S 5).

After stopping at the station, regional traffic runs on the Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg line to Essen main station , long-distance traffic has been running without a stop in Witten on the same route since 1988 and through the Oberstraße tunnel, which was built to speed it up, via the main line to Dortmund main station .

The only sections of the route still in operation today on the southern side of the Ruhr from Witten Hauptbahnhof to the former Witten-Höhe junction, from Witten-Höhe to Wengern Ost and from Wengern Ost to Hagen-Vorhalle are now tied through to form a continuous freight train route.

The following lines stop in Witten Hauptbahnhof:

line	Line course	Tact
RE 4	Wupper-Express : Aachen Hbf  - Aachen Schanz  - Aachen West  - Herzogenrath  - Übach-Palenberg  - Geilenkirchen  - Lindern  - Hückelhoven-Baal  - Erkelenz  - Rheydt Hbf  - Mönchengladbach Hbf  - Neuss Hbf  - Düsseldorf Hbf  - Wuppertal-Vohwinkel  - Wuppertal Hbf  - Wuppertal- Barmen  - Wuppertal-Oberbarmen  - Schwelm  - Ennepetal (Gevelsberg)  - Hagen Hbf  - Witten Hbf  - Dortmund Hbf Status: timetable change December 2015	60 min
RE 16	Ruhr-Sieg-Express : Essen Hbf  - Wattenscheid  - Bochum Hbf  - Witten Hbf  - Wetter (Ruhr)  - Hagen Hbf  - Hohenlimburg  - Iserlohn-Letmathe wing, train part 1:  - Letmathe-Dechenhöhle  - Iserlohn train part 2:  - Altena (Westf)  - Werdohl  - Plettenberg  - Finnentrop  - Lennestadt-Grevenbrück  - Lennestadt-Altenhundem  - Kirchhundem-Welschen Ennest  - Kreuztal  - Siegen-Weidenau  - Siegen Hbf Status: timetable change December 2015	60 min
RB 40	Ruhr-Lenne-Bahn: Essen Hbf  - Essen-Kray Süd  - Wattenscheid  - Bochum Hbf  - Witten Hbf  - Wetter  - Hagen-Vorhalle  - Hagen Hbf Status: timetable change December 2015	60 min
S 5	Dortmund Hbf 1 - Dortmund-Barop - Dortmund-Kruckel - Witten-Annen Nord - Witten Hbf 2 - Wetter (Ruhr) - Hagen-Vorhalle - Hagen Hbf  3 Status: timetable change December 2019	30 min (1–2) 60 min (2–3)

Signal box

Signal box wif

The Wif interlocking ( Wi tten Hauptbahnhof, F ahrdienstleiter) is a track diagram interlocking of the type SpDrS60 and went into operation in 1981. In addition to the Witten main train station, it also controls the Stockumer Straße level crossing at the Witten-Annen Nord stop , the Stockumer Straße junction at the separation of the long-distance tracks to Bochum and Dortmund, several level crossings between Witten main train station and the Wetter (Ruhr) stop, and the threading of the Ruhr Valley Railway into the left Ruhr section at Wengern Ost station.

Others

In 2018, various surveillance cameras were installed outside the building and in the station hall.

Web links

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

Deutsche Bahn AG

• Tracks in service facilities (EWIT) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 183.5 KiB)

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost

• Description of the EWIT office
• Description of the Witten main station access point

Further evidence

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~15~11539
• Railway friends Witten: 100 years of Witten railway station with more pictures
• Witten Hauptbahnhof in the OpenRailwayMap

Others

• Surveillance under Surveillance - card with the surveillance cameras

Individual evidence

1. ^ Werner Wölke: Witten HBF
2. ^ Martin Weltner: Railway disasters. Serious train accidents and their causes. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7654-7096-7 , p. 15.
3. ↑ Jürgen Augstein: Two people from Witten buy the station. WAZ , December 16, 2010, accessed April 24, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Florian Groege: Witten ZOB: Traffic at the new bus station is rolling - praise prevails , Ruhr Nachrichten , January 10, 2012, accessed on February 1, 2012
5. ^ André Joost: StellwerkArchiv Witten Hbf Wif. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved June 7, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Annette Kreikenbohm: Vandalism. Sprayer smear Witten train station again. WAZ, February 22, 2018, accessed April 24, 2020 .