Zwickau (Sachs) main station

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Zwickau (Sachs) main station
Reception building with station forecourt
Reception building with station forecourt
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Separation station
Design Wedge station
Platform tracks 8th
abbreviation DZW
IBNR 8010397
Price range 3
opening September 18, 1845
Profile on Bahnhof.de Zwickau__Sachs__Hbf
Architectural data
architect Otto Falck (1933)
location
City / municipality Zwickau
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 42 '54 "  N , 12 ° 28' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '54 "  N , 12 ° 28' 37"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
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Zwickau (Sachs) Hauptbahnhof is the main train station of the south-west Saxon city ​​of Zwickau . It is classified in station category  3 of DB Station & Service and is located on the Dresden – Werdau , Schwarzenberg – Zwickau and Zwickau – Falkenstein railway lines . The Zwickau – Crossen – Mosel railway line , which is now partially closed, used to have its starting point there.

The station was opened in 1845, after which the station soon developed into an important regional rail hub. In addition to passenger traffic, the station was also important for goods traffic and, due to mining in the Zwickau hard coal district, was for a long time the largest freight station in Saxony . With the cessation of mining and the economic decline after the fall of the Wall , the station has lost much of its former importance. Until a few years ago there was still long-distance passenger transport , today only local trains and the S-Bahn trains of Central Germany stop there .

Station name

The station already had five different names during its operation, in detail these were:

  • until March 31, 1895: Zwickau
  • until June 30, 1911: Zwickau train station
  • until December 21, 1933: Zwickau (Sa)
  • until May 14, 1938: Zwickau (Sachs)
  • since May 15, 1938: Zwickau (Sachs) Hbf

history

Zwickau was connected to the railway network on September 18, 1845 via a branch line together with the Crimmitschau – Werdau section of the Leipzig – Hof railway line. The first mine in the Zwickau hard coal area received a siding via the Bürgererschachtbahn in 1847 , the mines to the south were connected via the Zwickau – Bockwa coal railway in 1854, and in 1858 this line was extended to Schwarzenberg . In the same year, the Chemnitz-Zwickau section of the Dresden-Werdau railway line was opened. In 1875, the soon-to-be nationalized Zwickau-Lengenfeld-Falkensteiner Railway Company opened the Zwickau – Falkenstein line . The last expansion of the route network took place in 1892, when the Zwickau – Crossen – Mosel industrial line went into operation.

The first station building was built in wood in 1845. Because it soon no longer met the growing requirements, it was replaced by a new building in 1858.

The Zwickau freight station developed into the largest train station in Saxony, primarily due to the coal dispatching of the mining industry. Even before the First World War, as a result of the increasing traffic, the railway administration had to decide to expand the workshop and freight station. Around 1914, 2.3 million travelers frequented Zwickau's main train station every year. The daily train traffic was 130 passenger and 280 freight trains. Every year 3.5 million tons of goods were handled. The mines alone needed 800 railcars every day to ship coal. After the First World War, the railway administration could not avoid planning to expand the Zwickau main train station for goods and passenger traffic. In 1919, the renovation began. This was accompanied by a thorough redesign of the remaining Zwickau railway systems. Due to the strong growth of the Zwickau auto industry in the 1930s, freight traffic to the surrounding regions continued to grow. The station building, which was rebuilt from May 1933 to 1936 for passenger traffic, was built according to plans by Reichsbahn chief building officer Otto Falck. It is a dome building clinkered with hard-fired glaze bricks in the clear lines of the Bauhaus style of the late 1920s. It was opened on December 17, 1936, and the old station building was then demolished in 1937. Due to the Second World War , the renovation work was canceled in 1941. At the end of the war, the station was repeatedly the target of Allied bombing attacks, which caused considerable damage, but the station building was not affected.

The positive development continued into the 1950s. On May 25, 1963, the continuous electrical railway operation on the section between Altenburg and Zwickau belonging to the Saxon triangle began. In 1970, a large container terminal was built at the freight yard immediately next to the main train station, which went into operation on January 11, 1972. In November 1976, Zwickau was connected to the City Express network when the City Express Sachsenring first operated. The city express was discontinued in 1991.

In 2011 five elevators were installed as part of the Federal Republic of Germany's economic stimulus package .

Since December 2013, the station has been integrated into the Central German S-Bahn network.

outlook

DB Fernverkehr AG plans to reconnect Zwickau to the long-distance network. After electrification of the Hof – Regensburg railway line , an IC line should go from Munich via Regensburg , Hof , Zwickau, Chemnitz to Dresden or further to Berlin in 2022 at the earliest .

In 2019, it was decided to renovate 15 train stations in the Free State of Saxony , including Zwickau main station. The renovation and conversion measures are expected to begin in 2025.

Railway lines and operations

Counter hall (2014)
Platform view

The Zwickau main station is designed as a wedge station . Platforms one to four are designed for the main railway line running in east-west direction from Dresden to Nuremberg, whereas platforms five to eight are designed for those in north-south direction from Leipzig to the Western Ore Mountains and from Zwickau to Vogtland to Falkenstein, Klingenthal and Auerbach routes were provided. In the immediate vicinity of these platforms, the Zwickau railway post office was built at the same time.

A special feature is the Zwickau – Zwickau-Zentrum railway line, known as the Zwickau model . Regional shuttles of the Länderbahn , which, in addition to the regular equipment for rail operations according to EBO, are also equipped for operation according to BOStrab , travel over a siding and subsequent tram tracks to the Zwickau Zentrum stop. At the level of the W5 interlocking on the Schwarzenberg – Zwickau railway line , a track branches off towards the town hall. From the Stadthalle stop, the trains run on a three-rail track together with the Zwickau tram to the Zentrum stop.

Transport links

Regional traffic

The following lines stop in Zwickau in the 2020 timetable:

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
RE 3 Hof  - Plauen  - Zwickau  - Glauchau  - Chemnitz  - Freiberg  - Dresden 060 MRB
RB 30 Zwickau  - Glauchau - Chemnitz - Freiberg - Dresden 060 ( HVZ 30 Chemnitz – Zwickau) MRB
RB 95 Zwickau  - Aue  - Schwarzenberg  - Johanngeorgenstadt 060 DB RegioNetz
Erzgebirgsbahn
RB 1 Zwickau center - Zwickau  - Falkenstein  - Zwotental  - Klingenthal  - Kraslice (- Karlovy Vary) 060 (Zwickau – Falkenstein)
120 (Falkenstein – Kraslice) 		Vogtland Railway
RB 2 Zwickau center - Zwickau  - Reichenbach  - Plauen - Adorf  - Bad Brambach - Cheb 060 (Zwickau – Adorf), Sat / Sun only to Plauen
120 (Adorf – Cheb), Sat / Sun from Plauen 		Vogtland Railway
S 5 Zwickau  - Werdau - Gößnitz  - Altenburg  - Markkleeberg - Leipzig  - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Halle 120 DB Regio Southeast
S 5X Zwickau  - Werdau - Gößnitz - Altenburg - Markkleeberg - Leipzig - Leipzig / Halle Airport - Halle 060 DB Regio Southeast

Local public transport

Tram on the way from the main train station in the direction of the city

The main train station is connected to the city center by bus line 10 operated by the Zwickau municipal transport company . Until December 13, 2019, the main station was also served by tram lines 5 and 7 , but this connection was discontinued because the curved tracks are in very poor condition and safe operations are no longer possible.

Tram lines 5 and 7 only ran Monday through Friday between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. Lines 5 and 7 did not run on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

At the timetable change on December 15, 2019, bus line 10 was compressed in the mornings to replace tram lines 5 and 7, so that line 10 is now Monday to Friday between 3:50 a.m. and 6:06 a.m. every 15 minutes, between 6 : 6 a.m. and 5:06 p.m. every 10 minutes, between 5:06 p.m. and 8:05 p.m. again every 15 minutes and between 8:05 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. every 30 minutes -Takt wrong. On Saturdays there are 30-minute intervals between 4:50 a.m. and 8:05 a.m., buses run every 15 minutes between 8:05 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. and between 6:05 p.m. and 11:05 p.m. again at 30-minute intervals. On Sundays and public holidays there is a 30-minute cycle between 5:20 a.m. and 11:20 p.m.

Furthermore, numerous regional bus routes and so-called PlusBus routes start at the main train station . These are mainly operated by regional traffic from West Saxony .

literature

Web links

Commons : Zwickau (Sachs) Hauptbahnhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Klaus Reichenbach: Tram in Zwickau , Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 1997, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Stadtbaurat Ebersbach - "Zwickau", in Germany's urban development, Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1921
  3. ↑ Norbert Peschke: Zwickau transport node - Volume 1: Railway stations in and around Zwickau , p. 59
  4. ^ Klaus Reichenbach: Tram in Zwickau , Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 1997, p. 50.
  5. ↑ Platforms in Zwickau main station reachable without steps. Deutsche Bahn AG, April 28, 2011, accessed on April 2, 2012 .
  6. ↑ More rail for metropolises and regions. The largest customer offensive in the history of DB long-distance transport. Deutsche Bahn AG, March 18, 2015, archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; Retrieved April 25, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Zwickau's main station is initially just a patchwork | Free press - Zwickau. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Imprint. In: erzgebirgsbahn.de. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ mdr.de: Zwickau closes half of its tram lines | MDR.DE. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .