Altenburg station

• Leipzig -Hof
• Zeitz -Altenburg
• Altenburg- Langenleuba - Oberhain

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The Altenburg station is on the railway line from Leipzig -Hof. South of Altenburg, in Lehndorf branches westward from the line to Gera. There is also a branch in Rasephas district to Zeitz. However, this is only used for freight. The railway line from Altenburg to Langenleuba - Oberhain style was laid in 1999 and then built back. With the stations Altenburg- North and Altenburg - Rasephas Altenburg had to adjust the passenger traffic on the route to time in 2002, two more breakpoints.

History

Terminus

The original station Altenburg was in a different place in today's factory road. He was inaugurated on September 19, 1842 and was the first station to ernestinischem area. The Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg wanted to zoom put the station as close as possible to his town of residence, which meant that a further construction of the route going south because of topographical conditions was not possible and the train station thus became the railhead. The track in the direction of Hof was first a short distance to the north and then made ​​a 180 - degree turn to the Valley of splices, which is located east of the city.

Through station

Increased traffic showed the time that the head station to a traffic engineering problem. 1876 ​​began with the conversion work, where the new station was to the east and the new, a southward route slightly misplaced by a 375 m long tunnel. On September 25, 1878 was "the first biking the new rail system with use of the tunnel" instead. Structural remains of the former terminus station located today in the Altenburger Fabrikstraße. The tunnel Altenburg was removed prior to the electrification of the line in 1957 to 1959.

Immediately northwest of the passenger railway station was a rail yard on the road to Zeitz. This is now rented out as sidings to the wagon Altenburg GmbH.

The official name was from September 20, 1942 Altenburg ( door ) main station

In the 1990s, the station building was thoroughly renovated. So the wooden doors of the portico was restored among others, which were replaced in GDR times by aluminum doors were.

In the years 2010 and 2011 further modernization measures at the station were made, the economic programs of the Federal Republic of Germany and means of transport Corporation of Thuringia were renewed the platforms 1 to 3 in the frame, platform 2/3 of a passenger elevator was installed. The platform canopies and the pedestrian tunnel were renovated and renewed the lighting of the platforms and the forecourt.

In 2013, the former Railway Post Office building was demolished and a Park & ​​Ride facility with motorcycle and covered bicycle parking. In the course of the staircase and the elevator the overpass over the tracks to the Leipziger Straße was redeveloped. This was inaugurated in 1993, after the bridge was built in 1898 demolished in 1991.

With the commissioning of the Leipzig City Tunnel on December 15, 2013, the route network of the S -Bahn central Germany was remodeled extensively. Since then, the lines S5 and S5X of Halle ( Saale ) Hbf, Leipzig / Halle and Leipzig Hbf Airport Altenburg to Zwickau run.

Passenger

The station is located on the course book stretches 501.5, 503 and 540; on which the following train lines of DB Regio Southeast run:

Others

The train station adorn two sculptures, on the one hand the Green Wenzel, the jack of spades in Skat, in the lobby as well as a portrait of an old peasant Burger, also called Malcher, with hat, pipe and travel bag on the platforms two and three. This is to symbolize that the prosperous farmers of the Altenburger country could afford a trip rather than cottagers, servants and day laborers. The two -meter-high and 700 -pound Malcher was created in 1935 by the sculptor John Altenburger Dietze (* 1903).