Geislingen (Steige) station
- Filstalbahn ( KBS 750 )
- Tälesbahn ( decommissioned)
- Access route to the reciprocal Eybtal Station ( decommissioned)
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The Geislingen station ( platforms ) ( often referred to as Central Station) is located at kilometer 61.3 of Filstalbahn below the Geislingen in Geislingen. By May 2000, the total for freight here is a link to Geislingen - old city. She was the last maintained section of the original railway line to Wiesensteig. The station is served by intercity and regional trains.
- 2.1 Highway
- 2.2 Regional Transport
History
Planning and construction
When Georg Buhler and Carl Christian von Seeger presented by providers of plans for a rail link from Stuttgart to Ulm, was the connection through the Fils Valley in the competition to a line tour of the Rems and Brenztal. Overcoming the Swabian Alb they looked at as a task almost impossible.
In the 1840s, the official city Geislingen had around 2,300 inhabitants. They lived mostly on agriculture or practicing a craft in small businesses from. Less than one percent of them were employed in foreign factories. Despite its location on the state highway Stuttgart -Ulm was located here, no significant trading post. Erected 1824 Albaufstieg did little to improve trade. Due to the poor condition of the road and the steep gradient of the road to Ulm for carts was only with difficulty to climb.
The proposal of the Eastern Railway, the city councils drew new hope for the city and upper office and stood up for a port. On December 16, 1841, they wrote a petition, in which they discussed the economic importance of the region and flour, beer, grain, livestock, firewood and stones listed.If as articles. The passenger traffic was at first uninteresting. To focus on targeted, they announced the imminent depletion of the city at a Nichtberücksichtung.
However, the petitioners questioned saying that the could handle the Albaufstieg a locomotive. Instead, it imagined that in Geislingen uncoupled the cars from the locomotives and they would then be individually pulled by horses on the Alb.
Ultimately, the evaluators chose the shorter rail line through the Fils Valley to Ulm and appoint Michael Knoll with the planning and construction of the railway ramp at his hometown Geislingen. The experienced Karl Etzel stood Knoll aside. From the railway construction benefited particularly the miller Daniel Straub, a cousin Knolls, who established in the Kapellmühle and in a newly created building above the walkways workshops for working tools and machines.
Large earth moving were needed to steer the car to the train station and the platforms. The station was built specifically north of the town center to make it the central point for the villages of Old Town, Eybach and hamlets. Designed by Knoll two-storey building with a hipped roof still exists.
State Railway time
On 14 June 1849, the Royal Württemberg State Railways took the stretch Sweet -Geislingen in operation. The opening of the section Geislingen -Ulm took place on June 29, 1850. Geislingen on all trains had to be pushed to Amstetten.
Daniel Straub still ran a blacksmith for tools that he developed as an iron foundry and machine shop. This results in 1883 developed the Maschinenfabrik AG Geislingen ( MAG). 1853 Straub founded with two partners, the metal goods factory Straub & Schweizer, which carries since 1880 the name Württemberg Metal Goods Factory AG ( WMF). Thus began the industrialization in Geislingen.
On June 29, 1852 exactly two years after the inauguration of the Geislingen, died Michael Knoll. His friends donated a bust in his honor, which was initially on the western railway station forecourt. On the pedestal is to be read:
" The builders of the railway junction Alb Michael Knoll, Oberbaurat from Geislingen, dedicated by his friends. "
Between 1859 and 1862, the State Railway built the Eastern Railway of Plochingen to Ulm twofold. The population Geislingens increased. Goods in 1880 3900 there, in 1900 7,000 people lived in the town at the foot of the Jura.
Since October 21, 1903 Geislingen chain of a 21 km long branch line from. The Tälesbahn led over Ueberkingen and Deggingen of meadow trail. When constructing the Knoll Memorial had to give way and was transferred to the Geislingen.
Reichsbahn
With the electrification of the Stuttgart -Ulm on June 1, 1933, the readjustment of the trains on the Geislingen was no longer necessary. An exception is the heavy freight trains today.
On Geislinger Staufer tunnel which had its own railway connection to the Tälesbahn, iron ore has already been before the Second World War increasingly dismantled and removed. In 1940, the German Reichsbahn the reciprocal station Eybtal, in which the head making was moved, the loaded before the Geislingen station. The reciprocal station existed until 1944.
Federal Railroad Time
In the economic miracle of the individual traffic increased. On the railway line Geislingen - Wiesensteig the German Federal Railway recorded declining ridership. This resulted in the closure of the section Deggingen - Wiesensteig result. The remaining portion held the train to June 1, 1980 for passenger upright. The freight remained until September 25, 1981 consist.
21st Century
As a last piece of Tälesbahn the German Bahn AG laid in May 2000 shut the section Geislingen -Geislingen - old trail.
The Art and History Association Geislingen tried since 2006 amplifies the Knoll Memorial from his place at the Geislingen to its original location restore. Since this would have been with immense cost, the club members decided on a reproduction cast. Since May 9, 2009, a monument in honor of Michael Knoll is now back on the station square.
Railway operation
The railway station operate intercity and regional trains. On track 1, the main platform, trains begin and end in the direction of Göppingen. Track 2 is used by trains towards Ulm, track 3 of moves towards Göppingen.
The Geislingen station ( platforms ) corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 4