Marbach (Neckar) station
- Railway Backnang -Ludwigsburg ( KBS 790.31, 790.4 KBS )
- Bottwartalbahn ( decommissioned)
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The Marbach (Neckar ) station is on the railway line Backnang- Ludwigsburg and is served by the S4 line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Until 1966 he was also the starting point of the narrow- Bottwartalbahn. This once led to Heilbronn South and was last only until the hairpin at the district border with Murr in operation. There, now also disused railway siding branched off to the power plant Marbach.
History
Planning and construction
As part of the new east -west link from the Bavarian border near Crailsheim to Baden border at Muehlacker ( and on to the mining area in the Palatinate- Saarland border area ), the Royal Württemberg State Railways built the railway line from Backnang to Bietigheim. The town of Marbach had long since written petitions to the government and now received the longed-for connection to the railway network. 1875 construction began. A huge viaduct of iron truss and sandstone pillars spanning the Neckar valley between Marbach and Benningen. To build the route location as possible, a piece of the cemetery had to be leveled. The Alexander Church, a fortified church from the 15th century, lost the northern part of their Walling, and two wall turrets. The station was about half a kilometer north-east of the city center. The station building still preserved, was more representative than the others on the track. The central block with its two side projections has three floors. The ground floor consists of sandstone, the upper floors of brick. Also, the goods shed from that time still exists.
State and National Railroad Time
On December 8, 1879, the railway line was put into operation, the Marbach train station, a short time later was given the am Neckar to differ with you about him from Marbach station ( Baden) at the Baden Black Forest Railway.
Initially moderate, the increased passenger traffic on the track in 1881, the branch between Beihingen and Ludwigsburg was completed. Beihingen - Heutingsheim was also considered a possible starting point of Bottwarbahn, but Marbach was able to hold it. The tracks of the narrow-gauge railway were in the northern area of the station. To their equipment included a turntable, a goods shed and a dolly pit. 1894 drove the first trains to Beilstein, 1900 then to Heilbronn South Station. In 1906 the station building on the eastern side of a one-story annex to accommodate additional service areas.
The largest crowd witnessed the station in June 1934. Reason was the 175th birthday of Friedrich Schiller, the famous son of the city. The special trains that carried the name Schiller train, brought thousands of visitors to the upcoming ceremonies, theater and marches weeks. There was a Nazi major event for Sonnwendfeier because of the poet's birthday is the 10th of November.
Federal Railroad Time
In the last days of World War II abrückende troops of the Wehrmacht blew up the Neckar Viaduct. Air raids there was severe damage to the track section Beihingen - Heutingsheim - Bietigheim. From Marbach to Bietigheim never rode a train again. The reconstruction did not seem worthwhile. On September 29, 1966, the Federal Railroad put the passenger one on the Bottwartalbahn. Once this route was one of the busiest narrow gauge railways in West Germany, now the trains were replaced by buses. Freight transport took place from 1968 only until Steinheim and to the power plant. The tracks were umgespurt to standard gauge for this.
For connection to the power of the Stuttgart S -Bahn was built around the station and electrified the route for the time being to Marbach. Opened on September 28, 1980 S4 enabled a direct connection to the capital. 1989 ended the freight to Steinheim.
Era of Deutsche Bahn AG
Around the turn of the millennium and the last section of the Bottwartalbahn was officially decommissioned by the branch to the power plant. On December 8, 2012 Backnang Marbach superseded as the terminus of the S4. Since then, the railway line Backnang -Ludwigsburg is to change trains for traffic again. For this project, the German railway from December 2005 to December 2012, built from the track and the train stations between Marbach and Backnang and around.
The arisen in the 1990s, plans to reactivate the Bottwartalbahn from Marbach to Beilstein are the state of Baden -Württemberg and the municipalities due to the expected high cost and uncertainty about the profitability opposed to.
Railway operation
The station has two through tracks and a head track. On track 1, the S- Bahn run towards Ludwigsburg. Track 2 is used by S-Bahn in the direction Backnang, on track 3, the head track, the amplifier units are on the S4 between Backnang and Marbach from and coupled.
The Marbach station corresponds according to German Bahn AG the train station category 4