Marktredwitz station
- Regensburg -Hof ( KBS 855)
- Nuremberg - Cheb ( KBS 512, 544, 860)
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The Marktredwitz railway station is the major district town Marktredwitz in the Bavarian administrative region Upper Franconia. Here cross the two main routes Nuremberg - Cheb and Regensburg -Hof.
The Marktredwitzer station - at the opening still called Station Marktredwitz - is an important railway junction in northern Bavaria. It is located in the northwestern city area and is away from the city center about a five minute walk.
At Station Square is the central bus station, from where buses connect Marktredwitz with the surrounding area. The bus station is also stopping point of the BEX - Bavaria Berlin Express. Beside the railway station there is a hotel, a main office of the German post office, a medical center and the headquarters of the Scherdel Group, a leading manufacturer of technical feathers.
History
The train station (now section of the Nuremberg- Cheb) and Marktredwitz - Holenbrunn (now section of the route Regensburg -Hof ) opened on 15 May 1878 by the Bavarian State Railroad along with the railroad tracks Nennslingen - Marktredwitz as a through station. The expansion to the junction station was with the commissioning of the branch after Schirnding on November 20, 1879 ( later extended to Cheb, both today sections of the Nuremberg- Cheb) and the compound of Wiesau (now section of the route Regensburg -Hof ) on June 1, 1882 instead.
Before the Second World War Marktredwitz was an important railway hub for all of Europe. The lines Rome -Munich- Berlin -Stockholm and Paris -Nuremberg- Prague crossed to him. Daily left over 100 trains the station in the four different directions. Even when the Berlin Wall played a crucial role of Marktredwitzer station. For many East Germans, it was the first opportunity to leave the overcrowded trains which crossed the border via Hof, or coming directly at the station halted from Eger.
Until 2006 was Marktredwitz breakpoint of intercity link between Nuremberg and Dresden court, since their attitude Marktredwitz from Franken -Sachsen -Express ( FSX) is operated, which has replaced as the product of regional transport the former IC line.
Infrastructure
The once extensive railway tracks were reduced as with many once important railway stations in recent years through work on buildings. In freight transport, the train station is as Umladebahnhof of combined road - rail for Northern Bavaria important. For passenger are five platform tracks available. In the lobby there is a bookstore, a bakery and the travel center of the Deutsche Bahn ticket machines and waiting area.
An electronic interlocking is responsible for the control of the station itself and the operating points Holenbrunn, Kirchenlamitz, Marktleuthen, Martinlamitz, Neusorg, Pechbrunn, Röslau and Waldershof.
Train
Meanwhile, the station has lost its importance in the Germany -wide rail transport, but forms the northern Bavarian, Saxon and West Bohemian region still the central interchange. It is operated by the Deutsche Bahn Inter Regio Express and regional express trains as well as from the Regentalbahn, agilis or Vogtlandbahn and with the ALEX.
Direct connections are available to Cheb, Dresden, Gera, Hof, Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Schwandorf and pastures.
It by Deutsche Bahn diesel railcars of series 612 and 610 of the 650 series agilis " Regio Shuttle " of the Vogtlandbahn the Class 642 " Desiro " and by ALEX locomotives of the series 223 are used with passenger cars.
- Railway station in Bavaria
- Marktredwitz
- Building in the district Wunsiedel
- Traffic ( district Wunsiedel )