Mühlacker station

• Württemberg Western Railway (CAB 770, CAB 771, CAB 772, CAB 710.5, 710.9 KBS )
• Railway line Karlsruhe- Muehlacker (CAB 770, CAB 772, CAB 710.5 )
• Connecting curve Muehlacker Em South Muehlacker Em North ( Line 4840 )

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The Muehlacker station is a railway junction, where the railway line Karlsruhe- Muehlacker empties into the Württemberg Western Railway. With its five platform tracks it is the largest train station in the Enz. It is served by intercity trains, regional trains and Karlsruher light rail.

• 3.1 Highway
• 3.2 Regional Transport
• 3.3 rail

History

Planning and construction

In the 1840s it had become the Württemberg government set a goal to establish a rail connection to the Rhine Valley line to keep up with its industry to reach Mannheim quickly. The interest bathing on the other hand was a connection from Pforzheim to the rail network. After years of negotiations between the Kingdom of Württemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden took place on December 4, 1850 for agreement on the course of the Western Railway.

The Bietigheim branching off from the North railway line reached after about 23 kilometers, the land between the hamlets Eckenweiher court and precinct. There the train station, and later at the railway line from Pforzheim should receive their endpoint was born. Both settlements were part of the southern Dürrmenz. Experts of both countries criticized this unfavorable situation, because once a outlying station was planned during the official city Vaihingen remain denied a station. In Baden page you complained that an important border station on a secluded farm would create.

On 1 October 1853, the Royal Württemberg State Railways opened ( KWSt.E. ) the Western Railway. For the name of the station, the choice fell on the Directorate precinct. About the statement that the Dürrmenzer councilors were reluctant to give up " their good name " for the new traffic building, no logs or similar documents could be found.

Muehlacker is a border station

Through the establishment of industries, the population Mühlackers rose and was 1900 greater than Dürrmenz. As a result, they called the church later Dürrmenz - precinct. From 1859 to 1862, the Western Railway between Bietigheim and Muehlacker received a second main track. From the southwest presented the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways ( BadStB ) on June 1, 1863, the railway from Durlach done. It replaced the set up in October 1853 Horse Bus Pforzheim- precinct. Already in 1869 took the BadStB a second main track in operation.

The new border station consisted of Württemberg through station and the Baden railhead ( formerly tracks 50 to 53 ). Now two state railways worked with various officials and units in precinct. One problem was the design of timetables, as the Württemberg station oriented at the Stuttgart local time and the Baden train station at the Karlsruhe local time. This resulted to the introduction of Central European railway time on June 1, 1891, a time difference of three minutes.

In the 1880s, the station won by long-distance transport in importance. On June 5, 1883 for the first time held the Orient Express on the way from Paris Ostbahnhof to Giurgevo (now Giurgiu ). Because of the time savings but failed the operator from 1901 to the stop in precinct.

Since 1890, the section Muehlacker -Bretten is two-pronged passable. 1897 was decided on the continuation of the Zabergäubahn which then ended in Güglingen. About Star Rock, Diefenbach, Freudenstein, Maulbronn, lubrication and Lienzingen the new railway line in Muehlacker should end. The project rejected the K.W.St.E. from. The 1913 plan submitted to the board trace of Renningen about Friolzheim after Muehlacker found in 1920 no longer uses.

Reichsbahn

On April 1, 1920, there were integrated KWSt.E. and the BadStB in the German Reichsbahn. This marked the definitive end of the function as a border station. The Reichsbahn led uniform systems and regulations in the railway sector. In 1921 she finally removed the border posts between the former railway station parts.

On July 4, 1930, the City Council requested the renaming of the church in precinct. This was done on 11 November 1930, when the State Ministry Muehlacker got to the city.

In 1941, west of the station, a new connecting curve between the Western Railway and the railway line Karlsruhe- precinct. You saved a head making the trains and therefore had a strategic importance as troop transports arrived faster towards France. As of October 1944 began bombing and strafing to the railway facilities and the nearby trains. In total, 14 people were killed. Tracks and buildings were heavily damaged.

Federal Railroad until today

During the reconstruction, the Federal Railroad electrified the stretch Bietigheim- precinct. On October 6, 1951, the first electric rail cars from Stuttgart drove a. In the future, many trains were re-clamped in precinct. On 23 May 1954, the Federal Railroad extended the electrical equipment to Bretten, on 1 June 1958 to Karlsruhe.

As an improvement in long-distance traffic originated in the 1960s, plans for a high-speed line Mannheim- Stuttgart. Initially quite possible, those responsible in the end decided against the inclusion but Mühlackers and for the construction of new mainline station Vaihingen ( Enz ). The commissioning of the entire route on 2 June 1991, the result that only a few express trains Muehlacker cite. Also 1991, the Federal Railroad passenger traffic in a section Muehlacker -Bretten, so that the station continued to lose importance.

After coming already ended 1997 single Karlsruhe light rail line S9 of Bretten in Muehlacker, on 30 May 1999, the complete reactivation. The former border station received his job back as a hub with rapid cycles, and long-distance connection.

Reception building

In Muehlacker two historic station building have been preserved. It is the Württemberg station building on platform 1 and the Baden station building on platform 50

The Württemberg reception building was originally a two-storey building with a gabled roof. A striking feature of the stations on the Western Railway is the access that - is highlighted by red and yellow sand stones - in alternating order. 1885 was the K.W.St.E. increase by one floor of the building and it added to attachments on the eastern side. In the single-storey extension to work spaces were for the post.

1863 established the BadStB their reception building at the former station yard. The structure consists of a three-story center section with a hipped roof. To him left and right boundaries of two two-storey building parts.

Railway operation

The station is a railway junction, where the railway line Karlsruhe- Muehlacker empties into the Württemberg Western Railway. Track 1 serves the trains direction Vaihingen ( Enz ), track 2 which direction Pforzheim. On track 3, the light rail to Bretten and Bruchsal start (S9). Starts on Sundays and public holidays and ends here also the monastery town - Express to and from Maulbronn city. 4 track use only passing trains - the adjacent platform is blocked to this page by a railing. On track 5 keep the regional trains towards Bretten and Heidelberg. Track 6 is a passing siding without the platform for trains towards Bretten. Track 50 is the last remaining head of the former railway station Baden head ( once four tracks ). At the eastern end of the track there is a link to the track first start at platform 50 or finish the ending in Muehlacker light rail to and from Pforzheim (S5).

The connecting track between the routes to Pforzheim and Bretten is scheduled to be used almost exclusively by freight trains. Unique features of the monastery town express, do not end or begin in Muehlacker but run towards Pforzheim and Tübingen, also use this connecting curve.

The Muehlacker station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 4

The signal box in Muehlacker is a relay interlocking type SpDrL30.

Long-distance traffic

Regional Transport

Rail