Sankt Ingbert station

• Railway line Mannheim -Saarbrücken ( KBS 670 )
• Schwarzenacker -St. Ingbert ( decommissioned)

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The St. Ingbert station is one of the five major stations in the Saarland and has the third category he is on the edge of downtown St. Ingbert, a bus stop away from the central bus station. There are two railway station today. The old station building has been used for several years by a restoration operation after it renovated before, but had not changed significantly from the structure, while in the new building (built before 1900) after the closure of both the ticket office and the station restaurant, only one station bookstore available is.

History

Itinerary History

The first station building (49 ° 16 '32 "N, 7 ° 6' 45 " O49.2755555555567.1125 ) in St. Ingbert, which then belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria (Pfalz ), was completed in the course of the same year, according to the Railway Board Saarbrücken 1867 Würzbachbahn Schwarzenacker - St. Ingbert north of the tracks, facing towards the city, built. Several years had St. Ingbert only one head station has no additional outlets. 1879, the railway line was extended to Saarbruecken. Due to increasing traffic and correspondingly larger need for representation, a new station building was necessary, which was diagonally opposite the old on the south side of the rail track and is still in operation today.

The existing floor plans were created in 1967 and 1984 and have almost nothing guess from the original layout. However, there are from 1879 due to the planned use change and different views of a longitudinal section of the former state, so let to draw conclusions on the original floor plan.

The entrance was located in the central projection, so that behind the porch must have been located. To the left lay the staircase, which was certainly not available to the traveler. In the remaining space, the waiting rooms with ticketing and baggage expedition must have been located, each with its own exit to the platform. Whether the single-storey annex has been added later, is not known. Perhaps here was a large waiting room. The direct access to the railway are an indication.

After St. Ingbert was 1867 Homburg by a rail line (the current name of railway line Mannheim- Saarbrücken) connected, took place from 1877 to 1879 the connection to Saarbrücken. This was also the occasion for the construction of a more representative railway building, which was built almost exactly on the other side of the track so that the rail guides nothing had to be changed. The building must have been opened in 1879, there have been preserved from this year views of the previous building, which is already being referred to as " old station building ."

Architectural History

The scheme of the station St. Ingbert is typical of some of the Saarland stations Rundbogenstil: next to this building also appears especially the combination of arched windows on the ground floor and rectangular windows on the upper floor again and again. Also typical is the already discussed simplicity and the lack of vertical structure elements; unusual is also the single entrance on the buttress.

The building consisted of a two-story, stucco main building with three axles, with the mean projected toward the city as a buttress with front gable. In the east there was a single-story, two-axle attachment. The gable roofs are traufständig. The base runs around, facing the street, he is profiled and has a Sockelgesims. At the street facade on the ground floor profiled arched mullioned windows with window seats on consoles and in a central projection rundbogiger entrance with grand staircase. The round arch were greatly broadened in the upper part. In the main building ran a simple string course and also a more pronounced Sohlbankgesims. Upstairs the buttress had a rectangular profiled twin windows with segmentbogigen cased bow, sitting in the reserves depending on a single rectangular window. On the side of the track without Risalit were five round-arched doors on the ground floor. The main building had a probably later Attached shelter in the amount of Sohlbankgesimses. In addition there were three single rectangular window. As to the street facade was under the umbrella of a band-like cornice. The two narrow sides had similar designs.

Since then, various modifications were carried out: on the side of the track, the protective cover was removed and bricked up all the doors to windows. The entrance from the street façade was offset to the left and instead inserted a twin window. All the windows were shops.

Sorry, no more original floor plans are also in the second station building maintained. Two recent layouts are already showing the eastern extension. Almost nothing can be said about the interior layout. As can be seen, but on two views of 1908, the porch could then be accessed by two central inputs. Another door in the east led to the stairwell. On the side of the track again had all the rooms own outputs to the tracks.

In the original building, it was down to a rectangular building with central projection to the street and a second central projection on the eastern narrow side, on which stood a clock tower. The street facade was clearly highlighted by the projections, while the side of the track was flat and the window shapes repeated. Since the access road from the east zuführte on the reception building and behind it ended, the traveler, the eastern narrow side so even foresaw the main façade, this was emphasized by a particularly rich design, but loses today by a growing importance. The tower, perhaps destroyed during 1910 was obtained (see photo).

On plans of 1908, the western cultivation already exists. He is probably not original, but has been extended to any case sometime after 1908 by twice. The eastern extension was added in 1911 to accommodate the waiting room of the third class in it. In 1924 it hosted the station restaurant space. In 1911, the underpass was applied to the platforms so that passengers can get without going through the hall to the trains today outside the building. Around the same time, the platform canopy was attached with the cast-iron columns likely that 1910 was not yet available.

The single-storey extensions repeat, simplified to some extent, the shapes of the main building. Perhaps the most original part of the West has a kind of Attica, which covers the shed roof. About the platforms, which can be reached by a pedestrian tunnel lying on the back, there are shelters that rest on elaborately designed, turned cast-iron columns with composite capitals.

Assessment

The station building of the railway station St. Ingbert is with some justification perhaps the most representative Saarland station building. This may be related to the now finally entering economic recovery, on the St. Ingberter because of the long-delayed rail connection with Saarbrücken had to wait. Also, by geographical location at the Bavarian- Prussian border had St. Ingbert enjoys a particularly representative function, because obviously they wanted to create a Bavarian counterpart to the representative Prussian reception buildings - perhaps a reference to the special position, Bayern in the German Empire occupied.

In St. Ingbert was chosen as the construction type of the Renaissance / Baroque castle, as the Italian-influenced style of Neo-Renaissance. The builder preferred a free imitation of Renaissance style: the gequaderte ground floor is in contrast to the plastered floor, thus recalling the rusticated ground floors of the Renaissance. The segmented gable and the rusticated pilasters are taken from here. However, there are also classical -looking elements that have no models, so the essays akroterartigen the window. In contrast to this are the highly simplified pilasters. Foreign seemed sure the tower which, although " classical " decorated with Eckrustizierung and triangular gables, by its proportions and the gable roof however, was completely non-classical. The sculptural design of the stem which rests on the massive volutes, on the other hand seems almost mannered.

The triple window reminds with its emphasis on the central axis and first floors of the baroque architecture. Likewise, " baroque " are the ears frame the windows and the attic of the western cultivation. Baroque elements are actually quite common to buildings of Neo, yes they are often quite typical, since you do not want to give up a particularly representative effect. With increasing research into the Baroque period which forms translated by becoming stronger.

A similar reception building is also the Bavarian Ludwig Railway Station in Fuerth, which was built in 1885/1886. It is by the same type of building, which, however, the internal design perhaps more inspired by the Renaissance. On the side of the track located on the ground again the already discussed arched openings. On the upper windows with segmental and triangular pediments, which originate from the High Renaissance. Strong rusticated corner pilaster strips are the only vertical elements, while several cornices and arched frieze divided the building horizontally. Of particular interest is the design of the narrow side, which is modeled with " temple front attachment " and side scrolls church facades and carries the station clock. The elaborate design of a narrow side is rare and probably the same reason as in St. Ingbert: the access was only from this page.

In the early 1970s, was also St. Ingbert Express train stop. Only with the timetable change in 1991 and the introduction of the inter-regional trains to Stuttgart and Frankfurt / Main (pre -D trains) accounted for the express train completely. As of May 1979 even kept the D- trains Paris -Saarbrücken - Berlin there. That particular purpose, the main platform was brought on track 1 on a sufficient length for 15 -car trains (411 meters). The central platform allows the maintenance of a maximum of eight cars per train (301 meters).

The station made ​​up in the 1990s as well as freight. In addition there was a separate terminals ( goods shed ) from the same construction as the " New Railway Station " west of the station building and a long loading siding with loading ramp south along the railway line with a large Freiverladefläche.

Current situation

After decades of neglect, including closure of the ticket office in 2004 has now been invested on the part of Deutsche Bahn station after the station forecourt has been designed very complex from the city a few years ago at the insistence of St. Ingbert. The main platform was renewed and thereby increased from 38 centimeters to 55 centimeters height. The central platform is now accessible for disabled people, but two elevators were installed on the main platform and the central platform, which each require one of the double stairs had to give way.

The station also has in addition to the three platform tracks over three sidings (north of the railway line ) - Track 4 is Lü - track and is also used by transit freight - and two sidings, one of the former freight depot, a north in the new industrial park " DNA ( Drahtwerk North area ) "( 3253 route from switch 10 ). The track in the South Industrial Zone (former Fauser - Country Victory margarine factory, former glassworks and former boiler plant), which is the old route to Hassel (see Hasseler tunnel ) is no longer in operation, soft and tracks but are still present.

In St. Ingbert keep all RB and RE trains of KBS routes 670 and 674, there is half-hourly train service in both directions Homburg ( Saar) - with hourly drive to Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, usually with continuous trains every hour on to Trier the Saarstrecke. Plus there are some pairs of trains through to Mannheim and Koblenz. On the Schwarzbach Valley Railway only the early train runs through to Landau, all other hourly to Pirmasens.

In June 2008, announced Saarland Minister of Economics Rippel, that the Saarland invested two million euros in the expansion of the railway connection between Dillingen and St. Ingbert. Since summer 2009, the features of a commuter train ride between the two cities similar in the approximate half-hour. With the holding in St. Ingbert RE trains, this clock is further compressed.

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Others

According to a report by the Saarbrücken newspaper there was on 12 June 2008 during a scrum on the St. Ingberter station several slightly wounded. The passengers of an ICE from Paris to Frankfurt had been asked to leave the train in St. Ingbert and switch over in an IC from Frankfurt, who had also invited his passengers to change for the onward journey to the ICE. In the transit station action, were involved in the hundreds of travelers, it was due to the space available to large frames. According to eyewitness reports, at least two people were slightly injured when falling. The train spoke of a " unfortunate chain of cancellations ".