Stolberg (Rheinland) Hauptbahnhof

• Cologne -Aachen
• Mönchengladbach- Stolberg
• Stolberg- Walheim
• Stolberg- Herzogenrath
• Stolberg- Münsterbusch ( degraded )

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The wedge station Stolberg ( Rhineland ) station is on the railway line between Cologne and Aachen and is the largest passenger and freight station of the town of Stolberg ( Rhineland) in the Aachen region in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Distance connection

The Stolberg main station is the junction point of several former and still existing railway lines.

• The high-speed line between Cologne and Aachen leads from the east, first by the freight station and then through the passenger station to the west.
• Also from the east leads railroad Mönchengladbach- Stolberg, locally known as Eschweiler Valley Railway, into the station.
• From the north-west is the railway line Stolberg- Duke Rath, also known as the Circle Line, the first the line between Cologne and Aachen underpasses west and then south of the main tracks to thread into the station. From this route also branched at the branch Quinx between Stolberg and Wuerselen - Merzbrück from the now- defunct railway line Stolberg- Kohlscheid.
• The fourth line is the railway line Stolberg- Walheim, which leaves the station on the south side of the reception building and wedging it so together with the line between Cologne and Aachen.
• To the southwest formerly led the railroad Stolberg- Münsterbusch.

Passenger

In 2013, keep in Stolberg Hauptbahnhof passenger trains following lines of the railway passenger:

* 1: At night, a ride on Horrem also continue to Aachen main station and back.

A special feature is the operating outflanked the euregiobahn in Stolberg Central Station. The separation is carried out on the platform of track 43, the front part goes on the Eschweiler Switchback on to Langerwehe or Düren, the rear used in the freight yard and runs outside the rush hour with renewed hold on the platform track 27, to Stolberg -Altstadt on. In the opposite direction, the two train parts are technically in a specially equipped track ( Beifahranlage ) are coupled in the freight station and then ride together in the passenger station.

Freight traffic

In freight transport, the railway station for the region due to the distance to the power plant Weisweiler ( Eschweiler Valley Railway ) importance. In 2011, the cargo handling is approximately 1.5 million tons with an increasing tendency. The lead smelter Berzelius Stolberg GmbH, the Eschweiler tube factory and the company of heavy metals, the company with its own rail link, are currently the largest customers. The Euregio transport rail network GmbH plans as infrastructure companies and the reactivation of the freight depot, which was one in the 1930s, the largest in Germany. In the eastern freight station 28 tracks can currently be used as a storage and transhipment platforms. In the western part of more tracks to be put back into operation.

History

19th century

1841 Stolberg received at the then single-track railway line between Cologne and Aachen the breakpoint station Stolberg on Eilendorfer or later Eschweiler area about a kilometer from the northern Stolberg 's city limits since the Stolberg valley is inconveniently located and made a detailed route impossible. The outlandish location breakpoint has been under pressure from the industry Stolberg of the operator of the route, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, decorated and served as a transit point for coal Eschweiler and Stolberg industrial products as well as luggage, livestock and Chauffeurs.

From 1846 until then small passenger transportation increased in Stolberg because of innovations and reductions in tariff system. Freight transport expanded steadily. 1849 made ​​extensions with new trackage. By 1850, the annual number of passenger transport was approximately 24,000. The import volume was about 41,000 quintals, and exports accounted for about 185,000 quintals. After these and other expansions in subsequent years, the station had in 1855 a total of approximately 1.2 kilometers of track, switches and ten two-car hubs.

On 11 December 1867, the Rhenish Railway Company opened a route Stolberg- Stolberg Spiegelmanufaktur with 1.4 km in length only for freight. It was nationalized in 1880 and on 15 September 1881 by the Prussian state railways to Stolberg- Hammer ( 2.4 km ), on 21 December 1889 to Walheim extended (11 km ), where it opened on the July 1, 1885 route ( Aachen- Rothe Erde ) Walheim - Raeren ( Monschau - ) coincides. Today, this stretch as well as the beginning in Rothe Erde distance is referred to as Vennbahn.

An extension of the route Mönchengladbach- Eschweiler- Aue Bergisch Märkischen Railway (BME ) to Stolberg followed in 1875. The Stolberg BME station was placed a few hundred meters south of the station Stolberg RhE on the route Cologne -Aachen Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, today Stolberg ( Rhineland ) Hauptbahnhof. Another route, the railway line Stolberg- Münsterbusch, led by Münsterbusch. The rail link was commissioned in 1887 by the Rhenish Railway Company and completely removed after 1980.

Between 1886 and 1888 the present building of the former railway station Stolberg ( Rhineland ) was ( briefly Stolberg ( Rh ) ) built by the Prussian state railways. It replaced the previous three reception building for the four different routes. In 1935 the station to the town of Stolberg and since then is called Stolberg ( Rheinl ) Hauptbahnhof. The first station building was located east of today's main railway station, as the route of the line between Cologne and Aachen added in this area for today was, and was accessed via the provost street. 1888, the assets of the acquired private railway companies were merged and given the present station building at the Rhenaniastraße. The complex through its development of several railway stations plant has been divided for the smooth operation in the districts of I to VI. It was opened on 16 October 1888 as V- Station and had platforms for route Cologne -Aachen, Duke Rath Alsdorf, Stolberg and Stolberg- Kohlscheid, partly as a stump tracks, on the north as well as for the route of Walheim on the southern side. The station building service apartments and the Stolberg post office 2 were housed. Its annex features found firehouse and toilet rooms. 1897 a necessary extension of the main hall was created. A 1899 built office building next to the station was replaced by a new signal box in 1986. On the right side of the building in 1910 the post office wing was extended by a growing, making the building took on its current appearance. After damage of the Second World War, missing the Wilhelmine jewelry items. The main hall has been closed since the 1980s.

20th century

1935, the area was ausgemeindet around the station along with some parts of the city from the town of Eschweiler in the town of Stolberg ( Rhineland).

On December 31, 1962, the passenger Stolberg- Stolberg Walheim and 1991 the freight Hammer Raeren (B ) has been set. Until then, the station was on this route for goods from Belgium to the customs station.

The marshalling yard and the station area was attached the Stolberg railroad depot, which was built around 1885 on the former station site Stolberg Velau at the Münster Bachstraße and put locomotives and personnel to carry the freight transport and passenger transport. On February 28, 1978, the Bw Stolberg was dissolved as a separate service and became a branch of the Bw Aachen. 1983, from the branch of the Bw Aachen the base Stolberg. The depot was closed and canceled the plants.

From 1881 to 1959, the main train station Stolberg was also connected to the rail network of the Aachen tram. The operation was largely parallel to the track after running Walheim tram with horses and then electrically from the main station to the market until 1897. 1898, the tram was (then community Gressenich ) extended by Vicht, 1910 to two case (then circle Montjoie ). In 1959 the tram was shut down, the operation of the line 8 was taken over by buses. Since then, the central station is integrated into the bus ASEAG.

21st Century

In 2001, the operation of the euregiobahn between Heerlen and Stolberg was taken center. Since the start of operations Euregiobahn after Weisweiler in 2005 Stolberg main train station is a major hub in Euregiobahn network. 2009, a new platform at the south of the reception building nearby railway was built 27 for the trains to and from Stolberg Altstadt. In June 2010, the Euregio transport rail network (EVS ) took over the Stolberg main station including reception building. Only the dispatcher interlocking and continuous main tracks remained in the hands of Deutsche Bahn. Then in the same year the overhead line networks were separated in the station between the part of Deutsche Bahn and the EVS. Also in 2010, began extensive restoration work on the rich reception building, which is converted into a control center for the new electronic interlocking of the EVS. 2012 has begun work on Stolberg Hbf and the platform height on the tracks 1, 2 and 43 increased to 760 millimeters.

Trivia

Due to the close proximity of the Vegla - Polder and the sewage treatment plant Steinfurt and the slag heap of Kali Chemie, prevailed - especially on warm days - at the train station, an unpleasant odor. Structural measures on Vegla -Polder, the heap Rhenaniastraße and initiation of Saubachs into the treatment plant Steinfurt or in a treatment facility for Sickergewässer (from the Vegla -Polder ) on the north campus of Saint- Gobain Glass Germany, which was commissioned in 2007, have reduced the odor nuisance.