Arnsberg (Westfalen) station
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The Arnsberg ( Westphalia ) railway station was built in Arnsberg with the construction of the upper Ruhrtalbahn 1870 /71. The building itself was built in 1869 in Neo-Renaissance style. The station is still used for passenger traffic. Also located in the building spaces for different social groups and institutions.
In addition to the still existing facilities, there was a railway station on the Arnsberg main workshop, a depot, a railroad telegraph office and a customs office.
History
The precursor to the construction of the station was substantial disagreement within the city as well as the railway authorities on the location. Steuerrat Emmerich and others called for the construction of today's hunters bridge near the old Medina. This was rejected by the railway authorities for reasons of cost. The station has now been built at the output of the Schlossberg tunnel and below the Lüsenberges. Thus, the station was at that time far away from urban development. On 1 May 1908, the station was given the additional name " (Westphalia ) ".
Passenger
The station consists of a central main building, and an attached annexe building with two floors and a neighboring building with a floor. The central building was built in the Neo-Renaissance style by architect roughness from Elberfeld. From the original facade design today is get hardly anything. Original the plaster surfaces were provided with a scribed square imitation and the corners were highlighted plastic.
On 12 March 1945, the station was badly damaged in a bombing raid, but was later rebuilt.
Freight traffic
With regard to the handling powers of station subject to any restrictions. For cargo handling was a crane, overhead and side ramps and a 40-ton track scale available. The freight was discontinued in 1976. Some years later, however, a container terminal was built again.
Main Workshop
In 1870, the state railway set up a main workshop for locomotives and cars, which developed into one of the major employers in the city. In the course of centralization and rationalization measures, the German State Railroad Company, the main workshop closed in 1926 (other sources: 1927 ). The entertainment functions were transferred (Ruhr) and Wedau to the maintenance workshops sword.
Bahnbetriebswerk
The depot Arnsberg had only regional importance and a small fleet of locomotives, which was composed of Prussian locomotives of types T 12, G 10 and P 8.
Organizationally owned the depot for office machines Altena (Westphalia), the official abbreviation was " Ar ". In 1941, the depot was one of 130 employees. In 1953, the depot was disbanded as an independent agency. The facilities were still being used for some time as a branch of Bw Bestwig.
State and development
The station building is now a historical monument.
The station is currently only partially disabled. For several years, part of the city of Arnsberg station. In a wing of various social institutions are housed.
Station and train station environment were fundamentally reshaped to August 2011. In the former station carpentry, which was rebuilt for this purpose, the Firefighters' Museum of the City of Arnsberg has been housed since 2012. The project " House of History " as an exhibition and communication center is subsidized, among others, the NRW -Stiftung.
Service offer
The Arnsberg station ( Westphalia ) is approached in rail traffic from the following lines:
The RLG and BRS offer the following bus services:
- C1 Arnsberg, railway station - Neumarkt - Niedereimer - Bruchhausen - Hüsten - Neheim, bus station
- R21 Arnsberg, railway station - Neumarkt - Woodland Cemetery - ox head - Sundern - Sundern -Hagen
- R22 Arnsberg, railway station - Neumarkt - Wennigloh - Hachenbach - Long Scheid
- R71 Arnsberg, railway station - Neumarkt - Rumbeck - Oeventrop - Glösingen - Freienohl - Wennemen - Meschede, bus station