Backnang station
- Railway Waiblingen- Schwäbisch Hall Hessental (CAB 785, CAB 790.3 )
- Railway Backnang -Ludwigsburg ( KBS 790.31 )
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The Backnang railway station is on the railway line Waiblingen- Schwäbisch Hall Hessental and is the starting point of the railway line Backnang- Ludwigsburg. It is served by regional express trains and is the terminus of the line S 3 and S 4 S-Bahn Stuttgart.
- 2.1 Regional Transport
- 2.2 S -Bahn
History
Planning and construction
In the 1860s, citizens of the official city Backnang tried to ensure that the rail connection. 1863 written by the trade association, together with trade associations in other cities, a petition to the Württemberg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at that time led the supervision of the construction. In the fall traveled to engineers to make site surveys.
State and National Railroad Time
On 26 October 1876, the Royal Württemberg State Railways opened the Murr valley railway between Waiblingen and Backnang. The station is located on the hillside above the old town and its disposal at the beginning only a temporary reception building. It was only in 1877 began the construction of a reception building of sand and brick. On October 18, 1877 moved the first one to eat the partially completed building. The temporary restoration was demolished in November 1877. With the opening of the section Backnang- Murrhardt the new station building was inaugurated on 18 April 1878. It consisted of a long two and a half storey central block with two three-story wings, which were covered with a hipped roof. The ground floor was made of sandstone. The doors and windows were provided with round arch. The upper floors were made of brick, the lintels and cornices made of sandstone formed to a contrast.
Since 1873, it was clear that in Backnang a branch of the Murr line shall be created for the Northern Railway to relieve the Stuttgart railway junction. This project realized the state railway until December 8, 1879, when she took the train track Backnang- Bietigheim in operation. This trail branches off at the southern end of the station and descends from there into the Bitzer from.
The city council put on the Hexenstäffele to create a new footpath from the cold water ( today Eduard- Breuninger Street) to the station. On July 19, 1879, they consecrated it a. The original course was changed in 1928. On September 12, 1888, the Dillensiusstraße in Lower Station Road was renamed ( since 1929 station road ), and the Güterbahnhofstraße in Upper Station Road.
During the Second World War was Backnang target of several air attacks. For a fighter-bomber attack on 22 February 1944, there was damage to a total of 59 buildings, including the station building.
Federal Railroad time and era of Deutsche Bahn AG
From 1962 to 1965 the German Federal Railroad built the stretch Waiblingen- Backnang of double track and electrified him. Nevertheless, it renounced in Backnang with most continuous coatings on the re-clamping of the locomotives, as this would have led to a traveling time extension.
On 20 March 1973, the demolition of the nearly century-old station building began to make room for a new building. The new one-story building could be opened to the public on 20 August 1975.
Since the beginning of the planning of an S -Bahn Stuttgart and the surrounding area in the 1960s Backnang was provided as a railhead. On 27 September 1981, the S- Bahn line S 3 Backnang- Schwab Road was opened. May 31 In 1996, the routes to Marbach and Crailsheim were electrified. This ended in Backnang of diesel operation. On December 8, 2012, the extension of the S- Bahn line S 4 was opened between Marbach and Backnang.
Railway operation
The station is a railway junction, where the railway line Backnang -Ludwigsburg branches off from the railway line Waiblingen- Schwäbisch Hall Hessental. Track 1 is used mostly by moving trains to Ludwigsburg. On track 2 weekdays start the S-Bahn to Ludwigsburg. On track 3 the trains direction Waiblingen, on track 4, the direction Schwäbisch Hall Hessental. S-Bahn trains run towards Waiblingen on track 5.
Since December 8, 2012, the S-Bahn line S 4 to go Backnang. To this end, the railway line Backnang -Ludwigsburg and the stations between Marbach and Backnang were expanded and renovated by the German Bahn AG from December 2005 to December 2012.
The Backnang station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 3