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The Braunschweig main station, located 1.6 km southeast of the center of Braunschweig, was opened on 1 October 1960 and replaced the old railway station in the south of the old town.

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History

Location

Due to the growing traffic of the postwar era, the need of a new central train station was more urgent, construction and location of the old station head had long been disadvantageous and not contemporary. It was decided to build a new through station on the outskirts of the city in today's urban district Viewegs garden.

On the grounds above the Brunswick Ostbahnhof was (also Station or stop St. Leonhard, marshalling yard, freight station ). As early as the 1930s began with the laying of tracks for the future new main train station. The final location was a compromise, with the cost and be torn areas were kept as low as possible.

First thoughts and plans for a new station there was in 1870 in the city expansion plan of Tappe. Even then, the current location was favored.

Several plans from 1870 to 1934, including the Rincklake'sche Station map of 1889, foresaw a new station in the area of ​​today's fair grounds near iron constable or bailiff between iron and the old railway station. 1889 180 degree rotated station was proposed at the same location. Another exceptional idea was to put the idea in 1908, the future main station in north-south direction at the end of today's Jasper Avenue. However, this idea received little support, since you an intact residential district would have to cut through at this point.

For years, no agreements have been achieved. The conversion of the old railway station was rejected because it would require higher costs than the construction of a new railway station. The considerations for a new through station presented themselves as difficult as Brunswick was already densely built at the end of the 19th century around the old town. So you could lay a new track route only with great effort.

Between 1909 and 1932 there were concrete plans for a new transit station in the area of ​​the modern exhibition center, ie south of the old station. Just north of the station of the Kaiser- Wilhelm-Platz should arise. From the Kaiser- Wilhelm-Platz from a new wide main street in north-south direction was to connect the new station to the old town. On the plans has also been reported northeast of the train station and the square housing area. However, the station had for the realization east of the tracks probably the Südteich in public park filled up with earth and parts of the building industry ( Feldschlößchen, etc.) must be demolished at today Böcklerstraße.

1938, the draft of 1870 was again discussed, the initial planning began, tracks were laid. The Second World War led to the premature end of the work. In the 1950s, the plans were resumed and in 1953 it was decided to retain the 1938 planned location.

Planning

1956 contracts between the City of Brunswick, the Federal Railways and the State Bank were closed for the construction of the through station. In May 1956, ideas competition for the new central station was advertised, 51 proposals were submitted for the new building. On 28 May 1956, the earthworks for the platform tunnel began. On 27 June 1956, the result of the architectural competition was announced by the jury. Two second prizes were awarded to Erwin Dürkop from Hanover and J. Kiesewetter from Bayreuth.

Construction

The groundbreaking ceremony of the new building was completed on February 19, 1957 by the then Minister of Transport Seebohm. On 7 November 1958, the platform tunnel was completed, the topping out ceremony was held on 21 November 1958.

On March 24, 1959 the foundation stone was laid for the reception building, and on 15 October 1959, the topping-out ceremony was held. After three years of construction and ten-year planning period of the new Braunschweig main station was opened on 1 October 1960. The building was designed, whose office building is 29 meters high and 98 meters wide, by the architect Bundesbahnoberrat Dipl. -Ing. Erwin Dürkop. Model was the Roma Termini train station in Rome.

The central station is connected since 1979 part of the Intercity network and since 1993 to the ICE network. In May 1993 drove for the first time a Regional Express from Braunschweig to Magdeburg.

Since 1993, the station building is a listed building.

On 25 and 26 October 2003, a new electronic interlocking was put into operation, the 84 points and 102 controls signals between large sliding things and Weddel and is remotely controlled from the control center of Hannover.

By 2010, the only way to get in the Brunswick train station with a set of wheels like a bicycle, stroller or wheelchair to the train tracks, in the use of the former postal tunnels outside the station hall at the eastern end of the platform. Its use is however (at least without being accompanied by railway staff ) by signs forbidden ( bicycles and prams can of course alternatively be easily carried by pedestrians on the stairs). In football, Eintracht Braunschweig, this tunnel is occasionally used to escort away fans on the car park and there parked shuttle buses to the Eintracht -Stadion ( accompanied by the police). The opposing and partially rival fans so do not run through the station and do not come in contact with the home crowd.

First, 5/6 and 7/8 were only three elevators to the platforms 3/4, built by used a part of the area of ​​the eastern stairs. After the regional light rail plans can not be implemented, was retrofitted to platform 1 /2, is now on all platforms each have a lift.

Environment

In the context of the new central train station began with extensive construction work. The main objectives were the realization of the continuation of the Wilhelmine ring, the ring road system, which was conceived and planned in the 19th century by Ludwig Winter, the construction of a station square and building a railway station road, which of the new station with the center just under 2 miles away city ​​should connect. In the course of these realizations several houses were demolished. In August 1958, the demolition of the houses began at the awareness mountain road to make way for the new road layout. In February 1960, the demolition of houses followed on Frederick Place. Outside the station of the Berlin course, which was rebuilt in the course of the 1960s and 1970s emerged. As part of the relocation of the central station and the main post office was moved from downtown to the Berliner Platz.

In 1970, between Central Station and Atrium a pedestrian overpass ( released on June 15, 1970) on the Berliner Platz completed (1999 canceled again ) with her ​​a tavern was built.

In the following years the railway station district was included in remedial measures. The first section was completed in 1992, the second in June 2006.

Transport terminal

In the years 1999 to 2000, this time for the EXPO 2000, a transport terminal in front of the station building. The inauguration of the weather-protected with a 100 meter long canopy plant was carried out in May 2000. Simultaneously, the first rails ( standard gauge extra track) were laid for the future standard gauge tramway in the area of the main station. On the local train station in addition from about 2014, the lines 1, 2, 3 and 10 of the Regional rail should hold. You associations in the first stage of the railway station and the North Station and with Salzgitter, Goslar, Bad Harzburg, Schoeppenstedt, Gifhorn and Uelzen. Benefits should the trains of the future regional rail two unused platforms currently in the local train station, which as yet have no siding. The connection to the rail network of the DB is to take place in the immediate vicinity of a Rampenauf or departure on the embankment. 2005, a new tram link on the Heinrich Bussing - ring was opened to the central station. It connects the railway station with the city districts Heidberg, Melverode and Stöckheim in the south of Braunschweig. The new Streckenast after Stöckheim was put into operation on 15 October 2006.

Transport links

Transport

See also Main article: Transport in Brunswick

The main station has connections and interchanges with the following lines of urban transport:

Tram

M1 Stöckheim - Central Station - Town Hall - Contact

Tram 2 Heidberg - Central Station - Town Hall - Siegfriedviertel (dinner only and sonn-/feiertags )

M5 Hauptbahnhof - Central - West Town - Broitzem

Bus

M19 Central Station - east ring - West Ring - Exhibition Centre - Station

M29 Central Station - Exhibition Centre - West Ring - Ostring - Central Station

420 Wolfenbüttel station - Central Station - Town Hall

431 Helmstedter road - Rautheim - Stöckheim - Melverode - Heidberg - Central Station

411 Mascherode - Bebelhof - Central Station - Town Hall - Lehndorf - Lamme

461 Central Station - center - Lehndorf - PTB - Völkenrode

601 620 Salzgitter Lebenstedt - Central Station

603 631 Salzgitter-Bad - Central Station

730 Wilhelmstrasse. - Central Station - Sickte - Evessen - Schoeppenstedt

Regional Transport

Braunschweig is located at the following timetable routes:

Long-distance traffic

Brunswick is connected with two ICE and Intercity lines to the long-distance transport system of the Deutsche Bahn. The ICE lines 11 and 12 summarize the distance from Berlin to Mannheim together at an hourly clock, while the intercity lines 55 and 56, the route from Leipzig to Hannover operate in an hourly cycle.

Off the clock connections connect individual trains Braunschweig with:

• Dusseldorf, Bonn, Koblenz, Mainz, Oberstdorf IC 55
• Hildesheim, Potsdam, Cottbus IC 56

Architecture

The eight-storey office building of the reception building is 98 m long and 29 m high and forms an architectural completion of the Kurt -Schumacher -Straße.

Formative are the artificial and natural stone facade of green serpentinite with copper elements and the large disc facade at the entrance. Is completed, the building left of a restaurant building and right of a retail space.

At the top of the left half of the facade of the office building is a clock made ​​of copper. Is the logo of the DB and the words " Central Station " of metal above the entrance.

Others

• A 1959 in Berlin stolen Rembrandt painting was found on 22 October 1961, after an anonymous call to the central station in a locker again.
• For the 150th anniversary of the railway in Germany an event with live broadcast of Radio Germany took place at the Central Station on 1 June 1985. 18,000 people attended the event with exhibition train.
• On 29 September 1996, the ICE 597 receives the first ICE the name of a university, it is called by the Technical University of Braunschweig " Carolo- Wilhelmina ".
• The tracks that lead to the main railway station, located in the city is primarily focused on railway embankments. Partial rubble and debris of the old town were used to their landfill, up to 90 % was destroyed before the Second World War.
• The main station has a total of 850 parking spaces for bicycles. Of these, there are 471 parking spaces in the guarded bike station in the basement of the main station. Furthermore, there are two car parking spaces ( Hauptbahnhof Nord and Hauptbahnhof Süd ) with a total of 560 parking spaces.
• The white lines on the station forecourt run to the red pillars of the reception building and continue in the lobby.
• Just north of the station building is since April 1977 steam locomotive of series 01.10 ( with the number 01 in 1063 ). The processing of these entered service in 1940 locomotive after leaving the service plan was the last, which was carried out the maintenance facility in Braunschweig before its closure in 1977.