Esslingen (Neckar) station
- Filstalbahn ( 750 KBS, KBS 790.1 )
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The Esslingen (Neckar ) station is the main train station of the city of Esslingen am Neckar and is located at kilometer 13.2 of Filstalbahn.
History
The former imperial city of Esslingen was provided as the end point of the first Württemberg railway, Central railway Esslingen Stuttgart -Ludwigsburg. Benefiting from the flat surface on the Neckar, the work went ahead rapidly and on November 20, 1845 Esslingen station was opened to traffic. He had a two-storey reception building and a locomotive depot. Later was added in a house for railway staff.
Not all councilors of the official city saw an advantage in the new transport. Yet here was the end of the line, but the further construction by the Fils Valley was not long in coming. They feared that this would create an insignificant maintenance station on the Eastern Railway between Stuttgart and Ulm, which is the city does not do justice. Due to its geographical location in the valley between the Fildern and the virgin forest, however, a railway junction at that point was out of the question.
For large-scale industrialization it came anyway. The numerous old factory building in the western city remain from upswing, the Esslingen experienced late 19th and early 20th century.
Already in 1852 equipped the Royal State Railways ( KWSt.E. ) the Eastern Railway from Cannstatt to Plochingen with a second main track from.
The station was overloaded and had to be enlarged. This resulted in a shift of the entire system to the west result. The K.W.St.E. prompted the construction of a new reception building at the level of Friedrichstraße (now Berlin Street ). Now there were ten tracks and four platforms. The goods yard had several scales. In 1884, the city put on the station square. In its center was located from 1892 meanwhile distant cast-iron shell fountain. At the station No. 2 was written in 1899 the depot building, diagonally opposite 1901 2001 demolished post office in the Gothic Revival style. 1909, the customs office in the Railway Street (today Fleischmann street ) was added in the Art Nouveau style.
At the beginning of the 20th century a new railway line should primarily relieve the busy Eastern Railway freight train from traffic. The left bank of the Neckar railway would also touches Esslingen. A South Station to be built for Esslingen in the Pliensauvorstadt. In 1909, the state railway decided not to build the route for cost reasons to Plochingen, but only up to the existing station Esslingen, they would have achieved with the help of a 260-meter- long bridge over the Neckar. Since the railway line but always standing in the competition for four-tracked expansion of the Eastern Railway, it was postponed and eventually never built.
In 1912 the tram Esslingen am Neckar their operation, it was by the Company Eßlinger Urban tram ( ESS) operated. The stop on the station square served both lines: The opening line of Obertürkheim after Oberesslingen and the town line that ran through the old town in the ring traffic. The latter consisted only until 1915. On the opening line the trams were until 1944. Thereafter, the trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar took over the operation.
Also on the station square was from 1926 to 1978 the turning loop for the trains of the END - the tram Esslingen -Nellingen - Denkendorf GmbH. The Regional tramway connected the communities Nellingen on the Fildern and Denkendorf with their official city. 1929 was added a Streckenast that branched off in Nellingen and Scharnhausen and Neuhausen joined the Fildern.
After October 14, 1931, the Eastern Railway between Stuttgart Hbf and Esslingen was expanded to four tracks, after the electrification on May 15, began in 1933 the suburban traffic to Stuttgart, which later developed the S-Bahn. On May 15, 1939, the station was given the additional name (Neckar ). The renaming of Esslingen (Neckar ) in the present notation was made on 27 September 1965 which in the previous year, the city changed the official spelling of her name.
In part, the statement of the skeptical city fathers from the middle of the 19th century seems to have come true. Although the station Esslingen is now a transfer point between the S-Bahn and regional trains, but all long-distance trains leave him on the sidelines. From a meaningless structure nevertheless can be no question.
Reception building
The first storey reception building was probably in 1846 under the direction of Georg Morlok, designed by Michael Knoll. The designed in a simple style Knolls slim fit achtachsige building had a gabled roof. The town site was preceded by a portico.
In the 1880s, Esslingen counted about 20,000 inhabitants and was the fourth largest city in Württemberg. Therefore, the state railway equipped the new reception building, contrary to the otherwise usual thrift from ostentatious. It was built from 1882 to 1883 in the Italian Renaissance style. The architect did not produce fundamentally new design, but changed the plans in 1869 built until 1873 station in amounts only slightly in its proportions from. The construction consists of a drawn-out, 15-axis single-storey central block and two two-story wing buildings. The middle section is preceded by a portico.
For the design of centrally located in the middle part the entrance portal, the architect was probably inspired by Roman triumphal arch. Good visible above the access is of course the Württemberg coat of arms, surrounded by oak leaves and laurels. Among the year MDCCCLXXXIII (1883 ). On the buttress itself is in capital letters the word STATION. The old station building, which stood at the end of Station Road, had to give way. Parts thereof acquired the company Friedr. Dick and they built on their factory premises as an office building again. They were demolished in the late 1980s.
As part of the recovery package, the reception building is to be renovated with energy-related measures. In addition, the platforms should be made more accessible by lifts.
Railway operation
The railway station operate regional trains and the line S1 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Track 1 and the main platform no longer exist. On track 2 keep on schedule no trains. On track 3 keep the regional trains towards Bad Cannstatt. Track 4 has no platform, here rush through freight and long-distance trains the station. On track 5 and 6, the regional trains towards Plochingen. Track 7 use the regional trains and S-Bahn towards Bad Cannstatt, track 8. Towards Plochingen The freight tracks 9 and 10 in the direction Plochingen at a buffer stop.
The Esslingen (Neckar ) station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 3