Flensburg station

• Fredericia -Flensburg (km 176.2 / 0.0 )
• Kiel -Flensburg (km 80.6 ) ( KBS 146)
• Neumünster -Flensburg (km 176.2 ) ( KBS 131)

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The Flensburg railway station is the main train station of the city of Flensburg. From here, run routes to Kiel to Hamburg over Schleswig and Neumünster and direction Fredericia in Denmark. Flensburg is connected to the ICE network of the Deutsche Bahn since the timetable change on December 9, 2007. The station plays a national role in cross- border rail traffic between Germany and Denmark.

History

On April 1, 1854 on the railway line Flensburg- Tonning first from outside the city Holzkrug (now there is the train station Flensburg- Soft ), located also on in the city on October 4, recorded above railhead operation later "English Railway Station ". This station at the south end of the Flensburg Fjord in the old town of Flensburg was ceremonially handed over for operation by the Danish King Frederik VII, the patron saint of the railway line on October 25.

The English station had in 1855 a first -storey reception building on a design from the house architect of the railway company Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll obtained from red brick and its facade was structured with a plurality of horizontal sandstone bands; it contained spaces for the head office, the post office, a waiting room and a ladies room; more left the swampy ground not to. In addition to goods expedition two buildings were present, who served until canceled in 1934 as a storage shed and inches of packing space. In 1883 this building was torn down and replaced by become known as a church builder architect Johannes Otzen by a representative state railway station.

Ten years after the railway was built, in 1864, the route Woyens in North Schleswig and was soon opened on to Fredericia. 1869 Finally today, shorter route to Schleswig and Rendsburg was put into operation. His verkehrsbehindernde by changes in traffic routing system in 1928 replaced by the present station, which was built on the site of the mill pond to an elaborate pile foundation. The old central building was then converted into a terminal building for the built instead of its trackage central bus station. In the new function as the central bus station, the building appeared once on a postcard as " Germany's first car station ".

On 1 February 1927, the current station was opened as part of the " South Jutland loop " that saves the head making the old Flensburg station outside the Old City. For trains to and from Denmark by a several kilometer loop, where the station is located. The train station in the old town was used as a freight station and later dismantled. However, there are considerations to today is to build a new railway station in the city center or to expand the breakpoint Flensburg- Soft to the new central train station. After the introduction of the Kiel route in the new Flensburg station in 1927, a park was created in place of the Kiel railway station. In the old "English railway station " only remembers the name " Old Station " for the handover point to the port rail.

The square in front of the new station, today at the federal railway station, the police chief named to pressure the Mayor Wilhelm Sievers on 23 March 1935 in Adolf Hitler assets by, a decision that was reversed on the day of capitulation on 8 May 1945.

Since 1959, the route to Husum is Löwenstedt without passenger, since the 1970s it has been removed. 1981 drove the last passenger trains from Flensburg to Niebüll. In 1996 the railway line from Neumünster and thus the station was electrified.

Transport and operation

Railway stations

The Flensburg station stands as a particularly impressive ensemble of clinker -Expressionism of the 1920s with some outbuildings partially protected monument. These include the former post office building, the interlocking " Fw " and the rider Interlocking " Fo ", which was considered the most advanced of its time in its construction.

Lack of care have added this monument from the time of the Weimar Republic. Large parts of the buildings are on the task of many functions (such as web mail, baggage, restaurants, cinema mode) has long been empty. The uncoupled after the electrification and the establishment of a centralized signaling in soft area on the operating listed signal boxes are unused. The middle of the three platforms was discontinued in 1981 and was dismantled in 2009. The roof of the " Kieler platform " ( tracks 4 and 5) was renewed in 2008.

2010 then was the basic rehabilitation of the main platform with the tracks 1 and 2 ( trains to and from Hamburg and Denmark). In this context, both the remaining platforms were elevators, new stairs and a new pavement with the visually impaired. The listed platform canopy on platform 4/5 has been renovated. The tunnel was renovated and equipped with new advertising and information display cases.

Stretch

• Railway Neumünster -Flensburg
• Railway route Kiel -Flensburg
• Railway Flensburg- Fredericia
• Railway Flensburg- Niebüll (passenger to 1981 )
• Railway Flensburg- Husum (passenger to 1959 )
• Flensburg Harbour Railway ( freight only )

Tracks

The station has four platform tracks. The tracks are for the renewal of the interlocking systems 1996 - different than usual - not starting numbered by the reception building, but " mirrored " So the numbering starts with the track 5 near the reception building and ends on track 1, from the construction of the station farthest. lies. Originally there were between reception building and track 5 four shunting and transit tracks. platform 5 is the first platform track, his number was unchanged. on the same platform is track 4 (formerly 6). platform 3 (formerly 7) on the disused platform serves now classified only as a drive-through and siding, the opposite track 8 was completely degraded in the course of electrification. the tracks 2 and 1 were previously ( as track 9 and 10) in two sections, as in the middle of the platform the BIP was and the trains to and from Denmark until the abolition of border controls in the eastern section "b" held.

At the scheduled use of the tracks the trains run as follows:

• Track 5: trains of long distance and regional traffic to and from Neumünster / Hamburg Central Station and in the direction of Denmark
• Track 4: regional trains to and from Kiel Central Station
• Track 2: trains of long distance and regional traffic to and from Neumünster / Hamburg Central Station and in the direction of Denmark
• Track 1: trains of long distance and regional traffic to and from Neumünster / Hamburg Central Station and in the direction of Denmark

Train links

In long distance InterCity Express trains of the relation Aarhus -Hamburg- Berlin and the Euro City from Aarhus to Hamburg to Flensburg. In addition, each provides an intercity train pair on weekends ago direct from Flensburg to Berlin Hauptbahnhof and Cologne Central Station.

Furthermore, until 2002 there was a inter-regional link between Flensburg and Hanover. After setting this distance traffic performance of the Deutsche Bahn, the state of Schleswig -Holstein ordered after a short tender a replacement bus service in the private railway traffic Flex -AG. This took over the business with modern electric locomotives of series on ES64U2 Taurus Siemens Dispolok and used passenger cars. The as - Flensburg Express ( FLEX ) designated inter-regional compensation was performed in the timetable of the train type FLX. Following the insolvency of traffic Flex -AG Nord-Ostsee -Bahn operation until December 2005 this rail service every two hours from Padborg ( DK ) to Hamburg Hbf with stops in Flensburg, Tarp, Schleswig, Rendsburg, Nortorf, Neumünster and Elmshorn. Since December 2005, this traffic is again served by the DB regional train Schleswig- Holstein Schleswig -Holstein - Express.

The DB regional train Schleswig-Holstein travels in regional traffic in addition between Neumünster and Flensburg with RE and RB trains every hour to every two hours.

The connection Flensburg- Kiel is currently (2012 ) is also operated by the DB regional train Schleswig -Holstein every hour.

Trivia

The stationmaster Lorenz Petersen (1864-1921) wrote on 16 April 1897 the Flensburg Hauptbahnhof German railway history, as the 43 year old travelers contrary cried spontaneously in clearance of the 11th clock - train to Tonning: "Please from the platform edge resign! " Because the prompt for that time unusually precise and was clearly stated, the statement is still valid today was thanks to a journalist happened to be present with contacts to the Berlin railway administration in the official web jargon one. Although Petersen was able to make his statement in court on any copyrights claims, but a further creation of language he succeeded with the sentence " The orders of the train staff to be obeyed! ", Which has also been adopted in the bureaucratic language of the web.