Kierberg station

Eifel circuit

I7i12i13i15i16i16i18i20

The current breakpoint and former station Kierberg is located on the Eifel Railway ( Route number 474 ) (Cologne - ) Hürth- Kalscheuren - Euskirchen - Gerolstein - Trier Brühler district Kierberg. It is served by the regional train RB 24 from Cologne via Euskirchen to Kall.

The former representative reception building of the former imperial train station serves as a restaurant Kaiserbahnhof.

Current situation

The modern breakpoint facilities were last renovated December 2006 to 13 March 2008. Here, a central platform has been set up, which is accessible via a new pedestrian underpass with stairs and two elevators. There were also waiting homes with ticket machines.

The former station building houses since the 1980s, a restaurant with beer garden under different owners. Since December 2008, the building was gutted, restored and partly rebuilt. Restaurant and beer garden are under new management again.

Operation

Is performed the rail transport of the DB Regio NRW, for speeds up to 120 km / h uses for the Eifel Railway diesel railcar of the DB - 644 series in one-to three -unit. For the entire transport tariff of the transport association Rhein-Sieg and collective space border of the NRW rate applies.

History

Former Kaiserbahnhof

The so-called Kaiser station in Brühl- Kierberg is considered one of the most beautiful reception building in Germany. It was built in 1877 at the end of up leading from the Brühler downtown Emperor street in a small park. Its particularly elaborate design it owes Kaiser Wilhelm I, the train station served as a stopover for his annual visits of the autumn maneuvers in the Eifel. Extracting a siding on the north side of the line was created for the imperial train. In this respect, the historic station was a real railway station also in the sense of the Reichsbahn definition. From the train station, the Emperor drove in a carriage on the road to the Emperor Brühl Castle, where he spent the night. The surrounding the station park is decorated with numerous sculptures by antique models. The Rape of Proserpina was created presumably for the Paris World Exhibitions.

Contract for the connection of a pit station to the train station Kierberg

Between the Royal railway operation Office, a contract was signed in March 1891, subject to the approval of the Royal railway management, or " KED " (both Cologne ) on the one hand and the former mine owners Hermann Gruhl to Halle an der Saale (later based in Brühl) on the other hand, closed. The subdivided into several paragraphs treaty text included the following agreements substantially.

• " Mr. Gruhl intends him on the site that belongs to the right of 7.2-7.5 km of the route Kalscheuren - Kierberg - to build Euskirchen a briquette factory and set up lignite- transport, also to the products of this Grubenbaues or the factory by rail to send to create a goods station at the designated stations kilometers and the same to contact the station Kierberg by a connecting track in conjunction. "
• " The railway authorities permitted the Lord Gruhl connection to the Kierberg station in accordance with the contract as to the same belonging beige passed site plan " ... " Mr. Gruhl ( is ) written a Caution of 1600 Mark on the landed property of the Railway Administration before start of the works ( sixteen hundred) Mark at the Royal railway Hauptkasse here even in government or guaranteed by the government securities deposit. "
• " The stamp bears the costs digestion seekers in accordance with statutory provisions. "
• " Each of the contracting parties is reclaimed on a copy of the concluded contract. "

Cologne and Halle ad S., 23 February 1891. The mine owners Hermann Gruhl, (Signature )

Royal Railroad Operating Office ( left bank ), ( Signature)

Approved, Cologne, March 17, 1891 the Royal Railway Department

The connection was intended for pit and briquette plant I Gruhl southwest of heath, which went into operation on September 2, 1892. The connection was initially last of Brühler pits of pit Donatus at Liblar about pit Brühl, Roddergrube to Gruhl work I. 1913/16 was still Gruhl Plant II north of heath and even closer to Kierberg station to which all were connected to the Eifel track.