Ludwigsburg station
- Franconia Railway ( KBS 780, KBS 790.5 )
- Railway Backnang -Ludwigsburg ( KBS 790.4 )
- Access line to Kornwestheim
- Railway Ludwigsburg- Markgroningen ( decommissioned)
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Ludwigsburg railway station is a regional railway station, hub of the Stuttgart S-Bahn and thus the most important station of Baden- Württemberg town of Ludwigsburg. In it, the railway line Backnang -Ludwigsburg flows into the CHF web. By 2005, the railway line Ludwigsburg- Markgroningen had its starting point. In addition, the Kornwestheim is directly connected.
- 2.1 Regional Transport
- 2.2 S -Bahn
History
Planning and construction
For the former residence city of Ludwigsburg, a station was intended from the beginning of the planning of the Württemberg Central Railway. Construction began in 1844 and changed some parcels on the Ludwigsburg district. Part of the hill on the larch wood had to be removed. The terrain of the former sheep farm lakes was poured on the other hand. Here, the double-track railway station was built with a two-storey reception building and a locomotive depot.
Start time
On October 5, 1846, the first train reached Ludwigsburg. The breakpoints located between Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg served the State Railways until ten days later. The ceremony of inauguration of the new traffic route took place in Stuttgart. The Ludwigsburg city councils not participated. Still, the loss of capital title was not overcome.
Unfortunately for the population of the station was in a very unfavorable place. Due to the swampy area at the lake of fire resulted in a narrow path that was very tedious passable during rain or snow. A wooden staircase reached the travelers on this artificial hill. Carts could call at the station only on the Solitude and Leon Berger Street. A direct road link had to be created as soon as possible. But in order to realize this, the city council lacked the financial resources.
The construction of the Northern Railway continued. A year later, on October 11, 1847, the next part of section was completed and the trains ran on to Bietigheim. 1852 took the state railway, a second main track from Stuttgart to Bietigheim in operation.
Transformation of the station building and its surroundings
The station building was in the 1860s, another storey and two wings. To the south was a building for mail handling, north one with a waiting room. For freight and military stood a loading dock available. Meanwhile, lay five tracks in the area of the station. A sixth was for 1868 is moved from Vaihingen chicory Heinrich Franck & Sons added as siding.
After about ten years of construction, the end of October, the road connecting the Wilhelm Platz ( today's Schiller Square) and the station square was completed in 1869. The rail road received a short time later the name Myliusstraße. The 1866 late General Ferdinand von Mylius is regarded as the founder of the costly road. Along the road and on the station forecourt emerged representative buildings.
On the forecourt was built as the first hotel, the train in the 1870s ( corner Mylius-/Bahnhofstraße; demolition 1982). On August 25, 1887, the Royal Mail began trading on the new main post office, which still took over the telegraph office of the station building. The inauguration ceremony of the Music Hall was held on 18 December 1890. The cost for the construction of the music hall beglich for the most part the Privy Counselor Hermann Franck, a son of the factory owner Johann Heinrich Franck.
Ludwigsburg is railway junction
On October 15, 1881, the State Railways opened the railway line between Ludwigsburg and Beihingen and then established a connection to the railways Backnang- Bietigheim ago. For this purpose, the station received three head tracks on the north side of the station building. Since December 4, 1916 led a spur track after Markgroningen.
The original plan to build an electric streetcar, the Ludwigsburg should connect with Stuttgart, the city could not afford financially. In addition, the city fathers feared a downgrade of Ludwigsburg to a suburb of Stuttgart. As a cheap alternative to a trolleybus operation offered. From the station forecourt was driving on 21 December 1910, the Ludwigsburg catenary railway route to their first Neckargröningen. As of June 19, 1911 a second line was added in Hoheneck to the spa.
In the 1910s, the state railway extended the reception building. The two wings sticking out a few feet into the Bahnhofstrasse. The space between them was already covered and then got a glass facade.
Following the Stuttgart suburb of traffic
Inflation and the spare parts shortage brought the end for the top pathways. On April 23, 1923, the last trip to Aldingen was. The line to Hoheneck able to keep going until 1926.
The long-running four-tracked expansion between Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg found its completion in 1929. In that year, provided the German Reichsbahn the last section between the items 12 (south of Kornwestheim Pbf ) and Ludwigsburg done. With the electrification of two tracks began on 15 May 1933, the local operation to Stuttgart.
Federal Railroad Time
On September 28, 1975, the German Federal Railway passenger transport by railway to Markgroningen due to lack of passengers a. From the mid- 1970s the track field changed for the S -Bahn operating in the area of the station. The Northern Railway and the railway line to Backnang parted in height now free. The head tracks north of the station building built from it.
For the expansion of the Stuttgart S-Bahn Train Station 1976-1980 has been extensively remodeled.
Despite an extensive renovation and the waiting room in the 1950s, the outdated station building remained unpopular with sections of the population. Its demolition in favor of a new building began in October 1987. After several delays when planning the groundbreaking for a new building took place in June 1991. In accordance with him merged concepts of the German Federal Railroad from the 1970s and 1980s station building and shopping center into one unit. It was released on November 19, 1992 to the public. In addition to the reception buildings in Waiblingen 1980 and Stuttgart -Zuffenhausen in 1982 is one of the few station new buildings to replace old building after reconstruction in Württemberg.
Railway operation
The station has five platform tracks. On track 1 keep the regional trains towards Bietigheim. Track 2 is approached from the S-trains that are traveling to Bietigheim or Marbach. On track 3, the S- Bahn trains in the direction of Zuffenhausen. On track 4, the regional trains to Stuttgart. Track 5 is not used as planned.
From Highway Ludwigsburg is largely not operated only at night keep an Intercity train from Frankfurt to Stuttgart and an ICE from Stuttgart to Essen in Ludwigsburg. Ludwigsburg railway station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 3