Puttgarden station

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The Puttgarden station is a ferry terminal in the course of Vogelfluglinie on the island of Fehmarn. It lies between the same place Puttgarden and Marienleuchte.

He serves primarily the needs of the international long-distance traffic, since reintroduction of regional traffic on the Vogelfluglinie However, he is again of regional importance for Fehmarn.

Operation and history

1961 was built in Puttgarden a large ferry terminal and 1963 taken together with the Fehmarn bridge in operation since the traditional ferry from Germany to Denmark between Rostock- Warnemünde and Gedser was at that time beyond the Iron Curtain and the provisional rail ferry Großenbrode Online Magazine from Großenbrode Station Kai Gedser was too low in capacity.

The ferry station was opened by the Danish King Frederik IX. and the then German President Dr. Heinrich Lübke. The station had from the beginning is very important, since a large part of the rail freight and passenger traffic was shipped to and from Scandinavia via Puttgarden. This is testified today the vast and since the cessation of freight traffic on the Vogelfluglinie almost completely brownfield (freight ) rail tracks.

After the construction of the bridge over the Great Belt in Denmark in 1998, most of the trains moves for economic reasons a detour to avoid the lengthy Zugtrennungen because of the limited track capacity on the ro-ro ships and the associated shunting. This concerns mainly the freight on ferry terminal Puttgarden, which was first partially and then set completely. At the same time to adjust the freight of the ferry terminal was modernized by the shipping company Scandlines in the period from 1996 to 1998.

In 2007, the station was modernized again; There were, among others, a walk-in access to the unused platform tracks with a glass, automatic exit door and a modern toilet facilities with disabled toilet. The preliminary conclusion of the construction work has been the construction of the platform, wherein the platform has been considerably shortened, slightly raised and equipped with contemporary lighting and public address system.

The former locomotive-hauled Euro City from Hamburg to Copenhagen were in the 1990s, replaced by three-piece Danish MF trainsets that can be without the use of shunting locomotives arbitrarily separated and pooled. Since December 2007, the IC3 ICE train pairs the German series 605 (ICE -TD ) supplemented the daily use repeatedly the relation Copenhagen -Hamburg; the course of a Zugpaars is extended to Berlin.

In August 2010, the local station was reactivated in Burg auf Fehmarn. This is called Fehmarn - Burg. Since December 2010, begin and end intercity line 31 to Frankfurt am Main there and no longer drive to the train station Puttgarden.

Future

After completion of a Fehmarn Belt fixed link the ferry terminal Puttgarden is closed. Whether a breakpoint in Puttgarden remains to be seen.

Infrastructure

The station has a total of 22 kilometers of track and 145 turnouts. From the platform tracks but only two (yet) available (as of 2007). The trains run on schedule as follows:

• Track 2: long-distance and regional trains to and from Lübeck, Hamburg and Denmark
• Track 3: Long-distance trains from Denmark to Lubeck and Hamburg

Two more platforms, each with two platform tracks are out of service.

The station area to the subsequent port has four docks, two of them with connection for passengers ashore. Only the adjoining track 2 and 3 pool is still used to trajektieren multiple units and railcars. In Puttgarden ends after 1738 kilometers of the German tourist route Alpine Baltic Sea. The ferry carries Rodby on the Danish island of Lolland, the local ferry terminal is Rodby Færge station.

Despite the bridge over the Great Belt Puttgarden owns the ferries of Scandlines still unbroken role as the main "gateway to Germany, Scandinavia ".

From the ferry terminal there are several bus connections to the car power, among other things, to Burg on Fehmarn.

Operation

Trivia

Cinematically the Puttgarden station was along with the Northern Express in a crime scene detective with the name Kressin stops the Northern Express perpetuated. The main role as a customs investigators Kressin had Sieghardt Rupp.

In addition, parts of the film were migratory birds ... Once turned to Inari by director Peter light box with Joachim Król and Peter Lohmeyer in the lead roles in Puttgarden.