Sonneberg Hauptbahnhof
- Hinterland rail ( KBS 569 )
- Railway Coburg- Sonneberg ( KBS 830)
- Railway Sonnenberg Probstzella ( KBS 564)
- Railway Sonnenberg- floor home
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The main railway station Sonnenberg was built as part of the construction work for hinterland rail and to this day still play a central role in public transport for Sonnenberg and the surrounding area. He broke from the 1907 as a residential building still existing old railway station, which was built along with the single track railway Coburg- Sonneberg, a branch line of the Werrabahn, in the years 1857-1858 through the Werra Railway Company.
Location
The sun 's train is the 19.51 km route of the railway Coburg- Sonneberg at a height of 386.41 meters above sea level and is located south of downtown. It is bordered to the north by the parallel inner-city tangent. The station is the starting point for rail lines to Coburg as well as to Neuhaus am Rennweg and after ice rink.
History
On November 2, 1858 of first Sonneberger station was inaugurated as the terminus of the Werra Railway Company solemnly. It was not until 28 years later was followed on October 1, 1886 with the commissioning of the line to Lauscha the conversion to a through station. However, no later revealed after the opening of the railway line to floor home on June 1, 1901 that the existing railway facilities, which had been taken over in 1895 by the Prussian state railways were no longer cope with the volume of traffic. Therefore, the Reichsbahn Erfurt built from 1905 southeast of the old station, a new station, which was taken two years later in October 1907 in operation. The station was four times as large as the previous building, costing about 2.7 million marks. The platform canopies were performed first in Germany in reinforced concrete by the company Dyckerhoff and Widmann.
With the inauguration of the hinterland railway on April 1, 1910, the station got its fourth following a railroad track and was filed with a hump railway junction and with 27 tracks and 102 turnouts than the rank class 2 station due to the extensive freight station. Larger destruction there was towards the end of the Second World War. For example, the signal boxes were blown up and destroyed in an air raid by U.S. fighter-bombers storage shed and 70 % of the track and switch systems by the German Wehrmacht. After the occupation of Thuringia by Soviet troops in July 1945 and the cessation followed on the main routes to Coburg and floor home. The station lost much of its traffic-related significance. Four freight tracks and a station track had to be dismantled as reparations to the Soviet Union.
In 1952, the station name was changed to Central Station, 1971, the two signal boxes were replaced by new buildings and introduced light signals. The envelope at the freight station was still with southern Thuringia to the most extensive, even if the web traffic could be carried out only through the two branch lines after Probstzella and ice field with the switchback railway stations in Lauscha or Rauenstein.
After reunification, the line was reactivated to Coburg and the tracks electrified 3 to 6. In 1997, the continuous traffic to Probstzella and after ice rink has been set. Under the project name Sonnenberg environmental station, the station was rebuilt from 1997 to 1999. Here, the station forecourt has been redesigned and furnished a central bus station. In addition, created a 220 -meter-long pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the railway tracks with lift towers to the platforms and the bus station. During this time the station was only accessible from the south via Neustadt. The decommissioning of the freight depot was in 1999, the reconstruction of the railway tracks on the five remaining platform tracks and a through freight track and two more freight rail stumps was carried out between 2001 and 2002. In addition, an electronic signal box was installed and taken up again by the Thuringian railway traffic by Lauscha -Neuhaus and Rauenstein Icefield.
Passenger rail service
Simple passenger trains were and are in the sun 's train the rule. Only in 1937 there was an express train, which drove the 142 km of Coburg about Sonnenberg, Stock and Home Göschwitz in three hours and about ten minutes after Weimar. In addition, inverted from 1954 and 1970, with interruptions over a Eilzugpaar Saalfeld to Leipzig.
In 2012, the STB continues with their line one every two hours to Meiningen and hourly line 4 to Neuhaus am Rennweg. The regional express line 30 DB Regio connects Sonnenberg hourly for Coburg Bamberg and Nuremberg.