Stuttgart Österfeld station

Connection path of the S -Bahn Stuttgart, Gäubahn (without platforms )

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The Österfeld station in Stuttgart's Vaihingen district town situated on the 1985 -built here confluence of the main line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn in the above-ground guided Gäubahnstrecke. Österfeld is the S- Bahn station between the stations of Stuttgart-Vaihingen and Stuttgart University, the last is in the ( hare mountain) tunnel junction line. Regional and long-distance trains on the Gäubahnstrecke have no further maintenance in the urban area except the main train station. On the route from there to Vaihingen / Böblingen the trains have another, older tunnel happened, who also Hasenbergstraße tunnel is called.

The station is no operational railway station, but a breakpoint. Connected to the station is a park - and-ride car park ( " Bottom of Default") with 500 seats, which is directly accessible from the Federal Highway 831. Other public transportation does not go to the station. Above the station is the industrial park STEP (Stuttgarter Engineering Park ) with numerous offices, including the former Debitel headquarters. Near the station are also the VDI building and the Waldorf School Michael Bauer school.

History

The preliminary draft of the connection path of the Stuttgart S-Bahn in the 1960s, a breakpoint roof wood was provided. The stop should be half a kilometer south of the merging of the Gäubahn lie in a straight line and rise to the south with 10 per thousand.

From the late 1970s, the planners of the S- Bahn line went between the university site and Pfaffenwaldring Stuttgart- Vaihingen pipe by assuming that the capacity of the existing two-track Gäubahnstrecke for the S -Bahn and other traffic would not be enough. They presented several alternatives, including: construction of an underground north-south crossing through Vaihingen with a station in the center of Vaihingen, or four-track expansion of leading by Vaihingen Gäubahnabschnittes stopping at the previous station of Vaihingen. The Stuttgart City Council called for the purposes of Vaihingen from federal and state governments to realize the underground version. As federal and state governments opposed it, the city demanded an additional breakpoint, the later station Österfeld to open up the north of the Nesenbachviaduktes on residential areas of Vaihingen. The transport association Stuttgart ( VVS) came after investigations to the conclusion that a start-up of such a station is not justified simultaneously with the opening of the S- Bahn line through the expected traffic volume, an option for a later construction should be kept open, however. Thus, the line was opened in the aboveground and four-track version in 1985, with space for the future installation of a means the platform was released at the site of the later station Österfeld between the tracks. These constructed provisions caused additional costs of DM 2.45 million, of which the town was 0.35 million DM.

In 1990 the company Hewlett- Packard planned (HP ) is a settlement in an open area in the space reserved for the station location, and announced the creation of 3,500 jobs in its final form in. Mayor Manfred Rommel demanded by the then Railway Board Stuttgart an obligation to redeem the construction option so that the council could change for the settlement of the HP development plan. The Railway Board expected that the extended due to the additional stop journey times would require the use of additional S -Bahn trains, and called for increasing ridership and thus the profitability of the station to build a park-and- ride facilities, which together with the station should be put into operation in the spring of 1993, the opening of the International Horticultural Exposition 1993 at Killesberg to relieve time parking and roads in the vicinity of the exhibition grounds. Due to the duration of the administrative operations, construction work could begin in July 1992. Despite the pressure of time was to maintain the S -Bahn, worked mostly at night. This led to high construction costs in excess of 15 million DM The station was opened on 17 April 1993 in time for the IGA. The car park and the station were not accepted by the visitors of the IGA.

However, HP pushed to its settlement plans. The resulting loss of revenue resulting took over the contract in accordance with the City of Stuttgart, by the allocation of the cost of VVS at the expense of Stuttgart trams AG was changed.

Later, the company based in Böblingen recanted his final plans because it could raise the necessary working space by building expansions. Instead, the city built on the site of the industrial park STEP (Stuttgarter Engineering Park ) on, with the striking building of debitel. This skyscraper is still a prominent landmark, but houses after the merger no longer Debitel headquarters.

Traffic

In 2003, the station was used to average working days of around 4050 people. By superimposing the S- Bahn lines S1, S2, and S3, a 5 -minute intervals and at off-peak times results in the rush hours, a 10 -minute intervals to Vaihingen and in Stuttgart city center. The journey to Stuttgart Central Station is 13 minutes.

S -Bahn lines