Weißenfels station

Weißenfels station is the station of Weißenfels in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It lies at the junction of the Halle–Bebra and the Weißenfels–Zeitz railways.

Weißenfels
Junction station
Entrance building, street side (2011)
LocationBahnhofstr. 2, Weißenfels, Saxony-Anhalt
Germany
Coordinates51°12′17″N 11°58′16″E
Line(s)
Platforms4
ConnectionsRE 16 RE 18 RE 42
RB 20 RB 25 RB 76
Other information
Station code6633[1]
DS100 codeUW[2]
IBNR8010368
Category3[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened6 June 1846
Services
Preceding station   Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland   Following station
toward Erfurt Hbf
RE 16
via Naumburg (Saale) - Weimar
toward Erfurt Hbf
RE 17
RE 74520 only
toward Leipzig Hbf
Leißling
toward Eisenach
RB 20
via Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Naumburg (Saale)
toward Leipzig Hbf
Leißling
RB 25
via Naumburg (Saale) - Jena
Preceding station   Burgenlandbahn (Saxony-Anhalt)   Following station
TerminusRB 76
via Teuchern
Weißenfels West
toward Zeitz
Preceding station   DB Regio Bayern   Following station
Terminus
RE 42
toward Nürnberg Hbf
Preceding station   DB Regio Südost   Following station
RE 18
Saale-Express
via Naumburg (Saale)
Location
Weißenfels
Location within Saxony-Anhalt
Weißenfels
Location within Germany
Weißenfels
Location within Europe

Location

The station is located at line-kilometre 32.0 of the Halle–Bebra railway (measured from Halle). In addition, it is the starting point of a line to Zeitz (km 0.0).

It lies some distance north of the town centre and near the bank of the Saale. It borders the streets of Am Güterbahnhof ("at the freight yard") and Bahnhofstraße ("station street"). The line crossed state road 206 (Merseburger Straße) at the western end of the station.

Großkorbetha station is located about eight kilometres further northeast. Five kilometres to the southwest lies the halt of Leißling. The next stop on the branch line to Zeitz is at the halt of Weissenfels West, which is almost four kilometres away and is further from the town centre than Weissenfels station.

History

On 6 June 1846, Weissenfels station was opened on the Halle–Bebra railway, which already had two tracks.[3] Weißenfels was the terminus of the line until it was extended to Weimar on 1 April 1847. The line to Bebra was completed in 1849.[4]

Plans dating from 1845 provided for the construction of the entrance building to the south near the Saale. This would have been the place where the second building, which still exists, stands. There was also a platform with two adjacent tracks. A coke shed was built in the western station area. A track plan from 1857 indicates the existence of over 30 sets of points. Furthermore, there was already a carriage shed, a roundhouse, a turntable, a water supply point and a toilet.[3]

Initially freight traffic was dominated by lignite.[3]

At the Merseburger Straße level crossing there was a mechanical full barrier system with four barrier arms.[3]

The line to Zeitz was opened on 9 February 1859. This turned Weißenfels into a junction station.[5] This involved a major reconstruction of the track infrastructure.[3]

Entrance building seen from the Saale (2013)

Another reconstruction of the track infrastructure probably took place towards the end of the 1860s. New freight and loading tracks were added. The construction of a second entrance building also began. A third track from the Zeitz direction ran into the station. It ended as two dead-end tracks south of the existing platforms. The platform was also extended to accommodate the trains running from Zeitz.[3]

Renovation of the underpass and the construction of a new platform on tracks 1 and 2 began in the 2010s, which was completed in 2013 at a cost of about €755,000.[6] The northern platform with tracks 3 and 4 had already been modernised.

A bus station, which improved the connections between buses and rail should, was built In 2011/12.[7]

Infrastructure

Platforms and tracks
Platforms with regional trains (2009)

Currently (2017) the station has the following platforms:[8]

NumberPlatform heightUsable length
155 cm174 m
255 cm174 m
376 cm323 m
476 cm323 m

Entrance building
Entrance building (2009)

The entrance building is heritage listed.[9]

The city of Weißenfels bought the entrance building from Deutsche Bahn in 2016.[10]

The facade was restored for Sachsen-Anhalt-Tag ("Saxony-Anhalt Day", a festival formerly held annually, now every two years, in different Saxon-Anhalt towns) in 2010.[11] The municipality of Weißenfels continues to campaign for funding from the Revita program of the state of Saxony-Anhalt for an extensive refurbishment of the building.[10]

It is currently (2017) largely unused. A local club is considering opening a museum of Weissenfels railway history in it.[12]

Signal boxes

Before the commissioning of the electronic interlocking the following signal boxes had been built:[13]

DesignationFunctionClass
WbDispatcher
WmGuard boxS&H 1912
WoDispatcherS&H 1912
WrIGuard boxS&H 1912
WrIIGuard boxS&H 1912
WvGuard boxS&H 1912
WwGuard boxS&H 1912

When the signal boxes were decommissioned on 12 December 1999, a Siemens electronic interlocking went into operation on the same day, which is remotely controlled by an operations centre in Leipzig.

Rail services

According to an article in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung published in 2013, more than 3000 passengers use the station daily.[14]

Long distance services

Weißenfels is served by various long-distance services. However, the only trains that stop are relief trains or trains stopping early or late in the day. The remaining long-distance trains pass through the station without stopping. It has been affected by the significant reduction of long-distance traffic on the section between Erfurt and Halle/Leipzig on the Halle–Bebra railway following the opening of the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway in December 2015.

In the 2017 timetable, the following long-distance service stops in Weißenfels:

In the past, trains stopped on the following routes:[15]

Until 2001, Weißenfels was served by InterRegio services, which took a similar route. Until 1998, it was still served by D-Zug (traditional express) services.

Regional services

Currently, Weißenfels station is served by the following regional services:

LineRouteOperatorInterval (min)
RE 16Halle – Merseburg – Weißenfels – Naumburg – Bad Kösen – Apolda – Weimar – Erfurt120Abellio
RE 18Halle – Merseburg – Weißenfels – Naumburg – Bad Kösen – Jena Paradies – Jena-Göschwitz120DB Regio Südost
RE 42Leipzig – Weißenfels – Naumburg – Jena Paradies – Saalfeld – Lichtenfels – Bamberg – Nuremberg120DB Regio Bayern
RB 20Leipzig Hbf – Bad Dürrenberg – Weißenfels – Naumburg – Apolda – Weimar – Erfurt – Neudietendorf – Gotha – Eisenach060Abellio
RB 25Halle – Merseburg – Weißenfels – Naumburg – Jena Paradies – Saalfeld060Abellio
RB 76Weißenfels – Teuchern – Deuben – Zeitz060 (Mon–Fri)
120 (Sat–Sun)		DB Regio Südost

References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. IG Eisenbahn in Weißenfels (3 April 2013). "Protokoll der siebenundzwanzigsten Zusammenkunft der Interessengemeinschaft "Eisenbahn in Weißenfels"" (PDF) (in German). pp. 12–16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  4. "Bahnstrecke Halle–Bebra" (in German). rbd-erfurt.de. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  5. "Bahnstrecke Weißenfels–Zeitz" (in German). rbd-erfurt.de. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  6. "Weißenfels" (in German). Bahnhofsprogramm Sachsen-Anhalt. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  7. Bärbel Schmuck (5 September 2012). "Neuer Busbahnhof mit außergewöhnlichem Dach". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  8. "Station Weißenfels" (in German). DB Station&Service AG. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  9. "Kleine Anfrage und Antwort Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Kultusministerium 19.03.2015 Drucksache 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) Denkmalverzeichnis Sachsen-Anhalt" (PDF). Parliamentary Journal of the Landtag of Sachony-Anhalt (in German) (6/3905). 19 March 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  10. Andreas Richter (2 April 2016). "Verkehrsknoten Weißenfels – Problemfall Bahnhof". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  11. Klaus-Dieter Kunick (21 June 2016). "Verödet der Weißenfelser Bahnhof vollends?". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  12. Andreas Richter (8 June 2017). "Bekommt verödeter Bahnhof ein Museum?". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  13. "List of German signal boxes" (in German). stellwerke.de. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  14. Andreas Richter (13 April 2013). "Stadtentwicklung: Lichtblick im Weißenfelser Bahnhof". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  15. "Datenbank Fernverkehr" (in German). grahnert.de. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
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