Lindau-Insel station
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| Location | Am Bahnhof 1, Lindau, Bavaria Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°32′41″N 9°40′49″E / 47.544656°N 9.680243°ECoordinates: 47°32′41″N 9°40′49″E / 47.544656°N 9.680243°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Architectural style | Art Nouveau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 3727[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | MLI[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000230 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 3[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | : 400[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1853 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lindau-Insel station (German: Bahnhof Lindau-Insel, "Lindau island") (until May 15, 1936 Lindau Stadt, until December 12, 2020 Lindau Hauptbahnhof) is the largest station in the city of Lindau (Bodensee) and was its most important station until passenger service resumed at Lindau-Reutin station on December 13, 2020. In the urban area there is also Lindau-Aeschach station and Lindau-Reutin freight yard. Formerly there were also Lindau-Siebertsdorf (called Lindau-Zech until 15 May 1936),[4] Lindau Langenweg, Lindau Strandbad, Schoenau, Oberreitnau and Rehlings.
Location[]
Lindau-Insel is a railway terminus and lies on the island of Lindau in the immediate vicinity of Lindau harbour. The current station building, which is protected as a monument, was built between 1913 and 1921 in the Art Nouveau style.[5]
The station is about 500 metres long and is connected by a four-track line running over an embankment to the mainland. The embankment and the parallel Seebrücke road bridge, which is about 500 metres to the east, form the perimeter of the so-called Kleinen See (small lake), which lies between the suburb of Aeschach and the island. On the west side of the station there is a small marshalling yard and the former depot. Meanwhile, some workshops in the rear are still used for vehicle maintenance.
The railway lines separate the districts of Hauptinsel (main island) from the Hinteren Insel (rear island). However, a pedestrian bridge and the Thiersch road bridge run above the tracks. As part of the Lindau 21 project, it is proposed that the terminal station be replaced by a through station on the mainland at Lindau-Reutin to simplify operations.
History[]
Lindau is the terminus of the Allgäu Railway, running from Munich via Kempten. Its southeastern section from Oberstaufen to Lindau was completed on 1 September 1853. From 1869 to 1939 there was a ferry port for the carriage of freight wagons to Romanshorn and from 1873 to 1899 to Konstanz. In 1899, the Bodenseegürtel Railway was opened from Radolfzell via Friedrichshafen. The Vorarlberg Railway runs from Lindau via Bregenz, Dornbirn and Feldkirch to Bludenz and is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). As a result, Lindau is also a border station. Formerly the ÖBB had its own ticket office in Lindau station; this was replaced by ticket machines, which still exist.
The route to Bludenz was electrified on 14 December 1954 and is still the only electrified line to Lindau. In Lindau station, tracks 1 to 3 are electrified. Even Swiss Federal Railways electric locomotives are scheduled to run to Lindau.
Operations[]
Long-distance passenger services[]
From December 2010 to December 2013, a Railjet was operated daily to Lindau. The counter train ran as a regional express to Bregenz with a stop in Lochau-Hörbranz and from Bregenz as a Railjet to Vienna, as the Railjet replaced a regular regional express or an S-Bahn on the Lindau-Bregenz route. In earlier years, ÖBB also operated express trains (Ex) to Lindau, including direct connections to the Austrian capital Vienna. Today, the Austrian long-distance trains mostly end or begin in neighboring Bregenz.
In long-distance passenger rail services, Eurocity Line 88 offered regular connections from Munich via Lindau to Zurich until December 12, 2020. On the Eurocity trains, the locomotive changeover between German diesel and Swiss electric traction was carried out at Lindau-Insel station. The Munich - Lindau connection via Memmingen was electrified to enable continuous operation under catenary. Since December 13, 2020, the Munich-Zurich trains, now called EuroCity-Express, have been serving the Lindau-Reutin station as an alternative.
In the 2021 timetable year, the Intercity Bodensee on Line 32 running between Dortmund and Innsbruck represents the last remaining long-distance train pair at the station Lindau-Insel. This is where the locomotive changeover between diesel and electric traction takes place on this connection.
| Service | Route | Frequency |
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| IC 32 | Dortmund – Köln Messe/Deutz – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Lindau-Insel – Feldkirch – Innsbruck | one train pair |
Regional services[]
The Lindau Inselbahnhof is served by local rail services from three different directions. The station is the terminus for all regional trains except the RE 7, which has been connected to the newly opened Lindau-Reutin station since the timetable change in 2020. Regional services are operated by various operators, namely DB Regio Bayern in the direction of Bavaria, DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee in the direction of Baden-Württemberg, and ÖBB in the direction of Austria. Regional express trains (RE) run hourly to and from Friedrichshafen, with through trains to Stuttgart. They are supplemented by hourly regional trains (RB) that run to and from Friedrichshafen. Since the end of 2020, DB Regio Bayern trains have been running to and from Hergatz to and from Munich, as well as the Allgäu-Franken-Express as a regional express train (RE) to and from Nuremberg. In addition, individual Regionalexpress trains run to and from Ulm via Kempten. There are regional trains in the same direction as far as Kißlegg or Aulendorf. The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) offer regional express trains (REX) in the direction of Bludenz. In addition, Lindau-Insel is the terminus of the S 1 line of the Vorarlberg S-Bahn.
| Service | Route | Frequency | Operator |
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| IRE 3 | Lindau-Insel – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Tiengen (Hochrhein) – Basel Bad Bf | one train towards Lindau | DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee |
| IRE 5 | Lindau-Insel – Friedrichshafen Stadt | one train towards Friedrichshafen | |
| RE 5 | Lindau-Insel – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Ravensburg – Ulm – Göppingen – Stuttgart | 60 min | |
| RE 7 | Lindau-Reutin – Lindau-Insel – Hergatz – Immenstadt – Kempten (– Buchloe – Augsburg – Nürnberg) | 120 min | DB Regio Bayern |
| RE 70 | Lindau-Insel – Hergatz – Kempten – Kaufbeuren – Buchloe – Geltendorf – München | 60 min | |
| RE 72 | Lindau-Insel – Hergatz – Memmingen – Mindelheim – Buchloe – Geltendorf – München | individual services | |
| RE 77 | Lindau-Insel – Hergatz – Oberstaufen – Martinszell – Kempten | 120 min | |
| REX | Lindau-Insel – Lindau-Reutin – Bregenz – Dornbirn – Feldkirch – Bludenz (– Vandans – Schruns) | 60 min | Montafoner Bahn / ÖBB |
| RB 92 | Lindau-Insel – Hergatz – Wangen – Kißlegg | 120 min | DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee |
| RB 93 | Lindau-Insel – Wasserburg (Bodensee) – Friedrichshafen Stadt (– Überlingen –Singen (Hohentwiel)) | 60 min | |
| RB 96 | Lindau-Insel – Hergatz – Leutkirch – Memmingen | individual services | |
| S 1 | Lindau-Insel – Lindau-Reutin – Bregenz – Dornbirn – Feldkirch – Bludenz | 60 min | ÖBB |
City buses[]
Bus routes 1 and 2 of Stadtbus Lindau operate from the station forecourt to all part of the city of Lindau.
Gallery[]
View of the tracks
Vorarlberg S-Bahn at Lindau-Insel station
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
- ^ "Zonenplan" (PDF). . 1 January 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Chronology of the railway division of Augsburg" (in German). Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ "Heritage listing for Lindau Hauptbahnhof" (in German). Bayerischen Landesamt für Denkmalpflege. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
External links[]
Media related to Lindau Hauptbahnhof at Wikimedia Commons- "Track plan of Lindau Hauptbahnhof" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 8 December 2001.
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