Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt station

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Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
Deutsche Bahn S-Bahn
Through station
Bahnhof Bad Cannstadt.jpg
LocationBahnhofstr. 30, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates48°48′6″N 9°13′4″E / 48.80167°N 9.21778°E / 48.80167; 9.21778Coordinates: 48°48′6″N 9°13′4″E / 48.80167°N 9.21778°E / 48.80167; 9.21778
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms8
Construction
Architect
  • Michael Knoll (1845)
  • Martin Meyer (1915)
Architectural styleRundbogenstil (1845)
Other information
Station code6077
DS100 codeTSC
IBNR8005769
Category3[1]
Fare zoneVVS: 1[2]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened22 October 1845
Passengers
36,572 per day (2005)[3]
Services
Preceding station   Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg   Following station
Terminus
RB 13
via Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen
Waiblingen
toward Crailsheim
Preceding station   S-Bahn Stuttgart   Following station
toward Herrenberg
S 1
toward Filderstadt
S 2
toward Schorndorf
toward Filderstadt
S 3
toward Backnang
  Future service as of 15 December 2019  
Preceding station   DB Regio Baden-Württemberg   Following station
Terminus
RE 19
Terminus
RB 19
Waiblingen
toward Gaildorf West
Preceding station   Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg   Following station
Terminus
RE 90
via Crailsheim
toward Nürnberg Hbf
Terminus
RB 16
via Geislingen (Steige)
Esslingen (Neckar)
toward Ulm Hbf
  Future service as of 14 June 2020  
Preceding station   Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg   Following station
toward Mannheim Hbf
RE 10a
via Mosbach-Neckarelz
toward Mannheim Hbf
RE 10b
via Sinsheim (Elsenz)
toward Osterburken
RB 18
via Stuttgart
Esslingen (Neckar)
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Location
Bad Cannstatt is located in Baden-Württemberg
Bad Cannstatt
Bad Cannstatt
Location in Baden-Württemberg

Bad Cannstatt station is the second largest station of the German city of Stuttgart after Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof and has eight platform tracks. Together with Untertürkheim station, it is the oldest station in Württemberg.

History[]

During the planning of the original railway in Württemberg, the Württemberg Central Railway (German: Württembergische Centralbahn), it was proposed to provide a station for the city of Cannstatt with its 5,500 inhabitants. The original proposal for the line consisted of a connection between the proposed Stuttgart Central Station to Cannstatt, where it would branch towards Esslingen and Ludwigsburg. Because of Stuttgart's geographical location, the route via Cannstatt was the only feasible route for a railway with the technology of the time.

On 5 October 1845, the first railway in Württemberg was opened from Cannstatt to Untertürkheim. Following the completion of the Rosenstein Tunnel on 4 July 1846, the first train ran into Stuttgart station on 26 September 1846.

With increasing traffic, Cannstatt needed a new station. The old district town and spa of Cannstatt and Stuttgart had grown together. The current station building was built during the First World War.

Originally there were magnificent hotels for the many guests of the spa. A plastic sculpture, called Schienenhaufen (rail piles) by Karl-Heinz Franke, was installed in the forecourt in 1985, commemorating the opening of the first railway in Württemberg 140 years earlier.

A comprehensive modernisation of the station was completed for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in May 2006, after 20 months of work. Lifts were installed to provide barrier-free access to the platforms and the platform paving was renewed, while the listed platform canopies were preserved. The underpass running under the station was rebuilt with granite and the forecourt to the south facing the Cannstatter Wasen was refurbished. The costs were around €6 million to Deutsche Bahn, with additional funds from the state's Municipal Transport Financing Act (Gemeindeverkehrsfinanzierungsgesetz), the City of Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Region.

Prospects[]

In the course of the Stuttgart 21 rail project, various modifications to the station are planned. The tracks at the western end of the station will be replaced by new lines being built as part of the project. Platforms 2 (tracks 2 and 3) and 3 (tracks 4 and 5) will be shortened, and according to DB information will no longer be used.[4]

Entrance building[]

First entrance building of 1845
First entrance building after the extensions of 1863 and 1886 (postcard from ca. 1900)

The first station building in Cannstatt was probably designed by Michael Knoll, who developed Karl Etzel's plans for the First Stuttgart Central Station (Stuttgarter Centralbahnhof). The construction of the two-story, small building commenced in 1844 parallel with the Stuttgart station. The extremely simple, narrow building in Cannstatt had ten parallel axes and a side projection.[5] In it, on the ground floor, were the office of the station manager, two waiting rooms, the cash room and a luggage room. On the first floor were living rooms and a conference room. Close to the station building there was a turntable. A carriage and an engine shed were arranged to the left and the right symmetrically. There was also the beginning of a freight shed.[6]

The obligation to save money and the resulting small size of the buildings soon led to problems. The crowded station buildings in Cannstatt and Ludwigsburg were noted by the director of the Württemberg railway in 1849.[6] In 1860 two stories added to the city side of the station building and by 1886 an arcaded porch was added.[7]

Martin Meyer designed a new station that was completed in 1915, including an entrance building with three wings. The raised middle section is covered with a hipped roof. The main facade is divided symmetrically. Three tall windows brighten the lobby. A two-storey wing extends to the left and a one-storey wing extends to the right of the central building. The station administration is housed at the higher level of the left wing with its round windows. Also care was taken to build functionally and not in the neoclassical or Art Nouveau styles. The main entrance is decorated with the figures of Zeus, Hermes and Athena.[8]

Current operations[]

Bad Cannstatt station is a railway junction, where traffic from Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof on the Fils Valley Railway separates from the Rems and the Murr Railways. Here tracks 1 to 4 are used for regional traffic and tracks 5-8 are used for long-distance traffic. The tracks to and from Waiblingen run in each case between the tracks to and from Esslingen, the tracks are disentangled east of the station. Nowadays tracks 2 and 3 are used only by the S-Bahn, the other tracks are used by regional services.

Bad Cannstatt station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1]

Regional services[]

Line Frequency
RE R1 Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt – Esslingen – Plochingen – Göppingen – Geislingen (Steige) – Ulm 60 minutes
RE R2 Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt – Waiblingen – Schorndorf – Schwäbisch Gmünd – Aalen 60 minutes

(at peak hours: 30 minutes)

RE R3 Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt – Waiblingen – Backnang – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental – Crailsheim – Ansbach – Nuremberg 120 minutes (Mon–Fri between Stuttgart and Schwäb. Hall: 60 minutes and in peaks: 30 minutes; Sat and Sun: Stuttgart–Schwäbisch Hall requires a change in Backnang)
RE R8 Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt – Esslingen (Neckar) – Plochingen – Nürtingen – Metzingen – Reutlingen – Tübingen 60 minutes (at peak hours: 30 minutes)
RB R1 Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt – Esslingen (Neckar) – Plochingen – Göppingen – Geislingen (Steige) (– Ulm) 120 minutes

S-Bahn[]

Line Route
S 1 Kirchheim (Teck) – Wendlingen – Plochingen – Esslingen – Neckarpark – Bad Cannstatt – Hauptbahnhof – Schwabstraße – Vaihingen – Rohr – Böblingen – Herrenberg (additional services in peaks between Esslingen and Schwabstraße as well as Böblingen.)
S 2 Schorndorf – Weinstadt – Waiblingen – Bad Cannstatt – Hauptbahnhof – Schwabstraße – Vaihingen – Rohr – Flughafen/Messe – Filderstadt (additional services in peaks between Schorndorf and Vaihingen.)
S 3 Backnang – Winnenden – Waiblingen – Bad Cannstatt – Hauptbahnhof – Schwabstraße – Vaihingen – Rohr – Flughafen/Messe (Since the opening of the new Messe, late night services on weekends to Flughafen (Airport)/Messe operate from Vaihingen; additional services in peaks between Backnang and Vaihingen.)

Stadtbahn[]

Wilhelmsplatz Stadtbahn station

The station has no direct links to the Stuttgart Stadtbahn. However, it is only 200 metres from the station on Wilhelmsplatz station on the following lines:

Line Route
U 1 Fellbach Lutherkirche – Bad Cannstatt Wilhelmsplatz – Charlottenplatz – Heslach – Vaihingen
U 2 Neugereut – Bad Cannstatt Wilhelmsplatz – Charlottenplatz – Botnang
U 12 (Giebel –) Feuerbach Pfostenwäldle – Pragsattel – Bad Cannstatt (Wilhelmsplatz) – Hedelfingen
In school holidays and outside the peak only between Feuerbach and Hedelfingen.
U 15 Bad Cannstatt Wilhelmsplatz – Neckarpark (Stadium)
Only for events at Neckarpark (Mercedes-Benz Arena, Schleyer-Halle, Porsche Arena, ).

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Tarifzoneneinteilung" (PDF). Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  3. ^ Kleine Anfrage des Abg. Boris Palmer an das baden-württembergische Landesministerium für Umwelt und Verkehr, Drucksache 13/4069 Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine of 8 March 2005
  4. ^ Planfeststellungsunterlagen. Umgestaltung des Bahnknotens Stuttgart. Ausbau- und Neubaustrecke Stuttgart - Augsburg. Bereich Stuttgart - Wendlingen mit Flughafenanbindung. Abschnitt 1.5: Zuführung Feuerbach und Bad Cannstatt. Bau-km -4.0 -90.3 bis -0.4 -42.0 und -4.8 -64.4 bis -0.4 -42.0.
    Anlage 1: Erläuterungsbericht. Teil III: Beschreibung des Planfeststellungsbereiches    .
    Dokument mit Stand vom 9. Juni 2006. Planfestgestellt am 13. Oktober 2009 durch das Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, Außenstelle Karlsruhe/Stuttgart (Aktenzeichen 59160 PAP-PS21-PFA1.5) (in German). DB ProjektBau GmbH, Niederlassung Nordwest. pp. 48 f, 56.
  5. ^ Roland Feitenhansl (2003). Der Bahnhof Heilbronn – seine Empfangsgebäude von 1848, 1874 und 1958 (in German). Hövelhof: DGEG Medien. p. 102. ISBN 3-937189-01-7.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Eberhard Kitter (1973). Die Eisenbahn-Empfangsgebäude im Königreich Württemberg vor 1854 (in German). Stuttgart. pp. 153–157.
  7. ^ Feitenhansl (2003), p. 180
  8. ^ Feitenhansl (2003), p. 41

References[]

  • Julius Hoffmann (1971). Architekturführer Stuttgart und Umgebung (in German). Stuttgart. ISBN 3-87346-041-6.
  • Andreas M. Räntzsch (1987). Stuttgart und seine Eisenbahnen. Die Entwicklung des Eisenbahnwesens im Raum Stuttgart (in German). Heidenheim: Verlag Uwe Siedentop. ISBN 3-925887-03-2.
  • Andreas M. Räntzsch (2005). Die Einbeziehung Stuttgarts in das moderne Verkehrswesen durch den Bau der Eisenbahn (volume 1 and 2) (in German). Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. ISBN 3-8300-1958-0.

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