Gottenheim station

Gottenheim station is a station in Gottenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the most important intermediate station on the Breisach Railway (Breisacher Bahn), which connects Freiburg and Breisach. It is also the terminus of the Kaiserstuhl Railway (Kaiserstuhlbahn), which runs to Bahlingen and Riegel Ort.

Gottenheim
Bf
LocationBahnhofstr. 8, Gottenheim, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates48°03′06″N 7°43′41″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Tracks3
Other information
Station code2214[1]
DS100 codeRGH[2]
IBNR8002334
Category5[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened14 September 1871
Location
Breisach
Location in Baden-Württemberg
Breisach
Location in Germany
Breisach
Location in Europe

History

Gottenheim station was opened along with the Freiburg–Breisach line in September 1871. This line was envisaged to form part of a planned European east–west route.[3] The line was extended to the Alsatian town of Colmar with the construction of railway bridge over the Rhine in 1878.[4]

The private Kaiserstuhl Railway was opened from Breisach to Gottenheim via Endingen and Riegel on 15 December 1894. This made Gottenheim a junction station. A year later (7 September 1895) the line was completed with the opening of the Endingen–Breisach section. It was built by a Baden railway consortium consisting of a bank for trade and industry, the Rheinische Creditbank, and Bankhaus W. H. Ladenburg & Söhne, which were managed by the railway entrepreneur Herrmann Bachstein, who merged the railway into the South German Railway Company (Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, SEG) on 8 December 1897 together with the Breg Valley Railway (Bregtalbahn) and the Zell im Wiesental–Todtnau railway (Zell-Todtnauer-Eisenbahn) with effect from 1 April 1897.

The Freiburg–Colmar railway operated from Breisach over the Rhine to Colmar in France until the destruction of the Breisach railway bridge in 1945.

In the 1970s, Deutsche Bundesbahn considered closing the line to Breisach due to its alleged unprofitability, but this did not happen.

A new traffic concept was developed for the Freiburg–Breisach railway and the eastern Kaiserstuhl Railway under the project name Breisgau-S-Bahn 2005. Both lines were upgraded, the stations were modernised and significantly more services were operated. The Breisgau-S-Bahn took over operations from Deutsche Bahn in 1997. Since May 2000, SWEG trains have been running on the eastern Kaiserstuhl Railway between Gottenheim and Bahlingen every half hour, continuing to Endingen every hour.

Entrance building

In 2007, the community of Gottenheim bought the Deutsche Bahn entrance building.[5] It was resold in 2010 to a Gottenheim investor, who extensively renovated the building and largely retained the historical features from the early days of the station. A restaurant called Gerome’s Canadian Coffee Lounge was installed on the ground floor.[6]

Track layout

Gottenheim station has three platform tracks on the home platform (next to the station building) and an island platform. Access to tracks 2 and 3 on the island platform has been via an underpass since December 2019. The barrier-protected crossover between tracks 1 and 2 was removed as part of the 2019 renovation. Track 1 generally serves Breisgau-S-Bahn (BSB) trains to Breisach, track 2 the BSB trains to Freiburg and track 3 the SWEG trains to Bahlingen, Riegel and Endingen.

Rail services

Thee Breisgau-S-Bahn, the operator of regional rail services in the Freiburg area, connects Gottenheim every half hour with Freiburg and Breisach over the Freiburg–Colmar railway and with some Kaiserstuhl communities on the Kaiserstuhl Railway (running as far as Bahlingen every half hour).

Operator Route Frequency Platform
BSB Freiburg (Breisgau) – Gottenheim – Breisach 30 minutes 1 (towards Breisach)
2 (towards Freiburg)
SWEG Gottenheim – Bötzingen – Eichstetten – Bahlingen – Riegel Ort – Endingen 30 minutes (Gottenheim–Bahlingen)
60 minutes (Bahlingen–Endingen)		 3

References

Footnotes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Railway Atlas 2017, p. 205.
  3. "Geschichte des Eisenbahnbaus um Gottenheim" (in German). Municipality of Gottenheim. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  4. "Lokales". Freiburger Zeitung (in German). 8 January 1878. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  5. "Mit dem eigenen Dampfzug durch den Garten zum Grillplatz" (PDF). Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). 10 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  6. "Gerome's Canadian Coffee Lounge" (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2020.

Sources
  • Greß, Gerhard (1997). Verkehrsknoten Freiburg und seine Umgebung in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren (in German). Freiburg: EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-263-8.
  • Mihailescu, Peter-Michael; Michalke, Matthias (1985). Vergessene Bahnen in Baden-Württemberg (in German). Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag. pp. 96–98. ISBN 3-8062-0413-6.
  • Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland [German railway atlas]. Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
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