Sangerhausen station

Sangerhausen station is a station in the town of Sangerhausen in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It was opened for passenger operations in 1866. It became a junction station in 1881 with the opening of the Sangerhausen–Erfurt railway. A new station building was built after the Second World War, which is now heritage-listed. In the past, it was served by long-distance traffic. Extensive modernisation of the platforms and buildings have taken place since 2014.

Sangerhausen
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Platforms (2017)
Location	Bahnhofstr. 33a, Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt Germany
Coordinates	51°28′48″N 11°17′40″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Halle–Hann. Münden km 59.2 Sangerhausen–Erfurt km 0.0
Platforms	2 island platforms 1 side platform
Tracks	7
Train operators	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
Other information
Station code	5505
DS100 code	USG[1]
IBNR	8010312
Category	4[2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	10 June 1866
Services
Preceding station   Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland   Following station Berga-Kelbra toward Leinefelde RE 8 via Sangerhausen Wolferode toward Halle (Saale) Hbf Wallhausen (Helme) toward Kassel Hbf RE 9 via Lutherstadt Eisleben - Nordhausen - Leinefelde Blankenheim toward Halle (Saale) Hbf Oberröblingen toward Erfurt Hbf RE 10 via Sangerhausen Klostermansfeld toward Magdeburg Hbf Artern toward Erfurt Hbf RB 59 Terminus Wallhausen (Helme) toward Nordhausen RB 75 via Teutschenthal Blankenheim toward Halle (Saale) Hbf
Location
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Location

The station is located in the north of the town and almost a kilometre from the town centre. It is located at line kilometre 59.2 of the Halle–Hann. Münden railway and is the starting point of the line to Erfurt. It faces Lengefelder Straße and Kaltenborner Weg. The next station towards Halle is the halt (Haltepunkt) of Riestedt, towards Hann. Münden, it is Wallhausen station and on the line towards Erfurt, the first stop is at Oberröblingen station about five kilometres away.

History

Old entrance building (1910)

Construction of the station in Sangerhausen began in 1865. The railway between Halle and Hann. Münden was opened for passenger operations on 10 July 1866.[3][4] The first entrance building was built in the same year. Sangerhausen became a junction station in 1881 when the line to Erfurt was added. An ammunition train exploded in the station in 1944 and it was destroyed. Today's entrance building was built in 1963.

Infrastructure

Platforms and tracks

Entrance building (2014)

In 1979, there were three platforms in Sangerhäusen station. A total of 17 tracks were available. Their structural length was between 50 and 855 metres. In addition, five connecting tracks ran from the station to local factories. The shortest was 190 metres long and the longest was 149 metres.

Extensive modernisation work was started in September 2014. The platform, the passenger subway and the platform were renewed by 2016 for €5.5 million[5] and, in addition, lifts were installed.

Entrance building

The present entrance building, which is located south of the railway tracks, was built in 1963. It was the first station to be built[4] in the GDR and is protected as a monument. The painter and graphic designer, Wilhelm Schmied created a particularly striking wall mosaic in the station's entrance hall. It shows the Mansfeld Land with its agriculture and mining. The round kiosk on the forecourt was built in 1957.

Round kiosk built in 1957 (2015)

In 2009, the town of Sangerhausen acquired the station for €405,000 from Deutsche Bahn.[4]

The refurbished entrance building is scheduled to open in October 2016.[6] €6 million has been earmarked for this. Subsequently, it will contain a service point, tourist information, WCs and the municipal library.[5]

Other facilities

Two loading roads led to the tracks. In addition, there was a freight-handling facility with six parallel tracks, as well as a head and a side ramp each of which had a carrying capacity of 60 tonnes. There were eleven water cranes available for steam locomotives that could pump two cubic metres of water per minute.

Repair shop and washing facility

The groundbreaking ceremony was held on 2 June 2014 for the construction of a repair shop and a washing facility for the Abellio trains. It was built on the site of the former freight yard south of the railway tracks in the eastern part of the station. On 5 June 2015, its overhead wires were energised.[7] Abellio took over the operation on the line to Erfurt in December 2015. Sangerhausen was chosen for its good location in the Saale-Thuringia-South Harz network.[8][9]

Locomotive depot

The former locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) of Sangerhausen was located northwest of the station. There were two locomotive sheds with turntables. Locomotive shed 1 was built in 1899 with a turntable with a diameter of 20 metres. It was built out of yellow bricks. Locomotive shed 2 was built in 1923 with a diameter of 23 metres.

Until 1945, the depot was supervised by the Reichsbahn railway division (Reichsbahndirektion) of Kassel. From 3 January 1947 to 15 January 1947, it was supervised by the railway division of Halle. After that it belonged to the railway division of Erfurt.

In the 1990s, the Sangershausen Locomotive depot was closed. The rolling stock maintenance was reorganised and merged into fewer locations. The maintenance of trains is now carried out for the most part in Magdeburg and Halle.

The building is now unused. Its sale was considered in 2011/12.

Connections

Long distance

Durchgangszug (express trains) stopped in Sangerhausen until 1992.

In 1993/94, the station was served by InterRegio trains. These ran between Frankfurt (Main) and Halle as well as between Konstanz and Dessau.

From 2010 onwards, a pair of IC trains ran between Leipzig and Frankfurt (Main) on Sundays. This was part of line 50 and was run as a relief train. This train was removed from the timetable in December 2014. Thus Sangerhausen lost its long-distance traffic.[10]

Regional services

Line	Route	Interval (min)	Operator
RE 9	Bitterfeld – Halle (Saale) – Lutherstadt Eisleben – Sangerhausen – Nordhausen – Eichenberg – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe	120	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
RE 10	Magdeburg – Staßfurt – Hettstedt – Sangerhausen – Artern – Sömmerda – Erfurt	120	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
RE 8	(Dessau –) Bitterfeld – Halle (Saale) – Lutherstadt Eisleben – Sangerhausen – Nordhausen – Leinefelde	120	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
RB 59	Sangerhausen – Artern – Sömmerda – Erfurt	120	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
RB 75	Halle (Saale) – Lutherstadt Eisleben (– Sangerhausen – Berga-Kelbra – Nordhausen)	Individual services	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland

In the two-hour cycle the state bus route 460 operated by Verkehrsgesellschaft Südharz runs from the bus station to Hettstedt via Wippra. The line was established after the restructuring of the Wipperliese service on the Klostermansfeld–Wippra railway. Also some services of state bus route 460 run to Stolberg (Harz) via Berga and Rottleberode.

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
3. "Sangerhausen" (in German). petermischur.de. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
4. "Geschichte Neubau in DDR". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). 5 June 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
5. "Sangerhausen" (in German). Bahnhofsprogramm Sachsen-Anhalt. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
6. "Bahnhof Sangerhausen: Der Umbau läuft planmäßig". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). 31 January 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
7. "Fahrleitungen in Sangerhäuser Abellio-Werkstatt unter Strom gesetzt—Ab sofort stehen die Anlagen unter 15.000-Volt-Hochspannung" (in German). Stadt Sangerhausen. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
8. "Baustart für Servicezentrum des Saale-Thüringen-Südharz Netzes" (Press release) (in German). Abellio. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
9. "Bald rollen silberne Abellio-Züge durch Artern". Thüringer Allgemeine (in German). 3 December 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
10. "Datenbank Fernverkehr" (in German). Retrieved 5 June 2016.

External links

• "Bahnhöfe in der Uckermark" (in German). city-map.de. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
• "Dampfzüge in der Uckermark" (in German). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
• "Track plan for Schwedt station" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 4 June 2017.