Marxgrün station
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Location | Naila, Bavaria Germany | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 50°21′18.49″N 11°41′11.87″E / 50.3551361°N 11.6866306°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||
Operated by | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||
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Station code | 3994 | ||||||||||
DS100 code | NMX[1] | ||||||||||
IBNR | 8003903 | ||||||||||
Category | 7[2] | ||||||||||
Website | BEG station fact file | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1887 | ||||||||||
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The old Marxgrün station was located on the
since 1978.History
On 1 June 1887 this Lokalbahn (a type of Bavarian branch line) route in the eastern part of the Franconian Forest was opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen or K.Bay.Sts.B.). Railway services started from the new Hof Hauptbahnhof, where there were connexions to Munich, Nuremberg, Würzburg, Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. This standard gauge branch line reaches its terminus near the village of Marxgrün running via Selbitz and Naila.
The line from Hof to Marxgrün was extended in 1898 by the K.Bay.Sts.B. to the Bavarian state spa town of Steben. The engine shed and other railway facilities typical of terminal stations remained, however, in Marxgrün.
In 1901, a link was established to
The K.Bay.Sts.B. had plans in 1920 for another branch line from Marxgrün to Geroldsgrün. The existing railway facilities in Marxgrün, with its locomotive shed and workshop, would have been able to be used to support this route. The line was never built however.
On the foundation of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1924, Marxgrün station lost its role as a transfer station between Bavarian and Prussian state railways. Nevertheless, the boundary between the Regensburg railway division (Rbd) of the Bavarian Group Administration and the Thuringian division of Erfurt continued to be located on the approach to Marxgrün station.
In the
This high point of the line's development was quickly followed by its low point. After the war the
Buildings
Within the former station yard the old station building still exists. It has become a holiday residence for holidaymakers. Attached to the station building is a wooden cabin in which the station's signal equipment added, as mentioned above, during the Second World War, was housed.
Next to the station building in the direction of Bad Steben and Höllental is a toilet block typical of the type found on Bavarian branch lines. Behind the station building are two former railwaymen's accommodation blocks. They are used today as rented accommodation.
On side of the station opposite the station building is the station's two-road locomotive shed with its attached workshop. The shed was the heart of locomotive operations in Marxgrün. The building, which has not been used for a long time, is increasingly dilapidated and is up for sale. At the end of the 20th century the locomotive for the planned museum railway was stored. When it was put up for sale, the shed had to be cleared and the locomotive was transferred to the shed at Bahnbetriebswerk Adorf.[3]
Features
- In Marxgrün station Horwagen marble was loaded onto the railway. In several publications this marble from Horwagen was therefore also described as Marxgrün marble. A stationary crane in the station was used to load the marble.
- Marxgrün is the railhead for the Bobengrün Whitsun Conference, an annual Christian, open-air gathering that attracts around 10,000 people.
- In autumn 1976 Marxgrün station was the location of the external scenes for the film The Stationmaster's Wife, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.[4] A steam locomotive stood by in Marxgrün for the filming.
See also
Sources
- Andreas Kuhfahl, Wolfram Alteneder: Die Nebenbahnen der BD Nürnberg. Verlag C. Kersting, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-925250-02-6
- Siegfried Bufe: Eisenbahn in Oberfranken. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, München 1982, ISBN 3-922138-13-6
- Ralf Roman Rossberg: Grenze über deutschen Schienen. Eisenbahn-Kurier Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-88255-828-8
- Robert Zintl: Bayerische Nebenbahnen. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-531-6
- Deutsche Reichsbahn, Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Die deutschen Eisenbahnen in ihrer Entwicklung 1835-1935. Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1935 / Nachdruck mit Vorwort von Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Dumjahn Verlag, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4
References
- ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "DREHSCHEIBE-Online".
- ^ "www.filmportal.de". Archived from the original on 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2009-03-20.