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Siegen Hauptbahnhof
Siegen Hauptbahnhof is the main station of the town of Siegen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in close to the modern centre of Siegen, which includes the bus station and the Sieg Carré and City Galerie shopping centres.
The station was opened on 10 January 1861 at the same time as the branch line from Siegen to Betzdorf, which is now part of the Sieg Railway. The south-western part of the site, the railway depot in the preserved buildings and the tracks that are numbered from 50 were the terminus of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME), which was responsible for the construction of the line, but was taken over by the Prussian state in 1880. The freight yard opposite the depot was built over by the ECE Group with the City-Galerie at the end of the 1990s.
The section from Altena to Siegen of the Ruhr–Sieg railway was opened in the same year, on 6 August 1861, so the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft used the north-eastern part of the station with the tracks now numbered from number 1 as its terminus. After being nationalised in 1882, its facilities for the maintenance of rolling stock became a repair shop, which were later demolished and replaced by highway B54, locally called Hüttentalstraße. In this context, no separate track was provided to the former main post office, since letter centre 57 had been relocated to the autobahn.
The founding of the Eisern-Siegener Eisenbahn (now part of the "Siegen-Wittgenstein district railway") and the connection of its central Eintracht station to the Siegen freight yard was a state initiative, which participated from the outset, as a result of which track 52 was used as a transfer track without an overhead line until it was renovated around 2020.
It was not until 1 December 1915 that the Dill Railway was extended, giving a direct rail connection to Haiger (and thus Frankfurt), because its construction had previously been considered too difficult, not militarily urgent and could not be financed. The newly added parts of the triangular junction for this are the two tunnels under Siegener Giersberg with the end points of Siegen-Weidenau and Siegen Ost, of which only the former has two tracks, because the Cologne–Giessen connection via the Betzdorf–Haiger railway had already been built. The connection to the single-track Giersberg tunnel, involved the construction of the railway embankment for the Ruhr–Sieg railway, so that both lines would pass over bridges over both Hagener Straße and Sieghütter Hauptweg, where the level crossing with the Siegener Kreisbahn tramway was already problematic.
Between 1942 and 1944, during the Nazi period, people, most of whom were Jewish, were deported from Siegen station to concentration camps. A commemorative plaque on platform 4 is a reminder of this on the initiative of the Aktiven Museums Südwestfalen.
As a railway junction in a centre of iron production, steel production, tool manufacturing and mechanical engineering, the Siegen junction and railway infrastructure was an important strategic target of the Allied bombing raids, especially on 16 December 1944 and until March 1945, during which 90 percent of the city, many tracks, but not the entrance buildings, were destroyed. This became a central argument for their preservation.
With the division of Germany in 1945, only the traffic flows in the north-south direction continued to develop, which led to the Hagen–Giessen axis, including Siegen station, being electrified in 1965, but the Sieg Railway did not follow until 1980 and the Betzdorf–Haiger railway was no longer considered important and in fact one track was dismantled. In 1968 and 1980, respectively, the A45 and the A4 motorways created much faster long-distance connections, and the railways also upgraded their lines in such a way that even before the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line was built, a journey from the Ruhr area to Frankfurt via Cologne and Mainz was just as fast as via Weidenau. In order to avoid the time-consuming reversal at Siegen station required for trains between Giessen and the Ruhr, Weidenau became the stop in Siegen for express trains and later InterRegio service 22.
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Siegen Hauptbahnhof
Siegen Hauptbahnhof is the main station of the town of Siegen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in close to the modern centre of Siegen, which includes the bus station and the Sieg Carré and City Galerie shopping centres.
The station was opened on 10 January 1861 at the same time as the branch line from Siegen to Betzdorf, which is now part of the Sieg Railway. The south-western part of the site, the railway depot in the preserved buildings and the tracks that are numbered from 50 were the terminus of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME), which was responsible for the construction of the line, but was taken over by the Prussian state in 1880. The freight yard opposite the depot was built over by the ECE Group with the City-Galerie at the end of the 1990s.
The section from Altena to Siegen of the Ruhr–Sieg railway was opened in the same year, on 6 August 1861, so the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft used the north-eastern part of the station with the tracks now numbered from number 1 as its terminus. After being nationalised in 1882, its facilities for the maintenance of rolling stock became a repair shop, which were later demolished and replaced by highway B54, locally called Hüttentalstraße. In this context, no separate track was provided to the former main post office, since letter centre 57 had been relocated to the autobahn.
The founding of the Eisern-Siegener Eisenbahn (now part of the "Siegen-Wittgenstein district railway") and the connection of its central Eintracht station to the Siegen freight yard was a state initiative, which participated from the outset, as a result of which track 52 was used as a transfer track without an overhead line until it was renovated around 2020.
It was not until 1 December 1915 that the Dill Railway was extended, giving a direct rail connection to Haiger (and thus Frankfurt), because its construction had previously been considered too difficult, not militarily urgent and could not be financed. The newly added parts of the triangular junction for this are the two tunnels under Siegener Giersberg with the end points of Siegen-Weidenau and Siegen Ost, of which only the former has two tracks, because the Cologne–Giessen connection via the Betzdorf–Haiger railway had already been built. The connection to the single-track Giersberg tunnel, involved the construction of the railway embankment for the Ruhr–Sieg railway, so that both lines would pass over bridges over both Hagener Straße and Sieghütter Hauptweg, where the level crossing with the Siegener Kreisbahn tramway was already problematic.
Between 1942 and 1944, during the Nazi period, people, most of whom were Jewish, were deported from Siegen station to concentration camps. A commemorative plaque on platform 4 is a reminder of this on the initiative of the Aktiven Museums Südwestfalen.
As a railway junction in a centre of iron production, steel production, tool manufacturing and mechanical engineering, the Siegen junction and railway infrastructure was an important strategic target of the Allied bombing raids, especially on 16 December 1944 and until March 1945, during which 90 percent of the city, many tracks, but not the entrance buildings, were destroyed. This became a central argument for their preservation.
With the division of Germany in 1945, only the traffic flows in the north-south direction continued to develop, which led to the Hagen–Giessen axis, including Siegen station, being electrified in 1965, but the Sieg Railway did not follow until 1980 and the Betzdorf–Haiger railway was no longer considered important and in fact one track was dismantled. In 1968 and 1980, respectively, the A45 and the A4 motorways created much faster long-distance connections, and the railways also upgraded their lines in such a way that even before the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line was built, a journey from the Ruhr area to Frankfurt via Cologne and Mainz was just as fast as via Weidenau. In order to avoid the time-consuming reversal at Siegen station required for trains between Giessen and the Ruhr, Weidenau became the stop in Siegen for express trains and later InterRegio service 22.