Leutkirch station

Leutkirch station
Through station
Location Leutkirch im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates 47°49′35″N 10°00′59″E / 47.8263912°N 10.0164412°ECoordinates: 47°49′35″N 10°00′59″E / 47.8263912°N 10.0164412°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code n/a
DS100 codeTLK[1]
Category5 [2]
History
Opened 1 September 1872

Leutkirch station is the station of the town of Leutkirch im Allgäu in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station and has two platform tracks. The station is located on the network of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund (Lake Constance-Upper Swabia Transport Association, bodo) and belongs to fare zone 68. The address of the station is Bahnhof 1.

The station was opened on 1 September 1872 as the terminus of the Württemberg Allgäu Railway. On 14 August 1874, with the opening of the line to Isny, it became a through station. In preparation for the opening of the line to Memmingen on 2 October 1889 when Leutkirch became a railway junction, the current station building was built between the diverging tracks.

History

Early 20th-century painting focussed on the station

The station was opened on 1 September 1872 as a terminus with the opening of the Kißlegg to Leutkirch section of the Württemberg Allgäu Railway. The temporary station building was opened with a floor area of 27 × 10 metres. The wooden, one-storey building had rooms for the post office, railway service rooms and two waiting rooms.

On 14 August 1874, it became a through station with the opening of line to Isny. In preparation for the opening of the line to Memmingen on 2 October 1889 when Leutkirch became a railway junction, the current station building was built as a “wedge station” (German: Keilbahnhof) between the diverging tracks.

Leutkirch became a through station again on 31 December 2001 when the line to Isny was closed. The station building is listed as a historical monument and was restored between 2011 and 2012. The costs involved were financed by the town and a cooperative of 600 citizens who provided € 1 million. The town station was declared as the "Monument of the Month” in April 2012 by the Memorial Foundation of Baden-Württemberg.[3]

Operations

Long distance services

On 27 May 1979, the first express train was introduced on the Munich–Memmingen–Lindau route. A pair of trains (numbered 366/367) ran from Munich via Lindau and Zurich Airport to Milan, stopping in Wangen and Leutkirch. The express train was formed of a class 218 locomotive hauling modern carriages, but it was withdrawn in May 1982.[4] Since the mid-1980s, a EuroCity service has operated on line 88 on the Munich–Zürich route through the station without stopping; they only stop between Buchloe and Lindau in Memmingen.

Regional services

Regionalbahn service to Memmingen on platform 1

Leutkirch is served today by about 30 trains a day operated by DB Regio. Every two hours regional trains from Memmingen to Aulendorf stop in Leutkirch. The route is operated with Class 650 railcars. During peak hours trains there are additional services from Kißlegg to Leutkirch, sometimes starting in Wangen or Aichstetten. Thus between Leutkirch and Kißlegg there is an hourly service during the peak. Additionally Leutkirch is served each day by a pair of Regional-Express trains operating on the Memmingen–Lindau route.

Services in 2012 timetable
Train class Route Frequency
RE Memmingen – Leutkirch – Kißlegg – Hergatz – Lindau A single train pair
RB (Tübingen – Sigmaringen –) Aulendorf – Kißlegg – Leutkirch – Memmingen – Illertissen – Neu-Ulm – Ulm Every 2 hours
RB (Wangen –) Kißlegg – Leutkirch (– Aichstetten) Individual services

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 edition ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Bürgerbahnhof Leutkirch ist das "Denkmal des Monats April"" (in German). all-in.de. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Michael Mayer (1998). 125 Jahre Bahnhof Leutkirch (in German). p. 271.

References

External links

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