Rottweil station

Rottweil station is on the Plochingen–Immendingen railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is the start of the Rottweil–Villingen railway. It lies on the northeastern edge of Rottweil at a height of 557 metres above sea level.

Rottweil
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationBahnhofstr. 1, Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates48°9′53″N 8°38′30″E
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code5405[1]
DS100 codeTR[2]
IBNR8000322
Category3[1]
Fare zone
  • VVR: 20[3]
  • naldo: 620 (VVR transitional tariff)[4]
  • VSB: 20 (VVR transitional tariff)[5]
  • TUTicket: 20 (VVR transitional tariff)[6]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened23 July 1868
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Tuttlingen
towards Zürich HB
IC 87 Horb
Oberndorf (Neckar)
towards Zürich HB
Spaichingen
Preceding station DB Regio Baden-Württemberg Following station
Tuttlingen RE 4 Horb
Terminus RE 14a Sulz (Neckar)
Preceding station SWEG Following station
Deißlingen Mitte
towards Bräunlingen
RB 42 Terminus
Aldingen (b Spaichingen)
towards Blumberg-Zollhaus
RB 43
Location
Rottweil is located in Baden-Württemberg
Rottweil
Rottweil
Location in Baden-Württemberg
Rottweil is located in Germany
Rottweil
Rottweil
Location in Germany
Rottweil is located in Europe
Rottweil
Rottweil
Location in Europe

History

Rottweil station in 1900

Construction began in 1865. During the work, the remains of about 2,000 Russian soldiers were found. They had died about 50 years earlier in an epidemic. Their final resting place was in a mass grave on the grounds of the station. The station was opened on 23 July 1868.[7]

Originally the station was 685 metres long and up to 162 metres wide. The complex included an administration building, a freight shed, two locomotive sheds and a repair shop.[8]

On 11 August 1972, a freight train with 26 wagons derailed. Among other things, six tankers with caustic soda overturned, releasing 30,000 litres of caustic soda, but volunteer fire fighters prevented an oxyhydrogen explosion. No one was injured, and the damage amounted to about 750,000 Deutsche Mark.[9]

Significance

Rottweil station is at the junction of Rottweil–Villingen railway and the Gäu Railway. Regionalbahn and Regional-Express operate on the latter, with Intercity trains stopping every two hours in Rottweil. They were in the past supplemented by Intercity-Express and Cisalpino trains (the latter on the StuttgartMilan route). Parts of both lines form part of the Ringzug network that is operated by the Hohenzollern Landesbahn. Until 1971 Rottweil was also the terminus of the Balingen–Rottweil railway. In addition, the station is an important stop for urban and regional bus services.

Rail services

The Stuttgart–Rottweil–Singen line IC 87 is served by Intercity trains hourly. Part of the route can be used with regional tickets. Every second train runs to/from Zürich.

Cisalpino in Rottweil station, 2003
Rottweil station 2018 and ThyssenKrupp Test Tower in the background
Line Route Frequency
IC 87 /
RE 87
Stuttgart – BöblingenHerrenbergEutingen im GäuHorbRottweilTuttlingenSingen (– Konstanz) 60 min
IRE 4a Stuttgart – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Horb Rottweil – Tuttlingen – Singen 1 train pair
RE 4 Stuttgart – Böblingen (– Herrenberg ) – Horb Rottweil  – Tuttlingen – Radolfzell – Konstanz 2 train pairs
RE 14a Stuttgart – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Eutingen – Horb Rottweil 60 min
RB 42 Rottweil Trossingen Villingen Donaueschingen Bräunlingen 60 min
RB 43 Rottweil – Tuttlingen Immendingen (– Blumberg-Zollhaus) 60 min

Platforms

Rottweil has 5 platform tracks for passengers as well as several other tracks for freight. The platform tracks can be reached via a lift. On the platforms are covered shelters. The entrance building has a waiting room with lockers, a separate non-smoking waiting room and a ticket counter.

Others uses

The station building houses a newspaper kiosk and a café. In addition, there is a model railway in the 3rd floor of the building. It is operated by the Rottweiler Eisenbahn- und Modellbaufreunden (“Rottweil railway and model-building friends”) and is open to visitors.

Notes

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. "VVR-Liniennetz" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rottweil. July 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  4. "naldo-Tarifwabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  5. "VVR-Liniennetz" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rottweil. July 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  6. "Ticketberater - immer den richtigen Tarif!". Verkehrsverbund Tuttlingen. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  7. "Der Rottweiler Bahnhof" (in German). Rottweiler Bilder. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  8. Georg von Morlok (1890). Die Königlich Württembergischen Staatseisenbahnen : Rückschau auf deren Erbauung während der Jahre 1835 - 1889 unter Berücksichtigung ihrer geschichtlichen, technischen und finanziellen Momente und Ergebnisse (in German). p. 137.
  9. "Der Bahnhof im August 1972" (in German). Rottweiler Bilder. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
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