Köln-Holweide railway station
Encyclopedia
Köln-Holweide is a passenger railway station situated between the Holweide and Höhenhaus boroughs of Cologne
, Germany
. It is situated on the line from Köln-Mülheim to Bergisch Gladbach and served by the S11 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.
to open a station in Holweide. The DB agreed under the condition that a passenger access ramp would have to be provided by the club, which posed little problems to Röhrig, as he was working in the building industry. The station was therefore erected quickly, and trains soon began calling there even on regular services.
Due to the ever-growing number of commuters between Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach
, the station was extensively refurbished in 1972 and electrified in 1975. An S-Bahn
service from Köln-Chorweiler to Bergisch Gladbach
started calling at the station.
Today, the station has two side platforms with a height of 76 cm, a street-level access to each platform and stairs leading to a road underpass on the other ends of the platforms. The platform height cannot be raised to the 96 cm needed for disabled
access because of the freight traffic on the line to Bergisch Gladbach. There are 87 parking bays in the car park and 20 bicycle racks.
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is situated on the line from Köln-Mülheim to Bergisch Gladbach and served by the S11 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.
History
The station's history has strong ties to football - the local club SC Preußen Dellbrück was successfully competing for the German championship in the early 1950s. As many fans of the club were local to Holweide, they demanded a local railway stop so they could get on and off the special train services to away games more easily. This led to the then-president of SC Preußen Dellbrück, Willy Röhrig, lobbying the Deutsche BundesbahnDeutsche Bundesbahn
The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany on September 7, 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft '...
to open a station in Holweide. The DB agreed under the condition that a passenger access ramp would have to be provided by the club, which posed little problems to Röhrig, as he was working in the building industry. The station was therefore erected quickly, and trains soon began calling there even on regular services.
Due to the ever-growing number of commuters between Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach
Bergisch Gladbach
' is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis .-Geography:Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river Rhine, approx...
, the station was extensively refurbished in 1972 and electrified in 1975. An S-Bahn
S-Bahn
S-Bahn refers to an often combined city center and suburban railway system metro in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark...
service from Köln-Chorweiler to Bergisch Gladbach
Bergisch Gladbach
' is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis .-Geography:Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river Rhine, approx...
started calling at the station.
Today, the station has two side platforms with a height of 76 cm, a street-level access to each platform and stairs leading to a road underpass on the other ends of the platforms. The platform height cannot be raised to the 96 cm needed for disabled
Disability
A disability may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental or some combination of these.Many people would rather be referred to as a person with a disability instead of handicapped...
access because of the freight traffic on the line to Bergisch Gladbach. There are 87 parking bays in the car park and 20 bicycle racks.