Köln Hansaring station

Köln Hansaring
Deutsche Bahn Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Stadtbahn
Junction station
Köln Hansaring S-Bahn station
General information
LocationHansaring 80, Innenstadt, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates50°56′57″N 6°57′09″E / 50.9491°N 6.9526°E / 50.9491; 6.9526
Line(s)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code3331
DS100 codeKKHR, KKHRW[1]
IBNR8003392
Category4[2]
Fare zoneVRS: 2100[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1990 [4]
Services
Preceding station DB Regio NRW Following station
Terminus RB 25 Köln Hbf
towards Lüdenscheid
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Köln-Nippes
Terminus
S6 Köln Hbf
towards Essen Hbf
Köln-Nippes S11
Köln Hbf
Köln-Ehrenfeld
towards Horrem
S12 Köln Hbf
towards Au (Sieg)
Köln-Ehrenfeld
towards Düren
S13 Köln Hbf
towards Troisdorf
S19 Köln Hbf
towards Au (Sieg)
Preceding station Cologne Stadtbahn Following station
Ebertplatz
towards Merkenich
Line 12 Christophstraße/​Mediapark
Ebertplatz Line 15 Christophstraße/​Mediapark
towards Ubierring
Location
Köln Hansaring is located in North Rhine-Westphalia
Köln Hansaring
Köln Hansaring
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Köln Hansaring railway station is situated in the city of Cologne in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia,[5] about one kilometre (0.62 mi) northwest of Köln Hauptbahnhof.

Northern access to the Stadtbahn station under the railway bridge
Köln-Hansaring station
Stadtbahn platforms

A few hundred metres west of the station is the Betriebsbahnhof Köln Hansaring Wendeanlage (Köln Hansaring operations station reversing facility). At the station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 11 branches off towards Neuss Hauptbahnhof via Köln-Nippes station and Köln-Chorweiler on the Lower Left Rhine Railway from S-Bahn line S 12, which runs parallel to the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway to Düren via Köln-Ehrenfeld and Köln-Weiden West station.

The station (which is classified as a Haltepunkt, that is a "halt", which is defined as having no set of points) and the operating station together form the western end of the trunk line of the Cologne S-Bahn (which is operated as part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[2] The S-Bahn trains stop here on an island platform, which has a length of 145 metres (475 ft 9 in).

A large part of the platform is located on a bridge over a street called Hansaring. There is a covered connection between the Hansaring S-Bahn station and the Hansaring station of the Cologne Stadtbahn in the median strip of the Hansaring.

History

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Köln Hansaring station has a long rail history. As early as 1859, the new connection between the West Rhine Railway (Linke Rheinstrecke) and Cologne Central Station crossed the medieval city walls at this point. In 1881 the city walls were demolished and replaced by a wide ring road, which was called the Hansaring (Hansa Ring) in reference to Cologne's past as a Hanseatic city. With the construction of the new main station, the railway tracks were raised by six metres from 1889. There was already at that time a horse tramway on the Hansaring, which was replaced by an electric tramway in 1903.

In the early 1970s, the Hansaring Stadtbahn tunnel was built and an underground station was opened to traffic at a shallow depth on 25 August 1974. New tracks were built for the S-Bahn on the north side of the existing railway line. The S-Bahn station was connected to the Stadtbahn station and the Stadtbahn station was rebuilt with a high platform for two-thirds of its length. The station was inaugurated on 27 May 1990.[4] At Easter 2003, half of the high platform was reduced in height so that it could be used by coupled low-floor vehicles on the Stadtbahn ring route.

Rail services

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Köln Hansaring station is served by the following regional services:[6]

Line Route Frequency
S6 Köln-NippesKöln HansaringKöln HauptbahnhofLeverkusenLangenfeldDüsseldorf HauptbahnhofEssen 20 min
S11 Duesseldorf – Neuss HauptbahnhofDormagenKöln-ChorweilerKöln-NippesCologne HansaringKöln HauptbahnhofBergisch Gladbach 20 min
S12 (Horrem –) Cologne-EhrenfeldKöln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Porz (Rhein)TroisdorfSiegburg/BonnHennefAu (Sieg) 20 min
S13 (Düren —) Sindorf — Horrem – Köln-Ehrenfeld – Köln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf 20/40 min
S19 Düren — Sindorf — Horrem – Köln-Ehrenfeld – Köln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf – Siegburg/Bonn – Hennef – Au (Sieg) 60 min
RB 25 Köln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Roesrath - Honrath - Overath - Engelskirchen - Gummersbach – Marienheide - Meinerzhagen 30 min (every 30 min to Overath)

(in the rush hour every 30 min to Engelskirchen)

(always every 60 min to Meinerzhagen)

Stadtbahn trains

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The station is served by the following Stadtbahn services:[6]

Line Route Frequency
12 Merkenich – Niehl – Nippes – EbertplatzHansaringFriesenplatz – Barbarossaplatz – Zollstock 10 min
15 Chorweiler – Longerich – Nippes – Ebertplatz – Hansaring – Friesenplatz – Barbarossaplatz – Ubierring 10 min1

1In the peak hour every 5 minutes between Longerich and Ubierring

References

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  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 202. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Köln Hansaring operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Track plan of Köln Hansaring" (PDF-file; 186 kB) (in German). DB Netz. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Köln Hansaring station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
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