Lauda station
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Lauda station
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 23, Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°33′55″N 9°42′34″E / 49.565385°N 9.709512°ECoordinates: 49°33′55″N 9°42′34″E / 49.565385°N 9.709512°E |
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| Platforms | 4 |
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| Station code | n/a |
| DS100 code | TL |
| IBNR | 8000221 |
| Category | 4 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 November 1866 |
Lauda station is a junction station in the town of Lauda-Königshofen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, where the northern section of the Tauber Valley Railway branches from the Franconia Railway. Lauda station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.
Lauda station is located in the town of Lauda-Königshofen, on the eastern edge of Lauda. To its east it is bordered by an industrial area and Tauberstraße (street), which runs parallel with the Tauber river. Bahnhofstrasse runs to the west of the station and Inselstraße runs through a tunnel under the tracks north of railway property.
Another smaller station is located in the Königshofen district, where the southern part of the Tauber Valley Railway joins the Franconia Railway.
The initial plans for the Odenwald Railway (Odenwaldbahn) from Heidelberg to Wurzburg envisaged no station at its present location, it was originally conceived during the planning of the Tauber Valley Railway. On 1 November 1866, the station, which would serve as a point of transfer between the two lines, opened with the Odenwald Railway. The station was initially completed on 1 March 1866 with a temporary entrance building. The current building was opened in 1872. The first section of the Tauber Valley Railway was opened to Hochhausen on 10 October 1867, which made Lauda a railway junction.
In 1906, an office building was built next to the entrance building, which was used after 1929 by Ausbesserungswerk Lauda (rail vehicle repair shop).
The station was established because of its convenient location at a rail junction. In 1938, about 1000 people worked on the railway in Lauda, out of a population of about 3000. The population of the town had doubled in 80 years. The district to the west of the station, which had become known as Bahnhofsstadt ("station town"), had become the second centre of the town.
As a result of its function as a railway junction, Lauda and its surroundings were repeatedly bombed in Allied air raids. A first attack by a single bomber in April 1942 was not without consequences. From October 1944 to March 1945 there were four attacks by bombers. On 15 October 1944, a moving express train was shot at, the Tauber bridge suffered minor damage and 6 to 8 locomotives were disabled by gunshots. The signal and telephone lines suffered great damage. On 9 November 1944, the Allies carried out the most comprehensive attack with twelve fighter-bombers. 30 bombs dropped all missed their targets, but a subsequent attack with on-board weapons damaged the water towers, engine shed, signal boxes and locomotives. 13 locomotives were made unusable, but nobody was hurt. Another attack on 30 November of that year hit two moving passenger trains, causing 15 fatalities. Afterwards the station was attacked with gun fire. The last attack took place on the morning of 24 March 1945: ten bombers attacked the southern part of the station. Here a military train with Russian prisoners of war was hit hard by cluster bombs and strafing. 43 prisoners were killed and there were many injuries. The track and signaling systems at the southern end of the station were severely damaged and more locomotives were made unusable. The station only returned to tentative operations in the evening of the same day.
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