page_title: Friedrichshafen Stadt station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Friedrichshafen Stadt station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Germany - Baden-Württemberg - Bodenseekreis - Friedrichshafen: central station, information by 'Geschichtspfad Friedrichshafen' Deutsch: Deutschland - Baden-Württemberg - Bodenseekreis - Friedrichshafen: Stadtbahnhof, Infotafel des 'Geschichtspfads Friedrichshafen'
context_page_description: Friedrichshafen Stadt station is the largest railway station of the city of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance and a railway junction in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It has five tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. Each day it is used by about 160 trains operated by Deutsche Bahn and the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn. Ulm–Friedrichshafen railway from Ulm ends at the station, where it meets the Lake Constance Belt Railway. Another major railway station in the city, Friedrichshafen Hafen station, which is operated as part of Friedrichshafen Stadt station, was used until 1976 for loading and unloading carriages on the Lake Constance train ferry to Romanshorn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Friedrichshafen Stadt station was dedicated on 8 November 1847 as the first station on Lake Constance with the opening of the first section of the Württemberg Southern Railway from Ravensburg to Friedrichshafen. This meant that the Kingdom of Württemberg had achieved its goal of completing the first railway to Lake Constance ahead of Bavaria and Baden. The station building was built between 1846 and 1848 by the architect Ludwig Friedrich von Gaab. On 26 May 1849, the Southern Railway was extended to Biberach an der Riss and on 1 June 1850 to Ulm. With the completion of Fils Valley Railway from Ulm to Stuttgart on 29 June 1850, Friedrichshafen and the Southern Railway were connected to the rest of the Württemberg railway network, allowing a continuous service from Heilbronn to Friedrichshafen. On 1 October 1899, the first piece of the Bodenseegürtel Railway (Lake Constance Belt Railway) was opened from Lindau to Friedrichshafen Stadt and opened and on 2 October 1901 the line was continued from Friedrichshafen to Überlingen, which had been connected since 1895 to Singen via Radolfzell. Two wings were added to the station building for the Bodenseegürtel Railway, which connected Bavaria, Württemberg and Baden. The Southern Railway was duplicated from 1905 to 1913. On 2 June 1922, the Württembergische Nebenbahnen AG (Württemberg Secondary Railways Company) commenced operations on the Teuringen Valley Railway (Teuringertal-Bahn) to Oberteuringen. Already in May 1923 it had to close its operations for financial reasons, before they could be restarted in 1924 by the Teuringertal-Bahn GmbH. In the Second World War the west wing was destroyed in an air raid on 20 July 1944; it was rebuilt after the war in its original form. Passenger services on the Teuringen Valley Railway were closed on 23 May 1954 and freight traffic ended on 15 February 1960. The section from Friedrichshafen Stadt to the former Friedrichshafen-Zahnradfabrik station continues to operate as a siding.
caption: Information board of Friedrichshafen Stadt  station
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