Get on and off the S-Bahn barrier-free every 15 minutes, an express connection, an additional underpass in the east and a parking and turning track with a soundproof wall: As part of the second main line, Deutsche Bahn is planning to modernize the Weßlinger train station, the should be ready by October 2025. Three project managers from DB Netz AG presented the details at an online information event on Wednesday.
Weßling - Deutsche Bahn is taking more than six billion euros into its hands for the entire railway expansion with around 50 individual projects. This also includes the modernization of the Weßlinger train station. In the spring of 2025, work will begin on a parking and turning track, the raised central platform extended to the east with a guidance system for the blind and a second underpass from the platform towards the main street, announced project manager Alexander Rutz. From there, travelers take the stairs to land on what is now the market square - where the bus station is currently planned. The ramp in turn ends after about 80 meters in front of the maypole (we reported). It is so long because the gradient must not exceed six percent and the ramp should not become a slide. Mayor Michael Sturm, switched on from vacation,But there was still a need for change. Because the users would have to turn around once and walk 80 meters to the bus station again. "One possibility would be that we build the bus stop across from the maypole on Bahnhofstrasse on the current park and ride areas," he mused in an interview with the Starnberger Merkur. "That would have the advantage that we would only have to move the market square and the nursery during the construction phase and then both could move back into the square - which would have a certain charm.""That would have the advantage that we would only have to move the market square and the nursery during the construction phase and then both could move back into the square - which would have a certain charm.""That would have the advantage that we would only have to move the market square and the nursery during the construction phase and then both could move back into the square - which would have a certain charm."
The mayor was surprised by the Deutsche Bahn's announcement that certain areas would be used as parking spaces. "We want as much community space as possible and little private property to be used for this," he emphasized after an owner at the online event also wanted to know whether he was obliged to give his reason for it. "Yes, if it is seen as important in the planning approval process," was the reply from the railway process manager, Dr. Nikolaus Niederich.
A three-meter-high soundproof wall on the embankment will protect the residents of Katzenstein from the noise of the 210-meter-long parking and turning track. “We cannot green the wall”, answered project manager Mohamad Othman to a corresponding question. "That is not possible because of the 10,000-volt high-voltage line." Sturm wanted to take up the topic again with DB and assured that the community would otherwise plant bushes, for example. A 32-meter-long gravel embankment is planned along the protective wall to allow the water to seep away. The people of Weßling will have to do without the beaten path from Grünsinker Strasse next to the tracks in the future.
The installation of three new points as well as the renewal of the five existing points and the station tracks, a platform roof and two covered waiting areas are also planned.
It is still open what will happen to the station buildings.
As reported, the community wants to buy the house in the east from the railway "as soon as possible", said Sturm, who not only announced further discussions with the railway about this.
Niederich also wants to hold further information talks with residents and those affected by the construction before the plan approval procedure can be viewed on the Deutsche Bahn website for a month.
"We will reduce the nightly construction work to a minimum," he promised.
Michèle Kirner
