Hausbergen

Hausbergen is a whole of hills located at the North-West of Strasbourg, mainly on the territory of the communes of Niederhausbergen, Mittelhausbergen and Oberhausbergen. The site was the theater of a battle on March 8th 1262 opposing the bishop of Strasbourg, Gauthier de Géroldseck and Rodolphe de Habsbourg, landgrave of High-Alsace and claiming with the throne of the Saint Empire.

By extension, name given to a deposit - station of Sorting located at the foot of these hills.

Geography

Deposit and Railway station of Sorting , located at the North-West of Strasbourg on the line Paris - Strasbourg, at 3 km of the Station Traveller power station of Strasbourg. The official communications announce the closing of the marshalling yard for 2006.

Sorting extends on 100 ha from the territories from several communes: Schiltigheim (20 ha), Bischheim (20 ha), Hoenheim (8 ha), Niederhausbergen (2 ha), Souffelweyersheim (40 ha) and Mundolsheim (10 ha). In front of the number of communes concerned, and in order to support some no, it was decided to give the name of the hills of Hausbergen, with the foot of which it is located, with sorting.

History

At the end of the 19th century, the marshalling yard of Strasbourg, located along the Station Traveller power station of Strasbourg, had become too small. The construction of a new sorting was then considered. Put in building site in 1902, the Triage was inaugurated in 1906. The old marshalling yard becoming the deposit for the oars travellers of the Station Traveller power station of Strasbourg.

Ways reserved for the passenger trains cross the station on his side Is. On the extreme margin Is are also three ways of approximately 2 km, to broad quay and two of waiting, reserved to the soldiers as in all the railway installations built under the German mode.

On the North-western margin, the deposit of engines, made up of 2 rotundas in sandstone of the the Vosges, is finished in 1904. Opposite the rotundas a fuel building site of a capacity of 7000 tons was. A tower water from 500 to 600 m ³ ensured the power supply of the machines.

From 1912, the construction of a new belt of fortifications is undertaken around Strasbourg: two forts overhang sorting on the hills of Hausbergen and is built at the Northern end of sorting.

A third Rotunda, out of reinforced concrete, was built in 1927, was supplemented of a repair shop and a store.

At the time of the Second world war, the May 27th and September 25th 1944, the marshalling yard of Hausbergen was bombarded by the Allies, like Strasbourg and its suburbs. After the release of Strasbourg, the November 23rd 1944, the German forces remain cut off in the forts around Strasbourg, those of the forts located beside sorting tried, in vain, to sabotage shuntings and to destroy the three bridges crossing sorting until the November 29th where they were withdrawn. But sorting and its neighborhoods remained under the fire of the German batteries until in April 1945.

In 1954 sorting comprised:

132,7 km of ways (the distance Strasbourg - Saint-Louis) including 97,2 km of shunting tracks and 35,5 km of lanes for the engines and trains of passage,
476 shuntings.

In 1970, the tower water having been useful for the drinking water supply of labor during construction of sorting was shaven to leave the place to the future highway A4.

The water tower of the deposit, not having more utility since disappearance of the steam engines, was decapitated in 1984 but not shaven.

The whole of the rotundas was on the other hand shaven in 1986.

In 1988, the riveted bridge of Bischheim was dismounted and replaced by two opened bridges parallel with circulation in 1992.

With the beginning of the year 1990, the principal building of the station was replaced by a new building including/understanding a customs house intended to check the coaches leaving or entering in France.

The opening of the borders of the European Community, with the departure of the customs, made lose much importance to the sorting of Hausbergen. And this more especially as the traffic of the containers and the traffic of the breweries are treated by the Station Goods of Strasbourg Cronenbourg.

The end nearest to the Station Traveller power station of Strasbourg is currently used as deposit for part of the oars travellers. And part of the deposit is used as garage for the motor coaches, even the coaches, on standby of destruction.

The fall of the Freight activity of the SNCF, coupled with the existence of smaller stations goods specialized in Strasbourg (Wholesale food market of Strasbourg Cronenbourg and parks Port of the the Rhine) and the relative vicinity of the marshalling yards of Mulhouse - Northern and Woippy, led to the advertisement of its closing for the year 2008.

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