Wolfratshausen station is a station of the Munich S-Bahn. It is located in the Upper Bavarian town of Wolfratshausen in Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. It has two platform tracks next to a central platform. The station is located in the network area of the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (Munich Transport and Tariff Association, MVV) and is served by line 7 of the S-Bahn, which is operated by Deutsche Bahn.
The station was established on 27 July 1891 as a terminus when the Isar Valley Railway from Munich was put into operation. The line was built and operated by Lokalbahn AG (LAG). The station became a through station on 1 June 1897 when the Isar Valley Railway was extended to Eurasburg. In 1898, the line was extended from Eurasburg to Bichl. Until the nationalisation of the LAG in 1938 the Wolfratshausen station included a locomotive depot. From 1957 to 27 May 1972 Deutsche Bundesbahn closed the line between Bichl and Wolfratshausen in several stages, so that Wolfratshausen station became a terminus. On 28 May 1972, S-Bahn services began between Munich and Wolfratshausen.
Location
The station is located to the east of central Wolfratshausen. The station building is located to the west of the tracks and has the address of Bahnhofstraße 41. Bahnhofstraße, Sauerlacher Straße and Straße Am Floßkanal run to the west of the tracks. In the south of the station building is the Wolfratshausen bus station. The southern part of the station precinct is crossed by state route 2070, running along Sauerlacher Straße and crossing the tracks over a level crossing. Mühlpointweg passes through a tunnel under the tracks to the north of the station.
The station is now the terminus of the Isar Valley Railway (line VzG 5507), a single-track, electrified main line. The station is located at the kilometre 26.30 point, which is measured from the closed Munich terminal station of the Isar Valley Railway over a partially closed route. The service on the line is timetable route 999.7 of the Deutsche Bahn.
History
Planning and construction
On 24 October 1886 the Bavarian government issued a concession for the building of a metre-gauge railway from Munich via Wolfratshausen to Rottmannshöhe on Lake Starnberg. Its proponent, Siegfried Klopfer had proposed to build the line to standard gauge in 1885. It was proposed that the Wolfratshausen station would be built on the heights at Dorfen to the northwest of the town, which was said to be about three quarters of an hour away from Wolfratshausen marketplace. Wolfratshausen protested this situation, because it feared that its population would continue to decline as other communities with a direct rail link would have an advantage over Wolfratshausen. The company responsible for the construction of the line, Aktiengesellschaft Isarbahn, said that building the station in the valley of the Loisach in central Wolfratshausen would cost up to 80,000 gold marks more than building at the proposed site. Wolfratshausen offered 60,000 marks for the construction of the station in the valley and founded on 26 September 1888 the Bahnverein München–Wolfratshausen (Munich–Wolfratshausen Railway Company) to promote the relocation of the station. On 27 September 1888, Wolfratshausen came to an agreement with the railway company, which promised to build a road between the station and the marketplace. On 6 November 1889, responsibility for the construction and operation of the line was taken over by Lokalbahn AG (LAG). At the same time it was decided to abandon the terminus at Rottmannshöhe and to instead build the line from Wolfratshausen via Eurasburg to Bichl. This created an opportunity for Wolfratshausen to request the location of the station in the Loisach valley again. After the mayor of Wolfratshausen confirmed, on 23 November 1889, that the land required for the rail project would be transferred free, it was decided to build Wolfratshausen station in the valley. Construction work began on 27 May 1890, but the construction of the Ebenhausen–Wolfratshausen section was delayed by landslides at Schlederleite to the north of Wolfratshausen. On 27 July 1891, the Isar Valley Railway was finally opened to Wolfratshausen.