Landau depot

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The Landau depot (short form Bw Landau ) was a depot in Landau in the Palatinate , which existed from 1921 to 1993. Initially opened as a branch of the Neustadt depot , it was converted into an independent office in 1926. From the 1950s it was important as a location for Uerdingen rail buses , which were used from there throughout the Palatinate. In 1984 it was converted into a branch of the Karlsruhe railway depot and completely abandoned in 1993 after the gradual dismantling of the systems had already started in the early 1990s.

location

The depot was located southeast of the Landau main station. From the factory itself, a bridge for the staff employed there led over the tracks of the neighboring train station. A slagging pit was also created between the facilities of the depot and the main station, which the workers often referred to as “on the canal”. In the southwest, its facilities were limited by the track of the Landau – Herxheim railway line , which ran parallel to that of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn . The Landau district of Queichheim is also to the east of its location .

history

Beginnings

Landau Central Station , opened in 1855 as part of the construction of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Wissembourg, developed into an important railway junction in the following decades with the opening of the Germersheim-Landau railway in 1872, the line to Zweibrücken in 1874 and 1875 and the branch line to Herxheim in 1898. This meant that during the First World War , locomotive personnel from Kaiserslautern and Ludwigshafen were increasingly transferred to him. For this reason, the Deutsche Reichsbahn set up a branch of the Neustadt depot on site in 1921 . This was built southeast of the station. A year later, the plant was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In 1926 it was converted into an independent depot.

Further development and World War II (1930–1945)

In the 1930s, 14 locomotives of the 55 series , four of the 56 series and a few diesel multiple units were stationed in the depot. In 1933 the stock comprised a total of 42 steam locomotives, including those of the then new class 64. In 1934 the layout was also converted; in this context it also received a railcar hangar. In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen directorate, it changed to the Mainz directorate on April 1, 1937. At that time it had the official abbreviation “La” and was subordinate to the Ludwigshafen machine office . In the station Germersheim also existed as a branch a locomotive train station . In addition, during this time the plant had a vehicle repair shop and had been assigned vehicles. In April 1939 it was assigned to category D (200 to 599 employees) according to the number of its employees. In 1941, the number of employees fell to 230 as a result of the war.

In April 1944, during the war, the plant was hit by an air raid on Landau and the turntable was destroyed, which is why locomotives had to use a connecting curve to the route to Germersheim to turn. In June 1945 the depot housed a total of 34 vehicles, mainly steam locomotives of the series 44 and 50 . Due to the war, however, only two class 55 and two class 89 locomotives were roadworthy. Furthermore, the locomotives of the series at that time included series 38 (three), 56 (four), 58 (two), 64 (five) and 75 (two).

Post-war period (1946–1980)

In the post-war period, among other things, railcars of the type DR class 137 and until the mid-1960s the class 33.2 were stationed. The newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn incorporated the plant into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , to which it allocated the entire railway network within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In addition, from the summer timetable in 1953, it initiated the use of Uerdinger rail buses that had arrived at the Landau depot a year earlier. From March 1, 1954, eight vehicles of the subtype VT 95 were to be found in Landau, which were increasingly supplemented by the further developed VT 98 from 1956 . From there they were used throughout the Palatinate.

On December 31, 1962, 29 steam and 13 diesel locomotives, four diesel multiple units from the time before the Second World War and a total of 26 rail buses were stationed in Landau. A Prussian P 8 was used for the last time on August 7 of the following year . At the same time it received class V 160 diesel locomotives , which were relocated to Ludwigshafen after just a few years. From June 1, 1967, only diesel vehicles were to be found in the plant. In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz directorate at the beginning of the 1970s, the plant also moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Karlsruhe Federal Railway Directorate .

task

In the following years, however, the immediate catchment area of ​​the Landau depot decreased increasingly. As early as 1957, the Klingbachtalbahn had lost passenger traffic. The Maximiliansbahn section Winden-Wissembourg followed in 1975, the Winden-Bad Bergzabern railroad in 1981, and the routes to Herxheim and Germersheim a few years later. On June 3, 1984 it was officially just a branch of its counterpart in Karlsruhe. At that time it housed 62 vehicles, including seven locomotives of the 211 series , eight of the 212 series , two small locomotives of the type Kö II and one of the type Köf III . There were also eleven type VT 98 rail buses and 30 sidecars from the 998 series . The first dismantling measures took place in March 1991.

In July 1993, after the rail buses were taken out of service, the final task followed; at that point it was just a "base". A few years later, the wagon hall, the gas station, the engine line and the turntable were dismantled. In addition, vandalism contributed significantly to the deterioration of the facilities. In the following period, the site became a fallow area, the further use of which was initially unclear.

operation area

Its area of ​​application mainly comprised the routes within the southern Palatinate . In addition to the routes that led via Landau, these were the Winden – Karlsruhe , Schifferstadt – Wörth , Wörth – Strasbourg lines , the Klingbachtalbahn from Rohrbach-Steinweiler to Klingenmünster , the spa line from Winden to Bad Bergzabern and the Wieslauterbahn from Hinterweidenthal to Bundenthal-Rumbach . It was also responsible for the Bundenthaler's trains .

From the 1950s onwards, the range of activities went well beyond the southern Palatinate. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that the depots along the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line were either closed in the course of their gradual electrification - for example those in Neustadt and Homburg - or, like Kaiserslautern and Ludwigshafen, lost their importance. On the other hand, the rail buses stationed in Landau were used throughout the Palatinate to preserve or delay all branch lines from being closed. For example, they were used on the Landstuhl – Kusel , Grünstadt – Altleiningen railway lines of the Biebermühlbahn , Lautertalbahn , Glantalbahn and Bachbahn .

Occasionally the vehicles were used between Neustadt and Mannheim, Mannheim and Heidelberg , Worms and Ludwigshafen and as far as Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld train station .

literature

  • Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007 ( Online (PDF; 4.1 MB) [accessed December 4, 2013]).
  • Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner : 150 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-27-4 .
  • Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . Landau in the Palatinate 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ queichtalbahn.beepworld.de: Landau Pfalz HBF . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; Retrieved December 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 125 .
  3. ↑ a b eisenbahnsignale.de: Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf 0.02 - Landau (Pfalz) Hbf 18.43 - Kapsweyer 41.17 - State border Germany / France 44.618 = (km 60.028 - Wissembourg 57.67 - Vendenheim 0.0) . Retrieved December 12, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 10 .
  5. ↑ a b c Herbert Dähling: What once rolled over the Maxbahn. Attempt to get an overview of traction vehicles and dare on the anniversary route . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 141 .
  6. ↑ Herbert Dähling: What once rolled over the Maxbahn. Attempt to get an overview of traction vehicles and dare on the anniversary route . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 118 .
  7. ^ A b Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 Years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 71 .
  8. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 14 .
  9. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  10. ↑ hs-merseburg.de: German Reichsbahn - depots and other departments . Retrieved December 4, 2013 .
  11. ↑ a b bahnstatistik.de: railway management Mainz - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Herbert Dähling: What once rolled over the Maxbahn. Attempt to get an overview of traction vehicles and dare on the anniversary route . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 130 .
  13. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 69 .
  14. ↑ queichtalbahn.beepworld.de: BW Landau Pfalz Hbf . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2013 ; Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 23 .
  16. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 78 .
  17. ↑ Reiner Frank: Railway in the Elmsteiner Valley then and now . 2001, p. 55 .
  18. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 146 f .
  19. ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 33 .
  20. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  21. ↑ queichtalbahn.beepworld.de: Zeitchronik 1949-1994 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2013 ; Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  22. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 123 .
  23. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 33 .
  24. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 41 .
  25. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 145 ff .
  26. ↑ kbs-670.de: The course book route 670 - Operation - Deploying Bahnbetriebswerke: Other works . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; Retrieved December 12, 2013 .
  27. ↑ db58.de: " Run plan 4 for VT 33.2 of the Landau depot " . Retrieved December 12, 2013 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 47.2 "  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 33.7"  E