Altenglan railway station

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Altenglan
Entrance building of the station
Entrance building of the station
Data
Location in the network Through station
Trennungsbahnhof (1904–1995)
Design Wedge station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation SALG
IBNR 8000491
Price range 6th
opening September 22, 1868
Architectural data
Architectural style Type construction (1868)
Sandstone (1904)
location
City / municipality Altenglan
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 32 '51 "  N , 7 ° 27' 45"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '51 "  N , 7 ° 27' 45"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The station Altenglan is the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate community Altenglan . It belongs to station category 6 and has two platform tracks . The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zones 768 and 770. It was opened on September 22, 1868 as a through station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line. With the opening of the Glantalbahn Homburg - Bad Münster , built for strategic reasons , it became a separation station on May 1, 1904 . He lost this function again when the section between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach was closed. Since 2000 it has also been the southern starting point of the Altenglan– Staudernheim section of the Glantalbahn , which functions as a draisine route .

location

The train station is located on the southern outskirts of Altenglan. His address is Bahnhofstrasse 45 . The federal highway 423 , the Glan and the Glan-Blies-Weg run parallel to the railroad tracks in this area . To the west, the station is bounded by the local Eisenbahnstraße . The Bahnhofstrasse runs a little across , which is initially identical to the aforementioned federal road, crosses Eisenbahnstrasse in the northern area of ​​the station and to which the bus turning loop and the reception building, which went into operation in 1904, belong.

Shortly before reaching Altenglan station, the Landstuhl – Kusel railway and the largely disused Glantalbahn Homburg – Bad Münster, which ran together between Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan, separated. The tracks of the Glantalbahn are now separated from the rest of the track in Altenglan; since 2000 a trolley service has been set up between Altenglan and Staudernheim.

history

Creation of the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line and the Glantalbahn

The first efforts aimed at a railway connection to the north-western Palatinate go back to 1856. In the course of the construction of the Rhine-Nahe Railway , an initiative aimed at a route via Lauterecken, Altenglan and Kusel to St. Wendel and Neunkirchen. The efforts did not prevail, however, because Prussia wanted such a railway line primarily within its own territory. In 1863 a memorandum appeared in Kusel for a branch line that was to branch off from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway in Landstuhl and lead along Mohrbach , Glan and Kuselbach to Kusel. Among other things, this said:

“In Altenglan there is also a wire pin factory and a cloth factory. The former alone purchases and sends 10,000 quintals of wire and pencils each year, but would certainly double its production after building a track. "

- Memorandum “Construction of a branch line from Landstuhl to Kusel through the Moorbach, Glan and Kuselbachthal” 1863

Furthermore, it was stated that building a railway would counteract the rather poor economic and social conditions in the region. All municipalities between the two cities had already spoken out in favor of such a railway line. Another argument was the numerous stone deposits on site, which were used in Paris , among other places . The construction of the 28.7 kilometer stretch from Landstuhl to Kusel was largely uncomplicated. The construction work on the section between Glan-Münchweiler and Kusel was delayed because not enough workers could be recruited. The first freight train ran on August 28, 1868. On September 22, 1868, the Landstuhl – Kusel railway was officially opened . In 1899 the station received closing signals .

Track plan of the station as of 1870

At the end of the 19th century, Bavaria gave up its resistance to the construction of a strategic railway in the Glan Valley. The planned route - called the "Glantalbahn" - was to lead from Münster largely along the Glans to Homburg, using the Kuseler route between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler. The latter was to be expanded to two tracks in this section, for which costs totaled 1.108 million marks. The construction work began in July 1902. The work was carried out by day laborers from Italy.

Further development

Track systems of Altenglan train station in 1908
Altenglan train station (center) on a postcard before the First World War

The strategic railway line turned Altenglan station into a separation station, the station complex into a wedge station; a new reception building was put into operation. Altenglan was one of a total of 26 stops along the new railway line. Due to the dissolution of the Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen and the associated division of the Glantalbahn into the departments of Mainz and Saarbrücken (from Homburg to Altenglan), the railway maintenance department, which had existed since 1904, was dissolved in 1937. A military exercise took place in the Palatinate between September 24 and 27, 1938. One of the destination stations of the troop trains from Frankfurt am Main was Altenglan station. On August 28, 1944, fighter-bombers attacked the station. Further attacks took place between September 28 and December 2. This destroyed a signal box and killed the signalman. On January 15 of the following year, another plane attack took place on the station. In 1945 the capacity of the Glantalbahn was almost completely used by numerous military trains of the Allies. The troop trains made a longer stay in Altenglan for the purpose of supply. Many locals used this to make barter deals with the soldiers.

In 1952 the railway maintenance depot in Altenglan was rebuilt. She was initially responsible for the Eisenbach-Matzenbach- Niedereisenbach-Hachenbach section along the Glantalbahn and between Altenglan and Schwarzerden . In the following years her area of ​​responsibility changed several times; In 1958 she was responsible along the Glantalbahn from Jägersburg to Altenglan and between Altenglan and Pfeffelbach. In 1976 she was responsible for the entire Landstuhl – Kusel route and between Jägersburg and Bedesbach-Patersbach . On September 12, 1957, there was a strong storm in the region, which caused a freight wagon to set off independently at Kusel station . It was only after a 20-minute drive at Altenglan train station that he was stopped by obstacles . On December 5, 1965, there was a flood in Altenglan, in which the railway systems were affected, which is why traffic between Altenglan and Kusel had to be stopped in the evening. In 1977 the Altenglan railway maintenance depot was dissolved. On June 18, 1990, the DB switched the route to Kusel to signaled train control (SZB); the corresponding systems were housed in Altenglan station. The decommissioning procedure for the Altenglan – Lauterecken section was also initiated in 1992, but this was suspended on December 31, 1993 when DB was converted into Deutsche Bahn AG.

Deutsche Bahn and draisine operation (since 1994)

At the turn of the year 1995/1996 the Glantalbahn section Altenglan-Lauterecken-Grumbach was closed. In order to prevent a final closure of the Glantalbahn section Altenglan - Staudernheim including the dismantling of the line, plans were developed at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern to set up an operation with railway draisines on this section of the line . Among the supporters of this project was the Kusel district administrator Winfried Hirschberger , who finally succeeded in making it come true in 2000. Since then, Altenglan station has been the southern starting point of the trolley line and, alongside the Lauterecken-Grumbach and Staudernheim stations, one of three trolley hire stations.

At the end of 2003, renovation work began on the station. Among other things, they included raising and lengthening the two remaining platforms in order to provide passengers with barrier-free access to the trains. In this context, a bus station with a turning loop was set up. The redesigned station was inaugurated in April of the following year. From 2009 to 2011, the information for passengers at the station was also improved, primarily through the installation of a dynamic font indicator.

Buildings

Original station building, later goods handling , temporarily listed and demolished in 2015; in the foreground the platform towards Landstuhl
Profile of the second reception building

Original reception building with goods handling

In the course of the construction of the line to Kusel, a gable-independent two-and-a-half-storey reception building with apartments, administration rooms and goods handling was built from 1862 to 1868 to the west of the tracks . The architectural style with elements of late classicism corresponds to that of many other train stations of the 1860s and 1870s along the lines within the Palatinate , for example on the Alsenz Valley Railway built in 1870 and 1871 and on the Germersheim – Landau railway line opened in 1872 . Its origins go back to the larger buildings along the Maximiliansbahn, such as in Maikammer-Kirrweiler. The design was expanded by the Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways and was mainly used in large villages and small towns .

Because of the great importance of the station, the execution was carried out in larger volumes, as in Glan-Münchweiler and Kusel . Windows and doors on the ground floor were given round arches . The outer walls were plastered . Later the station building underwent some structural changes. An original wooden porch was dismantled and the freight shed with a loading ramp attached to the main wing was extended. The facility was a listed building. Their address was Eisenbahnstrasse 3. The building was demolished in spring 2015 because it was in disrepair and a new old people's home was being built.

Second reception building

In the course of the opening of the Glantalbahn, Altenglan station received a new entrance building, which was built on the platform between the line to Kusel and the one in the direction of Lauterecken. The sandstone structure is based on its counterparts along the strategic path, in keeping with the architectural style of the northern railways. Nevertheless, its architecture is completely different from the other train stations in the entire Palatinate. The symmetrically constructed building is only one story and the roof structure is crossed. A restaurant is housed in it.

Other structures

The station initially had two signal boxes. The one in the northern area of ​​the station with the designation Agn fell victim to the fighting at the end of 1944. In the southern area of ​​the station there was a so-called guard signal box, which is now out of order. After the opening of the Glantalbahn, a mechanical signal box based on the standard design, in which a dispatcher was housed, was built directly at the new reception building. It was key-dependent, it did not have an electrical route setting. With the start of signaled train control operations in 1989, a concrete cuboid was created on the platform in which the Sig L 90 switchgear is housed.

In the first half of the 20th century there was a kiosk at the train station. After Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP came to power in 1933 , it was closed on their initiative because they viewed it as a reservoir for left-wing political forces . An earlier administration building on Ladestrasse belonged to the station, but it was not used for any purpose.

In connection with the tender for the route from Landstuhl to Kusel, a depot of the trans regio , which operated passenger traffic from 2000 to 2008 , was built in the south-eastern area of ​​the station at Bahnhofstrasse 81 . The building in which a workshop is set up stands parallel to the main line not far from an overpass over the neighboring federal highway 423 . It is rented to other railway companies, currently DB Regio .

Investments

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
4th 130 m 55 cm Regional train towards Kusel
5 155 m 55 cm Regional train towards Landstuhl

At the train station there are parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, a connection to bus routes to the surrounding area and a turning loop for buses.

traffic

passenger traffic

Long-distance transport

Both the line to Kusel and the Glantalbahn had hardly any long-distance traffic in their history. Since Altenglan functioned as an important railway junction through the branching of the Kuseler line and the Glantalbahn and was relatively central within the route, all long-distance trains that ran over the Glantalbahn stopped at the station. In 1926 and 1927, for example, the Calais-Wiesbaden-Express ran, but only in the direction of Wiesbaden, via the strategic railway with a stop in Altenglan. From November 1942 on, a pair of express trains ran on the Berlin – Kassel – Frankfurt – Altenglan – Homburg – Metz route for holidaymakers from the front. In 1945 and 1946, a pair of express trains ran for the last time on the route between Saarbrücken and Koblenz, which were only available to a limited extent for civil traffic. This was also the last train running continuously on the Glantalbahn with the Odernheim – Bad Münster section that was closed at the beginning of the 1960s.

Local transport

When the Landstuhl-Kusel railway line opened, four pairs of trains ran along the route per day, two of which were purely passenger trains and two mixed trains . A mixed train was later converted into a purely passenger train. After the Glantalbahn opened, three pairs of trains ran between Homburg and Bad Münster via Altenglan. The journeys between Landstuhl and Kusel were supplemented by trains on the Altenglan – Kusel section, which made the connection to the newly opened line.

In 1905, 30,507 tickets were sold at the station. The timetable from 1920 contained a train from Altenglan to Saarbrücken on Saturdays, there were also trains between Homburg and Kusel and between Saarbrücken and Bad Münster. In the 1930s in particular, there were several corner connections on the railway lines in the Glan and Lauter catchment area, such as Kaiserslautern – Lauterecken – Altenglan – Kusel. Although the line to Kusel was connected to Türkismühle at the end of 1936 , a continuous train ran between Altenglan and Türkismühle only one year later .

In 1965, two pairs of express trains were set up between Zweibrücken and Mainz , which ran on the Glantalbahn and stopped in Altenglan. The initiator of this connection was the then mayor of Zweibrücken, Oskar Munzinger , who at that time also belonged to the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate and wanted to have his two jobs connected. This is why these trains were popularly known as the " Munzinger Express ". Due to the lack of a connection between Odernheim and Bad Münster, these trains had to go to Staudernheim, change direction there and then use the Nahe Valley Railway to go east . In 1967 there was another couple between Homburg and Gau Algesheim. From 1970 these were officially only local trains before they were completely discontinued in 1979. From 1975 onwards traffic was stopped on Sundays and public holidays.

In the last few years, three pairs of trains ran on the Altenglan – Lauterecken section before passenger transport was discontinued. The offer between Altenglan and Kusel was 15 pairs at the same time and was reduced slightly in the following years; 12 trains went to and from Landstuhl. From May 1996 there were improvements in the offer; the route has been served at least every hour since then. The passenger traffic on Sundays, which was discontinued in 1975, was reactivated.

Passenger train connections in the 2013 timetable
Train type Route Clock frequency
RB Kaiserslautern - Landstuhl - Glan-Münchweiler - Altenglan - Kusel hourly

Freight transport

As with most train stations in the immediate vicinity, the products of the hard stone industry made up a large part of the goods traffic. In 1905, for example, 42,348.12 tons were sent or received. Immediately northeast of the Remigiusberg there was a quarry by Hugo Bell, from which a cable car ran from around 1900 to a loading facility northwest of the station.

In 1920 a local freight train operated on the Lauterecken-Grumbach-Homburg route and one between Altenglan and Kusel. A through freight train ran between Altenglan and Homburg and, if necessary, one from Kaiserslautern to Altenglan. Freight traffic in 1934 was largely characterized by truckloads and those "for the purpose of the Reichsautobahn".

In the early 1920s, the Schneeweiderhof belonging to the municipality of Eßweiler was established as a workers' colony. Since a quarry had existed there since the middle of the 19th century, a cable car to Altenglan station was set up. Several loading tracks were built north of the station. In 1976 the cable car was dismantled and the loading tracks were dismantled. To the north-west of the station, not far from the former Rammelsbach tunnel at Remigiusberg, there was a loading facility for Hugo Bell's quarry, from which the stones were also transported by a cable car set up around 1900.

In 1969 a total of 1293 wagonloads were sent from the station, of which only 54 were not service items. In the same year 212 charges were received, 23 of them as service items.

In the 1990s, a transfer freight train ran from the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway via Altenglan to Kusel in the evenings . In the meantime all freight tracks have been dismantled. Freight traffic no longer takes place.

Bus transport

Platform of the train station, in the foreground the bus stop, in the background the former goods handling area

In the meantime, a bus stop including a bus turning loop has been set up in the catchment area of ​​the second reception building. It is served by the bus routes

All lines are operated by Saar-Pfalz-Bus GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.

Draisine traffic

Draisines in Altenglan station

The Altenglan train station, along with the Lauterecken-Grumbach and Staudernheim train stations, is one of three starting points for trolley trips on the Glantalbahn; the rental station is on the tracks in the direction of Lauterecken-Grumbach.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Landstuhl-Kusel railway was originally a continuous kilometer. The station was therefore at the route kilometer 24.1. With the opening of the strategic railway, a new kilometer was introduced starting west of Scheidt on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line , which runs via Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan to Bad Münster. From Landstuhl, the kilometering ends in Glan-Münchweiler. The Altenglan – Kusel section has since started at 0.0. The Glantalbahn was later given a new kilometer, which had its starting point in Homburg.
  2. ↑ The Glantalbahn branched out in Odernheim into the section to Staudernheim, which had existed since 1897, and into the section along the Nahe to Bad Münster, which was opened in 1904. The latter was shut down in 1961 and subsequently dismantled.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Altenglan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vrn.de: Regional rail network and honeycomb plan . (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved April 6, 2013 .
  2. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 7th ff .
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 10 .
  4. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (=  publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 , p. 174 f .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
  6. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 22 .
  7. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 49 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 50 f .
  9. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 52 .
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  11. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 105 .
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  13. ↑ lok-report.de: Gallery - Chronology Strategic Route (selection): . Retrieved April 6, 2013 .
  14. ^ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate (2007) . 2007, p. 101 .
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  17. ↑ Martin Wenz: Type stations of the Palatinate Railways on the Southern Wine Route . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 15th f .
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  21. ↑ draisinentour.de: Gastronomy . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 8, 2013 ; Retrieved April 6, 2013 .
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  30. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 50 .
  31. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 f .
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  33. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 45 .
  34. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 60 ff .
  35. ↑ der-takt.de: 05.11.08 - ZSPNV Süd: 140 years of rail traffic between Landstuhl - Kusel . Retrieved July 8, 2014 .
  36. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
  37. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 40 .
  38. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 45 .
  39. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 61 .
  40. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 117 ff .
  41. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 67 .
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