Alzey train station

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Alzey
Main building of the Alzeyer train station
Main building of the Alzeyer train station
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation FALZ
IBNR 8000005
Price range 3
opening 1871
Profile on Bahnhof.de Alzey
location
City / municipality Alzey
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 45 '0 "  N , 8 ° 6' 36"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '0 "  N , 8 ° 6' 36"  E
Railway lines

Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Alzey train station is one of three train stations in the urban area of ​​the Rhine-Hessian town of Alzey , along with the Alzey Süd and Alzey West train stations . Today it is administered by the Mainz railway station management.

history

Alzey station track plan at the opening

The station was built in 1871 by the Hessian Ludwig Railway as part of the construction of the Alzey – Mainz line and the Rheinhessenbahn . Three years later it was connected to the Donnersbergbahn to Kirchheimbolanden and Marnheim . The branch line to Bodenheim was officially opened on September 28, 1896 , but it was closed after almost 100 years.

The station building was like the located near the train yard from Flonheimer sandstone built. The station restaurant had in the 1920s, two waiting rooms for the 1st and 2nd class, and for the 3rd and 4th class. In 1922, goods handling and express handling were merged.

At noon on October 19, 1944, the station building was destroyed by a bomb attack. A barrack served as a replacement until the end of the 1950s. The new construction of the reception building went into operation in several stages between 1954 and 1961. Until then, only travelers with a valid ticket or visitors with the so-called platform ticket were allowed to pass the platform barrier.

In 1954, a train station cinema was opened opposite the train station .

Train operation

Due to its location in the middle of Rheinhessen, Alzey station is connected to three operating railway lines:

  • The Alzey – Mainz line runs from the northeast to Alzey station . From the state capital Mainz to Alzey and vice versa operate regional trains in every hour . The offer is supplemented by regional express trains that also run every hour . There is a short half-hourly service from Alzey to the state capital and vice versa. Since the 2014/15 timetable change on December 14, 2014, trains on the Alzey – Mainz route have been connected to and from Kirchheimbolanden via the Donnersbergbahn. In rush hour traffic , individual trains run to and from Frankfurt am Main via Mainz.
  • By completely Rheinhessen called runs Rheinhessen train : the railway line from Worms to Bingen. It stretches from Worms main station in the south-east through Alzey to Bingen am Rhein in the north-west of Rheinhessen. There is an hourly service in both directions. The connection is always made via the Alzeyer train station by regional trains.
  • Thanks to the Donnersbergbahn , which was partially reactivated in 1999 , Alzey also has a quick connection to the Palatinate . Regional trains also run here every hour. The trains of the Donnersbergbahn to and from Mainz have been connected since December 2014.
  • Alzey also has a direct connection to Wissembourg in France in the summer months from May to September through the so-called Alsace Express . This initially runs from Mainz main station via the Rheinhessenbahn until it continues its way via Bad Dürkheim and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse to France.
  • Until the mid-1980s, the Alzeyer station was also the start and end point of the railway line to Bodenheim ( Amiche ).
line route Clock frequency
RE Elsass-Express
Mainz Hbf - Nieder Olm - Wörrstadt - Armsheim - Alzey - Monsheim - Grünstadt - Bad Dürkheim - Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf - Landau (Pfalz) Hbf - Winden (Pfalz) - Wissembourg 		a pair of trains in the summer season
RE 13 Kirchheimbolanden - Freimersheim - Wahlheim - Alzey West - Alzey - Armsheim - Wörrstadt - Saulheim - Nieder Olm - Mainz Hbf (- Mainz Römisches Theater - Rüsselsheim - Frankfurt am Main Airport - Frankfurt am Main ) Hourly
RB 31 Kirchheimbolanden - Freimersheim - Wahlheim - Alzey West - Alzey - Albig - Armsheim - Wörrstadt - Saulheim - Nieder Olm - Klein-Winternheim - Ober-Olm - Mainz-Marienborn - Mainz-Gonsenheim - Waggonfabrik - Mainz Hbf Hourly
RB 35 Worms Hbf - Monsheim - Alzey - Armsheim - Gau-Bickelheim - Gensingen - Horrweiler - Bingen (Rhine) city Hourly

Infrastructure

Reception building

To the east of platforms 1 to 5 is the station building. The ticket hall with ticket issuance went into operation on July 22, 1954. This was followed by a train station restaurant with an attached waiting area . The conclusion was the two-storey cube with service rooms, which was completed in 1960/61. In the reception building there is a Vlexx customer center , a car rental company with a transport service and a restaurant that also operates the kiosk on the platform on platform 1 .

Passenger station

Regional train with railcars of the DB class 628 in the Alzeyer station on the way to Mainz Hbf

Alzey station has three platforms with a total of five tracks. Track 1 is the house platform .

Tracks 1 and 2 are used for trains to Mainz and for trains from Worms to Bingen. The trains to Kirchheimbolanden usually run from platform 3 via the Donnersbergbahn . Most of the platform on tracks 4 and 5 is overgrown. Trains run from Bingen to Worms from platform 4. These platforms can be reached through a pedestrian underpass . All platforms are also 165 meters long.

Only the platforms on tracks 1 to 3 are barrier-free . There is no elevator system to the platform with tracks 4 and 5.

Freight depot

To the south of the Alzey train station is the Alzey freight station, which was shut down decades ago. The buildings have meanwhile been sold and rented and the bus station and a shopping market were built on the open space of the freight yard .

Depot

Also to the south was a railway depot (Bw Alzey) built in 1904 with a 4-person locomotive shed , roundhouse with turntable and other smaller operating buildings. The depot lost its independence in 1952 and became a branch of the Worms depot. In the following years the depot was gradually shut down. The turntable has long been removed and the roundhouse is rented to a bus company. The other engine shed is a listed building, but it is unused and in danger of collapsing.

Connection to public transport

The Alzeyer bus station near the Alzey train station

To the south of the reception building of the Alzey train station there is a bus station where numerous buses of the Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe (ORN) and the busverkehr Rhein-Neckar (BRN) stop: The ORN lines 424, 425, 426, 428, 441, 442 , 444, 446, 660 and the BRN lines 427 and 435 run from Alzey to the Rhine-Hessian region. In addition, the ORN offers lines 421 and 422 as so-called city ​​bus lines , which serve the Alzey city area.

There are also numerous parking spaces near the reception building .

There is also a taxi stand near Alzey train station.

literature

  • Hans Döhn: Railway policy and railway construction in Rheinhessen 1835-1914 , 276 pages, University of California 1957
  • Gerhard Fillinger and Manfred Hinkel: The Bodenheim – Alzey branch line. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, 1st edition, ISBN 3866800711

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Bodenheim – Alzey branch line, p. 52.
  2. ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of September 30, 1922, No. 58. Announcement No. 1115, p. 669.
  3. ^ A b Martin Schack: New train stations. Station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948–1973 . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-49-3 , p. 173 .
  4. ↑ Track plan on the Deutsche Bahn website (PDF; 186 kB)