Bad Bergzabern train station

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Bad Bergzabern train station
Bad Bergzabern train station 2019.jpg
Train in Bad Bergzabern station
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Design Terminus
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RBZB
IBNR 8000691
Price range 6th
opening April 13, 1870
Profile on Bahnhof.de Bad_Bergzabern
Architectural data
Architectural style Late historicism
location
Place / district Bad Bergzabern
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 6 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 10"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 10"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The station Bad Bergzabern - until 1965 Bergzabern - in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Bad Bergzabern is a station of the Deutsche Bahn . The station with two platform tracks is the terminus of the line from Winden and belongs to station category  6 of DB Station & Service . It is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 221. It is also connected to the Karlsruhe transport association (KVV) via a transitional tariff . The address of the train station is Bahnhofstrasse 5 .

The station was opened in 1870. Passenger traffic on the Winden – Bad Bergzabern line was temporarily suspended from 1981 to 1995. In the mid-1990s, freight traffic came to a standstill. The station building is a listed building.

location

The train station is on the eastern edge of the city. Immediately to the west of the track system, the German Wine Route runs from north to south. There is a roundabout southwest of the reception building. To the south of it, the Weinstrasse is part of the federal highway 427 . The latter leaves the roundabout in a southeastern direction not far from the southern station area. In the north, Landauer Strasse runs almost parallel to the train station . A number of industrial and commercial enterprises are located in the catchment area of ​​the station itself. The railway line itself runs almost in a straight line in an east-west direction. Shortly before it reaches Bad Bergzabern, it runs in an elongated, moderate S-curve to the west-southwest.

history

Planning, construction and opening of the spa line

In the course of the planning of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn from Neustadt via Landau to Wissembourg , a route via the former residence town of Bergzabern was initially considered, but this failed because of the hilly landscape and the resulting higher costs. Instead, the route led via Rohrbach , Winden and Schaidt into Alsace.

Shortly after its opening in 1855, the city complained that it was not connected to the rail network. The displeasure increased after a branch line leading to the Baden state capital Karlsruhe was planned. When asked at which station this should branch off from the Maximiliansbahn, Rohrbach was one of the things that was considered. However, the city of Bergzabern objected to this, as it feared traffic-related disadvantages. In consideration of the interests of Bergzabern, Winden was finally determined as a branch as the closest station to the spa town. In particular, the Bergzabern trade association vehemently demanded a railway connection to the city and sent a four-person deputation to the Chamber of Deputies in Munich in August 1861. The ten-kilometer route was finally opened on April 13, 1870.

Plans for an extension to the west (1870-1900)

Even before the opening of the spa line, efforts were made to create a transit route from Landstuhl along the Wallhalb , Schwarzbach and Lauter to Bergzabern, but this did not prevail. Although an application for a corresponding concession was made, this initiative did not prevail. From the beginning of the 1870s, the management of the Palatinate Railways presented plans for a railway line from Hinterweidenthal to Bergzabern, which was to run mainly along the Lauter. A link with a line to Weißenburg was included from the start.

Baden was interested in connecting the existing line to Pirmasens, as it was supposed to serve as consideration for the approval of the Bruhrainbahn Bruchsal – Germersheim. Although the Bavarian government provided an interest rate guarantee, the negative economic situation in the 1870s prevented the implementation of these plans.

It was not until the 1890s that efforts to provide the region with a rail link were resumed. However, there were again different ideas about the specific route. Bergzabern wanted to have the spa line extended to Dahn, while the latter forced a stretch to Weißenburg. There were also plans for a connection from Bergzabern via Schönau to Saarburg , which should serve supraregional traffic.

Further development

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on May 1, 1936, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Karlsruhe management. During the construction of the West Wall from 1938, Bergzabern also became the unloading station for the relevant building materials, which were then transported on by lorry. During the Second World War , the station was bombed from the end of 1944. The tracks were hit on November 26th, and individual fragments also hit the station building.

The German Federal Railways was divided the station after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, they all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. Because the city was officially called "Bad Bergzabern" from 1965, the station name was changed accordingly. In 1971, when the Mainz directorate was dissolved, the station came under the jurisdiction of its Karlsruhe counterpart. On September 26, 1981, passenger traffic was stopped. On June 5, 1983, a station festival took place on site.

On September 24, 1995, passenger traffic was reactivated. Freight traffic came to a standstill at the same time. In the period that followed, the track systems were dismantled and, in this context, the platforms were modernized.

building

Reception building facing west

First station building

Initially, the station , which was then called Bergzabern , had a relatively simple, one-storey half-timbered station building for a period of around 20 years . It had a porch. The ticket office was on the right and the waiting room for third-class passengers on the left. In between was the one for the second class.

Second reception building

The distinctive entrance building made of red sandstone was built in the 1890s. Stylistically, it can be assigned to late historicism , even though it contains occasional motifs from the Renaissance . It also has a tower on the street side. According to the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act, it is under monument protection.

Further railway buildings

The initial equipment of the station included a goods shed with a canopy on both sides, a single locomotive shed with staff room and water house and a coal shed - all buildings made of wood - and a half-timbered toilet building.

The goods shed has since given way to a bus station and a building used for goods handling has since been converted into a private house.

Platforms

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 120 m 55 cm Scheduled trains to and from Winden
2 120 m 55 cm Is only used for special trips

traffic

passenger traffic

Initially, five pairs of trains drove the route. The timetable from 1897 shows through trains to Karlsruhe. The last timetable before the temporary suspension had a total of 28 pairs of trains on weekdays, many of which also ran on weekends. Around noon a pair of express trains drove between Karlsruhe and Bad Bergzabern, the other pairs of trains were used for shuttle traffic to Winden, which was handled with Uerdingen rail buses .

Passenger train connections in the 2017 timetable
line Route Clock frequency
RB 54 Winden - Barbelroth - Kapellen-Drusweiler - Bad Bergzabern hourly

Bus transport

In the years after the line was reactivated for passenger traffic, a bus station was built southeast of the reception building. It is served by the following bus lines:

literature

  • District Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Heimat yearbook 2008 . Verlag Franz Arbogast Otterbach, ISSN  0177-8684 .
  • Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008 ( online (PDF; 4.1 MB) [accessed November 5, 2013]).
  • Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011 ( Online (PDF; 2.7 MB) [accessed November 5, 2013]).
  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71073-0 , p. 223-224 .
  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Return to Rail - Reactivated and New Lines in Passenger Traffic 1980–2001 . transpress, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-613-71185-0 , pp. 145 .
  • 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.
  • Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science. Volume 53). New edition. pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .
  • Report of the Direction of the Palatinate Railways on the administration of the railways under their management in 1870 . Buchdruckerei Bauer, Ludwigshafen 1871 (Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Bavar. [Accessed on April 20, 2014]).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; Retrieved November 5, 2013 .
  2. ^ 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 November 5, 2013 .
  3. ^ Bahnhof.de: station profile > Bad Bergzabern . Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Southern Wine Route district. Mainz 2020, p. 9 (PDF; 10 MB).
  5. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 12 .
  6. ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 69 .
  7. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 176 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Return to the rail - reactivated and new routes in passenger traffic 1980-2001 . 2001, p. 145 .
  9. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 247 .
  10. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 6 .
  11. ↑ Reiner Schedler: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . 1998, p. 3 .
  12. ^ A b c Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . 1997, p. 224 .
  13. ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 7 .
  14. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 241 .
  15. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 249 .
  16. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  17. ^ Herbert Dähling: Rail travel under special conditions - intermediate stages of travel from troop transport to minesweeper train . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 33 .
  18. ^ Günther Volz: With the last train - The evacuation of Bergzabern in December 1944 . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 51 .
  19. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  20. ↑ mec-landau.de: Club Chronicle - Excursions 1979 - 2010 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2012 ; Retrieved November 14, 2013 .
  21. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 138 .
  22. ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 83 .
  23. ↑ Construction report of the Winden-Bergzabern branch from the Pfalzbahn's annual report for the 1970 financial year
  24. ↑ kbaystb.de: Railway station: Bergzabern - main line: Winden - Bergzabern (opening April 13, 1870) . Retrieved November 5, 2013 .
  25. ↑ deutschebahn.com: Platform information - Bad Bergzabern station . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2013 ; Retrieved September 27, 2013 .
  26. ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 72 .
  27. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 254 .
  28. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 223 f .
  29. ↑ vrn.de: Southern Wine Route network . (PDF; 360 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 14, 2013 .