Eschenau railway station (Pfalz)

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Eschenau railway station (Pfalz)
Eschenau (Pfalz) train station (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Data
Design Through station
opening May 1, 1904
Conveyance May 31, 1985
location
City / municipality Saint Julian
Place / district Eschenau
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 35 '54 "  N , 7 ° 29' 18"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '54 "  N , 7 ° 29' 18"  E
Railway lines

Homburg (Saar) –Bad Münster am Stein (km 40.6) (closed)

Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Eschenau (Pfalz) train station was the train station of the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Eschenau , since 1969 a district of Sankt Julian . It was located on the Glantalbahn Homburg - Bad Münster, which opened in 1904, along the middle section of the Altenglan - Lauterecken-Grumbach line . Along the railway line it only played a very minor role; both in passenger and freight traffic had been very little. After the station had been abandoned as a freight tariff point at the end of the 1950s, passenger traffic between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach was discontinued in 1985. With the start of the trolley operation on the Glantalbahn between Altenglan and Staudernheim, a trolley station was set up in its place. The former reception building is a listed building and has been used as an art gallery since 1986. In this context, it gained national recognition when it was marketed as an art station .

location

The station was located on the southwestern outskirts of Eschenau between the Niederalben-Rathsweiler train stations (km 39.0) in the south and St. Julian (km 42.2) in the north. It is 185.64 meters above sea ​​level . Immediately to the west of the station, the railway line crosses the eponymous Glan .

history

Unsuccessful efforts to establish a rail link

As early as 1856, in the course of the project planning of the Rhein-Nahe-Bahn, efforts by a committee were made to run the route along the Oster , the Kuselbach and then in a northerly direction along the Glan. This failed because Prussia wanted to have the railway line within its own territory for as long as possible. A route in the catchment area of ​​the Glantal would have meant that the route would have led over large parts over Bavarian territory , which was not in the Prussian interest. The Landstuhl – Kusel railway was opened in 1868, but it only runs from Glan-Münchweiler to Altenglan along the Glan. Its concession already spurred the efforts of the communities in the river valley north of Altenglan to demand a rail connection. On September 7, 1871, a committee met in the Meisenheim to discuss the plans drawn up by engineers for such a route. However, the routing worked out at that time differed in places from the route actually carried out later. The said committee finally issued a memorandum on January 27 of the following year, in which both the economic and the military importance of a railway line along the Glan was highlighted. However, these efforts were initially also unsuccessful, as the project failed due to different ideas about the interest guarantee between Prussia and Bavaria.

Planning, construction and opening

It was only towards the end of the 19th century that Bavaria revised its negative attitude towards a strategic railway line along the entire Glan, as German relations with France had meanwhile deteriorated. The strategic track should Homburg from under shared the Landstuhl-Kusel railway on the section Glan-Münchweiler-Altenglan and run from Lautertal from coming distance from Lauterecken to Bad Munster, with the progression from Odernheim on the right bank of the Nahe should orient . At the same time, it was planned to double-track the existing Lauterecken – Odernheim line .

Construction of the strategic railway began in the summer of 1902. The superstructure on the Eschenau – Lauterecken section was largely completed on January 21, 1904. The Glantalbahn was finally opened continuously on May 1st of the same year; Eschenau was one of a total of 26 en route stations along this new railway line.

Further development (1914–1985)

Eschenau station had to be closed in 1917 due to a lack of staff during the First World War . However, on October 1, 1918, it was reactivated. As early as 1922, the station ran the risk of being abandoned for passenger traffic because the administration wanted to discontinue it due to low demand. Protests prevented this plan.

In February 1945, American forces wanted to blow up the bridge directly at the station. While the actual project did not succeed, the village of Eschenau was almost completely destroyed by these attacks; this resulted in numerous deaths on site.

In 1959, the station lost its authorization for express goods and goods traffic, although there was resistance on site. In 1962 the second track between Bedesbach-Patersbach and St. Julian was shut down and then dismantled; As a result of these dismantling measures, train crossings were no longer possible in the station. At the end of the 1960s, the German Federal Railroad (DB) tried for the first time to initiate a closure procedure for the railway line, but the state governments of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland prevented this. The DB made a renewed attempt in this regard in 1973. This time their efforts were aimed at, among other things, stopping freight traffic between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach on December 31, 1975.

Closure and trolley operation (since 1985)

On May 31, 1985, passenger traffic between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach was discontinued; Most recently, the section of the route was almost exclusively used for school traffic. Since the Eschenau station, like the neighboring Niederalben-Rathsweiler , Niedereisenbach-Hachenbach and St. Julian stations, had previously been closed as a freight tariff point, it was henceforth without regular train services. On September 29 of the same year, the railway line between Glan-Münchweiler and Odernheim was officially downgraded to a branch line, a status that had in fact existed for decades.

In 1991, the Deutsche Bundesbahn initiated a decommissioning procedure for the section from Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach, which was initially suspended due to the conversion of the former into Deutsche Bahn at the turn of the year 1993/1994. Also in 1992, the weed spraying train was the last train on the Altenglan-Lauterecken-Grumbach section. The shutdown itself came into effect on December 31, 1995.

In order to prevent the Altenglan– Staudernheim section from being finally closed, including the dismantling of the line, students at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern had plans to set up a railroad handrail on the Glantalbahn between Altenglan and Staudernheim . Among the supporters of this project was the Kusel district administrator Winfried Hirschberger , who finally succeeded in making it come true in 2000. A draisine station has been located at the former Eschenau train station since 2000.

Buildings

The reception building is a rectangular building with a gable roof. Like most of its peers along the strategic path, it was made of sandstone from the immediate region. Together with the storage shed, it has been a listed building since 1987. The latter was also used as a toilet, laundry room and farm building. Both buildings date from 1904. The address is Bahnhofstrasse 10 .

After the cessation of passenger traffic, the Deutsche Bundesbahn endeavored to sell the station building, for which it placed an advertisement. In 1986, one year after the shutdown of passenger transport, a painter bought the space and built a gallery and a private academy in it. Since then it has gained national fame as an art station .

traffic

passenger traffic

In 1905 a total of 2319 tickets were sold at Eschenau station; This made it the second least frequented station along the Glantalbahn after the Erbach station, which was closed in the same year. With the continuous opening of the Glantalbahn, the station was approached by five pairs of trains. By the outbreak of the First World War , the number increased to six, only to halve after the end of the war. In 1929 ten pairs of trains drove to Eschenau, which was also the highest number of people using the station. In the 1930s and World War II there were only six, and immediately afterwards three. For the next three decades the number ranged from five to seven; At the time of the shutdown, three pairs of trains were running on working days.

Freight transport

Like most stations on the Altenglan – Lauterecken-Grumbach section, Eschenau did not play a major role in freight transport. In 1905, for example, only 16.38 tons of goods were received or sold, making it the smallest of all en-route stations on the strategic railway line. Accordingly, it was the only operating point between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach to have neither a loading ramp nor corresponding loading tracks. In 1920 a local freight train, which started in the Ebernburg freight yard on the Alsenz Valley Railway, served all the Glantal Railway stations between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Homburg. Already at the end of the 1950s it was abandoned as a goods tariff point.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate (2007) . 2007 ( Online (PDF; 6.2 MB) [accessed November 12, 2012]).
  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71073-0 .
  • Christian Schüler-Beigang (arrangement): Kreis Kusel (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 16 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1999, ISBN 3-88462-163-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b The small art station - press. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ rundumio.de: Lust & Liebe im Kunstbahnhof . Retrieved January 21, 2012 .
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  24. ↑ Eschenau in the Palatinate. The Kulturbahnhof has "been of national importance for decades". (See section “Culture”). In: regionalgeschichte.net. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
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