Odenbach station

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Odenbach
Odenbach railway station (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Data
Design Through station
opening October 27, 1896
Conveyance 1995
location
City / municipality Odenbach
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 40 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 52"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 52"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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BW The Odenbach station was the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Odenbach . It was opened in October 1896 as the terminus of the lower Glantalbahn, which initially formed the immediate continuation of the Lautertalbahn , which had existed since 1883 . The remaining sections of the Glantalbahn from Homburg to Bad Münster , built for strategic reasons , were opened in 1904.

In 1986 passenger traffic was stopped, while freight traffic had already come to a standstill. The railway line between Lauterecken and Staudernheim has been legally closed since 1996. With the start of the trolley operation on the Glantalbahn between Altenglan and Staudernheim, a trolley station was set up in its place.

location

The station is located on the southwestern outskirts of Odenbach . It was 155.4 meters above sea level between the train stations Medard (km 77.4) in the south and Meisenheim (Glan) (km 85.1) in the north. Since the Lauterecken – Staudernheim section was originally a continuation of the Lauter Valley Railway, it was initially included in its kilometrage so that the zero point at that time was in Kaiserslautern. The station was therefore at 40.6 km.

After the opening of the strategic railway in 1904, continuous kilometrage was carried out, which began west of Scheid station and followed the existing line that had existed since 1879 and 1895 to Rohrbach , then included the connection via Kirkel and Limbach that existed on January 1, 1904, and then on the Glantalbahn changed. As a result of this measure, Odernheim station has since been at route kilometer 81.4.

history

First initiatives (1850–1865)

Although a railway line along the Glan as a connection between the Saar area and the region around Bingen would have been obvious from a geographical perspective, small states prevented a corresponding construction for a long time in the 19th century. 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 Rhein-Nahe-Bahn , an initiative aimed to set up a route via Meisenheim, 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 the middle and lower Glan valley between Altenglan and Staudernheim, the border between Bavaria and Prussia was very irregular, which was also detrimental to the construction of the railway.

In 1860 a committee was formed called the Notabeln des Glan and Lauter valleys. It campaigned for a railway line that branches off from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway in Kaiserslautern , then runs through the Lauter and lower Glantal valleys and should meet the Rhine-Nahe Railway in Staudernheim, which was completed in the same year . Prussia kept a low profile because it feared that the nearby route could become less important as a result. However, the project received support from Hessen-Homburg , who wanted its exclave Meisenheim to be connected to the rail network. Hesse's privy councilor Christian Bansa also advocated the planned rail connection at the Prussian Foreign Ministry in 1861 and argued that there was greater demand for this than a route along the Alsenz that was also planned .

However, Prussia was only willing to support the Palatinate Northern Railways, founded in 1866, in the construction of the Alsenz Valley Railway , which went into operation in 1870 and whose northern end point is the Prussian Bad Münster. Both Bavaria and Prussia were unwilling to guarantee the interest rate for the route, which was calculated in 1873 for a total of around 3.6 million guilders.

Plans for a strategic railway and opening of the Lauterecken – Staudernheim section

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. Initially, the project failed due to different ideas about the interest rate guarantee between Prussia and Bavaria, whose territory the route should touch.

In 1891 Bavaria and Prussia signed a state treaty that provided that the planned route from Lauterecken to Staudernheim should be built and operated by the Palatinate Northern Railways company. During the construction work it was necessary to relocate the river bed of the Glan in order to be able to lay the track for the railway.

The Lauterecken- Odernheim section was opened at the end of October 1896 as a direct continuation of the Lauter Valley Railway. At that time, Odenbach station had a total of five switches and two head tracks with a usable length of 100 meters, as well as side tracks with a usable length of 258 meters and a small loading ramp. On July 1, 1897, the line was tied through to Staudernheim on the Nahe Valley Railway .

At the same time, 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. The Glantalbahn was finally opened on May 1, 1904 on a continuous length; along this new railway line, Odenbach was one of a total of 26 en route stations.

Further development

On November 9, 1944, the station was attacked in the course of the fighting during World War II. Especially after the Second World War , the Glantalbahn increasingly lost its importance. The Altenglan – Meisenheim section was gradually dismantled onto a track in the 1960s. In addition, the station was no longer occupied in the following period.

Passenger traffic between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Staudernheim was stopped on May 30, 1986. The last train arrived late at 18:24 at the station. On site, many people had arrived at the platform on the occasion of the hiring. The train departed four minutes later. Recently, only the transport of schoolchildren had played a larger role in passenger transport.

At this point in time, the station no longer had any goods traffic. This took place between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Staudernheim only in the Meisenheim and Odernheim stations. Since the first was operated from the Lautertal Railway and the latter from the Nahe Valley Railway, there was no longer any regular traffic between them; However, military reasons prevented the tracks from being dismantled due to the Cold War . After goods traffic to Meisenheim and Odernheim was also given up in the following period, the line between Lauterecken and Staudernheim was officially closed on July 1, 1996.

Opening of the draisine route (since 2000)

In the meantime, an expert opinion was drawn up which came to the conclusion that reactivating the lower Glantla Railway section Lauterecken – Staudernheim would make economic sense. A realization of this project failed for financial reasons. In order to prevent a permanent shutdown including the dismantling of the line , students at the University of Kaiserslautern had plans to set up a railroad draisine operation 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. Meisenheim station has been a draisine station on the Glan route since 2000.

Buildings

The station had a large, two-and-a-half-story reception building.

traffic

passenger traffic

At the time the line was opened, five trains ran from and four to Kaiserslautern; there was also a couple who drove exclusively between Odernheim and Lauterecken. With the continuous opening of the Glantalbahn in 1904, three pairs of trains ran between Homburg and Bad Münster; At the same time, the continuous connections to Kaiserslautern ended. In 1905, a total of 15,832 tickets were sold at Odenbach station. By the outbreak of the First World War , the number of train pairs increased to eleven, but after the war it fell significantly. By the end of the 1930s, the supply increased again, only to collapse again afterwards.

Freight transport

Around 1900 there was a siding of a quarry owned by Kaiser and Peipers two kilometers south . Until the early 1920s, the loading of coal from neighboring mines played a role in freight transport. In 1905 a total of 8,062.58 tons were sent or received. In 1920 a local freight train starting at Ebernburg station on the Alsenz valley railway served all stations of the Glant valley railway between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Homburg. In 1972 he received 2,715 tons and dispatched 377 tonnes. Ten years later, receipts had shrunk to 1,467 tonnes, at which point dispatch was no longer an issue.

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 . 2008 ( online (PDF; 4.1 MB) [accessed December 1, 2012]).
  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71073-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 71 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 21 .
  3. ^ Map of the Mainz Railway Directorate from January 1, 1940
  4. ^ A b Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . 1997, p. 420 .
  5. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . Schweers + Wall, Eupen 2002, ISBN 3-89494-133-2 , pp. 83 .
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 7th ff .
  7. ↑ 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. 234 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 17th f .
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 19 .
  10. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 20 .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 20th f .
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 21st f .
  13. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 50 .
  14. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 60 .
  15. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 154 .
  16. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . 1997, p. 417 .
  17. ↑ lok-report.de: Gallery - Chronology Strategic Route (selection): . Retrieved October 3, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 101 .
  19. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 102 f .
  20. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
  21. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 49 .
  22. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 121 .
  23. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 40 .
  24. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 64 .