Old train station (Lauterecken)

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Lauterecken
Entrance building of the former Lauterecken train station
Entrance building of the former Lauterecken train station
Data
Operating point type Railway Station (1883–1904)
Halt (1904–1912)
Location in the network Terminal station (1883–1896)
Intermediate station (1896–1912)
opening November 15, 1883
Conveyance 1912
location
Place / district Lauterecken
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 38 '41 "  N , 7 ° 35' 42"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '41 "  N , 7 ° 35' 42"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Old Station of Lauterecken was a station that existed 1883-1912. Built as the terminus of the Lautertalbahn coming from Kaiserslautern , it became a through station in 1896 by extending the line to Odernheim. With the opening of the continuous Glantalbahn from Homburg to Bad Münster in 1904 and the associated construction of the Lauterecken-Grumbach station , it was downgraded to a stop and abandoned in 1912. Its reception building, built in 1887, is a listed building.

location

The station was on the southern outskirts of Lauterecken on the left bank of the Lauter . It was 166.9 meters above sea level.

history

Opening and first years of operation

Track plan of the former Lauterecken train station around 1900

The station was built in 1883 as the terminus of the 34.1 kilometer long Lautertal Railway on the south-western outskirts of Lauterecken. When choosing the location, care was taken to ensure that the route could be connected to the Glantalbahn, which was already discussed at the time, as easily as possible. On September 17th of the same year there was a test drive on the whole route, the official opening of the route took place on November 15th.

It initially had 10,170 meters of sidings, eight switches, a small turntable, a water station and a small, separate locomotive shed. Just like the train stations in Kaiserslautern Westbahnhof, Lampertsmühle-Otterbach , Olsbrücken and Wolfstein , it was classified as a “station” and had sidings and sidings that were needed for freight traffic, as well as loading ramps, weighbridges and loading profiles. A porter and a switchman were also employed in the station itself.

Entrance of the former train station

In 1887, the brick-built station building gave way to a new building. As early as 1889 there was a request for a railway line from Lauterecken to Staudernheim. For strategic reasons, a stretch from Homburg to Bad Münster along the Glans was considered. In addition to the Glan-Münchweiler-Altenglan section of the Landstuhl-Kusel railway line , Lauterecken should also be included. As the first part of what will be called the Glantalbahn in the future , the Lauterecken – Odernheim section was built at the end of October 1896 as a direct continuation of the Lautertalbahn, making the station a through station. This was accompanied by an expansion of several points and tracks on the northern part of the station. At the same time, the Lauterecken stop was built in the north of the city to make it easier for residents of the northern part of the city and the communities in the central Glan Valley to access the railway. On July 1, 1897, the connection to Staudernheim took place .

Loss of importance and abandonment of the station

When planning the rest of the Glantalbahn, it turned out that Lauterecken station was in an unfavorable location with regard to a link with it. For this reason, the new Lauterecken-Grumbach station was built on the northwestern outskirts of the city not far from the previous Lauterecken stop , which began operations on May 1, 1904 with the opening of the Glantalbahn between Homburg and Bad Münster . The former was abandoned immediately afterwards. The previous Lauterecken station was then dismantled and renamed “Lauterecken stop”. In 1912 it was given up for lack of profitability. In the following period he acted as a siding for the Lauterecken railway maintenance office. The latter was dissolved in 1977.

Buildings

Roof of the reception building

The former station building is a house-integrated sandstone block structure. It is stylistically similar to the reception buildings in Odenbach, Meisenheim and Odernheim on the Glantalbahn and has two and a half floors. It now houses a sculpture for tombs . The goods shed from 1890 is also still there. Both buildings are listed together and have the address Rheingrafenstraße 10 .

traffic

passenger traffic

Immediately after the railway line opened, a total of three pairs of trains ran between Kaiserslautern and Lauterecken, operating as mixed trains . Only one set was required for them; accordingly there were no train encounters en route.

In the course of the extension of the line to Odernheim, five trains ran from and four to Kaiserslautern; there was also a couple who drove exclusively between Odernheim and Lauterecken. After the Lauterecken-Grumbach station was put into operation in the course of the opening of the Glantalbahn in its full length in 1904, the former station, which had now been dismantled to the halt, lost its importance. Already during the following year 1905 only 1,419 tickets were sold, along the Lautertalbahn only the stops Roßbach, Oberweiler and Sambach had an even lower volume of passenger traffic. For this reason it was closed in 1912, along with a few other unprofitable ones on the route.

Freight transport

After the opening of the railway line, the station initially developed into a transshipment point for coal. Many local coal traders and those from the lower Glantal opened a coal warehouse at the station or offered transport services to it. With the start of operations at Lauterecken-Grumbach station, freight traffic was also relocated there.

literature

Web links

Commons : Alter Bahnhof (Lauterecken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de: Informational directory of cultural monuments - Kusel district . (PDF; 1.5 MB) Retrieved December 27, 2012 .
  2. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 14 .
  3. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 9 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 96 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 13 .
  6. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 21 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 69 .
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 64 .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 102 f .
  12. ↑ grabmale-haussmann.de/: Grabmale-Bildhauerei Haußmann Lauterecken - Stones that endure . Retrieved December 22, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 15 .
  14. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 10 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 20 .
  16. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 123 .