Albersweiler train station

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Albersweiler
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Building of the abandoned Albersweiler train station
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Platform tracks 2
opening September 12, 1874
Conveyance 1984
Architectural data
Architectural style Late classicism
location
Place / district Queichhambach
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 13 '6 "  N , 8 ° 1' 9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '6 "  N , 8 ° 1' 9"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Albersweiler Station - beginning: Albersweiler-St. Johann - was the train station of the Rhineland-Palatinate community of Albersweiler . It was opened on September 12, 1874 when the Landau – Annweiler section went into operation. In 1984 it was given up in favor of a nearby stop.

location

The Albersweiler train station was located in the district of Queichhambach - since 1972 part of Annweiler am Trifels - at the level of the hamlet of Neumühle to the east of the town center . The Queich flows immediately to the north . Bundesstraße 10 also runs immediately south of Neumühle . East of the former train station is the boundary to the local community of Albersweiler.

history

In the course of planning the route through the Queichtal, a local match factory, the nearby granite quarries and the Ramberger Tal with the local brush industry served as arguments for a train station in the Albersweiler area . The station was opened as part of the Landau (Pfalz) –Annweiler am Trifels section on September 12, 1874. In addition to Landau Westbahnhof, Godramstein and Siebeldingen-Birkweiler, the former Albersweiler-St. Johann one of a total of four train stations on the way; the second part of the name came from a remote settlement of the same name belonging to Albersweiler. At the beginning of the 20th century, like all other stations in the Palatinate, the station received platform closures . During this time, the station was managed by the Landau Operations and Building Inspectorate and for several decades was the seat of a railway maintenance office, whose area of ​​responsibility extended from Godramstein to Wilgartswiesen. In 1910 the Albersweiler-St. Johann in Albersweiler i Pfalz .

After Germany had lost the First World War and the French military had marched in, the Palatinate route network south of Maikammer-Kirrweiler was closed to passenger traffic on December 1, 1918, but was reopened three days later. In the following years the station name was changed to Albersweiler .

In 1922, the station was assigned to the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . A year later employed at the station railway workers were the carried out in the course of France, to 1924 permanent director operation reported. Then they returned. In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen, the station changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management and the operations office (RBA) Zweibrücken on May 1, 1936. 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. In 1971 the station came under the responsibility of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted. Due to the close proximity to the settlement, the station was abandoned in 1984 and replaced by a new stopping point in the area of ​​the local community of the same name.

Buildings

All the station buildings such as the reception and ancillary buildings as well as goods sheds still exist, but are no longer of any importance for rail operations.

With its architecture, the reception building represents a singularity within the Palatinate. It consists of a front building with three floors and a short longitudinal building. A few years after the route was opened, it was given a roof for passengers on the platform side. In the 1930s, a signal box was set up on the ground floor. The outbuilding on the western part of the station acted as goods handling. The station building was converted into a residential building; At the same time, the signal box systems disappeared . A signal bridge at the western end of the station was also part of the equipment.

traffic

passenger traffic

The timetable from 1897 partly contained continuous local trains from Zweibrücken to Germersheim ; there were also those that were limited to the Landau – Zweibrücken section. A decade later, five local trains ran between Landau and Zweibrücken. In 1914, on Sundays and public holidays, a pair of trains ran via the Wieslauterbahn , which opened in 1911, to Bundenthal-Rumbach. The timetable from 1944 included local trains from Karlsruhe via Landau and Zweibrücken to Saarbrücken in some cases.

The Bundenthaler was reactivated in 1951 and already operated from Ludwigshafen during this time . As far as Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , he followed the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , in order to use the Maximiliansbahn after a change of direction to Landau and then the Landau – Rohrbach railway to Hinterweidenthal. It then drove as an express train to Hinterweidenthal, and Albersweiler was the only stop on the way between Landau and Annweiler. In the 1950s, the Landau – Zweibrücken railway line was recorded as its eastern continuation to Germersheim under the course book number 280. However, you usually had to change trains in Landau. The through trains from Germersheim to Zweibrücken also had a longer stay at Landau's main train station. In 1965, Albersweiler was on the move with express trains on the routes Landau – Rohrbach, Landau – Zweibrücken and Landau – Kaiserslautern; the remaining local trains ran on the routes Landau-Zweibrücken and Landau-Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof.

Freight transport

At the beginning of the 20th century, operated freight trains on the Kaiserslautern – Homburg – Landau – Germersheim and Saarbrücken – Landau – Germersheim routes ran the station. Up until 1906, a nearby granite quarry was an important local freight customer. On May 30, 1976, all train stations outside of the railway hubs were closed as independent goods tariff points, which also affected the Albersweiler train station. From then on, transfer trains served the station, which from that time on served as a satellite for Landau's main station . Most recently, he was responsible for the toy factory Theo Klein GmbH based in nearby Ramberg . Freight traffic was completely stopped in 1984 when the station was closed.

literature

  • 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 .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 265 .
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  6. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 12, 1910, No. 10. Announcement No. 187, pp. 95f (96).
  7. ↑ Werner Schreiner: Paul Camille von Denis. European transport pioneer and builder of the Palatinate railways . 2010, p. 126 .
  8. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 38 f .
  9. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
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  24. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 17 .
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