Bad Munster am Stein train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | SBMS |
| IBNR | 8000726 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | December 15, 1859 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bad_Muenster_am_Stein |
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| City / municipality | Bad Kreuznach |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 48 '48 " N , 7 ° 50' 49" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Bad Münster train station is a separation station in Bad Münster-Ebernburg , a district of Bad Kreuznach in the same district . It belongs to station category 4 and has four platform tracks. The station building from around 1910 is a listed building . The station is in the network area of the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (RNN) and belongs to tariff zone 401. Its address is Berliner Straße 20 .
The 1859 opened station was initially transit station of the Nahe Valley Railway , which at that time Rhein-Nahe-Bahn was called. In 1871, the Alsenz Valley Railway from Hochspeyer got its northern end point in what was then Münster. From 1904 to 1961 it was also the northeast terminus of the Glantalbahn, which was built for strategic reasons and started in Homburg .
location
Local situation
The train station is in the center of the Bad Münster am Stein district. It has a telephone, parking spaces and a taxi station.
Railway lines
Shortly before the Nahe Valley Railway, coming from the northeast, reaches the station, it crosses the eponymous river on a bridge. Then it turns west to run along the orographic left bank of the Nahe. The Alsenz Valley Railway comes from the south-southwest and also bridges the Nahe to merge a few hundred meters further into the Nahe Valley Railway. The now decommissioned Glantalbahn ran on the orographically right bank of the Nahe, before shortly after crossing the river, before the Alsenztalbahn, it switched to the local line.
history
Connection to the railway network through the Rhein-Nahe-Bahn
Although initial efforts to build a railway line along the Nahe go back to 1839, disputes between Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg over the route initially delayed the realization of such a line. While Prussia was to have the route directly along the Nahe, Oldenburg advocated the connection to the town of Birkenfeld , located in a side valley , which was also the capital of its exclave of the same name . 1856 there was on the part of the then to Bayern belonging Palatinate initiatives planned railway line at Boos from the Nahetal lead out to then to Altenglan along the Glan about Kusel and from there to St. Wendel or along the Easter up to Neunkirchen to let pass. The reasoning behind this third variant was based on the fact that it would be shorter and cheaper than a line running along the entire Nahe. For tactical reasons, Prussia was initially open to these plans, which led to Oldenburg giving in and accepting the lines originally advocated by the former.
After the section Bingerbrück – Kreuznach was already passable in 1858, the opening between Kreuznach and Oberstein took place on December 15, 1859, which gave Münster a connection to the railway network.
Creation of the Alsenz Valley Railway and subsequent period
From 1859 there was a continuous north-south magistale from the Rhineland via Rheinhessen to Ludwigshafen in the form of the Left Rhine route Cologne – Mainz and the Mainz – Ludwigshafen railway . However, the route via Mainz meant a detour, so that plans arose to build a shorter route that uses the local route from Bingerbrück to Münster and then along the Alsenz in the catchment area of the Donnersberg via Enkenbach and from there towards Neustadt. The plans were in competition with efforts to run a railway line from Staudernheim to Kaiserslautern along Glan and Lauter to Kaiserslautern. The planned route in the Alsenz valley was ultimately supported by Bavaria , through which it should run immediately south of Münster.
In order not to neglect the interests of the city of Kaiserslautern, a connecting curve to the Hochspeyer station was created south of Fischbach to enable appropriate train runs. The Hochspeyer - Winnweiler section was opened on October 29, 1870. The Winnweiler – Münster section followed on May 16, 1871. With the continuous opening of this route, which was designed as part of a north-south thoroughfare, the through station became a separation station. In 1884, the Rhine-Nahe Railway was expanded to two tracks.
Strategic railway construction
Around 1900 a number of strategic railway lines were built in the Rhine-Nahe region . As such, the Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach railway was opened in 1902 and, in this context, the Nahe Valley Railway between Bad Kreuznach and Münster was expanded to four tracks. Also in 1902 the train station of Münster a / St. in Bad Münster a / St. renamed.
In 1904 the Glantalbahn was connected . Bad Münster am Stein train station had to be fundamentally redesigned in a very confined space. After Münster was given the title “Bad”, the station was renamed to Bad Münster am Stein . The increased traffic and the increasing importance as a health resort led to the reorganization of the station facilities and the construction of a representative reception building around 1910. In the middle of World War II there were several attacks on Bad Münster in 1944 due to its importance as a strategic railway junction. The station building was destroyed.
In 1926 and 1927 the Calais-Wiesbaden-Express operated , which also stopped in Bad Münster. In the direction of Calais he drove on the local route, in the other direction on the other hand via the Glantalbahn.
Development since the post-war period
After the Second World War, the station building was rebuilt in a largely identical form. In the period that followed, the previously four-track section Bad Kreuznach – Bad Münster was also dismantled to two tracks due to a lack of additional requirements.
At the same time, however, the profitability of the Glantalbahn, which was built primarily for military reasons, came into question. Above all, the Odernheim - Bad Munster section running parallel to the Nahe Valley Railway had little traffic; the last continuous train to Homburg ran in 1946. On September 29, 1961, the said section was therefore closed and dismantled. From then on, all trains on the Glantal line had to travel east to Staudernheim and turn their heads there, including the express trains on the Zweibrücken - Mainz route (also known as the Munzinger Express ) that ran from 1965 to 1979 .
After the Ebernburg station was abandoned in the 1970s , the station has since been the only one within the Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg municipality created in 1969 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , which was incorporated into Bad Kreuznach in 2014.
In the course of modernization of the Nahe Valley Railway, the mechanical signal systems in the station were taken out of service around 1980.
Buildings
Reception and outbuildings
The first station building existed until around 1900. The current station building, which was built in the course of the strategic railway construction, is a representative one-story Art Nouveau building dominated by a large-format hipped roof and thus the architecture of the spa and bathing house of 1911 picks up. It was partly executed in half-timbering . To the north-west are the single-storey outbuildings with flatter hipped roofs.
Signal boxes
The station also had three signal boxes. The signal box I one was located in the northern area of the station, the interlocking II in the middle of the platform. In the southern station area there was also the so-called command signal box III . In the 1980s, the interlockings were replaced by a new relay interlocking of the SpDr S60 design, which was housed in the reception building.
Platforms
| track | Usable length | Platform height | Current usage |
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| 1 | 258 m | 20 cm | Towards Bingen |
| 2 | 258 m | 20 cm | Direction Mainz / Frankfurt |
| 3 | 290 m | 20 cm | Direction Kaiserslautern |
| 4th | 290 m | 20 cm | Direction Saarbrücken |
traffic
passenger traffic
With the continuous opening of the local line in 1860, a total of four pairs of trains ran between Saarbrücken and Bingerbrück. Today only one pair of trains runs from Saarbrücken to Bingen. The trains to and from Saarbrücken run on the Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach railway to Mainz, every two hours via Mainz to Frankfurt am Main, those from and to Bingen run via the Alsenz Valley Railway and the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway to Kaiserslautern, to in in the 2000s they ran over the Biebermühlbahn to Pirmasens. With the exception of the pair of trains mentioned, there are only connections to Bingen and Saarbrücken along the Bad Kreuznach – Bad Münster am Stein section.
Since the local line between Saarbrücken and Türkismühle has been electrified since 1969, the regional trains (RB) run westwards, with a few exceptions, only to Türkismühle; electrification of the rest of the Nahe Valley Railway failed due to the complicated topography of the route.
Freight transport
Due to its topography, the Nahe Valley Railway was of no importance in national freight traffic. On the other hand, coal trains from what is now Saarland and freight trains with excessive loading gauge ran on the Glantalbahn in the 1940s and 1950s .
Bad Münster had already been closed as a goods tariff point at the end of the 1980s. The siding of the Niederhausen power plant on the Glantalbahn section of the Odernheim – Bad Münster line, which was closed in 1961 , was still in service for a few decades and only dismantled in 1992. For this purpose, freight trains had to make a sawing run.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
- Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . 2009 ( Part 1 (PDF; 1 MB) and Part 2 (PDF; 2 MiB)).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Kreuznach district. Mainz 2020, p. 33 (PDF; 8.1 MB).
- ↑ RNN honeycomb plan 2020 (PDF; 1.6 MB) Retrieved on March 22, 2020 .
- ^ A b bahnhof.de: station profile > Bad Münster am Stein . Retrieved March 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 16 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe has its birthday part 1 . 2009, p. 5 f .
- ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe has its birthday part 1 . 2009, p. 6 .
- ↑ a b enkenbach-alsenborn.de: Construction of the Alsenz Railway . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 18, 2013 ; Retrieved March 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 12 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe has its birthday part 1 . 2009, p. 7 .
- ↑ The History of the Hindenburg Bridge, Part 1. Retrieved March 6, 2013 .
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes from June 14, 1902. 6th year. No. 30. Announcement No. 281, p. 218.
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 22 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 165 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 44 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe has its birthday part 1 . 2009, p. 8 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 52 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 65 .
- ↑ Kreuznach will take care of BME. Retrieved March 7, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional high-speed traffic line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday part 2 . 2009, p. 9 .
- ↑ nahebahn.de: The track plan and the signaling systems of the Bf Bad Münster 1963 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 15, 2010 ; Retrieved March 8, 2013 .
- ↑ deutschebahn.com: platform information> Bad Münster am Stein . Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 113 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . 2009, p. 12 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 121 .