Bexbach station
| Bexbach | |
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 Bexbach station, street side
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | SBX |
| IBNR | 8000941 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1849 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bexbach |
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| City / municipality | Bexbach |
| country | Saarland |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 20 ′ 44 " N , 7 ° 15 ′ 15" E |
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| Railway stations in Saarland | |
The Bexbach station 1849 with extensions of 1872 and 1896 has the oldest railway station building in today's Saarland . When it was built, Bexbach was in the Rhine district of the Kingdom of Bavaria . It was put into operation together with Homburg Central Station and the opening of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway . While the Homburg station, which was destroyed in the Second World War, was given a new reception building in the early 1950s , the Bexbach station was retained. When it was built, it was also the border station between Bavaria and Prussia and the terminus of the historic Ludwig Railway through the Palatinate. Today it is a through station on the Homburg – Neunkirchen railway line . The building and its surroundings have been a listed building since 1996 .
history
From 1845 the purchase of land for the railway line and the Bexbach train station began; In the summer of 1848 the single-track line to Bexbach was completed, and a year later to the border at Wellesweiler . A good year later, the route to the Heinitz mine on Prussian territory. The most important reason for the construction of the entire route was the removal of the hard coal from the mines in Bexbach, St. Ingbert and (later) also Frankenholz, located on Bavarian territory.
The transport from the pits to the Bexbach train station took place for many years with horse-drawn vehicles, later from Frankenholz with a cable car. With the closure of the Bexbach and Frankenholz pits in 1959, the volume of goods at Bexbach station fell drastically. Today there are three shunting tracks and a siding with a total of 13 points in addition to the two through tracks . The goods hall was built in 1872/73.
Bexbach station was also of great strategic importance, as it was the deployment area of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. At the north end of the station a 500 meter long loading ramp was built in 1870, which during the First World War could unload more than 50 troop trains a day. A loading ramp of the same length was located in Limbach near Homburg (Saar) on the Rohrbach – Homburg (Saar) railway line and in Blieskastel- Lautzkirchen on the Landau – Rohrbach railway line . In 1966 the line was electrified .
In 1939, during the Second World War, work began on building a strategic railway line from Waldmohr-Jägersburg station on the Glantalbahn to Bexbach, bypassing Homburg. In May 1940, however, the work was stopped.
Reception building
Originally the two-storey, eaves-standing reception building was built as a simple rectangular structure in a round arch style similar to those of Kaiserslautern (1848) and Frankenthal (1853). Original plans of the floor plan are no longer available, but more recent plans suggest that there must have been a central passage from the station forecourt to the house platform from the start . The ticket office and other service rooms were on the right (east) side. On the left hand side a narrow corridor led to the baggage handling area and the various waiting rooms. The larger of the two for the 1st and 2nd class was with restoration , further down the corridor towards the end of the waiting rooms for the 3rd and 4th class, here too the bigger one with catering. The last-mentioned room was already a separate, attached structure and was accessible through two doors from the street and the platform. Later in the building history, all waiting rooms were removed in favor of a large hall. The cast iron roofing of the house platform was likely to have been built around the turn of the century, but was removed by one of the many renovations of the railway in the early 1980s at the latest.
Further renovations took place in the early 1960s and 1977, during which, however, the character of the building was largely destroyed, similar to other Saarland train station buildings such as in Luisenthal, Bous, Rohrbach , Lebach and many others. Today the station building is no longer accessible to the public.
The station building has been renovated and converted into a cultural station since February 2018 .
Current rail operations
There is only the minimum standard of service facilities at the train station; the station is not designed to be handicapped accessible . In the second half of 2011, the platforms were equipped with a dynamic text display (DSA).
Trivia
In 1995, the station building parts were the family-Heinz Becker episode Hilde goes into a convalescent rotated. The episode first aired on January 23, 1996.
literature
- Kurt Hoppstädter : The origin of the Saarland railways . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, 1961, ISSN 0018-263X (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies of the Saarland. Vol. 2).
- Annette Molter-Klein: 150 years of Bexbach station: 1849–1999, Saarpfalz / special issue; Publishing house Saarpfalz-Kreis, 1999
- Thomas Strauch: Monte Barbara, Frankenholz pit, Bexbach power station and Bexbach station: History in a burning glass, Strauch Verlag, 2005
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 683 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ http://www.saarland.de/dokumente/thema_denkmal/Tod2010-Plakat.pdf
- ↑ http://www.deutschebahn.com/site/bahn/de/geschaefte/inf Infrastruktur__schiene/netz/inf Infrastrukturregister/spurplaene/ISR/S/ SBX__ISR.svg
- ↑ a b http://www.bexbach.de/index.php?id=117 City of Bexbach
- ^ Report of the management of the Palatinate Railways on the administration of the railways under their management: in d. Years .. (Google eBook) , p. 39.
- ^ Friedrich Müller: Die Eisenbahn in Rohrbach, Wassermann Verlag, St. Ingbert, 1996, page 54
- ↑ On the development of the Saarland economy. Retrieved July 26, 2011 .
- ↑ Model railway friends Bexbach
- ↑ Kulturbahnhof will be ready in autumn. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , April 11, 2019
- ↑ Bexbach on www.bahnhof.de
- ↑ www.bahnhof.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) of Deutsche Bahn
