Bundenthal-Rumbach train station

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Bundenthal-Rumbach
railway station
DMU of 628 series (left) and Uerdingen railcar of the type 798 (right) at the station Bundenthal-Rumbach
Data
Location in the network Terminus
connecting station (1921-1930)
Design Terminus
Platform tracks 1 (previously 2)
abbreviation SBTR
IBNR 8079087
opening December 1, 1911
location
City / municipality Bundenthal
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 6 '8 "  N , 7 ° 48' 22"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '8 "  N , 7 ° 48' 22"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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Station building, today used as a restaurant
Diesel multiple units in Bundenthal-Rumbach station on May 18, 2003

The Bundenthal-Rumbach station - temporarily Bundenthal - is the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Bundenthal . He owns a platform track and a siding . The station is located in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 220. It was opened on December 1, 1911 as a terminus along the Wieslauterbahn , which begins at Hinterweidenthal Ost station. From 1921 to 1930 it was also the eastern terminus of the Wasgauwald Railway coming from Ludwigswinkel .

location

The station is located on the northwestern edge of Bundenthal and has a total length of around 400 meters. State road 489 runs in the east parallel to the railway line, which comes from the north-north-west, and is initially identical to the local main road and, after the confluence with Bahnhofstrasse , is identical to the latter. To the west of the line, Industriestrasse also runs parallel to the tracks. The nearby Wieslauter forms the boundary to the neighboring municipality of Rumbach . The reception building of the station is located at kilometer 15.1, is located while the absolute end of the track at km 15.324. This is marked by the state road 478 to Rumbach. On the left bank of the Wieslauter, which is close to the end of the line south of the former station building, the tracks of the Wasgauwaldbahn to Ludwigswinkel were located from 1921 to 1930.

history

Planning, construction and opening

The first plans to build a railway line through the Palatinate part of the Wasgau did not include a connection from Bundenthal. After the Franco-Prussian War , neighboring Alsace-Lorraine fell to the newly founded German Empire . Immediately from this resulted efforts on the part of the Alsatian Weißenburg (formerly Wissembourg ) to build a line serving international traffic along the Wieslauter via Dahn and Selz to Rastatt . In 1873 a corresponding committee was founded. In the same year a committee was formed in Dahn that planned a route along the Wieslauter. At the same time, the management of the Palatinate Railways presented plans for a railway line from Hinterweidenthal to Bergzabern, which was to run mainly along the Lauter. A link with a route to Weißenburg was included from the start. However, the negative economic situation in the 1870s prevented the plans from being implemented.

Only in the 1890s were corresponding plans revived, although a route via Bundenthal was again unclear. After it turned out that crossing the Wasgau in an east-west direction would be too expensive, the decision was made to build a railway line branching off the Landau – Rohrbach railway line at Hinterweidenthal and running along the Wieslauter to Bundenthal. Approval took place in 1904. Seven years later, on December 1, 1911, the route opened. The terminus was given the double name "Bundenthal-Rumbach" in accordance with its importance for the nearby municipality of Rumbach.

Further development

Initially, the station had three regular tracks and a siding in front of the station building. Later the track systems were rebuilt so that there was a siding in addition to two bypass tracks in the northern area of ​​the station.

In 1921 the station became the eastern terminus of the narrow-gauge Wasgauwaldbahn from Ludwigswinkel , which initially served exclusively the French military stationed there and whose facilities were built west of the standard gauge tracks on the other bank of the Wieslauter. A year later, the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In 1924 the narrow-gauge line was opened for regular passenger traffic, but was shut down and dismantled just six years later after the withdrawal of the French troops. In 1935, the Reichsbahn equipped the station with Bruchsal signal boxes and new signaling technology.

In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management on April 1, 1937.

German Federal Railroad

The German Federal Railroad (DB), which was responsible for rail operations from 1949, incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , which allocated all the railway lines within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . Regular passenger traffic ended on September 26, 1966. The Bundenthaler excursion train , which runs on Sundays and public holidays , was retained for the time being as a concession to the population, who had vehemently protested against the closure. As a curiosity, the latter ended at that time in the Dahn train station , despite its name , where passengers had to change to a train from Saarbrücken that also ran to Bundenthal-Rumbach, which also only ran on Sundays .

Monument locomotive Škoda 1435 Cs 500 from Dillinger Hütte
Buffer stop at the southern end of the station

After the DB had already decided to demolish the reception building, two entrepreneurs from the region succeeded in preventing them and instead converting the building into a restaurant. In 1972 the association Fördergemeinschaft Wasgau e. V. , who managed to save the station building, which was then renovated through volunteer work. The Federal Railroad itself subsidized these plans in the form of 5000 DM; this amount was identical to the costs that the dismantling of the structure would have entailed. The goods shed disappeared before the association was founded. In the following period, the development association acquired a Škoda industrial locomotive of the type 1435 Cs 500 from Dillinger Hütte , built in 1941 , which was installed in 1972 on the station forecourt in Bundenthal.

In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz management at the beginning of the 1970s, its counterpart in Saarbrücken was again responsible for the station with effect from August 1, 1971. From the end of the 1980s, the track systems were dismantled. Since then, only tracks 2 and 3 have existed, the former track 1 on the house platform was built over and a siding was dismantled.

Deutsche Bahn (since 1994)

On June 1, 1997, passenger traffic was reactivated at the weekend. In the following years the offer was expanded a little. Freight traffic has not taken place since 1995. In 2000, like the whole of the West Palatinate , the station became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV) before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the railway line, which was celebrated on September 9, 2011, an exhibition was held at the station that documented its history.

Buildings

When reception building is like its counterparts at the remaining stations of the way around a half-timbered building. It is no longer relevant for the railway itself and is now used as a restaurant. There used to be a timber-framed locomotive shed south of the current end of the line and the road to Rumbach with appropriate treatment systems. The Wasgauwaldbahn , which ran from 1921 to 1930, had its own depot south of the narrow-gauge systems.

traffic

passenger traffic

The first timetable recorded a total of four pairs of trains. At weekends, the range of train services was usually a bit broader.

During the six years during which the narrow-gauge Wasgauwaldbahn was opened for regular traffic, its train service included both mixed and pure passenger trains .

In the first years after the reactivation of passenger transport on Sundays and public holidays in 1997, two pairs of trains ran, the number of which was later increased to four.

Freight transport

At the station there was a goods hall that was responsible for general cargo. Timber transport played a major role in freight transport itself. Grain was also delivered. After the cessation of passenger traffic, the Bundenthal-Rumbach station initially remained a freight tariff point along the route. Until the end of the 1980s, the station had a loading track. After the Second World War, the numbers of goods traffic declined steadily: while 3,407 tons of general cargo were received at the station in 1972, ten years later it was only in 1959. The same picture was seen with shipping: 7209 tons in 1972 compared to 2636 tons in 1982.

literature

  • Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011 ( Online (PDF; 2.7 MB) [accessed December 10, 2013]).
  • Reiner Schedler: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . In: Wolf-Dietger Machel (Hrsg.): Branch and narrow-gauge railways in Germany (then & now) (from Rügen to Rosenheim, from Aachen to Zwickau) . GeraNova magazine publisher, 1998.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Bundenthal-Rumbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  2. ↑ michaeldittrich.de: IBNR online search . Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  3. ^ Vrn.de: Regional rail network and honeycomb plan . (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved December 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vrn.de
  4. ↑ a b vergessene-bahnen.de: Dahn - Bundenthal-Rumbach . Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  5. ^ Bf (u) Bundenthal-Rumbach [km 15.130]. (PDF; 22 kB) Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft mbH, April 15, 2013, archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on September 27, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  6. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 6 .
  7. ↑ Reiner Schedler: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . 1998, p. 3 .
  8. ↑ a b c Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 16 .
  9. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 14 .
  10. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 7 .
  11. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  13. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 42 .
  14. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  15. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: railway management Mainz - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  16. ↑ vrn.de: 09.09.2011 - VRN - 100 years of Wieslauterbahn . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved December 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vrn.de
  17. ↑ kbaystb.de: Railway stations and their pictures in Bavaria (left bank of the Rhine) - Railway station: Bundenthal - Rundach - Local railway line: Hinterweidenthal - Bundenthal (opening December 1st, 1911) . Retrieved December 11, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways . 1987, p. 211 .
  19. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 11 .
  20. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 19 .
  21. ↑ wieslauterbahn.info: Over 100 years of history ... The Wieslauterbahn from the first plans to today . (PDF) Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  22. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 50 ff .