Contwig railway station

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Contwig railway station
railway station
Contwig station with reception building
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation SCN
IBNR 8001341
Price range 7th
opening November 25, 1875
Profile on Bahnhof.de Contwig
Architectural data
Architectural style Late classicism
location
City / municipality Contwig
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 14 '43 "  N , 7 ° 25' 42"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '43 "  N , 7 ° 25' 42"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Contwig train station is one of a total of two train stops in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Contwig . It belongs to the Deutsche Bahn station category 7 and today has a platform track . The station is in the network area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 713.

It was opened on November 25, 1875 as a through station for the Südapfalzbahn Landau – Zweibrücken . Its reception building is also a listed building.

location

The stop is located on the south-eastern outskirts of Contwig . The railway line runs in this area in an elongated curve in an east-west direction within the Schwarzbachtal .

history

First efforts for a railway connection from Contwig

In the course of the planning of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway , the route east of Bexbach was not fixed from the start. On January 10, 1838, a meeting took place in Speyer , which marked the beginning of share subscription for the route. A landowner from Wachenheim suggested that the railway line run via Zweibrücken and from there via Annweiler and Langenkandel to the Rhine . The written justification followed on January 20th of that year. Although the government of the Rhine district passed this on to Munich , it did not prevail. Another participant in the event argued that a corresponding route along the route would be more cost-effective, but would bring less profit than one via Kaiserslautern .

When the Bavarian Railway Company of the Palatinate / Rheinschanz-Bexbacher-Bahn was founded on March 20, 1838, the eastern end point of the Rheinschanze was also fixed, which initially made a railway connection from Contwig a long way off.

Planning and construction of the Landau – Zweibrücken line

Nevertheless, even after the Ludwigsbahn opened its full length in 1849, efforts were made to build a line from Zweibrücken to Landau. However, the Palatinate Railway Administration initially rejected such an option, as it feared competition with the Ludwig Railway and the construction of the section through the Palatinate Forest would be very complex. However, the Queichtal communities did not give up and persistently advocated the construction of such a connection. Above all, Annweiler with its industrial settlements, but also the places between Landau and Annweiler, should benefit from a railway connection.

Against this background, a planning committee initially considered setting up a branch line from Landau to Annweiler as an alternative solution. Then, however, under pressure from the city of Landau, the committee changed its concept and then also campaigned intensively for the construction of a line from Landau – Pirmasens – Zweibrücken. This time his efforts were successful: the committee received the approval to prepare a suitable design, which however had to be financed itself. The license required for this was granted on April 1, 1865.

Between Pirmasens and Zweibrücken there were differences of opinion about the route. One draft should lead via Hengsberg , another via Walshausen and along the Trualb via Hornbach and Ixheim . However, it turned out that a direct line of the route via Pirmasens would be very difficult due to the topographical conditions. Therefore, the concept was developed according to which the route should run a few kilometers north of the city. Coming from the east, it should first lead through the valley of the Rodalb and then follow the Schwarzbach. This alignment had the advantage that only a slight incline had to be overcome and with the Neuhof tunnel at Rodalben only one tunnel had to be built.

Further development

First, in 1874, the Landau– Annweiler section was completed, with parts of the Albersweiler Canal built at the end of the 17th century being built over; this section was commissioned on September 12, 1874. On November 25, 1875, the line was extended to Zweibrücken. From 1887, the Landau – Bierbach main line consisted of two tracks.

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 administered by the Zweibrücken Operations and Building Inspectorate and was part of the area of ​​responsibility of the Zweibrücken railway maintenance office . In 1922 the station was incorporated into 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 dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management, he changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management on May 1, 1936; at that time it was under the control of the Zweibrücken Works Office (RBA). In the course of reparations payments, the second track between Landau and Bierbach was dismantled by the French occupying forces along the route after the Second World War , as a result of which the main line gradually lost its importance.

The Deutsche Bundesbahn incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , which allocated all the railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate . On August 1, 1971, the line came under the jurisdiction of its Saarbrücken counterpart again in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted. In 1993 the Bundesbahn had plans to shut down the line between Wilgartswiesen and Zweibrücken, which was prevented by the rail reform . At the same time, the station was also dismantled as a stop. In 2000, like the whole of the West Palatinate , the route first became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .

Buildings

building

The station building and the goods shed no longer have any significance for rail operations. The latter now serves an industrial company. When the station building was built cannot be determined with any certainty today. It is said to date from around 1900, although its appearance is significantly older. The station building was sold and renovated. It now serves as a residential building.

platform

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 134 m 55 cm Regional trains in the direction of Pirmasens and Saarbrücken

traffic

The timetable from 1897 contained continuous local trains from Zweibrücken to Germersheim ; in addition, such services also operated between Zweibrücken and Biebermühle to Pirmasens . A decade later, five local trains ran between Landau and Zweibrücken; In addition, there was another pair of trains on the route Zweibrücken – Pirmasens. Trains on the Saarbrücken – Pirmasens route have been running every hour since 1994, stopping exclusively in St. Ingbert between Saarbrücken and Rohrbach.

Passenger train connections in the 2013 timetable
Train type Route Clock frequency
RB 68 Saarbrücken Hbf - St. Ingbert - Rohrbach (Saar) - Zweibrücken Hbf - Contwig - Pirmasens Nord - Pirmasens Hbf hourly

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 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regional rail network and honeycomb plan. (PDF; 311 kB) VRN, accessed on April 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Südwestpfalz. Mainz 2020, p. 8 (PDF; 8.7 MB).
  3. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 54 .
  4. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 63 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 177 .
  6. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 177 f .
  7. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 179 f .
  8. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 183 .
  9. ↑ a b Zeitchronik from 1874 to 2000. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; Retrieved October 1, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 265 .
  11. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstr. – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 75 .
  12. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 267 .
  13. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 38 f .
  14. ^ Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions. Retrieved December 13, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  16. ↑ queichtalbahn.npage.de/: Chronicle from 1947 to 1994 . Retrieved September 15, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Current and historical pictures. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved October 1, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Local public transport and school transport. Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Railway stations and their pictures in Bavaria (left bank of the Rhine) - Railway station: Contwig - Main line: Annweiler - Zweibrücken (opening November 25, 1875). Retrieved September 21, 2013 .
  20. ^ Station profile> Contwig. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved October 1, 2013 .
  21. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 254 .
  22. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 175 .