Dahn train station

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Dahn
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DMU of 628 series in the station Dahn, in the background of the Virgin jump
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation SDA
IBNR 8079085
opening December 1, 1911
location
City / municipality Dahn
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 9 '17 "  N , 7 ° 46' 17"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '17 "  N , 7 ° 46' 17"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Dahn Station is the most important of the four stations in the Rhineland-Palatinate Country City Dahn . He has a platform track and a platform-less crossing track. The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 200.

It was on December 1, 1911 as a through station to that of Hinterweidenthal by Bundenthal-Rumbach leading Wieslauter railway opened. Regular passenger traffic continued until September 24, 1966, freight traffic ended in May 1995. Since 1997, the station has been served by passenger trains again for leisure traffic.

location

The station is located on the north-western edge of Dahn . The Wieslauterbahn runs in this area from north-north-west to south-south-east. The city's Außenermühlstrasse runs parallel to the train station in the west and Pirmasenser Strasse in the east . The latter is also part of the federal highway 427 . The station is dominated by the nearby Jungfernsprung , which protrudes further southeast into the middle of the settlement area.

history

Railway projects around Dahn

The first plans for the construction of a railway line via Dahn existed as early as 1862. The line was to run from Zweibrücken via Pirmasens , Kaltenbach and Bergzabern and, when there was wind, join the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn, which opened in 1855 . The planned Südpfalzbahn Landau – Zweibrücken , which should run along the Queich and Rodalb rivers, competed with this . Since the construction of a railway line via Dahn would have been difficult due to the topography, the southern Palatinate route opened in 1874 and 1875 was built.

After the Franco-Prussian War , neighboring Alsace-Lorraine fell to the newly founded German Empire . As a result, they sought to build a transit route along the Wieslauter via Dahn and Selz to Rastatt in the Alsatian city of Weißenburg . In 1873 a committee was set up in Dahn that pursued similar plans. At the same time, the management of the Palatinate Railways planned a railway line from Hinterweidenthal to Bergzabern.

The different ideas about the course of a route via Dahn persisted until the 1890s. Bergzabern, the end point of the route coming from Winden since 1870 , wanted the latter to be extended to Dahn, while Dahn pushed a route to Weißenburg. In 1899 the Bavarian side began planning a connection on the Pirmasens – Lemberg –Dahn – Weißenburg route . After it turned out that the financial outlay for such a route would be too expensive, the decision was made in favor of a branch route via Hinterweidenthal to Bundenthal.

Further development

The approval for the construction of the line was given in 1904. Seven years later, on December 1, 1911, the line was opened. The station, at which a band performed during the festivities, was one of a total of four subway stations between Kaltenbach Ost and Bundenthal-Rumbach .

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . 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 changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz management on April 1, 1937. The station building of the station fell victim to the fighting during World War II in March 1945.

post war period

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 . In the 1950s it had three ramps. Due to the track system at that time, it was an island station, as the platform, goods shed and the foundation of the destroyed station building were almost triangularly enclosed by tracks. In 1959, the station was given a new operational building, which is architecturally based on its predecessor and the other stations along the route.

Since the Wieslauterbahn caused a deficit of almost one million DM per year, the plans to discontinue passenger transport became more concrete. In 1966, the then local mayor of Dahn called on the population to protest against it. Regular passenger traffic ended on September 24th of that year. The population protested against this plan so vehemently that they delayed the departure of the last scheduled train, which arrived at Dahner Bahnhof at 11:30 a.m., by several hours. As the demonstrators blocked the route in part, the police were used against them. Only the Bundenthaler excursion train initially continued to run on Sundays and public holidays as a concession.

Recent past

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. The Bundenthaler, which, despite its name, last only drove to Dahn, was also discontinued in May 1976. In 1978 the DB had the signal systems removed; henceforth the station was controlled from the Hinterweidenthal stop on the Landau – Rohrbach railway line . A year later, the ticket office in the train station was closed, and despite the fact that it was no longer offering regular passenger traffic at that time, it was one of the five stations with the best-selling package tours within the Saarbrücken directorate .

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. The station is currently the only station on the route between Hinterweidenthal Ost and Bundenthal-Rumbach where train crossings are possible. The western track is only used when trains meet or for parking.

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 .

Buildings

Like its counterparts at the other stations along the route, the first station building was a half-timbered building. There were lamps on the outside of the platform roof. After its destruction in March 1945, only its foundations existed before it received a successor in a similar architectural style in 1959, which is currently used as a restaurant. In the course of a planned bypass road in the station area, however, its demolition is planned. There was also a now defunct goods shed.

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.

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

Important local freight customers were the chip basket factory Frank and the Raiffeisen cooperative. After the cessation of passenger traffic, Dahn station initially remained a freight tariff point along the route. Until the end of the 1980s, the station had a loading track. In the 1930s, the station mainly received construction materials and fuel because the Siegfried Line was built in its catchment area . After the Second World War, the numbers of goods traffic declined steadily: In 1972, 1930 tons of general cargo were received at the station, ten years later it was only 1012. The same picture was seen for shipping: 586 tons in 1972 compared to 53 tons in 1982. The freight track east of the company building was dismantled into two butt tracks, which were dismantled in 1997. Nevertheless, there is a track remnant in this area. On May 2, 1995, a freight train arrived at the station for the last time, which was officially suspended on the route 26 days later.

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 Dahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

  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. ^ 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
  3. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 33 .
  4. ↑ Reiner Schedler: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . 1998, p. 1 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 178 .
  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. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 7 .
  9. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 241 .
  10. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 249 .
  11. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 9 ff .
  12. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 7 .
  13. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 11, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  15. ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 42 .
  16. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 13 ff .
  17. ↑ a b c forget- railways.de: Hinterweidenthal Ost - Dahn . Retrieved December 11, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 34 ff .
  19. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  20. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: railway management Mainz - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  21. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 40 .
  22. ↑ a b c d Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  23. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 41 .
  24. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 6 .
  25. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 60 .
  26. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 15 .
  27. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 11 .
  28. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 19 .
  29. ↑ wieslauterbahn.info: Over 100 years of history ... The Wieslauterbahn from the first plans to today . (PDF) Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
  30. ↑ Reiner Schedler: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . 1998, p. 9 .
  31. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 50 ff .