Dirmstein train station

Dirmstein train station
Old train station in Dirmstein
Data
Design	Through station
opening	July 1, 1891
Conveyance	May 14, 1939
Architectural data
Architectural style	Neo-renaissance
location
City / municipality	Dirmstein
country	Rhineland-Palatinate
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 34 '2 "  N , 8 ° 14' 56"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '2 "  N , 8 ° 14' 56"  E
Railway lines
Local railway Frankenthal – Großkarlbach (km 19.25)
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate

The former train station of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein , locally known as the Alter Bahnhof , is a listed building ensemble. Built in 1890, it was operated as a through station from 1891 to 1939 in connection with the then local railway . Today the facility is municipal property and is used as accommodation for migrants and asylum seekers .

Geographical location

The old station is northeast of the historic town center on the north side of Obersülzer Strasse (house number 2), which is identical to Landesstrasse  453, and to the west of the junction with Friedhofstrasse. The Bahnhofstrasse opens diagonally across from the town center. During its operating time, the station was about 300 m outside the enclosed residential area. With one exception - the property at Obersülzer Straße 1 opposite the train station goes back to the Wilhelminian era - the surrounding houses all date from the time after the Second World War .

investment

The main building, a doppelgeschossiges station building is structurally identical to the station of Großkarlbach , which lies on the same route. He has an eaves gable roof . The two-tone brick facade is structured in the neo-renaissance style by hewn sandstones . The eastern part of the facade is dominated by a gable risalit . The former goods shed in the same style is attached to the west . The facility was completed by an economic building that also exists to this day .

In its correspondence with the station building of Großkarlbach, the Dirmsteiner Bahnhof is a striking example of the type of construction common in station architecture .

history

plans

At the end of the 1880s it was planned to create a railway network for narrow-gauge railways with a gauge of 1000 mm in the Ludwigshafen catchment area . The routes were primarily intended to bring commuters from the surrounding areas to BASF . One of the routes was to connect the communities west of the city from Frankenthal. The course beyond the most populous municipality of Dirmstein was not fixed from the start; one extension variant provided for a connection from Obersülzen , another, however, that of Großkarlbach. A connection to Grünstadt was also considered, which was never realized. The variant with the end point Großkarlbach finally prevailed.

Establishment

Dirmstein station was built in 1890 by the Eisenbahn-Actien-Gesellschaft Ludwigshafen , which was responsible for the operation of the local railway, which began the following year. The local railway was a single-track, narrow-gauge line. From July 1, 1891, it led from Frankenthal train station , where the connection to the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line was made, westwards via Heßheim , Laumersheim and Dirmstein to Großkarlbach. In Dirmstein, the station was the only local stop in the early years of railway operations, but later the Heuchelheimer Straße (in the northeast of the municipality) and Laumersheimer Straße (in the southwest) were added.

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly founded Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen . When this was dissolved, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz directorate on April 1, 1937 .

traffic

At the time of opening, five pairs of trains ran daily. The 8.25 km drive to Frankenthal initially took 34 minutes from Dirmstein, but in 1918 the time had increased to 42 minutes because more stops were served. In 1937 there were eleven pairs of trains, and the journey between Dirmstein and Frankenthal usually took a little more than 30 minutes.

The tracks ran in front of the station right next to the northern edge of the road. A separate loading platform was available for the goods traffic of the local agricultural cooperative; Agricultural products such as wine were loaded there.

Shutdown

After 48 years of operation, the local railway line was shut down on May 14, 1939. In Dirmstein, in addition to the former train station, the Bahnhofstrasse and the Lokalbahnstrasse are a reminder of them . The track systems were dismantled piece by piece in the years after the closure. The former track area is now owned by Deutsche Bahn .

literature

• Jochen Glatt, Manfred Halkenhäuser: The Frankenthal – Großkarlbach local railway 1891–1939 . Pro Message, Ludwigshafen 2005, ISBN 3-934845-29-0 .
• Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate . Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land, Hettenleidelheim. tape 13 , no. 2 . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 978-3-88462-215-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 29 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
2. ↑ Jochen Glatt, Manfred Halkenhäuser (ed.): The Frankenthal – Großkarlbach Local Railway 1891–1939 . 2005, p. 17 .
3. ^ Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions. bahnstatistik.de, accessed on August 14, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Jochen Glatt, Manfred Halkenhäuser (ed.): The Frankenthal – Großkarlbach Local Railway 1891–1939 . 2005, p. 6 .
5. ↑ Jochen Glatt, Manfred Halkenhäuser (ed.): The Frankenthal – Großkarlbach Local Railway 1891–1939 . 2005, p. 57 .
6. ↑ Jochen Glatt, Manfred Halkenhäuser (ed.): The Frankenthal – Großkarlbach Local Railway 1891–1939 . 2005, p. 16 .