Ebernburg station
| Ebernburg | |
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 Postcard view of the Ebernburg railway system around 1900
after a painting |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Price range | 7th |
| opening | May 16, 1871 |
| Conveyance | 1970s |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Late classicism |
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| City / municipality | Bad Kreuznach |
| Place / district | Ebernburg |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 48 '24 " N , 7 ° 50' 27" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 116 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Ebernburg station was the station of the place Ebernburg, which by 2014 from 1969 to Bad Münster belonged. In 2014 Bad Münster was incorporated into Bad Kreuznach . It was opened in 1871 when the Alsenz Valley Railway from Hochspeyer to Münster (from 1905 Bad Münster ) went into operation over its full length. As a former border station between the kingdoms of Bavaria and Prussia , it was of great importance. He was abandoned in the 1970s . The station building is a listed buildingand has housed the artists' station since 1979 .
history
Around 1860 there were first efforts to build a railway line along the Alsenz . In combination with the Maximiliansbahn and the Ludwigsbahn section immediately west of Neustadt, this was to serve as a north-south transit route for passenger and freight traffic between the canal ports and Switzerland and Italy . After the Hochspeyer– Winnweiler section had already been released on October 29, 1870, the line to Münster - including the Ebernburg station - was completed on May 16 of the following year.
Since 1922, the station belonged to the newly founded Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen . On June 1, 1936, the border between this directorate and the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz was moved, which was now also responsible for the Ebernburg station.
In 1937, the railway systems were modified, mainly affecting the signaling and interlocking technology .
During the Second World War , the station was attacked several times and the buildings were damaged. The Nahe bridge next to the train station was destroyed in the attack on December 26, 1944. After the end of the war , the reconstruction was only carried out on a small scale. The depot was no longer needed, as locomotive changes did not take place in Bad Münster am Stein, but in Bingerbrück , and therefore demolished. Only the extension for the staff remained, which "survived" as a privately owned house .
The German Federal Railways was divided the station after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, they all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. In 1971, when the Mainz directorate was dissolved, the station came under the responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart.
In the 1970s the station was abandoned. The main reasons for this were that in 1969 the municipality of Ebernburg was merged with the neighboring town of Bad Münster am Stein to form the new municipality of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg and that its spatial distance to the junction station in Bad Münster was less than one kilometer.
Furnishing
in the background the castle of the same name
The station had a total of ten tracks to carry out the handovers as a border station. Tracks 1 to 3 were mainly used for passenger traffic , tracks 4 to 10 for freight traffic. The lengths were such that all tracks could also be occupied by military trains. Between tracks 1 and 2 there was a two-sided bulk platform, next to track 3 a one-sided one.
The original signaling of the Pfalzbahnen with a division into three signal box districts was modernized in 1937. The En signal box located directly next to the Nahe bridge became superfluous. It was not demolished, but only destroyed by bombs in World War II.
The command signal box Eb , which was housed in the station building itself, was designed as a mechanical signal box of the type VES (United Railway Signal Works). The signal box Es located at the southern end of the station was rebuilt in the same way . The barrier system next to it was also operated from the signal box Es .
business
Although the station was a border station with Prussia until 1920, the locomotive was only changed at Bad Münster am Stein station due to the cramped conditions . Only a few freight trains were excluded. During the heyday of regional rail operations shortly before the First World War , up to 100 locomotive trips had to be made between the Ebernburg and Münster am Stein stations.
passenger traffic
Ebernburg station was only of local importance for passenger traffic. While the first timetable from the summer of 1871 contained a total of five mixed-class passenger trains stopping in Ebernburg, in the following year 1872 there were only four. The newly introduced pair of express trains no longer stopped in Ebernburg. The stopping point for this was the neighboring Bad Münster am Stein train station.
In the summer traffic regulations of 1880, three international express trains for the Cologne - Basel route via Bad Münster and Neustadt were already designated, which did not stop in Ebernburg.
In 1939 seven pairs of passenger trains stopped daily. In the night from Sunday to Monday, a passenger train to / from Hochspeyer ended and started here.
Freight transport
Local freight traffic only played a subordinate role at Ebernburg station. In its function as a border station or as a management border between the Palatinate and Prussian railways, it had its real meaning. It should also be noted that up to the early epoch III of the Federal Railroad, freight trains were accompanied by freight cars or luggage wagons that were not allowed to cross the boundaries of the directorate. During the Länderbahn era, in addition to changing the locomotives, it was above all the freight wagons in Ebernburg that had to be changed.
Ebernburg station also served as a starting point for local freight trains on the Glantalbahn . In 1920, for example, a local freight train drove from here via the Glantalbahn, which served the stations between Bad Münster and Lauterecken-Grumbach and then ran as a through freight train to Homburg .
Buildings
Reception building
The station building was built around 1880 and is a listed building . It is a late Classicist square building made of red sandstone, as it was typical for the buildings of the Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways. Comparable buildings can also be found in the Enkenbach , Langmeil or Winnweiler train stations . Its size was due on the one hand to its function as a border station to the neighboring Prussian Nahe Railway, and on the other hand to the fact that the noble family based on the Ebernburg wanted a representative station.
The station building has been marketed under the name "Künstlerbahnhof" since 1979 and houses studio rooms and an apartment for scholarship holders.
Depot
To function as the last Palatinate station on the Alsenz Valley Railway, both locomotive handling systems and a small depot (Bw) were built. This consisted of a two-tier, elongated locomotive shed with a workshop , bedrooms and a turntable as well as a four-tier roundhouse whose stands were not connected via the turntable, but via a combination of switches. The original turntable with a diameter of 12.5 m could only be replaced by one with 16.7 m due to the limited space in front of the shed in 1902. The depot was closed in the 1920s.
Other plants
In addition to a railway house and a goods shed on the station side, there was also a pump house and a water tower . The water was taken from the Nahe. Various loading ramps completed the equipment.
literature
- Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008 ( online (PDF; 4.1 MB) [accessed November 8, 2013]).
- 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 .
- Friedrich-Karl Schädlich: Short train station, long history . MIBA Verlag, Nuremberg 1988 (issues 1/88, 2/88 and 4/88).
- Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ "All Brothers Become People" - A multi-culti-reli-colori exhibition at the Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg from November 18 to November 26, 2006. Accessed on November 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 173 ff .
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of May 30, 1936, No. 25. Announcement No. 253, p. 125.
- ↑ a b Friedrich Karl Schädlich, Short train station with a long history, MIBA 1/88 to 4/88
- ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 66 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
- ↑ Allgemeine-zeitung.de: Kreuznach will maintain BME . Retrieved November 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Timetable for the summer service on the Palatinate Railways from June 15, 1871, Bavarian Main State Archives, Munich, signature Bavar. 4102.31-1871
- ↑ Timetable for the summer service on the Palatinate Railways from June 1, 1872, Bavarian Main State Archives, Munich, signature Bavar. 4102.31-1872
- ^ A. Mühl, Die Pfalzbahn, Konrad Theiss Verlag, page 115
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter .
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Kreuznach district. Mainz 2020, p. 35 (PDF; 8.1 MB; Berliner Straße 77).
- ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 420 f .
- ↑ kuenstlerbahnhof-ebernburg.de: The artist station and its surroundings . Retrieved November 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 221 .