Eisenbach-Matzenbach train station

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Eisenbach-Matzenbach
Eisenbach-Matzenbach stop in 2012
Eisenbach-Matzenbach stop in 2012
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation SEMA
IBNR 8001727
Price range 7th
opening September 22, 1868
location
City / municipality Matzenbach
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 29 '41 "  N , 7 ° 27' 23"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '41 "  N , 7 ° 27' 23"  E.
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Eisenbach-Matzenbach station - from 1907 to 1921 Matzenbach - is the railway operating agency of Rhineland-Palatinate local church Matzenbach . it belongs to station category 7 and has one platform track . The station is in the network area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 772. The address of the station is Am Bahnhof 2 .

It was opened on September 22, 1868 as a stop on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line. From May 1, 1904, it was also part of the Glantalbahn Homburg - Bad Münster, which was built for strategic reasons . In this context, he underwent some renovation work. The strategic line was gradually shut down from the 1960s. It has only been a stopping point since the 1980s.

location

Local situation

The breakpoint is located on the southern outskirts of Matzenbach not far from the Glans . The street Am Bahnhof runs east parallel to the stop . The Eisenbach district also extends to the west. The stop is 209.9 meters above sea level between the Rehweiler train stations (km 23.7 and 13.9 respectively) in the south and Theisbergstegen (km 28.5) in the north. The train station has parking spaces and barrier-free access.

Railway line

The Landstuhl-Kusel railway runs in this area in a south-north direction in a long S-curve within the Glantal. Originally, it was mile long. The stopping point at that time was therefore at 17.5 km. With the opening of the strategic railway, a new kilometer was introduced starting west of Scheidt on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line , which runs via Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan to Bad Münster. The station was at 49.2 km. The Glantalbahn was later given a new kilometer, which had its starting point in Homburg and which is used between Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan to this day.

history

Planning, construction and opening of the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line (1860–1870)

According to a memorandum published in Kusel in 1861, the railway was to branch off from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway in Landstuhl and run along Mohrbach , Glan and Kuselbach via Eisenbach and Matzenbach to Kusel. The memorandum argued, among other things, that building a railway would counteract the poor economic and social conditions in the region.

The construction of the 28.7 kilometer stretch from Landstuhl to Kusel was largely uncomplicated. The construction work on the section between Glan-Münchweiler and Kusel was delayed because not enough workers could be recruited. The first freight train ran on August 28, 1868. Theisbergstegen station was officially opened on September 22, 1868 with the commissioning of the Landstuhl – Kusel line - at that time part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The new railway line was received very positively by the population, as it improved the infrastructure in the rural region northwest of Kaiserslautern .

At that time the train stations were a stop. It initially had a 42-meter long loading track, which was followed by a coal store.

Plans for a strategic path (1868–1904)

The then Matzenbach train station in 1912

Although a railway line along the Glan as a connection between the Saar area and the region around Bingen would have been obvious from a geographical perspective, the irregular borderline between Bavaria and Prussia in the Glan Valley prevented such a construction for a long time.

After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and 1871, when France had to cede Alsace and Lorraine to Germany, there were also military reasons for a strategic north-south railway line along the Glans. It was resolutely championed by Prussia in particular. Another argument in favor of the railway construction was to create the shortest possible connection between Homburg and Bingen.

It was not until the end of the nineteenth century that Bavaria gave up its resistance to the construction of a strategic railway, as Franco-German relations had deteriorated significantly in the meantime. The plans provided for the construction of a main line from Mainz via Bad Münster along the Glans, using the Kuseler route between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler. In this context, the station underwent some modifications. In addition to a new reception building, it also received a loading ramp and a loading track, the length of which was 163 meters in total.

Further development

The strategic route from Homburg to Bad Münster, known as the Glantalbahn , was opened continuously on May 1, 1904; along this the train station was one of a total of 26 en route stations. Its geographical location meant that both places quarreled over his name. In 1907 the station was renamed Matzenbach , but was given its original name Eisenbach-Matzenbach again 14 years later. In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on May 1, 1936, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management .

The German Federal Railways was divided the station after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz, who all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. In 1959 the station lost its authorization for express freight and freight traffic. In 1971, in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management, the hold came back into the area of ​​responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart. At the beginning of the 1980s it was dismantled to the halt.

Between March 28 and April 19, 1989, the previously double-track section between Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan was dismantled to one track after the timetable had been switched to single-track operation a year earlier. Since then there have been no more crossroads in Eisenbach-Matzenbach.

In 2000 the station, like the entire West Palatinate, first became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .

Building

Former reception building (left in the picture) by Eisenbach-Matzenbach

Reception building

The earlier reception building has an architecture that is atypical for its peers; it is reminiscent of a house and has been rebuilt several times. Over the decades, it changed its external appearance like no other of its kind along the railway line.

platform

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 107 m 20/30 cm Regional trains in the direction of Kaiserslautern and Kusel

traffic

passenger traffic

Initially there were two mixed trains and two pure passenger trains . In the first year of operation of the Glantalbahn, four trains ran between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler in the direction of Bad Münster and four in the direction of Homburg. Only three pairs of trains ran from Homburg to Bad Münster, the rest only between Homburg and Altenglan. In 1905 a total of 7,492 tickets were sold in Eisenbach-Matzenbach.

Just a few years later, trains were running between Homburg and Kusel, which mainly served the miners from the region around Kusel employed in the Saar region. After the Second World War, in the course of the separation of what is now Saarland, their access was forbidden for the common population.

After the Second World War, no more trains stopped on site that traveled the entire Glantal route. Accordingly, only trains between Kusel and Landstuhl or Kaiserslautern served him.

Current connections

line route Clock frequency
RB 67 Kaiserslautern - Landstuhl - Glan-Münchweiler - Eisenbach-Matzenbach - Altenglan - Kusel Hourly

Freight transport

The station was of rather subordinate importance in freight traffic. In 1905 he received or sent a total of 4160.82 tons of goods.

In 1920 a local freight train operated on the Kaiserslautern-Kusel route and, if necessary, an additional one from Kaiserslautern to Altenglan. In the last few years of goods servicing, only handover journeys handled the operational activities on site. In the meantime, there is no longer any freight traffic in Eisenbach-Matzenbach.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (=  publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .

Remarks

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