Enkenbach station
| Enkenbach | |
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 Entrance building of the station
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| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | SENK |
| IBNR | 8000372 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | October 29, 1870 |
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| City / municipality | Enkenbach-Alsenborn |
| Place / district | Enkenbach |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 29 '25 " N , 7 ° 53' 58" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Enkenbach Station is currently the only station of Rhineland-Palatinate local church Enkenbach-Alsenborn . It belongs to the station category 6 of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and has two platform tracks . The station is in the network area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 828. Its address is Bahnhofstrasse 2 .
It is located on the Alsenz Valley Railway Hochspeyer - Bad Münster and was put into operation on October 29, 1870 with the opening of the section from Hochspeyer to Winnweiler . On May 16 of the following year it was opened in full. In 1875 the station became the eastern terminus of the Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach railway , which was a shorter route for trains on the Alsenz line to Kaiserslautern . In 1932 the Eistalbahn Grünstadt - Eisenberg , which had existed since 1876, was tied through to Enkenbach . The latter has now been shut down between Eiswoog and Enkenbach.
location
Local situation
The station is located on the eastern edge of the settlement area Enkenbach of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality Enkenbach-Alsenborn. To the west of it runs parallel to it the local Bahnhofstrasse and the Klosterbach . The Rosenhofstrasse - also the national road 395 - crosses the southern station area. Alsenborn already extends directly to the east of the station . It has parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, bus connections and barrier-free access.
Railway lines
The Alsenz Valley Railway runs in the station area from south-south-east to north-north-west. South of Enkenbach, the otherwise double-track line is only single-track. The Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach railway line reaches the station from a south-westerly direction in a 90-degree curve. The Eistalbahn , which has since been closed down in this area , crossed the Alsenz line north of the train station at no level before entering the stump forest via Alsenborn .
history
Planning, construction and first years
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 should serve as a transit route in the north-south direction. Since Enkenbach itself is not on the river in question, it was unclear whether the route would go through the town. For example , the city of Otterberg , which lies further to the west, aimed for a route over its terrain. The responsible engineers rejected this, however, and advocated a route via Enkenbach to Hochspeyer , as this was topographically simpler.
The Hochspeyer – Winnweiler section was released on October 29, 1870, and the line to Münster was completed on May 16 of the following year . In the beginning, Enkenbach was a long-distance stop for trains in the direction of Neustadt for travelers from Kaiserslautern .
Although the route for trains to Kaiserslautern had a connecting curve to the Hochspeyer station , Barbarossa in particular found the tour via Hochspeyer awkward. On their initiative, the Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach railway was opened on May 15, 1875 .
Further development
In the course of planning the Eistalbahn , which opened in 1876 and ran from Grünstadt to Eisenberg, efforts were made to extend it to Enkenbach in the long term. This should also serve as the shortest possible connection between Kaiserslautern and Worms . However, the resistance of Bavaria initially prevented the connection. At the beginning of the 20th century , the planning was in progress, this time the construction was thwarted by the First World War .
In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the same year, the construction of the extension of the Eistalbahn to Enkenbach began before the occupation of the Palatinate by France interrupted the construction. Only on November 5, 1932 was the Eistalbahn to Enkenbach passable. In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen directorate, he moved to the Mainz directorate on April 1, 1937.
After the Second World War, the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , which allocated all the railway lines within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . As early as 1971, when the Mainz management was dissolved, it came under the responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart .
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 .
Reception building
The entrance building was built in the style of late classicism. The stations Annweiler am Trifels , Kirchheimbolanden , Langmeil and Marnheim received similar buildings in the route network of the Palatinate Railways .
traffic
passenger traffic
In the first few years, traffic to Kaiserslautern ran exclusively via Hochspeyer, before a shortcut was created in 1875 with the Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach railway line . After the completion of the Biebermühlbahn Kaiserslautern – Pirmasens in 1913, a continuous pair of trains ran via Enkenbach via the Donnersbergbahn to Mainz and via the Zellertalbahn to Darmstadt. From 1994 to 2002 the trains on the Alsenz line ran to Pirmasens.
| Train type | Route | Clock frequency |
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| RB 65 | Kaiserslautern - ( Hochspeyer -) Enkenbach - Rockenhausen - Bad Münster a Stein - Bad Kreuznach - Langenlonsheim - Bingen (Rhine) | Hourly |
Freight transport
Freight traffic came to a standstill in the meantime. Accordingly, all tracks were dismantled.
Trivia
The blue station sign at the station bears the inscription "Enkenbach-Alsenborn", while the official name "Enkenbach" is still used for the announcements on the train, as it is still on the station building for historical reasons.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 October 18, 2013 .
- ↑ The station is also known as Enkenbach-Alsenborn , cf. the station signs at the train station.
- ^ 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 October 18, 2013 .
- ↑ a b bahnhof.de: Hochspeyer . Retrieved February 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 173 f .
- ↑ enkenbach-alsenborn.de: Construction of the Alsenz Railway . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 18, 2013 ; Retrieved October 18, 2013 .
- ↑ schrankenposten.de: The history of the Eistalbahn Grünstadt - Enkenbach . Retrieved August 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
- ↑ Martin Wenz: Type stations of the Palatinate Railways on the Southern Wine Route . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 16 f .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserlsautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 13 ( Online (PDF; 2.6 MB) [accessed October 23, 2012]). Online ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
