Frankenstein (Pfalz) train station

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Frankenstein (Palatinate)
Frankenstein train station with the former station building in the background
Frankenstein train station with the former station building in the background
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RFST
IBNR 8002036
Price range 6th
opening December 2, 1848
Profile on Bahnhof.de Frankenstein__Pfalz_
Architectural data
Architectural style Late classicism
location
Place / district Frankenstein
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '21 "  N , 7 ° 58' 11"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '21 "  N , 7 ° 58' 11"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The station Frankenstein (Pfalz) is the stopping point of the Rhineland-Palatinate local community Frankenstein (Pfalz) . It belongs to the station category 6 of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and has two platform tracks . The station is on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line , which essentially emerged from the Palatinate Ludwigshafen – Bexbach railway . It was opened on December 2nd, 1848, when the Ludwigsbahn section Kaiserslautern –Frankenstein went into operation. On August 25 of the following year, the gap to Neustadt was closed , so that the Ludwigsbahn had its full length. Since December 2003, the stop has been part of the S1 and S2 lines of the Rhein -Neckar S-Bahn . Its reception building is a listed building.

location

The breakpoint is located on the north-western outskirts of Frankenstein (Palatinate) . His address is Hauptstrasse 9 . In this area, federal highway 37 and the Hochspeyerbach run directly parallel to the railway line . A few hundred meters east of this is the Schlossberg of Frankenstein Castle , which the route in the Schlossberg tunnel crosses under . The hamlet of Diemerstein joins the Diemerstein valley north of the train station . In the western area of ​​the station the Glasbach flows into the Hochspeyerbach.

history

Planning, construction and opening

The original plan was to put a north-south railway line into operation within the Palatinate (Bavaria) , which should compete with the Mannheim – Basel line planned by Baden . At the same time, industrialists from the Palatinate , as the Rhine district was also called from the 1830s, were interested in facilitating the transport of coal to the Rhine for the mines in the Bexbach catchment area . A route via Kaiserslautern and thus via Frankenstein was already established during the planning period. In contrast to the larger neighboring Hochspeyer , a train station was planned for Frankenstein from the start. The interests of Paul Camille Denis , the builder of the Ludwig Railway, played a major role. On the one hand, he was friends with Carl Adolph Ritter, who lived in the village . In addition, Denis settled himself on site for a time, bought Diemerstein Castle and had a villa built in the immediate vicinity, the so-called Villa Denis . On December 21, 1837, the Bavarian King Ludwig I gave the green light for the construction of a main line in an east-west direction from the Rheinschanze to Bexbach.

The Ludwigshafen – Neustadt section was opened on June 11, 1847. The crossing of the Palatinate Forest between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt proved to be particularly difficult , which is why after the opening of the Ludwigshafen (formerly Rheinschanze) –Neustadt section on June 11, 1847, the railway was not continuously expanded to the west. In the Homburg – Kaiserslautern section, the substructure was already in place at this point, while the earth dams were largely completed by Frankenstein. The Homburg - Kaiserslautern section was opened on July 2, 1848. On December 2nd, the section was tied through to Frankenstein. The station building was completed on November 16. The station clock had existed since November 3rd. On June 6 of the following year, Bexbach was reached in a westerly direction. In particular, the completion of the Neustadt –Frankenstein section was delayed due to the land acquisition required for the railway construction and the difficult topography. Due to the hills and foothills of various mountains, a total of ten tunnels had to be built. The permanent opening finally took place on August 25, 1849.

Further development

Frankenstein station in 1900

At the beginning of the 20th century, like all other stations in the Palatinate, the station received platform closures. During this time, the station was managed by the Neustadt a Hardt Operations and Building Inspectorate and was part of the responsibility of the Lambrecht railway maintenance office . In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly founded Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen . A year later employed at the station railway workers were the carried out in the course of France, to 1924 permanent director operation reported. Then they returned.

With the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management on April 1, 1937, the station changed to the responsibility of the Mainz management and the Neustadt operations office (RBA). 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. Since the main line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken, which emerged from the Ludwigsbahn, has always been of great importance for long-distance traffic , it was gradually electrified from 1960 onwards. From March 8, 1960, it was possible to drive electrically on the Saarbrücken – Homburg section. The Homburg – Kaiserslautern section followed on May 18, 1961. The electrification of the remaining section was delayed mainly due to the numerous tunnels that had to be widened between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt. In 1962 the masts and cross bracing were already in place in the station while the contact wire had not yet been pulled in. A switch was built in the eastern area of ​​the station because in the immediately adjacent Schlossberg tunnel only the southern track was accessible during the electrification work. From March 12, 1964, the entire length of the route with the Frankenstein train station was electrically accessible.

Platform for trains in the direction of Kaiserslautern, in the background the former station building 2011

In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz management, from August 1, 1971 the one in Karlsruhe was responsible for the train station. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted. The border to the neighboring Saarbrücken headquarters was immediately west of the train station. The station has been part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) since 1996 . From 2000 to 2006 it was also part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV). With the abandonment of freight traffic, the station was dismantled as a stop. In 2003, with the integration of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken line to Kaiserslautern into the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn, the platforms were upgraded to meet the needs of the disabled on behalf of DB Station & Service by the company Wieland & Schultz GmbH. The opening of the S-Bahn, in whose system the station has since been integrated, took place on December 14, 2003.

Buildings

Reception building

Entrance building seen from the street side

The station building was built during the construction of the line in the Italian style, like many of the station buildings on what was then the Ludwigsbahn, some of which have since been replaced. In terms of its construction, it resembles a castle . In view of the size of Frankenstein, it turned out to be architecturally very demanding, which is due to the fact that Denis had temporarily settled on site. In contrast, the entrance buildings of the Kaiserslautern and Neustadt train stations were only made of wood at the time.

It is a two-and-a-half-storey, slate-roofed building with a hipped roof with characteristics of late classicism , including a gable projection. The building was plastered for a long time and had a roof for the platform that had been dismantled in the meantime. Such was restored in the 2010s. The building is no longer important for rail operations and is currently not used for any purpose. Public access no longer exists.

Systems and other buildings

East area of ​​Frankenstein train station with signal box in 1899

In addition to the two through tracks, there was a stump track in the northern part of the station and another freight track in the southern part. In the eastern area of ​​the station there was a signal box on the north side of the track system. In the meantime, the facilities have been dismantled and the station has been downgraded as a stopping point. Remnants of the northern stump track are still there. In addition to the main platform, there was an island platform between the two main lines, which was later replaced by a side platform at the southern end of the station.

traffic

passenger traffic

Timetable in 1884

After the Kaiserslautern – Frankenstein section was opened in December 1848, a total of three pairs of trains initially ran to Homburg. In 1865 three pairs of trains ran on the Worms – Neunkirchen route. In 1871, passenger trains took between 27 and 31 minutes to travel from Frankenstein station to Kaiserslautern, and up to 40 minutes to Neustadt. In 1884, local trains ran primarily on the Neunkirchen - Worms route . In addition, there were trains that only ran on sections such as Neustadt – Kaiserslautern and Kaiserslautern – Worms. Some did not stop at all the stations on the way, and Frankenstein was not approached by all local trains.

The trains on the Alsenz Valley Railway ran on the Bad Münster –Neustadt route in the summer of 1914 , made heads at Hochspeyer station and also stopped in Frankenstein. During the First World War and the interwar period, local transport was largely limited to the Neustadt – Kaiserslautern route. In the middle of the Second World War, most of the local trains only ran on partial sections along the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway. In a westerly direction they usually reached a maximum of Homburg. In the post-war period, traffic was again largely restricted to the Neustadt – Kaiserslautern section. From 1991 trains operated on the Trier - Offenburg route , which stopped east of Kaiserslautern everywhere and thus also in Frankenstein. A few years later, trains on the Homburg – Neckarelz – Osterburken or – Heilbronn route were added. From 2001, the trains that had previously run to Offenburg ran mostly exclusively to Karlsruhe .

In 2014, the “Rheintal-Express” and “Weinstraßen-Express” trains, which ran on Sundays and public holidays from May to October on the Koblenz - Bingen - Bad Kreuznach - Rockenhausen - Neustadt - Wissembourg and Karlsruhe route, also stopped in Frankenstein. The station is in the area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to the 990 tariff zone.

Passenger train connections in the 2015 timetable
Train type Route Clock frequency
S1 Homburg (Saar) - Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Frankenstein (Palatinate) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) - Osterburken Hourly
S2 Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Frankenstein (Pfalz) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) Hourly

Freight transport

former loading ramp at the train station with remains of track

Like all stations along the former Ludwigsbahn, the station had a goods handling facility . In 1871 the normal freight trains on the Ludwigsbahn stopped there on the Kaiserslautern – Mainz, Homburg – Frankenthal routes. Ludwigshafen – Neunkirchen, Worms – Homburg between three and five minutes. There was also a stone train on the Kaiserslautern – Ludwigshafen route, which stayed at the station for a total of 20 minutes. In the service book for the staff there was the following remark: "Steinzug 41 has to take the stone wagons loaded at the Katharinenwoog with it in the following way: The machine drives from Frankenstein station on the south track after the break and brings the loaded wagons on the same track to Frankenstein station, to join them to the stone train. If passenger train 6 has not met the Steinzug on the line, the former has to stop in front of the Weidenthal quarry until Steinzug has left. ”Coal trains stayed at the station for between three and four minutes. From the 1980s, transfer trains served the station, which at that time no longer formed a separate freight tariff point. It was operated from the Neustadt main station , which it served as a satellite. In the meantime, freight traffic has ceased.

Incidents

  • On October 28, 1863, an empty freight train arrived at the station. At its end there was a van that housed 50 workers. The train driver wanted to get water for his locomotive. After this was done, he started the train. A passenger train came from the same direction and rammed the van, causing seven deaths.

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

Commons : Bahnhof Frankenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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