Freinsheim train station

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Freinsheim
Freinsheim train station
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation RFHM
IBNR 8000374
Price range 4th
opening July 20, 1860
Profile on Bahnhof.de Freinsheim
location
City / municipality Freinsheim
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 30 '9 "  N , 8 ° 12' 17"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '9 "  N , 8 ° 12' 17"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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former, listed station building

The Freinsheim station is a separation station near Freinsheim in the Palatinate . Here the Freinsheim – Frankenthal line joins the Palatinate Northern Railway . The station is one of the most important railway hubs in the Palatinate.

location

The train station is located on the southwestern outskirts. The northern line circumnavigates the city north of the station in a long S-curve. The route to Frankenthal circles the southern outskirts in a wide arc.

history

The station was opened on July 20, 1873 as part of the Dürkheim –Grünstadt section on the Palatinate Northern Railway. On October 15, 1877, the station was expanded with the opening of the connecting line to Frankenthal. During this time the station was administered by the Neustadt Operations and Building Inspectorate and was the seat of a railway maintenance office. In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . 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. In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management, he changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz management on April 1, 1937; at that time he was subordinate to the works office (RBA) Neustadt.

The German Federal Railroad (DB), which was responsible for rail operations from 1949, incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , which allocated all the railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz directorate in the early 1970s, its counterpart in Karlsruhe was responsible for the train station with effect from June 1, 1971. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted.

The station has been part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) since 1990 .

Railway facilities and surroundings

The station has three tracks and two platforms. The city-side platform is used by the trains to Neustadt / Grünstadt; the other platform is used by the trains coming from Frankenthal / Grünstadt. The station building, erected as a unitary building, is no longer used today.

The station is located on the western outskirts of Freinsheim, with the station district to the west of the station. In the south of the station, the connecting line to Frankenthal joins the Palatinate Northern Line. Due to its central location in the Frankenthal-Grünstadt-Bad Dürkheim triangle, the station plays an important role in the Palatinate.

The station building, a three-storey plastered building with a sandstone portico and wooden roof, was built in 1872/73 and is a listed building .

Operation (as of 2017)

Freinsheim station is only served by local transport . Mainly trains of the DB series 622 and 623 run on the two routes . The trains from Neustadt alternately end every half hour in Freinsheim or continue to Grünstadt. The trains from Frankenthal end in Ramsen on weekdays ; on Sundays and public holidays, continue to the Eiswoog . On Sundays and public holidays in summer the "Elsass-Express" also runs once in each direction (in the morning towards Wissembourg, in the afternoon towards Mainz).

line Train run Clock frequency
RE Mainz - Alzey - Grünstadt - Freinsheim - Bad Dürkheim - Neustadt (Weinstrasse) - Landau - Winden - Wissembourg a pair of trains (on Sundays and public holidays)
RB 45 Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf - Bad Dürkheim - Freinsheim (- Grünstadt) every half hour
RB 46 Frankenthal Hbf - Freinsheim - Grünstadt - Eisenberg (Pfalz) - Ramsen (- Eiswoog) every hour, Monday to Friday, sometimes every half hour to Grünstadt

Web links

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

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 205 .
  2. ^ Fritz Paetz: Data collection on the history of the railways on the Main, Rhine and Neckar. Bensheim-Auerbach 1985, p. 23.
  3. Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 267 .
  4. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 38 f .
  5. bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 13, 2013 .
  6. Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  7. Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  8. bahnstatistik.de: railway management Mainz - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved July 14, 2014 .
  9. queichtalbahn.npage.de/: Chronicle from 1947 to 1994 . Retrieved September 15, 2015 .
  10. vrn.de: hinundweg - The customer magazine of the Rhein-Neckar transport association . (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 29, 2012 ; Retrieved September 26, 2014 .
  11. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 40 (PDF; 5.1 MB).