Gersheim station

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Gersheim
Gersheim train station.1.jpg
Street side of the former reception building
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
opening March 1, 1879
Conveyance 1991
location
City / municipality Gersheim
country Saarland
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 8 '55 "  N , 7 ° 12' 35"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '55 "  N , 7 ° 12' 35"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Saarland
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first reception building of the train station Kaiserslautern about 1870, from the partially that of Gersheim arose
former track side of the station

The Gersheim station - from 1910 temporarily: Gersheim-Walsheim - was the station of the Palatine and later Saarland town Gersheim . It was opened on March 1, 1879 as a through station for the Bliestalbahn Zweibrücken - Saargemünd . Due to the addition of its southern section to France , which is located in Lorraine , after the First World War , it lost its importance, so that the Bierbach –Reinheim section, including the Gersheim station, was closed in 1991 for passenger and freight traffic . The former station building is now a listed building .

location

The station was centrally located within Gersheim. The local Bahnhofstrasse runs parallel to it . The Glan-Blies-Weg now runs on the former railway line . Originally, the Bliestalbahn was kilometers from Zweibrücken; accordingly, the station was at route kilometer 22.2. After the creation of the Saarland after the Second World War , the changed traffic flows were taken into account and a new kilometer system was introduced starting at Homburg Central Station , which ran via Schwarzenacker and Bierbach . From then on, the station was at route kilometer 24.4.

history

The first plans to build a railway line in the Bliestal already existed in the 1860s. A decade later, the corresponding plans took shape. A train station in the area of ​​the community of Gersheim was also planned for this. A retaining wall totaling 232 meters long had to be built specifically to gain the terrain required to build the station. On March 1, 1879, the Bliestalbahn was opened for freight traffic. Restricted passenger traffic was approved three days later. One month later, on April 1st, the regular timetable came into effect. In the first decades of its existence, the station was due to its importance for the neighboring community Walsheim the name Gersheim-Walsheim . In 1884 a loading template was set up at the station. The cost of delivery and installation on site was 195 marks. In addition, the station was given a loading area and a switch signal box. From 1888, the Bliestalbahn was consistently double-track. As a result of this and due to the new operating regulations for Bavarian main railways, the station received new signals for exit and transit. At the same time an economic building was added for the staff employed in the station, which took up 300 marks.

In 1901 several extensions took place. These mainly concerned the track systems. In addition, the loading area was completed. This required earth moving and grading work. An access road to the loading area and drainage systems were also added. Passengers were given two footstools , one of which was placed in front of the station building and a second on the platform.

In 1920, the Palatinate part of the Bliestalbahn, with the exception of the Zweibrücken starting point, was allocated to the newly created Saar area, which shifted traffic flows. Until 1935 the station was under the control of the Saar Railways. In addition, passenger trains went to Homburg, which was also part of the newly created area. The procedure was repeated after the Second World War. The Gersheim station was now part of the Saarland. In January 1976 the station received a new relay interlocking . After passenger and freight traffic on the Bliestalbahn came to a standstill in 1991, Gersheim station was the only one along the route that the DB did not classify as expendable. A year later, the clock installed in the station was also dismantled.

Buildings

Reception building

At the time of the opening of the route, the station building only existed as a shell and was completed by the mid-1880s. Initially, it was a two-story building with a cellar. It was equipped with rubble stones and plastered on the outside. At that time its area was 128.28 square meters. A waiting room, an administration office and a porter's room were located on the ground floor. The building also contained an apartment for the administrator. In addition, all signal boxes were housed in the building.

The first floor was originally part of the middle wing of the first counterpart in Kaiserslautern . The building received another wing and a third floor in 1900 and 1901, the costs of which were higher than originally forecast. This expansion made it possible to accommodate the porter's apartment, which was previously located in an outbuilding. The latter could henceforth be assigned to the goods shed. The additional costs for a previously made loan amounted to 8,500 marks.

After the line was closed, the building was sold to a private person and restored.

Other structures

In 1887 a water barrel system with a water tower was built. This cost a total of 2,449.65 marks . After the cessation of steam operation along the Blies section, it was dispensable and demolished in 1973.

There was a smaller signal box for the freight tracks of the lime works, which has since been demolished.

traffic

passenger traffic

In the first decades the passenger trains went to Zweibrücken, after the First World War, due to the separation of the Saar area, almost exclusively to Homburg. From 1952, the trains ran in a southerly direction only to Reinheim.

Freight transport

In 1885, 3,625.245 tons of goods were received or dispatched at the station. It increased continuously in the two decades that followed. In 1901 it was already 35,457.94 tons. At the beginning of the 20th century, a freight train on the Homburg – Saargemünd route served the station. The goods customers included the Walsheim brewery , the local lime works of the company Gersheimer Steine ​​und Erden GmbH , a Raiffeisen warehouse, a mill, an iron shop, two coal dealers and a brickyard. Mainly due to the lime works, freight trains with large loads often left the station, which were hauled by a class 218 diesel locomotive from the 1960s . The transported materials such as burnt lime, domomite and limestone mainly ended up in the Dillinger Hütte and the Neunkirchen ironworks .

After the Second World War, cross-border freight traffic was handled in such a way that a Kö II in Bliesbruck station pulled the corresponding wagons across the border. These were then optionally coupled to those freight trains in Reinheim or Gersheim that operated on the German section of the route. From the mid-1970s, the volume of goods in Gersheim station decreased increasingly. On March 1, 1977, the express and general cargo traffic ended. The decline in freight traffic meant that the loading tracks of the lime works and the Raiffeisen warehouse were dismantled in the 1980s.

Volume of goods at Gersheim station from 1885 to 1907

year 1885 1886 1895 1901 1906 1907
Volume of goods in tons 3625.245 4867,445 23378,980 35457,940 42285,720 43611,000

Todays use

Today a restaurant with beer garden is housed in the station building.

Today's Gersheim bus station is located next to the station building.

literature

  • Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . Edition Europa, Walsheim 2000, ISBN 3-931773-37-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 12, 1910, No. 10. Announcement No. 187, pp. 95f (96).
  2. ↑ Landesdenkmalliste, Saarland Official Gazette, December 22, 2004
  3. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 169 .
  4. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 213 .
  5. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 114 .
  6. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 88 .
  7. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 95 ff .
  8. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 170 .
  9. ^ A b Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 174 .
  10. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 206 f .
  11. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 248 f .
  12. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 90 .
  13. ^ A b Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 204 .
  14. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 164 .
  15. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 84 .
  16. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 212 .
  17. ^ A b Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 214 .
  18. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 142 .
  19. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 74 .
  20. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 199 .
  21. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 198 f .
  22. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 223 .
  23. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 55 .
  24. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 207 f .
  25. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 37 .
  26. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 224 .
  27. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 231 .