Glan-Münchweiler station

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Glan-Münchweiler
Entrance building of the station
Entrance building of the station
Data
Location in the network Through station (since 1987)
Separation station (1904–1987)
Through station (1868–1904)
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation SGM
IBNR 8002286
Price range 6th
opening September 22, 1868
Profile on Bahnhof.de Glan-Muenchweiler
location
City / municipality Glan-Münchweiler
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 28 '13 "  N , 7 ° 26' 41"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '13 "  N , 7 ° 26' 41"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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Site plan of the Glan-Münchweiler train station

The Glan-Münchweiler train station - also officially Glanmünchweiler around 1900 and from 1943 to 1947 - is the train station of the Rhineland-Palatinate community of Glan-Münchweiler . It belongs to station category 6 and has two platform tracks . The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zones 772 and 811.

It was opened on September 22, 1868 as a through station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line. With the completion of the Glantalbahn Homburg - Bad Münster, built for strategic reasons, on May 1, 1904, it became a separation station. He lost this function again when traffic on the latter in the Schönenberg-Kübelberg –Glan-Münchweiler section was discontinued in the early 1980s and subsequently dismantled. His address is Bahnhofstrasse 3 .

location

Local situation

The station itself has two tracks, a bus connection, park-and-ride spaces and barrier-free access. It is located on the eastern outskirts of Glan-Münchweiler; Bahnhofstrasse runs parallel to the railway line. The northern station area is bridged by the main road coming from the west, which is called Mühlstrasse to the east of the tracks. Immediately south of the reception building is a car park for mobile homes and the local volunteer fire department. In the southern area of ​​the station, the federal highway 423 crosses the railway line. The Bettenhausen district extends east of the train station. Immediately to the east of the station runs the Glan-Blies-Weg , which runs south to Waldmohr on the former railway line and north of Glan-Münchweiler over long stretches of the now dismantled second track of the Glantalbahn or the line to Kusel. In addition, the train station is the western starting point of the Barbarossa cycle path .

Railway lines

From the south-east, the railway line runs from Landstuhl to Kusel before reaching the station. It is 213.3 meters above sea level between the railway stations Niedermohr (km 11.3) in the southeast and Rehweiler (km 23.7) in the north.

From 1904 to the mid-1980s, the Glantalbahn came from the southwest, which merged with the Kuseler line just before the station and ran with it until just before Altenglan .

The Landstuhl-Kusel railway was originally a continuous kilometer. With the opening of the strategic railway, starting west of Scheidt on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line, a new kilometer system was introduced, which runs via Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan to Bad Münster and where the station was accordingly at 45.6 km. From Landstuhl, the kilometering ends in Glan-Münchweiler. The Glantalbahn was later given a new kilometer as far as Altenglan, which had its starting point in Homburg and according to which the station was at kilometer 21.8.

history

Title page of the memorial for the construction of the line in 1863

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

Railway construction committees were formed in Ramstein and Kusel as early as the early 1860s . 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 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 planned Landstuhl-Kusel railway line was equipped with a share capital totaling 1,740,000 florins on the basis of a concession from 1866  . A state interest guarantee also had to be used here.

The construction of the 28.7 kilometer stretch from Landstuhl to Kusel was largely uncomplicated. Cuts in the terrain were only necessary at Rammelsbach , whereby the construction workers came across a diorite deposit, which was further mined in the following period and gave rail traffic an additional boost. There, the Rammelsbacher Tunnel was the largest structure along the route. 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.

On September 20, 1868, the Glan-Münchweiler station was officially opened with the commissioning of the Landstuhl – Kusel line - at the time part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . On this day, a special train also ran from Ludwigshafen to Kusel, whose passengers included officials from the Palatinate railway lines, among others Gustav von Schlör , the then Bavarian State Minister for Trade and Public Works. The new railway line was received very positively by the population, as it improved the infrastructure in the rural region northwest of Kaiserslautern . Two days later the route was opened for regular traffic. Glan-Münchweiler was one of a total of ten en-route stations along the route.

Plans for a strategic path (1868–1904)

At first there were no train crossings in Glan-Münchweiler; it was only used later. 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, small states prevented a corresponding construction for a long time in the 19th century. Because in the lower Glan valley between Altenglan and Staudernheim, the border between Bavaria and Prussia was very irregular.

In the course of the concession of the Kusel line, efforts to build a line through the entire Glantal were given a boost. 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. A first draft was made in 1871, which essentially corresponded to the later course, but was shorter. Another argument in favor of the railway construction was to create the shortest possible connection between Homburg and Bingen. A connection to the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn in Bruchmühlbach or Hauptstuhl was considered.

Track plan from 1902

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 Metz fortress was already connected by several railways, but the connection from the Rhine was very difficult. After a variant running south-east had been eliminated, the plans included building a main line from Mainz via Bad Münster along the Glans, using the Kuseler route between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler. As early as 1897, in advance of the planning for the strategic railway, the crossing tracks in the station were extended to a total of 500 meters in order to ensure appropriate crossings with military trains. In 1899, Glan-Münchweiler received - like all train stations along the route - closing signals. As a strategic railway, the new line was built with two tracks from the start.

Further development (1904–1945)

Track plan from 1911

The strategic route from Homburg to Bad Münster, known as the Glantalbahn , was opened continuously on May 1, 1904; from Glan-Münchweiler to Altenglan it ran together with the Landstuhl-Kusel railway line. This made Glan-Münchweiler a railway junction. When the Glantalbahn went into operation, there was also a considerable expansion of the track system in the station. In the years 1913 and 1914, the only train overhaul in the history of the station took place in the timetable. A normal passenger train to Homburg had to wait for an accelerated passenger train from Bad Münster.

A military exercise took place in the Palatinate between September 24 and 27, 1938. Glan-Münchweiler was one of the destination stations for troop trains from Frankfurt am Main .

On May 5, 1941, a directory entitled "Vital Trains" was published. This was to prevent the fact that the timetable could often not be adhered to due to the Second World War, which had been raging since 1939 . It included a minimum number of trains that had to be adhered to despite the war conditions. Accordingly, at least six trains per day and direction had to run between Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan, and four between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler.

In 1943 the station was initially renamed Glanmünchweiler , but was given its original name back four years later.

German Federal Railroad (1949–1993)

The fact that today's Saarland was cut off after the Second World War contributed significantly to the fact that traffic between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler continued to decline in the period that followed. From 1956, only five pairs of trains ran between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler. In the mid-1950s, the local railway maintenance department , which was last responsible for the Landstuhl – Glan-Münchweiler and Jägersburg –Eisenbach-Matzenbach sections , was also dissolved.

At Whitsun 1955, some wagons derailed at Homburg Central Station so that the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway between Homburg and Landstuhl was closed for a few hours. Meanwhile, the trains were diverted via Glan-Münchweiler. In the early 1960s, the second track between Glan-Münchweiler and Schönenberg-Kübelberg was also dismantled . In 1962, Sunday traffic on the Homburg – Glan – Münchweiler section was discontinued.

As early as 1975, the Deutsche Bundesbahn tried to stop freight traffic between Glan-Münchweiler and Schönenberg-Kübelberg on December 31, 1975, but this was initially prevented; nevertheless, at that time there was no longer any freight traffic on this section.

On May 30, 1981, passenger traffic between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler was stopped after it had only included one train going north. This was accompanied by the cessation of overall operations on the Schönenberg-Kübelberg-Glan-Münchweiler section, and complete shutdown took place on June 3, 1984. In order to prevent the local train traffic, the DB removed several hundred meters of track on the section in 1984 without having to do anything An official decommissioning procedure had been carried out. Although in fact no main line for decades, the Glan-Münchweiler- Odernheim section was officially downgraded to a branch line on September 29, 1985. 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. In the following years Glan-Münchweiler was closed as a tariff point for goods; As a result, the number of tracks in the station was reduced to two.

Deutsche Bahn (since 1994)

In 1994 a committee was formed whose long-term goal was to reactivate the Glantalbahn between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler. In this context, the tracks between Homburg and Waldmohr should be maintained and the route from Waldmohr should not be broken up. So plans arose to create a cycle path on it.

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 . On May 18, 2002, on the now dismantled railway line between Waldmohr and Glan-Münchweiler, the Glan-Blies-Weg was opened as a side and hiking trail, which was gradually completed between 2001 and 2006.

The modernization of the station began in autumn 2003. This included a new construction of the platforms, which with a height of 55 centimeters enabled barrier-free access to the trains, a renewal of the lighting, the signals and the telephones, the demolition of the pedestrian bridge leading over the track system, the construction of new bus shelters and the construction of one new access to track 2. The federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate subsidized the measures with an amount of around 692,999 euros.

In 2011 and 2012, checks by the Kaiserslautern Federal Police took place at the train station. The reason for this was that, in their opinion, students traveling by train had repeatedly behaved inappropriately, for example by avoiding the level crossing and walking over the tracks or removing stones from the track ballast and then throwing them into the nearby Glan.

Buildings

Reception building

Outbuilding of the station

When it opened, the station received a two-and-a-half-storey reception building, which is stylistically based on those of other Palatinate stations that were built in the 1860s and 1870s and is accordingly equipped with external plaster. In accordance with the importance of the railway station, the gable-facing structure was relatively large and at the time of construction of the line largely corresponded to the reception buildings of Altenglan and Kusel. It has two and a half floors that were originally equipped with residential and administrative rooms. Immediately next to him, the station had a two-storey goods shed that was built on the eaves.

Both the station building and the goods shed underwent some structural changes in the following decades, during which the latter was also expanded. In the western area, the former had a wooden porch, which was demolished in the 1990s. The station building no longer plays a role in traffic. It is privately owned and has been restored along with its immediate surroundings.

Platforms

During the first three and a half decades, the station only had a house platform. After the Glantalbahn was built, two Schütt platforms were added, which were located between tracks one and three. In the 1960s, track three was removed and the two platforms in question gave way to a central platform. After the Glantalbahn was shut down, the station only has two outer platforms, which have been barrier-free since 2004.

Platforms, the station building in the background
Station area
Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 130 m 55 cm Regional train in the direction of Kusel
2 130 m 55 cm Regional train in the direction of Landstuhl

traffic

passenger traffic

Initially, two mixed trains and two pure passenger trains ran via Glan-Münchweiler . 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 26,653 tickets were sold at Glan-Münchweiler station.

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.

In 1909 there was a timetable gap of four hours between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler. This prompted the Kusel district office to file an application to close it. Then a third and fourth class passenger car was attached to a freight train between Altenglan and Theisbergstegen. In the 1930s in particular, there were several corner connections on the railway lines in the Glan and Lauter catchment areas, such as Homburg – Glan-Münchweiler – Ramstein.

From the beginning of the 1950s, a so-called “city express train” ran in the mornings between Kusel and Heidelberg with a stop in Glan-Münchweiler. As early as 1954 it was downgraded to an express train. In 1979 he was hired.

At the same time, Uerdinger rail buses were increasingly used , initially from those of the subtype VT 98 , which ran until the mid-1970s, and from 1960 the subtype VT 98 also came into play. After the suspension of passenger traffic between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler, they also disappeared from the route to Kusel.

In 1965, two pairs of express trains were set up between Zweibrücken and Mainz, which ran on the Glantalbahn and stopped in Altenglan. These were push-pull trains that were equipped with class V 100.20 diesel locomotives and so-called " silver coins ". The initiator of this connection was the then mayor of Zweibrücken, Oskar Munzinger , who at that time was also a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate and wanted to have his two jobs connected. This is why these trains were popularly known as the " Munzinger Express ". Due to the lack of a connection between Odernheim and Bad Münster, these trains had to go to Staudernheim , turn their heads there and then use the Nahe Valley Railway eastwards. In 1967 another pair of trains ran between Homburg and Gau Algesheim. From 1970 these connections were officially only local express trains before they were completely discontinued in 1979.

Current connections

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

Freight transport

In contrast to many other train stations along the Glan Valley Railway and the route to Kusel, freight traffic in Glan-Münchweiler played a rather minor role. In 1905 a total of 8,198.73 tons of goods were received or sold. In 1969 the number of truckloads sent was 75 and the number received was 479. In the first few decades in particular, coal was shipped from a nearby mine near Steinbach am Glan . In the early days there were no pure freight trains; instead, in the first few years, goods were transported using the two mixed pairs of trains.

In 1920 a local freight train ran from Kaiserslautern to Kusel and one from the Ebernburg freight station on the Alsenz Valley Railway , which supplied all stations along the Glantal Railway between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Homburg. In the 1990s, only transfer trains ran from the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard to operate the stations on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line - from the Theisbergstegen and Rammelsbach stations , which still had block trains due to the nearby quarries . The Glan-Münchweiler station no longer plays a role in freight traffic.

Bus transport

There is a bus stop at the station forecourt. It is served by the bus routes

All lines are operated by Saar-Pfalz-Bus GmbH , a subsidiary of DB.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71073-0 , p. 207-209 .
  • Andreas M. Räntzsch: The railway in the Palatinate. Documentation of their creation and development . Verlag Wolfgang Bleiweis, Aalen 1997, ISBN 3-928786-61-X .
  • 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 .
  • Victor von Röll : Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 1987 ( online [accessed March 18, 2013]).

Web links

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

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