Hochspeyer station

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Hochspeyer
former station building and one of two current platforms
former station building and one of two current platforms
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation SHY
IBNR 8002875
Price range 4th
opening October 29, 1870
Profile on Bahnhof.de Hochspeyer
location
City / municipality Hochspeyer
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '39 "  N , 7 ° 54' 17"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '39 "  N , 7 ° 54' 17"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Hochspeyer station - at times officially Neuhochspeyer or Neu-Hochspeyer - is the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Hochspeyer . It belongs to the station category 4 of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and has four platform tracks . The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 100. Its address is Bahnhofstrasse 1 .

It is located on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , which essentially emerged from the Palatinate Ludwigshafen – Bexbach railway . The separation station was opened on October 29, 1870, when the branching Alsenz Valley Railway led to Winnweiler ; half a year later this was tied to Bad Münster . However, its importance for this route declined when the Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach line opened a few years later . Since December 2003, it has also been a stop on the S1 and S2 lines of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn .

location

Hochspeyer station (on the right in the picture) from the northeast

The train station is located on the eastern outskirts of Hochspeyer . To the north of it, the Hochspeyerbach and Bundesstrasse 48 run almost parallel . The local Bahnhofstrasse branches off from the latter and ends a little later at the station. The Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway runs through the town in an east-west direction. The Alsenz Valley Railway branches off in a north-easterly direction to run on a single track as far as Enkenbach . The station itself is located at 54,236 km. The zero point of the kilometers is between Bexbach and Neunkirchen on the former Bavarian - Prussian border.

history

Origin and aftermath

Although a route for the Palatinate Ludwig Railway via Kaiserslautern and thus also via Hochspeyer was already established early on during the planning phase, no train station was initially planned for Hochspeyer. The local mayor at the time, Wilhelm Ritter, convinced the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company better, so that a train station was finally built on the western edge of the town. 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 was to serve as a transit route in a north-south direction. The engineers rejected plans to run the railway line via Otterberg and advocated a route via Enkenbach , which should thread east of Hochspeyer into the Ludwig Railway towards Neustadt. In order not to neglect the interests of the city of Kaiserslautern, a connecting curve to Hochspeyer was created south of Fischbach to enable appropriate train routes. Hochspeyer received a new train station in the east of its settlement area especially for this purpose. The Hochspeyer– Winnweiler section was released on October 29, 1870, and on May 16 of the following year it was completed to Münster am Stein .

The station, which had existed since 1848, from then on functioned exclusively as a freight station and was given the new name Alt-Hochspeyer . The newly created branch station was officially called Neuhochspeyer or Neu-Hochspeyer at times . However, since this caused confusion, it was permanently changed to Hochspeyer . The city ​​of Kaiserslautern in particular felt the connection to the Alsenz Valley Railway via Hochspeyer as a detour. The Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach railway line was therefore built on their initiative , which made the station less important as a branching station.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the station was under the management of the Kaiserslautern I Operations and Building Inspectorate . For decades, the station was also the location of a railway maintenance office, which was responsible along the east-west main line until shortly before Frankenstein and included the Heiligenberg and Franzosenwoog tunnels, among other things . Their area was along the Alsenz route until shortly before Enkenbach .

Hochspeyer station (below) in 1921

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution, on April 1, 1937, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz directorate. Within this, the Neustadt Works Office (RBA) was responsible.

post war period

Since the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line, which emerged from the Ludwigsbahn, has always been of great importance for long-distance traffic , it was gradually electrified from 1960 onwards. On March 8, 1960, it was possible to drive electrically on the Saarbrücken – Homburg section. The Homburg – Kaiserslautern section followed on May 18, 1961, and from March 12, 1964, the entire length of the route - including the Hochspeyer station - was electrically accessible. The electrification of the remaining section had been delayed mainly due to the numerous tunnels between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt, which had to be widened for this. The Hochspeyerer Bahnmeisterei had already been integrated into that of Kaiserslautern at this point . In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz management, from August 1, 1971, its counterpart in Saarbrücken was responsible for the train station. On December 20, 1985, a prototype of the ICE 1 also stopped at the station. June 28, 1988 there was a railway accident at nearby Heiligenberg tunnel when a express train collided with an oncoming freight train. The two demolished locomotives of both trains and a damaged UIC-X car were then for some time on a siding in Hochspeyer. A few months later the locomotives were dismantled on site.

The station has been part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) since 1996 . From 2000 to 2006 he was also a member of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV). In the course of the integration of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway to Kaiserslautern into the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn , the platforms were expanded to make them suitable for the disabled. The S-Bahn was opened on December 14, 2003, and the station has been integrated into its system ever since. From August 2 to 13, 2013, Deutsche Bahn had the points renewed in the station - mainly at night and on weekends.

On May 25, 2015, a remarkable incident occurred in the train station. A passenger waiting on the platform fell into the track bed while a freight train was approaching. Believing that he would get his mobile phone in good time before the train arrived, he went to the tracks, but underestimated the speed of the train. Then he lay flat on the track bed and let the train roll over him. He sustained a serious head injury. The driver alerted the police because he believed he had run over him. The passenger was then searched for by the police and fire department.

Buildings

Reception building, outbuildings and signal boxes

former outbuilding in the western part of the station

Like all the other station buildings that were built in the Palatinate around 1870, the station building was built in the style of late classicism . It is similar to that of Albersweiler and Langmeil . It turned out to be comparatively large and has since become inoperable. A little west of it is a former sandstone outbuilding. Several signal boxes were abandoned after the Second World War. The one at the flyover of Bundesstraße 48 has meanwhile been renovated and converted into a restaurant. This was built at the time of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and is made of natural sandstone. The roof was made from natural slate.

Since the 1970s the station has had light signals and a Lorenz lane plan pushbutton interlocking (Alcatel SEL), type 60, and unlike many other operating locations, it remained locally manned. It was decommissioned in late April 2007; As a result, the local dispatcher was omitted , so that the station is now remote-controlled. Since then, the station has been under the responsibility of the Neustadt electronic interlocking , which in turn is subordinate to the Karlsruhe operations center .

Investments

View of tracks 2 and 3

In the southern area, the station had several freight and sidings until the 1990s. In addition, there used to be a house platform with the associated track, but both disappeared when the reception building for railway operations was abandoned. It currently has four tracks. Tracks 2 and 3 serve as through tracks. The platforms were modernized as part of the integration of the station into the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn. There are two different entry heights on tracks 3 and 4. At track 1 there is an access and rerailing area for a two-way vehicle from the local fire brigade in order to be able to provide help in the nearby Heiligenberg tunnel .

In addition, there is the Hochspeyer Ost railway station - abbreviation SHY-O - about one kilometer further east , from which a connecting curve branches off from Neustadt to the Alsenz Valley Railway. The latter used to be used by long-distance trains on the Bingerbrück – Neustadt route and is now rarely used. On the Alsenz line there is also the station section Hochspeyer-Nord ( SHY-N ), which is already on the district of Fischbach and where the connecting curve in question meets the one from the direction of Kaiserslautern.

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 220 m 76 cm Trains in the direction of Kaiserslautern and Enkenbach
2 205 m 76 cm Trains in the direction of Kaiserslautern and Enkenbach
3 220/38 m 76/38 cm Trains in the direction of Neustadt and Enkenbach
4th 220/38 m 76/38 cm is rarely used

traffic

passenger traffic

In 1871, the travel time for passenger trains from Hochspeyer station to Kaiserslautern was between 17 and 19 minutes; to Neustadt it took at least three quarters of an hour. In 1884, local trains ran primarily on the Neunkirchen – Worms route. In addition, there were trains that only covered sections such as Neustadt – Kaiserslautern and Kaiserslautern – Worms. Some of them did not stop at all intermediate stations, and Hochspeyer 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 and made heads at the Hochspeyer station. In 1944 not all trains ran from the Alsenz Valley to Hochspeyer; some drove instead from Enkenbach via the connecting route to Kaiserslautern. There were also isolated trains on the Hochspeyer – Langmeil route. During this time, most of the local trains only ran partial sections along the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line. In the westerly direction they usually reached a maximum of Homburg.

The station is served every hour by S-Bahn lines S1 (Homburg – Osterburken) and S2 (Kaiserslautern – Mosbach), which means that there is a half-hourly service between Kaiserslautern and Mosbach. Some Alsenztalbahn trains (RB 65 and RE 17) do not run directly from Kaiserslautern to Enkenbach via the Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach line , but take a small detour and also stop in Hochspeyer. In addition, individual regional express and regional trains from Karlsruhe / Neustadt to Kaiserslautern stop in Hochspeyer during rush hour on working days. Since 2005, excursion trains have been running on Sundays and public holidays from May to October from Hochspeyer via the Zellertalbahn to Monsheim . The excursion traffic was temporarily suspended in 2018, the resumption of journeys is planned for 2020.

Passenger train connections in the 2019 timetable
Train type Route Clock frequency
S1 Homburg (Saar) - Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) - Osterburken Hourly
S2 Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) Hourly
RB 65 / RE 17 Kaiserslautern - ( Hochspeyer -) Enkenbach - Bad Münster a Stein - Bad Kreuznach - Bingen (Rhine) - ( Koblenz ) individual trains
RE 1 Koblenz - Saarbrücken - Kaiserslautern - ( Hochspeyer -) Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim individual trains
RE 6 Karlsruhe - Wörth (Rhine) - Winden (Palatinate) - Landau (Palatinate) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Lambrecht (Palatinate) - Hochspeyer - Kaiserslautern individual trains

Freight transport

In 1871, the normal freight trains along the Ludwig Railway stopped on site for between three and five minutes. These ran on the Kaiserslautern – Mainz, Homburg – Frankenthal routes. Ludwigshafen – Neunkirchen, Worms – Homburg. There was also a stone move on the Kaiserslautern – Ludwigshafen route. This and the coal trains stayed in the station for between two and three minutes. A pair of freight trains on the Kaiserslautern – Münster route ran along the Alsenz Valley Railway. In addition, there was a so-called “supplementary freight train pair” that only served the Enkenbach , Winnweiler, Rockenhausen, Alsenz and Ebernburg stations between Kaiserslautern and Münster . The stay at the station in the north direction was ten minutes, the one in the opposite direction 15. At the beginning of the 20th century, freight trains on the Ludwigshafen – Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern– Bingerbrück and Marnheim –Neustadt – Kaiserslautern routes ran through the station. In the 1970s, Hochspeyer was served by local freight trains on the Einsiedlerhof – Enkenbach – Grünstadt route. In the meantime, however, freight traffic has come to a standstill.

Individual and bus transport

The train station has parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces and bus connections. There is a bus stop in the northern area of ​​the station. Two bus lines stop at it, one of which leads to Kaiserslautern and one to Enkenbach and Otterberg . In addition, a hiking bus runs from the station to excursion destinations in the Hochspeyer catchment area, which is marketed as the "fox bus". The train station is also the starting point for Tour 4 of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park . The Nahegau-Wasgau-Vogesen long-distance hiking trail , which is marked with a white cross , also passes the train station and in this area also forms the alternative southern route of the European long-distance hiking trail E8 .

literature

  • Franz Neumer: 150 years ago the first train ran through Hochspeyer . In: Homeland yearbook of the district of Kaiserslautern 1999 . 1999, p. 116-118 .
  • 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 Hochspeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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