Jägersburg station

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Jägersburg station
Entrance building from the street side
Entrance building from the street side
Data
Design Through station
opening Spring 1903 (unofficial)
May 1, 1904 (official)
Conveyance 1957
location
City / municipality Homburg
Place / district Jägersburg
country Saarland
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 22 ′ 37 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 17"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 37 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 17"  E
Railway lines

Homburg – Bad Münster (km 5.4) (closed)
Jägersburg – Grube Nordfeld (km 0.0)

Railway stations in Saarland
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The Jägersburg station - to 1905 Jägersburg-Waldmohr , from 1905 to 1912, 1936 to 1947 Waldmohr-Jägersburg and from 1912 to 1921 Waldmohr - was a station of the Glan Valley Railway , the municipalities Jägersburg - since 1974 the district of Homburg and - Waldmohr served. Due to the Nordfeldbahn , which had been in operation since 1903 and was exclusively used for freight traffic , it was initially put into operation unofficially; the official opening took place in connection with the Glantalbahn on May 1, 1904. In the mid-1950s it was given up for passenger traffic, freight traffic ended in 1995. Due to the temporary separation of the Saar area and today's Saarland , it also functioned as a customs station from 1920 to 1935 and from 1947 to 1956.

location

Local situation

The station was located in the northeastern area of ​​the Jägersburg district in a wooded area that represents a foothill of the Palatinate Forest . A few hundred meters to the north is the settlement area of ​​Waldmohr. A Bahnhofstrasse leads from both places to this former railway operating point.

Railway lines

The Glantalbahn , which has already been shut down, but still exists up to the entrance to Waldmohr, runs in the station area from south-south-west from Homburg to north-north-east in the direction of Glan-Münchweiler. The Nordfeldbahn , which was only operated from 1903 to 1905, left the station at its northern head to first follow the Glan up through the Waldmohrer town center and end at Höcherberg in the area of ​​the Nordfeld pit .

history

Planning and construction

After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, military reasons spoke in favor of a railway line along the Glan. This was resolutely advocated 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.

Entrance building in 1903 one year before the Glantalbahn opened

It was not until the end of the 19th 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 was eliminated, the plans envisaged building a main line from Mainz via Bad Münster along the Glans, using the Kuseler route between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler, also via Waldmohr, Jägersburg, Homburg and Saarbrücken. The Waldmohr and Jägersburg should be a common train station on the latter. Construction work began in July 1902.

In this context, it made sense to build a freight line to transport coal to the Nordfeld mine about four kilometers away . This route, known as the Nordfeldbahn , was put into operation in the spring of 1903 before the official opening of the strategic railway line; thus coal trains were already operating on the Homburg – Jägersburg section at this point in time.

As a strategic line, the line known as the “Glantalbahn” was built with two tracks from the start. The southern section Homburg-Glan-Münchweiler was 19.5 kilometers long and cost 5.48 million Reichsmarks; Jägersburg-Waldmohr became one of a total of 26 subway stations on the Glantalbahn, which opened to its full length on May 1, 1904.

Further development (1904–1945)

Railway station (former name: Waldmohr-Jägersburg ) in 1907
Track plan in 1913

The Nordfeld mine had to close at the turn of the year 1904/1905 due to a lack of profitability, with the result that the branching Nordfeldbahn lost its function and was also taken out of service after just two years. Shortly after the station opened, the communities of Jägersburg and Waldmohr fought over the station name. He was primarily fueled by the fact that he was in the Jägersburg district, but closer to the Waldmohr settlement area. In 1905 the station was renamed Waldmohr-Jägersburg , and in 1912 it was initially given the name Waldmohr .

After the First World War , the Saar area , which had been added along the Homburg and Jägersburg railway line, was separated from the German national territory. In this context, customs controls were carried out in the station, which was henceforth part of the Saareisenbahnen , from 1920 onwards. A year later it was renamed again, this time Jägersburg . In 1926 and 1927 the so-called Calais-Wiesbaden-Express ran - but only in the direction of Wiesbaden - on the Glantalbahn. This train also stopped in Jägersburg. In the course of the reorganization of the Saar area in 1935, there was no longer any local customs duty; In 1936 the station was renamed Waldmohr-Jägersburg again .

After the Second World War broke out in 1939 , the construction of a single-track strategic railway line from the station to Bexbach was tackled. This had the purpose of being able to bypass Homburg if necessary. Work came to a standstill in May of the following year without the connection being completed. On May 5, 1941, a directory entitled "Vital Trains" was also published. This was to prevent the fact that the timetable could often not be adhered to due to the war. It included a minimum number of trains that had to be adhered to despite the war conditions. Accordingly, at least four trains per day had to run between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler.

Post-war period (1945–1970)

Since today's Saarland was separated again after the Second World War , the station regained its status as a customs station in 1947 - again called Jägersburg . The train stop on site took a total of 30 minutes. Two years earlier, the second track between Homburg and Jägersburg had already been dismantled, as it was not operationally necessary and should therefore be used to repair other routes; nevertheless it was officially still present in the 1952 timetable. Due to the renewed demarcation, the traffic on the Glan Valley railway section Homburg - Glan-Münchweiler increasingly lost importance.

Due to lack of profitability, the station was given up for passenger traffic in the mid-1950s. Even with the economic reorganization of the Saarland two years later, there was no reactivation, as the community of Waldmohr in particular showed no interest. In 1960 he was also given up as a train follower. The station was officially degraded to a junction. On August 16 of that year, the second track between Jägersburg and Schönenberg-Kübelberg was taken out of service and then dismantled.

In 1967, the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) , which was now responsible for the route, and the municipality of Waldmohr signed a contract to build a siding for the local industrial area of ​​the municipality, which initially upgraded the station in terms of freight traffic.

Decline (since 1970)

As early as the 1970s, freight traffic only took place between Homburg and Schönenberg-Kübelberg, before passenger traffic to Glan-Münchweiler ended in 1981 ; In the meantime, most of the other stops on the way had also been given up on this section of the route. In 1984 the loading tracks in the station were renewed. From July 1, 1989, freight traffic to Schönenberg-Kübelberg also ended; the dismantling of the route from the branch of the industrial track followed from July 27, 1991.

In 1991 the loading track, which at that time had already been seldom used, was dismantled. One year later, the Deutsche Bundesbahn initiated a closure procedure for the Homburg – Waldmohr section, which was initially suspended due to the conversion of the former into Deutsche Bahn at the turn of the year 1993/1994. Freight traffic to Waldmohr ended on February 28, 1995 after lengthy negotiations in this regard; the Homburg – Waldmohr section has also been closed since 1996. Already in the last years of operation there was no longer any possibility of relocation in Jägersburg.

Buildings

Reception building

Station building from the track side

The station, initially equipped with five tracks, has a reception building. This largely corresponds in its design to those in the Schönenberg-Kübelberg, Sankt Julian , Offenbach-Hundheim and Duchroth train stations. Just like most of the station buildings along the Glantalbahn, the sandstone structure was typical of the Palatinate Northern Railways . Later it was slightly rebuilt; in this context, it was given a dormer on the track side . It has been empty for several decades and is in a relatively unkempt condition. Due to the risk of collapse, entering the site is now prohibited.

In 2012 and 2013 it served as the backdrop for the Tatort television film A Handful of Paradise , produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk , in which it serves as a meeting point for the fictional motorcycle club “Dark Dogs”. However, as part of the plot, it was moved to the Saarbrücken district of Haldenberg, which in reality also does not exist .

Other structures

In addition, the station had a goods handling facility , which is also still available. In the southern area of ​​the station there were two warehouses and a loading ramp. Immediately north of the station building was a house that served as a laundry room and toilet. The platform was also in this area.

traffic

passenger traffic

At the time the Glantalbahn opened, three continuous pairs of trains ran between Homburg and Bad Münster and two that only ran to Altenglan . Due to the temporary separation of the Saarland, there were trains from 1920 that ran exclusively between Homburg and Jägersburg; Wittfeld accumulator railcars and Wismar rail buses were mainly used for this purpose . In the 1930s, the station was served by 15 pairs of trains, which were reduced in the period that followed. At the time the passenger traffic was abandoned in the station, eight pairs of trains were running.

Freight transport

Former freight handling at the station
Timetable for a transfer train from Homburg to Schönenberg-Kübelberg operated by Jägersburg

One year before the official opening of the Glantalbahn, coal trains were still running through the station from the Nordfeld mine. This freight customer already ceased to exist at the turn of the year 1904/1905. In 1920, the station, like all en route stations between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Homburg, was approached by another local freight train.

Despite the shutdown of the aforementioned pit including the Nordfeldbahn, the station remained important for freight traffic, especially for wagonload traffic. The station was given a rotating crane at the loading ramp especially for this purpose, which existed until the end of the 1980s. Another customer was an oil warehouse. Around 1970 a stump track was built on the route of the dismantled second track especially for a coal dealer. Sporadically a stonemason also used the station, who had a loading crane for this. A coal wagon was last unloaded in the station.

In addition, from 1967 the industrial area of ​​Waldmohr had a siding, which was mainly used by two steel construction companies. Although it had been used regularly, it was always of secondary importance. Most recently it was used very rarely before the traffic there also ended in 1995. Due to the low volume, freight traffic in the last decades of its existence was carried out exclusively by transfer trains that ran on weekdays.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 16 ff .
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 22 .
  3. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 114 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 21st f .
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 41 ff .
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 50 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 52 ff .
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 70 .
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 143 .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 55 .
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 60 .
  13. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 61 ff .
  14. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 66 f .
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . 1997, p. 420 f .
  16. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 100 .
  17. ↑ a b tatort-fundus.de: The locations of "A handful of paradise" . Retrieved April 7, 2013 .
  18. ↑ tatortblog.blogs.sr-online.de: Beer, train station and bad guys . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; Retrieved April 7, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 80 .
  20. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 144 .
  21. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 49 .
  22. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 40 .
  23. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 113 .
  24. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 123 .
  25. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 67 .