Kaiserslautern West train station

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Kaiserslautern West
Entrance building of the former Westbahnhof
Entrance building of the former Westbahnhof
Data
Design Terminus
stop
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation SKLW
IBNR 8003151
Price range 7th
opening November 15, 1883
location
City / municipality Kaiserslautern
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '51 "  N , 7 ° 44' 59"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '51 "  N , 7 ° 44' 59"  E
Railway lines

Today's stop (km 3.3)
Former train station (km 0.46)

Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Kaiserslautern West station - until 1915 Kaiserslautern Westbahnhof - was a station in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Kaiserslautern on the Lautertalbahn . It was designed as a terminus, which was an obstacle, especially for passenger traffic. For this reason, it was replaced in 1969 by a stop of the same name and served in freight traffic for around two decades. In the meantime the tracks of the former Westbahnhof have been dismantled. Its former reception building is part of the “ worsted spinning mill ” monument zone . The current stop belongs to the Deutsche Bahn station category 6 and has a platform track . It is located in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 800.

location

The old Kaiserslautern Westbahnhof was located on the northwestern edge of the core city in close proximity to the city center on the site of the garden show . A conglomerate of several streets leads around it today, such as Lauterstraße - also Landesstraße 387 -, Berliner Straße - also Landesstraße 395 -, Schoenstraße , Forellenstraße and An der Kalause . The necessary stub drive into it had its own kilometer reading, which began at the junction (kilometer 3.3) and where this now closed station was given the kilometer indication 0.46.

Today's stop of the same name is located at the point where the branch line to the old station branched off at km 3.3. It has bicycle parking spaces, barrier-free access and a nearby bus stop.

history

Planning, construction and opening (1859–1883)

Around 1860 the committee of the notables of the Glan and Lauter valleys , which had its seat in Wolfstein , was formed. It advocated a railway line that branched off from the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn in Kaiserslautern , then ran through the Lauter and lower Glantal valleys and should meet the Rhine-Nahe Railway in Staudernheim , which was completed in the same year . The project was in competition with a route along the Alsenz . The latter finally prevailed in the form of the Alsenz Valley Railway, which opened in 1870 and 1871 .

In 1874 a draft followed, which aimed at a main railway . At first there was a dispute about the route. For example, the city of Otterberg - located outside the Lautertal - advocated a route across its urban area. A new petition from the municipalities on the Lauter was launched in 1877. The Lauterbahn should therefore be designed as a secondary line.

The company of the Palatinate Northern Railways received the concession for the route on May 9, 1880. Due to differences of opinion about the route and problems with the necessary land purchase, the planning was delayed. It was planned to build an additional train station in the north-west of Kaiserslautern , which would be closer to the city center than the main train station. The city subsidized the construction of this operating site with a total of 80,000 marks. On February 18, 1882, work began with the groundbreaking ceremony in the presence of several city officials on the site of the planned “Kaiserslautern Westbahnhof” railway station. Due to the expected heavy freight traffic of the latter, the line on this section was planned as a full line, the remaining section to Lauterecken as a secondary line with a lighter superstructure . The construction of the railway line did not take place gradually from south to north, but relatively simultaneously by various companies. The route was opened on November 15, 1883. In its early days, the Westbahnhof had 1,333 meters of sidings, a loading ramp, a weighbridge, a loading profile, 14 points and a turntable.

Further development

For passenger traffic, the operation turned out to be very complicated: The part serving passenger traffic was designed as a dead end station with its track systems , which is why passenger trains to Lauterecken had to drive backwards into the station. Trains traveling in the opposite direction had to reverse out of the station and move forward to the main station.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the station also became the location of a railway maintenance office, which was responsible for the lines along the Lautertal Railway to the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station and for the branches to Reichenbach and Otterberg. In 1915 the station was officially renamed "Kaiserslautern West".

Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Bahn (since 1945)

After the dissolution of its counterpart in Wolfstein after the Second World War, the area of ​​responsibility of the local railway maintenance office in Lautertal expanded to Kaulbach, before it was incorporated into that of the Kaiserslautern main station around 1970.

The German Federal Railways (DB) divided the station after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, they all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. Since the procedure for passenger transport was too cumbersome for her, she replaced the station in 1969 with a stop of the same name west of the branch. Nevertheless, the former was still in operation as a freight yard. Two years later, both the train station and the stopping point came under the responsibility of their Saarbrücken counterpart again in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management.

In 1991 plans were developed to reactivate the old Westbahnhof for passenger traffic. The trains of the Lautertalbahn should therefore run beyond this on a route through the city center to end near the town hall at a newly built "Citybahnhof". However, financial bottlenecks and a lack of political support prevented the implementation of these plans.

The breakpoint was modernized in the course of the aforementioned garden show in 2000. In the same year, the station became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), like the entire West Palatinate , before it was merged into the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .

Buildings

Track plan of the Kaiserslautern West train station around 1914

The station had a two-story, eaves-standing reception building with exposed brickwork . This is a red sandstone block construction. It was built in 1883 by the Kaiserslautern construction company Kröckel & Guthy. The building was destroyed in the Second World War. At first it was left as a single storey and received a new roof. At times it housed a building materials trade. The reconstruction in the original form took place in the period from October 1999 to December 2001 as part of the construction work for the first State Horticultural Show Rhineland-Palatinate , on the site of which the building is located today. Since then, it has housed several restaurants. There was a goods shed immediately next to the main building. The platform roof, which did not exist when it opened, was made of cast iron. In addition, the one-story gatehouse is also still there, which is stylistically assigned to the New Objectivity .

traffic

passenger traffic

When operations opened, a total of three pairs of trains drove to the station. In 1896, with the opening of the lower Glantalbahn to Odernheim , train journeys were tied through, and from 1897 to Staudernheim . With the opening of the remaining Glantalbahn sections in 1904, continuous traffic to Staudernheim ended again. In 1905, 43,196 tickets were sold at the station.

From 1906 trains were used that only ran on part of the route, for example between Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof and Olsbrücken and between Kaiserslautern West and Lampertsmühle-Otterbach. After the Bach Railway was opened in 1914 and 1920 and the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach-Otterberg railway was also opened for passenger traffic in 1919, its trains often ran to the Westbahnhof, often also to the Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof.

Freight transport

The station was particularly important in freight traffic. In the first years of its existence there were no separate freight trains along the Lautertal Railway; instead, there were at best mixed trains .

Important customers were the municipal slaughterhouse located directly at the train station and the worsted spinning mill in Kaiserslautern . In 1905 a total of 50,490.55 tons of goods were sent or received at the Westbahnhof; thus it had the third highest volume of all en route stations in the Lautertal after the main train station and the Lauterecken-Grumbach train station . In 1934 the number rose to 90,251 tons. Because of this extensive traffic, his own freight train was responsible for him.

At the end of the 1980s, the Westbahnhof was abandoned as a freight tariff point and served as an industrial track in the following years.

Accidents

On October 1, 1928, Raueis prevented a signal from falling back to the desired position in Kaiserslautern Westbahnhof, whereupon a passenger train collided with an empty train. There were two dead and 15 injured in this accident.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Melitta Rinnert: Mr. Karcher and Miss Benzino . Self-published, Kaiserslautern 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816186-0-0 .
  • 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 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; Retrieved November 10, 2013 .
  2. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 69 .
  3. ↑ a b denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de: Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Kaiserslautern . (PDF; 1.33 MB) Retrieved November 10, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Regional rail network and honeycomb plan. (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) In: vrn.de. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved November 12, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 91 .
  6. ↑ Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern West: Departure and arrival. In: fahrplan.guru. February 17, 2019, accessed February 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 231 .
  8. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 232 .
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 13 f .
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 13 f .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 54 .
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 61 .
  13. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 31 .
  14. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 20th f .
  15. ^ A b Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 7 .
  16. ↑ Melitta Rinnert, Mr. Karcher and Miss Benzino and other Kaiserslautern personalities, page 203
  17. ↑ Conversion of the historic Westbahnhof, Kaiserslautern. (No longer available online.) In: aig-kl.de. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; Retrieved November 12, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 103 .
  19. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
  20. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 11 ff .
  21. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 15 .
  22. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 45 .
  23. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 40 .
  24. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 122 .
  25. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 44 .