Kandel railway station

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Candelabra
Renovated Kandel station in 2009
Renovated Kandel station in 2009
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RKD
IBNR 8003172
Price range 5
opening March 15, 1864
Profile on Bahnhof.de Candelabra
Architectural data
Architectural style Late classicism
location
City / municipality Candelabra
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 4 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 52"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 52"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Kandel station is the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate town Kandel . It belongs to station category 5 and has two platform tracks . The station is in the network area of ​​the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (KVV) and belongs to the tariff zone 550. In the course of a transition tariff agreed in 1996, however, cards of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) are also recognized. The address of the station is Georg-Todt-Straße 2 .

It was opened on March 15, 1864 as a through station of the section that branches off the Maximiliansbahn in Winden and leads to Maximiliansau . A year later, the gap to Karlsruhe was closed . In its present form it has existed since 1938. The reception building of the station is also under monument protection .

history

First efforts for a rail connection from Kandel

In the course of the planning of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway , the route east of Bexbach was not fixed from the start. On January 10, 1838, a meeting took place in Speyer , which marked the beginning of share subscription for the route. A landowner from Wachenheim suggested that the railway line run via Zweibrücken and from there via Annweiler and Langenkandel to the Rhine . The written justification followed on January 20, 1838. Although the government of the Rhine District passed this on to Munich , it did not prevail. Another participant at the event argued that a corresponding route would be more cost-effective, but would bring less profit than one via Kaiserslautern .

With the founding of the Bavarian Railway Company of the Palatinate / Rheinschanz-Bexbacher-Bahn on March 20, 1838, the eastern end point of the Rheinschanze was also fixed, which initially made a railway connection from Kandel a long way off.

Creation of the route from Winden to Karlsruhe

In 1855, the opening of the Palatine Maximiliansbahn Neustadt - Wissembourg , built as a transit route , with which the coal from the Saar region and products from the Palatinate agriculture were to be transported to France .

In the following years the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft developed plans to build a line branching off from the Maximiliansbahn in Winden to the Baden capital Karlsruhe . The reason for this was the optimism that coal would be better brought to the southern German states of Baden , Württemberg and the rest of Bavaria - which was geographically separated from the Rhine Palatinate . The Bavarian military Karl Krazeisen , who was troop commander in the Palatinate at the time, emphasized that such a route was also necessary for strategic reasons.

In 1859 she received a concession from the State Ministry of Trade and Public Works . However, resistance came from the city of Germersheim , which insisted that a railway line should be built over their area instead and from there to Bruchsal . In addition, in 1860 several representatives of the southern Palatinate communities came together to advocate a route via Offenbach , Herxheim , Leimersheim and Leopoldshafen instead of via Winden and Kandel . Nevertheless, the variant via Kandel and Wörth prevailed.

Development up to the Second World War (1864–1945)

The station was opened on March 14, 1864 together with the Winden - Maximiliansau section . A year later, on 8 May 1865 closing the gap between Maximiliansau and Karlsruhe to was Maxau leading maxau railway in the form of a bridge over the Rhine done.

Also in 1864 the branch line to Speyer to Germersheim , which had been opened at the same time as the Ludwigshafen – Neustadt Ludwigbahn section, had been opened since 1847 . In the same year, a committee met in Rülzheim that advocated an extension of the route to Wörth . However, the Franco-German War delayed the implementation of the project.

However, instead of a route to Wörth, the municipality of Kandel asked for one in its train station. The management of the Palatinate Railways rejected it on November 20, 1871, as such a route would require a detour that would have weakened the importance of this main line. Kandel did not give up at first and had memoranda written in their favor. Nevertheless, the variant via Wörth prevailed. This was approved on March 15, 1874.

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on May 1, 1936, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Karlsruhe management.

Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Bahn (since 1945)

The German Federal Railways was 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. In 1971, when the Mainz directorate was dissolved, the station came under the jurisdiction of its Karlsruhe counterpart.

In the 1980s , the island platform was demolished in favor of a side platform .

Since May 19, 2014, the platform systems at Kandel train station have been extensively modernized.

building

The station building of the Kandel train station is a late classical building, which was built around 1860. According to the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act, it is under monument protection .

The station's mechanical signal box is located in an extension of the reception building (to the left of the reception building as seen from the tracks) .

Platforms

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 160 m 55 cm Trains winch in the direction of travel
2 160 m 55 cm Trains in the direction of Wörth

literature

  • Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-27-4 .
  • Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . Landau in the Palatinate 1980.
  • 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 Kandel (Pfalz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kvv.de: mobil. 3rd unit: The KVV introduces itself . (PDF; 2.0 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 15, 2016 ; Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Kandel. In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 54 .
  4. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 63 .
  5. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 12 .
  6. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 159 .
  7. ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 49 .
  8. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 159 ff .
  9. ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 49 f .
  10. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 186 f .
  11. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 187 .
  12. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008, p. 13 ( Online ( Memento from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on November 6, 2013]).
  13. ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 66 .
  14. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008, p. 28 ( Online ( Memento from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on November 6, 2013]).
  15. ↑ mec-landau.de: The history of the railroad in the southern Palatinate . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 13, 2012 ; Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
  16. ↑ vrn.de: Kandel: Modernization of the train station - new platform access to platform 2 from May 19, 2014. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; accessed on May 24, 2014 .
  17. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district of Germersheim. Mainz 2020, p. 16 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
  18. ↑ Station equipment Kandel. DB Station & Service, accessed on February 15, 2019 .