Kapsweyer train station

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Kapsweyer train station
KapsweyerBahnhof.jpg
Kapsweyer stop in 2011
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation RKPW
IBNR 8007859
Price range 7th
opening Mid 1870s
Profile on Bahnhof.de Kapsweyer
location
City / municipality Kapsweyer
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 2 '20 "  N , 8 ° 1' 20"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '20 "  N , 8 ° 1' 20"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Kapsweyer station is the Railway Stop the Rhineland-Palatinate local church Kapsweyer . It belongs to station category 7 and has one platform track . It is located in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). It opened in the mid-1870s. In 1975 passenger traffic ceased temporarily. Around 1990 freight traffic came to a standstill. In 1997, passenger traffic was reactivated; As a result, the operating point was reduced to the stopping point.

location

The breakpoint is located on the southern outskirts of Kapsweyer .

history

First decades

Kapsweyer station was put into operation in the mid-1870s; At that time it was the southernmost station along the route within the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate.

At the beginning of the 20th century, like all other stations in the Palatinate, the station received platform closures. During this time, the station was managed by the Landau Operations and Building Inspectorate and was part of the area of ​​responsibility of the Winden railway maintenance office .

After the First World War , when Weißenburg and Wissembourg were returned to France, the station was the last operating point along the route within the German Reich . From then on, customs controls for hand luggage took place in it. In 1922, the station was assigned to the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . A year later employed at the station railway workers were the carried out in the course of France, to 1924 permanent director operation reported. Then they returned. In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen, the station changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz management and the operations office (RBA) Neustadt on February 1, 1937.

Second World War and subsequent period

In the years 1944 and 1945 the station was affected by the fighting of the Second World War, which left its mark on the following decades. Despite the dismantling of the second track between Winden and Wissembourg, the track system was retained due to its function as a border station . 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 1949 passenger traffic was reactivated.

In 1967 the DB announced that it wanted to demolish the station building. Although the municipality tried to buy the entire station area and wanted to pay 40,000  DM for it, which corresponded to the costs of the dismantling, the building was demolished a year later with the other buildings. In 1971 the station came under the responsibility of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted. In 1975 passenger traffic was discontinued. With the railway reform on January 1, 1994, the station became the property of Deutsche Bahn . On March 1, 1997, it reactivated passenger traffic on the Winden – Wissembourg section; since then Kapsweyer has been exclusively a stopping point. It also became part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). The tariff of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (KVV) is also recognized.

Buildings

The station received a comparatively large reception building, which was demolished in 1968. After the First World War it was given a goods shed and a customs building, as it was the last train station within the German Reich along the route when it was returned from Weißenburg or Wissembourg to France .

traffic

passenger traffic

In the 1897 timetable, there were local trains that only served sections of the Maxbahn such as Landau – Weißenburg. At the beginning of the 1920s there were six pairs of trains between Neustadt and Wissembourg (Weißenburg) in local traffic. During the French government operation , which began on March 7, 1923, there were continuous local transport connections from Wissembourg to Wiesbaden with stops at every station on the way. The operation lasted until the beginning of 1924. The course book from 1929/1930 also shows connections that were limited to the Winden – Kapsweyer section. There were hardly any trains that went beyond winds due to the increasing shift in traffic flows in the period that followed. After the restart of passenger traffic in 1949, a change in local traffic in the following decades was necessary in Landau, with a few exceptions. Immediately after reactivation, passenger traffic was limited to the Winden – Wissembourg route. In the years that followed, the trains were tied through to Neustadt, passing between Winden and Landau without stopping. One train runs every hour in each direction. Kapsweyer also stops for several trains running on Sundays and public holidays from May to October, such as the Alsace Express (Mainz – Wissembourg), the Weinstraßen Express (Koblenz – Wissembourg) and the Strasbourg Express (Neustadt – Strasbourg).

Freight transport

In addition to Kapsweyer, the station was also responsible for freight traffic in the neighboring villages of Rechtenbach , Schweigen and Schweighofen . Its importance in freight transport was borne primarily by agricultural products - especially sugar beets -, land trade and general cargo. The loading of wood was also of certain importance. At the beginning of the 20th century, freight trains on the Neustadt – Weißenburg route served the station. In the post-war period, a company that manufactured building materials settled at the loading platform. On May 30, 1976, all train stations outside of railway hubs were closed as independent freight tariff points, which also affected Kapsweyer train station. From then on, transfer trains served the station, which from that time on served as a satellite for Landau's main station . Around 1990 freight traffic came to a complete standstill.

literature

  • Raimund Zimmermann: The Kapsweyer border station was only 114 years old . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . Arbogast, Otterbach 2008.
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstr. – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 55 .
  2. ↑ Werner Schreiner: The Palatinate Maximiliansbahn opens up the "cattle line" . In: Ortsgemeinde Steinfeld (Hrsg.): Steinfeld 1250 to 2000. A border village in times of change . 2000, p. 552 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 265 .
  4. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstr. – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 75 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 267 .
  6. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 44 .
  7. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 38 f .
  8. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  9. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  10. ^ Raimund Zimmermann: The Kapsweyer border station was only 114 years old . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 38 .
  11. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Modell- und Eisenbahnclub Landau in der Pfalz eV (Ed.): 125 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 66 .
  12. ^ Raimund Zimmermann: The Kapsweyer border station was only 114 years old . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 39 .
  13. ↑ a b Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 83 .
  14. ↑ kapsweyer.de: history . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 19, 2013 ; accessed on January 15, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  16. ↑ vrn.de: hinundweg - The customer magazine of the Rhein-Neckar transport association . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 29, 2012 ; accessed on January 22, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 254 .
  18. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 70 ff .
  19. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 141 f .
  20. ↑ Werner Schreiner: The Maximiliansbahn from 1945 to today . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstr. – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 108 .
  21. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 103 .
  22. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 87 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Some sources, such as Raimund Zimmermann, claim that the Kapsweyer border station was only 114 years old . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 38-40 . and Kapsweyer's homepage ( memento from May 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), the station had already been opened at the time of the start of the route, but in reality this only took place two decades later.