Losnich-Kinheim train station

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The station building of Lösnich and Kinheim in the Bahnhofstrasse Lösnich, which was laid down around 1975

The former Lönich - Kinheim train station is a historic train station on the Moselle railway line between Bullay and Trier , which was closed in the 1960s .

history

Tracks with points at the Losnich-Kinheim station in 1963
The former company premises (left) and the location of the Lösnich-Kinheim train station (right) in Bahnhofstraße Lösnich in the direction of Kindel
The railway line of the former Moselle Railway below Lösnich, which is still recognizable today

Moselbahn AG , founded in August 1899 by the West German Railway Company , received approval in June 1901 to expand a standard-gauge railway from Trier to Bullay. On August 21, 1905, the last section of the Moselle Railway from Bernkastel to Bullay was ceremoniously put into operation with great sympathy from the local people in Lösnich, with which Lösnich was also connected to the Moselle railway network. The Moselle Railway now served the Moselle towns between Trier and Bullay over a total distance of 102 kilometers. The travel time was about 3¾ hours at about 40 km / h.

In terms of traffic volume at the individual stations, Lösnich-Kinheim was in the upper half of the 39 Moselle railway stations in 1911. Of the total of 670,913 tickets sold, 14,449 were sold in Lösnich. 21 of the 39 stations had fewer tickets sold. In the freight traffic in Lösnich 5,626 waybills of a total of 249,976 were processed. Here, 24 stations were below the Losnich quota. According to a newspaper report in the Bernkasteler Zeitung dated March 22, 1907, the loads in freight transport a. a. made of wine, coal, wood, rubble and large and small livestock.

According to the timetable from May 1912, eight trains a day in the direction of Trier and seven trains in the direction of Bullay stopped in Lösnich-Kinheim. The journey to the nearby town of Bernkastel took an average of half an hour. The trains took around two and a half hours to travel by train to Trier. On Sundays and public holidays in the 1920s, a pair of express trains ran with restaurants and only a few stops between Bullay and Trier.

On December 31, 1962, the rail traffic between Bullay and Niederemmel-Piesport was shut down for economic reasons . From January 1963 to April 1964, the tracks were dismantled. In the summer of 1963, many wagons of the former Mosel Railway were burned down in a controlled manner on the Lösnich track system.

Passenger and freight traffic was moved to the streets in 1963. Until 1968 the station was still used as a base for goods traffic, when goods traffic was also completely stopped. Around 1975 the now vacant station building fell victim to the wrecking ball without any further use.

Station complex

The station with service building and service apartment were half-timbered in the type of the station building in the neighboring municipality of Erden that is still preserved today. As in Erden, the lavatory was also outside the building. The building itself consisted of the service apartment, the waiting room, the actual service room with ticket issuance in the waiting room and the cargo area adjoining the service room with decimal scales . Central heating was not available. Wood and coal stoves were used for heating.

The former station building was erected exactly on the boundary between Kinheim-Kindel and Lösnich. Part of the waiting room and the service rooms were already in the Kinheim district. The railway line of the track underneath the village of Lösnich parallel to the "Gestade" is still clearly visible in some areas.

The track system at the Lösnich-Kinheim station consisted of three tracks: the continuous main track, the crossing track and the open loading track. The course was set via a hand-operated signal box at the station building. Two platforms and the loading street provided access to the tracks. There was a concrete ramp with a loading crane on the open loading track.

Connected to the station was a group of railway workers for the maintenance of the track systems. The tool and material shed was on the left of the station building.

  • The former train station in nearby Rachtig in a similar construction (around 1910).

literature

  • The Moselle Valley Railway, Dr. Karl-Josef Gilles, 2009, Sutton Verlag GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86680-467-8
  • The Moselbahn Trier-Bullay, Ludger Kenning, Manfred Simon, Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 2005, ISBN 3-927587-36-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Moselle Valley Railway, Dr. Karl-Josef Gilles, 2009, SS 8 ff
  2. ↑ The Moselle Valley Railway, Dr. Karl-Josef Gilles, 2009, p. 8 ff
  3. ↑ The Moselle Valley Railway, Dr. Karl-Josef Gilles, 2009, p. 19
  4. ↑ Die Moselbahn Trier-Bullay, L. Kenning, M. Simon, p. 58
  5. ^ Die Moselbahn Trier-Bullay, L. Kenning, M. Simon, p. 52
  6. ^ The Mosel Railway Trier-Bullay, L. Kenning, M. Simon, p. 59
  7. ↑ Die Moselbahn Trier-Bullay, L. Kenning, M. Simon, p. 53
  8. ^ Die Moselbahn Trier-Bullay, L. Kenning, M. Simon, p. 80
  9. ^ The Mosel Railway Trier-Bullay, L. Kenning, M. Simon, p. 231
  10. ↑ Track plans of the Moselbahn http://www.gleisplaene.de/galeriezwei/index-01.htm

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '20.3 ​​"  N , 7 ° 2' 59.1"  E