Lambrecht Railway Station (Pfalz)

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Lambrecht (Palatinate)
Lambrecht station in 2005
Lambrecht station in 2005
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation RLBP
IBNR 8003497
Price range 4th
opening August 25, 1849
Profile on Bahnhof.de Lambrecht__Pfalz_
location
City / municipality Lambrecht (Palatinate)
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 22 '24 "  N , 8 ° 4' 28"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '24 "  N , 8 ° 4' 28"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Lambrecht (Pfalz) Bahnhof , the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Lambrecht (Pfalz) . It belongs to station category  4 of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and has three platform tracks . The station is in tariff zone 121 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). His address is Bahnhofstrasse 4 .

It is located on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , which essentially emerged from the Palatinate Ludwigshafen – Bexbach railway . It was opened on August 25, 1849, when the full length of the Ludwig Railway was put into operation. From 1902 an industrial track was built to the Sattelmühle , from which a branch line (called " Kuckucksbähnel ") to Elmstein emerged in 1909 . Until 1960, this had regular passenger traffic and has served as a museum railway since 1984 .

location

The train station is located on the northern outskirts and is surrounded by sandstone formations. Immediately to the south - almost parallel to the tracks - is Bahnhofstrasse , which in an easterly direction finally ends in a long S-curve in the main road - which is also the federal road 39 . To the west it becomes Sommerbergstrasse . The latter bridges the station area in order to connect a residential area north of the railway - also approximately parallel - to the north of it. The train station itself is at route km 70.752. The zero point of the kilometers is between Bexbach and Neunkirchen on the former Bavarian - Prussian border.

The Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway runs from east to west in a slight curve within Lambrecht. Apart from the station area, the Kuckucksbähnel divides the track of the main line in order to swing into the Elmsteiner Tal after about one and a half kilometers just before Frankeneck to the southwest over the main road .

history

Planning, construction and opening (1835–1849)

Initial plans envisaged first putting a railway line in north-south direction into operation within what was then the Rhine Palatinate . Then, however, it was agreed with Prussia to first build a main line in an east-west direction, which should mainly serve to transport coal from the Saar region to the Rhine .

East of Kaiserslautern , two routes were up for discussion, on which the overcoming of the topographically difficult Palatinate Forest seemed possible. Initially, the responsible engineers thought of a route over the Dürkheimer Tal and Bad Dürkheim , but finally decided on the variant through the Neustadter Tal . According to an expert opinion, overcoming this would also be difficult, but would not require stationary steam engines and cables. Lambrecht station was one of four planned intermediate stations on this section between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt.

The section through the Palatinate Forest was the last to go into operation. The reasons for this were delays in acquiring the land and the difficult topography. The opening of the continuous line finally took place on August 25, 1849. Before that, carriages - then known as " omnibuses " - had taken over the traffic on the missing section of the route.

Further development and opening of the cuckoo path

In the 1880s there were first efforts to improve the traffic situation in the neighboring Elmsteiner Tal . However, plans to build a tram from Neustadt via Lambrecht to Elmstein did not prevail. After the Bavarian government had received a draft law on April 5, 1892, which concerned the construction of branch lines in the Palatinate , this was supposed to give interest guarantees on certain routes according to the bill. During this time, the construction of a branch line from Lambrecht to Elmstein was under discussion, for which MP Andreas Deinhard campaigned in the Chamber of Deputies. With the gradual abandonment of the Trift from the end of the 19th century, the Elmsteiner Tal threatened to lose its main source of income, and the residents were forced to strive for improvements. In the eyes of those affected, the solution to the problem was a rail link that was supposed to act as a replacement for timber transport. In addition, the planned connection was seen as a stimulating element for the economy in the Elmsteiner Tal.

Railway station around 1900
Express train passing through the station

In 1902 a freight railway via Frankeneck to the hamlet of Sattelmühle was opened as the nucleus for a complete branch line to Elmstein . This ultimately resulted in the cuckoo chain leading to Elmstein, which was opened in full on January 23, 1909. Originally the opening run was supposed to take place from Elmstein, but an accident occurred, which is why the replacement train ran from Lambrecht.

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 administered by the Neustadt Operations and Building Inspectorate and was the seat of a railway maintenance office. The Royal Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen , which emerged from the Palatinate Railways in 1909 , was run as the Reich Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen from 1922 after the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . 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 dissolution of the Ludwigshafen directorate, he changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz on April 1, 1936 ; at that time he was subordinate to the works office (RBA) Neustadt.

In the course of the fighting of the Second World War , the station building was destroyed by arson by foreign workers in March 1945 . For this reason, a barrack that had previously been used by the Wehrmacht to house horses had to take over its function as a temporary measure.

Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Bahn

The German Federal Railroad (DB), which was responsible for rail operations from 1949, incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate, which allocated all the railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate . The new reception building was opened on June 5, 1957. Regular passenger traffic on the Kuckucksbähnel ended as early as 1960. Due to the sparsely populated area, its importance was primarily in freight traffic ; passenger traffic always played a subordinate role. Since the main line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken has always been of great importance for long-distance traffic , it was gradually electrified from 1960. On March 8, 1960, it was possible to drive electrically on the Saarbrücken – Homburg section. The Homburg – Kaiserslautern section followed on May 18, 1961, and from March 12, 1964, the entire length of the route - including the Lambrecht train station - was electrically accessible. The electrification of the remaining section had been delayed mainly due to the numerous tunnels between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt, which had to be widened for this. On August 1, 1971, the station came under the jurisdiction of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted. The last scheduled freight train south of Frankeneck ran on the Kuckucksbähnel on June 30, 1976. A year later, traffic there was officially closed. In the last few years of operation, the branch line was officially just a station track of the Lambrecht station. From the mid-1970s, the Frankeneck station on the branch line was also converted into a station part of the Lambrecht (Pfalz) station. The branch line has been operated in museum traffic since 1984. The station has been part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) since 1990 .

Train of the cuckoo horse on track 1 of the Lambrecht train station in 2005

The former goods handling facility , which last served as a private house, was demolished in 1999 in favor of parking spaces . On May 16 of the same year, an electronic signal box went into operation in Neustadt , which meant that the station lost its last job. In addition, DB Netz dismantled other station tracks, so that the station has now had three main tracks . In 2003, as part of the integration of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken line to Kaiserslautern into the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn, the platforms were expanded to make them suitable for the disabled. This was done by the company Wieland & Schultz GmbH on behalf of DB Station & Service . The opening of the S-Bahn took place on December 14, 2003, and Lambrecht station has been integrated into the system since then.

Buildings

First station building

The original station building was a two-story sandstone building. In terms of architecture, it corresponded to that which was common in the Palatinate, especially in the second half of the 19th century, at train stations. Its longitudinal axis ran parallel to the tracks. Along the gable and the longitudinal walls there were three windows on each side of each floor. The doors as well as the windows had frames made of sandstone. The service rooms, ticket sales, a room for the dispatcher, offices, waiting rooms as well as express goods and baggage handling were on the ground floor. The latter was relocated to a purpose-built one-story extension in 1900. The upper floor housed the apartments of the railway officials and, above all, of the station's management board. In terms of its size, it was only able to cope with the high volume of traffic to a limited extent, so that in 1900 an annex was opened for the handling of luggage and express goods . In 1907, the goods handling facility received an extension with three floors. It fell victim to arson during World War II.

Today's reception building

The current station building was completed in 1957, is located on the site of its predecessor and is smaller than this. The sale of tickets and the handling of express goods and luggage took place in the basement. The main entrance and the waiting room were in the middle of the floor. In the east wing there was a restaurant and ancillary rooms. The upper floor housed administration rooms and the station master's office. At the beginning of the 1980s, the station was closed as an independent office. This involved a renovation of the station building and the closure of the restaurant located there.

Signal boxes

In the 1880s, the Palatinate Railways built two two-story mechanical signal boxes - called central apparatus at the time - of the Bruchsal G type . One of them was built on the western head of the station and the other on the eastern side. After a track to the timber loading area and the industrial track to the Sattelmühle had been built, a third was added at the junction from the Ludwigsbahn. In 1934, under the German State Railroad , two new mechanical signal boxes were built in a standardized design. The one in the west of the station area served as a command signal box, the one in the east as a guard signal box. In 1985 they were dismantled. In the reception building then one was relay interlocking from Siemens no turnouts self-running (type DRS2) commissioned. This acted as a dispatcher interlocking, which was called Lf . It has been out of service since 1999.

Today, the dispatcher Neustadt 2 of the ESTW sub-center Neustadt (Weinstrasse) of the tax district Saar of the operating center Karlsruhe is responsible for the train station .

Systems and other buildings

Track plan around 1900

Around 1900 the station had a total of eight tracks. In the southwest area there were several butt tracks. The track system remained essentially unchanged for decades. At the beginning of the 1960s, the underpasses, track systems and safety devices were changed during electrification work. For example, the island platform between tracks 1 and 2 has been replaced by a new central platform between tracks 2 and 3. At the end of the 1980s, the track systems were significantly reduced, and the station has only had three tracks since then. Track 1 on the house platform serves both freight trains as a passing track and the trains of the Kuckucksbähnel, tracks 2 and 3 serve the main line.

traffic

passenger traffic

Until 1865, there were no pure passenger trains in local traffic, but at most mixed trains . These often did not stop at all train stations. In 1865 three pairs of trains on the Worms – Neunkirchen route served the station. In 1871 some of the trains ran as far as Mainz . They stayed in the station itself for a minute. In 1884, local trains ran primarily on the Neunkirchen - Worms route . In addition, there were trains that only ran on sections such as Neustadt – Kaiserslautern and Kaiserslautern – Worms. Some did not stop at all of the stations on the way.

At the end of the 1890s seven trains went to Kaiserslautern and six to Neustadt; Another pair of trains was added between Neustadt and Lambrecht. The trains on the Alsenz Valley Railway ran in the summer of 1914 on the Bad Münster –Neustadt route, made heads at Hochspeyer station and also stopped in Lambrecht. During the First World War and the interwar period, local transport was largely limited to the Neustadt – Kaiserslautern route. In addition, the train offer was reduced somewhat.

During the Second World War, most of the local trains ran only partial sections along the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway. In a westerly direction they usually reached a maximum of Homburg. In the post-war period, traffic was again largely restricted to the Neustadt – Kaiserslautern section. In 1948 there were six trains running both on weekdays and on weekends, plus three on weekdays that served the cuckoo horse, and on Sundays it was one less. These were tied through to Neustadt.

From 1991 trains operated on the Trier - Offenburg route , which stopped east of Kaiserslautern everywhere and thus also in Lambrecht. A few years later, trains on the Homburg – Neckarelz – Osterburken or – Heilbronn route were added. From 2001, the trains that had previously run to Offenburg ran mostly exclusively to Karlsruhe .

Passenger train connections in the 2017 timetable
line Route Clock frequency
S1 Homburg (Saar) - Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Lambrecht (Pfalz) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) - Osterburken Hourly
S2 Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Lambrecht (Pfalz) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) Hourly
S3 Homburg (Saar) - Kaiserslautern - Hochspeyer - Lambrecht (Palatinate) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe individual trains

Freight transport

Freight train around 1900 passing through Lambrecht station

Like all stations along the former Ludwigsbahn, the station had a goods handling facility . In 1871 the normal freight trains on the Ludwigsbahn stopped there on the Kaiserslautern – Mainz, Homburg – Frankenthal routes. Ludwigshafen – Neunkirchen, Worms – Homburg five minutes. There was also a stone train on the Kaiserslautern – Ludwigshafen route, which stayed at the station for a total of three minutes. Coal trains stayed at the station for two minutes, and not all of them served the station.

On December 24, 1881, the Ludwig Railway Company set up a stacking area for wood loading near the train station to improve the situation. The Lambrecht freight yard later developed from this , as the capacities in the Lambrecht station reached the limits of their capabilities and the topography made it impossible to expand the track system. The Frankeneck train station on the Kuckucksbähnel was later built at its height. In order to get to the freight yard, the trains had to turn in the Frankeneck station. The freight yard itself had four main tracks.

From the 1980s, transfer trains served the station, which at that time no longer formed a separate freight tariff point. It was operated from the Neustadt main station , which it served as a satellite. In the meantime, only the former Frankeneck station, which functions as a part of the station in Lambrecht, is served on the branching Kuckucksbähnel. The rest of the freight traffic has now been stopped.

Individual and bus transport

The train station has parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces and bus connections. There is a bus stop in the southern area of ​​the station. The bus line 517, which connects the train station with Neustadt an der Weinstraße , Lindenberg , Esthal , Elmstein and Iggelbach , stops there . It is also the starting point for Tour 5 of the Pfälzerwald Mountain Bike Park and the billy goat hiking trail that leads north across the Palatinate Forest to Deidesheim.

literature

  • Reiner Frank: Railway in the Elmsteiner Valley then and now . German Society for Railway History, Werl 2001, ISBN 3-921700-90-6 , p. 22-29 .
  • 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 Lambrecht (Pfalz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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