Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station
| Lampertsmühle-Otterbach | |
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 Platform of the train station
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Through station branch station (1912–1996) |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | SLAO |
| IBNR | 8003504 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | November 15, 1883 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Lampertsmuehle-Otterbach |
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| City / municipality | Otterbach |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 29 '2 " N , 7 ° 43' 46" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The station Lampertsmühle-Otterbach is the station of the local community Otterbach . It belongs to Deutsche Bahn station category 6 and has two platform tracks . The station is in the network area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and is part of tariff zone 818. Its address is Lauterstraße 7 .
It was created in 1883 with the opening of the Lautertal Railway from Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken. It owes its double name to the fact that the Lampertsmühle settlement belonging to the Kaiserslautern district of Erfenbach is located in the immediate vicinity . The spinning mill of the same name located there was also an important customer in freight transport. From 1911 to 1980 he was the starting point of the railway line Lampert-Otterbach Otter Mountain and trains running from 1914 to 1996 brook course . The former is now complete, the latter between Weilerbach and Reichenbach dismantled.
location
Local situation
The train station is located on the western edge of Otterbach's settlement not far from the town center. It has parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces and a bus connection. It is 218 meters above sea level.
Railway lines
The Lautertalbahn Kaiserslautern – Lauterecken-Grumbach runs within Otterbach from south-east to north-west and is based on the course of the eponymous Lauter . From 1911 to 1980, the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach – Otterberg railway branched off . Their connection turned out to be very cumbersome. She left the station to the north, whereby the trains had to turn heads to get to Otterberg. From 1914 to 1996 the so-called Bachbahn branched off, which also left the station to the north, but then ran west to Reichenbach.
history
Planning and construction of the Lautertalbahn
In 1860 a committee was formed called the Notabeln des Glan and Lauter valleys. It campaigned for a railway line that branches off from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway in Kaiserslautern , then runs through the Lauter and lower Glantal valleys and should meet the Rhine-Nahe Railway in Staudernheim, which was completed in the same year . Prussia kept a low profile because it feared that the nearby route could become less important as a result. However, the project received support from Hessen-Homburg , who wanted its exclave Meisenheim to be connected to the rail network. Hesse's privy councilor Christian Bansa also advocated the planned rail connection at the Prussian Foreign Ministry in 1861 and argued that there was greater demand for this than a route along the Alsenz that was also planned .
However, Prussia was only willing to support the Palatinate Northern Railways, founded in 1866, in the construction of the Alsenz Valley Railway , which went into operation in 1870 and whose northern end point is the Prussian Bad Münster. Both Bavaria and Prussia were unwilling to guarantee the interest rate for the route, which was calculated in 1873 for a total of around 3.6 million guilders.
Although the Alsenztalbahn was already passable as a continuous main line from 1871 and this only had local significance for a stretch along the Lauter, the local population persisted and continued to champion their plans. In 1874 the first project planning was carried out by the railway technicians.
First years
The opening of the Lautertal Railway took place on November 15, 1883. Just like the train stations in Kaiserslautern Westbahnhof, Olsbrücken, Wolfstein and Lauterecken , it was classified as a “station”. It also had 840 meters of sidings - including sidings and freight tracks -, eight switches, a loading ramp, a weighbridge and a loading profile. The Otterbach population took the railway connection positively. For example, the local history from 1936 sums it up:
“Everyone benefited from the new traffic conditions. The worker could get to his job faster and more comfortably, the farmer could bring his products to market cheaper and the businessman could do his shopping more quickly. "
In April 1890, a strong storm caused freight wagons to drive off independently in the station and roll into the flank of a passenger train. This resulted in major property damage.
Creation of the branch line to Otterberg
As early as 1856, the neighboring town of Otterberg tried to establish a rail connection. A corresponding committee advocated a railway line from Kaiserslautern and Kirchheimbolanden to Hesse. A short time later there were plans to run the Alsenz Valley Railway via Otterberg. After the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company was initially open-minded, it rejected this project in 1863. The reasons given were that a route via Otterberg was on the one hand more expensive and on the other hand that for the Alsenz Valley Railway, which had been designed as a long-distance route from the start, it was less problematic with regard to the expected traffic in the north-south direction, to have them branched off from the Ludwigsbahn in Hochspeyer . After a direct connection to the Lautertalbahn had also failed, hopes rested on a branch line from Otterbach. However, this project has also been postponed for financial and economic reasons. Only in 1898 did the efforts pick up speed again, which this time were successful; the planning of the route was approved in the same year.
Nevertheless, the implementation was delayed, so that the branch line was only opened on December 1, 1911. Initially, it was only used for freight transport, as it was not expected to be profitable in passenger transport. It was not until October 1919 that the route was opened to passenger traffic.
Origin of the Bach Railway
In general, the traffic conditions in the region, which is located immediately northwest of Kaiserslautern, were classified as unsatisfactory. This went so far that there was general fear of rural exodus. After the city of Kaiserslautern put an electricity company into operation in 1893, there were plans to run a tram line from the Westbahnhof via Blechhammer and Siegelbach . Around 1900 a committee was formed, which included representatives from Kaiserslautern, Erfenbach , Kollweiler , Reichenbach , Rodenbach , Schwedelbach , Siegelbach and Weilerbach . In the period that followed, there were different views of the route. While some of the representatives within the committee pleaded for a direct route from Kaiserslautern to Siegelbach, the connection to the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station on the Lautertalbahn finally prevailed.
In October 1914 the "Bachbahn" line to Weilerbach was opened and on June 21, 1920 it was extended to Reichenbach.
Since 1945
As early as October 2, 1954, passenger traffic between Lampertsmühle-Otterbach and Otterberg, where Sunday traffic had been abandoned since the summer, ceased. However, in the summer of 1958 , the book timetable of the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate contained two passenger goods trains, although it is still not clear whether they also operated. All operations on the line were officially ceased in 1969, but it was agreed to convert the railway into a private siding for two companies.
On May 25, 1972, passenger traffic on the Bach Railway was shut down. Since the tracks of the Otterberger Bahn were meanwhile in such a bad condition that they could no longer be used, operations were completely stopped on February 1, 1980; two years later the line was dismantled. On September 27, 1987, a special company train ran from Reichenbach via Lampertsmühle-Otterbach, Kaiserslautern and the Eistalbahn to Neuleiningen on the Grünstadt – Altleiningen railway . Two years later, the freight trains on the Bach Railway only ran to Weilerbach, the western section of the route was dismantled two years later. At the end of 1994, freight traffic on the remaining section of the Bach Railway was also stopped and two years later it was also shut down.
In the period that followed, efforts were made to reactivate the remainder of the Bach Railway for passenger traffic and to integrate it into a planned “City Railway Concept”, which would have meant a new line through the city center of Kaiserslautern. Although the cost-benefit ratio turned out to be positive, the implementation failed for financial reasons.
In the course of the closure of the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach freight tariff point, the numerous freight tracks were dismantled, so that since then only two tracks have been left for train crossings. In 2005 the barrier-free conversion of the central platform took place.
Buildings
Reception building
The two-story entrance building is still there today and its architecture is similar to the other station buildings along the Lautertalbahn. It also has a lateral flat roof extension. It used to house the local post office, which was responsible for running a bus route to Otterberg.
Signal box
For the numerous shunting trips that were necessary because of the branch lines to Reichenbach and Otterberg as well as for the siding of the Lampertsmühle spinning mill, the station received an interlocking in 1911, which is located at a level crossing in the direction of Erfenbach . After the Lautertalbahn was converted to electronic safety technology in December 2005, it has no longer been of any importance for rail traffic. However, the Otterbach community plans to convert it into a museum in order to preserve the mechanical systems.
Platforms
| track | Usable length | Platform height | Current usage |
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| 1 | 110 m | 55 cm | Regional train in the direction of Lauterecken-Grumbach |
| 2 | 110 m | 55 cm | Regional train in the direction of Kaiserslautern |
traffic
passenger traffic
Immediately after the railway line opened, a total of three pairs of trains ran between Kaiserslautern and Lauterecken , for which only one set was required. There were no train encounters in passenger traffic. Since the northern section of the Lauterecken – Odernheim Glantalbahn was built in 1896 - the connection to Staudernheim took place a year later - as a direct continuation of the Lauteralbahn, the trains were extended accordingly. After the Glantalbahn was opened to its full length in 1904, the trains ended or began again in Lauterecken.
From 1933 onwards, as part of two-shift work in the cotton mill in Lampertsmühle, additional trains ran to Reichenbach and Olsbrücken.
The operation on the branch line to Otterberg turned out to be complex. The trains at Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station first had to go north to turn heads and swivel in the south-east. This had a negative effect on travel time and is generally seen as a major reason for the early closure of the route for passenger traffic.
In 2000, on the occasion of the State Garden Show in Kaiserslautern, the regional express line Karlsruhe – Kaiserslautern was tied through to Lampertsmühle-Otterbach in order to cope with the rush of visitors.
Freight transport
In 1905 a total of 23,026 tons of goods were sent or received at the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station. In 1934 the number rose to 51,492. Since the 1920s, operations have been carried out from the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard . After the number of wagonloads in the station rose from 1978 to 1987, they fell in the period that followed.
The most important customer in freight traffic was the spinning mill in Lampertsmühle, which already had a siding in the first years of the Lautertalbahn's existence and had its own factory locomotives for a long time. It mainly transported cotton and until the mid-1960s coal. Before the Second World War it received about 30,000 tons. In 1992, however, the number had dropped to 1,500 after the spinning mill had previously shifted the rest of the freight traffic to the road for financial reasons.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
- 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station profile Lampertsmühle-Otterbach. In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 72 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 234 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 13 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 14 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 5 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
- ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 27 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 28 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 38 f .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 54 f .
- ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 61 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 64 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 65 .
- ^ A b Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 20 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 35 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 8 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 103 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 10 f .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 7 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 30 .
- ↑ Platform information Lampertsmühle-Otterbach. DB Station & Service, accessed on February 8, 2019 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 10 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
- ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 45 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 36 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 122 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 25 .