Langmeil (Pfalz) train station
| Langmeil (Palatinate) | |
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 Reception building
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| abbreviation | SLM |
| opening | October 29, 1870 |
| Conveyance | Late 2006 |
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| City / municipality | Winnweiler |
| Place / district | Alsenbrück-Langmeil |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 34 '9 " N , 7 ° 51' 14" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The station Langmeil (Pfalz) - initially Langmeil-Münchweiler - is a former passenger station in Alsenbrück-Langmeil , in the municipality Winnweiler in Donnersbergkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz . It is located on the Alsenz Valley Railway Kaiserslautern - Bad Münster . In addition, the Zellertalbahn branches off from him to Monsheim . It was in operation as a passenger station from 1870 to 2006, and has been a depot ever since .
location
The station was on the southern edge of the Langmeil settlement; The Langmeil train station residential area was built in the immediate vicinity . The federal highway 63 bridges the southern part of the station.
history
Development to the hub
In the course of the opening of the Alsenz valley railway section Hochspeyer - Winnweiler on October 29, 1870, Langmeil , which belongs to the municipality of Alsenbrück, was connected to the railway network; the station was named Langmeil-Münchweiler , as it also opened up the community of Münchweiler an der Alsenz, which lies further south . About six months later, on May 16, 1871, the line was tied to Bad Münster.
Soon there were plans to link the Alsenz Valley Railway with the Rheinhessen Railway Worms – Bingen, which had been completed in 1870 . Although the place Langmeil was rather insignificant, it was chosen as a separation station for a cross connection, because from a geographical point of view it was best suited as a starting point. From there, a route in the immediate catchment area of the Donnersberg was to be led via Marnheim and Kirchheimbolanden to Alzey. A connection along the Pfrimm to Monsheim was also to be created as a branch line . The latter was completed between Monsheim and Marnheim on October 23, 1872; it was connected to Langmeil six months later on May 31, 1873. On July 18, 1874, the Marnheim – Alzey connection was continuously passable.
As a result of this route conglomerate, Langmeil station developed into a railway junction, especially since long-distance traffic ran on all three routes. Although the line to Monsheim was completed first, the continuous kilometers from Langmeil to Alzey took place. For strategic reasons, the line between Langmeil and Monsheim was expanded to double tracks in 1888.
Loss of meaning
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 Kaiserslautern II Operations and Building Inspectorate and was the seat of a railway maintenance office. In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . During this time it would be renamed Langmeil (Pfalz) . 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 management, he changed to the area of responsibility of the Mainz management on April 1, 1937; at that time he was subordinate to the works office (RBA) Neustadt. On March 20, 1945, a month and a half before the end of the Second World War , the German Wehrmacht blew up the Pfrim Valley Viaduct between Marnheim and Kirchheimbolanden, which has since interrupted the Donnersberg Railway. The Deutsche Bundesbahn incorporated the station into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , to which it allocated all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate . On August 1, 1971, the station came under the jurisdiction of its Saarbrücken counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted.
The Zellertal Railway to Monsheim was closed on September 23, 1983 for passenger traffic. Its importance as a potential strategic railway initially prevented its total closure. Continuous freight traffic on this railway has not taken place since then, from Langmeil only when required to Börrstadt.
In 2000, like the whole of the West Palatinate , the stop became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later . After Münchweiler had its own stop along the Alsenz Valley Railway in 1999, the station continued to lose importance. Although passenger traffic on the Zellertalbahn was reactivated on May 26, 2001 on Sundays and public holidays, the corresponding trains no longer stop in Langmeil since 2005, but start in Hochspeyer. In addition, there was the peripheral location of the train station itself to Langmeil. Due to a lack of profitability, he was therefore abandoned at the end of 2006 for passenger transport.
Reception building
The station building is stylistically similar to several others of its kind in the route network of the Palatinate Railways, such as Annweiler am Trifels , Enkenbach , Kirchheimbolanden , and Marnheim .
literature
- Klaus D. Holzborn : Railway areas Palatinate . transpress, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-344-70790-6 .
- 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
Individual evidence
- ^ The railway stations of the Royal Bavarian State Railways - left bank of the Rhine (Bavarian Palatinate) - Kaiserslautern Hbf. To Lustadt
- Jump up ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails - disused railway lines in Germany's passenger train traffic 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 213 f .
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails - disused railway lines in Germany's passenger train traffic 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 214 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 265 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 267 .
- ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 38 f .
- ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
- ↑ queichtalbahn.npage.de/: Chronicle from 1947 to 1994 . Retrieved September 15, 2015 .
- ↑ kaiserslautern-kreis.de: Local public transport and school transport . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Return to Rail - Reactivated and New Lines in Passenger Traffic 1980-2001 . 2001, p. 137 .
- ↑ Martin Wenz: Type stations of the Palatinate Railways on the Southern Wine Route . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 16 f .