Limburgerhof train station

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Limburgerhof
Limburgerhof train station 01.JPG
Limburgerhof train station in July 2007 (left in the picture) with the original station building in the background; on the right the bypass for long-distance traffic and the current station building
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RLI
IBNR 8003687
Price range 4th
opening June 11, 1847
Profile on Bahnhof.de Limburgerhof
Architectural data
Architectural style Neoclassicism
location
City / municipality Limburgerhof
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 25 '27 "  N , 8 ° 23' 26"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '27 "  N , 8 ° 23' 26"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Limburgerhof Bahnhof - to about 1,930 railway station Mutterstadt - is the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality Limburgerhof . It belongs to station category 4 of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and has two platform tracks and two through tracks . The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 123. Its address is Bahnhofsplatz 1 .

It is located on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , which essentially emerged from the Palatinate Ludwigshafen – Bexbach railway . It was opened on June 11, 1847, when the Ludwigshafen - Neustadt section of the Ludwigshafen Railway went into operation, under the name of “Mother City ”, as it initially served the community of the same name . It received its current name in 1930 when the "Limburgerhof" settlement was raised to an independent municipality.

In the meantime it has been dismantled to the stopping point . Since December 2003 it has been part of the S1 to S4 lines of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn . Its former station building is a listed building .

location

The train station is located in the northern part of the Limburgerhof settlement area. The Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway runs in a straight line from northeast to southwest in this area. Bahnhofsplatz street is to the west and Speyerer Straße to the east . The station has bicycle parking spaces, a shop for travel supplies and barrier-free access.

history

Railway initiatives around Mutterstadt

The original plan was to first open a north-south railway line within the Palatinate (Bavaria) from Mannheim's Rheinschanze via Schifferstadt , Speyer and Lauterbourg to Strasbourg , which should compete with the Mannheim – Basel line planned by Baden . However, this was postponed in favor of an east-west main line, which was primarily intended to transport coal.

At first, however, it was unclear whether this east-west route should lead over the area of ​​the municipality of Mutterstadt. Speyer, the capital of the Palatinate, campaigned to become the eastern end of the route. The main argument was that the cathedral city was an old trading center, while the Rheinschanze, which was considered as an alternative to the end of the route, would serve as a mere military base for reloading goods. These efforts did not prevail, however, because the railway company mainly had the right bank of the Rhine-Neckar region - especially Mannheim - in view as a market and the export of coal to the area on the other side of the Rhine was considered more important.

East of Kaiserslautern , there were also two options for the route. 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.

The plans for Mutterstadt itself have also changed over time. Originally the route was supposed to run along the southern outskirts. However, the municipality decided against it and stipulated that the route should run in the far east of its area at the time. For this reason, no train station was initially planned for the community. It was only subsequently agreed to provide Mutterstadt with a station.

Further development (1847–1945)

Mutterstadt station in 1900

With the opening of the Ludwigshafen – Neustadt section, the station was opened on June 11, 1847. Since the stations in Rheingönheim and Mundenheim did not open until a few decades later, it was initially the penultimate station before the end of the line in Ludwigshafen from the west. From 1890, Mutterstadt was connected to the narrow-gauge railway line Ludwigshafen – Dannstadt ; For this reason, the station on the Ludwigsbahn was often unofficially referred to as the “mother city main station”.

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate .

As early as 1900, a settlement had formed in the immediate catchment area of ​​the train station on the initiative of BASF , which was converted into the independent Limburgerhof municipality on January 1, 1930 . As a result, the station name changed to "Limburgerhof". In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management on April 1, 1937, he changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz management.

Development after the Second World War

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 1971 the station came under the responsibility of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management.

the new station building on the west side of the station, which was put into operation after the Second World War

Despite its loss of importance, the station remained a train station until the early 2000s. 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. The S-Bahn was opened on December 14, 2003, and Limburgerhof station has been integrated into the system ever since. At the same time, the track systems were restructured; As a result, it was dismantled to a stopping point . Since then, a bypass line for long-distance traffic has branched off around one kilometer north of the train station , which runs parallel to the previous route within Limburgerhof and primarily has the function of bypassing the previous route via the neighboring Schifferstadt train station .

Buildings

The original station building on the east side of the station is a neo-classical plastered building and was built in 1854. There was also a toilet block and a wooden goods shed , which was demolished in 1992. After the Second World War, a new station building was put into operation on the other side of the station.

Web links

Commons : Limburgerhof train station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • 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. ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ bahnseite.de: Abbreviations of the operating points on www.bahnseite.de - Hamburg, Berlin Dresden Essen Frankfurt Hanover Cologne HaLle Munich Nuremberg KaRlsruhe Saarbrücken STuttgart ErfUrt SchWerin AuXland (West) AuZland (East) . Retrieved April 7, 2014 .
  3. ^ Vrn.de: Regional rail network and honeycomb plan . (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved April 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vrn.de
  4. ↑ a b Limburgerhof. In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de: Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis . (PDF) Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 17th ff .
  7. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 58 f .
  8. ^ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timetable. 160 years of railways in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 5 f .
  9. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 67 f .
  10. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 92 .
  11. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  12. ^ 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. 66 .
  13. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  14. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . Schweers + Wall, Eupen 2002, ISBN 3-89494-133-2 , pp. 84 .
  15. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . Schweers + Wall, Eupen 2002, ISBN 3-89494-133-2 , pp. 144 .
  16. ↑ pressrelations.de: Section of the upgraded line Paris – Eastern France – Southwest Germany completed - Schifferstadt is relieved / trains pass Schifferstadt in a tub . Retrieved April 7, 2014 .