Mannheim-Neckarstadt train station

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Mannheim-Neckarstadt
Station building around 1912
Station building around 1912
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Design Terminus
opening 1879
Architectural data
Architectural style historicism
location
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 29 '43 "  N , 8 ° 28' 22"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '43 "  N , 8 ° 28' 22"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Mannheim-Neckar city railway station was from 1879 to 1971, a Mannheim endpoint of Riedbahn . It is not to be confused with the stop of the same name, which opened elsewhere in 1985, at the western entrance to the Riedbahn .

Geographical location

The station stretched along the Neckardamm from the Kurpfalzbrücke in a north-westerly direction. His station building was diagonally opposite the Mannheim train station of the OEG in the corner of Dammstrasse and Kurpfalzbrücke, to the side of the old exhibition center. There was initially no track connection to Mannheim Central Station .

designation

There are a number of names for the train station:

  • Mannheim-Neckarstadt station - so in the timetables and according to the labeling at the station itself.
  • Mannheim N.-B. (What was probably meant was: "Mannheim Neckar (city) station") - according to the Mainz Railway Directorate in internal traffic, for example in its official gazette.
  • Riedbahnhof - probably colloquial.
  • Mannheim Main-Weser-Bahnhof ( Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 . ). This is a recent creation. The station had nothing to do with the Main-Weser Railway , the southern end of which was in Frankfurt am Main and which had been part of the Prussian State Railways since August 1, 1868, when the station opened .

history

The private Hessian Ludwigsbahn built the Riedbahn in several sections. Mannheim was reached when a branch line from the original line, which ran from Darmstadt to Worms , was put into operation from Biblis to the south via Waldhof to Mannheim's Neckarstadt . There it ended in Mannheim-Neckarstadt train station .

In 1880 a bypass of Mannheim with a route from Mannheim-Waldhof via Käfertal and the Rhine Valley Railway was completed. After that, trains of the Riedbahn were able to circumnavigate the city on an arch in the east of Mannheim and enter Mannheim main station, which they increasingly did. As a result, the section between Mannheim-Waldhof and Mannheim-Neckarstadt increasingly became a branch of the Riedbahn. The station was connected to the railway's own telephone network in 1912 when the Mannheim – Frankfurt railway line received telephone connections throughout.

Towards the end of its existence, only commuter trains ran in this relation, which were, however, at times of great importance in rush hour traffic . In 1964 the system was electrified . Electric multiple units of the 425 series have operated here in the last few years of operation . In the end, the route and station were only used in rush hour traffic, on September 25, 1971 the station was closed for passenger traffic.

Reception building

Old station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn

Little is known about the first station building from 1879. It is said to have been a small half-timbered building and was replaced in 1901 by a new building in the neo-renaissance style . This building was badly damaged in World War II , then demolished and replaced by a modern, functional building from 1952 to 1955. This later housed a restaurant that traded under the name "Alter Bahnhof Mannheim". In 2011 the building was badly damaged in a fire and in 2012 it was demolished.

literature

  • Wolfgang Löckel: Mannheim, here Mannheim. Highlights from the history of rail transport in the city of squares . Ludwigshafen 2008. ISBN 978-3-934845-40-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Loeckel, S, 151st
  2. ↑ Kursbureau of the Reich Post Office: Reichs Kursbuch . Berlin 1914, table 243; Löckel, p. 171f.
  3. ↑ Prussian Law Collection 1868 No. 49, p. 689
  4. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 31, 1912, No. 42. Announcement No. 540, pp. 307-309.
  5. ↑ Löckel, p. 176.
  6. ↑ Löckel, p. 55.
  7. ↑ Loeckel, S, 178th
  8. ↑ Löckel, p. 177.
  9. ↑ Loeckel, S, 54th
  10. ↑ Löckel, pp. 55, 177.
  11. ^ NN: Old station: Fire destroys plans . In: Mannheim.de, December 9, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  12. ^ NN: The old station will be demolished in October . In: Mannheim.de, September 20, 2012. Accessed December 27, 2017.