Meckesheim train station
| Meckesheim | |
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 Station building (2014)
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | RMK |
| IBNR | 8003932 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1862 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Meckesheim |
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| City / municipality | Meckesheim |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 19 '15 " N , 8 ° 48' 47" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Meckesheim station is a small railway junction in North Baden . It is located on the Neckargemünd – Bad Friedrichshall railway line and belongs to category 4 station of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) . In Meckesheim, the Badische Schwarzbachtalbahn branches off from the Elsenztalbahn to Aglasterhausen . Until 1922 a branch line branched off here via Schatthausen to Wiesloch Stadt and to Wiesloch-Walldorf station.
history
The Meckesheim train station was opened on October 23, 1862 by the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways as part of the Baden Odenwald Railway from Heidelberg to Mosbach . The route from Meckesheim to Bad Rappenau followed on June 25, 1868. As a result, Meckesheim became a transfer station.
In 1867 the later railway maintenance office was built, and at the end of the year a weighbridge was built . From the end of 1868 to the beginning of 1869 the reception building was enlarged and a toilet facility was installed.
On May 14, 1901, the 19 km long route from Wiesloch-Walldorf via Wiesloch Stadt to Meckesheim an der Elsenz was opened, which established a cross connection from the Rhine Valley Railway to the Elsenz Valley Railway Heidelberg– Sinsheim - Heilbronn .
In 1907, three Bruchsal J interlockings were put into operation in Meckesheim : one to the northeast as "Stellwerk I" (later Stw 1, from November 30, 1978 Fdl-Stw Mf), one south of the level crossing, south of the platforms (guard post 23) between track 2 and 3 as "Stellwerk II" (demolished around 1960) and one to the south as "Stellwerk III" (later Stw 2). To the south of signal box III, two guard houses for waiting stations 22 and 23 were built in 1909 . It was probably around this time that Landesstrasse 3 (today's Zuzenhäuser Strasse), which previously ran straight, was swiveled to its present-day course. At that time there were 4 level crossings, 16 signals and more than 40 points in the station, up to 13 tracks were next to each other.
Due to the economic crisis in the 1920s, the Schatthausen –Meckesheim section of the Wiesloch – Meckesheim branch line was shut down again in 1922.
In 1936 the loading facilities and the locomotive feed in the station were improved.
On March 24, 1945, the Allies carried out an air raid on the station, killing several people and destroying the station. In memory of the people who died in the destruction, a memorial stone was erected on the platform on platform 1 .
In 1947, the former engine shed was dismantled and brought to Sinsheim .
The wooden goods hall with a ramp on one end was opened in 1967 at 10.80 m extended.
When the timetable changed on September 25, 1971, the Aglasterhausen– Obrigheim section of the Schwarzbachtalbahn was shut down. At the same time, the Deutsche Bundesbahn endeavored to shut down the remaining route from Meckesheim to Aglasterhausen. On January 1, 1982, the Südwestdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SWEG) took over the line from the Federal Railroad under a 20-year lease .
From February 3, 1974, the level crossing with Schatthäuser Straße was no longer operated mechanically from the reception building, but electrically from signal box 2. The next day, the level crossing at the warehouse (guard post 24) was switched to electrical operation.
At the beginning of March 1976, a 430 m² large modern extension of the goods hall put into operation. After the goods handling operations in Sinsheim and Neckargemünd were closed, there were a little over 30 a day here t general cargo and about 10 t general cargo received. It was transported to Mannheim, Frankfurt, Cologne, Kornwestheim and from May 30th also to Munich and Nuremberg without reloading.
The last sugar beet loading took place in 1977 with 313 wagon loads or 7,350 t instead.
The last water crane in Meckesheim was dismantled in 1978.
In 1982 the engine shed in the northeastern station area was demolished. On November 1st of the same year the station Köf was relocated from Neckargemünd to Meckesheim.
In 1984, Germany's first locomotive with radio remote control was put into operation in Meckesheim, the 333 108 built by Gmeinder (referred to as 335 108 from 1988).
In 1988 the goods handling and thus also the goods hall in Meckesheim was given up.
In 1990 the station forecourt was redesigned.
The ticket office was closed on May 29, 1995 .
In the summer of 1997, tracks were dismantled in the station. In the same year, the Transport Forum 2000 proposed a conversion to enable faster entrances from Sinsheim to track 1, and a relocation of the platforms to the south, in the area of the goods hall, where there would be better road connections, especially for pedestrians; both were rejected by DB Netz . The timber loading had previously been relocated to Waibstadt , Helmstadt and Aglasterhausen .
The regional planning association Rhein-Neckar assumed in February 1998 that 60 vehicle parking spaces would be sufficient at the Meckesheim train station, but 80 were already used in November of the same year; in 2012 even 180.
In the summer of 1999, the track system was significantly rebuilt. The northern pull-out tracks 3a and 4a and the south-eastern side tracks (track numbers from 11) were removed and the main tracks swiveled north in such a way that tracks 2 and 3 from Neckargemünd are in a straight line, the turnout 31 was replaced so that it could be used from track 3 a speed of 60 km / h instead of 40 km / h is possible.
On January 1, 2006, the community of Meckesheim took over for 370,000 € 1.3 hectares of the DB, including the station building.
On November 2, 2006, the level crossing 24f secured with a mechanically remote-controlled call barrier was dismantled in kilometer 0.5.
In the summer of 2007, the freight trains from Mannheim were discontinued on the SWEG route - most recently in particular military trains to the Siegelsbach ammunition plant - and tracks 4 and 6 were dismantled. Thus, next to the main tracks, only siding 8 remained in the northeast.
In May 2007, some connections on the SWEG route were converted to bus services; Due to a lack of staff, the section from Meckesheim to Aglasterhausen was no longer served by rail at all on weekends and public holidays from August 2007, but only by bus. From the 1st August 2009 all passenger traffic on the railway line to Aglasterhausen was suspended for the S-Bahn expansion . A rail replacement service was set up.
Also in the summer of 2007, a football fan club took part in the restoration work of the reception building and set up its clubhouse in it. It was painted sapphire blue and carmine red, which successfully prevented vandalism in the form of paint smears.
In the course of the inclusion of the Elsenz and Schwarzbachtalbahn in the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn , the Meckesheim station and the entire Elsenz and Schwarzbachtalbahn were completely modernized and electrified . The passenger crossing leading to the central platform was replaced by an underpass at the level crossing, which cost around 5 million euros. On June 3, 2010, the connection from the station building to the central platform was released, which meant that the passenger crossing could be removed and the remaining part of the new platform built.
The building for the ESTW sub-center next to what was then the dispatcher interlocking was erected in September 2007. The two mechanical interlockings remained manned for the time being, since until the 3rd February 2009, the remote-monitored level crossings in Mauer and south of Bammental were monitored by signal box 1 , and the sliding barrier at the passenger crossing was operated from signal box 2 until June 3, 2010 and the announcements were made at the stations from Bammental to Sinsheim Museum.
Whitsun 2009 the station was closed for two weeks, during which time platform 3 was at 1.50 m to the southwest to create space for the 76 cm high central platform.
With the timetable change in December 2009, the new S5 line of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn was put into operation from Heidelberg via the Elsenz Valley Railway to Sinsheim or every hour via the Steinsfurt – Eppingen railway to Eppingen . The opening of line S51 (Heidelberg – Meckesheim – Aglasterhausen), also planned for the timetable change in December 2009, was only opened in June 2010 due to the severe winter of 2009/10. On December 12, 2010, DB Regio set up a break room for train drivers in a building opposite the station building.
The road-side access ramps to the northern level crossing (Petersbergstrasse) were widened between May and August 2012 so that the level crossing can be reliably cleared even when there is oncoming traffic.
The reception building was converted into a day nursery by the end of November 2013 and an extension was added for this purpose.
At the beginning of 2015, the station was upgraded from station category 5 to category 4.
Transport links
Regional traffic
Meckesheim is served by the two-hour regional express RE 10b (until 2019 under the name "RE 2"Guided), which runs between Mannheim , Sinsheim and Heilbronn .
| line | Route | Tact |
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| RE 10b | Mannheim - Heidelberg - Meckesheim - Sinsheim - Bad Friedrichshall - Heilbronn | 120 min |
Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn
The lines S5 and S51 serve the Meckesheim train station every hour. Both lines start together in Heidelberg and run to Meckesheim, where however the S51 only begins occasionally. The S5 branches off in Steinsfurt on the Elsenztalbahn and ends in Eppingen , the S51 runs over the Schwarzbachtalbahn to Aglasterhausen . The overlapping of lines S5 and S51 results in a 30-minute cycle on the Heidelberg – Meckesheim section on weekdays except Saturdays. During rush hour , both S-Bahn lines in the Meckesheim – Aglasterhausen or Heidelberg – Sinsheim section are compressed to half-hourly intervals and winged in Meckesheim.
Individual trips of the S5 / S51 are also tied through to Mannheim or Mainz , which happens in a preliminary operation , as the S-Bahn from the Elsenz and Schwarzbachtal valleys are to be tied through to Mainz after the Mannheim - Heidelberg route has been expanded.
| line | Route | Tact |
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| S 5 | (Mannheim -) Heidelberg - Neckargemünd - Meckesheim - Sinsheim - Steinsfurt - Eppingen | 60 min 30 min (HVZ) |
| P 51 | Heidelberg - Neckargemünd - Meckesheim - Waibstadt - Neckarbischofsheim North - Aglasterhausen |
Bus transport
| line | course |
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| 743 | Meckesheim - Mönchzell - Lobenfeld - Waldwimmersbach |
| 748 | Neckargemünd - Waldhilsbach - Meckesheim - Lobbach (school traffic) |
| 755 | Heidelberg - Neckargemünd - Bammental - Meckesheim - Hoffenheim - Sinsheim |
| 782 | Meckesheim - Waibstadt - Neckarbischofsheim - Untergimpern - Obergimpern - Bad Rappenau |
Tracks
The Meckesheim station has three platform tracks. Track 1 is on the house platform . It serves the S-Bahn lines that start and end in Meckesheim on the S51 in the direction of Aglasterhausen. Tracks 2 and 3 share an island platform . Track 2 is used for trains in the direction of Heidelberg / Mannheim, track 3 for those in the direction of Eppingen / Heilbronn / Aglasterhausen.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn: The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935. Berlin 1935. (Reprint: Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 , 1862/23)
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn: The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935. Berlin 1935 (reprint: Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 , 1868/11).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al Jürgen Heß, Herbert Hoffmann, Siegbert Luksch: No. 5: Looking back at 150 years of the Meckesheim railway location: 11: Chronology. (PDF; 568 KiB) November 29, 2013, accessed January 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.stellwerke.de/liste/seite319.html
- ↑ Jürgen Heß: A look back at 150 years of the Meckesheim railway location (= series of publications on the local history of Meckesheim . No. 5 ). November 29, 2013, 9 timetables .
- ^ Pedestrian underpass at the Meckesheim station. Müller Ingenieurplan GmbH, accessed on March 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Route timetable Elsenz and Schwarzbachtalbahn ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 542 kB)
