Odernheim (Glan) train station

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Odernheim (Glan)
Track side of Odernheim (Glan) station with reception building
Track side of Odernheim (Glan) station with reception building
Data
Location in the network Terminus (1896–1897)
Intermediate station (1897–1904; 1961–1988)
Separation station (1904–1961)
Design Through station
opening October 26, 1896
Conveyance May 30, 1986 (passenger traffic)
September 25, 1988 (freight traffic)
location
City / municipality Odernheim am Glan
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 45 '54 "  N , 7 ° 42' 3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '54 "  N , 7 ° 42' 3"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The station Odernheim (Glan) was the station of the municipality Odernheim am Glan . It was opened in October 1896 as the terminus of the lower Glantalbahn , which initially formed the immediate continuation of the Lautertalbahn , which had existed since 1883 . When the line to Staudernheim was connected, it became a through station a year later. The remaining sections of the Glantalbahn from Homburg to Bad Münster , built for strategic reasons , were opened in 1904. Since the line in Odernheim from then on forked into the branches to Staudernheim and Bad Münster, the station became a railway junction of minor importance. He lost this function again when the section between Odernheim and Bad Münster was closed in 1961 and then dismantled. In 1986 passenger traffic between Lauterecken and Staudernheim also ended. The station was used for freight traffic until 1988. The railway line between Lauterecken and Staudernheim has been legally closed since 1996.

A draisine station has been located at the train station since 2000. Parts of the station complex at Bahnhofstrasse 11 are under monument protection.

location

The train station is on the western outskirts of Odernheim. The Glantalbahn, coming from the south, runs in an S-curve shortly before reaching the station, where it crosses the eponymous river, among other things . In the immediate vicinity to the west of the train station there is an approximately right-angled loop of the Glans. Shortly after reaching the station, the railway line crosses the river again. It then crosses under Landesstraße 234 and shortly afterwards forks into two branches. The still existing branch bypasses the Disibodenberg , then bridges the Nahe and ends in Staudernheim. The branch, which was closed in 1961, leads again shortly after the junction over the Glan and then runs not far from its orographically right bank to its confluence with the Nahe. Immediately afterwards it follows the right bank of the Nahe until shortly before Bad Münster.

Since the Lauterecken - Staudernheim section was originally a continuation of the Lautertal Railway, it was initially included in its kilometering so that the zero point at that time was in Kaiserslautern. The station was at route kilometers 52.6.

After the opening of the strategic railway in 1904, continuous kilometring was carried out, which began west of the Scheidt station and followed the existing line that had existed since 1879 or 1895 to Rohrbach , then included the connection via Kirkel and Limbach that existed from January 1, 1904 and then on the Glantalbahn changed. As a result of this measure, Odernheim station has since been at route kilometers 93.3. The Odernheim - Staudernheim section, which had been sidelined as a result, was then separately kilometered and later included in the kilometrage that began at Scheidt.

history

Draft of the Glantalbahn including Odernheim station in the early planning stage. Both the route of the railway line and the location of the station differ here from the actual implementation.

In the course of the construction of the Rhein-Nahe-Bahn , an initiative aimed to set up a route via Odernheim, Meisenheim, Lauterecken, Altenglan and Kusel to St. Wendel and Neunkirchen. The efforts did not prevail, however, because Prussia wanted such a railway line primarily within its own territory. In 1860 a committee was formed to promote a railway line that branched off from the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn in Kaiserslautern , then ran through the Lauter and lower Glan valleys and was to meet in Staudernheim on the Rhine-Nahe Railway, which was completed in the same year. 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. In 1871 there were plans to build a strategic railway. The route worked out at that time, however, differed in places from the route actually implemented later, so the train station was to be built on site at a different location. The project failed because of different ideas about the interest rate guarantee between Prussia and Bavaria, whose territory should touch the route. In 1891, Bavaria and Prussia signed a state treaty that provided for a line from Lauterecken to Staudernheim to be built and operated by the Palatinate Northern Railways company. The Lauterecken  - Odernheim line was opened on October 26, 1896 as a direct continuation of the Lauter Valley Railway. Closing the gap to Staudernheim was delayed because landowners tried to negotiate up the prices for the sale of land to the railway. On July 1, 1897, the line to Staudernheim on the Nahe Valley Railway was connected . The railway line from Kaiserslautern changed the border several times north of Lauterecken between Bavaria , to which the Palatinate belonged at that time, and Prussia ; Odernheim was the last stop within the Palatinate.

Odernheim station shortly after its completion at the end of the 19th century

At the same time, Bavaria revised its negative attitude towards a strategic railway line along the entire Glan, as German relations with France had meanwhile deteriorated. The strategic route was to run from Homburg using the Landstuhl - Kusel railway on the Glan-Münchweiler - Altenglan section and the route coming from the Lautertal from Lauterecken to Bad Münster, with the route from Odernheim on the right bank of the Nahe . At the same time it was planned to double-track the existing Lauterecken - Odernheim line. The Glantalbahn was finally opened on May 1, 1904 on a continuous length, making Odernheim a junction of minor importance; along this new railway line it was one of a total of 26 en route stations.

Demand was always low on the Odernheim - Bad Münster section, so that it was shut down on September 29, 1961 and dismantled in the two following years. After the Homburg  - Glan-Münchweiler section and the Altenglan  - Lauterecken-Grumbach section in 1985 had already lost passenger traffic, it also ended on May 30, 1986 between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Staudernheim. The very last passenger train left at 6 p.m. in the direction of Lauterecken with the participation of the population. As a result of this, there was  no longer any regular traffic on the Meisenheim - Odernheim section . Two years later, on September 25, 1988, freight services at Odernheim station were discontinued. On May 10, 1996, the Federal Railway Authority approved the closure of the Glantalbahn between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Odernheim, which was completed on July 1 of that year.

In order to prevent the line from being dismantled , students from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern had plans to set up a railroad draisine operation on the Glantalbahn between Altenglan and Staudernheim . Winfried Hirschberger, district administrator from Kusel, was one of the supporters of this project . In 2000 the realization was made. Since then, the station has been a trolley station on the Glan route.

Buildings

Reception building

The reception building is a two-and-a-half-storey, historical sandstone block construction from 1895. In terms of its sophisticated architecture and style, it is similar to that in Meisenheim, but it was a bit smaller. Like the other station buildings along the lower Glantalbahn, the architectural style in Odernheim was typical for the society of the Palatinate Northern Railways .

Other buildings

In 1901 the station received a crane. The freight shed as well as the signal boxes I and II, all of which date from 1891, are part of the existing station complex. Like the station building, they are - with the exception of signal box II - a listed building. The latter serves a fishing club and has been converted for this.

Investments

Track plan of the station around 1900

When the line was opened, Odernheim station had 13  switches , a head ramp and a side ramp, a loading crane with a load capacity of two and a half tons and several side tracks with a total length of 920 meters. To the south of the station there was a two-tier locomotive shed , which also supplied the steam locomotives with water and contained overnight rooms for the locomotive staff. Scheduled operations began one day after the opening.

traffic

passenger traffic

At the time the line opened, five trains were in operation from and four to Kaiserslautern; there was also a couple who drove exclusively between Odernheim and Lauterecken. With the continuous opening of the Glantalbahn in 1904, three pairs of trains ran between Homburg and Bad Münster; at the same time the continuous connections to Kaiserslautern ended. A steam railcar then shuttled between Odernheim and Staudernheim . In 1905, a total of 15,843 tickets were sold at Odernheim station. There were never more than six passenger trains on the section between Odernheim and Bad Münster. The traffic between Odernheim and Staudernheim or between Lauterecken and Grumbach was more extensive. There were ten pairs of trains on the first line in 1909, and immediately after the two world wars the number was reduced to three. At times eleven pairs of trains ran between Odernheim and Lauterecken-Grumbach. In the 1970s, only eight couples ran from Lauterecken-Grumbach to Staudernheim; when passenger traffic was discontinued, there were only six. At the beginning of the 1950s there was a so-called corner connection from Staudernheim to Bad Münster via Odernheim.

In 1965 two pairs of express trains were used between Zweibrücken and Mainz, which ran on the Glantalbahn and stopped in Odernheim. Due to the lack of a connection between Odernheim and Bad Münster, these trains had to go to Staudernheim, “turn their heads” there and then use the Nahe Valley Railway eastwards. In 1967 there was another couple between Homburg and Gau Algesheim. From 1970 these connections were officially only local express trains before they were completely discontinued in 1979.

Freight transport

Of all train stations along the lower Glantalbahn Lauterecken-Grumbach - Staudernheim, Odernheim has always been the most important freight tariff point. In 1905, for example, a total of 23,278 tons of goods were received or dispatched. The local oil mill, for example, had a siding around one kilometer north of Odernheim station. Around 1920, the section Bad Münster - Lauterecken-Grumbach was operated from the freight yard in Ebernburg on the Alsenz Valley Railway , from which a through freight train ran south of Lauterecken to Homburg. There was another delivery trip for the local oil mill .

The mill, which has existed since 1886, was converted into an oil factory from 1909. From the 1930s to the 1960s, there were at times up to three journeys from the Odernheim train station to the oil factory on weekdays. After a major fire broke out there in 1983, the owners decided to give it up. This meant that the volume of goods in Odernheim fell significantly. Sugar beets were regularly transported from Odernheim .

In 1969 327 truckloads were dispatched and 665 received. From the 1970s onwards, freight traffic in the train station declined significantly: in 1972, 15,421 tons were received and 850 shipped, ten years later the figure was only 4,999 tons and 32 tons were shipped. In 1988 Odernheim was closed as a tariff point for goods. A coal wagon was last unloaded in the station.

Incidents

In November 1928, planks were thrown onto the tracks of the station by a storm. As a result, the locomotive and the van of a passenger train derailed; the train driver died.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Odernheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 21 .
  3. ^ Map of the Mainz Railway Directorate from January 1, 1940
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  5. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . Schweers + Wall, Eupen 2002, ISBN 3-89494-133-2 , pp. 83 .
  6. ↑ 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 , p. 234 .
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  12. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 65 .
  13. ↑ lok-report.de: timing chart Strategic line (selection) . Retrieved January 15, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 101 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 102 f .
  16. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 169 .
  17. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 420 f .
  18. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
  19. ↑ lok-report.de: 100 years Glantalbahn . Retrieved May 6, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 20 .
  21. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
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  25. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 121 .
  26. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 21 .
  27. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 40 .
  28. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 37 .
  29. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 61 .
  30. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 123 .
  31. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 44 .