Olsbrücken railway station

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Olsbrücken
Profile of the reception building in Olsbrücken, December 1913
Profile of the reception building in Olsbrücken, December 1913
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation SOU
IBNR 8004677
Price range 6th
opening November 15, 1883
location
City / municipality Frankelbach
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 32 '17 "  N , 7 ° 39' 10"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '17 "  N , 7 ° 39' 10"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Olsbrücken station - until 1914 Olsbrücken-Frankelbach - is a through station along the Lautertalbahn Kaiserslautern – Lauterecken-Grumbach. It is the only crossing station along the railway line between Lampertsmühle-Otterbach and Wolfstein . It belongs to Deutsche Bahn station category 6 and has two platform tracks . The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association ( VRN ) and is part of tariff zone 816. Its address is Am Bahnhof 1 . The station building is a listed building.

location

Despite its name, the station is located in the Frankelbach municipality . However, the settlement area of ​​the latter is three kilometers to the west. It has parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces and barrier-free access.

history

Planning and construction of the Lautertalbahn

The first plans to build a railway line along the Lauter and then the Glan to the Nahe go back to 1859 when a “Committee of the Notables of the Glan and Lauterthales” was formed. Among its members was the Wolfstein priest Philipp Hammer . A corresponding memorandum was published in Kaiserslautern in 1860. These efforts were in competition with those who sought to build a route along the Alsenz .

Although the Alsenz Valley Railway had already been opened as a continuous main line over its full length from 1871 and the realization of a route along the Lauter only had one chance as a local railway, the local population persisted and continued to champion their plans.

In 1874 the first project planning was carried out by railway engineers. Nevertheless, the Bavarian state government tried to delay the project as long as possible. It was not until December 1877 that she gave in to the pressure and commissioned the railway administration to run the planned route through the Lautertal as a secondary railway for cost reasons . The concession for construction and operation was granted on May 9, 1880.

Further development

At the time of opening, the station, which was initially called Olsbrücken-Frankelbach , had sidings, those used for freight traffic, a loading ramp, a weighbridge, a loading profile, two pulsometer systems for the water supply to the steam locomotives and five switches. The length of the sidings was 529 meters.

A few years later it was given its function as a crossing station, which still exists today. In 1897 the crossing tracks in Olsbrücken were extended to a total of 500 meters in order to meet military requirements. In 1914 it was finally renamed Olsbrücken .

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management, he changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management on May 1, 1936. After the Second World War, the station was incorporated into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , to which all railway lines within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate were assigned. As early as 1971, when the Mainz management was dissolved, it came under the responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart .

Although train crossings are also possible in Lampertsmühle-Otterbach, Wolfstein and Lauterecken-Grumbach, since 2008 these have almost only taken place in Olsbrücken.

Buildings

Reception building

The station had a two-story station building that no longer plays a role in rail operations. This is also the only one along the Lautertal Railway that has not undergone any major structural changes over the years.

platform

In 1990 the station had two island platforms. In 2005, the track system was rebuilt and the station was given a central platform with disabled access.

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 110 m 55 cm Regional train in the direction of Lauterecken-Grumbach
2 110 m 55 cm Regional train in the direction of Kaiserslautern

traffic

passenger traffic

Immediately after the railway line opened, a total of three pairs of trains ran between Kaiserslautern and Lauterecken , for which only one set was required. There were no train encounters in passenger traffic. Since the northern section of the Lauterecken – Odernheim Glantalbahn was built in 1896 - the connection to Staudernheim took place a year later - as a direct continuation of the Lauteralbahn, the trains were extended accordingly. After the Glantalbahn was opened to its full length in 1904, the trains ended or began again in Lauterecken.

From 1933 onwards, more trains ran to Olsbrücken in the course of two-shift work in the cotton spinning mill in Lampertsmühle.

Freight transport

In June 1986, goods traffic ended on site. Until the end, the station had been listed as a freight tariff point.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 69 .
  2. ↑ Honeycomb plan. In: vrn.de. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b bahnhof.de: Station profile> Olsbrücken . Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Kaiserslautern. Mainz 2019, p. 6 (PDF; 5.4 MB).
  5. ^ A b Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 8 .
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 12 .
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 13 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 14 .
  9. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 49 .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 103 f .
  12. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 14 .
  13. ↑ deutschebahn.com: platform information at Olsbrücken station . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved October 10, 2013 .
  14. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 10 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 45 .
  16. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 25 .
  17. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 122 .