Oppenheim station

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Oppenheim station
The main entrance in the reception building to Oppenheim station
The main entrance in the reception building to Oppenheim station
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation FOPP
IBNR 8004680
Price range 5
opening March 22, 1853
Profile on Bahnhof.de Oppenheim
location
City / municipality Oppenheim
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 51 '27 "  N , 8 ° 21' 28"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '27 "  N , 8 ° 21' 28"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Oppenheim station is the station of the Rhine-Hessian town of Oppenheim on the railway line Mainz-Mannheim . The train station in the former Free Imperial City has a history of around 160 years. It is administered by the Mainz railway station management.

history

Oppenheim station was put into operation on March 22, 1853, when the first section of the then single- track Mainz – Worms line of the Hessian Ludwig Railway to Oppenheim was opened. Initially, only four passenger trains ran here, and their locomotives were named Gutenberg , Dalwigk , Worms and Mainz . When the railway to Worms went into operation on August 24, 1853 , a strong economic upswing began in Oppenheim. Some Oppenheim companies received their own sidings , including a nearby wire and nail factory. East of the through tracks for passenger traffic, the station was given a track for single wagon traffic and a goods shed in which two covered goods wagons could be processed at the same time. There were also two signal boxes in the station . Now many railway workers lived in Oppenheim who were mainly employed at the Mainz main train station and the marshalling yard in Mainz-Bischofsheim .

The Oppenheim train station was one of the most modern and best equipped train stations in Rheinhessen. For more than 100 years until the end of the 20th century , the station was classified in the then upper second class . There was a spacious waiting hall with steam heating and a lavatory in the train station . The station later also had a level crossing and a separate office for the dispatcher in front of the house platform , which with its roof also provided weather protection for travelers. There was also a ticket office and baggage handling. In addition, there were platform closures at that time . When the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line was electrified in 1958 , the legendary Rheingold Express stopped every day at Oppenheim station in every direction. The express train from Mainz to Strasbourg and all other express trains now regularly stopped in Oppenheim.

In the 1960s , the level crossing was replaced by a railroad overpass. Over the next few decades, the industry at Oppenheimer Bahnhof decreased more and more and so the tracks for freight traffic were dismantled. From 2009 to 2011 the station was modernized and made barrier-free . The old pedestrian bridge on the north side of the reception building was demolished and a new pedestrian bridge was built on the south side of the reception building with two elevators. In addition, guidance systems for the blind were installed. The central platform was removed and an outside platform was built on the east side . The station still has a total of three tracks, two of which are platform tracks, all of the others have been dismantled. The new outside platform is 76 cm high, the main platform has been raised to the same height. When connected to the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn , which took place on June 10, 2018, this enables step-free entry and exit. The modernized station was inaugurated on March 14, 2011. The renovation cost around 9.3 million euros, of which 2.2 million euros came from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and 7 million euros from Deutsche Bahn .

Reception building

The station building from the track side

The reception building of the station Oppenheim is located west of the railway tracks at the platform 1. It is essentially still the original station building from 1853, but which was rebuilt several times. It is a type of construction by Ignaz Opfermann , as he had it built in most of the train stations along the route. Two single-storey wings parallel to the platform were attached to the two-storey, gable-end middle section, in contrast to the main building at the eaves. The wing attached to the north was later increased by one storey. The main building is triaxial. Sacrificial man used arched windows throughout the complex. The reception building is classicist, has clear, cubic shapes, a flat roof pitch and a structure that is mainly done by windows and cornices. Inside there were separate waiting rooms for first and second class on the one hand and third class on the other. The station restaurant was only installed later. The building is now a cultural monument due to the monument protection law of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Today the building is under-used. It hardly contains any facilities that serve travelers. On the platform for track 1 there is a room with a table for the dispatcher . There are also social rooms for railway employees.

Until 2014, the reception building was owned by the Luxembourg real estate fund Patron Elke, Sarl., Which is represented in Germany by MainAsset Management GmbH. Mr. Oliver Sander has been the owner of the property since mid-2014.

Train operation

Station construction

The tracks of the Oppenheim station with the incoming regional train with railcars of the DB class 425 before the renovation of the station in 2009

Oppenheim station has three tracks, two of which have a platform . Track 2 has no platform since 2010. Both platforms are built as side platforms , the main platform on platform 1 has a connection to the reception building .

In the past there was a ticket office with travel advice, a restaurant and a handling procedure for express goods , today there is still a bench there. After the waiting hall of the reception building was closed to travelers, there are now ticket machines on the platforms to tracks 1 and 3. Track 1 is mainly used for regional traffic and goods traffic to be overtaken on the Mainz – Mannheim line towards Worms and Ludwigshafen am Rhein utilized. Track 2 is used as a passing track for regional and long-distance traffic . Track 3 is usually used for regional traffic on the Mainz – Mannheim line towards Mainz .

For the commissioning of the new electronic interlocking on the morning of December 17, 2018, which has since been controlling the free routes and stations between the Mainz-Weisenau Gbf and Guntersblum stations, the tracks in Oppenheim station were renamed: the former track 1 was named track 3 and the former platform 3 was renamed platform 1, platform 2 kept its name.

There are also some car parking spaces west of the reception building. In addition, a park-and-ride system was built to the east of the track system in 2011 . There is a parking space for bicycles to the south of the reception building at Oppenheim station.

Regional traffic

Occasional RegionalExpress trains to Frankfurt (Main) or Mannheim stop at Oppenheim train station. Individual RB33s also stop in Oppenheim, which run between Worms and Bad Kreuznach or once in the morning to Baumholder.

line route Tact
RE 14 Frankfurt (Main) - Hochheim (Main) - Mainz - Oppenheim - Worms - Frankenthal (Palatinate) - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim individual trains
RB 33 (Baumholder - Idar-Oberstein - Kirn -) Bad Kreuznach - Gau-Algesheim - Mainz - Oppenheim - Worms individual trains

Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn

Until June 9, 2018, mainly regional trains on the Mainz – Mannheim (–Bensheim) route stopped. Most regional trains ran every half hour from Monday to Friday and every hour on weekends. June 10, 2018, the regional trains line RB were 44 by the train -line S6, the S-Bahn RheinNeckar replaced. It stops at all intermediate stations on the Mainz-Mannheim line .

line route Tact
S 6 Mainz - Oppenheim - Worms - Bobenheim - Frankenthal (Pfalz) - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim (- Ladenburg - Neu-Edingen / Friedrichsfeld - Weinheim (Bergstr) - Bensheim ) 30 min
60 min

Connection to the other public transport

There is a taxi rank at the Oppenheim train station . The next bus stop is about 200 meters away on foot at Postplatz . From here the lines 662, 663 and 668 of the Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe (ORN) go to Bodenheim , Nierstein , Dalheim and Wörrstadt . Since 2011 there has been a covered bus stop with a direct connection to Bundesstraße 9 , which runs east of the train station parallel to the Mainz – Mannheim railway line. It was set up in connection with the renovation of the station.

literature

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ The first reception building of the Worms main station - built almost at the same time - was structurally very similar (see here ).
  2. ↑ According to § 3 Para. 1 No. 1a of the Monument Protection Act of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, cultural monuments [...] are objects from a bygone era, the evidence, in particular of intellectual or artistic creativity, of craftsmanship or technical activity or historical events or developments [... ] and in whose preservation and maintenance or scientific research and documentation there is a public interest for historical, scientific, artistic or urban planning reasons - which is undisputed in a station building from the early days of the railway and by a not entirely insignificant architect.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Stop with city flair - Oppenheim companies once had their own access to tracks from Werner Baum in the Rhein Main Presse of September 8, 2010: Allgemeine Zeitung Landskrone, p. 10
  2. ↑ a b 9.3 million euros invested in Oppenheim station at www.deutschebahn.com, accessed on March 15, 2011 ( Memento from June 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b ZSPNV Süd: 9.3 million euros invested in the Oppenheim station on the website of the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate South on March 14, 2011, accessed on September 4, 2014
  4. ^ Station Oppenheim ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved March 15, 2011
  5. ↑ Jutta Blatzheim-Roegler and Pia Schellhammer : Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate - 17th electoral period - printed matter 17/3676 July 31, 2017. (PDF) State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate , August 2, 2017, accessed on August 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Good operational quality and competition come first - commissioning of the Rhein Neckar S-Bahn, lot 2 postponed by one year. Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture Rhineland-Palatinate , December 21, 2016, accessed on August 14, 2017 .
  7. ↑ www.kobinet-nachrichten.org: Oppenheim station now accessible. Accessed on March 15, 2011
  8. ^ Krienke: District Mainz-Bingen , p. 250; Silvia Speckert: Ignaz Opfermann (1799–1866): Selected examples of his construction work in the vicinity of the city of Mainz = housework to obtain the academic degree of a Magister [!] Artium. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1989. Typed. Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Tafeln, p. 74. Mainz City Archives: 1991/25 No. 11
  9. ↑ Silvia Speckert: Ignaz Opfermann (1799–1866): Selected examples of his construction activity in the vicinity of the city of Mainz = housework to obtain the academic degree of a Magister [!] Artium. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1989. Typed. Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Tafeln, p. 74. Mainz City Archives: 1991/25 No. 11
  10. ^ Ulrich Gerecke: New signal box between Nierstein and Oppenheim - Deutsche Bahn is upgrading the Rhine route. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . VRM , November 28, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018 .