Pirmasens Nord station
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 Train in Pirmasens Nord station
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | SPSN |
| IBNR | 8000876 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | November 25, 1875 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Pirmasens_Nord |
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| City / municipality | Thaleischweiler frogs |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 15 '30 " N , 7 ° 36' 16" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Pirmasens Nord station - until 1938: Biebermühle - is a crossing station opened in 1875, located around seven kilometers north of the central town of Pirmasens in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to station category 4 and has five platform tracks . The station is in the network area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zones 721 and 731. The station's address is Biebermühler Strasse, 66987 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen .
It was opened on November 25, 1875 with the complete commissioning of the Landau – Zweibrücken main line as a branch station for the branch line to Pirmasens . The latter was gradually expanded to Kaiserslautern in 1904 and 1913 . In 1938 it was given its current name in view of its importance for the city of Pirmasens. To this day, it is the most important train station in the Südwestpfalz district , although in the past it was mainly used as a transfer station. The original station name Biebermühle has been preserved in colloquial language to this day .
location
Despite its name, the station was at no time in the district of the city of Pirmasens. Most of its tracks are in the area around Thaleischweiler-Fröschen , two smaller parts belong to Donsieders and Rodalben . Immediately to the east of it extends the hamlet of Biebermühle , which belongs to Donsieders and which gave the station its name until 1938.
history
Emergence
First efforts to create a rail connection in the area of the Biebermühle go back to the 1860s. A first draft for a route from Kaiserslautern to Pirmasens from 1864 envisaged a route over the Vogelweh , Hohenecken , Schopp , the Biebermühle and Rodalben .
Another design followed in 1866, which largely corresponded to today's route. Bavaria , in whose Rhine area the planned connection was located, gave priority to a route planned at the same time from Landau to Zweibrücken, however, as this was to function as a transit route for coal from the Saar region. The Ministry of Commerce did not consider a planned connection between Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens to be sensible due to the topography and the sparse population.
In the course of the planned east-west main line , the city of Pirmasens was hoping for a connection to the railway network. The connection to the city turned out to be problematic, however, as the construction costs would amount to more than 13 million due to the difficult topography of the Palatinate Forest . An engineer from Reichenhall , who was engaged by the relevant committee , therefore suggested that the route should not take the shoe city. Instead, the railway should run along the Rodalb and the Schwarzbach and a branch line should be built either from Rodalben or the Biebermühle .
Nevertheless, the variant favored by the Bavarian government with the branch line within the city was controversial. Two proposals for a direct connection turned out to be difficult, since one that had been abandoned prematurely would have had to be tunneled under, and with another, the train station would have been built far outside of Niedersimten . The majority of the city council finally voted 24:14 for the government draft. The branch line was to branch off the planned main line at the hamlet of Biebermühle , where a branch station was to be built, and run mainly along the Steinbach, in order to then overcome the watershed to the Blümelsbach in a tunnel .
Opening and first decades
The station was opened on November 25, 1875 with the commissioning of the Annweiler -Zweibrücken section . At the same time, the branch line to Pirmasens went into operation, making the Biebermühle station a connecting station. The builder was the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company , which had been part of the Palatinate Railways since 1870 . From 1887 onwards, the main line could be used on two tracks.
The efforts to force a connection of the Pirmasens route to Kaiserslautern did not come to a standstill. In 1872 the Palatinate Railways received an inquiry from the city of Kaiserslautern, which related to the planned extension of the branch line northwards to Barbarossa town . Its director Albert von Jäger replied that the organization had so many projects to deal with that the route could not be realized. Another - also unsuccessful request - dates from 1887.
In 1902 the concession document for the section Biebermühle - Waldfischbach followed . After around a year of construction, the corresponding 5.13 kilometer section was put into operation on June 1, 1904; the station building became an island location. In 1913, on August 1, the gap between Waldfischbach and Kaiserslautern was closed. As early as January 1, 1909, the station had become the property of the Royal Bavarian State Railways . After an operational tour through France as the administrative authority as a result of the First World War , the station was operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1922 . In this context, the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate .
Third Reich (1933–1945)
In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management in 1936, the station changed to the responsibility of the Saarbrücken management. The National Socialists had the station completely rebuilt in preparation for the Western campaign in the second half of the 1930s. The part that was used to transport passengers now comprised a total of five tracks. He also received elevated platforms, an underpass and four signal boxes . Ten more tracks were used for freight traffic . The previous station building was replaced by a new one. On July 1, 1938, it was also given the new name "Pirmasens Nord", which took into account its importance for the shoe city, although it was never in the district.
At the same time, the performance of the line to the Pirmasens main station was increased through the construction of a second track. The new track was given a separate route above the existing track with a less steep ascent to Pirmasens. Commissioning followed in 1939; the construction costs amounted to 5.6 million Reichsmarks. In addition, a connecting curve between the Biebermühlbahn and Schwarzbachbahn was built north of the station, which was supposed to enable direct train runs on the route Zweibrücken – Kaiserslautern via the Biebermühlbahn during World War II .
During the war, the station also served as a collection camp for forced laborers who were housed in a nearby barrack. There was a smuggling camp for prisoners from the Soviet Union next to the railway maintenance facility .
Post-war period and German Federal Railways (1945–1993)
The valley track of the section Pirmasens Nord– Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof was interrupted in four places as a result of the fighting after the end of the war, but this was quickly remedied. A year later, traffic to Kaiserslautern was possible again. In the course of reparations payments, however, the second track between Landau and Bierbach was dismantled at the same time .
After the end of the Second World War , the valley track of the southern section of Pirmasens Nord – Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof was interrupted. As early as April 1, 1947, Pirmasens Hbf came to the Mainz Railway Directorate (ED), as Saarland was separated from Germany . In 1955 the mountain track in the southern section of the line was reactivated, the construction of which had been delayed for a long time.
In the course of the dissolution of the Mainz directorate, the station came to the Bundesbahndirektion (BD) Saarbrücken on May 1, 1972 until the Deutsche Bahn AG was founded in 1994.
Not only passenger trains stopped at this station, but also express trains on the Saarbrücken - Zweibrücken - Landau - Karlsruhe route . In the 1970s and 1980s it was the Saarbrücken - Munich express train that was of particular importance, as it operated with so-called pop cars . With the summer timetable change in May 1989, only one RegionalSchnellBahn (RSB) Saarbrücken - Pirmasens Nord - Landau - Karlsruhe operated with the new class 628.2 diesel trains .
Deutsche Bahn (since 1994)
With the timetable change in the summer of 1994, the supra-regional train connections were given up and the line structure still operated today with regional trains was introduced. In this context, the Landau – Saarbrücken main line was divided into two course book sections. Through trains were largely omitted, so that since then a change in Pirmasens Nord has been required for journeys in east-west direction.
Today the station serves as a junction between the railway lines from Saarbrücken to Landau (Palatinate) and between Pirmasens and Kaiserslautern .
In 2000, like the whole of the West Palatinate , the station became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV) before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .
From October 29 to 31, 2012, the Memory Train stopped on platform 1 in the station to commemorate the deportations in the Third Reich. Originally it was planned to set it up in the Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof, due to the lack of space there it had to move to Pirmasens Nord.
In the course of the construction of the electronic interlocking "Southern Palatinate", the signal and turnout technology of the station was modernized in 2016 and 2017. The shape signals were replaced by modern light signals, and the turnouts received electrical drives. Commissioning was in autumn 2017.
A modernization of the platforms is planned in the near future.
Buildings
Original reception building
The original station building was a classical building and resembled that of the Annweiler am Trifels train station . It was located between today's tracks 2 and 3. The architectural style corresponded to most of its counterparts between Landau and Zweibrücken. The central building was designed to face the tracks and had three floors and three window axes.
The two adjoining parts of the building accommodated two floors and had four window axes along the gable. The northern wing also had a gable facing the track side, while the remaining part of the two side wings was laid out over the eaves. Around 1900 a platform roof was added to the building complex. From 1904 the building was located on an island when the Biebermühle – Waldfischbach section was opened.
Today's reception building
In 1934, plans began in the Ludwigshafen Reichsbahndirektion to rebuild what was then the Biebermühle station. A year later, the decision was made to rename the site to “Pirmasens Nord”, which was finally implemented in 1938. With the exception of the substructure of the original signal box, all operational buildings at the station were demolished.
The current station building was built in 1934 and is located east of the tracks. It is a plastered building. The elongated structure has a cubic shape and has a hipped roof and a gray plaster base. A total of eleven window axes are attached to its long side in the upper floor. In terms of architecture, it is typical of buildings under National Socialism .
The station building temporarily had a restaurant as well as a counter hall and toilets . It has since been taken out of service. Today the entrance and exit are made of plywood.
Other buildings
There is an old bunker under the station, most of which is walled up. The bunker is not open to the public. Locomotive and goods sheds are still there, but are now of no importance for rail operations. Since the 1930s, the station also had a total of four signal boxes, three of which are still there.
traffic
passenger traffic
Long-distance transport
From 1890 long-distance trains ran from Munich to Saarbrücken, which also stopped at the station. In the following decades, too, it always acted as a long-distance stop. There were still express and express trains to and from Basel , Dortmund , Frankfurt , Munich , Saarbrücken, Stuttgart and Würzburg in the 1980s .
Local transport
A RE 4 regional express ran until 2002, passing the train station on its way from Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof via Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof to Bingen am Rhein . The train was tied through the Alsenz Valley Railway. Since then, however, the trains have ended in Kaiserslautern, and you have to change trains in the direction of Bad Kreuznach and Bingen am Rhein.
The following lines stop at Pirmasens Nord train station:
| line | Train run | Clock frequency |
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| RB 55 | Pirmasens - Landau (Palatinate) | 60 min |
| RB 64 | Pirmasens - Waldfischbach - Kaiserslautern | 60 min |
| RB 68 | Pirmasens - Zweibrücken - St. Ingbert - Saarbrücken | 60 min |
Freight transport
After the war, the service followed in the form of local freight trains from the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard . In 1996 freight traffic between Pirmasens Nord and Hinterweidenthal came to a standstill. On June 30, 2002, a freight train was last driven from Pirmasens Nord to Thaleischweiler-Fröschen. In the following years, on-site goods transport was limited to the unloading of tanks that were brought to the Husterhöh barracks. In the meantime, freight traffic in the station has come to a complete standstill. In November 2005 the freight tracks and track 6 and its signals will be dismantled.
Accidents
On April 14, 2005 a regional train Saarbrücken – Pirmasens derailed in the morning in the western station area. There were no personal injuries, and train traffic to the west was interrupted for three and a half hours as a result of the incident.
literature
- Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Pirmasens – Kaiserslautern rail link . 2013 ( online [PDF; accessed October 9, 2013]).
- Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science. Volume 53). New edition. pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; Retrieved October 30, 2013 .
- ↑ Regional rail network and honeycomb plan. (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) In: vrn.de. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved July 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Pirmasens North. In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens rail link . 2013, p. 17 .
- ↑ a b c Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens rail link . 2013, p. 15 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 5 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 183 f .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 178 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 179 ff .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h queichtalbahn.beepworld.de: Chronicle of time from 1874 to 2000 . Archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; Retrieved October 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 184 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 8 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern – Pirmasens rail link . 2013, p. 8th ff .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 182 ff .
- ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens rail link . 2013, p. 18 .
- ↑ a b c queichtalbahn.beepworld.de: Chronicle from 2000 . Archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; Retrieved October 22, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e heimatlexikon-thaleischweiler-froeschen.de: Heimatkalender 2002- The Pirmasens Nord train station . Retrieved October 22, 2013 .
- ↑ kbaystb.de: Railway stations and their pictures in Bavaria (left bank of the Rhine) - Railway station: Biebermühle (since 1939: Pirmasens-Nord) - Main lines: Annweiler - Zweibrücken (opening: 25.11.1875) - Biebermühle - Pirmasens (single-track branch line; opening: 25.11 .1875) - Local railway line: Kaiserslautern - Pirmasens (double-track expansion; opening 01.08.1913) . Retrieved October 22, 2013 .