Rehweiler train station
| Rehweiler | |
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 Former reception building
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| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | SRW |
| IBNR | 8004993 |
| Price range | 7th |
| opening | September 22, 1868 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Rehweiler |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 29 '7 " N , 7 ° 26' 25" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Rehweiler Station (now breakpoint ) is the railway operating agency of Rhineland-Palatinate local church Rehweiler . It belongs to station category 7 and has one platform track . The station is in the network area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 772. The address of the station is Bahnhofstrasse 2 .
It was opened on September 22, 1868 as a stop on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line. From May 1, 1904, it was also part of the Glantalbahn Homburg - Bad Münster, which was built for strategic reasons . In this context, it was expanded into a train station. the strategic line was gradually shut down from the 1960s. Since the end of the 1980s - as it was from 1868 to 1904 - it has only been a stopping point.
location
Local situation
The breakpoint is located in the center of Rehweiler not far from the Glans , which runs a little to the east, almost parallel to the railway line. Bahnhofstrasse runs parallel to the west of the stop . To the north of him, Glanstrasse crosses the track. The breakpoint is 211.4 meters above sea level between the Glan-Münchweiler train stations (km 21.8 and 13.9 respectively) in the south and Eisenbach- Matzenbach (km 25.4) in the north. The train station has parking spaces and barrier-free access.
Railway line
The Landstuhl-Kusel railway runs in this area in a south-north direction in a long S-curve within the Glantal. Originally, it was mile long. The stopping point at that time was therefore at route kilometers 15.9. With the opening of the strategic railway, a new kilometer was introduced starting west of Scheidt on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line , which runs via Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan to Bad Münster. The station was at route kilometers 47.5. The Glantalbahn was later given a new kilometer, which had its starting point in Homburg and which is used between Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan to this day.
history
Planning, construction and opening of the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line (1860–1870)
According to a memorandum published in Kusel in 1861, the railway was to branch off from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway in Landstuhl and lead along Mohrbach , Glan and Kuselbach via Rehweiler to Kusel. The memorandum argued, among other things, that building a railway would counteract the poor economic and social conditions in the region.
The construction of the 28.7 kilometer stretch from Landstuhl to Kusel was largely uncomplicated. The construction work on the section between Glan-Münchweiler and Kusel was delayed because not enough workers could be recruited. The first freight train ran on August 28, 1868. Theisbergstegen station was officially opened on September 22, 1868 with the commissioning of the Landstuhl – Kusel line - at that time part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The new railway line was received very positively by the population, as it improved the infrastructure in the rural region northwest of Kaiserslautern .
At this point in time, the train station was the only one along the route as a stopping point. It initially had a station building in which the toilets were housed, a laundry room and a stable.
Plans for a strategic path (1868–1904)
Although a railway line along the Glan as a connection between the Saar area and the region around Bingen would have been obvious from a geographical perspective, the irregular borderline between Bavaria and Prussia in the Glan valley prevented the realization for a long time.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and 1871, when France had to cede Alsace and Lorraine to Germany, there were also military reasons for a strategic north-south railway line along the Glans. It was resolutely championed by Prussia in particular. Another argument in favor of the railway construction was to create the shortest possible connection between Homburg and Bingen.
It was not until the end of the nineteenth century that Bavaria gave up its resistance to the construction of a strategic railway, as Franco-German relations had deteriorated significantly in the meantime. The plans provided for the construction of a main line from Mainz via Bad Münster along the Glans, using the Kuseler route between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler. In this context, the station was expanded into a train station. In addition to a new reception building, it also received a loading ramp and a loading track, the length of which was 163 meters in total.
Further development
The strategic route from Homburg to Bad Münster, known as the Glantalbahn , was opened continuously on May 1, 1904; along this the train station was one of a total of 26 en route stations. In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on May 1, 1936, he moved to the area of responsibility of the Saarbrücken management.
The German Federal Railways was divided the station after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, they all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. In 1959 the station lost its authorization for express freight and freight traffic. In 1971, when the Mainz directorate was dissolved, the line came under the responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart.
Between March 28 and April 19, 1989, the previously double-track section between Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan was dismantled to one track after the timetable had been switched to single-track operation a year earlier. Since then there has been no more possibility of crossing in the station.
In 2000 the station, like the entire West Palatinate, first became part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged with the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .
Building
Reception building
The station building is toward the side of the track traufständig arranged. It only came about with the strategic construction of the railway. For this reason, it differs optically from the corresponding buildings along the Landstuhl - Kusel line. As with many others along the route, it was a sandstone structure and is thus stylistically based on the reception buildings on the Glantalbahn at smaller stations such as Bedesbach-Patersbach , Elschbach, Erbach, Eschenau , Niederalben-Rathsweiler, Niedereisenbach-Hachenbach , Ulmet and Wiesweiler were built. It no longer plays a role in rail operations.
platform
| track | Usable length | Platform height | Current usage |
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| 1 | 120 m | 55 cm | Regional trains in the direction of Kaiserslautern and Kusel |
traffic
passenger traffic
Initially, two mixed trains and two pure passenger trains ran via Rehweiler . In the first year of operation of the Glantalbahn, four trains ran between Homburg and Glan-Münchweiler in the direction of Bad Münster and four in the direction of Homburg. Only three pairs of trains ran from Homburg to Bad Münster, the rest only between Homburg and Altenglan. In 1905, a total of 9,121 tickets were sold at Glan-Münchweiler station.
Just a few years later, trains were running between Homburg and Kusel, which mainly served the miners from the region around Kusel employed in the Saar region. After the Second World War, in the course of the separation of what is now Saarland, their access was forbidden for the common population.
After the Second World War, no more trains stopped in Rehweiler that traveled the entire Glantal route. Accordingly, only trains between Kusel and Landstuhl or Kaiserslautern served him.
Current connections
| line | route | Clock frequency |
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| RB 67 | Kaiserslautern - Landstuhl - Glan-Münchweiler - Rehweiler - Altenglan - Kusel | Hourly |
Freight transport
The station was of rather subordinate importance in freight traffic. In 1905 he received or sent a total of 187.09 tons of goods. The most important local freight customer was Landhandel Schmitt , which was served until the beginning of 1991 and had a siding.
In 1920 a local freight train operated on the Kaiserslautern-Kusel route and, if necessary, an additional one from Kaiserslautern to Altenglan. In the last few years of goods servicing, only handover journeys handled the operational activities on site. In the meantime, there is no longer any freight traffic in Rehweiler.
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 .
Remarks
- ^ Vrn.de: Regional rail network and honeycomb plan . (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved October 7, 2013 .
- ^ A b bahnhof.de: Station profile > Rehweiler . Retrieved October 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 70 .
- ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 75 .
- ^ Map of the Mainz Railway Directorate from January 1, 1940
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 7th ff .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 174 f .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 12 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 15th f .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 16 f .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 35 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 81 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 55 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 65 .
- ↑ kaiserslautern-kreis.de: Local public transport and school transport . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 101 .
- ^ Bahnhof.de: Platform information > Rehweiler station . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved October 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 34 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 24 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 49 .
- ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 36 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 37 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 52 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 57 .
- ↑ kaiserslautern-kreis.de: Kaiserslautern County: Transportation school bus. Retrieved November 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 115 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 215 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 40 .