Schifferstadt station

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Schifferstadt
Schifferstadt station in 2006
Schifferstadt station in 2006
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation RSD
IBNR 8000326
Price range 3
opening June 11, 1847
location
City / municipality Schifferstadt
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 23 '31 "  N , 8 ° 21' 52"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '31 "  N , 8 ° 21' 52"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Schifferstadt train station (also known locally as the main train station ) is the more important of the two train stations in the middle town of Schifferstadt in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to station category 3 and has three platform tracks . The station is in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 123. Parts of the platform roofing from the early days of the station are also listed .

It was opened on June 11, 1847 as a separation station. On this day, the Ludwigshafen - Neustadt section of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway and at the same time the branch line to Speyer went into operation. Two years later, the former was drivable all the way to Bexbach . The line to Speyer was extended to Germersheim in 1864 and tied through to Wörth in 1876 . The current Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway later emerged from the Ludwig Railway , the most important intermediate station of which between Ludwigshafen and Neustadt is today Schifferstadt.

location

Local situation

His address is Bahnhofstrasse 87 . The train station is located on the north-western outskirts of the city. An industrial park extends to the west of it . From the south-east comes Bahnhofstrasse , which ends in a T-shaped dead end at its height. The southern area of ​​the station is bridged by Dürkheimer Straße - also Kreisstraße 11 .

Railway lines

The four- track Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway, coming from the north, runs in the station area from northeast to southwest, before it then turns double-track to west-southwest towards Neustadt. The railway line to Wörth leaves the station in a south-easterly direction. Both routes are mostly straight within Schifferstadt.

history

Railway initiatives around Schifferstadt

Originally it was planned to start operating a railway line in north-south direction from the Rheinschanze via Schifferstadt, Speyer and Lauterbourg to Strasbourg within the Rhine district belonging to Bavaria , which was to compete with the Mannheim – Basel line planned by Baden . However, this was postponed in favor of an east-west main line, which was primarily intended to transport coal.

At first, however, it was unclear whether this east-west route should lead via Schifferstadt. Speyer, the capital of the Palatinate , campaigned to become the eastern end of the route. It was essentially argued that the cathedral city was an old trading center, while the Rheinschanze, which was considered as an alternative as the end of the route, would serve as a mere military base only for the passage of goods. These efforts did not prevail, however, because the railway company mainly had the right bank of the Rhine-Neckar region - especially Mannheim - in view as a market and the export of coal to the area on the other side of the Rhine was considered more important. However, Speyer was to get a branch line.

East of Kaiserslautern , there were also two options for the route. Initially, the responsible engineers thought of a route over the Dürkheimer Tal and Bad Dürkheim , but finally decided on the variant through the Neustadter Tal. According to an expert opinion, overcoming this would also be difficult, but would not require stationary steam engines and cables. Due to the route via Neustadt, Schifferstadt should also be connected to the main line and even become a railway junction. From there, the branch line to Speyer should branch off.

Opening and following period

The Schifferstadt station was opened on June 11, 1847 with the first section of the " Palatinate Ludwig Railway " called East-West Main Line between Neustadt and Ludwigshafen . At the same time, the connection of the branch line to Speyer followed . This made Schifferstadt the first railway junction within the Palatinate.

On March 14, 1864, the branch line leading to Speyer was extended to Germersheim and on July 25, 1876 it was tied to Wörth . Since this route was initially designed as a single track, the long-distance trains coming from Ludwigshafen drove to Neustadt for reasons of capacity, in order to go there after a change of direction via the Maximiliansbahn to Strasbourg. In 1905 and 1906, it was expanded to two tracks, including its continuation to Strasbourg . To increase the speed of travel, the track systems at Schifferstadt station were restructured.

With the outbreak of the First World War , long-distance traffic in the north-south direction came to a standstill. Because Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France , he was not accepted again after the end of the war.

In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on April 1, 1937, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz management. During this time he also built a locomotive station , which was a branch of the Neustadt depot .

Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Bahn

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 1971 the station came under the responsibility of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management.

From 1960, the step-by-step electrification of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line that had emerged from the Ludwigsbahn followed . This came to an end on March 12, 1964; since then Schifferstadt has been accessible by electric trains. In the period that followed, the level crossing from Bahnhofsstraße to Dannstadter Straße , which ran right through the platforms , was closed and a bridge in the form of Dürkheimer Straße was built in the southern area of ​​the station instead . The crossings of the Mühlweg and Hofstückstraße in the south-western area of ​​the station were also dismantled.

Since the tight curve of the line to Neustadt in the Schifferstadt station meant a very cumbersome slow speed point for long-distance trains in the east-west direction, Deutsche Bahn began to build a bypass in 1998. On the one hand, this should shorten travel times in long-distance traffic and, on the other hand, reduce the burden on Schifferstadt train station. In November 2003 this measure came to its conclusion. With the opening of the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn one month later, the station became a hub in the Rhein-Neckar transport network. This is where the S-Bahn lines S1 and S2 (towards Kaiserslautern ) separate from the S-Bahn lines S3 and S4 (towards Germersheim). In the evenings, the Schifferstadt train station is the terminus for individual S-Bahn trains.

One last sign of life of Edith Stein , who was later canonized, comes from the Schifferstadt train station, where her train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp stopped briefly on August 7, 1942 at around 1 p.m. An Edith Stein memorial plaque is located between tracks 2 and 3 of the Schifferstadt main station.

Station facilities

Platforms of Schifferstadt station with signal box (right)

The original station building , which was already showing signs of age in the years after the Second World War , was demolished in 1964 and replaced by a simple successor.

A signal box , a ticket office and a kiosk are located in the station building. At the station area to also find phone boxes , bicycle parking and P + R - parking . The 13th riot police of Rhineland-Palatinate were located next to the station until it was closed in 2013 .

The station has a house platform on track 1 and a central platform on tracks 2 and 3. In addition to track 3, there are three platformless tracks for overtaking slower trains, one of which is overgrown. Remains of the cast-iron supporting structure of the platform roof in the style of historicism and the remains of the railings for the underpass have also been preserved from the early days of the station . They are under monument protection.

There used to be a locomotive shed at the point where the tracks branch off towards Saarbrücken and towards Wörth . In addition, on the south side of the platforms at the level of the police building, there was a stump track with a charging station for accumulator railcars of the DB series ETA 150 , which operated from time to time on the route to Wörth.

Connection

Four lines of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn stop at Schifferstadt station, as well as the RE 4 regional express line from Karlsruhe via Germersheim, Ludwigshafen and Mainz to Frankfurt . Occasionally, the trains on the RE1 Regional Express line from Koblenz to Mannheim also stop. In addition, individual "BASF works trains" run as the S 4 during rush hour. The Bundenthaler also stayed in Schifferstadt for decades . Although this train, which was discontinued in 1976, was reactivated in 1997 and now runs from Mannheim, it now passes through the station without stopping. After the Second World War, express trains also ran on the Ludwigshafen - Strasbourg route until July 1980 , mainly serving French soldiers stationed in Germany .

Regional traffic

line route Clock frequency
RE 1 Koblenz - Trier - Saarbrücken - Homburg (Saar) - Neustadt (Weinstr) - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) center - Mannheim Indent
RE 4 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Hochheim - Mainz Hbf - Worms Hbf - Frankenthal (Pfalz) Hbf - Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hbf - Schifferstadt - Speyer Hbf - Germersheim - Philippsburg - Graben-Neudorf - Karlsruhe Hbf 120 min

Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn

line route Clock frequency
S 1 Homburg (Saar) Hbf - Kaiserslautern Hbf - Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hbf - Mannheim Hbf - Heidelberg Hbf - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden) - Osterburken Hourly
S 2 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hbf - Mannheim Hbf - Heidelberg Hbf - Eberbach - Mosbach (Baden)
S 3 Germersheim - Speyer Hbf - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hbf - Mannheim Hbf - Heidelberg Hbf - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe Hbf
S 4 Germersheim - Speyer Hbf - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hbf - Mannheim Hbf - Heidelberg Hbf - Bruchsal
Wörth (Rhein) / Kaiserslautern Hbf - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hbf - Ludwigshafen BASF Nord individual trains

literature

  • Iron contemporary witnesses travel to the museum. The dismantling of the historical parts has started at the station. In: Die Rheinpfalz / Ludwigshafener Rundschau, edition Schifferstadt from February 14, 1989, ZDB -ID 209783-7
  • Stefan Brechtel, Bernhard Kukatzki : The golden age came with a delay. Schifferstadt and the Palatinate Ludwig Railway. 1838-1848. In: Schifferstadt. History and stories. City of Schifferstadt 1998, ISBN 3-00-002473-5 , pp. 421-444
  • Where Marlboro-Man swings his lasso. In: Sunday news. The seventh edition of your newspaper. Edition Pfalz from February 13, 2005, p. 4 (correction in Sonntag aktuell ... from March 20, 2005, p. 4), ZDB -ID 1496099-0
  • Linda Sohn: Welcome to platform one. City life [Part 1]: In the early afternoon at Schifferstadt main station. - Delay, chewing gum leftovers and a "place setting". In: Die Rheinpfalz / Ludwigshafener Rundschau, edition Schifferstadt , No. 138 of June 18, 2010, ZDB -ID 209783-7
  • Schifferstadt station, August 7, 1942. In: Joachim Feldes: Edith Stein and Schifferstadt. 2. correct. Schifferstadt 2011, pp. 57–75, ISBN 3-00-002724-6
  • 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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 768 kB) Accessed December 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ michaeldittrich.de: IBNR online search . Retrieved January 4, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Station category list 2013. (PDF, 300 kB) DB Station & Service AG, January 2013, archived from the original on July 29, 2013 ; accessed on January 30, 2013 .
  4. ^ 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 December 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de: Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis . (PDF) Retrieved December 20, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Schifferstadt. In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  7. ^ A b c Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 62 .
  8. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 17th ff .
  9. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 58 f .
  10. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 5 f .
  11. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 67 f .
  12. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 117 .
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 216 ff .
  14. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  15. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: railway management Mainz - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 20, 2013 .
  16. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstr. – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 66 .
  17. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  18. ^ Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 89 f .
  19. ↑ pressrelations.de: Section of the upgraded route Paris-Eastern France-Southwest Germany completed - Schifferstadt is relieved / trains pass Schifferstadt in a tub . Retrieved December 21, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 107 .
  21. ↑ rhein-neckar-wiki.de: train station (Schifferstadt) . Retrieved December 21, 2013 .
  22. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 27 f . ( Online (PDF) [accessed December 21, 2013]). Online ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zspnv-sued.de
  23. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 219 .