Schopp station

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Schopp
Entrance building of the station
Entrance building of the station
Data
Location in the network Crossing station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation SSCP
IBNR 8005423
Price range 6th
opening August 1, 1913
Profile on Bahnhof.de Schopp
Architectural data
Architectural style Home style
location
City / municipality Schopp
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 21 '33 "  N , 7 ° 41' 15"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '33 "  N , 7 ° 41' 15"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Schopp station is the railway operating agency of the Rhineland-Palatinate local church Schopp . It belongs to station category 6 and has two platform tracks . The station is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to its tariff zone 824. The address of the station is Bahnhofstrasse 16 .

It was opened on August 1, 1913 as a through station for the Biebermühlbahn Kaiserslautern – Pirmasens, which was completed in the same year. The station building is a listed building .

location

The station is located on the northwestern edge of the settlement a little below the community of Schopp in the valley floor of the Moosalb . A dirt road with a call barrier crosses it. The Biebermühlbahn runs in this area in a north-south direction, and the 270 federal road is approximately parallel to the railway line . The latter separates the train station from the rest of the settlement area.

history

prehistory

As early as 1838, around a decade before the opening of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway, the first railway line within the Palatinate , the municipality of Schopp bought so-called "railway bonds". Nevertheless, there was no railway connection to the place; the nearest train station was in Kaiserslautern, around ten kilometers away . In the mid-1860s, Schopp finally advocated a rail connection from Kaiserslautern to Pirmasens . A first draft from 1864 envisaged a route over the Vogelweh , Hohenecken , Schopp, the Biebermühle and Rodalben .

In the following year, a committee made up of representatives from Kaiserslautern, Waldfischbach and Schopp mentioned several advantages of such a route. For example, timber transport from the Johanniskreuz and Trippstadt districts would benefit from it.

Another design followed in 1866, which largely corresponded to today's route. The Crown Bavaria , which is responsible for the Palatinate (Bavaria) , gave priority to a route planned at the same time from Landau to Zweibrücken . 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.

Planning, construction and opening (1870-1913)

Efforts to force the Biebermühle – Pirmasens branch line, which was opened in 1875 at the same time as the Zweibrücker line, to Kaiserslautern did not come to a standstill. As early as the 1860s, the Waldfischbach district council had criticized the determination of the route for the Landau – Zweibrücken line. In 1872 the Palatinate Railways received a request from the city of Kaiserslautern, which related to the planned connection to Pirmasens. 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 1894, on behalf of the Kaiserslautern Mayor's Office, a draft was drawn up that assumed construction costs of 4.4 million marks, around a third of which were for renovation work on the railway stations in Kaiserslautern and Biebermühle . The submission to Munich followed a year later . Jakob von Lavale , successor to the late Jäger, refused to implement it again. Thereupon a meeting took place in the Kaiserslauterer Fruchthalle , which resulted in protest against this attitude. This led to several suggestions about the course.

On May 29th, 1900 the law "concerning the production of railways of local importance in the Palatinate" was passed, which guaranteed the railroad construction. In 1904 the Biebermühe – Waldfischbach section was opened. Completion was delayed due to the unfavorable topographical conditions. For example, south of Schopp, a gradient had to be overcome and, for safety reasons, the area of ​​a powder mill located there had to be bypassed. The opening ceremony finally took place on July 30, 1913, and regular traffic was opened two days later. At the time of its opening, Schopp station had signals and sidings.

Further development

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 moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management on April 1, 1937.

After the Second World War , the Biebermühlbahn between Steinalben and Waldfischbach was interrupted as a result of the fighting, so that continuous trains were only possible again in 1946. At the same time, 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. In 1971, in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz directorate, it came under the responsibility of its Saarbrücken counterpart .

After several stops on the way in the 1970s, Schopp was one of three remaining operating points between Pirmasens Nord and Kaiserslautern Hbf until the reopening of the Galgenschanze stop, along with Steinalben and Waldfischbach. In addition, alongside Waldfischbach, it represents one of two remaining intersections.

Buildings

Reception building

When reception building is a Walmdachbau in home style , the waiting area was carried out in an open design. In terms of architectural style, it shows similarities with its counterparts along the disused stream Lampertsmühle-Otterbach - Reichenbach , which was also built in the 1910s. In the mid-1980s it still had a ticket office, for which the dispatcher was responsible. The former closed on December 31, 2002. In the following period, the building was sold to a local real estate company. Subsequently, the monument preservation department examined the entire area and classified the station building as a cultural monument .

Signal box in the station building

A mechanical signal box - official abbreviation Sf - is housed in the building itself in a standardized design, which was put into operation on January 1, 1954 and replaced an external signal box .

Platforms

Platforms
track Usable length Platform height Current usage
1 163 m 20 cm no regular use
2 163 m 20 cm Regional trains in the direction of Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens

traffic

passenger traffic

In the first year of operation of the station, seven continuous trains ran daily from Kaiserslautern to Pirmasens and 18 that ran exclusively between Kaiserslautern and Schopp. Since the First World War broke out just one year later , the offer was reduced significantly. In the 1970s, there were trains that stopped at all stops on the way, as well as those that only stopped at the larger stations such as Schopp. Some of these were tied through to Mainz , Frankfurt and Würzburg . At the end of the 1980s, however, these connections no longer existed.

Freight transport

In the freight train station for a long time had a great importance. In 1934 he received a Kö I diesel locomotive . After the Second World War, a shunting locomotive from the Pirmasens freight yard handled the local freight traffic. In the 1980s, two local freight trains served mornings from the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line to the station as well as Pirmasens and the surrounding area. The freight initially reached the Pirmasens Nord station , from where the freight for the Waldfischbach, Steinalben and Schopp stations was separated from the rest of the train. The former loading track in Schopper Bahnhof has meanwhile been dismantled.

literature

  • General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments in the Kaiserslautern district (PDF; 1.4 MB). Koblenz 2011.
  • Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008 ( online (PDF; 4.1 MB) [accessed October 9, 2013]).
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 December 16, 2013 .
  2. ↑ michaeldittrich.de: IBNR online search . Retrieved December 16, 2013 .
  3. ^ 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 10, 2013 .
  4. ↑ bahnhof.de: station profile > Schopp . Retrieved October 10, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de: Informational directory of cultural monuments - Kaiserslautern district . (PDF; 1.4 MB) Retrieved October 10, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens rail link . 2013, p. 13 .
  7. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 5 .
  8. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 183 .
  9. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 183 f .
  10. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 181 .
  11. ^ A b Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 184 .
  12. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 8 .
  13. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 185 .
  14. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 9 f .
  15. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  16. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 18 .
  17. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  18. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 34 .
  19. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . Schweers + Wall, Eupen 2002, ISBN 3-89494-133-2 , pp. 83 .
  20. ↑ a b c Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens rail link . 2013, p. 37 .
  21. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 48 .
  22. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 52 .
  23. ↑ stellwerke.de: list German interlockings - Entries X-Z . Retrieved December 12, 2013 .
  24. ↑ stellwerke.de: list German interlockings - abbreviations . Retrieved December 16, 2013 .
  25. ↑ Station equipment Schopp. DB Station & Service, accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  26. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 13 .
  27. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 26 .
  28. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 15 .
  29. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 25 .