Simmern station

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Simmer
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Simmern station 1986
Data
Location in the network Separation station (until 1988),
intermediate station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation SSIM
opening 1889
location
City / municipality Simmern / Hunsrück
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 58 '55 "  N , 7 ° 31' 34"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '55 "  N , 7 ° 31' 34"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Simmern station was a station at the 37.7 km line of the temporarily closed Hunsrück Cross Railway , the starting point of the dismantled Simmern – Gemünden railway and the former terminus of the Hunsrück Railway . The station, which is now used as a customer center and bus base for the local public transport provider Rhein-Mosel Verkehrsgesellschaft (RMV), is located in the city center of the 8,000-inhabitant town of Simmern in the Hunsrück .

History, background, development

The Simmern station was built until 1889 together with the line between Langenlonsheim and Hermeskeil , then known as the "Hunsrück Railway". The station received a locomotive station with a locomotive shed as early as 1889 and was initially developed as a through station . With the construction of the Simmern – Boppard line in 1908, the station was converted into a hub station .

By 1901, a goods handling facility and a marshalling yard with a drainage hill - directly west of the station building - had been built. In the course of the years before the First World War, there were also facilities such as locksmiths and joineries . The expansion of the station and the new Simmern depot had been largely completed by then.

Despite difficult economic conditions in the Weimar Republic , the station was expanded after the war to include a connection to the Simmern – Gemünden line, which was opened in 1921.

After the seizure of power , the transport infrastructure of the Hunsrück was improved - the Hunsrück was a deployment area against France . The Hunsrückhöhenstraße was built and the Simmern train station received minor improvements.

disused section of the Hunsrückquerbahn near Ellern

It was not until the end of the Second World War - from July 1944 - that the tracks in and around Simmern were bombed and damaged. In particular, the Gleisdreieck to Hermeskeil was the target of the attacks. The station building in Simmern burned out and the engine shed was damaged. Only half of this was rebuilt after the war.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Simmern station was again used for military purposes by the NATO allies. The industry had a need for freight transport . At the same time, the Simmern – Boppard and Langenlonsheim – Hermeskeil lines were switched to train control . In 1963 the Simmern – Gemünden line was discontinued due to lack of economic efficiency and dismantled by 1965.

The next section Simmern – Hermeskeil lost passenger traffic in 1976 ; it was discontinued a few years later on May 29, 1983 between Simmern and Emmelshausen . The Simmern – Kastellaun section experienced a brief renaissance in passenger traffic on October 11, 1986 on the occasion of the large- scale demonstration against the planned stationing of cruise missiles in the Pydna rocket station not far from Kastellaun. A number of special trains ran this section.

Freight traffic was first stopped on May 27, 1983 between Emmelshausen and Pfalzfeld . It went between Kastellaun and Pfalzfeld until December 31, 1994 and between Simmern and Kastellaun until June 1, 1995. On March 1, 1996 the Simmern – Pfalzfeld section was closed. In the years from 1988 the Emmelshausen – Simmern section was gradually dismantled and the Schinderhannes cycle path was laid out on the former route .

The Simmern station became a through station again. At the same time as the shutdown of passenger traffic between Simmern and Emmelshausen, the dismantling of the passenger area of ​​the station began. The former Simmern junction station was dismantled to its present state by autumn 1983. Parts of the platforms were also torn down.

Shutdown

On June 1, 1984, the Langenlonsheim – Simmern line was shut down for passenger traffic, thus ending passenger rail traffic on the Hunsrück, apart from the Hunsrück Railway Boppard – Emmelshausen , which is now only 14.7 km long . The Simmern depot became a branch of the Kaiserslautern depot in 1982 and was finally closed completely on May 28, 1983. The depot then only had the function of a driver registration office. Until June 1, 1993, a ticket office was set up in the station building itself. Goods handling was demolished in 1998.

On the Langenlonsheim – Hermeskeil route , there was still brisk freight traffic and nostalgic trips until the mid- 1990s . In June 1996 the Waldhof railway company initially took over freight traffic on the line, and in September 1998 also took over operations management. On July 11, 1998, the Morbach – Hermeskeil line was finally closed. Between 1998 and 2000, freight trains only ran irregularly on the remaining route. From 2001 to 2009 the line was closed until it had to be reopened by Deutsche Bahn AG in 2010 , following a complaint by the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

With the exception of the depot, the premises and buildings are still owned by Deutsche Bahn AG after a sale to the municipalities failed. Since then, the dismantling of the site has been driven forward, today only the station building with administration wing , garages and platform as well as the signal box remain .

The premises of the depot was sold to the city of Simmern, which is currently looking for a usage concept. The locomotive shed on the site burned down in June 2015. The area behind the station building was rebuilt by DB AG subsidiary Rhein-Mosel Verkehrsgesellschaft with a support and hub for bus line operations in the Rhein-Hunsrück district .

Reactivation plans

see also:

photos

  • Track and signal box , status August 2010

  • Station building, view from the platform, August 2010

  • Station forecourt with station building, new RMV building in the background, August 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Markus Göttert: Period 1889 to 1932. In: hunsrueckquerbahn.de. July 17, 2007, archived from the original on January 24, 2016 ; Retrieved July 31, 2010 .
  2. ^ Markus Göttert: Period 1933 to 1959. In: hunsrueckquerbahn.de. July 17, 2007, archived from the original on March 1, 2016 ; Retrieved July 31, 2010 .
  3. ^ Markus Göttert: Period 1969 to 1976. In: hunsrueckquerbahn.de. July 17, 2007, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 31, 2010 .
  4. ↑ a b Markus Göttert: period 1981 to 1984. In: hunsrueckquerbahn.de. July 17, 2007, archived from the original on May 29, 2011 ; Retrieved July 31, 2010 .
  5. ^ A b c Markus Göttert: Period 1985 to 1995. In: hunsrueckquerbahn.de. July 17, 2007, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; Retrieved July 31, 2010 .
  6. ↑ a b Markus Göttert: Period 1996 to today. In: hunsrueckquerbahn.de. July 17, 2007, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; Retrieved July 31, 2010 .
  7. ^ Judgment of the 3rd Senate of October 25, 2007 BVerwG 3 C 51.06. (PDF) Federal Administrative Court , October 25, 2007, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Burned to the ground: the engine shed fell victim to the flames. Rhein-Hunsrück-Zeitung , June 1, 2015, accessed on June 7, 2015 .