Staudernheim station

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Staudernheim
Track plan of Staudernheim station from 1914
Track plan of Staudernheim station from 1914
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation SSTH
IBNR 8005678
Price range 5
opening December 15, 1859
Profile on Bahnhof.de Staudernheim
location
City / municipality Staudernheim
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 46 '49 "  N , 7 ° 41' 35"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '49 "  N , 7 ° 41' 35"  E
Height ( SO ) 134  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Staudernheim station is a through station at kilometer 35.3 of the Nahe Valley Railway Bingen - Saarbruecken in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate . It was put into operation with this railway on December 15, 1859 and was the first railway station in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg, which existed until 1866 . The station is located in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (RNN) and belongs to tariff zone 420. Its address is Bahnhofstrasse 1 .

location

Local situation

The train station is not far from the left bank of the Nahe ; residential areas extend both north and south of it. It also has barrier-free access.

Railway lines

The Nahe Valley Railway runs in the municipality in an east-west direction almost parallel to the eponymous river on its orographic left side. The Glantalbahn , which has been shut down since 1996, comes from the south , which initially circumnavigates the Disibodenberg in a wide arc and then joins the nearby line shortly before the train station.

history

From the planning of the Rhine-Nahe Railway to the Staudernheim railway connection

Although the first attempts to build a railway line along the Nahe go back to 1839, Staudernheim's railway connection was uncertain. However, disputes between Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg over the route initially prevented the realization of such a route. While Prussia was to have the route directly along the Nahe, Oldenburg advocated the connection to the town of Birkenfeld, located in a side valley, which was also the capital of its eponymous exclave . 1856 there was on the part of the then to Bayern belonging Palatinate initiatives planned railway line at Boos from the Nahetal lead out to then to Altenglan along the Glan about Kusel and from there to St. Wendel or along the Easter to have run up to Neunkirchen. The reasoning behind this third variant was based on the fact that it would be shorter and cheaper than a line running along the entire Nahe. For tactical reasons, Prussia was initially open to these plans, which led to Oldenburg giving in and accepting the lines originally advocated by the former.

In an international treaty of June 7, 1856 between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Landgraviate of June 7, 1856, it was agreed in Article 5:

“ On Landgravial Hessian territory, a stopping point will be set up and continuously maintained as close as possible to the closest to Staudernheim over the Nahe bridge (Langrafenbrücke) and the same leading country road. "

It was also determined that all ordinary trains had to stop here, but the express trains only in the neighboring Prussian Sobernheim station . After the Bingerbrück – Kreuznach section was already passable in 1858, the opening between Kreuznach and Oberstein took place on December 15, 1859, giving Staudernheim a connection to the railway network. In 1884 the railway line was expanded to two tracks.

Creation of the Glantalbahn

In 1860 a committee called Notabeln des Glan and Lautertal was formed. It campaigned for a railway line that branched off from the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn in Kaiserslautern , then ran through the Lauter and lower Glantal valleys and was to meet the Rhine-Nahe railway in Staudernheim, which was completed in the same year . Prussia kept a low profile because it feared that the nearby route could become less important as a result. However, the project received support from Hessen-Homburg, which wanted its exclave Meisenheim to be connected to the rail network. The Hessian privy councilor Christian Bansa also advocated the planned rail link at the Prussian Foreign Ministry in 1861 and argued that there was greater demand for it than for a route along the Alsenz that was also planned . The plans failed because Prussia only supported the construction of the Alsenz Valley Railway, which meets the local line in Bad Münster .

After the initiatives for one in the Glantal came to a standstill in the following two decades, Bavaria and Prussia signed a state treaty on October 28, 1891, which included tying the Lautertalbahn Kaiserslautern– Lauterecken , which had been in operation since 1883, to Staudernheim. The Lauterecken – Odernheim section was opened in October 1896. Closing the gap to Staudernheim was delayed because local landowners tried to negotiate up the prices for the sale of land to the railway. Accordingly, the missing section was not tackled until December of that year. On July 1, 1897, the entire length of the stretch between Kaiserslautern and Staudernheim was open to traffic.

In the course of the opening of the line, the station was expanded considerably. In this context, he received eight additional points, three head tracks with a total length of 1500 meters, a turntable with a diameter of 16.07 meters, side tracks that were 297 meters long, a head and side ramp with around 200 meters Length. A water station for the steam locomotives of the Pfalzbahn was also built on the eastern part of the station .

Further development (1897–1945)

Since the foreign policy situation had changed in the meantime, the construction of a strategic railway from Homburg to Bad Munster was advocated at the same time; between Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line and between Lauterecken and Odernheim the railway line beginning in Kaiserslautern should also be used. It was finally opened in 1904, as a result of which the Odernheim – Staudernhein section was initially degraded to a feeder traffic. While the Glantalbahn in its relation from Homburg to Bad Münster had been expanded to consist of two tracks, the connecting line from Staudernheim remained a single track.

Post-war period (1945–1996)

Above all, the Odernheim – Bad Münster section of the strategic railway line had little traffic significance outside of the war, so it was shut down in 1961 and dismantled in the two following years. At the same time, the connection to Odernheim was initially upgraded, as trains on the Glantalbahn in the direction of Bad Münster would now go to Staudernheim and turn heads there. These included the two pairs of express trains between Zweibrücken and Mainz , which were set up in 1965. The initiator of this connection was the then mayor of Zweibrücken, Oskar Munzinger , who at the time was also in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate and wanted to have his two workplaces connected. This is why these trains were popularly known as the " Munzinger Express ". In 1967 there was another couple between Homburg and Gau Algesheim. From 1970 these connections were officially only local trains before they were completely discontinued in 1979.

In the course of modernization of the Nahe Valley Railway, the mechanical signal systems in the station were taken out of service around 1980. After passenger traffic on the Homburg - Glan-Münchweiler and Altenglan - Lauterecken-Grumbach sections had ceased in 1981 and 1985, respectively, passenger transport on the section between Lauterecken-Grumbach and Staudernheim also ended on May 30, 1986. Since in this section, Meisenheim and Odernheim, only two railway stations were served by freight traffic and the former was approached from Lauterecken, there was no longer any regular traffic between Meisenheim and Odernheim. Odernheim was closed as a freight tariff point on September 25, 1988, and the lower Glantalbahn was completely closed on July 1, 1996.

Development since 1996

In the meantime, an appraisal was drawn up that came to the conclusion that reactivating the lower Glantlabahn section Lauterecken – Staudernheim would make economic sense. A realization of this project failed for financial reasons. In order to prevent a permanent shutdown including the dismantling of the line , students at the University of Kaiserslautern had plans to set up a railroad draisine operation on the Glantalbahn between Altenglan and Staudernheim . Among the supporters of this project was the Kusel district administrator Winfried Hirschberger , who finally succeeded in making it come true in 2000. The northern starting point of the draisine route is after the junction from the nearby route, but it is planned to move it to the Staudernheim train station.

From 2008 there were plans to fundamentally modernize the station. This included upgrading the platforms for the disabled by raising the platforms to a height of 55 centimeters, installing two elevators, a ramp for wheelchair users and renovating the stairwells including adapting the stairs to the new platform height. The corresponding construction work began in 2010; the renovation costs totaled 2.5 million euros. In June 2012, the work was completed, so that the official inauguration of the modernized station took place with the participation of several state and local politicians.

traffic

passenger traffic

With the continuous opening of the local line in 1860, a total of four pairs of trains ran between Saarbrücken and Bingerbrück. Due to its minor importance, the express trains only stopped in the neighboring Sobernheim.

With the continuous opening of the lower Glantalbahn in 1897 to Staudernheim, continuous trains ran from and to Kaiserslautern on the Lautertalbahn , which had been in existence since 1883 , which increased the traffic at the station. After the full length of the Glantalbahn between Homburg and Bad Münster was opened in 1904, these trains were canceled. From then on, steam railcars operated on the section degraded to a connecting route to Odernheim. Only later were there continuous connections beyond Odernheim again. When the Glantalbahn between Odernheim and Bad Münster was shut down in 1961, all trains on this route ran via Staudernheim; until the end many of them were tied to Sobernheim. Staudernheim was a stop for regional high-speed railways until the beginning of the 1990s , before this type of train was abandoned.

Since the local line between Saarbrücken and Türkismühle has been electrified since 1969, the regional trains (RB) run westwards, with a few exceptions, only to Türkismühle; electrification of the rest of the Nahe Valley Railway failed due to the complicated topography of the route.

The regional train line RB 33 provides hourly service every day . The Nahe Express stops at Staudernheim train station every hour .

links

line route Clock frequency
RE 3/80 Nahe-Express
Saarbrücken Hbf - Neunkirchen (Saar) Hbf - Ottweiler (Saar) - Türkismühle - Idar-Oberstein - Staudernheim - Bad Kreuznach - Mainz Hbf (- Frankfurt (Main) Hbf ) 		Hourly, every two hours to Frankfurt am Main
RB 3/80 Nahe Valley Railway
(St. Wendel -) Idar-Oberstein - Staudernheim - Bad Kreuznach - Mainz Hbf (- Frankfurt (Main) Hbf ) 		Individual trains
RB 33 Nahetalbahn
Türkismühle - Idar-Oberstein - Staudernheim - Bad Kreuznach - Mainz Hbf 		Hourly

Freight transport

The station was still served by freight traffic until the end of the 1980s. Since the neighboring Glantalbahn had only played a subordinate role in this regard, a transfer freight train ran on the section to Odernheim until 1988 to Kirn, on which the entire freight was brought together along the western Nahe Valley Railway; a local freight train then drove to Bingerbrück.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . 2009 ( Part 1 (PDF; 1 MB) and Part 2 (PDF; 2 MB)).
  • Bernhard Hager: Casino, Kaiser and S-Bahn-Takt - 150 years of the Frankfurt-Homburg Railway in the yearbook for railway history 2010/2011 . DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2010, ISBN 978-3-937189-54-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rnn.info: RNN honeycomb plan 2019 . (PDF; 1.3 MB) Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b bahnhof.de: Station profile > Staudernheim . Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 16 .
  4. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . Part 1, 2009, p. 5 f .
  5. ↑ See Preuss. Law Collection 1857, No. 34, pp. 505-510.
  6. ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . Part 1, 2009, p. 6 .
  7. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . Part 1, 2009, p. 7 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 12 f .
  9. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 16 ff .
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 21st ff .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 60 .
  12. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . Part 2, 2009, p. 9 .
  13. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 64 f .
  14. ↑ lok-report.de: timing chart Strategic line (selection) . Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 101 .
  16. ↑ Allgemeine-zeitung.de: Crooked railings are justified . Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
  17. ↑ rhein-zeitung.de: Interior Minister Roger Lewentz inaugurates new Staudernheim station . Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 65 .
  19. ↑ Nahebahn.de: Staudernheim 1990–1999 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 17, 2010 ; Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
  20. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . Part 1, 2009, p. 9 .
  21. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 150 years of the railways between Bad Kreuznach and Idar-Oberstein - the attractive regional express line along the Nahe is celebrating its birthday . 2009, p. 12 .