Theisbergstegen station
| Theisbergstegen | |
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 Track side of the station
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| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | STN |
| IBNR | 8005857 |
| Price range | 7th |
| opening | September 22, 1868 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Theisbergstegen |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 31 '9 " N , 7 ° 26' 54" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The station Theisbergstegen is a breakpoint in the Rhineland-Palatinate local church Theisbergstegen . It belongs to station category 7 and has one platform track . The station is in tariff zone 770 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN).
It was opened on September 22, 1868 as a through station 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 . The latter was gradually shut down from the 1960s. In the freight traffic it was always of great importance due to a neighboring quarry until its closure in 2004.
location
The station is located on the northern outskirts of Theisbergstegen. It has parking spaces, barrier-free access and a connection to bus services.
The Landstuhl-Kusel railway was originally a continuous kilometer. The station was therefore at the route kilometer 20.5. With the opening of the strategic railway, a new kilometer was introduced to the west of Scheidt on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line to Bad Münster. From Landstuhl, the kilometering ends in Glan-Münchweiler. The Glantalbahn was later re-kilometered from Homburg. These values are still used today.
history
Planning, construction and opening of the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line (1860–1870)
According to a memorandum published in Kusel in 1861, the railway should branch off from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway in Landstuhl and run along Mohrbach , Glan and Kuselbach via Theisbergstegen to Kusel. The memorandum argued, among other things, that building a railway would counteract the rather poor economic and social conditions in the region, which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria . The region's quarries were also mentioned in this context.
"As soon as a railway would only be built as far as Theisbergstegen, this business would immediately increase sixfold and put all the labor that could be found into food ..."
The construction of the 28.7 kilometer long route was largely uncomplicated. In the section between Glan-Münchweiler and Kusel, work was delayed because not enough workers could be recruited. The first freight train ran on August 28, 1868. The official opening of the line including the Theisbergstegen station and nine other stations took place on September 22, 1868. The connection was received very positively by the population, as it improved the infrastructure in the rural region northwest of Kaiserslautern .
Plans for a strategic path (1868–1904)
Although a railway line along the Glan as a connection between the Saar area and the Middle Rhine Valley would have been obvious from a geographical perspective, the irregular borderline between Bavaria and Prussia in the Glan Valley prevented its realization for a long time.
After the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine as a result of the Franco-German War in 1870/71, there were also military reasons for a railway line along the Glans. It was resolutely championed by Prussia in particular.
Towards the end of the 19th century, Bavaria gave up its resistance to the construction of a strategic railway, as Franco-German relations had deteriorated significantly in the meantime. The plans for a main line from Mainz via Bad Münster to Homburg using the Kuseler route between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler. As early as 1897, in the run-up to the construction work, the crossing tracks in the station were extended to a total of 500 meters in order to enable appropriate crossings with military trains. In 1899, Theisbergstegen received - like all train stations along the route - closing signals. In 1901 the station had a 162 meter long siding in the western area and a 247 meter long one in the eastern part. In the same year, the station was also equipped with a scale and a 217 meter long siding.
Further development
The Glantalbahn was opened continuously on May 1, 1904. 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 Reichsbahndirektion Saarbrücken . 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, 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 have been no more crossroads in Theisbergstieg.
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
The station was equipped with a smaller reception building, which was later converted. It is toward the side of the track traufständig arranged close to a laundry room, a lavatory house, a space serving as a freight car and a loading area to. The narrow-gauge industrial track for the Weyrich & Wetzel company was located north of the siding .
The existing platform has a length of 110 meters with a platform height of 55 centimeters.
traffic
passenger traffic
Initially, two mixed trains and two pure passenger trains ran over Theisbergstegen . In the first year of operation of the Glantalbahn, three pairs of trains also ran between Homburg and Bad Münster and another pair of trains between Homburg and Altenglan. In 1905, a total of 11,325 tickets were sold at Theisbergstegen 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.
In 1909 there was a timetable gap of four hours between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler. This prompted the Kusel district office to file an application to close it. Then a third and fourth class passenger car was attached to a freight train between Altenglan and Theisbergstegen. In 1934 the station sold 14,262 tickets; a total of 17,755 passengers left.
Current connections
| line | route | Clock frequency |
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| RB 67 | Kaiserslautern - Landstuhl - Glan-Münchweiler - Theisbergstegen - Altenglan - Kusel | Hourly |
Freight transport
In terms of freight traffic, the station has always been of great importance due to the neighboring local quarry. In 1905 he received or sent a total of 59,395.70 tons of goods. From 1892 to 1907, a Thomas slag mill between Theisbergstegen and Rutsweiler am Glan also had a field railway that led to the station. In 1934, transports with wagon loads played the greatest role in the construction of the Reichsautobahn. As a goods tariff point, Theisbergstegen station was closed in 2004 as the last one along the Glantalbahn.
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 3, 2013 . 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.
- ^ Bahnhof.de: station profile > Theisbergstegen . Retrieved October 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 76 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 7th ff .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 10 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 12 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 174 f .
- ↑ 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. 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. 100 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 76 .
- ↑ bahnhof.de: platform information > Theisbergstegen station . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved October 6, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ 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. 38 .
- ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 45 .
- ↑ kaiserslautern-kreis.de: Kaiserslautern County: Transportation school bus. Retrieved November 17, 2012 .
- ↑ lok-report.de: Gallery - Chronology Strategic Route (selection): . Retrieved January 3, 2013 .
