Viernheim train station

Viernheim
Entrance building , street side
Data
Location in the network	Through station
abbreviation	RVI
opening	1905
location
City / municipality	Viernheim
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 32 '36 "  N , 8 ° 34' 45"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '36 "  N , 8 ° 34' 45"  E
Railway lines
Weinheim – Worms railway line (km 10.4)
Railway stations in Hessen

The four-Bahnhof was the maintenance of the respective state railway in Viernheim at the former railway line Weinheim-Worms .

history

Together with the line, the station was opened on August 1, 1905. The line was a cross connection between the Main-Neckar Railway in Weinheim and the Riedbahn in Lampertheim . The owner of the building and that of the station was the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community .

Originally just a stop , it went into operation under the name Viernheim Staatsbahnhof . This was done to distinguish it from the OEG station of the same name in Viernheim. The breakpoint was later expanded into a train station.

The proximity to the OEG train station with much denser traffic, which on the one hand also led to Weinheim, and in the other direction to Mannheim , which attracted more passengers than the destinations Lampertheim or Worms , caused passenger traffic on the route to weaken and freight traffic did not develop either as expected. The line was closed on May 29, 1960, and the tracks between Viernheim and Lampertheim were later dismantled. For the industry in Viernheim - with interruptions - freight traffic in the direction of Weinheim continued until 2010 .

Reception building

The reception building of the station Viernheim is south of the route and dates from 1905. It was heavily structured, in neo-baroque designed forms. It stands on the eaves of the former track system. In the upper area it is decorated with ornamental frameworks and it is covered by a mansard roof. On the city side, the facade is enlivened by a polygonal extension. The goods handling facility was located in a single-storey annex to the east. The reception building is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Today it houses the communal leisure and educational facility Treff im Bahnhof (TIB). In addition to the reception building, the meeting also uses old railroad cars parked in the station .

literature

• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 903 ff . (Route 094).

Web links

• Website of the city of Viernheim: Meet at the train station

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schomann, p. 903.
2. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 22, 1905, No. 36. Announcement No. 392, p. 313;
   Railway Directorate Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 29, 1905, No. 37. Announcement No. 401, p. 319.
3. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
4. ↑ Schomann, p. 903.
5. ↑ red: Route 3578 Weinheim (Bergstr) -Viernheim . In: IBSE-Telegram 242 (January 2011), p. 2.
6. ↑ Schomann, p. 905.
7. ↑ See here .