Wilgartswiesen train station

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Wilgartswiesen
Wilgartswiesen station in 2019
Wilgartswiesen station in 2019
Data
Operating point type railway station
Platform tracks 2
opening November 25, 1875
Profile on Bahnhof.de Wilgartswiesen
location
Place / district Wilgartswiesen
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 12 '34 "  N , 7 ° 53' 1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '34 "  N , 7 ° 53' 1"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The station Wilgartswiesen is the central Railway Stop the Rhineland-Palatinate local church Wilgartswiesen . It belongs to station category 6 and has two platform tracks . It is located in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). It was opened on September 12, 1875 when the Landau – Annweiler section went into operation. Freight traffic came to a standstill in the 1990s.

location

The former Wilgartswiesen train station is located on the south-eastern edge of the settlement of the Wilgartswiesen community . Immediately to the east, Bundesstraße 10 bridges the railway line. The local Protestant parish church is located at the level of the western station area.

history

In the course of the planning of the route through the Queichtal, a large state-owned timber yard nearby served as an argument for a train station in Wilgartswiesen. The station was opened as part of the Annweiler - Zweibrücken section on November 25, 1875. At the beginning of the 20th century, the station, like all of the Palatinate, received platform closures . During this time, the station was managed by the Landau Operations and Building Inspectorate and was part of the Albersweiler railway maintenance department . After Germany had lost the First World War and the French military had marched in, the Palatinate route network south of Maikammer-Kirrweiler was closed to passenger traffic on December 1, 1918, but was reopened three days later.

In 1922, the station was assigned to the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . A year later employed at the station railway workers were the carried out in the course of France, to 1924 permanent director operation reported. Then they returned. In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen, the station changed to the area of ​​responsibility of the Saarbrücken management and the operations office (RBA) Zweibrücken on May 1, 1936. 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 the station came under the responsibility of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management. At the same time, the platform barriers were lifted.

With the railway reform on January 1, 1994, the station became the property of Deutsche Bahn . In 2000, like the whole of the West Palatinate , the station was initially part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged into the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later . In 2010 the platform was modernized. On July 6, 2013, the Wilgartswiesen train station was awarded the title “Wanderbahnhof”. Due to the demolition of the Rinnthal and Hauenstein (Palatinate) train stations to stopping points, it is now the only option for train crossings between Annweiler and Hinterweidenthal Ost .

Buildings

The dispatcher interlocking is still located in the reception building, otherwise it is no longer relevant for rail operations. The dispatcher interlocking with the designation Wf is a mechanical interlocking of the standard design. A toilet house still exists today. In the north-eastern area of ​​the station there was also a dead-end track, which had been dismantled in the meantime, with a turnout in the western area of ​​the platforms.

traffic

passenger traffic

The timetable from 1897 partly contained continuous local trains from Zweibrücken to Germersheim ; there were also those that were limited to the Landau – Zweibrücken section. A decade later, five local trains ran between Landau and Zweibrücken. In 1914, on Sundays and public holidays, a pair of trains ran via the Wieslauterbahn , which opened in 1911, to Bundenthal-Rumbach. The timetable from 1944 included local trains from Karlsruhe via Landau and Zweibrücken to Saarbrücken in some cases.

The Bundenthaler was reactivated in 1951 and already operated from Ludwigshafen during this time . As far as Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , he followed the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , in order to use the Maximiliansbahn after a change of direction to Landau and then the Landau – Rohrbach railway to Hinterweidenthal. It then drove as an express train to Hinterweidenthal, and Wilgartswiesen was the only stop on the way between Annweiler and Hinterweidenthal. In the 1950s, the Landau – Zweibrücken railway, along with its eastern continuation to Germersheim, was recorded under the course book number 280. However, you usually had to change trains in Landau. The through trains from Germersheim to Zweibrücken also had a longer stay at Landau's main train station. The local trains that stopped at Wilgartswiesen station in the mid-1960s ran on the routes Landau – Zweibrücken and Landau – Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof.

Freight transport

At the beginning of the 20th century, operated freight trains on the Kaiserslautern – Homburg – Landau – Germersheim and Saarbrücken – Landau – Germersheim routes ran the station. The local freight traffic was mainly carried by the loading of wood. On May 30, 1976, all stations outside of railway hubs were closed as independent goods tariff points, which also affected Wilgartswiesen station. From then on, transfer trains served the station, which from that time on served as a satellite for Landau's main station . Freight traffic, which last only took place sporadically, was completely stopped in 1998.

literature

  • 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

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  2. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 178 .
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  5. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstr. – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 88 .
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  7. ↑ Werner Schreiner: Paul Camille von Denis. European transport pioneer and builder of the Palatinate railways . 2010, p. 126 .
  8. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 38 f .
  9. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  10. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  11. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Modell- und Eisenbahnclub Landau in der Pfalz eV (Ed.): 125 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 66 .
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  13. ↑ kaiserslautern-kreis.de: Local public transport and school transport . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  14. ↑ hinundweg - the customer magazine of the Rhein-Neckar transport association. (PDF) vrn.de, archived from the original on May 29, 2012 ; accessed on February 1, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Wilgartswiesen - Biosphere Path. Retrieved June 20, 2014 .
  16. ↑ list German interlockings on stellwerke.de, of 26 October 2015 called on 2 February 2017th
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  20. ^ Walter Weber: The Bliestalbahn. From start to finish . 2000, p. 175 .
  21. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 17 .
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  23. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 23 ff .
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  26. ↑ Cars and vehicles on the Queichtalbahn. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; accessed on January 23, 2017 .
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