Winden Railway Station (Pfalz)
| Winden (Palatinate) | |
|---|---|
 Winden station in 2007 after modernization
|
|
| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | RWND |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | November 26, 1855 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Winches__Pfalz_ |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Winches |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 5 '44 " N , 8 ° 7' 21" E |
| Railway lines | |
|
|
| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Winden (Pfalz) station is the station of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Winden (Pfalz) . It belongs to station category 4 and has three platform tracks . The station is in the network area of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (KVV) and belongs to the tariff zone 550. In the course of a transition tariff agreed in 1996, however, cards of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) are also recognized. The address of the train station is Bahnhofstrasse 17 .
It was opened on November 26, 1855 as a through station for the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Wissembourg. With the opening of the full length of the Winden – Karlsruhe railway on May 8, 1865 and the Winden – Bergzabern railway on April 13, 1870, it became a hub station. After the Maximiliansbahn section Winden – Wissembourg was discontinued in passenger traffic in 1975 and that on the spa line in 1981, it temporarily lost its importance before both lines were reactivated in 1995 and 1997 respectively. The station building is a listed building.
location
Local situation
The station is located on the south-eastern outskirts of the local community. To the west of it, the local Bahnhofstrasse runs parallel to the railroad tracks and then turns to the northeast. To the west of it is the semicircular street Am Bahnhof , which was created in the 2000s as part of the construction of a new building area. At the same time, several buildings in the station area were demolished. To the east of the train station - also parallel to the tracks - is Minfelder Straße , which is identical to Bundesstraße 427 here . The latter bends to the left at a 90-degree angle and then crosses under the tracks. A Raiffeisenhaus is located between Minfelder Strasse and the train station.
Railway lines
The Palatinate Maximiliansbahn from Neustadt runs in a straight line from north-northeast to south-southwest in the station area. The Winden – Karlsruhe railway leaves the southern station area in a large curve towards the east. The spa line runs to the north, initially together with the Maximiliansbahn, and then in a wide curve to the west towards Bad Bergzabern.
history
Planning, construction and opening of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn
The first considerations about the construction of the railway line go back to 1829. The original plan was to first put a north-south railway line into operation within what was then the Palatinate (Bavaria) . A main line from Strasbourg to Mainz was planned, which was to form a counterpart on the left bank of the Rhine to a line from Mannheim to Basel. Instead, however, the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn, which ran in an east-west direction from the Rheinschanze (from 1853: Ludwigshafen) to Bexbach, was built between 1847 and 1849 and was mainly used to transport coal.
There was then a heated discussion as to whether a route on the mountains from Neustadt via Landau to Wissembourg (Alsace) or a route on the Rhine via Speyer, Germersheim and Wörth was more urgent and desirable. The military in particular preferred the route that was to run on the edge of the Palatinate Forest . However, the political events of 1848 caused the project to come to a standstill for the time being.
In January 1850 a brochure was published in what was then Neustadt an der Haardt, in which a rail route via Landau to Weißenburg (French: Wissembourg) was propagated and in which, among other things, the greater settlement density compared to the places directly on the Rhine was argued. The decision was finally made in 1852 in favor of the mountain line after reports and investigations had been initiated the previous year. On November 3 of the same year, the then Bavarian King Maximilian II gave the green light for the construction by approving the establishment of a stock corporation that tackled the project.
After the section of the "Palatinate Maximiliansbahn" route Neustadt – Landau had already been opened on July 18, 1855, the remaining section to Wissembourg followed on November 26 of that year. The operator was the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft founded especially for this purpose . Even in its early days, the station was an important train crossing station, where the express trains crossed with coal trains.
Creation of the line to Karlsruhe (1855–1864)
In the following years the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft came up with plans to build a line branching off from the Maximiliansbahn in Winden to the Baden capital Karlsruhe. The reason for this was the optimism that coal would be better brought to the Grand Duchy of Baden , the Kingdom of Württemberg and the rest of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The Bavarian military Karl Krazeisen , who was troop commander in the Palatinate at the time, emphasized that such a route was also necessary for strategic reasons.
“Nonetheless, we cannot fail to recognize the need for a connecting line from Winden to Karlsruhe to facilitate the dispatch of coal to Baden, Württemberg and the other side of Bavaria, and to regret that the steps we have taken to obtain the priority concession have not yet been successful. "
In 1859 she received a concession from the State Ministry of Trade and Public Works. Nevertheless, there was no unanimous agreement to set Winden as the starting point for the planned route to Baden. However, resistance came from the city of Germersheim , which insisted that a railway line should be built over their area instead and from there to Bruchsal . In addition, in 1860 several representatives of the southern Palatinate communities came together to advocate a route via Offenbach , Herxheim , Leimersheim and Leopoldshafen instead of via Winden and Kandel . In addition, Rohrbach was considered as a branch station. However, the city of Bergzabern objected to this, as it feared traffic-related disadvantages. In consideration of the interests of Bergzabern, Winden was finally determined as a branch as the closest station to the spa town.
Baden was made on the opening page already on 5 August 1862 maxau railway line from Karlsruhe to the right bank of the Rhine near the hamlet called Maxau . On March 14, 1864, the Winden– Maximiliansau section was released. As a result, Winden became the fifth railway junction within the Palatinate, after Schifferstadt (1847), Ludwigshafen (1853), Neustadt an der Haardt (1855) and Homburg (1857). One year later, on May 8, 1865, the gap between Maximiliansau and the Maxau Railway in the form of the bridge over the Rhine was closed .
Creation of the spa line
In the course of the construction of the Maximiliansbahn, Bergzabern complained about not being connected to the rail network. The displeasure intensified after the Maximiliansbahn branch to Karlsruhe, which began in Winden, was planned and finally opened. In particular, the Bergzabern trade association vehemently demanded a railway connection and specifically sent a four-person deputation to the Chamber of Deputies in Munich in October 1861.
In 1862 the first plans were made for the construction of a railway line that would branch off the Maximiliansbahn in Winden and run via Bergzabern , Dahn and Pirmasens to Zweibrücken . Above all, it was hoped that the construction of such a line would bring a lot of goods traffic to Bergzabern. In 1864 the Bavarian State Ministry finally granted the concession for the planning and surveying of the route. On September 21, 1868, the Bavarian King Ludwig II gave permission for the line to be built.
Further development
As early as 1867, the line from Neustadt to Winden was expanded to two tracks, primarily to meet the requirements of the meanwhile increased north-south traffic. This measure took place against the background that the railway lines within the Palatinate had to fear clear competition in the matter of long-distance traffic due to the good economic situation in Europe, especially from Prussia . In the course of the Franco-German War , the section between Winden and Wissembourg was also given a second track in 1871. Subsequently, a second track was put into operation on the branch line to Karlsruhe on the section to Maximiliansau.
In view of the fact that the Neustadt and Landau train stations became state telegraph stations in the year, there was a feeling of displeasure in Winden that this had not been done on site so far. In 1881 the station was finally elevated to a telegraph office.
"Even if the rich farming village of Winden does not take any steps to obtain a telegraph, the Chamber of Commerce should take care of our station."
After the end of the First World War , the terminus of the Maximiliansbahn Weißenburg - now called Wissembourg again - with Alsace fell back to France under the Versailles Treaty . As a result, customs controls were carried out for express trains and for passenger trains with registered luggage in Winden from now on.
In the course of reparations, the Winden – Kapsweyer section lost the second track due to dismantling. In 1975 the Maximiliansbahn section to Wissembourg was shut down, and in 1981 the spa line too. Thus, the track 1a, from which the trains to Bad Bergzabern started, was dismantled.
Development since 1993
Both routes were reactivated in 1995 and 1997 respectively. Until it was closed in 1993, the station was also very important in sugar beet traffic. The freight tracks were then also dismantled.
From 2005 to 2007, the station was modernized by Winden by raising the platforms and installing elevators.
On January 10, 2012 a train derailed shortly before reaching Winden station because one of its bogies jumped off the track. No one was injured in the incident itself, but this meant that train traffic was interrupted for at least five days.
traffic
passenger traffic
Trains run three times an hour in the direction of Neustadt, always departing from platform three. In the opposite direction, two per hour run to Karlsruhe and one to Wissembourg. These stop either on track one or on track two. The hourly trains of the spa line depart from platform 2. There is also a bus line to Bad Bergzabern, which mainly serves the villages that are away from the spa line.
The RE line Karlsruhe – Neustadt operates (usually only stops in Landau, Winden, Kandel and Wörth, during rush hour sometimes also in Edenkoben , Karlsruhe-Knielingen, Karlsruhe-Mühlburg and Karlsruhe-West), the RB line Karlsruhe– Neustadt (stops everywhere, with the exception of Karlsruhe Maxau and Maximiliansau Eisenbahnstraße) and the RB Neustadt – Wissembourg line (stops everywhere, with the exception of the section between Winden and Landau).
Freight transport
In the first years of its existence, the station was mainly used by coal trains on the Saar region – Neustadt – Strasbourg – Basel route. After the route to Karlsruhe was opened, they also took the route eastwards. In addition, the station was of great importance in freight traffic, especially due to the loading of sugar beets . This took place exclusively in autumn. In December 1992, however, the sugar beet transports were stopped and the freight tracks that were in the eastern area of the station were dismantled.
Buildings
Reception and outbuildings
The station building, which is under monument protection, has the address Bahnhofstrasse 17/19/21 . The southern wing, which bears house numbers 19 and 21, was essentially built in 1855 and contains various components from the 19th century. The two-story older part of the building with a waiting room extension had a floor area of 208 m 2 and cost 11,689 guilders. The administrator's apartment was on the upper floor. As at all train stations from Maikammer to Schaidt, a small entrance building in simple wooden construction with slate roofing was also erected here next to the station building.
The northern part of the building - house number 17 - is a three-storey hipped roof structure that was built in the first half of the 1920s, although the three southern axes on the ground floor had already been built. It was in a rather poor condition until 2017, when extensive renovations began.
Cast iron pillars were used to roof the platforms, which were retained even after the station was modernized from 2005 to 2007. These were made by the Eisenberg company Gienanth .
In addition, the station had a larger and a smaller outbuilding. The larger one was north of the reception building. It now serves as a residential building. In front of its track side was the now dismantled dead-end track 1a for the trains to Bad Bergzabern. The smaller outbuilding was demolished at the end of the 2000s due to its poor condition. To the south of the reception building is the former toilet block, which is now functionless.
Platforms
| track | Usable length | Platform height | Current usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 177 m | 55 cm | Regional express in the direction of Karlsruhe |
| 2 | 177 m | 55 cm | Regional train towards Karlsruhe or Wissembourg |
| 3 | 177 m | 55 cm | Regional train or express direction Neustadt |
literature
- Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable. 160 years of railways in the Palatinate. Ed .: Zweckverband SPNV Rheinland-Pfalz Süd. Kaiserslautern 2007 Online ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 4.1 MB) [accessed December 1, 2012].
- Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-27-4 .
- Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . Landau in the Palatinate 1980.
- 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; accessed on October 31, 2013 .
- ↑ Query of the course book route 676/679 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 676 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 678 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ mobile. 3rd unit: The KVV introduces itself. (PDF; 2.0 MB) (No longer available online.) In: kvv.de. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016 ; Retrieved July 22, 2013 .
- ^ Winden (Palatinate). In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
- ^ A b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district of Germersheim. Mainz 2020, p. 37 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 7th ff .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 143 .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 15 .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 15th ff .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 21 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 159 .
- ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 49 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 159 ff .
- ^ A b Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 176 .
- ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 49 f .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 26 .
- ↑ Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V .: 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 47 f .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 44 .
- ^ Regional train derailed in the southern Palatinate, January 11, 2012
- ↑ Press release from ZSPNV Süd: Line closures in the southern Palatinate extended up to and including Sunday evening from January 13, 2012
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 101 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timetable. 160 years of railways in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 37 .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 88 .
- ↑ a b Direction of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn: Annual report for the administrative year October 1854 to October 1855 . 1856, p. 11 .
- ↑ heimatlexikon-thaleischweiler-froeschen.de: Heimatkalender 2002- The Pirmasens Nord train station . Retrieved October 31, 2013 .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 136 f .
- ↑ Railway stations and their pictures in Bavaria (left bank of the Rhine) - Railway station: Winden - Main railway lines: Landau - Weißenburg (opening November 26, 1855) - Winden - Rhine (Maximiliansau, then Pfortz) (opening March 14, 1864) - Winden - Bergzabern (opening April 13, 1855) 1870) . kbaystb.de (Jürgen Pepke), accessed on July 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Station equipment in Winden (Palatinate). DB Station & Service, accessed on February 22, 2019 .