Railway maintenance office in Homburg

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Railway maintenance office in Homburg

The Bahnmeisterei Homburg was an early 20th century in Homburg founded and existing until 1980 Bahnmeisterei . Its buildings that still exist today are listed as individual monuments in the state monument list.

history

In the course of the construction of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway , Homburg received a railway connection with the opening of the Kaiserslautern - Homburg section on July 1, 1848. From August 25 of the following year, the full length of the Ludwig Railway from the Rheinschanze to Bexbach could be used . In the following decades Homburg developed with the opening of the Homburg – Zweibrücken railway , the Würzbach Railway Schwarzenacker – St. Ingbert, Rohrbach – Homburg and the Glantalbahn to the railway junction.

Around 1900, a railway maintenance office was therefore established in Homburg, which was primarily responsible for the track systems in the catchment area of ​​the Homburg train station. For example, in 1909 she was responsible on the Ludwigsbahn on the section to shortly before the Eischelscheid-Lambsborn station, along the Glantalbahn to Schönenberg-Kübelberg station and in the west for a few hundred meters each to Zweibrücken, Rohrbach and Neunkirchen.

The area of ​​responsibility, however, changed several times over the decades. In the 1930s, the Limbach (Saar) station on the route to Rohrbach was added to the railway maintenance department, as was the entire section of the Glantalbahn shortly before Glan-Münchweiler . Due to the separation of the Saarland after the Second World War , to which Homburg was also added, from then on it was only responsible along the Glantalbahn as far as the Jägersburg station, which is now also Saarland . It was dissolved around 1980; From then on, their area was assigned to the Saarbrücken railway maintenance authority.

investment

The railway maintenance office was initially owned by the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company . Among other things, a residential building belonged to it. The railway systems that still exist today were built in 1902; they are under monument protection. The address is Bahnhofsplatz 6 .

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). New edition. pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Landesdenkmalliste, Saarland Official Gazette, December 22, 2004
  2. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 266 .
  3. ^ Map of the Mainz Railway Directorate from January 1, 1940
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 54 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '42.4 "  N , 7 ° 20' 17.9"  E