Bodenheim – Alzey railway line

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Bodenheim – Alzey
Section of the Bodenheim – Alzey railway line
Route number : 3563
Course book section (DB) : last 661
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Mainz
Station, station
 0.00 Bodenheim
   
 to Ludwigshafen
   
 3.991 District Bischofsheim
   
 5.297 Harxheim - Loerzweiler
   
 7.431 Mommenheim (Rheinhessen)
   
 11,042 Selz
   
 11,188 Selzen - Hahnheim
   
 13,385 Federal highway 420
   
 13,593 Goldbach
   
 13.825 Undenheim-Koengernheim
   
 according to Nierstein
   
 20.108 Bechtolsheim-Biebelnheim
   
 20.515 Flood ditch
   
 22.106 Gau Odernheim
   
 to Osthofen
   
 23,597 Gau Köngernheim
   
 25.267 Framersheim
   
 26,990 Schafhausen
   
 27.6 Side track to the Alzey industrial area
   
 28,515 Federal motorway 61
   
 29,037 Bundesstrasse 271
   
 30.4 from Armsheim
Station, station
 30.902 Alzey
Route - straight ahead
 to Worms and Marnheim

The former Bodenheim – Alzey railway from Bodenheim via Gau-Odernheim to Alzey was popularly known as Amiche .

The 30.9 km long route was completely in Rheinhessen .

The tracks ran between Alzey and Selzen along the left of the river Selz . Shortly after the Hahnheim-Selzen double station, the train crossed the river. The section in the Mainz-Bingen district (Bodenheim – Undenheim) was converted into a cycle path .

history

Construction and routing

Train at Gau-Odernheim station in 1904

After the construction of the main lines of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn ( Mainz – Ludwigshafen and Rheinhessenbahn ), the desire to get their own rail connection also increased in many towns in the province of Rheinhessen . There were several different projects for the development of the interior of the country: The initially favored route from Worms to Nieder-Olm failed due to the resistance of the city of Mainz and the disinterest of some localities.

However, it was possible to agree on a route from Bodenheim via Odernheim (called Gau-Odernheim since 1896) to Alzey, this route has no significant gradients, as it mostly runs parallel to the Selz. The route was created in two phases. First, on October 1, 1879, the Bodenheim- Undenheim section was opened. The construction work for the second section from Undenheim to Alzey began in September 1894 and ended two years later: the ceremonial opening took place on September 28, 1896. Regular operations started two days later. The train station, originally called “Harxheim (Rheinh.)”, Was renamed “Harxheim-Lörzweiler” on April 1, 1910. On February 10, 1914, new “double- light pre-signals ” were put into operation on the route “when darkness fell” , which corresponded to the model of the form signal that is still in use today .

Level crossings

The level crossings were mainly unrestricted, only equipped with flashing lights. Even a country road between Framersheim and Gau-Köngernheim, now part of Deutsche Alleenstrasse , was unrestricted. Due to the good visibility in this area, this was not a major problem.

The only level crossing equipped with barriers was within Gau-Odernheim just before the train station, as two pairs of tracks crossed the street here.

Since the route also mainly led through agriculturally used areas (arable and wine-growing ), the crossings on the field paths there were only secured by St. Andrew's crosses .

Reception building

The station buildings were built as type buildings. They are similar except for a few details: Either they are in two parts with a boarded goods shed or in three parts with a separate goods shed. In the case of the two-part buildings, the execution can also be reversed. The service rooms were on the ground floor and the railway staff's apartment on the first floor. All buildings are now privately owned and serve as residential buildings, six of which are cultural monuments due to the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act (order in the direction of travel from Alzey to Bodenheim):

  • Gau Odernheim : two-part clinker brick building dating from the late 19th century, around 1890
  • Bechtolsheim-Biebelnheim : two-part late founding clinker building, boarded-up goods shed, around 1896
  • Undenheim-Köngernheim : three-part Wilhelminian style type building, goods shed boarded up, around 1896
  • Hahnheim : clinker type construction from the early days, around 1896
  • Mommenheim : three-wing, late founding type construction, around 1896
  • Gau-Bischofsheim : two-wing clinker brick building dating from the late founding period

  • Railway station in Gau-Odernheim (former track side)

  • Bechtolsheim-Biebelnheim station with renewed goods shed (street side)

  • Undenheim-Köngernheim station with goods shed (street side)

  • Mommenheim station

  • Station building in Gau-Bischofsheim. On the left the boarded-up goods shed with a two-part clinker building (former side of the track)

Shutdown

The line was discontinued on May 31, 1985 in passenger traffic, in freight traffic on May 31, 1985 between Bodenheim and Harxheim-Lörzweiler, on December 31, 1989 between Harxheim-Lörzweiler and Selzen-Hahnheim and finally on January 1, 1995 between Selzen- Hahnheim and Alzey. This was followed by the gradual dismantling of the track , with the former track route being built on quickly, which also prevented reactivation. The stretch of track to the Alzey industrial area, which was previously held as a station track, was shut down at the end of December 2016 with the expansion of the switch in Alzey station. As a result, the entire route has no longer been passable since December 2016.

Dismantling

Old track section as a monument in Selzen

Today the tracks have been dismantled and the northern part of the route has been converted into a cycle path. On December 12, 2003, with the groundbreaking of the Gau-Odernheim local relief road , the fate of the southern part of the route was sealed, because the road leads over the route of the former railway line. The cycle path was named Amiche, just like the railway line before it.

traffic

Locomotives

Four three-axle tank locomotives from Henschel & Sohn ( Cassel ) pulled twelve passenger cars , two post and baggage cars ( Gastell brothers , Mainz-Mombach ) and thirty freight cars ( Talbot , Aachen ) over the route .

In the last few decades the use of steam has been switched to battery and diesel drive.

passenger traffic

Weekly student card. The handwritten G indicates that it is a sibling card.

At the beginning, five passenger trains ran daily on the entire route in both directions as well as an early train from Undenheim / Köngernheim to Alzey. Later there were also continuous train connections from Alzey to Mainz.

From the 1960s / 1970s, mainly rail buses from the Uerdinger rail bus and DB ETA 150 series were used here. In the last decade at the beginning of the 1980s, but partly also from the DB class V 100 pulled n-cars .

A second-class adult ticket from Alzey to Bodenheim and back cost 14.00 DM on the last day of travel (this would correspond to today's purchasing power of 12.76 euros).

Freight transport

Postcard shipped by rail and then to New York in eight days, all in 1904!

The route was also used for freight and rail mail traffic . Mainly the agricultural products and products as in the sugar beet campaign , grain, wine and other agricultural products were transported on the route, whereby sugar beet was mainly transported to Südzucker AG in Offstein . For the beet campaign, in addition to the V 100 series, the V 60 series were mostly used in conjunction as a double unit for the transfer freight trains of the standard type E open freight cars .

Nostalgia trips

After the scheduled passenger traffic ended, there were two special trips on August 5, 1989 and December 31, 1992 with a rail bus of the VT 95 series .

Origin of name

The name Amiche probably goes back to a woman named Annemarie who was often on this train; but possibly also to the French ami (= friend ) or to a train driver named Armin .

Amiche cycle path

The route marked as the Amiche cycle path is only partially identical to the route of the railway line. It achieves the greatest similarity between Bodenheim and Undenheim. From Undenheim, however, the signposted route leads over the former Valtinche railway line to Nierstein. To get back to the starting point in Bodenheim from there, we recommend the Rheinterrassen- and Rhein-Radweg .

However, if the Amich is to be followed, the Selztal cycle path to Alzey must be used from Undenheim .

literature

  • Gerhard Fillinger and Manfred Hinkel: The Bodenheim – Alzey branch line. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, 1st edition, ISBN 3866800711
  • Manfred Hinkel: From the glamorous beginning to the sad end 1896–1985 - documents from 89 “years of life” of the Bodenheim – Alzey branch line , Alzey 1985
  • Gerhard Lubojanski: The "Amiche" - the former railway line from Bodenheim to Alzey . - Ill., Kt. In: Mainz-Bingen: Heimat-Jahrbuch. - 42 (1998), pp. 134-137
  • Karl Ludwig Lehmann: “Amiche” is 100 years old: memories of a branch line in Rheinhessen. - Ill. In: German Society for Railway History: DGEG-Nachrichten. - No. 133 (1996), Sept./Oct., Pp. 18-19
  • Werner Lang: The “Amiche” travels from Bodenheim to Gau-Odernheim ; in: Heimatbuch Landkreis Mainz ; Printed by Wilhelm Traumüller, Oppenheim am Rhein 1967; Pp. 126-127

See also

Web links

Commons : Alzey – Bodenheim railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Railway line

Culture and bike path

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Paetz: Data collection on the history of the railways on the Main, Rhine and Neckar . Bensheim-Auerbach 1985, p. 23.
  2. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from March 19, 1910, No. 11. Announcement No. 201, p. 103.
  3. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 24, 1914, No. 5. Announcement No. 50, p. 33.
  4. ↑ The Bodenheim – Alzey branch line; P. 9.
  5. ↑ The Bodenheim – Alzey branch line; P. 80