Freinsheim – Frankenthal railway line

Freinsheim-Frankenthal
Route number (DB) :	3435
Course book section (DB) :	666
Route length:	13.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Maximum slope :	<15  ‰
Minimum radius :	approx. 230 m
Top speed:	100 km / h
Train control :	PZB
Dual track :	-
Legend Palatine Northern Railway from Monsheim 0.000 Freinsheim Palatinate Northern Railway to Bad Dürkheim Talweidgraben 4,172 Weisenheim (sand) 6,582 Lambsheim Fuchsbach A 61 10.262 Flomersheim Line from Ludwigshafen 11.9 Frankenthal South 13,355 Frankenthal Central Station Route to Worms

The Freinsheim – Frankenthal railway is a 13.4-kilometer connecting line between the cities of Freinsheim and Frankenthal , which runs via Weisenheim am Sand and Lambsheim . The line, opened in 1877, creates a cross connection between the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line and the Palatinate Northern Railway Neustadt – Monsheim. Due to a shift in traffic flows, the line experienced an upswing in passenger traffic after the Second World War, while freight traffic came to a standstill in the meantime.

history

The fourth of the routes that the Palatinate Northern Railway Company was given as part of the merger of 1870 , the route from Freinsheim to Frankenthal was designed in 1873. With the construction of the line, extensive expansions in the Frankenthal train station became necessary due to the expected freight traffic . New buildings and the branch line to the Frankenthal Canal, which was also built at the same time, were built there. The Palatinate Northern Railway had great difficulty opening the route on October 15, 1877, due to time-consuming processes for acquiring land.

In 1922 the line was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on April 1, 1937, he moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Mainz management.

The German Federal Railways (DB) divided the route after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, they all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted.

On June 1, 1971, the line came under the jurisdiction of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management.

With the timetable change on June 14, 2015 at 00:00, the “Frankenthal Süd” stop was put into operation as part of the integration of the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line into the traffic of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn .

course

The route runs completely within the Rhine plain. It starts at Freinsheim train station . In this it branches off almost at right angles from the Palatinate Northern Railway . It then leads through the villages of Weisenheim am Sand , Lambsheim and Flomersheim , before reaching Frankenthal main station via an S-curve .

From Freinsheim to Weisenheim am Sand it is located in the Bad Dürkheim district . Lambsheim is part of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis . The remaining section is in the independent city of Frankenthal (Pfalz) .

traffic

passenger traffic

The timetable from 1884 showed continuous connections from Freinsheim to Ludwigshafen, as did the one from the beginning of the 20th century. The 1944 timetable contained twelve trains in the direction of Freinsheim and two in the direction of Frankenthal. As early as the 1950s, there were again journeys that ran through to Ludwigshafen. In the 1960s, on Sundays and public holidays in Ludwigshafen, excursion trains to Ramsen on the Eistalbahn and to Altleiningen ran along the route . Until the 1970s, there was a train connection on the Ludwigshafen – Frankenthal – Marnheim route, mainly serving workers, along the Freinsheim – Monsheim section.

For reasons of circulation, the trains on the line were tied in a westerly direction to Grünstadt from the 1980s . Today it is part of the course book route 666 ( Eiswoog  -) Ramsen  - Grünstadt  - Freinsheim  - Frankenthal Hbf, mostly used every hour.

In Freinsheim there is a connection to the regional trains in the direction of Neustadt (Weinstrasse) , in Frankenthal to the regional express trains to Mainz and Karlsruhe and to the S-Bahn trains in the direction of Mannheim (via Ludwigshafen ) and Mainz (via Worms ).

Freight transport

At the beginning of the 20th century, freight trains ran on the Ludwigshafen - Grünstadt - Eisenberg  - Hettenleidelheim route .

Vehicle use

At the beginning of the 20th century, locomotives of the P 2.II and P 5 types were used for passenger traffic, while the G 2.I and G 2.II were responsible for freight traffic. For passenger were from the late 1980s railcars of the 628 series in charge. Class 622 and 623 railcars have been in service since the end of 2015 .

Operating points

Freinsheim

Train crossing in Freinsheim station (2012)

→ Main article : Freinsheim train station

Freinsheim train station is located on the southwestern outskirts of the city of Freinsheim . It has parking spaces , bicycle parking spaces , bus connections and barrier-free access. Its former reception building is also a listed building .

Weisenheim (sand)

→ Main article : Weisenheim train station (Sand)

Weisenheim (Sand) train station is located on the south-eastern outskirts of the municipality of Weisenheim am Sand . Its former station building is a listed building.

Lambsheim

Lambsheim reception building

→ Main article : Lambsheim station

The stop and former Lambsheim train station is located on the north-western outskirts of Lambsheim . Its former station building is a listed building.

Flomersheim

The stop and former Flomersheim train station is located on the northeastern outskirts of Flomersheim .

Frankenthal South

As part of the " Rheinland-Pfalz-Takt 2015 " and the second expansion stage of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn, the Frankenthal Süd stop was planned in the south of the city of Frankenthal , at which individual trains that run on the Freinsheim – Frankenthal line also stop. The breakpoint is between the Carl-Bosch-Siedlung and the industrial area south and thus in the vicinity of several schools. It is designed as a bike-and-ride station. The stop was put into operation at the timetable change on June 14, 2015 at 00:00.

Frankenthal Central Station

→ Main article : Frankenthal Hauptbahnhof

The station was opened in 1853 as a through station on the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line. From 1891 to 1939, Frankenthal was also the starting point for a narrow-gauge local railway to Großkarlbach .

literature

• Klaus D. Holzborn : Railway areas Palatinate . transpress, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-344-70790-6 , pp. 95-96 .
• Werner Schreiner: The Haardt-Rheinbahn. In: 125 Years of the Frankenthal - Freinsheim Railway. Lambsheimer Heimatfreunde eV, Lambsheim 2002.
• Freinsheim - Frankenthal. In: The great archive of the railway lines in Germany. GeraMond, Munich 2003.
• 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 , p. 207.

Web links

Commons : Freinsheim – Frankenthal railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Sturm, The Palatinate Railways, p. 207.
2. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} bahnstatistik.de: railway management Mainz - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 20, 2013 . 
4. ^ 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. 66 .
5. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Holzborn, p. 96.
7. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 190 .
8. ↑ pkjs.de: 274h Frankenthal - Freinsheim . Retrieved October 3, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 220 .
10. ^ Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 57 .
11. ↑ schrankenposten.de: Gallery Pfrim Valley Railway Monsheim - Langmeil . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on September 30, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
12. ^ Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 95 f .
13. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 140 .
14. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 139 f .
15. ↑ ^{a b} General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 40 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
16. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. Mainz 2017, p. 17 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
17. ↑ Frankenthal gets a second S-Bahn stop. (No longer available online.) In: Die Rheinpfalz . November 6, 2013, archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; Retrieved July 16, 2014 .