Railway line Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach

Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach train station . Right the route from Gau Algesheim , left the route from Bingen Hbf .
Route number (DB) :	3512
Course book section (DB) :	680
Route length:	19.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Dual track :	Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach
Legend from Mainz 0.0 Gau Algesheim to Bingen Connecting railway from Bingen 3.8 Ockenheim (formerly Bf) from Bingen to the Hindenburg Bridge 7.7 Büdesheim - Dromersheim (formerly Bf) 8.5 Federal motorway 61 10.1 Bundesstrasse 41 10.7 Gensingen - Horrweiler ( Abzw ) 11.5 Gensingen-Horrweiler (formerly Bf) 11.8 Awanst special camp alternative junction 12.0 to Alzey 13.0 Bundesstrasse 41, Bundesstrasse 50 14.5 Bundesstrasse 41 15.2 Planig ( Anst ) 17.4 Bundesstrasse 428 from Bingen 19.9 Bad Kreuznach ( wedge station ) to Bad Munster am Stein Swell:

The Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach railway is a double-track main line in Rhineland-Palatinate . It connects Gau-Algesheim on the left Rhine route with Bad Kreuznach on the Nahe Valley Railway and is thus part of the regionally important traffic axis between the two state capitals Mainz and Saarbrücken .

history

During and after the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 , there were a number of railway projects designed to transport troops and war material to the French border. In 1871 the Prussian State Railway opened the Alsenz Valley Railway from Bad Münster am Stein to Kaiserslautern . In 1879 a line from the Rhine-Main area parallel to the Nahe Valley Railway was already under discussion, but it was not until the end of the 19th century that the War Ministry pushed the plans more strongly.

The connecting line from Gau-Algesheim to Bad Kreuznach, built as a strategic railway , was put into operation on May 15, 1902. A short section of the Rheinhessenbahn from Worms via Alzey to Bingen was used between Büdesheim - Dromersheim and Gensingen - Horrweiler .

In 1904 the connection between Bad Münster and Odernheim followed on the right of the Nahe as a section of the Glantalbahn independent of the existing lines, the section between Bad Kreuznach and Bad Münster was expanded to include four tracks.

In connection with the railway project, there was the redesign of the railway facilities in Bad Kreuznach. Bad Kreuznach had a train station on the Nahe Valley Railway in the north of the city to the left of the Nahe and a Kreuznach Bad stop southeast of the city center. On February 25, 1904, the city and railway agreed to build a new central station at the junction of the two lines between the two old stations. The new building triggered a number of discussions in the city, partly because residents and shopkeepers feared disadvantages in the area of ​​the previous stations, partly because the planned name of the new station, Kreuznach Gabelung , was seen as a deterrent for spa guests. On May 15, 1905, the new station was put into operation under the name Bad Kreuznach . In the following years the station building, which was inaugurated in 1908, was built.

Since 1906 the route was equipped with route telephones. On February 10, 1914, “when darkness fell” between Bad Münster and Gau Algesheim, new “double light pre-signals ” were put into operation, which corresponded to the model of the form signal that is still in use today .

In 1915 the Hindenburg Bridge over the Rhine between Bingen and Geisenheim - also a strategic railway project - went into operation. The route from Rüdesheim and Geisenheim to Münster-Sarmsheim on the Nahe Valley Railway was connected to the route from Gau Algesheim with a double-track connection in Ockenheim . A connecting curve east of Ockenheim to Bingen was also created.

After the First World War , the Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach route grew in importance for passenger traffic . It also served the express train service . In 1939 three pairs of express trains ran between Saarbrücken, Frankfurt (Main) and Berlin on the route. Even after the Second World War , the line continued to be used by express train services until the 1990s .

In 1945 the Hindenburg Bridge was blown up and the feeder lines there went out of service. The old railway embankments are still partially preserved, and the connecting curve from Ockenheim in the direction of Bingen can still be seen between the fruit trees growing there.

Route

The route begins at Gau Algesheim station on the left-hand Rhine route and initially runs west. In the former Ockenheim station, it was linked to the double-track access route from Bingen (city) to the Hindenburgbrücke (VzG route number 3513), which ran approximately three kilometers parallel to the route.

The line crosses the Rheinhessenbahn and runs south with it from the Büdesheim-Dromersheim junction . The two lines separate again in the former Gensingen-Horrweiler train station . The once large train station with three platforms has now been dismantled into a double stopping point and only has one house platform and one island platform. The two lines are separated today at the junction of the same name just under a kilometer to the north; the single-track Rheinhessenbahn in the direction of Alzey now only uses the eastern of the three tracks.

In a south-westerly direction, the route continues via Planig , which is no longer used by passenger traffic today, on the right of the Nahe to Bad Kreuznach, where it meets the Nahe Valley Railway in the wedge station Bad Kreuznach .

service

Long- distance passenger rail transport no longer takes place on this route today. From 1965 to 1979 the Munzinger Express ran along the route from Zweibrücken to Mainz . Today it is only served by two lines of local rail passenger transport, each hourly, integrated into the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .

The regional express RE 3 only serves the stops in Bad Kreuznach and (partially) Gensingen-Horrweiler, while the regional train RB 33 stops at all stations along the line.

Between the branch point Buedesheim-Dromersheim and the branching point Gensingen-Horrweiler moreover runs the line RB 35 ( Rhine Hesse train ) to the strategic web.

line	Line course
RE 3	( Frankfurt (Main) -) Mainz  - Ingelheim  - Gau Algesheim - Bad Kreuznach - Kirn - Idar-Oberstein - Türkismühle - Saarbrücken
RB 33	Mainz - Heidesheim (Rhh)  - Ingelheim - Gau Algesheim - Ockenheim -  - Bad Kreuznach - Kirn - Idar-Oberstein
RB 35	Bingen (Rhine) city - Gensingen-Horrweiler - Gau-Bickelheim  - Armsheim  - Alzey  - Flörsheim-Dalsheim  - Monsheim  - Worms

Web links

• Strategic rail lines
• Traffic history of the city of Bad Kreuznach
• Photo gallery of the connecting railway
• Planned electrification

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Schaller, 100 Years Wilhelmsbrücke - A contribution to the traffic and construction history of the city of Bad Kreuznach on regionalgeschichte.net, accessed on October 13, 2010.
4. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes of May 10, 1902. Volume 6, No. 24, Announcement No. 228, p. 177, and Announcement No. 237, p. 180f.
5. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 27, 1906, No. 57. Announcement No. 602, p. 495.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ Reich Course Book 1939