Germersheim – Landau railway line

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Germersheim – Landau
Line of the Germersheim – Landau railway line
Route number (DB) : 3450
Course book section (DB) : 280 (1949-1972)
681 (1972-1984)
Route length: 21.0 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Bruhrainbahn from Bruchsal S 33
   
 Line from Wörth S 51 S 52
Station, station
 3,571 Germersheim S 3 S 4
Road bridge
 B 35
   
 Druslach
   
 Route to Schifferstadt S 3 S 4
   
 7.700 B 9
   
 7,839 Westheim (Palatinate)
   
 11.727 Lustadt
   
 14.370 Zeiskam
   
 Court moat
   
 17.335 Hochstadt (Palatinate)
   
 19.296 Dreihof
   
 21,444 Dammheim
   
 Former connecting curve to Neustadt
   
 21,905 Landau (Pfalz) industrial trunk line ( Awanst )
   
 22.200 Former siding to the Landau-Ost industrial area
Road bridge
 A 65
Plan-free intersection - below
 Palatine Maximiliansbahn from Neustadt (since 1897)
   
 former route of the Maximiliansbahn (until 1897)
   
 Maximiliansbahn (since 1897)
   
 Queich
Station, station
 24.505 Landau (Pfalz) Hbf
   
 former route to Herxheim
   
 Palatine Maximiliansbahn to Wissembourg
Route - straight ahead
 Queichtalbahn to Pirmasens
Swell:

The Germersheim – Landau railway line - sometimes referred to as the lower Queichtalbahn - is a disused railway line from Germersheim to Landau in the Palatinate in Rhineland-Palatinate , which led via Westheim, Lustadt and Zeiskam, among others. It was opened in 1872. In the following years it was part of an important transport route for coal in north-south direction. In addition, it was part of a national long - distance traffic connection . After the Second World War it was gradually downgraded to a branch line and closed in 1998 after passenger traffic in 1984 and goods traffic in 1991 came to a standstill. Since 2006 the railway line has experienced a renaissance as a tourist attraction . At that time, a trolley service was set up on a section of the route , which is known as the Südpfalz-Draisine .

history

prehistory

After the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn Neustadt - Landau - Wissembourg was opened in 1855 , a branch line was planned, which should primarily serve to transport coal to neighboring Baden . In this context, the city of Germersheim championed a railway line from Landau via its area to Bruchsal . These efforts were in competition with the planned Winden – Karlsruhe railway line . For this reason Germersheim pulled out all the stops to prevent the latter from coming about and sent a deputation to the German Confederation in Frankfurt . In a memorandum, the city and fortress command also argued that, in contrast to a variant over the area of ​​the fortress, there was no military security on a route from Winden to Karlsruhe and that it was strategically important to have a connection with other fortresses in Koblenz , Landau , Mainz and Rastatt manufacture. However, the Palatinate government rejected the Germersheim efforts, so that from 1862 the connection from Winden to Karlsruhe was realized.

When the Schifferstadt – Speyer branch line was extended to Germersheim in 1864 , plans were in progress to create a strategic cross-connection between the fortresses in Germersheim and Landau. A total of four variants were examined: two should run north of the Queich and two south of it via Offenbach an der Queich and Bellheim . The Landau city council in particular pleaded for a route via Bellheim, which was expressed in a committee letter to the Landau mayor's office on October 4, 1869.

Planning, construction and opening

Landau station in 1870

On January 1, 1870, who had Palatine Ludwig Railway Company , the Palatine Maximilian Railway Company , the Palatine Northern Railway Company and the Neustadt-Dürkheimer Railway Company to the Palatine railways together. With the exception of the latter, however, they retained their independence. The railway projects that the Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft was obliged to implement included a railway line from Germersheim to Wörth as well as the construction of a line from Germersheim to Landau.

A government rescript of May 20, 1870 provided for the variant ultimately implemented via Westheim , Ober- and Niederlustadt and Zeiskam , although the administration of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft , which was intended to operate the route, had favored a route via Knöringen to Lingenfeld . In particular, residents from Ober- and Niederlustadt and Zeiskam had again successfully fought against such a line. The municipality of Essingen also arranged that the planned route only affects the southeast of its district at Dreihof, as they feared that flying sparks from the steam locomotives could set their houses and agricultural areas on fire.

On April 17, 1871, the concession for the construction of the railway line finally followed. The designs were prepared by two offices, which were under the direction of the engineers Millet and Mühlhäusser. On September 22 of the same year, these drafts were submitted for approval. Another month later, on October 28, 1871, they were finally given the go-ahead.

Due to the flat terrain, the construction of the route turned out to be relatively problem-free, as it mostly ran straight or in very generous curves over its entire length of a total of 20,950 kilometers. The construction costs came to a total of 2.5 million guilders. Even if the construction of the line was initially single-track, the option of a second track was taken into account from the outset during the construction work. The line finally opened on May 16, 1872. The railway systems in the Landau and Germersheim stations had to be significantly expanded for this purpose.

Development up to the Second World War

After the Bruhrainbahn Bruchsal - Rheinsheim was tied through to Germersheim in 1877 and two years later a connection from St. Ingbert to Saarbrücken was established as an extension of the Würzbachbahn , the route in combination with this and the Landau-Rohrbach railway line became part of the supraregional main line Saarbrücken - Zweibrücken - Biebermühle - Landau - Germersheim - Bruchsal, which was primarily used to remove coal from the Saar. In order to increase the capacity, the railway line was expanded to two tracks from 1888. At the instigation of the military, the Maximiliansbahn north of Landau was relocated a little to the east in 1897 to enable a level crossing with the line to Germersheim; since then the latter has crossed under the Maximiliansbahn in this area. The old route remained as a pull-out track .

Around 1900 the new Dammheim train station was built between Landau and Dreihof . At the beginning of the 20th century, the Palatinate Railways set up line telephones that reached from Germersheim via Landau and Zweibrücken to Saarbrücken. From October 1, 1909, the Bavarian State Railways were responsible for the operation of the line after the Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft and the other railroad companies of the Palatinate were absorbed into it. At this point in time, most of the was under the administration of the Landau Operations and Building Inspection . The Ludwigshafen inspection was only responsible for the last three kilometers just before Germersheim . After the beginning of the First World War in 1914, 50 military trains drove from Germersheim every day between August 9 and 16, including their continuation to Zweibrücken, 30 of them then drove via the Bliestalbahn to Saargemünd, the rest via Rohrbach to Saarbrücken . From 1917 there were plans to create a level crossing with the Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line in Germersheim, similar to Landau . However, since the entire railway site would have had to be relocated there, this failed due to the expected high costs.

On April 1, 1920, the line became the property of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1922 it was incorporated into the newly founded Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen . In the course of the dissolution of the latter on April 1, 1937, she came to the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz . At this point in time, the line belonged to the Landau Works Office (RBA). In the middle of the war, a connecting curve to the route to Neustadt was built immediately west of Dammheim. The Dreihof train station in particular was repeatedly the scene of fighting during the Second World War . On November 22, 1944, a passenger train was shot at by fighter bombers , whereupon four people died. Just two weeks later, a freight train was attacked there by fighter bombers, with a bomb hitting the railroad track. In January 1945, petrol for the Wehrmacht was loaded by rail at Dreihof . For this reason it was heavily bombed on January 26th and completely destroyed. After the major damage had been repaired, he was again the victim of bombing on March 1 and 2, 1945. In March 1945 the Rhine bridge near Germersheim was blown up, which was to have a not inconsiderable effect on the future importance of the Germersheim – Landau railway line.

Post-war period and closure (1945–1993)

After the Second World War, the railway line came under the control of the Association of Southwest German Railways (SWDE) , which was incorporated into the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) in 1949 . The latter incorporated the railway line into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , to which it allocated all railway lines within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In the following years the railway line lost its importance in national traffic; for example, at the end of 1946, the second track was dismantled due to reparation costs that Germany had to pay to the victorious powers. There was also the fact that the Rhine bridge near Germersheim, which was blown up in 1945, was not restored until 1967. As a result, it was de facto degraded to a branch line. DB received financial grants from the federal government aimed at maintaining the route for strategic reasons as part of the Cold War . On June 1, 1971, the route came under the jurisdiction of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz management .

diverted express train at the end of the 1980s while passing through Westheim

The line was closed on June 1, 1984 for passenger traffic ; The Dammheim , Dreihof and Hochstadt stopovers had already been abandoned because of their partially remote location and the correspondingly weak demand. In 1987 the connecting curve to the line to Neustadt, including its embankment, which was built in the Second World War, was demolished for the construction of the federal motorway 65 . In the period that followed, the station buildings were sold and all level crossings dismantled. Since the Rhine bridge between Karlsruhe and Wörth was badly damaged by a shipwreck on June 9, 1987, the express trains on the Saarbrücken – Zweibrücken – Landau – Wörth – Karlsruhe route had to be diverted over the Germersheim – Landau line for four weeks. Freight traffic was also stopped on December 31, 1991.

Rail reform and trolley transport (since 1994)

As part of the rail reform , the line became the property of Deutsche Bahn on January 1, 1994 . In the years that followed, a few excursion and presentation trains occasionally ran over the route. The closure took place on September 27, 1998. In the mid-1990s there were isolated plans to reactivate the line for passenger traffic. However, these were unsuccessful in view of the expected renovation costs. In the meantime, an expert opinion had been commissioned to reactivate the line in passenger traffic, but it turned out negative, which was mainly due to its remote location in the west. However, since it is protected by a route protection contract, a possible dismantling of the route was prevented.

Course of the draisine route
Legend
   
 12.9 Lingenfeld location
   
 12.6 Lingenfeld meadow
   
 12.0 Westheim "City"
Stop, stop
 10.0 Westheim "final spurt"
Stop, stop
 8.4 Lustadt
   
 7.5 Lustadt West
Stop, stop
 5.7 Zeiskam
Stop, stop
 3.9 High City Forest
Stop, stop
 2.7 High city
Stop, stop
 0.9 Dreihof
Stop ... - end of the route
 0.0 Bornheim

On the part of the entrepreneur Dieter Hofherr from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , there were efforts to start a trolley operation on the disused railway line. The owner at the time, DB Services Immobilien GmbH , leased the route to him for five years in 2005. The now overgrown line had to be cut free and the tracks at the level crossing that had been expanded in the meantime had to be reinstalled in Hochstadt. On March 31, 2006, the operating license for the project was available. On April 29, 2006 , a trolley service called Südpfalzdraisine started on the 13 km long section from Bornheim to Lingenfeld , based on the model of the Glantalbahn . The line is still considered to be closed and a special kind of connecting line. The draisines are operated by the Südpfalz-Draisinenbahn , which was taken over in spring 2011 by another lessee.

The location of the eastern end of the line in Lingenfeld was accompanied by disputes with local residents. At first the terminus was supposed to be in the center of Lingenfeld, but due to the protests it was initially set up on the western outskirts of Lingenfeld. Since this end point was often subject to vandalism due to its peripheral location, a new end point called Lingenfeld-Ort was built in 2007 300 meters further east in the village and the station on the outskirts was renamed Lingenfeld-Wiese . The wagon, which houses a bistro café, was also moved to the new terminus, against which there were also complaints. The stop on the outskirts was completely dismantled in 2011 due to property damage. Lustadt-West was also deleted . For the 2015 season, the end point was moved to Westheim and thus the Lingenfeld-Ort stop was also given up. At the same time, two new stations, Hochstadt-Wald and Westheim “Endspurt”, were built.

The draisinenbahn project proved to be a success. The number of users increased from 15,000 in 2006 to over 18,000 in 2010. In September 2011, the 100,000th draisine guest was welcomed. The contract with DB Services Immobilien GmbH has now been extended to the end of 2018.

business

passenger traffic

At the time of its opening, the line was initially only used for local traffic , but it was planned from the outset to use it for long-distance traffic . After the St. Ingbert – Saarbrücken line was opened in 1879, long-distance trains on the Munich - Oostende route ran between Germersheim and Landau . In the timetable from 1897 there were partly continuous journeys between Germersheim and Zweibrücken , a journey between Germersheim and Landau took around an hour at that time. In the same year through car connections existed to Metz and Munich, which led over the Bliestalbahn . Up until the First World War , the number of long-distance trains using this route increased significantly. With the opening of the fixed Rhine bridge between Maximiliansau in Palatinate and Maxau in Baden along the Winden – Karlsruhe railway line in 1938, however, the route of most long-distance trains on the Saarbrücken – Munich route changed: instead of going via Germersheim after a change of direction in Landau, they continued to run to Winden via the Maximiliansbahn and then via Wörth and Karlsruhe to Munich. From then on, only express trains used the Germersheim – Landau railway line in national traffic . In 1944 the trains ran on the Bruchsal – Landau route.

Timetable from 1953

In 1948 an express train connection was set up on the Mainz-Worms-Ludwigshafen-Speyer-Germersheim-Landau-Wissembourg route. A few years later it was downgraded to an express railcar. With its discontinuation, the extensive long-distance traffic that once ran over the route finally came to a standstill. In the 1950s, the railway and the subsequent line to Zweibrücken were listed under the course book number 280. However, you usually had to change trains in Landau. The through trains from Germersheim to Zweibrücken also had a longer stay at Landau's main train station. A trip between Germersheim and Landau took a little over half an hour at this point. At the end of the 1960s, Sunday traffic was discontinued, a little later the trains that still ran on Saturday. When the timetable changed in 1980/81, the weekday service was halved from a total of twelve pairs of trains to six. Most recently, the importance of passenger transport was essentially limited to school transport.

Freight transport

In freight transport, coal transport played an important role until the Second World War. In addition, the transport of agricultural products, fertilizers and services serving the military were of great importance. At the beginning of the 20th century, freight trains on the routes Landau – Bruchsal, Landau – Germersheim, Kaiserslautern – Homburg – Landau – Germersheim and Saarbrücken – Landau – Germersheim ran on the route. In the course of the construction of the western wall , the number of freight trains for military transport increased significantly. In addition, ammunition was transported along the route during this time and was loaded onto carts from railroad cars. Due, among other things, to the fact that the Rhine bridge near Germersheim was blown up in 1945, it lost massively in importance. The single-track dismantling and the concentration on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe – Mannheim traffic flows also did the rest. Nevertheless, freight transport was always more important than passenger transport, which is why it outlived it by seven years. Through freight trains ran from Germersheim to the Landau marshalling yard until the 1980s.

Since 1980, a built west of Dammheim siding for the eastern industrial zone in Landau, a siding, where until 2013 regular freight transport took place. On June 7, 2001, the section from Landau to kilometer 21.905, the connection of the Stadtholding Landau in der Pfalz GmbH used exclusively by wwk druck GmbH , was converted into a siding . In 2017, the siding was removed except for the connecting switch and the buffer stop was moved on the line directly in front of it. Handover trains dominated operations as early as the 1980s . These run once a day, Monday through Friday. The train stations Dreihof and Hochstadt (Pfalz) were served from Landau, Zeiskam, Lustadt and Westheim from Germersheim. The remainder of the freight traffic on the route lost its importance on the one hand due to the abandonment of the Landau marshalling yard and on the other hand in the course of the nationwide suspension of sugar beet transport on DB rails, so that it was also discontinued on December 31, 1991. The dismantling of the level crossings meant that the freight trains still in service had to stop at every crossroads and the staff had to secure the crossing. Subsequently, the partially still existing freight and sidings in the respective stations were dismantled. In the long term, there is also the option of supplying the Bornheim-based company Hornbach by means of a siding in freight traffic.

Draisine traffic

Westheim, end of the trolley route

The draisine operation, which is offered from April to October, takes place daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The trolleys can be used in the direction of Germersheim between 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m., after a half-hour break in operation, you can return to Landau at 2 p.m., so that you can return to the Bornheim starting point by 5:30 p.m. at the latest. The stations on this single-track route are all equipped with wooden platforms, picnic tables and route information boards. "Family trolleys" with space for up to five people and "club trolleys" are in use in the vehicles of the play equipment manufacturer Playteam from Halsenbach . The latter offer space for a maximum of seven people.

The starting point at the western end is at the level of the Bornheim commercial area between the former Dammheim and Dreihof stops , the eastern end has been in the center of Westheim since 2015 . The latter was previously in Lingenfeld . In Dreihof, Hochstadt , Zeiskam and Lustadt there are trolley stations at the former train stops.

Vehicle use

Steam locomotives of the series G 2.I , G 2.II , G 3 , G 4.I , G 4.II and G 5 were used in freight transport at the beginning of the 20th century ; P 2.I and P 2.II were responsible for passenger trains . From 1902 until the 1920s, accumulator railcars of the brands Pfälzischer MC and Pfälzischer MBCC operated on the route . Sometimes locomotives of the Prussian and Grand Ducal Baden state railways also drove on the route. These included the Prussian S 10 and the Badische VI b . At the time of the Reichsbahn, a Prussian G 8 - run by the Reichsbahnen as the 55 series - and the 44 series were used in freight transport. In the summer of 1947, the former also ran mixed trains between Germersheim and Landau .

After the Second World War, a class 236 diesel locomotive at the Germersheim station provided part of the freight service. The express trains on the Mainz – Wissembourg route that ran after the war were pulled by locomotives from the Prussian P 8 . The services of the ETA 150 and the Wittfeld accumulator multiple units were very rare in passenger traffic . Class VT 32.0 railcars also drove during the 1950s . In the last decades of passenger transport, Uerdinger rail buses from Landau dominated operations. Occasionally there were also trains hauled by diesel locomotives of the V 100 series with four-axle green passenger cars, which had taken over most of the freight traffic since the 1970s.

Route

Formerly Westheim station

Since the route runs consistently within the flat Upper Rhine plain , it is almost straight. After leaving the Germersheim station , the track follows the route for about one and a half kilometers on the Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line . A short time after leaving the Germersheim train station, both lines are bridged by the Bundesstraße 35 ; About one kilometer further north they bridge the Druslach , which shortly afterwards flows into the Lingenfeld Altrhein . Shortly before the Lingenfeld train station, the route to Landau turns left to lead through the center of Lingenfeld. There, Lingenfeld-Ort was temporarily the eastern end point of the trolley line. Between Lingenfeld and Westheim, the railway line is crossed by the federal highway 9 , which is also where the only larger bridge structure is located.

Then the local communities Westheim , Lustadt and Zeiskam are passed. To the west of the latter, the route crosses the Hofgraben before entering a foothill of the Bellheim Forest , leaving the district of Germersheim and henceforth located within the district of Südliche Weinstrasse . In the middle of the forest is the former Hochstadt train station. Then it leads past the hamlet of Dreihof , where it leaves the forest again. About one kilometer further on, it reaches the Bornheim industrial park. Today this is the starting point of the draisine route with the draisine rental.

Route just before Landau

Another one and a half kilometers further west, the route reaches the outskirts of Dammheim and thus the area of ​​the independent city of Landau in the Palatinate. Before it crosses under the Bundesautobahn 65 , the disused section of the line merges with the siding of the eastern Landau industrial area, which was used until 2013 . This is why this track was still in operation from this junction to Landau main station after it was closed . After the motorway, the line crosses under the Maximiliansbahn at no level , then threading into it and crossing the Queich with it and reaching Landau's main train station.

Kilometrage

Originally, the route was from Landau to Germersheim. Under the Deutsche Reichsbahn there was a new kilometer allocation that still exists today. Its zero point is about 1.5 kilometers east of the Rhine bridge of the Bruhrainbahn between Rheinsheim and Germersheim on the state border between Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate . It then continues via Germersheim and Landau and then via Annweiler, Pirmasens Nord and Zweibrücken to Rohrbach .

Operating points

Germersheim

former station building of the station Germersheim

Germersheim train station is located on the northern outskirts of Germersheim. Some of its tracks are already on the Lingenfeld district. The original, east lies the railroad tracks station building is also under monument protection . In 1864 he was first terminus , with the opening of the railway line Germersheim-Landau he became the railhead . This situation only changed with the connection to Wörth in the south in 1876. A year later, the Bruhrainbahn Bruchsal – Rheinsheim was connected to Germersheim. As a result, it was initially an important hub in long-distance traffic in the east-west direction, and from 1906 also in the north-south direction. When Alsace-Lorraine fell back to France after the First World War , it lost its importance for north-south traffic. Since 2006 it has been integrated into the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn . In this context, its platforms have been upgraded to accommodate the disabled.

Westheim

Westheim train station was on the eastern outskirts of Westheim . He received a larger reception building that is now used as a residential building.

Lustadt (Palatinate)

former Lustadt train station with a trolley station

The Lustadt station has the peculiarity that the local community of the same name was only formed in 1969 as part of the administrative reform of the Rhineland-Palatinate by merging Nieder- and Oberlustadt . The reception building serves an agricultural operation and is now a listed building.

Zeiskam

Zeiskam station was located on the northwestern outskirts of Zeiskam . Towards the beginning of the 20th century it housed a railway maintenance office, which was responsible along the route until shortly before Germersheim and Landau. After the second track had been dismantled after the Second World War, no more train crossings were possible in the station. At the same time, an additional platform was built across the crossing street, which served the trains to Landau, while those to Germersheim stopped directly at the station building. The main wing of the former reception building now serves as a restaurant , the side wing as a residential building.

Hochstadt (Palatinate)

Hochstadt (Pfalz) railway station

The Hochstadt (Pfalz) train station was located in the southern part of the district of Oberhochstadt, far from the settlement area of ​​the Hochstadt (Pfalz) community in the Bellheimer Wald . Over time, a residential space was created in his catchment area. From the beginning it was called Hochstadt , although the local community of the same name was only formed in 1969 in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform amalgamating Nieder- and Oberhochstadt. Even before passenger traffic on the line was discontinued in 1984, the trains in question no longer stopped at Hochstadter Bahnhof. However, it was retained as a freight yard. The station building has three axes and was later added to for a signal box as the line was expanded . It is now used as a residential building.

Dreihof

Dreihof station was level with the hamlet of Dreihof, which belongs to Essingen . Since it had extensive freight traffic, it was given a reception building with an attached goods handling facility . However, the structure itself was destroyed in World War II. In the first decades, the train station served as a common train station for Bornheim , Essingen and Offenbach an der Queich . After the latter had its own station on the Landau – Herxheim railway line opened in 1898 , it lost its importance.

Dammheim

The Dammheim train station was located south of the Dammheim settlement area . The station was only built around 1900. The platform was built not far from a previously existing station keeper's house. During the time of the Bavarian State Railways it was listed as station type 1, which meant that it was a “personal event. also luggage traffic ” . The station building is now used as a residential building.

Landau (Pfalz) central station

Landau (Pfalz) main station in 2005

The Landauer Hauptbahnhof is from all stations along the historical railway line the one with the greatest importance. It was built in mid-1855 as the provisional terminus of the Maximiliansbahn . In 1872 it was supplemented by the line to Germersheim, which developed together with the Südpfalzbahn to Zweibrücken, which had been built for a few years, to become part of the mainline Bruchsal – Saarbrücken. In the process, his tracks were expanded and relocated a little to the west, and in this context he also received a new reception building. The latter was released on December 24, 1877.

In 1898 the branch line to Herxheim was added, from 1913 to 1953 an overland tram ran from the station forecourt with the Pfälzer Oberlandbahn to Neustadt, which connected several villages away from the Maximiliansbahn. Since the second station building had been destroyed in World War II, the current one was put into operation in early 1962. Freight traffic in the Queichtal came to a complete standstill in 1998, and it has been gradually reduced on the Maximiliansbahn in recent decades. In this way, the station only plays a subordinate role in terms of freight transport, as a result of which the once extensive freight tracks were dismantled from 1990 onwards.

future plans

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate has the reactivation, the double-track expansion and the electrification of the line together with the double-track expansion of the Rohrbach (Saar) - Zweibrücken - Pirmasens Nord - Landau railway line and its electrification , as an "expansion concept west-east corridor" for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2015 registered.

reception

Loriot commented on the timetable of the railway line Germersheim-Landau - together with the schedule of the Landau-Rohrbach railway - as part of its review of the DB course book . However, he gave the departure times of the Germersheim, Westheim, Lustadt and Landau train stations very imprecisely and spoke of "Hampsted" instead of "Hochstadt".

literature

  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71073-0 , p. 219-221 .
  • Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner : 150 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-27-4 , p. 121-123 .
  • Dieter Hofherr: Cycle through the southern Palatinate on rails . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Heimat yearbook 2008 . Verlag Franz Arbogast Otterbach, 2007, ISSN  0177-8684 , p. 48-50 .
  • Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . Landau in the Palatinate 1980.
  • Klaus D. Holzborn : Railway areas Palatinate . transpress, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-344-70790-6 .
  • Wilfried Schweickart: The construction of the Landau – Germersheim railway line . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Heimat yearbook 2008 . Verlag Franz Arbogast Otterbach, 2007, ISSN  0177-8684 , p. 48-50 .
  • 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 , pp. 188-189.

Web links

Commons : Untere Queichtalbahn  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  2. ↑ a b Chronicle from 1949 to 1994. In: queichtalbahn.npage.de. Retrieved August 12, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 159 ff .
  4. ^ Wilfried Schweikart: The construction of the Landau - Germersheim railway line . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 49 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 188 .
  6. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 13 .
  7. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 188 f .
  8. ^ Wilfried Schweikart: The construction of the Landau – Germersheim railway line . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 48 .
  9. ^ A b Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 189 .
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . 1997, p. 221 .
  11. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 121 .
  12. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 16 .
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