Kreuznach – Langenlonsheim railway line

Bad Kreuznach-Langenlonsheim
Railcar on Stadthausplatz in Bad Kreuznach, 1906
Route length:	7.9 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Dual track :	No
Legend 0 Bismarckplatz (today: Kornmarkt) Mill pond Near Post office siding Townhouse Pentecost meadow Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen Bretzenheim Kloninger's Mill Hunsrückquerbahn Langenlonsheim (church) 7.9 Langenlonsheim ( train station )

The Kreuznach – Langenlonsheim railroad was an interurban tram operated by the Kreuznach trams and suburban railways that ran from 1911 to 1938.

Technical parameters

The route was meter gauge , electrified and 7.9 km long. Tram vehicles were used for passenger transport. Freight traffic was also offered. There were electric locomotives and trolleys to be able to transport standard-gauge freight wagons of the state railway . The route's timetable was at times also printed in railway course books.

Traffic geography

The route led from Bismarckplatz (today: Kornmarkt) to the Holzmarkt and followed the left bank of the Nahe past the city station via Bretzenheim to Langenlonsheim. In Kreuznach, mail was transported by tram between the train station and the post office until 1931. The post office had its own siding in its post office .

history

Railcar in front of the “Zum Hohenzollern” inn in Langenlonsheim, 1902

Since 1906, the Kreuznach trams and suburban railways operated a tram in Kreuznach , which also ran over the southern outskirts to the neighboring community of Bad Münster . A northern extension to Langenlonsheim was planned since 1908. Like the line to Bad Münster, it was built by the Eisenbahnbau-Gesellschaft Becker & Co GmbH , Berlin. Their business model consisted with the necessary for the operation of the tram power station and the neighboring communities with both electricity to power for the national grid. Therefore, when the line to Langenlonsheim went into operation on July 5, 1911, the communities of Bretzenheim and Langenlonsheim were also connected to the power station in Kreuznach. The traffic on the new route was given line number 2, while the line to Bad Münster was now referred to as line 1 .

The wagons on line 2 had a white and green disk as a distinguishing mark. Pairs of trains ran around 15 to 20 times a day, but without a regular schedule .

On December 1, 1938, line 2 beyond the Bad Kreuznach station Pfingstwiese was stopped. The official reason was the decrease in the number of passengers and that the tram disrupted road traffic. At least the latter could hardly be true, since the railway mostly operated on a route that was separate from road traffic. That is why the rumor arose that the completely straight road from Bad Kreuznach to Bretzenheim , which was completely straight and without trees, was intended as an auxiliary runway for military aircraft, whereby the masts of the overhead line of the tram had to give way, of course.

literature

• Rudolf Brumm: The Kreiznacher [!] Electric in pictures . Nahetal, Bad Kreuznach 1989. ISBN 3-926421-01-0
• Rudolf Brumm: The Kreiznacher [!] Electric 1906–1953. A summary of the planning, construction and operation of the Kreuznach trams [!] And suburban railways […]. Rudolf and Rainer Brumm, Bad Kreuznach 2002. [Cited as: Brumm (2002)].

Remarks

1. ↑ Previous edition: 1977.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from Brumm (2002), pp. 17, 42, 53.
2. ↑ See for example: Kursbureau des Reichs-Postamts (Ed.): Reichs-Kursbuch. Overview of the rail, post and steamship connections in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland as well as the more important connections of the rest of Europe and the steamship connections with non-European countries . Berlin 1914. Reprint 1974, Table 209k.
3. ↑ Brumm (2002), p. 113.
4. ↑ Brumm (2002), p. 30.
5. ↑ Brumm (2002), p. 53.
6. ↑ Brumm (2002), p. 41.
7. ^ Brumm (2002), p. 56.
8. ↑ Brumm (2002), p. 41.
9. ^ Brumm (2002), p. 117.
10. ^ Brumm (2002), p. 117.