Mannheim – Weinheim railway line

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Mannheim – Weinheim
Route number (DB) :	9400
Course book section (DB) :	669 (up to 1970: 300g; up to 1992: 568)
Route length:	16.6 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	750 volts  =
Minimum radius :	23 m
Top speed:	80 km / h
Dual track :	Yes
Legend 0.0 Mannheim OEG ("Weinheimer Bahnhof") former tram from the old measuring site Neckar foreland (cargo handling) Feudenheim steam train Tram from Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke 2 5 5 A 7 Tram over the Schafweide 4 4 A 15 University Hospital Feudenheim steam train Feudenheim Tram to Feudenheim 2 7 0.823 Infrastructure boundary BOStrab / ESBO 1.0 Long Rötterstrasse Tram to Käfertaler Wald and Waldfriedhof 4 4 A 1.4 Boniface Church 1.5 Grenadierstrasse 2.2 Parade ground Mannheim – Frankfurt am Main railway line Käfertal Güterbahnhof (goods handover by trolley ) 2.5 Boveristraße 2.9 Käfertal south 3.4 Mannheimer Strasse Change of operating procedure BOStrab / ESBO former tram terminus Käfertal 3.9 Mannheim-Käfertal OEG to Heddesheim 4.7 Bensheimer Strasse 5.7 Friendship Square Käfertal waterworks 6.8 Animal shelter ( Üst , since September 2014) 6.88 Baden-Württemberg / Hessen border A 6 7.9 Tivoli / Rhein-Neckar-Center Viernheim stop 8.7 Kapellenberg 9.6 Viernheim OEG 10.2 Viernheim East 10.7 Walter-Gropius-Allee Weinheim – Worms railway line A 659 12.41 Hesse / Baden-Württemberg border A 5 13.3 Freiburg Street Steam brick 13.8 Flower Street 14.7 Steel bath Spa fountain 15.4 Handelstrasse Main-Neckar Railway Weinheim – Worms railway line Palatinate Court 16.4 Weinheim main station to the Weinheim freight yard (goods transfer) 16.7 Weinheim Old OEG train station to Heidelberg ( Weinheim – Heidelberg line )

The Mannheim – Weinheim railway line was formerly owned by the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (OEG), later MVV OEG AG , today by MVV Verkehr GmbH ( EIU ) and RNV ( operational management , also EVU ) according to the railway building and operating regulations for Narrow gauge railways (ESBO) operated, meter-gauge railway line between Mannheim-Neckarstadt-Ost / Wohlhotels and Weinheim . However, the route is still owned by MVV Verkehr AG as the successor to the OEG. It is a branch line , the operating procedure used is electronically signaled train control.

history

The first years of operation

In 1886, the Consortium Centralverwaltung für Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein received the concession for the route from Mannheim via Käfertal and Viernheim to Weinheim, which was opened in 1887.

In 1892 the remaining gap between the two train stations in Mannheim ( Weinheim train station north of the Neckar and Heidelberg train station south of the Neckar) was closed. This connection via the Friedrichsbrücke (today Kurpfalzbrücke) was only used internally.

Takeover by the SEG

In 1895 Bachstein founded the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (SEG) , which also owned the Mannheim-Weinheim-Heidelberg-Mannheimer Eisenbahn (MWHME) in 1897.

On July 16, 1903, the route between Hospital (then breweries ) and Käfertal from the Käfertaler Street and Mannheim Road in the former Crown Prince Street (today Friedrich-Ebert-Straße ) moved and since then until Käfertal jointly by the SEG and the urban streetcar traveled . Part of the old route through Mannheimer Strasse was retained as a connecting track to the state railway ( Käfertal station on the eastern Riedbahn ) until 1971.

For many decades there was a branch track at the stop and former station Käfertal Wald , which led through the Käfertaler Wald along the Birkenallee to the waterworks opened in 1888 . This siding served to supply the waterworks with coal for the steam-powered pumps. In 1911 excursion trains ran on this branch line. Around 1936 the 90 ° left-hand bend for the construction of the Sullivan Barracks was relocated to the east and their heating plant was also connected. The connection was dismantled at the end of the 1950s.

Since an extension of the Mannheim – Weinheim line via Birkenau and Fürth to Reichelsheim with a connection to the SEG line of the Reinheim-Reichelsheimer Eisenbahn (Weinheim-Fürth was carried out with standard gauge with the Weschnitztalbahn ), it took place in Weinheim in 1912 together with the construction of the OEG bridge over the Main-Neckar-Bahn on May 7th, a change of route. The old route led from the Stahlbad straight to the east - following the course of today's Breslauer Straße - to the freight station , which was crossed by a bridge, then along the Bergstraße to the north to the Gasthaus Pfälzer Hof (at the location of today's town hall). For the new OEG bridge, the route was relocated to today's Stahlbadstrasse and Mannheimer Strasse and the branch line over the Weschnitz from Bahnhofstrasse to the Pfälzer Hof was broken off.

electrification

As the first section, the Käfertal – Viernheim – Weinheim line was electrified and double-tracked by September 2, 1915. At that time, a completely crooked overhead line suspended from cross yokes was installed. The electrification of this route also ensured that the OEG supplied the city of Weinheim with electricity until 1934.

Simultaneously with the electrification, the route in Mannheim was extended from the OEG train station ("Weinheimer Bahnhof") north of the Neckar on the tracks of the city tram via Paradeplatz , Planken and Wasserturm to the forecourt of Mannheim Central Station .

After the planned electrical expansion of further routes was delayed by the First World War, on September 1, 1956, the continuous round trip with electric railcars was started.

Modernizations

Between 1970 and 1980 the local signal boxes were replaced by automatic route blocks. The line was then controlled from the signal box in Käfertal, which went into operation in 1978.

In 1968, as part of the expansion of federal highway 38, the route in Viernheim was moved slightly to the southeast. So far, the railway line ran to Kiesstrasse next to Mannheimer Strasse , then swung to the right - roughly following the course of today's street "Auf der Beune" - crossed Heddesheimer Weg and then ran right next to Ringstrasse (today "Berliner Ring") to the Viernheimer OEG train station. Most of the time it ran right on the outskirts of the city. The newly built route, on the other hand, swung away from Mannheimer Strasse behind Jahnstrasse and led past the former "Bierkeller" and under the new bridge on Heddesheimer Strasse on a modified route to the OEG train station. This also made it possible to widen part of the Berliner Ring - a project for which the municipality had already negotiated a track relocation in 1911.

In the course of this new building, the Viernheim “stopping point” was relocated from its previous location between Sandstrasse and Kiesstrasse to Jahnstrasse . In 1972, however, it was relocated to the west again, this time to the access to the newly opened Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum . In the meantime it was also named "Tivoli" after the directly adjacent Viernheim city quarter. With the later newly created “Kapellenberg” station along the new route, there is now another OEG stop at the height of the original stop.

Initially, the routes in Mannheim ended in separate OEG stations on both sides of the Neckar near the Kurpfalzbrücke. In 1973 the line from Weinheim in Mannheim over the Neckar (Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke) was extended to the main train station and the Weinheim train station was shut down. Parts of the Neckarpromenade development are located on the site of this former train station, and in 2006 a new tram line (along the sheep pasture) was put into operation at almost the same location.

Old vehicles parked in the now otherwise used Viernheimer Wagenhalle

Viernheim OEG station with car hall

On July 1, 1973, the wagon hall in Viernheim was closed. It became superfluous because the main workshop in Käfertal was closed due to the establishment of the central workshop for transport. Personnel and vehicles were moved from Viernheim to Käfertal. The German Society for Railway History (DGEG) maintained a museum for narrow-gauge vehicles on the site from 1976 to 1986 . The listed building was not open to the public for a long time due to its poor condition and has housed historic OEG vehicles since its closure. In 2008 the siding was removed, the hall was extensively renovated by 2010 and converted into an office complex.

By 1977, the track systems in the Käfertal OEG train station were completely redesigned, as they were in the state before the First World War and therefore no longer met the current requirements. A turning loop was created.

In 1995 the MVG 2000 concept was implemented, which also brought major changes for the OEG. While the trains from the direction of Weinheim previously ended at the forecourt of Mannheim main station and from Heidelberg in the Mannheim Kurpfalzbrücke station, the ring has now been closed with the trains running through Mannheim city center. In order to achieve this, a short connecting route was built, which branches off in front of the Collini-Center , bypassing the Kurpfalzbrücke train station and joins the tram route in Friedrichsring. This re-established a connection that had already existed in a similar form until 1928 and 1974. The OEG was integrated into the Mannheim tram line network and now carried the line designation 5R (or only 5 for journeys on the Käfertal – Mannheim Hbf – Edingen section).

RNV time

OEG train in Weinheim, near the Rosenbrunnen stop, before the double-track expansion of the route along Bergstrasse

Car 112 in RNV livery

Ticket machine in Viernheim

Since the standardization of the line designations in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) on December 10, 2006, the OEG has been designated 5 on its entire route.

From March 2012 the control and safety technology of the line was renewed. Since April 1, it has been controlled by an electronic interlocking (ESTW) from the operations center in the Möhlstrasse depot in Mannheim. Between the University Hospital and Mannheimer Straße, the route is operated in accordance with the rules of the Tram Construction and Operating Regulations (BOStrab), although this section is part of the railway infrastructure.

Operating points

Renaming

before	later	when
Viernheim stop	Kapellenberg	1984
Käfertal breakpoint	Mannheimer Strasse	1995
Gasworks	Handelstrasse	1998 (?)
Tivoli	Tivoli / Rhein-Neckar-Center
Käfertal forest	Friendship Square	June 12, 2016
Luisenstrasse	Weinheim main station	June 12, 2016
Weinheim OEG train station	Weinheim Old OEG train station	June 12, 2016
Viernheim ice rink	Walter-Gropius-Allee	December 9, 2018

Mannheim OEG train station (Weinheim train station)

→ Main article : Bahnhof Mannheim OEG

Käfertal DB handover

At the Mannheim-Käfertal station of the Deutsche Bundesbahn there was a trolley pit and a 250-meter-long OEG reloading track. Since the relocation of the OEG route to Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, a track led from this through Mannheimer Strasse, which reached the route in the area of ​​the former tram turning loop behind its entrance.

Viernheim OEG train station

In the station there was a six-track wagon hall, which was built in 1914 shortly before the First World War . It has a barrel roof and a brick facade, is 71 m long, 22 m wide and 11 m high ( ridge height ). The hall was taken out of service in the mid-1970s because the hall gates were too narrow, and continued to be used as a museum by the DGEG and a Viernheim association, which was closed in 1986 because of excessive costs. Due to the lack of maintenance as a result, the hall then deteriorated in poor condition, but was used until 2002 to park museum vehicles that were damaged by vandalism during this time.

In February 2000, a citizens' initiative to preserve the hall was founded when the demolition permit was already in place. In 2004 the hall was up for sale for 1.8 million euros; an investor has been planning to continue using it since 2006. At the end of 2007, the development plan was changed accordingly, and renovation began in mid-2009. The hall will then offer space for 80 office workplaces on 2,000 m ² . The renovation was completed in 2010. The main part of the hall was then the investor, a tax s law firm , used, and the smaller, eastern part of a law firm . In addition to the hall gates, a green car between the offices of the hall and meter-gauge pavement lines on the forecourt remind of the earlier use.

After the ESTW was commissioned, two track connections were installed at the end of 2014 in order to be able to move out of the middle track to the opposite track .

Weinheim Luisenstrasse

The stop at Weinheim Luisenstraße is near the bridge over the DB train station . Due to this proximity, it was sometimes confused with the OEG train station and renamed Weinheim Hauptbahnhof in June 2016 . The platforms used by around 4,600 passengers per day are twelve centimeters high and in some cases only 1.6 meters wide. Passengers transferring to and from the DB train station or central bus station must cross Bergstrasse ( Bundesstrasse 3 ). Until about the 1970s, the breakpoint was on the bridge and was called "Weinheim Bridge".

It is planned to rebuild the stop from March 2017. Among other things, a relocation to the bridge was examined, which should have shortened the transfer routes to the DB train station. However, it was decided to move the breakpoint to the western side of the mountain road. From there, a wheelchair-accessible ramp and stairs should be able to reach the street under the bridge, from which you can get to the central bus station and the southern part of DB platform 1.

Weinheim OEG train station

The OEG train station Weinheim, since June 2016 Weinheim Alter OEG train station , is located about 500 meters south of the DB train station. A track led directly in front of the Moltkestrasse level crossing over Bergstrasse to the freight station, where there was a loading track at the fruit market hall and two tracks parallel to a DB track. In the 1970s, the platform area was converted from a large asphalt area to the platforms typical of the OEG at the end of the 20th century, and the equipment for freight traffic was removed. The station is now only three tracks.

A restaurant and offices were set up in the station building in 2016.

traffic

Originally, passenger traffic on the route was one of four independently operated OEG lines and was designated as Line A. The carriage hall was in Viernheim.

In the summer of 1922, trains ran from Weinheim to Bad Dürkheim.

The trains on Line A ran every hour. On weekdays in the morning it drove every twenty, sometimes even ten minutes, and every half hour from afternoon to evening. On Sundays, additional long-distance trains ran without stopping between Mannheim OEG train station and Weinheim OEG train station, as well as additional hourly trains from Mannheim to Käfertal Wald.

From September 6, 1943, after bombing raids during the war, trains in Mannheim ended at the OEG station and no longer went to the city center. From March 26 to June 18, 1945 operations were stopped due to the war, and it was not until November 21 that trains from Weinheim could continue from Handschuhsheim over the temporary Friedrichsbrücke to Bismarckplatz.

From June 2, 1957, the trains ran every 24 minutes.

After the complete electrification of the OEG triangle Mannheim-Heidelberg-Weinheim-Mannheim in 1956, the trains in Weinheim were tied through. As of May 30, 1965, the general connection also took place in Heidelberg, so that since that time all trains have been round trips except for compression trains. This means that block trains also ran on this route . A round trip lasted 122 minutes. On the Mannheim - Weinheim route, line A ran from Mannheim Hbf via Weinheim and Heidelberg to Mannheim Kurpfalzbrücke and line C from Mannheim Hbf via Käfertal to Heddesheim.

On September 25, 1966, the half-hourly service was introduced.

From July 1, 1971 to June 31, 1973, there was an economy schedule with a worsened frequency. After that, the trains ran every half hour again, in rush hour every 20 minutes.

From September 30, 1973, the trains in Mannheim returned to the main station, but this time over the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke and the Kaiserring. On May 26, 1974, the timing of the trains to and from Heddesheim was adjusted in such a way that a quarter of an hour was rudimentary on the jointly traveled section.

On May 23, 1993, a half-hourly service was introduced again, with additional trains running between Weinheim and Mannheim. The top speed was increased from 60 km / h to 80 km / h.

In 1995 the Weinheim and Heidelberg trains were also tied through in Mannheim. Since then, the OEG trains have been running in circles, unless they turn around in Edingen / Schriesheim or Käfertal / Weinheim. The OEG turning tracks on Schlossgartenstrasse (at the main train station) were no longer used as planned. The traveling only on the portion Käfertal-Mannheim Edingen trains were called Line 5, the tours as Line 5 ^R , the line of Heddesheim via Mannheim to Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim as line 4. The line 5R drove from then on every 20 minutes -Takt (on weekends every half an hour), between Edingen and Käfertal this was condensed by line 5 to a 10-minute cycle (on Sundays 20-minute cycle).

In 1995, 62 were initially used as route numbers for the complete tour and 63 for the short run between Käfertal and Edingen , as the VRN intended in its network-wide concept. However, since the MVV used the designation 5 within Mannheim to insert the OEG into its light rail network, after some time it was switched to 5R (instead of 62) for the entire circuit and 5 (instead of 63) for the short runners between Käfertal and Edingen. In the VRN timetable book, however, the timetable could be found under the table number "R 65". The distinction between 5 and 5R was finally abandoned at the end of 2006 and since then only the designation 5 has been used, which is now also used in the timetable book. The trains on the route to Heddesheim have been running as lines 5A and 15 since June 2016.

The railway line dealt with here integrates the Hessian Viernheim into the rest of the railway network. On the “ Holy Three Kings ” (January 6th) and “ All Saints Day ” (November 1st) holidays , which are only celebrated in Baden-Württemberg, there is also a reduced number of activities between Mannheim and Weinheim. However, on these days, due to the increased rush to the Viernheim Rhine-Neckar Center , compression trains are mostly used.

See also

• Local transport in Mannheim

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ http://www.inosig.com/referenz/rnv.html
3. ^ Website of the engineering association Kronach and Müller ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Renewal of the security technology on lines 4 and 5 ( Memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ rnv puts new signal box in Käfertal into operation. Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH, March 22, 2014, accessed on February 17, 2015 . 
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7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Modern office building in a historical guise. Mannheimer Morgen Großdruckerei und Verlag GmbH, September 8, 2011, accessed on August 28, 2016 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bertram Bähr: Urban development: After the senior citizens' apartments were built at the OEG train station, a modern office building is now being built in a historic setting: the car shed leaves the siding. Mannheimer Morgen Großdruckerei und Verlag GmbH, September 10, 2009, accessed on August 28, 2016 . 
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10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the engineering association Kronach und Müller ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
12. ^ ^{A b c} Doris Vogt: Relocation of the Luisenstrasse Weinheim stop. (PDF; 4.0 MiB) Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH, September 21, 2015, accessed on August 26, 2016 . 
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