Weinheim – Worms railway line

Weinheim (Bergstr) Hbf – Abzw Landdamm
Route number (DB) :	3575 (Lampertheim – Abzw Landdamm) 3578 (Lampertheim – Weinheim)
Course book section (DB) :	last 315g
Route length:	30.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Fürth (Odenwald) from Frankfurt am Main 18.0 Weinheim (Bergstr) central station to Heidelberg Upper Rhine Railway ( meter gauge ) Bundesstrasse 3 former Upper Rhine Railway ( meter gauge ) Main-Neckar Railway Federal motorway 5 14.2 Muckensturm 13.5 State border Baden-Württemberg / Hesse Federal motorway 659 Upper Rhine Railway ( meter gauge ) Connection to forwarding company Pfenning Logistik Siding (broken off) End of the route Connection to the Rübelmann company 10.4 Viernheim Federal motorway 6 Federal motorway 6 5.9 Poststrasse 3.0 Haide Mannheim Hbf – Frankfurt am Main stadium from Mannheim Hbf 0.0 17.554 Lampertheim to Frankfurt am Main Stadium Company connection 21.700 laugh Connection to the substation (Re-alignment in 1901) from Biblis Rose garden (until December 1, 1901) from Biblis 26.500 Abzw Landdamm to Worms Hbf Swell:

The Weinheim – Worms railway line (also popularly known as the “Wormser Hex”) was a branch line in Baden-Württemberg and Hesse . It connected Weinheim , Viernheim , Lampertheim and Worms . Freight traffic is still operated today on an approximately four-kilometer section from Lampertheim in the direction of Worms .

Former reception building in Viernheim, today "TiB"

Track systems in Viernheim train station

history

In the plans to develop the front Odenwald by rail , which began in the 1860s, one goal was to connect the Odenwald to the Rhine port of Worms . The original considerations envisaged Bensheim or Heppenheim as the starting point for a railway line leading into the Odenwald . Therefore, on October 27, 1869, the Nibelungen Railway went into operation as the first crossbar that connected Bensheim, on the edge of the Odenwald, to Worms. It ended there in the Rosengarten station , the Worms station on the right bank of the Rhine . At that time there was no Rhine bridge for the railroad in Worms.

In the course of the further construction of the Riedbahn from Rosengarten to the south, the section to Lampertheim was put into operation on October 15, 1877 .

At the other end of the future line, the Weschnitz Valley Railway to Fürth in the Odenwald began operating from Weinheim on the Main-Neckar Railway in 1895 . It was extended in 1901 by the Überwaldbahn , which branches off the Weschnitztalbahn in Mörlenbach and ran via Wald-Michelbach to Wahlen .

construction

Now there was the route to the Odenwald. However, it ended in its valley station in Weinheim without a direct connection to Worms am Rhein. In order to maintain this connection to Worms, the connecting line from Weinheim via Viernheim to Lampertheim an der Riedbahn was built. The builder was the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community . The future crossing station Lampertheim was then equipped with signals in 1904 , the Weinheim station received a new signal system. The line was opened on August 1, 1905. The line and the connections mentioned were secured from February 10, 1914 "when darkness fell" by new "double light pre-signals " , which corresponded to the model of the form signal still in use today .

Infrastructure

The kilometering of the line is carried out for the section Worms – Lampertheim from Lampertheim in continuation of the count of the Riedbahn, for the section Lampertheim – Weinheim also from Lampertheim, which is set here with kilometer 0.0.

Worms main station

→ Main article : Worms Hauptbahnhof

Worms Bridge

→ Main article : Worms bridge station

The former stop (km 2.3) was initially called Worms-Rhein , later Worms Bridge .

Worms railway bridge

→ Main article : Rhine bridge in Worms

laugh

The Lache train station (route km 21.8) is kilometered in continuation of the count of the Riedbahn and can still be approached by goods traffic.

Lampertheim

→ Main article : Lampertheim station

The Lampertheim station (km 0.0 / 17.6) was the crossing station with the Riedbahn .

Haide

The Haide stop (route kilometers 2.9) was originally an unoccupied stop, but was later expanded into a train station .

Poststrasse

The Poststrasse stop (route kilometers 5.8) was unoccupied and only permitted for “restricted passenger traffic”, i.e. for forest and woodworkers. In freight transport, it was used exclusively for loading wood. In the course book from 1914 states: "trains stop only for entry and exit of the [ducal] by the whol Oberförsterei Lampertheim and Viernheim with ticket people provided".

Viernheim

→ Main article : Viernheim train station

Viernheim station (route km 10.4), originally Viernheim State Station , has a reception building that is a listed building.

Muckensturm

The breakpoint Muckensturm (kilometer 13.5) was unoccupied, was slightly on Badischer area (the border with Hesse runs at km 13.0) and for a time was before decommissioning closed the track. It was initially only intended for passenger traffic. In 1909 goods could also be sent from here, but not received.

Weinheim

→ Main article : Weinheim train station

business

Two-way vehicle with a freight train in Viernheim, July 2005

The need for the connection was lower than expected: a large part of the traffic was oriented more towards the Baden metropolitan area of Mannheim rather than towards the Hessian Worms. In particular, the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (OEG), which operates connections from Weinheim to Mannheim and Heidelberg (today taken over by the RNV ), presented strong competition.

The line was closed until 1960 and the tracks between Viernheim and Lampertheim were later dismantled. The route can still be seen today as a wide swath in the forest. As a replacement, the rail bus route 5521 ran between Weinheim and Worms, but the route of the route differed from that of the railroad (service from Hüttenfeld , Neuschloß and Rosengarten , no journey via Muckensturm). Until June 15, 2008, the connection, now number 644, was operated by the DB subsidiary Busverkehr Rhein-Neckar (BRN), and then by other companies.

For the industry located in Viernheim, freight traffic towards Weinheim was operated until 2002 , after which it was discontinued as part of MORA C.

The Weinheim – Viernheim section was repaired in June 2004 and was used from July 6, 2004 by the Pfenning forwarding company , which maintained a central warehouse there for the Henkel Group . The cost of repairing the route in the amount of around € 360,000 was covered 75% by the State of Hesse and 25% by the City of Viernheim. The route in Viernheim was shortened by a buffer stop pulled forward to the intersection with Wiesenstraße and some points were expanded. The distance remaining was as siding operated. The operation took place with a two-way vehicle according to the ordinance on the construction and operation of connecting railways (BOA), but from September 9, 2004 to March 8, 2005 there was an exemption for occasional special passenger trains.

Current situation

Following a Europe-wide invitation to tender in 2007, the 644 rail bus has been served by Werner GmbH & Co. KG since June 15, 2008 and only runs between Worms and Viernheim.

As of December 31, 2010, the Henkel company stopped working with the Pfenning freight forwarder in Viernheim. This ended the regular rail traffic on the line because nobody else uses the siding. The line was dismantled between the connection of the company Henkel / Spedition Pfenning and Viernheim station. The state of Hesse also presented from 2011 no means more to promote rail freight ready. The future of the rest of the route is therefore open.

See also

• List of disused railway lines in Hessen

literature

• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 351 ff . (Route 020).
• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 903 ff . (Route 094).

Remarks

1. ↑ That refers to the kilometering of the Riedbahn .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hubert Simon: Historical time table for Lampertheim and its districts. (PDF; 25.8 KiB) (No longer available online.) City Archives Lampertheim, June 3, 2003, archived from the original on October 21, 2017 ; accessed on October 20, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 374 ff . (Route 021).
4. ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 351 ff . (Route 020).
5. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 9, 1904, No. 2. Announcement No. 17, p. 20.
6. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 8, 1905, No. 34. Announcement No. 372, p. 301.
7. ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 903 ff . (Route 094).
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes from December 1, 1900. Volume 4, No. 55. Announcement No. 529, p. 410.
10. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 22, 1905, No. 36. Announcement No. 392, p. 313;
    Railway Directorate Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from July 29, 1905, No. 37. Announcement No. 401, p. 319.
11. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 22, 1905, No. 36. Announcement No. 392, p. 313;
    Railway Directorate Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from July 29, 1905, No. 37. Announcement No. 401, p. 319.
12. ↑ Kursbureau des Reichs-Postamts (Ed.): Reichs-Kursbuch. Overview of the rail, post and steam ship connections in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland as well as the more important connections of the rest of Europe and the steam ship connections with non-European countries . Berlin 1914. Reprint 1974, Table 245a.
13. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 22, 1905, No. 36. Announcement No. 392, p. 313;
    Railway Directorate Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from July 29, 1905, No. 37. Announcement No. 401, p. 319.
14. ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 903 ff . (Route 094).
15. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of September 18, 1909, No. 48. Announcement No. 682, p. 446.
16. ^ Hubert Simon: City history: The table of the history of Lampertheim. (No longer available online.) City of Lampertheim, City Archives, archived from the original on October 21, 2017 ; accessed on October 20, 2017 . 
17. ↑ red: Route 3578 Weinheim (Bergstr) -Viernheim . In: IBSE-Telegram 242 (January 2011), p. 2.