Railway line Winden – Bad Bergzabern

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Winden (Palatinate) –Bad Bergzabern
Route of the Winden – Bad Bergzabern railway line
Route number : 3442
Course book section (DB) : 280a (1949–1972)
683 (1972–1981)
678 (since 1995)
Route length: 10.0 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Maximum slope : <30  ‰
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Wissembourg
   
 from Karlsruhe
Station, station
 0.0 Winden (Palatinate)
   
 Bundesstrasse 427
   
 to Neustadt (Weinstrasse)
   
 Horbach
   
 Steinfelsbach
Stop, stop
 5.0 Barbelroth
Stop, stop
 7.9 Kapellen-Drusweiler
End station - end of the line
 10.0 Bad Bergzabern

The Winden – Bad Bergzabern railway line (also: Kurbadlinie ) is a ten-kilometer branch line in Rhineland-Palatinate . It branches off from the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn in Winden and leads to Bad Bergzabern . It was opened in 1870 to connect Bad Bergzabern (then only Bergzabern ) to the railway network. However, plans to continue the route across the Wasgau in the direction of Pirmasens did not materialize. Passenger traffic was stopped in 1981 and reactivated in 1995. The freight was abandoned in the 1990s. The name Kurbadlinie refers to Bad Bergzabern, the end point of the route.

history

Bad Bergzabern train station , view in west direction

Planning, construction and opening

In the course of the construction of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn, which opened in 1855, from Neustadt via Landau and Winden to Wissembourg , Bergzabern complained about not being connected to the rail network. The displeasure intensified after the Maximiliansbahn branch to Karlsruhe , which began in Winden, was planned and finally opened. In particular, the Bergzabern trade association vehemently demanded a railway connection and sent a four-person deputation to the Chamber of Deputies in Munich in August 1861 . At first it was unclear from which station of the Maximiliansbahn the planned route should branch off; Both Rohrbach and Winden were in discussion . The trade association advocated a connection in Winden, as it hoped that a rail connection via Maximiliansau to Karlsruhe would be expected from there.

In 1862 plans were drawn up for the construction of a railway line that would branch off the Maximiliansbahn in Winden and run via Bergzabern , Dahn , Kaltenbach and Pirmasens to Zweibrücken . These were in competition with the Landau – Zweibrücken route planned at the same time . Above all, it was hoped that the construction of such a line would bring a lot of goods traffic to Bergzabern. However, since the construction of a route across the Wasgau was considered to be complex, the specific plans were initially limited to the Winden – Bergzabern section. In 1864 the Bavarian State Ministry finally granted the concession for the planning and surveying of the route. On September 21, 1868, the Bavarian King Ludwig II gave permission for the line to be built.

According to the license granted to the Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft , the Winden-Bad Bergzabern section was built first. Construction began in May 1869 and was opened to public transport on April 13, 1870. In fact, it was the company's first branch line. The substructure and the land purchase required for the line was laid out as a single-track line; accordingly, rails were found that were only 10 cm high and weighed less than the 12.3 cm high rails used for the main lines. The total construction costs - excluding the building and technical equipment - amounted to 18,996.59 guilders. They were thus 34.499 guilders below the planned cost of 215.496 guilders.

Further development

As early as July 23 to August 14, 1870, the route had to be closed to civil traffic, as it was used in the Franco-German war to transport wounded soldiers.

Bergzabern station around 1900

In 1873 the plans to tie the line through to Zweibrücken were confirmed by the management of the Pfalzbahn in Ludwigshafen . At the same time, the latter presented plans that provided for an extension of the route, which was mainly along the Lauter to Hinterweidenthal . Although the Bavarian government provided an interest rate guarantee, the economic situation in the 1870s prevented the implementation of these plans. From the 1890s, efforts to extend the route to the west revived. Bergzabern wanted to have the railway line extended to Dahn. In addition, there were plans for a route via Schönau to Saarburg , which was supposed to serve national traffic. In 1899 concrete planning began to extend the route via Dahn in the direction of Pirmasens. However, it soon became apparent that these ideas would become too expensive to implement. The Wieslauterbahn , which opened in 1911 and thus connected Dahn to the rail network, was built across the board from the abandoned planning . Plans to tie the Klingbachtalbahn , which opened in 1892 and which branched off from the Maximiliansbahn in Rohrbach-Steinweiler and led to Klingenmünster , to Bergzabern and thus to link it to the spa line, also failed.

Location of the now dismantled track 1a in Winden, where the trains on the line to Bad Bergzabern used to stop

On January 1, 1909, the line, together with the other railway lines within the Palatinate, became the property of the Bavarian State Railways . On April 1, 1920, the line became the property of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1922, the Palatinate section of the line was incorporated into the newly founded Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen . In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen, the railway came under the responsibility of the Karlsruhe directorate on February 1, 1937.

On November 26, 1944, the railway facilities in Bergzabern were attacked by bombers. While the track structure was destroyed, the station building was only slightly damaged. On November 28th and December 10th of the same year, a large part of the Bergzabern population was evacuated by special trains.

Closure and reactivation of passenger traffic (since 1945)

After the Second World War , the railway line was initially under the authority of the Association of the South-West German Railways (SWDE) , which was transferred to the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) in 1949 and, like all lines in the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate, subordinated its part to the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate. In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz head office in 1971, the route again moved to the Karlsruhe head office with effect from June 1. At the same time, however, the DB largely cut staff here. The line was closed on September 26, 1981 for passenger traffic. Strategic interest due to the existing barracks in Bad Bergzabern delayed this measure.

In the following years negotiations took place to resume passenger traffic, which were ultimately successful. The reactivation followed on September 24, 1995 in the course of the introduction of the " Rhineland-Palatinate Clock ". At the same time, freight traffic was discontinued, which was still of great importance during the Cold War due to its importance as a Bundeswehr location.

In the period that followed, the two stops on the way were modernized. From October 1st to 3rd, 2005, steam train rides of the Ulm Railway Friends (UEF) took place on the spa line at the same time as the Maximiliansbahn, which was celebrating its 150th anniversary , as the reactivation of the route was ten years old. For operation from 2010, the line was put out to tender by the responsible regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate South as part of the southern Palatinate network . On September 20, 2006 it was decided that the contract would be awarded to DB Regio. Since December 12, 2010, DB Regio RheinNeckar (today: DB Regio Mitte ) has been operating local transport on this route with class 643 multiple units .

Barbelroth stop

An electrification of the line was examined, but only considered sensible in conjunction with the electrification of the Maximiliansbahn. There were also considerations to continue the S5 line of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn , which ends in Wörth Badepark, to Bad Bergzabern, but this did not result in a positive cost-benefit factor.

Route

The route, which is unspectacular in terms of its course, leaves the three-track Winden junction to the north and then turns west. The railway, which has no particular landscape features, then runs mostly in a straight line, initially over an agricultural area and then through a small forest . It follows the course of the Erlenbach . After five kilometers it first reaches the northern outskirts of Barbelroth with the stop of the place. Shortly before Kapellen-Drusweiler there is a speed limit, which trains are only allowed to use at five kilometers per hour. Then after another two and a half kilometers it reaches the Kapellen-Drusweiler stop , which is also north of the settlement area of ​​the local community. Continuing westwards, the spa line reaches the Bad Bergzabern terminus after 9,340 meters .

Except for Winden, which belongs to the district of Germersheim , all places along the route are in the district of Südliche Weinstraße . Of the entire route, 7,185 meters in straight lines and 2,155 meters in arcs with radii between 350 and 1,000 meters.

business

passenger traffic

Initially, five pairs of trains drove the route. The timetable from 1897 shows through trains to Karlsruhe . Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the route had twelve pairs of trains on weekdays; a journey between Winden and Bergzabern took 16 minutes.

The route was heavily frequented after the Second World War. The last timetable before the temporary cessation of passenger transport in 1981 had a total of 28 pairs of trains on weekdays, many of which also ran on weekends. Around noon, a pair of express trains drove between Karlsruhe and Bad Bergzabern, the other pairs of trains were used for shuttle traffic to Winden.

Since the reopening, the trains have been running every hour, with the exception of a lunchtime shift on school days. The class 643 diesel multiple units in service since December 2010 replaced the DB class 628 that had previously operated . In 2005 the route had more than 1000 passengers a day. The VRN tariff applies . For journeys from or to the KVV area, the KVV community tariff applies.

Freight transport

The railway stations in Barbelroth and Kapellen-Drusweiler were mainly used to load agricultural products. As early as the 1980s, a so-called consumer goods train only occasionally existed on the route. Since the rail reform , freight traffic has been reduced significantly to the point of complete cessation.

vehicles

For the initial equipment , a light two-axle tank locomotive of the Palatinate class T2.1 was procured, similar to the two that have been handling traffic over the ship's bridge near Maxau since 1865. In addition there were 6 passenger cars with 1st and 2nd class, 12 passenger cars with III. 1st class and 2 baggage cars. The existing stock was used for the freight cars.

The Ludwigshafen workshop was initially responsible for the locomotives on the line . Due to its short length, there was never more than one locomotive on the line at the same time until the beginning of the 20th century . In contrast to the other routes, it was not assigned a fixed series.

From the 1950s until the temporary cessation of passenger traffic in 1981, Uerdinger rail buses from Landau were last used . The pair of express trains was handled with a class 212 diesel locomotive and an n car . After reactivation, class 628 railcars took over operation before they were replaced by class 643 at the end of 2010 .

Operating points

Winden (Palatinate)

Bf. Winden after its modernization in 2007

The Winden (Pfalz) station is located on the south-eastern outskirts of Winden (Pfalz) and belongs to station category 4. The line to Wörth and Karlsruhe has branched off from him since 1864 . As a result, the station became the fifth railway junction within the Palatinate after Schifferstadt (1847), Ludwigshafen (1853), Neustadt an der Haardt (1855) and Homburg (1857) . The spa line was the last line to be connected to the station. The trains to Bad Bergzabern began or ended on the upstream stump track 1a, which has since been dismantled .

In addition, the station was of great importance in freight traffic , especially due to the loading of sugar beets . This took place exclusively in autumn. In December 1992, however, the sugar beet transports were stopped and the freight tracks that were in the eastern area of ​​the station were dismantled.

It has bicycle parking spaces , parking spaces and barrier-free access. It was also modernized between 2005 and 2007. The station building is also a listed building.

Barbelroth

The Barbelroth train station is located on the northern outskirts of Barbelroth . In the first decades of its existence it was called Barbelroth-Oberhausen . The former station building as well as the boarded-up goods shed and the loading ramp still exist today, but no longer have any significance for rail operations.

The reception building had two floors and is now used as a residential building . It is the three-axis standard type that was used by many of its own kind within the Palatinate . The openings of the windows are rectangular; those upstairs are on a ledge. The wooden windows and the door date from the early days of the station. The building itself contained a waiting room , an office and an apartment for the station administrator . There was also a room for goods and an apartment for the porter .

Until 1990 there was also a loading facility for beet. There are also foundations of signals from the 1930s that have since been dismantled. The former goods shed now serves an association and has been significantly enlarged in this context. At the turn of the millennium , the operating site received a new platform , which is located further east by the former goods shed.

Kapellen-Drusweiler

Kapellen-Drusweiler stop

At times the Kapellen-Drusweiler train station was called Kapellen-Niederhorbach . In the course of the dismantling of the line in 1983, it lost its siding . Your former reception building is atypical for its kind. Stylistically, it is based on buildings from the 1920s.

Bad Bergzabern

After Bergzabern initially only received a relatively simple half-timbered station building , it was replaced in 1898 by the striking red sandstone that is still distinctive today. In the mid-1960s, Bergzabern was given the title “Bad” and from then on Bad Bergzabern was called; The name of the station changed accordingly.

literature

  • Fascination Railways - Heimat-Jahrbuch 2008 Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse. Verlag Franz Arbogast, Otterbach, ISSN  0177-8684
  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71073-0 , p. 223-224 .
  • Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Return to Rail - Reactivated and New Lines in Passenger Traffic 1980–2001 . transpress, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-613-71185-0 , pp. 144 .
  • Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner : 150 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-27-4 , p. 136-139 .
  • Werner Schreiner: Aspects of the history of the railway in Barbelroth . In: Barbelroth 1179-2004. Stations in a local history . 2004, p. 271-296 .
  • Werner Schreiner: 150 years of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn - ten years of reactivation of the Winden – Bad Bergzabern ticket . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch 2005 Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse . 2005, p. 32-36 .
  • 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 , p. 176.
  • Report of the Direction of the Palatinate Railways on the administration of the railways under their management in 1870 . J. Baur's printing press, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1871 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Bavar. 271 f-1870 [accessed on April 4, 2014]).

Web links

Commons : Spa line  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 12 .
  2. ↑ Werner Schreiner: Aspects of the history of the railway in Barbelroth . In: Barbelroth 1179-2004. Stations in a local history . 2004, p. 273 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 178 .
  4. ↑ Werner Schreiner: Aspects of the history of the railway in Barbelroth . In: Barbelroth 1179-2004. Stations in a local history . 2004, p. 274 f .
  5. ^ A b Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 176 .
  6. ^ A b c Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980-1990 . 1997, p. 223 .
  7. ↑ a b c Construction report of the Winden-Bergzabern branch from the Pfalzbahn's annual report for the 1970 financial year
  8. ^ Heinz Sturm: History of the Maxbahn 1855-1945 . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstr. – Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 72 .
  9. ↑ Reiner Schedler: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . 1998, p. 3 .
  10. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 6th f .
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  13. ^ Günther Volz: With the last train. The evacuation of Bergzabern in December 1944 . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 51 ff .
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  16. ^ A b c Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 104 .
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  35. ↑ Martin Wenz: Type stations of the Palatinate Railways on the Southern Wine Route . In: Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Ed.): Fascination Railway. Homeland yearbook . 2008, p. 12 .
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  37. ↑ modell-und-eisenbahn.de: Conversion of KBS 678 in the area of ​​the Kapellen-Drusweiler station . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved October 2, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.modell-und-eisenbahn.de
  38. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 139 .