Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways

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Obligation of the Palatinate Northern Railway Company from 1880
Route map of the Palatinate Railways as of 1870

The company of the Palatinate Northern Railways - called Palatinate Northern Railway for short - was founded on April 17, 1866 as the last of the three large private railways in the Bavarian Palatinate.

history

The Palatine Northern Railway left from the beginning the administration and management of their orbits the Palatine Ludwig Railway . Since this and the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft had already set up the basic lines of their rail networks in the middle and south of the Palatinate, only the area north of the Ludwigshafen-Kaiserslautern-Homburg axis remained as a field of activity for the Palatinate Northern Railway .

From Landstuhl to Kusel

The local railway from Landstuhl to Kusel was tackled as the first line of the new company . After the peripheral traffic lines had been built by the Ludwigsbahn and the Prussian Nahe Valley Railway, a connection to the railway was also sought in the North Palatinate Bergland. As early as 1856, when the Nahe Valley Railway was being planned, there was an initiative in Offenbach am Glan , which proposed a route via Lauterecken , Altenglan and Kusel to St. Wendel . In addition, a rail link became interesting due to the trade agreement planned with France in 1862, which also involved the delivery of basalt stones for paving the capital Paris. Railway committees in Ramstein and Kusel dealt with the project. In the session of June 20, 1862, the Kusel city council promised to provide the land required for the station building and the railway structure free of charge. Similar offers came from other communities along the route. In 1863 a memorandum was published in Kusel with the title Building a branch line from Landstuhl to Kusel through the Moorbach, Glan and Kuselbachtal valleys , in which the economic fundamentals for the new railway line were examined. The efforts of the railway committee were successful and resulted in a law on the construction of the railway passed by the Bavarian state parliament on July 10, 1865, which granted the capital providers an interest rate guarantee of 4%. . The concession was followed on 10 January 1866. The now taking place simultaneously in the North Palatinate projects - Kuseler track alsenz valley railway - prompted King Ludwig II of the Society of Palatine Ludwig Railway to grant permission for a new public limited company under the name Northern Railways Actiengesellschaft the Palatine to build . On February 15, 1866 the stock corporation was constituted, on June 18, 1866 the articles of association were notarized. The construction of the line did not present any major difficulties. A few hills had to be cut near Rammelsbach. But this turns out to be an advantage for the railway, since it is diorite rock. As a result, the cuttings used as a quarry sustainably stimulated freight traffic. The first freight train arrived in Kusel on August 28, 1868, presumably loaded with building materials; the inauguration took place on September 22, 1868. The total construction costs amounted to 1,775,379 kr.

From Hochspeyer to Bad Münster / Ebernburg (Alsenz Valley Railway)

This route - also known as the Alsenz Valley Railway - was started before the merger of the Palatinate Railway Companies in 1870, but was only completed after the merger in October 1870. The Ludwigsbahn's annual report from 1859/60 picks up on a suggestion for the construction of a railway from Hochspeyer via Winnweiler to Bad Kreuznach. A committee set up in 1859 had campaigned for the construction of a transit railway from Bingen through the Alsenz valley to Neustadt and on to Weißenburg in Alsace and Switzerland, with which the line of traffic on the left bank of the Rhine was taken up and thus withdrawn from the Frankfurt-Basel line on the right bank of the Rhine wanted to bind the Palatinate railways. In 1863, the Ludwigsbahn checked and calculated the routing as a technical aid. The Bavarian State Parliament passed a law on July 10, 1865, which granted the investors in the railway project an interest rate of 4%. A state treaty concluded with Prussia on October 28, 1865 regulated the connection of the planned Alsenz Valley Railway to the Prussian Nahe Railway. On January 10, 1866, the building license was confirmed. The tender for the building capital that followed on February 15, 1866 found complete coverage. Also on February 15, the corporation of the Palatinate Northern Railways was constituted, the partnership agreement of which was notarized on June 18, 1866.

Construction began in autumn 1868 and was operated simultaneously from four sections in Hochspeyer, Winnweiler, Alsenz and Ebernburg. From the beginning, the route was laid out on two tracks, only one of which was carried out. Both the war of 1870/71 and the connection to the Nahe Railway in Bad Münster / Ebernburg, which was only regulated at a late stage, had a disruptive effect on the progress of construction and completion. On October 29, 1870, the Hochspeyer - Winnweiler section , and finally the entire line on May 16, 1871, went into operation.

The merger

When the Palatinate Northern Railway merged with the two other Palatinate railway companies on January 1, 1870 to form the administrative and operating group of the Palatinate Railways , it also took over the entire shares of the Neustadt-Dürkheimer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , whose line opened in 1865 from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway had been administered.

With the approval of the Bavarian government for this merger, both the obligation to build further routes and a state interest guarantee of 4.5% on construction and equipment capital for 35 years were connected. This was accompanied by the establishment of a new administrative structure. Further details on the development after 1870 can be found in the

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Only then did the construction or completion of the most important northern railway lines begin:

  • The Alsenz Valley Railway Hochspeyer - Enkenbach - Langmeil - Winnweiler - Bad Munster (50.17 km) ran on October 29, 1870 to Winnweiler and was completed on May 16, 1871. On October 1, 1903, a narrow-gauge railway to Obermoschel branched from Alsenz station .
  • In 1875 the Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach railway was opened.
  • From Marnheim on the later Donnersbergbahn, the Zellertalbahn enabled a connection via Harxheim-Zell to the Rheinhessian junction of Monsheim from October 23, 1872.
  • Since 1873, the Dürkheim route via Freinsheim – Grünstadt – Bockenheim – Kindenheim also led to Monsheim (22 km) along today's Weinstrasse. On October 15, 1877, she received a cross connection from Freinsheim to Frankenthal (14 km).
  • The Donnersbergbahn Langmeil– Marnheim –Kirchheimbolanden – Alzey (35 km) was built in 1873/74. This also included the section Kaiserslautern - Eselsfürth - Enkenbach (13 km), which was added on May 15, 1875.
  • From June 24, 1876, the Eistalbahn Grünstadt - Ebertsheim Bf - Eisenberg (9 km) with the Ebertsheim Hp - Hettenleidelheim (4 km) branch line opened in 1895 .
  • The Lautertalbahn Kaiserslautern - Wolfstein - Lauterecken (35 km), which went into operation on November 15, 1883 , was continued in the Glantal in 1896/97 (21 km) via Meisenheim to Odernheim - Staudernheim and on May 1, 1904 on the right bank of the Nahe from Odernheim to Bad Münster am Stein (16 km).
  • On September 15, 1900, the Grünstadt station became the starting point for a connection to the hamlet of Neuoffstein of the Worms-Offsteiner Bahn of the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (7 km)
  • on March 1, 1903, the Grünstadt – Altleiningen (11 km) line was added and on October 1, 1903, the narrow-gauge Alsenz – Obermoschel line
  • Finally, from May 1, 1904, the opening of the Homburg – Glan – Münchweiler (22 km) and Altenglan – Offenbach-Hundheim – Lauterecken – Grumbach (20 km) sections enabled through traffic between Mainz and Saarbrücken, which was also desirable for military reasons.

On January 1, 1909, the Palatinate Northern Railway, together with the other companies belonging to the Palatinate Railways, became the property of the Bavarian State Railways .

credentials

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emmich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter. P. 7.
  2. ^ Report of the Direction of the Palatinate Railways, 1868, Bavarian State Archives, signature 4 BAVAR 271 f-1868
  3. ^ Report of the Direction of the Palatinate Railways, 1869, Bayerisches Staatsarchiv, signature 4 BAVAR 271 f-1869
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Heinz Sturm, the Palatinate Railways, p. 173 ff.

literature

  • Announcement of the stock corporations of the Palatinate Railways for the merger in the Bavarian Gazette for Commercial Courts and Commercial Interests (1870) . royal Hofbuchdruckerei Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1870 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Bavar. 106 h-2 [accessed on June 16, 2012]).
  • Report of the Direction of the Palatinate Railways on the administration of the railways under their management for the year 1868 . J. Bauer printing house, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1869 (Bavarian State Library, Munich, call number 4 BAVAR 271 f-1868).
  • Report of the Direction of the Palatinate Railways on the administration of the railways under their management for the year 1869 . J. Bauer printing house, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1870 (Bavarian State Library Munich, call number 4 BAVAR 271 f-1869).
  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1st edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-8062-0301-6 .
  • 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 .