Mannheim Kurpfalzbrücke station
| Mannheim Kurpfalz Bridge | |
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 former reception building
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| Operating point type | Depot |
| Platform tracks | 1 (makeshift platform) |
| abbreviation | Mk |
| opening | 1891 |
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| City / municipality | Mannheim |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 29 '34 " N , 8 ° 28' 23" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Mannheim Kurpfalzbrücke station - even Heidelberger station - is a station of the Upper Rhine Railway Company (OEG) in Mannheim on the south side of today's Kurpfalzbrücke . It has not been used in regular traffic since 1995, but is still ready for use for diversions and special traffic.
Surname
The Kurpfalzbrücke station was opened under the name Mannheim-Friedrichsring . It was the terminus of the OEG trains coming from Heidelberg . That is why it is nicknamed "Heidelberger Bahnhof" or "Heidelberger OEG-Bahnhof". The Mannheim OEG station for trains from the direction of Weinheim, which was on the other side of the Neckar and was demolished in the 1970s, was appropriately named "Weinheimer Bahnhof".
history
The station was opened in 1891 at what was then Friedrichsbrücke (today: Kurpfalzbrücke) on the bank of Mannheim city center for the trains running along the Neckar on the Mannheim– Seckenheim - Edingen - Heidelberg route. In 1892, a track connection to the Weinheim train station on the northern bank of the Neckar was opened on the Friedrichsbrücke, which had been newly built the year before, thus closing the triangle of the Upper Rhine Railway. However, this connection was only used for internal operations and freight transport.
In 1974 the connecting tracks to the tram network were removed as part of a road widening.
In September 1995 the OEG route from Heidelberg was reconnected to the Mannheim tram network of MVV with a new connection . Two branch tracks were laid between today's Hans-Böckler-Straße and Hans-Böckler-Platz, which lead into a triangle of tracks and thus allow the journey from the Cahn-Garnier-Ufer to the Friedrichsring.
The station has not been in regular operation since May 16, 1997, but it is still connected to the network and ready for operation. After the station was no longer needed for regular traffic, large parts of the track system were removed. There are still two butt tracks , one of which has an 85 m long makeshift platform , and two track changes remain.
Immediately in front of the former reception building in the middle of the Friedrichring is the replacement Kurpfalzbrücke stop of the Mannheim tram, which - like the butt tracks of the former terminus station - is only used as a passenger stop in exceptional cases, for example in the event of diversions.
Reception building
The first station building was replaced by a new building in 1927/28. It is a cubic, expressionist structure with a flat roof and - originally - a surrounding arcade of columns. When the road was widened in 1974, the colonnade on the south side was removed. The building has been used as a beer garden for a couple of years .
Planning
The city of Mannheim plans to shorten the two butt tracks to 60 m - corresponding to the usual length of the platform in the network - to make them accessible and to remove the switch trapezoid. Together with the demolition of the “Cahn-Garnier-Ufer” street in this area, this is intended to connect Hans-Böckler-Platz with the banks of the Neckar.
literature
- Wolfgang Löckel: Mannheim, here Mannheim. Highlights from the history of rail transport in the city of squares . Ludwigshafen 2008. ISBN 978-3-934845-40-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Löckel, p. 155.
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen , 23./24. September 1995 "From the Rondell to the Kreuzoval"
- ↑ Löckel, p. 155.
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen , 23./24. September 1995 "From the Rondell to the Kreuzoval"
- ↑ Resolution No. V295 / 2017. (PDF; 2.4 MiB) New traffic routing on the Cahn-Garnier-Ufer. City of Mannheim, June 28, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2017 .