Local transport in Frankenthal (Palatinate)

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Frankenthal main station , reception building
A regional train with a diesel multiple unit of the DB class 628 in the central station of Frankenthal (Palatinate) on the way to Ramsen.

Local public transport in Frankenthal (Palatinate) includes a city ​​bus network , which is supplemented by regional trains and S-Bahn trains . It belongs to the Rhein-Neckar transport association .

A central node of the bus lines with each other and of the web is attached to the main line Mainz-Ludwigshafen preferred Frankenthal central station . The route will be integrated into the network of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn with the timetable change in December 2018 . In addition, construction work began in May 2014 for the Frankenthal Süd stop , which went into operation on June 14, 2015 at 00:00 when the timetable changed.

In the Flomersheim district there is a train stop on the branch line to Grünstadt .

Rail transport

Frankenthal Central Station
Not true to detail replica of the Bembel on a moving van at the Dirmsteiner fair 2009
Locomotive of the former Frankenthal sugar factory

Frankenthal is located on the Mainz – Ludwigshafen railway line and is served by half-hourly S-Bahn ( Mainz - Worms - Mannheim (- Bensheim )) and the two-hour regional express trains between Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and, since December 2014, a regional express line that runs every two hours Frankfurt and Mannheim served, which means there is an hourly connection in fast regional traffic on the section between Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Frankfurt. Frankenthal is also on the branch line to Grünstadt , on which an hourly regional train runs.

history

Until the 1930s, the Ludwigshafen local railway , popularly known as Bembel , ran on the meter-gauge lines Ludwigshafen – Frankenthal and Frankenthal – Großkarlbach . When it was commissioned in 1890/91, an extension to Grünstadt was even considered. Soon, however, the faster, electric Ludwigshafen tram prevailed, the expansion of which in 1927 to Oppau took more and more passengers away from the slow, steam-powered local train, so that it had to be gradually discontinued in the 1930s. Up to the present day an extension of the tram over the final stop Oppau beyond Edigheim and the Pfingstweide to Frankenthal has been called for, there were already preliminary plans, but they never came to be implemented. In 2018, Rhein-Necker-Verkehr GmbH and the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein are again in planning to integrate LU-Edigheim and LU-Pfingstweide as well as the city of Frankenthal into the tram network. However, Ludwigshafen is not particularly optimistic about fully integrating the neighboring city into its own network.

Railway stations / stops

In Frankenthal, the following stations and stops are served at regular intervals:

As part of the expansion of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn network , a second stop called “Frankenthal Süd” was built in the south of the city in addition to the main train station. It is located between the Carl-Bosch-Siedlung and the industrial area south and thus in the vicinity of several schools. It is designed as a bike-and-ride station. Construction work for the new stop began in May 2014. The stop was put into operation when the timetable changed on June 14, 2015 at 00:00.

Line overview

The following is a list of all lines:

line Train run Clock frequency
RE 4 Frankfurt - Mainz - Worms - Frankenthal - Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hbf - Speyer - Germersheim - Graben-Neudorf - Karlsruhe 120 min
RE 14 Frankfurt - Mainz - Worms - Frankenthal - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) center - Mannheim 120 min
S 6 Mainz - Worms - Frankenthal - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim (- Weinheim - Bensheim ) 30 min
RB 46 Frankenthal - Freinsheim - Grünstadt - Eisenberg (Palatinate) - Ramsen (- Eiswoog ) 60 min
(HVZ: 30 min)

Special traffic

On the occasion of the traditional Frankenthal straw hat festival at the beginning of June, the range of trains on the route to Grünstadt is extended every year into the late evening hours. Special trips from Frankenthal also take place regularly in September to the Dürkheim sausage market and at the end of January to the “ Eiswoog in Flammen” event.

Bus transport

BRN city bus at the main train station

Regional bus routes

  • 460/461 Hauptbahnhof - Stadtklinik - Heßheim - Dirmstein - Großkarlbach - Grünstadt (Mon-Sat every hour with amplifiers, Sun every two hours, on weekends and public holidays an additional late connection, departure 12:38 a.m.)

The regional bus service is carried out by Verkehrsbetriebe Leininger Land - Eistal-Bus GmbH .

City and suburban traffic lines

  • 462: Central Station - Beindersheim - Großniedesheim - Bobenheim (every hour with amplifiers)
  • 463: Central Station - Frankenthal-Nord - Roxheim - Bobenheim (every hour with amplifiers)
  • 464: Hauptbahnhof - Feierabendhaus - Nordring / JVA - Mörsch - Nordring / JVA - Schillerschule - Hauptbahnhof (ring line, Mon-Sat every half hour, Sun every hour)
  • 465: Central Station - Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim (Mon-Sat individual trips)
  • 466: Hauptbahnhof - Flomersheim - Eppstein (Mon-Sat every half hour, Sun every hour)
  • 467: Central Station - Frankenthal-Süd - Studernheim - Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim (Mon-Sat every half hour, Sun every two hours)
  • 084: Central Station - Wormser Tor - Schillerschule - Pfingstweide Center - Ostringplatz - Oppau (Mon-Sat 20-minute intervals, Sun every hour)

The city and surrounding area traffic is carried out by the BRN subsidiary Rheinpfalzbus GmbH , line 84 is operated by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH .

A collective call taxi opens up Frankental and the surrounding communities when there are no more buses.

See also

Rates

Frankenthal is like the whole of the Vorderpfalz a member of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN). Together with the neighboring communities of Beindersheim , Heßheim and Bobenheim-Roxheim , the city of Frankenthal falls into tariff group 63.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SWR Aktuell: Tram to Frankenthal? In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on September 21, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Frankenthal gets a second S-Bahn stop. In: The Rhine Palatinate . November 6, 2013, archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 2, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Frankenthal - start of renovation of the main station and new construction of the southern stop. In: MRN News. May 21, 2014, accessed August 15, 2014 .