Speyer main station
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Terminus (1847–1864) Through station (1864–1873, since 1945) Separation station (1873–1945) |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | RSP |
| IBNR | 8005628 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | June 11, 1847 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Speyer_Hbf |
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| City / municipality | Speyer |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 19 '27 " N , 8 ° 25' 41" E |
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
Speyer Hauptbahnhof is the more important of a total of two train stations in the Rhineland-Palatinate medium -sized town of Speyer . It belongs to station category 4 and has three platform tracks . The station is in the network area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN) and belongs to tariff zone 143. The address of the station is Bahnhofstrasse 43 .
It was on June 11, 1847 terminus in Schifferstadt from the Palatine Ludwig Railway branching branch line opened. When it was extended to Germersheim in 1864, it became a through station . The connection to Heidelberg was opened in 1873 and three years later the north-south route to Wörth was connected . Since the line to Heidelberg was interrupted in 1945, it has again only been a through station. Since 2003 it has also been integrated into the RheinNeckar S-Bahn network.
location
The station is on the Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line and is a stop for the Regional Express from Frankfurt am Main to Karlsruhe (RE 4) and the S3 and S4 S-Bahn lines on the Rhein -Neckar S-Bahn . Speyer is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). The main train station is about one kilometer from the city center. The city center can be reached in five minutes by BRN buses . Until 1945, the Heidelberg – Speyer railway ended in the station, so that the station used to be a separation station .
history
Railway initiatives around Speyer and opening
Originally it was planned to start operating a railway line in north-south direction from the Rheinschanze via the government capital Speyer and Lauterbourg to Strasbourg within the Rhine district belonging to Bavaria , which should compete with the Mannheim – Basel line planned by Baden . However, this was postponed in favor of an east-west main line, which was primarily intended to transport coal.
At first, however, it was unclear whether Speyer or the Rheinschanze should be the eastern end of the route. In addition, Speyer, the capital of the Palatinate , advocated becoming the eastern end of the route instead of the Rheinschanze. The main argument was that the cathedral city was an old trading center, while the Rheinschanze, as a mere military base, would only serve as a transit point for goods. These efforts did not prevail, however, because the focus was mainly on the right bank of the up-and-coming Rhine-Neckar region - especially Mannheim - and the export of coal to the area beyond the Rhine was considered more important. However, Speyer was to get a branch line.
The station was inaugurated on June 11, 1847 as the southern end point of the branch line beginning in Schifferstadt ; At the same time, the Ludwigshafen – Neustadt section of the Ludwigshafen Railway was released. At seven o'clock in the morning several dignitaries, including many other guests - including shareholders - had gathered in the city to go to the station and board the opening train. After welcoming the Board of Directors, he drove to Ludwigshafen with fireworks and musical accompaniment .
Further development
In the period that followed, heated discussions took place as to whether the next railway project would be a line on the mountains from Neustadt via Landau to Wissembourg or the extension of the Speyer branch line to Germersheim and Wörth would be more urgent and desirable. As early as May 1847, neighboring Alsace had spoken out in favor of routing via Wissembourg. In the period that followed, differences of opinion arose within the Palatinate, as the Rhine District was also called, as to whether the Speyer route via Germersheim to Wissembourg should be continued or a route from Neustadt via Landau via the Alsatian border town should be rebuilt. The military in particular preferred the route that was to run on the edge of the Palatinate Forest . The decision was finally made in 1852 in favor of this mountain line in the form of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn, which opened in 1855 .
Instead, on March 14, 1864, the branch line was extended to Germersheim, making Speyer a through station . Since December 10, 1873, the station was the end of the Heidelberg – Speyer line . Since another train station - called Speyer Rheinstation - was built in Speyer shortly before crossing the Rhine , the station was renamed “Speyer Hauptbahnhof”. On July 25, 1876, the north-south line was extended beyond Germersheim to Wörth .
Development after 1900
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In 1922 the station was incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the course of its dissolution on April 1, 1937, he moved to the area of responsibility of the Mainz management . During this time he also built a locomotive station , which was a branch of the Ludwigshafen railway depot .
The route to Heidelberg was bombed on October 13, 1941. After the Rhine bridge in Speyer was destroyed in 1945, it was shut down between Speyer and Schwetzingen . On December 16, 1944, the very splendid building from the Wilhelmine era was badly damaged in an air raid; the destroyed reception building was replaced by a new building in 1953.
The German Federal Railways was divided the station after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, they all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. Although the station was now the only stop within the cathedral city for several decades after the local line Speyer – Neustadt was closed, it kept the name “Speyer Hauptbahnhof”.
In 1971 the station came under the responsibility of its Karlsruhe counterpart in the course of the dissolution of the Mainz management. At the end of 2003, the station was integrated into the RheinNeckar S-Bahn network , for which the Schifferstadt – Speyer section was electrified. At first it was the terminus of the S3 and S4 lines. In 2006 these were extended to Germersheim .
Buildings
Reception building
The present reception building is a building from the 1950s. The old building was destroyed in air raids in 1944 and therefore had to be demolished. However, it was temporarily rebuilt in parts and adapted to the style of the time.
The station building was renovated from November 2009 to October 2010. With the renovation, the energy requirement was reduced. The work mainly concentrated on the roof, facade and windows. In addition, the traffic areas have been improved and additional waiting facilities have been created. The renovation cost a total of 587,000 euros.
Goods shed
The former goods shed, which is under monument protection, is still preserved and is located south of the station building. However, despite the fact that freight traffic is still taking place, it is no longer important for rail operations and, after a long vacancy, was converted into a denn's organic store in 2017 .
traffic
From the beginning, the trains on the line to Speyer, which initially formed a branch line, were always tied through to Ludwigshafen . After the Second World War, express trains also ran on the Ludwigshafen – Strasbourg route until July 1980 , mainly serving French soldiers stationed in Germany , including Speyer.
Regional traffic
Since the timetable change in 2018/19, the RE 4 extended to Frankfurt.
| line | route | Tact |
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| RE 4 | Frankfurt (Main) - Mainz - Worms - Frankenthal (Palatinate) - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Schifferstadt - Speyer - Germersheim - Graben-Neudorf - Karlsruhe | Every two hours |
Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn
The Speyer main station is served hourly by the lines S 3 and S 4 and thus complement each other at 30-minute intervals. The S 4 offers four additional trains in the morning to the BASF plant ("BASF-Werkzüge") in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. The upcoming S 4 services from the BASF plant will end in Germersheim, but one service will be extended to Wörth (Rhine).
In addition, some amplifier trains on the S1 / S2 line run to Mosbach and Osterburken in the morning and in the evening . An S33 amplifier train starts in Bruchsal in the evening and ends there again.
| line | Route | Tact |
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S 1 S 2 |
Germersheim - Speyer - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Neckargemünd - Eberbach - Mosbach (- Osterburken ) | individual trains |
| S 3 | Germersheim - Speyer - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Bruchsal - Karlsruhe | Hourly |
| P. 33 | Bruchsal - Germersheim - Speyer - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Bruchsal | individual trains |
| S 4 | Germersheim - Speyer - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Bruchsal | Hourly |
| Wörth (Rhine) - Germersheim - Speyer - Schifferstadt - Ludwigshafen (Rhine) - Ludwigshafen BASF North | four pairs of trains daily |
Freight transport
In addition to Schifferstadt , Germersheim and Wörth , the Speyer main station is one of four remaining train stations along the former north-south main line, which are still served by freight traffic today.
See also
literature
- Commemorative publication for the reconstruction of the Speyer main station reception building , press service of the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate, 1953.
- 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 .
Web links
- Station board of the Speyer main station: current departures
Individual evidence
- ↑ db-netz.de: Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100 . (PDF; 720 kB) Archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; Retrieved December 19, 2013 .
- ↑ michaeldittrich.de: IBNR online search . Retrieved January 4, 2014 .
- ^ Vrn.de: Regional rail network and honeycomb plan . (PDF; 1.9 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved December 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Speyer Hbf. In: bahnhof.de. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 17th ff .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 58 f .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timetable. 160 years of railways in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 5 f .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 90 .
- ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . 2005, p. 14th ff .
- ↑ kbaystb.de: The Stations of the Royal Bavarian State Railways - linksrheinisch (Bavarian Palatinate) - Pirmasens to Steinwenden: . Retrieved December 21, 2013 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
- ↑ bahnstatistik.de: railway management Mainz - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 19, 2013 .
- ↑ a b The Imperial Cathedral of Speyer - History - Timeline ( Memento from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ An old postcard of the train station
- ^ 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. 66 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
- ↑ Speyer Hbf: 587,000 euros for energy-efficient renovation and quality of stay ( memento of April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ DB - Die Bahnhof - Press release Measures of the economic stimulus programs for the Speyer Hbf train station ( Memento from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ kbaystb.de: Railway stations and their pictures in Bavaria (left bank of the Rhine) - Railway station: Speyer - Main railway lines: Schifferstadt - Speyer (opening 11.06.1847) - Speyer - Germersheim (opening 14.03.1864) - Speyer - ship bridge (to Schwetzingen - Heidelberg) (Opening December 10th, 1873) - Local railway line: Speyer - Geinsheim (narrow gauge) (Opening August 26th, 1905) . Retrieved December 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 90 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines from 1980 to 1990 . 1997, p. 219 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate (2007) . 2007, p. 39 .
