Mannheim OEG train station

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Mannheim OEG
WeinheimOEG Bahnhof.jpg
Site plan of the Weinheim train station
Data
Design Terminus
opening 1887
Conveyance 1973
location
City / municipality Mannheim
Place / district Neckarstadt
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 29 '46 "  N , 8 ° 28' 32"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '46 "  N , 8 ° 28' 32"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
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The Mannheim OEG station - also Weinheimer station - was the station of the Upper Rhine Railway Company (OEG) in Mannheim Neckar city on the north side of today's Kurpfalzbrücke . It was demolished in 1973.

Surname

The OEG station in Neckarstadt was the traditional Mannheim terminus for OEG trains coming from Weinheim. Therefore it was nicknamed "Weinheimer Bahnhof" or "Weinheimer OEG-Bahnhof". The Mannheim Kurpfalzbrücke station of the OEG for trains from the direction of Heidelberg, which is located on the other side of the Neckar and still exists today, was appropriately named "Heidelberger Bahnhof".

history

The terminus station was built in 1887 by the railway consortium of the Berlin entrepreneur Herrmann Bachstein as the starting point for the narrow-gauge branch line Mannheim - Käfertal - Viernheim - Weinheim at the intersection of Brückenstraße and Käfertaler Straße north of the then Chain Bridge. The branch line was transferred to the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SEG) in 1897 and became the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (OEG) in 1911. In the immediate vicinity of the station were the OEG administration, the Neckarstadt station of the Riedbahn (so-called "Riedbahnhof"), the station of the steam train to Feudenheim, a stop for the horse-drawn tram / tram , the measuring station and, from 1912, the main fire station . For a few years a loading track also led down to the banks of the Neckar.

After the Mannheim – Weinheimer Railway was expanded to include the Weinheim – SchriesheimHeidelberg connection , the station for the Mannheim – SeckenheimEdingenHeidelberg line was opened in 1891 on the opposite bank of the Neckar at Friedrichsring . In 1892, a rail link between the two stations was opened on the Friedrichsbrücke, which had been rebuilt the year before, thus closing the triangle. However, this connection was only used for internal operations and freight transport.

With the relocation of the railroad tracks between Mannheim and Käfertal from Käfertaler Straße to today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, this section of the route was electrified for the Mannheim tram and used jointly. The tram initially drove directly next to the Weinheim train station on separate tram tracks to Friedrichsbrücke, until the tram was moved to today's Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer.

The Mannheim – Weinheim line was the first OEG line to be electrified in 1915, and thus also the Weinheim train station.

From 1971 the trains ran through to the main station , the terminus station was thereby superfluous and given up. The trains turned in the transfer facility in Schloßgartenstrasse, since September 1995 the two sections of the route from Weinheim and Heidelberg, which previously ended in Mannheim, have been connected with each other and run on a circular route.

Reception building

The first station building was replaced by a new building in 1939/40. This brick building was decorated head and roadside arcades, with a hipped roof covered, as on the roof turret was a clock tower. The building, which was badly damaged in World War II , was rebuilt almost unchanged. After the operational change in 1971, the reception building was also superfluous. It was demolished in 1973 in favor of the northern development of the Neckar bank.

On June 30, 2006, the new tram line through Schafweide was inaugurated on the site of the OEG tracks at the train station, and tram line 4 ( Bad Dürkheim - Ludwigshafen - Mannheim - Gartenstadt ) travels through it.

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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Löckel, p. 146.