Fischbach Valley Railway
The Fischbach Valley Railway ( KBS 681 ) is a railway line along the fish creek, which flows in Saarbrücken in the Saarland, after Wemmetsweiler. There, the line divides since 2003 ( Wemmetsweiler curve) and go west on to Lebach, east to Neunkirchen (Saar).
History
Beginning of the seventies of the 19th century began the development of the coal mines in Fischbachtal. So in 1871 the pit Campenhausen, 1872 and 1873 the mine pit Brefeld Maybach. Even in the planning for some thoughts about the removal of the coal. Initially it was thought the coal mines to operate with branch lines from Sulzbach from. Since one purpose but tunnel through the ridge would have to beat the plan was dropped soon. In addition, the route through the Sulzbach was already heavily congested. For this reason, we had already adopted the plan in 1866 to build a line from Neunkirchen by the Fischbachtal to Saarbruecken. 1873 for permission to build the line was granted. In February 1879 you could start with the coal loading in the pit Campenhausen. Then the route via Brefeld and Wemmetsweiler to Neunkirchen (Saar) was opened on October 15, 1879. The spur track to the pit Maybach was opened on April 6, 1881. After the coal mine was sunk in 1887 Göttelborn originated from Merchweiler from the spur track to the pit Göttelborn, which opened on 1 October 1891. In 1965, the entire line was electrified. Following closure of the mine Göttelborn the spur track Merch Weiler- Göttelborn is still used for the operation of the power plant pond. Since the passenger was, however, long been more focused on Lebach than on Neunkirchen, passenger trains always had to change the station Wemmetsweiler the direction of travel. To avoid this, a compound curve ( the so-called Wemmetsweiler curve) already planned in the 1990s. 2003, this curve was then built and the railway junction Illingen laid. The Wemmetsweiler station was abandoned in passenger and replaced in 2006 by a breakpoint closer to the town center. The bridge in the country road L128 in Wemmetsweiler was replaced by a 54 meter long tunnel in the wake of urban transformation.
Stations and stops
The train station in Fischbach- Campenhausen and the breakpoint in Brefeld are no longer serviced today. They both are rather outside the local building uphill to the south of the fairly narrow Fischbach valley. The platforms and station signs are still present. As a replacement for the station in Fischbach, a new breakpoint is a little further north and thus site- built closer.
The reception building in Fischbach- Campenhausen, Brefeld and ship hamlet have a great match in their construction - in spite of their different specified by Deutsche Bahn in Saarbrücken emergence times. However, the similarity is so great that one can safely assume a common approach and thus probably of closely spaced edification times here.
The architecture of these three reception building shows us a further flow of the architecture of the 19th century, half-timbered construction. Until about 1750, the half-timbered building was in the middle-class residential architecture the dominant design in the " Germanic " areas of Switzerland, England, Normandy and Germany, while in the "Latin" countries dominated the stone construction. Once in the period that followed the few new timber-framed buildings were plastered, there was a return in historicism to visual framework. However, it were less technical and design advantages in the foreground, but only the decorative design. Therefore, it was usually only applied on the first floor or in the gable truss construction. In this respect, at least the reception building in the hamlet ship and Brefeld as a notable exception.
The pit station of Fischbach - Campenhausen was built in 1879 and must have been considerably expanded in the 20th century. The basic plans and elevations of recent times show an elongated two-storey building complex with core building and a restaurant in the north and the operating rooms in the south.
The original core building had at the time of plan preparation no waiting room, the main platform reached the passengers through a passage north of the central part, which led past the ticket office. Today you get so into the restaurant. At the ticket issuing a signal box was built. That no waiting room was present from the beginning, is unlikely since this normally part of the basic also a breakpoint.
The station building is still owned by Deutsche Bahn AG, the trains stop but no longer today in Fischbach.
The Year of the concourse building Brefeld is one of the few that is not to be determined. The floor plan shows a rectangular building with extruded, probably has been extended and the south. Approximately in the middle of the main building is the through hall with the ticket counter, you enter through a double portal and directly opposite leaves again. In the southern part there are the service and operating rooms with private entrance, north of the waiting room with tap room, toilets and a kitchen. Also seen today, the wood ledge between the two floors, which is identical in Fischbach- Campenhausen with.
Today, missing the entire northern part and the interlocking. The framework has been almost plastered or covered anywhere, only to see on the ground floor of the street. The former station building is no longer used as such.
The floor plan of the reception building in Schiffweiler shows that a passage was also here that led past the ticket office on the main platform. This transition, however, was integrated into the core building. To the east were the offices and a rectangular signal box, which no longer exists today. The station building is no longer in operation today. The passengers must by a pedestrian tunnel to the island platform.
An outline drawing of the station ship hamlet of 1914 shows the then state: the original building is the building in Fischbach- Campenhausen almost identical. Here ground and first floors were built in half-timbered style. The doors have on this old view still segmentbogige accounts that are no longer visible today. In the east, close to the single-storey Güterhallen, which have also been built in the framework construction. To the west is a single storey annexe with four axles and segmentbogigen windows. The design was created due to the planned extension of this annexe. The western part, the later the restaurant contained is probably not original, as is clear from its massive structure and the lack of a basement.
Today, the first floor of the reception building is clad on both sides with slate tiles and the roof is slated. The narrower, single-storey brick warehouse is covered.
The station of the ship hamlet is conveniently technically extremely unfavorable at the foothill of the place in utter remoteness. The station building was built very late in 1914 and was also two stories, however, and in a half -timbered construction. After Southeast grown towards a single-storey timber- freight terminal building. Instead of a staircase from top to the island platform led the access under the tracks through, so that the train station for the adjacent site Landsweiler speeches was more accessible (and is) as for the eponymous ship hamlet.
The demolition of the station ship hamlet, started on Tuesday, 8 December 2009. After he was executed, a gabion wall was first built with steel nets bundled in stones as a boundary to the train tracks. It was followed by the construction of a bus stop for public transport and the creation of paved parking for rail users or carpools.