Bad Dürkheim station

• Neustadt- Monsheim (km 13.5 ) ( KBS 667)
• Bad Durkheim - Ludwigshafen- Oggersheim (km 0.0) ( KBS 668 )

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The train station in Bad Durkheim - to 1904 Durkheim - is the most important railway station in the Rhineland Palatinate town of Bad Durkheim. Next to the station even the breakpoints Bad Durkheim - drift and Bad Durkheim East exist. He belongs to the category 5 station of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and has three platform tracks. The station is located in the network area of the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN) and belongs to the tariff zone 92 His address is Mannheimer Straße 14

It was opened on 6 May 1865 as the terminus of the beginning in Neustadt railway line. With their Durchbindung after Monsheim eight years later he became the head station. Since 1969 he is the only one of its kind within the Palatinate. Since 1913 terminates at its station forecourt also the narrow- Rhein- Haardt Bahn from Ludwigshafen, whose operation is similar to an interurban tram and is firmly integrated into the network of tram Mannheim / Ludwigshafen since 2008. his reception building retains its historic monument.

• 2.1 The first efforts for a rail connection from Durkheim ( 1835-1849 )
• 2.2 Origin of the Palatine Northern Railway
• 2.3 Further Development

• 4.1 passenger
• 4.2 freight Transport

Location

Local location

The station is located near the city center of Bad Durkheim. Approximately parallel to him run to the south the roads the fruit market and Rosmarinweg and to the north the road Am Rathaus. The road crosses the water hollow eastern station area. North of the station building is the station square, the west of the bus station.

Railway lines

The Palatine Northern Railway comes from southeasterly direction from Neustadt on the Wine Route and swings in a wide curve to the west in the head train station. In the other direction it first runs some 100 meters to the east and finally north- east to Monsheim. The Rhein- Haardt web comes from the east and ends in a turning loop at the station forecourt in front of the station building.

History

The first efforts for a rail connection from Durkheim (1835-1849)

Originally it was planned to take place within the former Rhine Palatinate first a railway line in north-south direction in operation. However, it was agreed to first build a highway in east-west direction, which should primarily serve the transportation of coal from the Saar region to the Rhine. To the east of Kaiserslautern stood for the route two variants for discussion, as it turned out, the overcoming of the Palatinate Forest complicated. First, the responsible engineers thought of a route through Durkheim, in which the Dürkheimer valley should be overcome. However, this failed due to the fact that its tributary valleys were too low and the steam locomotives were temporarily must be to overcome the differences in height. For this reason, they chose a variant on the Neustadter valley, the overcoming of which would likewise make according to a report to be difficult, but this was feasible and could be avoided in contrast to Dürkheimer valley Stationary locomotives. This drew a connection to the city Durkheim to the railway network initially in the distance.

Emergence of the Palatine Northern Railway

In 1860, a local committee tried to build a railway that would run from Neustadt on the Wine Route On Bad Durkheim to Frankenthal. In particular, based Durkheim factories should benefit from a railway line. Although such a route would have meant a parallel road to the Palatine Ludwig Railway and the railway line Mainz -Ludwigshafen, the initiators were optimistic to the effect that the proposed route would be preferred because of their greater scenic beauty.

However, the corresponding petition met with no response, as difficulties with the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company were feared. For this reason, agreement was reached on January 25, 1862, that only a local railway between Neustadt and Bad Durkheim should be built. After 22 August the same year, the concession had been made, the Neustadt- Dürkheimer Railway Company was founded two months later, which was provided as operator of the route.

The station for the first 13.9 Kilometerl long line was opened on 6 May 1865 as part of the route Neustadt- Bad Durkheim. The ongoing construction at the time Monsheim Hesse, who was the subject of negotiations in 1863, was delayed due to the hilly terrain. After the traffic between Monsheim and green city could be released on March 20, 1873 Closing the gap was completed by Durkheim as of 20 July. It was decided not to move the railway station, who had been eight years endpoint of the segment; Instead, he served from 1873 as a railhead.

In this context, the station received a new reception building, because the original was jediglich intended as a provisional. The latter was rebuilt at the same time on the Landauer West railway station along the railway line in 1874 and opened in 1875 Landau -Zweibrücken. After the city from 1904 officially " Bad Durkheim " was that Bahnhofsbeziechnung was amended accordingly.

Further development

1913, the railway line for Bad Durkheim Ludwigshafen- Oggersheim opened the Rhein- Haardt Bahn GmbH, which begins on the station forecourt. The concession between Ludwigshafen- Oggersheim and Bad Durkheim as railway train runs similar to a tram within Bad Dürkheim on grooved rails. It was built instead of a direct rail link to the state railway line between Bad Durkheim and Ludwigshafen.

In 1922 the integration of the station into the newly founded Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen. In the course of its dissolution he joined on 1 April 1937 in the remit of the Directorate of Mainz. 1938, the station building on the occasion of 65th birth sienes Rages was renovated as well.

The German Federal Railroad ( DB), which was responsible for the operation of the Northern Railway from 1949, divided the station into the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz, who allocated it all rail lines within the newly created federal state of Rhineland -Palatinate. Since the decommissioning of the former head station in Ludwigshafen in the 1960s, he is the only railway terminus of the Vorderpfalz. With the gradual dissolution of the Directorate of Mainz in the early 1970s was henceforth its counterpart in Karlsruhe in charge of the station.

Structures

Built in the years 1872 and 1873 reception building is a listed building. It is a late-classical building of sandstone on an H-shaped plan with three wings. It is also available as an model of H0 Faller for model railways.

Operation

Passenger

Immediately after the continuous opening of the Northern Railway in 1873 drove the passenger trains on Monsheim afield to Marnheim at the Zellertalstraße web.

In Bad Durkheim station with three platform tracks currently hold only regional trains. In the 30 -minute intervals, a regional rail line links the station to the town of Neustadt on the Wine Route. On weekends and public holidays in the summer excursion train runs by the name of Alsace - Express between Mainz about Bad Durkheim to Wissembourg. In addition, there is the train station, the terminal loop of the railway line for Bad Durkheim Ludwigshafen- Oggersheim. On this route, on line 4 tram Mannheim / Ludwigshafen.

Freight traffic

The station played for decades the shipment of wine bottles and barrels an important role. In 1975, the freight office was closed. The station itself decreed for shunting at times over a small locomotive, the power group 1 In the autumn of the loading of sugar beets was of great importance. Meanwhile, the freight came to a complete standstill on site.