Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof

• 7 crossing tracks
• 6 Head tracks

• Saarbrücken -Mannheim (km 43.7 ) ( KBS 665.1/665.2/670 )
• Kaiserslautern - sink stream (km 0.0) ( KBS 672 )
• Kaiserslautern Lauterecken - Grumbach (km 0.0) ( KBS 673)
• Kaiserslautern Pirmasens (km 0.0) ( KBS 672 )

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Kaiserslautern Central Station - at times also referred to as South Station - the most important station of seven Zughaltepunkten the Rhineland-Palatinate means city of Kaiserslautern. He belongs to the train station category 2 and has 13 platform tracks. The station is located in the network area of the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN) and belongs to the tariff zone 800 The address of the station is Station Road 1

It was opened on 1 July 1848 as the eastern terminus of the coming of Homburg western leg of the Palatine Ludwig Railway. Already on 2 December the same year he was with extension of the section to Frankenstein a through station before the Ludwig Railway was opened along its entire length of Ludwigshafen on 25 August of the following year to Bexbach. In 1875, he was charged with opening the link after sink stream for separation train station. 1883 was added at the corners leading to Lauterbrunnen Lauterbrunnen Valley Railway. By binding with the coming of Pirmasens Biebermühlbahn, which had already been partially opened in 1875 and 1905, he became the interchange station.

The railway line Mannheim -Saarbrücken, which emerged from the Ludwig Railway, is now the most important of the routes on which the Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof is, he is also its most important the way station.

• 2.1 development of the station and first years ( 1830-1860 )
• 2.2 Development of the railway junction ( 1860-1913 )
• 2.3 Further Development ( 1914-1960 )
• 2.4 Development from 1960

• 3.1 First reception building
• 3.2 Second reception building
• 3.3 Third reception building

• 4.1 passenger 4.1.1 Highway
• 4.1.2 S -Bahn DB & regional transport

Location

Local location

The station is located on the southern edge of the core city of Kaiserslautern. Just north parallel the Bahnhofstrasse, immediately south also parallel the Zollamstraße. Northwest also adjoins the railway depot Kaiserslautern. Southeast extends the district Betz mountain with the Fritz -Walter -Stadion.

Railway lines

The railway line Mannheim -Saarbrücken runs east from west in a south-westerly direction to go to the main station in a long bend first to the northwest. The railway line Kaiserslautern - sink stream follows in an easterly direction, first the route to Mannheim, turning later to the north. Also initially parallel to the main line, but to the west, run the volume up to Lauterbrunnen Valley Railway corners and the Biebermühlbahn to Pirmasens. The latter runs one mile parallel to Saarbrücken route to then turn off onto a "green tunnel " to the south. The former has in the station area with Kaiserslautern Pfaff plant represents another stop to run after about two kilometers to the north direction.

History

Emergence of the station and first years (1830-1860)

Originally it was planned to take place within the former Rhine Palatinate 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. The according to the Bavarian King Ludwig I. Palatine Ludwig Railway named range should extend from Bexbach in the west over Kaiserslautern at the Rheinschanze.

This discussion came up about the location for the train station of the city of Barbarossa. The choice fell to a site south of the former settlement area, thus able to settle between the station and the city firms.

As a particularly complex proved to be the crossing of the Palatinate Forest between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt, which is why after the opening of the leg Ludwigshafen (formerly Rheinschanze ) -Neustadt railway was built further to the west is not continuous on June 11, 1847. So Homburg Kaiserslautern was the section at that same time, the substructure while to Frankenstein only the embankments were largely completed.

The section Homburg Kaiserslautern was opened on 2 July after 've been gone from the 10th trial basis until June 15 trains with a total of 5584 passengers. On December 2 of the year by binding of the section was made up by Frankenstein, causing the station to the transit station was. On 6 June of the following year was achieved in a westerly direction Bexbach before August 25, followed by closing the gap between Frankenstein and Neustadt. Previously, carriages - then called buses - took over the traffic between the two parts line.

Development to the railway junction (1860-1913)

1869, the station was used by 143 795 passengers; so that he was behind the station Landau, who at that time despite lower population of 160 636 passengers Landau had.

Already in the years 1870 and 1871 opened Alsenztalbahn of high Speyer to Munster, which functioned as a transit route in north-south direction had been taken in view of the interests of the City of Kaiserslautern, by a reversing triangle was in high Speyer. In this way, train movements were possible into Barbarossa city. Nevertheless, the route via high Speyer was perceived as detour, was why, in the interest of long distance traffic a link from Kaiserslautern to sink stream on the Alsenzstrecke on May 15, 1875. This Kaiserslautern eventually became a railway junction. Long-distance trains of the relations of Kaiserslautern - Bad Kreuznach - Ruhr area, Kaiserslautern - Worms - Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern - Alzey - Mainz saved a detour through high Speyer.

By 1860, the Commitee of the notables of the Glan- and Lauter valley, which had its seat in Wolfenstein formed. It campaigned for a railway line that branch in Kaiserslautern from the Palatine Ludwig Railway, then run through the volume up and the lower Glantal and should meet in Staudernheim on the accomplished in the same year Rhein-Nahe Railway. A similar concession was granted the mid-1860s. The committee sent a memorandum to the resident in Ludwigshafen Directorate of Palatine Ludwig Railway Company. The project was in competition to a route along the Alsenz. After the opening of Alsenztalbahn in 1870, which was designed from the outset for long-distance traffic, the probability of a rail connection dropped significantly by the Lauter. However, a corresponding concession was granted on May 9, 1880.

Due to the expected heavy freight traffic on the planned West station it was on this section as a full path in the concept, the remaining portion to Lauterecken as a secondary path, who received a lighter superstructure. The construction of the railway was not gradually from south to north, but relatively simultaneously by different companies. On November 15, 1883, the line was opened on September 17, after already a test drive had confirmed that they work satisfactorily.

In 1913 the railway line Kaiserslautern - Forest Fischbach, as the gap closure to the branch lines Biebermühle - acted Pirmasens - Forest Fischbach and Biebermühle. The total distance of Kaiserslautern - Pirmasens, also drove on the long-distance trains, was also referred to as Biebermühlbahn.

Further development (1914-1960)

1919 also was the Opened in 1911, branching off from the Lauterbrunnen Valley Railway branch line to Otter Mountain released for the passenger; in the years 1914 and 1920 also was the brook course, which was also of a branch line of the Lauter route, put into operation. The latter thereby gained, especially in its southern section to the station Lampertsmühle - Otterbach important as the passenger trains of the two mentioned routes were often tied to Kaiserslautern. Since the close marshalling yard was increasingly reached the limits of its performance, some 1920 kilometers further west Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard was opened. First served henceforth solely for parking of rolling stock.

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 Saarbrücken. 1926 was the stretch Kaiserslautern Einsiedlerhof addition to freight two more tracks.

After the Second World War, the station was part of the Railway Board Mainz. Due to the separation of the Saarland wrong only seven pairs of trains to Saarbrücken, primarily served the employees of this region.

1951 has been set up on the Lauter Valley Railway directly at the branch of the railway line Mannheim -Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern the breakpoint Pfaff factory; it is thus part of the railway tracks to the central station. Its importance lay primarily in the rush hour for employees of the sewing machine company Pfaff, before this moved within the city limits in 2007.

Since the Thunder Mountain train is interrupted by the blast of the Pfrimmtalviadukts until today, lost the direct traffic to Mainz in importance. In 1954 the passenger to Otter mountain. About the neighboring Zellertalstraße Railroad ran until the early 1960s Eilzüge the relation Kaiserslautern -Worms.

Development from 1960

Since the highway from Mannheim to Saarbrücken has always had a great significance for the long-distance transport, it was electrified in stages from 1960. After between Saarbrücken and Homburg could be driven electrically already on 8 March 1960, the portion Homburg Kaiserslautern followed on 18 May 1961 before the track over entire length was electrically drivable from 12 March 1964. The electrification of the latter section was mainly due to the numerous tunnels between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt, which had to be widened for a delay. Specially opening sailed the Rheingold route.

As part of the resolution of the Mainz Directorate came the railway station 1971 Bundesbahndirektion Karlsruhe. In the following period the volume Valley Railway was increasingly threatened with closure after the branching off of her Bach train 1972 passenger lost and extending north of the former Glantalbahn was also phased out in the 1980s.

In 2000, the station and the entire Western Palatinate was initially part of the Western Palatinate Transport Association ( Warsaw Transport Authority ) before this came up six years later in the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN). He is a stop of the S - Bahn Rhein Neckar, next to it is integrated into the ICE network of the Deutsche Bahn and hub for all regional trains in the Western Palatinate. On 10 June 2007, the trans-European high-speed line Rhealys was taken with breakpoint in Kaiserslautern in operation. The journey time to Paris is since then only two and a half hours.

Structures

First reception building

At the time of opening of the Ludwigsbahn the station received a reception building, which is already three decades later proved in relation to the volume of traffic to be too small and was demolished in 1879 for this reason. Its middle section was then built in Gersheim again, so he served as the station building built in the same year Blew Valley Railway and its closure outlasted including degradation.

Second reception building

The second building of the station was considerably larger. It was hit hard during the Second World War affected, which is why it was dismantled gradually in the postwar period. For this reason, initially served as a temporary waiting rooms.

Third reception building

The current station building was completed in the early 1950s. It was rebuilt in 2003 and houses among others a Service Point and several shops. Additionally, inputs and transition assistance for disadvantaged persons is offered by the station staff. For them, the step-free access to all of the tracks is possible.

Traffic

Passenger

The first schedule has three rates between Homburg and Kaiserslautern. Just six months later they ran through to Frankenstein. In 1884 there were continuous connections to the relation Neunkirchen -Homburg, Kaiserslautern - Schiffer city -Ludwigshafen -Worms. With the continuous opening of the 1913 Biermühlbahn existed both trains of Pirmasens Kaiserslautern to Mainz and Darmstadt as well as those that lead only to Schopp.

There are the following long-distance and local traffic connections:

Long-distance traffic

S -Bahn DB & regional transport

• S 1 Homburg - Kaiserslautern Hbf - Neustadt - Ludwigshafen - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Osterburken
• S 2 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Neustadt - Ludwigshafen - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Mosbach
• RE 6 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Neustadt - Landau (Pfalz ) - Karlsruhe
• RE 7 Saarbrücken - Homburg - Kaiserslautern Hbf - Neustadt - Mannheim
• RE 60 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Homburg - Saarbrücken - Völklingen - Saarlouis - Dillingen ( Saar) - Merzig (Saar) - Konz - Trier
• RB 66 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Wolfenstein - Lauterecken - Grumbach
• RB 65 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Winnweiler - Rockhausen - (Mainz) - Bingen
• RB 64 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Schopp - Forest Fischbach Castle albums - Pirmasens Nord - Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof
• RB 67 Kaiserslautern Hbf - Landstuhl - Kusel

Freight traffic

Kaiserslautern was formerly until the closure of the marshalling yard and freight Einsiedlerhof an important railway junction.

Bus

In the newly designed station forecourt of Kaiserslautern is a heavily used bus station, through which there is a smooth transition to public transport. Buses from here go to the University of Kaiserslautern, the Betz Mountain, as well as the central Busumsteigepunkte Schiller Square and City Hall, where a transition to all bus routes of the city is.