| Alsenz | |
| Native Name Lang: | de |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Symbol Location: | de |
| Type: | Through station |
| Address: | Bahnhofstr. 1, Alsenz, Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 49.728°N 7.8173°W |
| Line: |
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| Platforms: | 3 |
| Zone: | VRN 861[1] |
| Opened: | 16 May 1871 |
| Website: | www.bahnhof.de |
| Map Type: | Rhineland-Palatinate#Germany#Europe |
| Map Dot Label: | Alsenz |
Alsenz station is the station of the town of Alsenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platforms. Its address is Bahnhofstraße 1.[2]
It is located on the Alsenz Valley Railway (Alsenztalbahn, Hochspeyer–Bad Münster) and was opened on 16 May 1871 with the section from Winnweiler to Bad Münster. In 1903, the station became the starting point of a narrow gauge branch line to Obermoschel, which was closed in 1935.
The station is located within the northeastern built-up area of the community of Alsenz. The local Bahnhofstraße (station street) runs to its west.
The first campaign for a railway connection to the Alsenz valley (Alsenztal) started around 1860. This would have above all created a shorter north-south route for transit traffic that had up to that point been carried through Mainz. After the Hochspeyer–Winnweiler section had already been opened in November 1870, the gap to Bad Münster was closed six months later on 16 May 1871. As a result, the municipality of Alsenz, which is located on this section, also received a station.
In order to join the nearby town of Obermoschel to the railway network, a narrow-gauge railway was built to Alsenz, which opened was on 1 October 1903; thus Alsenz became an interchange station. In 1922, the station was integrated into the new Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen (railway division of Ludwigshafen). Since the line to Obermoschel was poorly loaded, it was closed in 1935. During the dissolution of the railway division of Ludwigshafen, on 1 April 1937, control of the station was transferred to the railway division of Mainz.[3]
After the Second World War, the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) transferred the station to the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz (Bundesbahn railway division of Mainz), which was assigned all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate. As early as 1971, it became a part of the railway division of Saarbrücken with the dissolution of the railway division of Mainz.[4] In 2000, the station, like all stations in the Western Palatinate, became part of the Westpfalz-Verkehrsverbund (Western Palatinate transport association, WVV) at its foundation, but the WVV was absorbed into the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar transport association, VRN) six years later.
| 1 | 177 m | 55 cm | Regionalbahn services towards Kaiserslautern | |
| 2 | 120 m | 55 cm | Regionalbahn services towards Bingen | |
| 3 | 120 m | 55 cm | No regular use |
Two signal boxes were available for the control and monitoring of the station tracks and signals. Signal box I was located at the entrance building in the eastern side of the station. Signal box II was located at the northern end of the station and also operated the level crossing barriers next to it. Both buildings no longer exist.
The entrance building is similar to all the stations built in the Palatinate in the 1860s and 1870s.[6] It is no longer used for railway operations.
