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Nahe Valley Railway
The Nahe Valley Railway (german: Nahetalbahn) is a two-track, partially electrified main line railway in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which runs for almost 100 kilometres along the Nahe (Rhine), Nahe. It was built by the Rhine-Nahe Railway Company and connects Bingen Central Station, Bingen am Rhein on the West Rhine Railway, Left Rhine line with Saarbrücken Central Station, Saarbrücken. It was opened between 1858 and 1860 and is List of the first German railways to 1870, one of the oldest railways in Germany. The section south of Bad Kreuznach is part of the regionally important transport corridor between the two major cities of Mainz and Saarbrücken. History First initiatives and the opening of the Neunkirchen–Saarbrücken section As early as 1839, there were plans to build a railway connection between the Saar (river), Saar and the Middle Rhine, which could not be realised due to high construction costs. The first section between Neunkirchen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof
Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Bingen am Rhein on the West Rhine Railway. It is located in the borough of Bingerbrück. The station that serves central Bingen is called Bingen Stadt. The station is served by InterCityExpress, Intercity and regional trains. It is a junction station where the Nahe Valley Railway branches of the West Rhine Railway (left bank line). It formerly also included a marshalling yard. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. Location Bingen Hbf is located in the district of Bingerbrück in the city of Bingen am Rhein and extends along the Rhine almost to the Nahe. Bingen Stadt (town) station is less than 2 kilometres to the southeast. The town station is located in the town's centre and its bus station gives better access to the town's bus services than the Hauptbahnhof. Three of the attractions of ''The Industrial Heritage Trail Rhine-Main'' (''Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main''), wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in the world with buildings on it.Brückenhäuser, Alte Nahebrücke, Neustadt , Bad Kreuznach o www.romantic-germany.info (in English). Retrieved 14 June 2018 The town is located in the Nahe River wine region, renowned both nationally and internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Sobernheim Station
Bad Sobernheim station is a through station, 38.44 km from Bingen on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken), in the town of Bad Sobernheim in the district of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. Infrastructure The heritage-listed entrance building was built in the early years of the Nahe Valley Railway during the second half of the 19th century. It consists of a two-story main building, built of sandstone ashlar, with eight portals on the long sides, and flanked by single-storey wings with three portals. The three buildings are topped by slated hip roofs. From 2006 to 2007, the station was rebuilt and now has two 160 metre-long platforms on three platform tracks, lifts and an underpass. In 2012 the park-and-ride area was expanded. A “bike-and-ride” facility is located at the station to serve riders on the Nahe cycleway (''Nahe-Radweg''). Rail services From Monday to Sunday there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staudernheim Station
Staudernheim station is a through station, located 35.3 km from Bingen on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken), in Staudernheim in the district of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was opened with this line on 15 December 1859 and was the first and only station in the Meisenheim exclave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, which was absorbed by Prussia in 1866. The station is located in the network area of the ''Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund'' (Rhine-Nahe Transport Association, RNN) and it is in fare zone 420. Its address is Bahnhofstraße 1. Location The station is not far from the left bank of the Nahe. Residential areas extend to its north and south. It has barrier-free access. The Nahe Valley Railway runs through the municipality in an east-west direction approximately parallel to the Nahe river on its north side. The Glan Valley Railway, which has been disused since 1996, comes from the south at first in a wide arc around the Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draisine
A draisine () is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure. The eponymous term is derived from the German inventor Baron Karl Drais, who invented his ''Laufmaschine'' (German for "running machine") in 1817, which was called ''Draisine'' in German (''vélocipède'' or ''draisienne'' in French) by the press. It is the first reliable claim for a practically used precursor to the bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse. Later, the name draisine came to be applied only to the invention used on rails and was extended to similar vehicles, even when not human-powered. Because of their low weight and small size, they can be put on and taken off the rails at any place, allowing trains to pass. In the United States, motor-powered draisines are known as speeders while human- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldböckelheim
Waldböckelheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. Geography Waldböckelheim is located north of the Nahe in the Rhenish Massif. Waldböckelheim is surrounded by three extinct volcanoes. History It was mentioned first on 10 February 824 ''Becchilenheim''. The prefix ''Wald'' (forest) was prefixed in the 13th Century to distinguish themselves from Gau-Bickelheim. In the castle ''Böckelheim'' was Emperor Henry IV prisoner of his son in December 1105. The office Bockelheim was formed together with the surrounding villages. After changing ownership several times, it belonged more than 300 years to the Electorate of the Palatinate The Electoral Palatinate (german: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (), was a state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of .... Economy In Waldböckelheim there are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niederhausen (Nahe)
Niederhausen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town. Niederhausen is a state-recognized tourism community (''Fremdenverkehrsort'') and a winegrowing village. Geography Location At an elevation of 150 m above sea level, Niederhausen lies on the Nahe where it marks the division between the outlying edge of the Hunsrück and the North Palatine Uplands. The village lies on a south-facing slope on a reach of the river that is dammed up and consequently 120 m wide. Neighbouring municipalities Clockwise from the north, Niederhausen's neighbours are the municipalities of Hüffelsheim and Norheim, the town of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg and the municipalities of Feilbingert, Oberhausen an der Nahe and Schloßböckelheim, all of which likewise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norheim
Norheim (in the local speech ''Norem'') is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town. Norheim is a state-recognized tourism community (''Fremdenverkehrsort''). and a winegrowing village. Geography Location Norheim lies in the Nahe valley near the Rheingrafenstein with its castle, and near the Rotenfels. Norheim’s elevation is 135 m above sea level and its municipal area measures 3.15 km². Neighbouring municipalities Clockwise from the north, Norheim’s neighbours are the municipality of Traisen, the town of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg and the municipalities of Niederhausen and Hüffelsheim, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district. Constituent communities Also belonging to Norheim are the outlying homesteads of Brun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glan Valley Railway
The Glan Valley Railway (german: Glantalbahn) is a non-electrified line along the Glan river, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It consists of the Glan-Münchweiler–Altenglan section, which was built as part of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway and sections that were built later for military reasons: Homburg–Glan-Münchweiler, Altenglan– Staudernheim and Odernheim– Bad Münster am Stein. The line had strategic importance, otherwise traffic was rather low, except on the Glan Munchweiler–Altenglan section. The line runs right next to the river for 60 km of its 85 km length from Homburg to Bad Münster. The line is closed, except for the ten km section from Glan-Münchweiler to Altenglan that forms part of the Landstuhl–Kusel line. It is used for tourism and draisine rides have been offered on the section between Altenglan and Staudernheim since 2000. In contrast, the Waldmohr–Glan-Münchweiler section has been dismantled. History Although the poss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesstraße 48
''Bundesstraße'' (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German ''Bundesstraßen'' are labelled with rectangular yellow signs with black numerals, as opposed to the white-on-blue markers of the ''Autobahn'' controlled-access highways. ''Bundesstraßen'', like autobahns, are maintained by the federal agency of the Transport Ministry. In the German highway system they rank below autobahns, but above the ''Landesstraßen'' and ''Kreisstraßen'' maintained by the federal states and the districts respectively. The numbering was implemented by law in 1932 and has overall been retained up to today, except for those roads located in the former eastern territories of Germany. One distinguishing characteristic between German ''Bundesstraßen'' and ''Autobahnen'' is that there usually is a general 100 km/h (62 mph) spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alsenz Valley Railway
The Alsenz Valley Railway (german: Alsenztalbahn) is a line that runs from Hochspeyer via Winnweiler and Alsenz to Bad Munster am Stein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The line closely follows the Alsenz river from the Enkenbach district and crosses it several times. It was originally built primarily as a long-distance route, but it has lost this function since 1990 and is now exclusively used for local transport. Route Between Enkenbach and Bad Münster the line has continuous double track; only the Enkenbach–Hochspeyer section is single track. From Enkenbach the line follows the Alsenz river to Alsenz. Due to the difficult topographical conditions, the line has to cross the Alsenz river several times and has three tunnels. It runs along the edge of the Palatinate Forest to about Langmeil, where it enters the North Palatine Uplands. From Hochspeyer to the abandoned Neuhemsbach station the line is within the district of Kaiserslautern, from Münchweiler an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Münster Am Stein Station
Bad Münster am Stein station is a station at a railway junction in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, a district of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station building, dating from about 1910, is protected as a monument. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The station is located in the network of the ''Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund'' (Rhine-Nahe local transport association, RNN) and belongs to fare zone 401. Its address is: ''Berliner Straße 20''. The station, opened in 1859, was initially a through station on the Nahe Valley Railway (''Nahetalbahn''), which was built by the Rhine-Nahe Railway Company (''Rhein-Nahe-Bahn''). In 1871, the Alsenz Valley Railway (''Alsenztalbahn'') was opened from Hochspeyer with its northern terminus in the town then called just ''Münster''. From 1904 to 1961, it was also the north-eastern terminus of the Glan Valley Railway (''Glantalbahn''), a strategic railway running to Homburg. Location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
