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Bellheim station is a station in the village of
Bellheim Bellheim is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is situated west of the Rhine, approximately east of Landau and northwest of the city of Karlsruhe. It is home to the Bellheimer Brauerei ...
in the German state of
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.
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classifies it as a
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6 station and it has two platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the ''Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund'' (Karlsruhe Transport Association, KVV). Since 2001, the station has also been part of the area where the fares of the ''
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'' (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) are accepted at a transitional rate. The address of the station is ''Bahnhofstraße 8''. It is located on the
Schifferstadt–Wörth railway The Schifferstadt–Wörth railway or Speyer line is a uniformly double track and electrified main line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Between Schifferstadt station, Schifferstadt and Germersheim station, Germersheim it is part of th ...
and was opened on 25 July 1876 with the commissioning of the
Germersheim Germersheim () is a town in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, of around 20,000 inhabitants. It is also the seat of the Germersheim (district), Germersheim district. The neighboring towns and cities are Speyer, Landau, Philippsburg, Karlsru ...
Wörth section of that railway. It is now classified as a ''Haltepunkt'' (halt). Since late 2010 it has been part of the
Karlsruhe Stadtbahn The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is a German tram-train system combining Karlsruhe trams, tram lines in the city of Karlsruhe with railway lines in the surrounding countryside, serving the entire region of the middle upper Rhine valley and creating connec ...
. Since a new halt was opened at the same time, it is sometimes called ''Bellheim Bahnhof'' (Bellheim station), including in the recorded announcements of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn.


Location

The station is located on the south-eastern outskirts of Bellheim.


History


Railway initiatives around Bellheim

Originally the administration of the
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(''Rheinkreis''), which was part of
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, planned that its first railway line would be first in the north–south direction from Rheinschanze via
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to
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, which would compete with the Mannheim–Basel railway proposed by
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. However, instead it was decided to build the
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(''Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn'',
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), which was opened in the period from 1847 to 1849. In the meantime, discussions took place as to whether a line from Neustadt via Landau to
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or a line along the
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via
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,
Germersheim Germersheim () is a town in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, of around 20,000 inhabitants. It is also the seat of the Germersheim (district), Germersheim district. The neighboring towns and cities are Speyer, Landau, Philippsburg, Karlsru ...
and Wörth was more urgent and desirable. Since the military preferred a route on the edge of the
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(''Pfälzerwald''), this was built in the form of the Maximilian Railway between Neustadt and Wissembourg. The line to Speyer, which was opened in 1847, was extended to Germersheim in 1864. As a result, plans were made to establish a
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between the fortresses of Germersheim and
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. Of a total of four options, two would have run south of the
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via Offenbach. The city council of
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, in particular, supported a route through Bellheim. Nevertheless, the line was built north of the river, passing through
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. In 1863 and 1864, a local committee from the surrounding community of
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, which included representatives of Bellheim, campaigned to extend the line that ended in Germersheim to Wörth. Subsequently, its first plan was produced, showing a route that ran via Bellheim.


Further development

The station became part of the area of the ''Reichsbahndirektion'' ( Reichsbahn railway division) of Ludwigshafen after the founding of the
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in 1922. During the dissolution of the railway division of Ludwigshafen, responsibility for it was transferred to the railway division of Mainz on 1 May 1937.
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(DB), which was responsible for railway operations from 1949, assigned the station to the railway division of Mainz, which was responsible for all railway lines within the newly created state of
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. In the course of the staged dissolution of the railway division of Mainz from 1 August 1971, its counterpart in Karlsruhe took responsibility for the station. The station had been downgraded to a halt in the 1990s. The station became part of the
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in 2010. This involved the replacement of the island platform by a side platform.


Entrance building

The former entrance building was built around 1870 as a so-called "standard building" in brick. It was built in the period when the station was opened and is under heritage protection. It is no longer used for railway operations.


Operations

The station is served at 30-minute intervals. Lines S 51 and S 52 of
Karlsruhe Stadtbahn The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is a German tram-train system combining Karlsruhe trams, tram lines in the city of Karlsruhe with railway lines in the surrounding countryside, serving the entire region of the middle upper Rhine valley and creating connec ...
run once an hour, beginning in
Germersheim station Germersheim station is a junction station in the town of Germersheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a German railway station categories, category 5 station and it has four platform tracks. The station ...
and running to the Karlsruhe inner city. The former follows the
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until shortly before
Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Karlsruhe. The station is classified as a Category 1 station, as it is a major hub where several railways connect. History Old station When the Baden Mainline was built betwe ...
, where it runs over the ramp to the Albtalbahnhof to connect with the tram network. The S 52 leaves the Winden–Karlsruhe railway east of Maxau, then runs over tram lines through the Karlsruhe district of Knielingen and from there to the inner city. Previously, Bellheim station had a connecting line to a NATO
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and one to the ''Büromöbelfabrik Kardex'', both of which are now dismantled.


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