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The idea of building a railroad connection that would link traffic in the Selz Valley to the larger cities of Rheinhessen emerged as early as the construction of the Mainz-Worms (1853) and Mainz-Alzey via Saulheim (1871) railroad lines. The commissioning of a so-called “branch line” from Bodenheim to Alzey at the end of the 19th century represented a quantum leap with regard to the economic development of the community of Harxheim. The line was opened on September 28, 1896, and the actual commissioning dates back to October 1, 1896.<\/p>\n
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The 30.9 km long connection between Bodenheim and Alzey was adapted to the topography of the Rhine-Hessian hill country and was accordingly characterized by numerous curves and sometimes challenging inclines. In the run-up to the project, there were numerous controversial debates and long arguments about the planned route. Since the respective station area was to be made available free of charge, the communities located along the railroad line had to dig deep into their budgets to realize the line.<\/p>\n
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A total of eight stations and two additional stops were built along the train route. Additional loading sidings were provided for tradesmen and farmers. The station on the then outskirts of Harxheim was initially called Harxheim (Rheinh.)<\/em> and was not renamed Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler<\/em> until 1910.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/doku-harxheim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CHR-Ort-09-B1-Der-Bahnhof-Harxheim-Lo\u0308rzweiler-scaled.jpg” title_text=”CHR Location 09 B1 The station Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_direction=”222deg” background_color_gradient_stops=”#ffffff 0%|gcid-1ba3a96e-9d31-4f54-aae7-420968453e89 100%” background_color_gradient_start=”#ffffff” background_color_gradient_end=”gcid-1ba3a96e-9d31-4f54-aae7-420968453e89″ custom_margin=”1px||6px|||” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-1ba3a96e-9d31-4f54-aae7-420968453e89%22:%91%22colorEnd%22%93}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”4px||-1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Course of the Amiche branch line<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”8px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”100px” custom_margin=”-21px|auto|-15px|auto||” custom_padding=”1px|||||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”80.6px” custom_margin=”23px|||||” custom_padding=”0px||4px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Until the completion of this branch line, the agricultural products, these were mainly grain and wine, but also livestock and milk – Harxheim had over 200 cows at that time – had to be brought to market by cart over poor gravel roads quite laboriously. The transport of sugar beet could now be done more effectively and faster. In addition, the opportunity to travel to Alzey for school opened up.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-8px|||||” custom_padding=”16px||7px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-28px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/doku-harxheim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CHR-Ort-09-B2-Der-Bahnhof-Harxheim-Lo\u0308rzweiler-scaled.jpg” title_text=”CHR Location 09 B2 The station Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||15px|||” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”2px||-1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Station Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler 1948, view from the front<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”8px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Image: Willi Buchert<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||19px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The stations were built in the so-called type construction. They are similar except for a few details. They are designed either in two parts with a boarded freight shed or in three parts with a separate freight shed. In the case of the two-part structures, the design can also be laterally reversed. On the first floor were the service rooms and on the second floor was the apartment of the railroad employee.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||19px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In the edition of the Landeskrone<\/em> one could read the following on the opening of the route: “Bodenheim was festively decorated…, present were His Excellency Minister of State…, His Excellency Minister of Finance…, the Herr Provinzialdirektor…, the Herr Kreisrat…, the Herr Oberb\u00fcrgermeister of Mainz…, who greeted those present and raised a toast to the Grand Duke. All stations Bodenheim, Gau-Bischofsheim, Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler, Mommenheim, Selzen-Hahnheim, K\u00f6ngernheim-Undenheim, Bechtolsheim, Gau-Odernheim, GauK\u00f6ngernheim, Framersheim, Schafhausen and Alzey were festively decorated. Warrior, gymnastics and singing clubs with their flags, the fire department, the schools and residents of the respective communities welcomed the participants of the procession with gunshots, singing, cheers, music and waving of cloths. The mayors of the individual towns gave speeches. The opening of the railroad was greeted everywhere with great joy and visible gratitude”.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/doku-harxheim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CHR-Ort-09-B5-Der-Bahnhof-Harxheim-Lo\u0308rzweiler-scaled.jpg” title_text=”CHR Place 09 B5 The station Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||15px|||” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”2px||-1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler station on a postcard from 1917<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”8px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Image: Willi Buchert<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”6px||7px|||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n At that time, four three-axle tender locomotives (Henschel und Sohn, Kassel) pulled twelve passenger cars, two mail and baggage cars (Gebr. Gastell, Mainz-Mombach) and thirty freight cars (Talbot, Aachen) over the line. In the beginning, five passenger trains ran daily in both directions on the entire line, as well as an early morning train from Undenheim\/K\u00f6ngernheim to Alzey. Later, there were also through train connections from Alzey to Mainz. The personnel was provided by the government. There was only a stationmaster at the Gau-Odernheim station. Undenheim-K\u00f6ngernheim got a station assistant, the stations Selzen-Hahnheim and Framersheim each got a stop supervisor; the simple stops were unmanned, all other stations got dispatching (freight receiving and dispatching) station attendants.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”373.2px” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/doku-harxheim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CHR-Ort-09-B3-Der-Bahnhof-Harxheim-Lo\u0308rzweiler.jpg” title_text=”CHR Place 09 B3 The station Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||15px|||” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”2px||-1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Schoolchildren at Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler train station 1938<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”8px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Image: Willi Buchert<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||19px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Giving a pet name to the passenger train – everyone called it the Amiche<\/em> – is typical of Rhinehesse. It was supposedly named after a messenger named Annemarie, who regularly took the train to Mainz to run errands. In the process, she also took orders from other people and gained a certain degree of notoriety as a result. The “Annemarieche” then became the “Amiche” over time. The use of the neuter article corresponds to the Rhenish usage, in which the article “das” is used when addressing the female gender or when mentioning the name of a woman or girl.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||19px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n After less than 100 years, the end of the branch line came and with it the end for the station Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler. Due to lack of profitability, the line was closed to passenger traffic in June 1985. The last transport of beets took place in November 1992. The four Rhine-Hessian communities of Mommenheim, Harxheim, Selzen and Gau-Bischofsheim joined forces in 1994 and shared the costs of land acquisition and construction of a bike path on the former railroad track. Today, this bike path is an integral part of the inter-regional bike path network in Rhineland-Palatinate.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/doku-harxheim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CHR-Ort-09-B4-Der-Bahnhof-Harxheim-Lo\u0308rzweiler-scaled.jpg” title_text=”CHR Place 09 B4 The station Harxheim-L\u00f6rzweiler” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||15px|||” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”2px||-1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Railroad line with sugar beet transport in 1986 before dismantling<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”8px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Image: Willi Buchert<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.22.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”130px” custom_margin=”||-1px|||” custom_padding=”1px||6px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”11px” min_height=”10.8px” custom_margin=”||8px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n References:<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”9px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Fillinger, Gerhard; Hinkel, Manfred (2006): The branch line Bodenheim – Alzey. Erfurt.<\/p>\n Marschall, Bernhard (2007): Geschichten und Geschichte einer Selztalgemeinde. Selzen. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Related Articles” _builder_version=”4.16″ min_height=”357.3px” custom_margin=”||-65px|||” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ header_2_font=”Montserrat|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”70px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_font=”|600|||||||” header_3_font_size=”25px” max_width=”750px” header_2_font_size_tablet=”48px” header_2_font_size_phone=”36px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Related post slider” _builder_version=”4.22.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\nMore contributions<\/h3>\n