Husum – Bad St. Peter-Ording railway line

Husum-Bad St. Peter-Ording
Route number (DB) :	1204 (Husum – Tönning) 1205 (Tönning-Bad St Peter – Ording)
Course book section (DB) :	135
Route length:	43.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Westerland 0.0 Husum to the Bw Husum , to Kiel according to invent 4.6 Abzw Hörn Marching train to Hamburg 7.6 Platenhörn 9.9 Büttel 11.8 Joke word need stop 15.4 Harblek former station, demand stop former ferry to Karolinenkoog Toenning harbor 21.2 Tönning (today terminus ) 25.6 Kating needs stop 28.4 Katharinenheerd 31.9 Garding (former station) 33.2 Sandwiches on demand stop 35.1 Heisternest 36.5 Tating (former station) 40.9 Bad St Peter South Dike passage 43.6 Bad St Peter-Ording

The Husum – Bad Sankt Peter-Ording line (also known as the Eiderstedter line or Eiderstedtquerbahn ) is a 44 km long, single-track, non-electrified branch line in Schleswig-Holstein . The route connects the North Frisian district town of Husum with all important places on the Eiderstedt peninsula , such as Tönning , Garding and St. Peter-Ording , in an east-west direction.

The regional railway Schleswig-Holstein operates the passenger traffic every hour.

geography

Level crossing in Tönning

From the Husum train station , a section of the march railway to the Hörn junction is first traveled. Since there is only one turnout there for reasons of rationalization , the route in the direction of Husum is contrary to the normal direction of travel - that is, on the "left track". The line then traverses the flat, predominantly agricultural marshland of the Eiderstedter landscape until it is introduced next to the branch from Bad St. Peter-Ording into the northern head of the Tönning terminus. This station serves as a meeting point for the trains that cross here every hour.

After leaving the Tönning station, a few sluice bridges and the dike passage at St. Peter-Ort form the only engineering structures on the route. The only remaining stop with a massive reception building in the area between St. Peter-Ort and Tönning is the Katharinenheerd train station .

The great distance of some stations to the actual town center (for example Kating and Witzwort ) is explained by the fear that prevailed in Eiderstedter in the 19th century that “bad people would come to the village” through the rail link . In addition, construction costs, the interests of landowners and the handling of freight traffic may have played an important role for the railway administrations.

Operation and history

Historically, the railway was made up of two sections: the section from Tönning to Husum, which was built as part of the Tönning – Flensburg line in the middle of the 19th century (opened in 1854) and the section from Tönning to Garding (opened in 1892) and further on St. Peter-Ording (opened in 1932).

Former freight yard Tönning, exit towards the port (2007)

A large catchment area was ensured when the line was built. This is how today's Büttel stop was created under the name Friedrichstadt Chaussee. The Harblek halt was intended to open up both Oldenswort and the Rothenspieker Eider Harbor, which was still important at the time . More than 150 years after the opening, the importance of the route for developing rural areas in passenger and tourist traffic has changed completely.

Tönning has such a terminus , which is rare in rural areas. From the beginning, a port railway for the purpose of loading cattle and importing coal from Great Britain led over the head end, which prompted the British construction company Peto, Brassey and Betts to build the railway, which also built a port railway in Flensburg for the same purpose . In addition, from 1878 it was possible to cross over to Karolinenkoog in Tönning by ferry , from where there were connections to Heide and on to Hamburg . Until 1886, this combination of rail and ship traffic was the quickest way to reach Hamburg from Husum, since at that time the Hamburg – Heide – Husum – Niebüll march was only completed as far as Heide.

The old route reached Husum from the southwest and ended at the end of a curve from the west in the Husum train station, located south of the city in the local area of ​​Poggenburg. It left this - today as the route to Jübek - east towards Flensburg.

From 1902 the line was connected with the newly built Hörn junction east of Platenhörn to the march railway built in 1887, which meant that the western line through the Südermarsch lost its function. With the opening of the Hörn branch on February 1, 1905, the old line was shut down and dismantled by 1910. Today only the property boundaries remind of the old route. The Harblek stop, which was built near the Eiderhafen Rothenspieker, which was important in 1852, is explained by the construction time, while the locally more important Oldens word was not considered.

The continuation of the route beyond Garding to St. Peter only happened 78 years after the route to Tönning was opened for cost reasons. Before that, the spa guests and tourists were driven from the end of the route in Garding in carts and postbuses to the North Sea resort, which is popular because of the wide sandy beach. After the number of overnight stays in the towns of St. Peter and Ording had risen sharply in the 1920s and 1930s, it was decided to extend the route. The residents of the two places fought over the station names. The at that time still independent localities Ording and St. Peter finally saw their interests united in the station name Bad St. Peter-Ording - so the term Bad St. Peter-Ording was coined in the 1930s , which in 1967 when the municipalities were amalgamated as official Place name came into use. In order not to give the place St. Peter-Dorf an overly provincial character, he used Bad St. Peter-Süd as the station name, contrary to the official name village .

Post war and decline

In order to repair the damage caused by the Second World War , the line in the Bad St. Peter-Ording – Garding section had to be closed in 1945. It was only possible to drive regularly again from 1947.

Tönning station (2019)

In the beginning, the line was operated with steam trains, then with DB class V 36 and red Donnerbüchsen . For the winter timetable 1960, the operation was switched to railcars of the VT 95-98 series (with up to six units). Later, the passenger train services were provided with battery multiple units.

As on many branch lines, the Eiderstedter route went downhill from the mid-1950s. Passenger traffic was gradually reduced, freight traffic stopped, track systems were dismantled and connection times in Husum deteriorated. The abandonment of baggage handling and the use of uneconomical train sets ( DB class V 100 with n-car - control car ) heralded the decline of the line.

Most recently, the total closure of the line was up for discussion, because the then heavily indebted Federal Railroad wanted to get out of the red by closing low-traffic lines . Therefore, around 1976 and around 1983, the DB submitted proposals to the Ministry of Transport to shut down the Eiderstedter route, which met with displeasure and criticism from the municipalities in the district of North Friesland, who saw the route as indispensable for tourism. Due to the great commitment in the North Friesland region, the decommissioning efforts of the DB failed.

The entire route is controlled by an electromechanical dispatcher interlocking in Tönning station, from which the two entry and exit signals as well as the two switches in Tönning are operated in order to cross the two trains on the route. For the eastern part of the route up to the Hörn junction (Husum), an adjustment to the electronic signal box in Husum applies . The line from Tönning to Bad St. Peter-Ording is operated in branch line block operation .

Renaissance and new operator

Motivated by the state of Schleswig-Holstein, the Federal Railroad has been investing in the line again since the early 1990s. With the introduction of the regional express train and the hourly service , modern class 628 railcars dominated the scene . The operation became more economical, faster and more attractive.

Nord-Ostsee-Bahn

In 2000 the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB) took over traffic with Alstom Coradia LINT and Bombardier Talent railcars after winning the tender . It was this railway company that initiated regular regular traffic from early morning to late evening and introduced the “Gleisradio”, a special passenger information system that uses GPS to provide information about special features of the route.

The trains via Husum, Schleswig and Rendsburg to Kiel Hauptbahnhof were partially tied through.

Track of Tönning station (2019)

Bad St. Peter-Ording stop (2006)

LINT multiple unit near St. Peter (2006)

In addition, the NOB was regionally focused: For example, a LINT multiple unit, in which the curriculum vitae of Theodor Mommsen was presented in a clear manner , was baptized in the name of this man. At the same time, the Gardinger station signs were given the addition "Mommsen-Stadt".

In addition, all smaller stations were equipped with modern shelters and signs as part of an immediate program from DB Station & Service . The Tönning train station was given a new coat of paint and the end point in Ording was extensively modernized. There was a new platform with a new entrance, a new bus stop and a taxi strip. The reception building, which had been closed to date, was brought out of its "slumber" and extensively restored - in addition to a bistro and a heated waiting room, there is again a ticket office for passengers.

For the interests of passengers, the on 8 May 2001, founded (as part of a pilot project of the Schleswig-Holstein) sat route advisory one. There were regular meetings with passengers and those responsible at locations along the route and it can be proven that the newspaper StraßenSchnack appeared twice a year until 2007 .

The route is particularly important for tourism and is an important feeder to the North Sea resort of Bad St. Peter-Ording. In addition, school and commuter traffic are important and there are high passenger numbers of up to 3000 people in the summer months and of about 1600 people per day. Ticket offices are located in Husum, Tönning and Bad St. Peter-Ording.

R-SH

Since December 11, 2011, the route in passenger traffic has again been operated by the Schleswig-Holstein regional train.

literature

• Erich Staisch (editor): The train to the north . Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-8225-0298-7 .
• Hans Bock: The March Railway . Boyens, Heide 1989, ISBN 3-8042-0458-9 .

Web links

Commons : West Coast  Railway album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Very extensive website about the route ( Memento from October 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Website on Husum train station, the starting point of the route ( memento from September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} track newspaper 1/1. September 2001 ( Memento from May 29, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Husum's connection to the big wide world ( Memento from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Husum – Platenhörn Abzw ( memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ track newspaper 1/2. December 2001 ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Holger Kaufhold, Eckhard Klein, Detlef Schikorr: 150 Years of the Railway in Flensburg - From the Southern Schleswig Railway to the Bahn AG. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935909-22-5 , pp. 17ff
6. ^ Page on Tönning station ( Memento from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ trainstories.de
8. ↑ Streckenzeitung 2/2. July 2002 ( Memento from February 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Route Advisory Board ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament / transfer 16/4273. Nationwide local transport plan 2008 - 2012. May 12, 2009, accessed on December 28, 2019 (pDF). 
11. ^ Bahn-Report , 3/2009

This version was added to the list of articles worth reading on June 24, 2007 .