Rosseltalbahn

Saarbrücken Hbf – Bous (Saar)
Saarbrücken exhibition center
Route number :	3232 (Saarbrücken – Hostenbach) 3236 (Fürstenhausen – Warndt)
Course book section (DB) :	265c (Reich Course Book 1944)
Route length:	29.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV, 16.7 Hz  ~
Legend from Mannheim and Sarreguemines 0.0 Saarbrücken central station (Bft) 208  m to Wemmetsweiler to Trier 1.9 Bundesstrasse 51 Saarbahn connection point with system separation point 2.3 Saar 2.5 Federal motorway 620 3.2 to Forbach 3.5 Schanzenberg tunnel (250 m) 3.9 Saarbrücken fair station Saarbahn to the fair 5.2 Gersweiler 9.5 Fürstenhausen coking plant 9.8 0.0 Fürstenhausen Rossel 3.4 Geislautern Rossel 5.7 Velsen Rossel 7.3 Great thrushes 13.7 Warning pit 13.0 Wehrden tunnel (104 m) 13.8 Wehrden 14.2 from Völklingen 16.2 Hostenbach to Thionville Saar from Saarbrücken 18.6 Bous (Saar) to Trier Swell:

The Rosseltalbahn is a standard-gauge branch line in Saarland with two tracks to Wehrden (Hallerbrücke) .

course

The Rosseltalbahn splits behind Saarbrücken main station on the left bank of the Saar from the Forbacher Bahn , goes through the Schanzenberg tunnel and immediately behind it leads past the Saarbrücken exhibition center . Behind the tram stop Ludwigstraße , the Rosseltalbahn is connected to the Saarbrücken inner-city route via a ramp where there is a system separation point. In the past, this was mainly used for coal transport to the Warndt mine . After about ten kilometers, the route separates into the branch in the direction of Wadgassen - Werbeln - Überherrn and the approximately 13-kilometer section into the Rosseltal to Großrosseln . From there it was extended in 1962 to the Warndt mine near Karlsbrunn . The connection from Hostenbach back over the Saar to Bous , which had already been established in 1907, was not restored after the railway bridge at Bous over the Saar was blown up at the end of the Second World War .

traffic

From the opening of the line in 1907 to the closure of the Warndt-Luisenthal mine, this line was heavily used by freight trains and has even been electrified since 1963. This year the new Karlsbrunn mine was approached with the coal trains of the Rosseltalbahn (Warndtkohlenbahn). As everywhere else in the area, the brisk personnel traffic up until the Second World War continued to decline.

The Saarbrücken – Großrosseln line had a special feature: the Wittfeld accumulator railcars AT 3 operated on it until 1948 .

In 1976, rail passenger traffic was discontinued and the stations closed. Until the mid- 1980s , a few occasional trips for passenger transport were still carried out. The prestigious station building of the Prussian State Railroad in Gersweiler , built when the route opened, is a striking example of the historicist station architecture in the German Empire . A chestnut avenue also belonged to the entire complex. The listed building was privatized in 1986 and, in contrast to the remaining reception buildings on this route, which were partly demolished due to dilapidation, gives an impression of the former splendor.

The catenary was dismantled on the Fürstenhausen – Hostenbach section in the early 1990s as well as on the connecting Völklingen – Hostenbach – Überherrn line. On November 11, 1999, the Federal Railway Authority authorized the infrastructure operator DB Netz to close this section, which was completed on March 1, 2000. At the initiative of a major customer in Überherrn, however, the connection was reactivated in 2003 and has since been used several times a week by block trains with brand-new cars.

Saarbrücken exhibition center

By 2006, reversed at the Saarmesse and the family world between the stop Roman fort , the Saarbrücken exhibition station and the train Fürstenhausen as fair line of the line labeled S2 Saarbahn (light rail Saarbrücken) in 30-minute intervals.

Furthermore, line S3 ( Warndt line ) also ran every 60 minutes during the annual Warndt Weekend via the Rosseltalbahn until 2005 . After the closure of the Warndt mine, Saarbahn operations are also at risk. The overhead line has already been dismantled from Fürstenhausen to the Warndt mine.

From 2007 to 2012, the Großrosseln train station (start and finish) offered draisine rides under the name Warndt-Express . On weekends and on public holidays, we drove with bicycle trolleys on the section Karlsbrunn (bridge) - Großrosseln - Wehrden (Haller bridge). In 2012 this trolley service was stopped again.

According to a report in the Bahn Report (issue 5/2016, p. 54), the Warndt and Rosseltalbahn interest group is planning to set up a museum railway on both the Warndt and Rosseltalbahns. For this purpose, clearing work is to be carried out between Fürstenhausen and the Warndt mine. However, the financing of the project is still unclear.

literature

• Willy Bessrich (Warndt and Rosseltalbahn interest group): 100 years of Linke Saaruferbahn and Rosseltalbahn (1907–2007). 45 years of Warndtkohlenbahn (1962–2007) , Verlag Völklingen-Ludweiler, Heimatkundlicher Verein Warndt eV, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
2. ↑ Disused railway lines in Saarland. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 25, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ Development of the Fürstenhausen / Völklingen - Hostenbach - Überherrn and Fürstenhausen - Warndt mine. (No longer available online.) In: Private website. Archived from the original ; Retrieved July 25, 2008 . 
4. ^ " Clear the way for trains to Überherrn": Article in the Saarbrücker Zeitung of February 11, 2003
5. ↑ Information about the S3 and the Warning Weekend ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.4 MB) 
6. ^ Website of the Warndt-Express Suspension of trolley traffic - notification on the website of the Warndt-Express

Web links

• Tunnel portals on the Saarbrücken – Fürstenhausen – Bous line
• Course book 1944