Allertalbahn

Route number (DB) :

1724 (Gifhorn – Celle)
1721 (Celle – Wahnebergen)

Course book section (DB) :

formerly 211e (Gifhorn – Celle)
formerly 210a (Celle – Wahnebergen)

Route length:

118.8 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Legend

		from Gifhorn
	0.0	Gifhorn city
		All
		to Uelzen
	5.7	Gamsen-Kästorf
	10.0	Wilsche
		to the former Wesendorf Air Base
	15.0	Bokel Mountains
	17.6	Müden-Dieckhorst
	19.8	Flettmar
		All
	24.2	Langlingen
	27.6	Open
	31.6	Wienhausen
	34.2	Bockelskamp
	37.7	Altencelle
	40.6	Westercelle

		from Hamburg-Harburg , Soltau and Wittingen
	43.4 0.0	Celle
		Celle Gbf
		formerly from Braunschweig
		according to Lehrte
		to Hannover
		Fuhse Canal
		to the Celle Army Airfield
	4.3	Wietzenbruch
	8.6	Hambühren
	12.6	Oldau
		to the Einigkeit II potash plant (Prince Adalbert) in Ovelgönne
	15.5	Winsen (Aller)
	20.0	Wietze- Steinförde
	25.3	Jeversen
	28.4	Marklendorf
	31.0	Buchholz (Aller)
		Heidebahn from Hanover
	36.0	Schwarmstedt
		Heidebahn to Soltau
	38.7	Bothmer
	41.6	Gilten
	44.3	Büchten (demand stop)
	47.6	Ahlden (Aller)
	50.8	Hurried
	53.2	Bosses (demand stop)
	54.8	Hedging
	56.3	Hedern West
	59.5	Rethem (Aller)
	63.4	Pods
	65.4	Sleeves north (demand stop)
	68.8	west
	70.1	Hiddinghausen (Aller)
		from Hanover
	75.4	Wahnebergen (formerly Bf)
	79.0	Verden (Aller)
		to Bremen

Swell:

The Allertalbahn was a railway line of regional importance in Lower Saxony . It ran along the Aller river and connected Gifhorn via Celle , Schwarmstedt , Rethem (Aller) and Wahnebergen with Verden (Aller) .

course

The Celle station reached and left the route in a southerly direction, so that through trains had to change their direction there. The Allertalbahn was thus divided into two branches with no continuous passenger traffic . The eastern part from Gifhorn had VzG route number 1724, the western part to Wahnebergen was number 1721. In Celle there were transition options to the East Hanoverian railways to Soltau and Wittingen, to the Lehrte – Hamburg-Harburg and to the Celle – Braunschweig railway .

history

The Allertalbahn in Gifhorn Stadt (September 26, 1981)

According to the Taylor- Vignoles plan , the first railway was to run from Hanover to Bremen through the Allertal. Here, however, the current route via Nienburg was laid until 1847 . Later plans to build a line from Magdeburg to Bremen through the Allertal had been in existence since 1866. However, the actual implementation was not realized until the 1890s. The western section from Verden via Wahnebergen and Schwarmstedt to Celle was opened between 1903 and 1905, the eastern section from Celle to Gifhorn followed in 1913.

At Oldau station, a siding branched off in an easterly direction to the Einigkeit II potash works (Prince Adalbert) in Ovelgönne , the mine existed from 1905 to 1925.

In Südwinsen a siding branched to the Steinförde potash plant in the western area . The potash plant in Wietze-Steinförde was operated from 1907 to 1923. A siding branched off to the north to the nearby hard stone works. On the u. a. Lime transported for production. Nothing is known about the period of the dismantling.

In the course of the establishment of the air main ammunition plant I / XI Hambühren in 1939, a siding was built to transport the raw materials and the finished ammunition. It left the route in a south-easterly direction, ran in a narrow arc in a westerly direction and was dismantled after 1945.

In the period of World War II until the 1950s, a connecting consisted Wilsche the airbase Wesendorf . The track branched off from the direction of Celle at Wilsche station and was dismantled in the 1970s.

In the course of the Berlin Airlift in 1948, a branch was created in Wietzenbruch to the then Royal Air Force Station Celle , today's Army Airfield Celle .

Crossing the Aller near Gifhorn (September 1981)

At the end of the 1950s, lunchtime train crossings occurred regularly in Schwarmstedt. Four trains hauled by steam locomotives met in the station and allowed transfers to and from all directions. To do this, numerous points, signals and level crossings had to be operated in the shortest possible time. Luggage, mail bags and express goods were handled.

Passenger traffic on the western section was discontinued on September 25, 1966, goods traffic from Wietzenbruch to Schwarmstedt ended on January 31, 1985. Freight trains ran between Rethem and Ahlden until January 31, 1981, between Ahlden and Gilten until December 31 1988. Freight trains operated from Verden until May 28, 1994 to Rethem and from Schwarmstedt to Gilten until December 31, 1993. Large parts of the line were completely dismantled after the final closure in 1995. Between Ahlden (Aller) and Dörverden-Westen , the railway embankment became a cycle path, which is partly a section of the Aller cycle path .

Disused route near Bockelskamp

Passenger traffic in the eastern section ceased on September 27, 1981. At the same time, freight traffic between Gamsen-Kästorf and Müden-Dieckhorst also ended. Freight traffic from Gifhorn Stadt to Gamsen-Kästorf was possible until March 1, 1983, and between Celle and Müden-Dieckhorst until May 22, 1993. This section was last operated as a station track. The eastern route has also been largely dismantled in the meantime.

The section from the Celle train station to the military airfield in Wietzenbruch was operated by the East Hanoverian Railways until 2005, from 1998 onwards . The route from Celle train station to the airlift monument in Wietzenbruch and from there with a hairpin in the direction of the airfield was dismantled in 2007. The tracks on federal land are still in place, but have no connection to the public rail network.

literature

The history of the railway from Gifhorn to Celle (Oberallertalbahn) in the Gifhorn district . Edited by the Gifhorn district and the Gifhorn Museum and Local History Association , Gifhorn 1997, ISBN 3-929632-35-7 .