Osthofen – Rheindürkheim – Guntersblum railway line

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Osthofen – Guntersblum
Route number (DB) : 3572
Course book section (DB) : last 274c
Route length: 18.8 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Line from Mainz
Station, station
 18.8 Guntersblum
   
 Route from Osthofen (see below)
   
 16.3 Gimbsheim
   
 11.7 Calibration
   
 8.8 Hamm
   
 6.8 Ibersheim
   
 3.1 Rheindürkheim ( Anst , formerly Bf)
   
 1.7 Worms city (Anst, industrial trunk line )
   
 Route to Ludwigshafen
Station, station
 0.0 Osthofen
   
 former route from Westhofen
   
 former route from Gau Odernheim
   
 Route from Guntersblum (see above)
Swell:

The Osthofen – Rheindürkheim – Guntersblum railway , also known as the Altrheinbahn , is a former 18.8 kilometer long railway line in Rheinhessen from Osthofen via Worms-Rheindürkheim to Guntersblum . It bears its nickname after the Old Rhine , which used to be found in this area. The line was operated from 1900 to 1969 in passenger traffic.

history

Construction work at Eich

Opening and operation

After the Rheinhessenbahn from Worms to Alzey was built between 1864 and 1870 , many communities in Rheinhessen (including Rheindürkheim) suffered economic losses. The plan to extend the Osthofen – Westhofen railway to Worms-Rheindürkheim was not implemented, and so in 1890 the Grand Duchy of Hesse advocated a direct railway line from the Rhine-Hessian Altrhein communities of Gimbsheim , Eich , Hamm am Rhein , Worms-Ibersheim and Worms-Rheindürkheim to Worms to build. For cost reasons, however, this was discarded, and the grand ducal ministry decided to connect the Altrheinbahn to the Mainz – Ludwigshafen railway in Osthofen.

A committee chaired by Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim planned a railway line from Worms via today's federal highway 9 to Worms-Rheindürkheim. The city of Worms designed a railway line from the northern end of the Worms port railway along the Rhine to Rheindürkheim. This project failed because of the unfavorable results of the profitability calculation. The negotiations for the granting of a license with the Mainz Railway Directorate took a long time. The first section of the Altrheinbahn from Osthofen to Rheindürkheim was only opened in 1897, and three years later the remaining section of the Altrheinbahn was inaugurated in November 1900. In 1906 the Gimbsheim stop was occupied by an officer and thus the train follower . On February 10, 1914, new “double- light pre-signals ” were put into operation on the route “when darkness fell” , which corresponded to the model of the form signal that is still in use today .

At the end of World War II between March 18 and June 1, 1945, no train ran on this route.

At least in recent years, the route has served almost exclusively to transport sugar beet. The loading stations were approached once a day from Osthofen to Guntersblum in the so-called facility operation.

Suspension of rail traffic

Passenger traffic ceased on June 1, 1969. Freight trains ran the route between Rheindürkheim and Guntersblum until the end of 1992. In 1998 this section was closed. At the beginning of 2013, DB Netz applied for the exemption of railway operations for the route from kilometer 3.57 (Seegraben in Rheindürkheim) to kilometer 18.25.

Current condition

The Guntersblum train station: on the left the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line , on the right the Altrheinbahn branches off towards Osthofen

The remaining tracks are almost everywhere inaccessible due to heavy vegetation and tarrying at level crossings. From the outskirts of Rheindürkheim (coming from Osthofen) they have been completely dismantled, with the exception of a few remains of former BÜ's. From the area around Eich train station, even the characteristic gravelled track beds have almost completely disappeared. On the Eich-Gimbsheim section, a footpath runs in the former track bed. A small piece of the old route has been preserved on a bridge over a stream. A reactivation of the line is repeatedly brought up in conversation by local politicians and those responsible for the railway. Today, individual freight trains still run from Worms-Rheindürkheim through the Worms industrial area north to Osthofen. A few years ago this section of the route was extensively renewed. This is the best preserved and only passable section of the route.

The tracks are still partially preserved at the junction from Guntersblum station.

Route

The old Eicher train station (2008)

The branch line began in Guntersblum and ran south via Gimbsheim, Eich, Hamm, Worms-Ibersheim and Worms-Rheindürkheim through the Old Rhine area to Osthofen. The line is single-track throughout, not electrified and has no significant gradients.

vehicles

A Prussian T 3 drove from the start . In the 1950s a locomotive from the 74.4–13 series ran . After the steam era, rail buses and accumulator railcars were used for passenger transport . The freight traffic was handled by class 212 diesel locomotives until the end of through traffic in 1992 .

See also

literature

  • Hans Döhn: Railway policy and railway construction in Rheinhessen 1835-1914. Mainz 1957.
  • Theodor Harsch: The Rheinuferbahn on the Old Rhine. In: Mainz-Bingen: Heimat-Jahrbuch. 23, 1979, pp. 66-67.
  • Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Hamm / Rheinhessen 2003, pp. 148–149.

Web links

Commons : Altrheinbahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  2. ↑ a b Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock. Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 148.
  3. ↑ Information on the Altrheinbahn
  4. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes. November 24, 1900. Volume 4, No. 54. Announcement No. 514, p. 401.
  5. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz. February 24, 1906, No. 11. Announcement No. 104, p. 103.
  6. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz. January 24, 1914, No. 5. Announcement No. 50, p. 33.
  7. ↑ 1200 years of Eich. Worms 1981, p. 245.
  8. ↑ U. Kramer, M Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail - freight routes 1980 to 1993. Stuttgart 2008, p. 97.
  9. ^ Martin Krauss: Development of the Railway Infrastructure 1997/98. In: Bahn-Report . 2/1999, pp. 4–7, here: p. 7.
  10. ↑ Federal Railway Office - Frankfurt / Saarbrücken branch office -: Public announcement in accordance with Section 23, Paragraph 2 of the General Railway Act - Exemption from railway operations relating to part of the 3572 Osthofen – Guntersblum line - from May 17, 2013 (Az. 55170 - 591pf / 010 - 2305 # 009; BAnz AT May 27, 2013 B3 )
  11. ↑ Station gives way to street. ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Wormser Zeitung . September 23, 2010, accessed September 14, 2011.
  12. ↑ Application from the Worms City Council for route securing and possible reactivation of the Altrheinbahn ( Memento from May 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )