Dorndorf train station (Rhön)
| Dorndorf (Rhoen) | |
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 Railway systems at the train station in Dorndorf from the west
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | former separation station |
| abbreviation | UDF |
| opening | 1907 |
| Conveyance | Passenger traffic 2001 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Krayenberg community |
| Place / district | Dorndorf |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 50 '11 " N , 10 ° 5' 34" E |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Dorndorf (Rhön) station is on the Bad Salzungen – Unterbreizbach railway in the Wartburg district in Thuringia and until the end of the 1990s was the separation station for the Feldabahn to Kaltennordheim, which branches off there . It is located in the Dorndorf district of the Krayenberg community .
history
On June 1, 1879, the railway line from Salzungen via Dorndorf to Lengsfeld was opened as the first meter-gauge line for public transport in Germany. In the same year, a branch to Vacha was opened to traffic from Dorndorf .
When, towards the end of the 19th century, extensive potash deposits were opened up in the Werra and Feldatal valleys , the narrow-gauge railway gained great importance in the construction of the pits and the removal of the extracted products. For reasons of capacity, the section between Vacha and Salzungen was converted to the standard gauge in the course of the construction of the Gerstungen – Salzungen Werra Valley Railway in 1906 . Previously, the Prussian State Railroad took over the management of the line on April 1, 1904.
The Dorndorf – Kaltennordheim section initially remained narrow-gauge and was converted to standard gauge in 1934. From 1906 to 1934 Dorndorf was designed as a gauge changing station. The Springen potash works , located near Springen , was connected to the “Heiligenroda Shaft” potash works immediately to the south of the station by means of a material ropeway across the tracks of the Dorndorf station. This plant had its own works railway, which spanned the western exit of the station with a bridge. The last narrow-gauge train to Kaltennordheim left Dorndorf station on October 6, 1934.
During the Second World War, the station and its tracks remained largely undamaged.
When the line to Kaltennordheim was discontinued in 1997 and the line to Vacha in 2001, rail operations at Dorndorf station ended.
Since 2011 there has been restricted freight traffic on the route to Vacha; In 2013, a local timber company laid a new siding from the Dorndorf train station to its business west of the village.
Track network
As a narrow-gauge station, Dorndorf station had three through tracks and a loading track with a ramp. At the western exit of the station, the line to Kaltennordheim branched off directly from the line to Vacha.
The station underwent a major expansion in 1905, when the Salzungen – Vacha line began being converted to the standard gauge. Several standard-gauge through tracks were laid, a new loading line was added on the Chaussee to Bad Salzungen (today's Bundesstrasse 62 ) and extensive meter-gauge track systems to the south as the new end point of the narrow-gauge railway to Kaltennordheim. Loading tracks, a loading crane and a loading ramp made it possible to reload goods between narrow and standard-gauge railways. A spacious platform for passenger traffic was built in front of the newly constructed reception building. At the western exit, the tracks to Vacha and the track to Kaltennordheim now led out of the station separately.
Another reconstruction of the track network took place in 1934 with the re-routing of the Feldabahn in the regular gauge.
Exit Dorndorf heading west: left on the slope: Werkbahn (dismantled), middle: Feldabahn, right: to Vacha
Dorndorf station, western exit with level crossing (2011), the track of the Feldabahn in front
Reception building
The first station building of the narrow-gauge railway was at the height of the loading ramp that still exists today. There was also a goods shed and a toilet building.
With the reconstruction of the Salzungen – Vacha line and the expansion of the train station, the new station building was erected further east and is still in place today. The old station building of the narrow-gauge railway was converted into a residential building.
Web links
- Pictures from the train station on forgotten Bahnen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Südthüringer Zeitung of April 20, 2011, page 15
literature
- Günter Fromm, Harald Rockstuhl: The history of the Feldabahn 1880–1997 - The history of the old Feldabahn 1880–1934. The history of the new Feldabahn 1934–1997. The last years of the Feldabahn 1997-2004. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2004, ISBN 3-929000-85-7 .
- Ulf Haußen, Waldemar Haußen: The Feldabahn - the first meter-gauge railway in Germany . Bufe-Fachverlag, Egglham 1993, ISBN 3-922138-49-7 .