Wenigentaft-Mansbach train station

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Wenigentaft-Mansbach
The buildings of the former train station from the southwest (2011)
The buildings of the former train station from the southwest (2011)
Data
Location in the network former separation station
Design Through station
opening 1906
Conveyance 1952
location
City / municipality Buttlar
Place / district Little bit
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 46 '10 "  N , 9 ° 56' 29"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '10 "  N , 9 ° 56' 29"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Thuringia
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The Wenigentaft Mans Bahnhof was a train station in the districts of the municipalities Wenigentaft and Mansbach on the border between Hesse and Thuringia . It was located on the Vacha – Hilders railway, known as the Ulstertal Railway, and was the starting point of the Wenigentaft – Mansbach – Hünfeld railway . To the north of the train station there was a branch to the train station of the Wenigentaft-Oechsener Eisenbahn, immediately to the east, from which the Wenigentaft-Mansbach-Oechsen railway opened up potash shafts near Oechsen and a basalt mine near Mariengart am Dietrichsberg .

history

The station was opened on August 1, 1906 with the route from Vacha to Geisa . On December 1, 1906, traffic in the direction of Hünfeld began. In January 1911, construction work began on the railway line to Oechsen, which was connected to the Ulstertal Railway via a siding, via which the raw materials extracted from Oechsen were to be transported in the direction of Vacha. However, the planned potash mining in Buttlar and Oechsen did not materialize; the route only gained importance from 1920 when basalt mining was set up at Wölferbütt .

After the end of the Second World War, the station area with the station building on the Thuringian side was in the Soviet and with the northern signal box Wn on the Hessian side in the American occupation zone. In a southerly direction, the Ulstertal Railway in the direction of Tann near Motzlar and the line in the direction of Hünfeld between Wenigentaft and Treischfeld were interrupted in June 1945. In a northerly direction the Ulstertal Railway crossed the zone border four times between Wenigentaft and Vacha and traffic to Vacha could only be maintained to a limited extent. On October 4, 1952, traffic was finally stopped and the station, which was no longer connected to the national railway network from any side, was still. In the late summer of 1953, all of the station's tracks and signaling systems were dismantled in Thuringia and transported to the Soviet Union as part of the reparations payments ; later the platforms and the water tower were also torn down. The station buildings and a few outbuildings were initially preserved and fell into disrepair. Parts of the northern train station track field were preserved until the 2000s due to the complicated borderline in the so-called Ulstersack, a piece of Hessian area that protruded into Thuringia and the GDR and was only minimally connected to Hesse. The Wn signal box located there was demolished in the 1970s because it was dilapidated.

The ruinous station building of the Wenigentaft-Oechsener Railway was demolished in 2013. The building on the Ulstertalbahn, on the other hand, was restored at the end of the 2010s after years of deterioration and is now used as a residential building.

literature

  • Michael Knauf, Markus Schmidt: The history of the Ulstertalbahn 1881-1996 Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-395-966-295-6
  • Harald Rockstuhl : The History of the Wenigentaft-Oechsener Railway 1912–1952. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2000, ISBN 3-932554-00-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Knauf, Markus Schmidt: The history of the Ulstertalbahn 1981-1996 Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-395-966-295-6 , page 127
  2. ↑ Michael Knauf, Markus Schmidt: The history of the Ulstertalbahn 1981-1996 Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-395-966-295-6 , page 147f.
  3. ↑ Ralf Roman Rossberg: Border over German rails 1945–1990 . 2nd Edition. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-88255-829-6 , p. 185 .
  4. ↑ The house at the crossroads, where cyclists meet today Südthüringer Zeitung / Free Word , edition of July 29, 2020