Achertalbahn

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Achern – Ottenhöfen
Route number : 9426
Course book section (DB) : 717
Route length: 10.7 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Maximum slope : 31.5  ‰
Top speed: 60 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Rhine Valley Railway from Mannheim
Station, station
 0.0 Achern
   
 Rhine Valley Railway to Basel
Stop, stop
 1.3 Achern city
Station, station
 2.8 Oberachern
Stop, stop
 4.4 Oberachern twine factory
Station, station
 6.5 Kappelrodeck
Stop, stop
 7.5 Kappelrodeck East
Stop, stop
 8.5 Furschenbach
Stop, stop
 10.0 Ottenhöfen West
End station - end of the line
 10.7 Ottenhöfen
Achern Stadt stop , 2010
Entrance building in Oberachern, 2012
A three-unit Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS 1 in the Ottenhöfen terminus, 2019

The Achertalbahn is a 10.7 kilometer branch line from Achern to Ottenhöfen in the Black Forest , which branches off the Rheintalbahn at Achern station .

history

In the Achertal , it was above all the industrial companies located in the middle of the 19th century that requested a connection to the Rhine Valley Railway at an early stage. From 1889 there were plans for a narrow-gauge railway , but they did not get going.

In 1894 a railway committee was founded to push a standard gauge railway from Achern to Ottenhöfen. The preparatory work was completed in mid-1895; a year later, the final approval was given for further construction.

It was opened by the railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter on September 1, 1898 and from April 1, 1917 belonged to the German railway operating company (DEBG). In 1963 the Südwestdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SWEG) took over the route and operation.

The numbers of passengers as well as freight were always high. B. in 1980 491,310 people and 110,066 tons of freight carried. The main customer of the railway in freight transport was and is still today the quarries along the route.

present

The travel time over the entire route is 18 minutes today, which corresponds to an average travel speed of 36 km / h. Since December 2014, the route has no longer been operated independently by SWEG, but as a service ordered by the Baden-Württemberg local transport company (NVBW) under a transport contract . At the same time, the offer was condensed to an almost hourly cycle.

To this day, goods traffic is carried out on the Achertalbahn (gravel loading in Ottenhöfen).

From 1968 to June 2013 there were also scheduled steam train trips in the summer months. Initially this was organized by the German Society for Railway History (DGEG). The Achertal Railway Association emerged from their Achertal working group in 1985 , and since then has operated the steam train journeys together with the SWEG. Since 1968 the historic railway wagons have been pulled by the steam locomotive number 28 "Badenia", a type T 3 tank locomotive built by Borsig in 1900 . This locomotive is now (2019) as a memorial in Lahr in front of the SWEG building. In addition, locomotive 20 of the Badische Lokal-Eisenbahnen was used, which was made by the Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe in 1928 . This locomotive belongs to the Achertäler Eisenbahnversein and has been in service on the Kandertalbahn since 2019 .

In February 2013 SWR published the 782nd episode Eisenbahn-Romantik with the title The Achertalbahn .

literature

  • Gerd Wolff, Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways. Volume 2: Bathing . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-653-6 , p. 300-308 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Wolfgang Rogl: SWEG - Südwestdeutsche Eisenbahnen AG . Alba, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-87094-532-X , p. 118 .
  2. ↑ Significant improvements for local rail passenger transport in the Ortenau district. Ortenaukreis district office, November 7, 2014, accessed on September 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Consistent streamlining of the vehicle collection at the Kandertalbahn . In: The Museum Railway . No. 4 , 2019, ISSN  0936-4609 , p. 10 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '0 "  N , 8 ° 8' 59.9"  E