Aschaffenburg – Miltenberg railway line

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 21.6 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 31.1"  E

Aschaffenburg Hbf – Miltenberg Hbf
Route number (DB) :	5220
Course book section (DB) :	781
Route length:	36.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Top speed:	120 km / h
Legend from Frankfurt (Main) Süd from Darmstadt -0.026 Aschaffenburg Hbf 131 m to Würzburg Hbf 1.710 Aschaffenburg University (since Dec 2007) 2.632 Aschaffenburg South to Aschaffenburg-Nilkheim 7,292 Obernau 9.289 Sulzbach (Main) (formerly Bf) 14,534 Kleinwallstadt 18,472 Obernburg - Elsenfeld to Heimbuchenthal 19.843 Glanzstoffwerke 22.507 Erlenbach (Main) 22.815 Main bridge Wörth am Main (191 m) 23.844 Wörth (Main) (formerly Bf) 25.941 Klingenberg (Main) 30,390 Laudenbach (b Kleinheubach) 33,473 Kleinheubach from Seckach 35.972 Miltenberg Bft Miltenberg West to Wertheim 36.430 Miltenberg Hbf (from 1977: Miltenberg Gbf) Swell:

The Aschaffenburg – Miltenberg line is a single-track main line in Bavaria . It leads in the Main Valley from Aschaffenburg to Miltenberg . Passenger traffic on the route is operated by the Westfrankenbahn as part of the Aschaffenburg – Wertheim connection, which it calls the Maintalbahn .

history

Railway lines in Miltenberg

Miltenberg was connected to the railway network by the Bavarian State Railways from Aschaffenburg with a main line that opened on November 12, 1876. For this purpose, a terminal station was built south of the Main on the western edge of the old town , which was later to be named " Miltenberg Hauptbahnhof ". The line to Seckach via Amorbach ( Madonnenlandbahn ) also began in this station .

Towards the end of the Second World War, the passage of the Hensbach through the embankment of the Main Valley Railway in Aschaffenburg was expanded into a makeshift air raid shelter for the residents of the Obernau colony and the employees of the Petri steering wheel factory. For this purpose, an intermediate ceiling made of brick was drawn into the passage. In 1954, the capacity of the passage was further reduced from originally 22 cubic meters per second to 10 cubic meters of water per second by means of a concrete wall in front of it, in order to be able to use the railway embankment as a dam in the event of a flash flood and thus to slow down the flooding of the Eckertsmühle, which is located downstream in a valley basin . In 2017 these fixtures were removed.

Between the 1950s and the 1970s there were continuous express train connections at the Miltenberg Nord through station on the route to Wertheim on the route Bodensee - Crailsheim - Aschaffenburg - Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof .

Miltenberg main station was closed for passenger traffic in the summer of 1977 and from then on only served as a freight station . Since then, passenger trains have stopped at the north station, which was upgraded for this purpose and was renamed Miltenberg station . The old head and main train station was renamed Miltenberg Gbf (Miltenberg Güterbahnhof). Since then, trains have also been running from Seckach to the former North Station - today's Miltenberg station.

With effect from the summer timetable on May 28, 1989, no more trains stopped at Obernau stop. The stop was reopened in August 2002 after the railway crossing at Bahnhofstrasse had been removed. A few years before and in the period after that, three new railway bridges were built in the Obernau district (Mozartstraße, Brucknerstraße and Sulzbacher Straße) and two more level crossings were removed (Sulzbacher Straße and Mozartstraße).

In the mid-1990s, the Main Valley Railway was tunneled under the southern Ringstrasse in the area of ​​the Aschaffenburg Adenauerbrücke and re-bridged on Schweinheimer Strasse (opened to traffic in September 1995). To the east of the Aschaffenburg Süd stop, an industrial siding was crossed under and rebuilt as a railway bridge for this purpose. The new railway bridge is no longer used and is secured against trespassing by a fence. Between 1995 and 1998, the Main Valley Railway in Aschaffenburg was bridged for the first time with the Wilhelm-Hoegner green area and with the Würzburger Straße (opened to traffic in May 1998). In 2003, the Maintalbahn was re-bridged in the Aschaffenburg Ludwigsallee area.

Since December 9, 2007, the Aschaffenburg University stop, located in the immediate vicinity of Aschaffenburg University, has been used as a request stop.

After 2003, the Main Valley Railway was bridged for the first time with the green bridge on the Fasanerie and the road bridge on Deutsche Straße was demolished (opened to traffic in June 2013).

The Miltenberg freight yard and former main station was shut down in 2005.

On May 27, 2011, State Road 2309, which had been relocated to the railway line, was opened to traffic in the Obernau district of Aschaffenburg. The underpass of State Road 2309 under the newly built bridge of the Main Valley Railway was also released.

Since the mid-2010s, the route of the Aschaffenburg – Höchst (Odenwald) railway in the section between Aschaffenburg Süd and the level crossing on the Bischberg can also be used by the Maintalbahn because a switch has been installed at the level of the former weaving mill Däfler and at the level of the fire station has been.

Accidents

On April 18, 2008, there was a fatal accident with a pedestrian in the track area in Kleinwallstadt.

On June 15, 2012, there was a serious accident at the level crossing on the same rails on Obernauer Strasse in Aschaffenburg. The accident victim, a disabled cyclist, had to amputate a leg.

On November 9, 2017, at a level crossing in Wörth am Main, there was a fatal accident with a cyclist who wanted to bypass the barrier.

Current situation

Passenger traffic on the Maintalbahn is operated by the railway subsidiary Westfrankenbahn ; the route was often affected by intentions to shut down, but these were not implemented. Due to the cycle tourism in the Main and Taubertal valleys, the route is enjoying greater popularity again and has been extensively renewed in recent years. The regional express trains run every two hours as the Main-Tauber-Express continuously from Aschaffenburg to Miltenberg and on via Wertheim, Lauda and Königshofen to Crailsheim. The trains are mainly with diesel railcars of the 642 series down. The regional trains run every week between Aschaffenburg and Miltenberg, the regional express train between Aschaffenburg and Wertheim runs every hour and is extended every two hours to Crailsheim.

Future prospects

In its position paper Setting the course in 2017 , the Miltenberg district council advocated electrification of the railway line from Miltenberg to Aschaffenburg. This should enable the trains to be connected in the direction of Frankfurt am Main and every hour on weekends as well. Electrification, including the Aschaffenburg port railway, was included in January 2018 by the Bavarian Cabinet as one of seven routes in the Bavarian Electric Mobility Strategy Rail to reduce diesel traffic in the rail network in Bavaria .

The southern ring road in Aschaffenburg was planned and built without the specification of an electrification. The bridges in the urban area of ​​Aschaffenburg are too low for an overhead line, the route underneath must be lowered. The ongoing plans for a new Main Bridge between the St 2309 and the B 469 south of Kleinwallstadt have already been adapted to the electrification of the Main Valley Railway.

In the destination timetable of the Deutschland-Takt it is planned to connect the regional express line between Frankfurt am Main and Aschaffenburg to Miltenberg. The line to Crailsheim should then end in Miltenberg.

In Miltenberg, there is a hub with the possibility of changing between the regional express trains arriving from three directions almost simultaneously.

Web links

Commons : Aschaffenburg – Miltenberg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Railway history (s). Heimat und Verkehrsverein Obernburg, accessed on February 2, 2020 . 

literature

• Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 1 : Historical development and railway construction . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-766-4 .
• Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-768-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ^ Map of the Federal Railway Directorate Stuttgart 1983
4. ^ Lines of the Westfrankenbahn. In: westfrankenbahn.de. Retrieved July 27, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Man on the platform: run over by the train. Main-Echo, April 18, 2008, accessed July 26, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Jens Raab: "A death trap". Traffic: After a serious accident, criticism of the rotating grille at the Obernauer Straße level crossing - woman still in mortal danger. Main-Echo, June 21, 2012, accessed July 26, 2020 . 
7. ^ Wörth am Main: Cyclists hit by train and fatally injured. In: Experience Würzburg. November 10, 2017, accessed on July 26, 2020 (German). 
8. ↑ Position paper “Setting the course 2017” by the district council is having an impact: Good prospects for electrification and increased cycle times on the Aschaffenburg - Miltenberg railway line. In: focus.de. Focus Online , September 11, 2017, accessed October 3, 2017 . 
9. ↑ More electromobility on the rails. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, January 23, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2018 . 
10. ^ Peter Freudenberger: Aschaffenburg port wants to grow. In: Main-Echo. October 23, 2013, accessed August 19, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Frank Hagenauer: Changed plans for Main Bridge are laid out. In: Main-Echo. June 29, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Target timetable Germany-Takt Second expert draft Bavaria Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Retrieved June 20, 2019