Bad Hersfeld – Treysa railway line

Bad Hersfeld – Treysa
Route near Beiershausen
Route number (DB) :	3810
Course book section (DB) :	last 516 (1984)
Route length:	62.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Legend Main line from Bebra 0.0 Bad Hersfeld Main line to Fulda Performance fibers 1.4 Bad Hersfeld spa gardens Wild water B 62 Eichhof Calibration mill 5.4 L 3431 ( HS with LZA ) Industrial connection 5.5 Asbach (district of Hersfeld) 7.2 Beiershausen 11.3 L 3471 (manual VS ) 11.4 Niederaula Route to Breitenbach (Herzberg) SFS Fulda-Kassel 15.4 Kleba A7 17.3 Kirchheim (Kr.Hersfeld) 21.7 Frielingen (Kr.Hersfeld) 25.6 Upper auditorium 26.9 L 3294 27.0 Hausen L 3157 31.3 Olberode L 3161 34.7 Weißenborn (Kr.Ziegenhain) Grenff 38.0 Ottrau 40.9 Kleinropperhausen 42.7 Nausis (Kr.Ziegenhain) 46.0 Neukirchen (district of Ziegenhain) 49.1 Riebelsdorf 51.9 Zella (Kr.Ziegenhain) 52.3 Warehouse (stump track) Schwalm 53.9 Loshausen 56.3 Ziegenhain (district Kassel) south Main-Weser Railway from Kassel 62.2 Treysa Main-Weser-Bahn to Gießen ( Kanonenbahn )

The Bad Hersfeld – Treysa railway , also known as the Knüllwaldbahn , is a partially disused railway line in northern Hesse . It ran from Bad Hersfeld via Niederaula to Treysa . The eastern section of the non-electrified branch line between Bad Hersfeld and Niederaula is still used for freight traffic, the western section between Niederaula and Treysa was closed between 1977 and 1999 and is now used as an asphalted Rotkäppchenland cycle path .

Route

Wagons at the former Ziegenhain freight yard

Shortly after the Bad Hersfeld train station , the track branches off from the Bebra – Fulda railway line . The route runs in the Fulda valley between the federal highway 62 and the Fulda to Niederaula, where the Gründchenbahn branches off to Alsfeld . A special feature is the manual level crossing in Niederaula . Here the train has to stop before entering the crossing; the barriers must be wound down by the locomotive crew. Only then can the train pass the level crossing.

In the further course through the Knüllgebirge the railway followed the river Aula to Oberaula . From there, the route was led in two 180 ° curves without tunnels or bridges into the valley of the Grenff and Schwalm to Treysa, where there was a connection to the Main-Weser Railway and the Kanonenbahn .

history

The 62.2 kilometer long route was opened in two sections: from Bad Hersfeld to Oberaula on May 1, 1906 and the remainder to Treysa on July 31, 1907. The railway was only of regional importance and was used for passenger traffic and the removal of basalt and Wood. Basalt was mined from 1810 to 1998 at Berg Nöll near Oberaula. There used to be several train stations and stops along the route. Various companies had a siding . Up until a few years ago there was still a private siding in Niederaula.

The closure began in the 1970s when the Federal Railroad reduced passenger traffic. Due to a storm on August 22, 1977, the dam of the Ibrastausees lake in Seepark Kirchheim (located between the districts of Reimboldshausen and Kemmerode ) broke and undermined the route near Kirchheim. This was the reason for the complete closure of the section between Niederaula and Kirchheim; Passenger traffic was also stopped between Kirchheim and Oberaula. There was freight traffic there until September 28, 1984. There are no longer any tracks there, the dismantling took place in 1985.

Passenger traffic between Oberaula and Treysa ceased on June 1, 1984 and goods traffic on August 31, 1995. There was still regular museum traffic on the railway, so a new level crossing was built as part of the new road construction of the B 254 at the former Zella train station near Loshausen . On April 15, 1999, it was shut down. The only section that is still used today is that from Bad Hersfeld to Niederaula, where there is still freight traffic. From Niederaula, goods traffic continues on the Gründchenbahn .

On the route between Oberaula-Wahlshausen and Schwalmstadt-Treysa, the Rotkäppchenland railway cycle path (R 11) is currently being expanded. In 2008 the area between Neukirchen-Riebelsdorf and Ottrau-Kleinropperhausen was completed. In the following year, the cycle path on the former railway line between Kleinropperhausen and Wahlshausen was opened. The construction of the section from Riebelsdorf to Treysa should be completed by the end of May 2013. Between Kirchheim and Oberaula, the cycle route runs alongside the former railway line.

future

Search area of ​​the expansion and new construction project Fulda – Gerstungen and the existing expansion line Eisenach – Erfurt.

In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003, the Niederaula – Bad Hersfeld section is mentioned in connection with the expansion of the Erfurt – Fulda line. About the so-called low-Aulaer curve is to railway Fulda Bebra with the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed railway will be connected. The line is to be expanded to two tracks and electrified.

An expansion of the Niederaula – Bad Hersfeld section is no longer mentioned in the draft of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 . The planned connection of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg with the Bebra – Fulda railway line is instead envisaged as an urgent requirement between the Kirchheim and Blankenheim depot (south of Bebra) and should be accessible at 200 km / h. In February 2018, Deutsche Bahn started citizen information on route searches, with the search area now extending from Gerstungen in Thuringia to north of Fulda, and a connection to both the new and the existing route is being examined.

Web links

Commons : Knüllwaldbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photos of the route on vergierter-bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anne Quehl: The region is waiting for approval . In: Schwälmer Allgemeine (HNA) . May 8, 2013, p. 3 .
2. ↑ BMVBS: Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2003 p. 56: “Project ABS / NBS Hanau – Würzburg / Fulda – Erfurt” ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.4 MiB)
3. ^ Fuldaer Zeitung 2010 ( Memento from April 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure: Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, draft March 2016 , p. 164: "ABS / NBS Hanau – Fulda – Erfurt / Aschaffenburg – Nantenbach" (PDF; 6.8 MiB)
5. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure: Project Information System (PRINS) for the draft of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030: “ABS / NBS Hanau - Fulda - Erfurt / Aschaffenburg - Nantenbach” . Retrieved March 25, 2016.
6. ^ Successful public information event organized by Deutsche Bahn and the State of Hesse. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .