Bad Münder – Bad Nenndorf railway line
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| Route number : | 1762 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | ex 212d | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 22.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Süntelbahn was a single-track branch line through the Deister-Süntel valley between Bad Münder and Bad Nenndorf in Lower Saxony . It branched off from the Hanover – Altenbeken railway line and joined the Deister Railway . Its name comes from the south-west south-west of the Süntel mountain range .
history
The line built by the Prussian State Railways was of little importance for passenger traffic, but it was significant for freight traffic. It was also used for the continuous traffic of freight trains between Seelze and Hameln . When the Empelder curve at the Hanover freight bypass went into operation in 1973, the importance of the connection decreased.
The opening took place in three steps: On October 14, 1904 the section Groß Nenndorf (now Bad Nenndorf) –Lauenau was opened, on March 25, 1905 the section Lauenau – Eimbeckhausen and on June 19, 1905 the entire route was passable.
The route was put into operation with five daily train pairs, but not much had changed in that respect until it was discontinued: In 1968 there were also five weekday train pairs and two midday trains between Haste and Lauenau. However, the passenger trains ran between Haste and Hameln, so there was no need to change trains in Bad Nenndorf Nord and Bad Münder.
From May 28, 1968, passenger traffic was discontinued, freight traffic in stages: 1974 Lauenau – Eimbeckhausen, whereby the Lauenau – Messenkamp section was still passable until July 1, 1983, and on May 26, 1988 the sections Bad Nenndorf Nord – Lauenau and Eimbeckhausen– Bad Münder city. Freight traffic was only offered between Bad Münder and Bad Münder Stadt until December 31, 1995. The dismantling of the route between Bad Nenndorf and Lauenau began as early as 1989. The station Bad Nenndorf Nord is today's S-Bahn -Haltepunkt Bad Nenndorf .
Since 1873 there have been efforts to improve the rail connection. In 1885 a committee was established. Among other things, a cogwheel railway was planned that would run from Messenkamp to Egestorf (Deister) with a route through the Walterbachtal and over the Nienstedter Pass . A connection to the Rinteln-Stadthagener railway through the Auetal was also planned once.
Train stations
- Bad Nenndorf North
When it opened, the station was still called Groß Nenndorf, since October 1929 Bad Nenndorf Nord, and today Bad Nenndorf. It was built as a wedge station due to the existing Deisterbahn systems . The Süntelbahn operated on the original side of the street. There were at least two tracks there, more on the Deisterbahn, and also a covered house platform. The station building from 1872 was demolished in 1935/36 and a new building was erected between the two routes.
- Bad Nenndorf
There was a station building with a goods shed here, and there was also a loading platform here at times . The reception buildings in Bad Nenndorf, Rodenberg, Lauenau and Bad Münder Stadt were built in a similar style: A massive, one and a half-story building, with the waiting rooms on one side and a goods shed on the other, both in half-timbered construction .
- Rodenberg
A station building and a crossing track. The loading tracks were north of the building.
- Lauenau
Here, too, there was a crossing track next to the station building.
- Messenkamp
There was only a small half-timbered reception building with a goods shed here. But there was also a crossing track.
- Eimbeckhausen
Here was a reception building with a goods shed, originally made of half-timbered, later a massive structure. There was a crossing track, to the north there were also two loading tracks, to the west there was a connection to the agricultural cooperative.
- Egestorf-Bakede
This was just a stop, with only a bus shelter, and later a goods shed was also built.
- Hamelspringe
A reception building is the mirror image of Messenkamp. The track system consisted of a through track, a passing track 475 m long, two loading tracks, one of which ended at the ramp of the goods shed at the station building. The second freight track was parallel to the paved loading road. A third loading track crossed the loading street and ended at another goods shed. With the cessation of passenger traffic, the station was closed in May 1968 and all freight tracks and signals, as well as the passing track, were dismantled by 1969. The through track and the Hp 0 light signals for monitoring the level crossing of the K 72 were dismantled in the course of the route dismantling until 1992.
- Bad Münder city
There was also a station building here, there was a crossing track and loading tracks. A glass factory was established here in 1932, which today belongs to the Ardagh Packaging Group .
literature
- Michael Bahls: The Hanover-Altenbeken Railway . Kenning, Nordhorn 2006, ISBN 3-927587-77-X .
- Matthias Biester, Klaus Vohn-Fortagne: Full steam through the Sünteltal . Ed .: Heimatbund Lower Saxony, local group Bad Münder. Bad Münder 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-021960-3 .