Wiesentalbahn

Basel Bad Bf – Zell (Wiesental)
Route number (DB) :	4400
Course book section (DB) :	735
Timetable field :	501
Route length:	28.75 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	11  ‰
Minimum radius :	300 m m
Top speed:	120 km / h
Legend from Mannheim -1.59 Basel Bad Bf Basel tram Connection train to Basel SBB to Constance 0.80 Riehen Niederholz 2.92 Riehen 4.31 State border Switzerland / Germany ,   ownership border BEV / DB Netz from Weil am Rhein 5.02 Loerrach-Stetten 5.80 Loerrach Museum / Burghof 6.51 Loerrach central station 7.20 Loerrach Gbf Former siding at the Vogelbach spinning mill,   Technical Textiles Lörrach and KBC 7.80 Loerrach Black Forest Road 9.06 Loerrach-Haagen / fair 10.21 Loerrach-Brombach / Hauingen Meadow (51 m) 13.75 Stones Meadow (45 m) 16.70 Maulburg 18.30 Schopfheim West 19.8 + 123 Schopfheim 19.8 + 200 19.9 + 97.4 Schopfheim-Schlattholz (since 2017) to Bad Säckingen 21.93 Fahrnau 24.03 Hausen - Raitbach Meadow (55 m) 27.16 Zell (Wiesental) to Todtnau

The Wiesentalbahn ( Basel – Zell line ) is a 28.75 kilometer electrified main line in Baden-Württemberg in the three-country corner near Basel . It leads along the Wiese river from the Badischer Bahnhof in Basel - initially on Swiss territory - via Lörrach and Schopfheim to Zell im Wiesental .

history

The line was built as the first private railway in the Grand Duchy of Baden by the Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft and opened on June 5, 1862 to Schopfheim with a length of 20 kilometers. Regular operations began two days later. The continuation up the valley as "Hintere Wiesenthalbahn" was carried out on February 5, 1876 by the Schopfheim-Zeller Railway Company .

It joined the 7th July 1889 by the Baden Railway Consortium Herrmann brook stone built, later the South German railway company belonging Schmalspurbahn cell Todtnau , which was also referred to as "Upper Wiesentalbahn".

Because the German Empire required the Grand Duchy of Baden to build a powerful railway from Weil am Rhein to Säckingen for military reasons , for which the existing Lörrach – Schopfheim line was to be used, the Baden state acquired the entire Basel – Zell line on January 1, 1889 and incorporated them into his Grand Ducal Baden State Railways . From the very beginning, they had run the business at the expense of private companies. The transfer of ownership took place on January 1, 1889 to Schopfheim and a year later to Zell. As one of the first lines in Germany, the line was electrified together with the Wehratalbahn in 1913 , based on the strategic importance of the abundant hydropower. Initially, single-phase AC voltage with 15 kilovolts and a frequency of 15 Hertz was used, supplied by the Augst-Wyhlen hydropower station. Specially developed locomotives from the Baden State Railroad and, until 1927, the Prussian ES 2 were used . Even if the frequency had been increased to 16⅔ Hertz in 1936 so that other vehicles could now be used, the electric traction remained an isolated operation until 1955.

After that, the railway was used extensively by commuting workers who worked in the industrial plants of the Wiesental. The Lörrach , Stetten , Steinen and Brombach stations recorded particularly high ticket sales . 136,036 tickets were sold to the latter in 1924 alone.

Because of the ban on cabotage , the trains were not permitted to travel between the Riehen station on Swiss territory and Basel, and there was also a ban on operating from Basel to Riehen.

Today's meaning

"Flirt" in Loerrach

The Wiesentalbahn in the network of the trinational S-Bahn Basel

The owner of the Wiesentalbahn and thus the railway infrastructure company (EIU) is DB Netz AG ; the rail transport (regional rail) is from since June 15, 2003. SBB GmbH , the German passenger transport subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways operated (SBB). In the years 2003 to 2005 massive modernization measures were carried out; With the exception of residual goods traffic and the motorail trains to Lörrach, the character increasingly changed to a pure S-Bahn route without goods traffic . Passenger traffic on the Wiesentalbahn has since been integrated into the Basel S-Bahn network as the S6 . The Wiesentalbahn is supplemented by the S5 from Weil am Rhein to Schopfheim or Steinen , which uses the Wiesentalbahn route on the Lörrach-Stetten - Schopfheim section.

In the summer of 2004, the section from Lörrach-Stetten to Haagen was double- tracked in order to be able to extend the S5 on the Weil am Rhein – Lörrach railway line to Steinen. The modernization of the stations included the creation of a 55 centimeter high platform with a length of 150 meters (double traction RABe 521). Without any noteworthy freight traffic, analogous to Schopfheim, in Lörrach, in the meantime, railway systems that were deemed to be superfluous were further dismantled (including tracks 4 and 5 and the associated platform in Lörrach main station , track 2 in Maulburg station). A new local electronic signal box was created , which controls the entire route of the Wiesental Railway (to the state border) and the Garden Railway (to the middle of the Tüllinger Tunnel) from Lörrach. Most of the innovations were completed and put into operation by the end of 2004.

With the 2004/2005 timetable change in December 2004, the Lörrach-Stetten - Steinen section (with S5 / S6) ran every quarter of an hour during the day. In addition, the Lörrach Schillerstraße station went into operation.

Since autumn 2005, multiple units of the type Stadler Flirt (SBB class RABe 521) have been used on the route, which finally replaced the NPZ push-pull train sets RBDe 561 , which were modified as an interim solution for use in Germany in March 2006.

The Schopfheim West and Lörrach Schwarzwaldstraße stops went into operation on December 9, 2007, Riehen-Niederholz followed on December 14, 2008.

With the 2009/2010 timetable change on December 13, 2009, the following name changes were made to stations: Schillerstraße in Lörrach Museum / Burghof , Lörrach in Lörrach Central Station , Haagen / Baden in Lörrach-Haagen / Messe and Brombach b. Loerrach in Loerrach-Brombach / Hauingen .

In the winter of 2020 the track section between the Badischer Bahnhof and Riehen Bahnhof was completely renewed.

The Lörrach main station is used by around 3500 passengers every day, making it the most frequented in the Wiesental (as of 2009).

The new Schopfheim-Schlattholz stop was opened with the timetable change in December 2017. The construction and planning costs for the 150 meter long platform amount to 1.44 million euros, of which the city of Schopfheim is contributing 844,223 euros. In Lörrach and Maulburg, three more stops are to be created, provided that it can be implemented in terms of the timetable.

The free ride for disabled is also on the short section Loerrach-Stetten - where Basel.

See also

• List of train stations and stops in Lörrach

literature

• Rainer Gerber: The Wiesentalbahn: 70 years of electrical operation 1913–1983 . In: Railway courier . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1983, ISBN 3-88255-801-6 .
• Albert Sturm: On the centenary of the Wiesentalbahn on June 5, 1962: Old Badischer Bahnhof Basel around 1900, Riehen station 1890, old Lörrach station around 1909, old Lörrach station around 1885, Lörrach steam locomotive . In: Landesverein Badische Heimat (Hrsg.): Badische Heimat . tape 42 , issue 1/2, 1962, ISSN  0930-7001 , p. 32-48 .
• Joachim Weißer: Wiesentalbahn: after completion of the expansion work, the regional S-Bahn was opened . In: Locomotive Report . Vol. 35, issue 8 (= 339), ISSN  0344-7146 , p. 16-21 .
• Rolf Löttgers: Boxes with a motor: the old tower carriages of the Wiesentalbahn . In: Lok Magazin . Vol. 33, issue 189. GeraMond Verlag, 1994, ISSN  0458-1822 , p. 454-461 .
• Andrea Knauber: The Wiesentalbahn . Self-published, Zell im Wiesental 2000 (work was awarded the Youth Prize of the State Prize for Local Research in 2001 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Culture, Youth and Sport (list of winners , PDF; 93 KiB)).
• Christian Tietze: Island of Power Pioneers . In: railway magazine . Issue 12, December 2013, p. 34-37 .
• SBB before the start in the Wiesental . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 7, July 2003, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 308 f .
• Rudolf shoulder: The Wiesentalbahn . From the sixties until today. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-653-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Handbook of the German railway lines. Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 (reprint of the directory of the German State Railroad from 1935 No. 62/08).
2. ↑ Christian Tietze: Island of the electricity pioneers. In: eisenbahn-magazin 12/2013, p. 37.
3. ^ Johann Hansing: The railways in Baden. A contribution to traffic and economic history. Fleischhauer & Spohn, Stuttgart 1929, p. 63.
4. ↑ PDF at www.sbb-deutschland.de ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 9, 2016.
5. ↑ Press release of the city of Lörrach (December 17, 2009): Lörrach station becomes the main station - new station names in the city of Lörrach
6. ↑ Nikolaus Trenz: Lörrach now has a main train station. Badische Zeitung (Lörrach edition), December 16, 2009, accessed on September 24, 2017 . 
7. ↑ André Hönig: S-Bahn stop Schlattholz is there. Badische Zeitung, December 9, 2017, accessed January 5, 2018 . 
8. ↑ https://www.oepnv-info.de/freifahrt/informationen/baden-wuerttemberg/tarife-und-besonderheiten-baden-wuerttemberg/ Grenzenueberschreitende-eisenbahnlinien-in-der-region- basel