Railway line Bochum North – Bochum-Weitmar

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Bochum North – Bochum-Weitmar
Route number (DB) : 2155
Course book section (DB) : last 230c (1945/6)
Route length: 5.5 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Range from Bochum President
Station without passenger traffic
 0.0 Bochum North
   
 Route to Bochum-Langendreer
   
 Bochum Hbf – Bochum-Langendreer S 1
   
 1.3 Keespe u Hellbrügge (Anst)
   
 2 , 0 Gockel u Niebur (Anst)
   
 2.1 Bochum City (Anst)
   
 2.6 Bundeswehr Bochum (Anst)
   
 Stadtbahn Herne – Bochum-Hustadt U 35
   
 3.6 Bochum waterway
   
 3.7 Mönninghoff (Anst)
   
 3.8 Eickhoff (Anst)
   
 3.9 Wiemelhausen
   
 4.2 Bochum Häusser AG (institute)
   
 former route to Bochum-Langendreer
   
 5.5 Bochum-Weitmar
   
 former route to Bochum-Dahlhausen
Swell:

The Bochum Nord – Bochum-Weitmar railway is a former railway line in Bochum in the eastern Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia . The route was popularly known as the Springorum Railway , after the Springorum power station on the route .

The route was mostly only used in freight traffic and connected Bochum Nord station on the Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line with Bochum-Weitmar station on the Essen-Überruhr – Bochum-Langendreer railway line .

history

The line was built by the Prussian State Railways in two stages.

The first section between Bochum Nord and Wiemelhausen was opened for freight traffic on November 1, 1883. This gave the mine Ⅱ of the Friederika colliery a railway connection.

passenger traffic

The second section followed on January 1, 1884 between Wiemelhausen and Weitmar, at the same time passenger traffic between Bochum Nord and Weitmar began. Last but not least, the competition from the Bochum - Wiemelhausen - Zeche Carl Friedrich Erbstollen tramway line, which opened in 1905 (now lines 5 and 15, today mainly the Bogestra bus line 349 ) may have contributed to the cessation of passenger traffic on the railway in 1906. From 1913, a tram line from Bochum ended on Königsallee in the immediate vicinity of the former Wiemelhausen stop .

After the Second World War , passenger trains were temporarily running again in 1945/46, now with the Bochum Wasserstraße stop as a replacement for the old Wiemelhausen stop .

Freight transport

In the course of its almost 116-year history, changing commercial customers were served along the route.

The connection to the Keespe & Hellbrügge sawmill on Goerdtstrasse was set up when the company was founded in 1911.

In the area south of Wittener Strasse, parallel to Tonderner Strasse and today overbuilt with residential buildings, there was a building yard and storage area of ​​the company Gockel & Niebuhr, which also operated Kleinzechen in Dahlhausen (see point 4 of the Dahlhausen mining trail ) and Dortmund-Kley ( after the Second World War ). Justus colliery ); the connection point was located immediately north of the Glockengarten level crossing. To the south of the bell garden, to the east of Steinring, was the municipal dairy farm around 1928, and after 1945 the Nord-Südkaufgenossenschafts GmbH. The Alter Eistreff housing estate is located on the site today .

To the north-east of the level crossing on Querenburger Strasse there were two connections in the second half of the 1960s: On the one hand, a brickworks on the site of the later sports field of the Wiemelhausen school center and the geological garden , and on the other hand, the regional armed forces replacement office of the Bundeswehr.

The connection and the premises of shaft Ⅱ of the Friederika colliery - east of the railway line, south of the waterway and west of Wiemelhauser Straße - experienced an eventful history. In 1898 coal mining was stopped. From 1909 the shaft, now referred to as shaft Ⅳ of the Dannenbaum colliery , was used to ventilate the Prinz Regent and Dannenbaum collieries . Around 1928 no track was drawn on the site, but around 1939 it was. The weather shaft was filled in 1960. The mechanical engineering company Mönninghoff settled there . Mönninghoff was owned by the Bochumer Mineralölgesellschaft when the company gave up the Bochum location in 1983. In the 1990s, the Trimonte office park was created on the site.

The traditional mechanical engineering company Eickhoff is still located on the company site, which was newly developed after 1921, south of the Wasserstraße, west of the railway line right next to the old Wiemelhausen stop . On the opposite side of the route, the Konsumverein Wohlfahrt was affiliated from 1912 to 1969, the year the location was closed after it was taken over by the Co-op Dortmund consumer cooperative . Used in the 1980s by a company Curris and then the construction company Häusser, the G Data CyberDefense company has been located in the listed complex on Königsallee since 2014 .

Freight traffic ended on January 31, 1999. In the same year, on August 13, 1999, the line was shut down - with the shutdown of the coal boilers in the Bochum power plant in 1996, the last major user of the line ceased to exist.

Bike path

The entire route, with the exception of the threading into the Bochum Nord train station and the Bochum-Weitmar train station, was converted into the “Springorum-Trasse” cycle path . The section Goerdtstrasse - Waldring - Franziskusstrasse - Hattinger Strasse Tunnel - Weitmar Castle Park has been passable since October 2017. The expansion or renovation of the last section to Dahlhausen was completed in June 2019, see the Essen-Überruhr – Bochum-Langendreer railway line # Cycle and hiking trail .

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

Springorum cycle path:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  2. ↑ a b Dannenbaum colliery in Bochum-Laer 1851 - 1958. In: Ruhrzechenaus. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019 ; accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Historical Bochumer Ehrenfeld - map from 1939. In: Historisches Ehrenfeld. Archived from the original on December 10, 2018 ; accessed on July 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Willy Großeschen, Dortmund: Sanwald Plan Bochum 1: 20000 . Edited from documents from the city survey office in 1928. Buchheim-Verlag, Bochum.
  5. ↑ Holz Keespe in Bochum. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Pictures of the milk farm or old ice cream club - formerly 'North-South-Börsenhalle'. In: Historisches Ehrenfeld. Archived from the original on July 6, 2019 ; accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  7. ^ Historical Bochumer Ehrenfeld - Interactive map from 1910. In: Historisches Ehrenfeld. October 2008, archived from the original on December 29, 2018 ; accessed on July 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Thematic route bread, grain and beer: Konsumverein Wohlfahrt. In: Route-Industriekultur.de. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019 ; accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  9. ^ Konsumverein Wohlfahrt, Königsallee 178. City of Bochum, archived from the original on September 19, 2016 ; accessed on July 22, 2019 .