Railway line Dümpelfeld – Lissendorf

Dümpelfeld – Lissendorf

Section at fault

Route number (DB) :

3002

Route length:

44 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Legend

		formerly Ahr Valley Railway from Adenau
	0.0	Dump field	223 m
		former Ahr Valley Railway to Remagen
		Dümpelfelder curve from Abzw Liers
		Insul (Abzw)
		Insuler Tunnel (91 m)
		Schulder Tunnel (142 m)
	4.7	fault	248 m
		Ruppenberg tunnel (275 m)
		Schellenberg Tunnel (151 m)
	8.2	Fuchshofen	274 m
	11.7	Antweiler (Ahr)	296 m
	14.4	Müsch	306 m
		Müscher Tunnel (289 m)
		Dorseler Tunnel (220 m)
		State border RlP / NRW
	18.4	Ahrdorf (Ahr)
		former route to Blankenheim-Wald
		State border NRW / RlP
	22.5	Ahütte	367 m
	26.3	Lower marriage	401 m
	29.4	Kerpen (Eifel)	430 m
	33.6	Walsdorf	469 m
	37.7	Hillesheim (Eifel)	459 m
		former route to Gerolstein
		Eifel route from Trier
	43.8	Lissendorf	414 m
		Eifel route to Hürth-Kalscheuren

Swell:

The Dümpelfeld – Lissendorf railway line was a non-electrified, but largely double-track branch line in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate . A few kilometers from Ahrdorf (Ahr) train station , the route ran across the area of North Rhine-Westphalia , which was founded in 1946 . Its section Dümpelfeld - Ahrdorf, which runs along the Ahr , is also known as the Middle Ahr Valley Railway .

history

Construction train in Hillesheim station (Eifel)

Ahrdorf station, here the Upper Ahr Valley Railway branched off to Blankenheim

The railway line was planned together with the Jünkerath – Weywertz (Vennquerbahn) railway around 1900 as a strategic railway line to connect the two Rhine lines over the (lower) Ahr valley railway with the Eifel line, which runs close to the state border . The actual construction work began in April 1909. On June 30, 1912, the 44 km long line was officially opened, the short section Dümpelfeld - Abzw Insul as a single-track branch line, the main section Abzw Insul - Lissendorf - Jünkerath as a double-track branch line. On the 4 km long Lissendorf - Jünkerath section, the line ran parallel to the Eifel line, which was also double-track at the time. From this four-track route it can be seen that the possibility of carrying out military transports with as little hindrance as possible determined the planning, because there was by no means a civilian transport need of this magnitude in the sparsely populated Eifel. The construction costs totaled 13.2 million marks. Almost a year later, the single-track Upper Ahr Valley Railway, branching off in Ahrdorf, went into operation.

Except during the two world wars, the line never achieved supra-regional importance, so despite its dual track service, it was operated at times as a simplified branch line service.

At the end of the Second World War, numerous bridges were blown up by the Wehrmacht, after which traffic stopped. The reconstruction dragged on for several years, and it was not until 1948 that the route could be used continuously again. The Lissendorf - Jünkerath section, which ran parallel to the Eifel line, was closed and dismantled after 1945, and the low traffic was directed over the Eifel line. From then on, the remaining line was only single-track, the second track had been dismantled as a reparation payment .

Passenger traffic from Dümpelfeld to Lissendorf was discontinued on June 3, 1973, goods traffic from Dümpelfeld to Hillesheim (Eifel) on September 30, 1973, after which the line was dismantled. The rest of the Hillesheim (Eifel) –Lissendorf section was finally shut down at the end of 1982 and later dismantled.

On the dismantled sections Insul – Schuld and Dorsel – Fuchshofen runs a railway cycle path , the Ahr cycle path .

literature

Kurt Hoppstädter: The development of the railway network in the Moselle valley and in the Eifel. Edited from the files of the Koblenz State Archives. Manuscript University and City Library Cologne. 1963
Klaus Kemp: The Ahr Valley Railways. Railway courier. Freiburg 1983. ISBN 3-88255-542-4
Klaus Kemp: Eisenbahnchronik Eifel - Volume 2: The eastern Eifel railways, Moselle route and private railways Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag, Freiburg 2019, [ ISBN 978-3-844664-21-8 ]
Heinz Schönewald: The History of the Ahr Valley Railway. Jünkerath 2020 [ ISBN 978-3-943123-40-1 ]

Web links

www.ahrdorf.de The Adenau - Dümpelfeld - Lissendorf - Jünkerath route
www.achim-bartoschek.de Illustrated description of the Ahrradweg
www.pro-schiene.de Farewell to the Lissendorf - Hillesheim section
Map / aerial photo of the route
Course book 1944

Individual evidence

↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .