Railway line Dornstetten – Pfalzgrafenweiler

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Dornstetten – Pfalzgrafenweiler
Route length: 10.9 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Gäubahn from Eutingen in the Gäu
Station, station
 0.0 Dornstetten
   
 Gäubahn to Freudenstadt
   
 2.2 Hallwangen
   
 4.6 Kälberbronn - ore mine
   
 7.3 Herzogsweiler
   
 10.9 Pfalzgrafenweiler

The Dornstetten – Pfalzgrafenweiler railway is an unfinished railway line in Baden-Württemberg . It should be a total of 10.9 kilometers.

history

Pfalzgrafenweiler had been trying to get a railway connection since the 1890s . The first project planning work began as early as the turn of the century, including an extension of the Nagold – Altensteig narrow-gauge railway via Pfalzgrafenweiler to Freudenstadt. Finally, three variants for a standard-gauge railway were worked out:

  1. Dornstetten – Hallwangen – Pfalzgrafenweiler
  2. Dornstetten – Lützenhardt – Pfalzgrafenweiler
  3. Freudenstadt city – Musbach – Pfalzgrafenweiler

Finally, the construction of the first variant, which was the cheapest, was approved. On April 1, 1913 , a construction section was set up in Dornstetten, where the new railway line to be built was to connect to the Gäubahn . Due to the First World War , the construction work was stopped again on September 1, 1914.

After the end of the First World War, the construction work was continued in March 1919 as emergency work by numerous unemployed, but ended again after the completion of the railway line in December 1920. All that was missing for completion was the superstructure . Until November 1923, a few small remaining work was carried out.

It was not until 1938 that the project was finally completed with the transfer of the land used for the railway construction back to the municipalities and compensation paid in 1954. Nowadays the completed railway embankments and a cut are still visible in Dornstetten and Hallwangen.

literature

  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny: The Railway in the Northern Black Forest , Volume 1, EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1995

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