Ebeleben – Mühlhausen railway line

Ebeleben – Mühlhausen
Route number :	6720
Course book range :	644 (1974, DR)
Route length:	25.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend von Hohenebra and von Greußen 0.00 Ebeleben (old train station) 231 m to Menteroda 0.90 Helbe (21 m) 1.23 Urbach 1.32 Pond ditch 4.20 Rockensussra 270 m Connection scrap yard 6.35 Mehrstedt 267 m 8.41 Mehrstedter water (9 m) 8.75 Street 8.86 Schlotheim 245 m 9.40 Notter (34 m) 12.29 Easter grains 225 m 14.85 Holzbach (5 m) 15.04 Grains 214 m 18.23 Dig 200 m 18.63 Notter 18.95 Notter 19.70 Notter 19.95 Notter 21.48 Bollstedt 190 m 21.79 Unstrut (21 m) from Gotha from Treffurt 25.60 Mühlhausen (Thür) 202 m to Leinefelde

The Ebeleben – Mühlhausen railway was a branch line in Thuringia that was originally built and operated by the Mühlhausen-Ebeleben railway company . It led from the former Prussian city of Mühlhausen / Thuringia in today's Unstrut-Hainich district in an easterly direction via Schlotheim to Ebeleben, where it met two other private railways: the Hohenebra-Ebelebener Eisenbahn and the Greußen-Ebeleben-Keulaer Eisenbahn , both of which to Bachstein Group belonged.

history

Schlotheim station (1996)

The railway company Mühlhausen-Ebeleben was founded with financial support from the district of Mühlhausen, the cities of Mühlhausen and Schlotheim, the municipality of Körner and the district of Sondershausen by the railway construction company Lenz & Co. , which also took over the management. On June 3, 1897, the standard gauge small railway was opened for passenger traffic and on July 1, 1897 for freight traffic. Of the almost 26 km route, only 9 km were in Prussia, the rest was evenly distributed between the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the principalities of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, which only merged into the State of Thuringia in 1920. Therefore the railway was not built according to the regulations of the Prussian Small Railway Act. The center of operations was in Schlotheim station.

After the end of the Second World War it was possible to prevent dismantling as a reparation for the Soviet Union. On July 18, 1946, the railway was expropriated in favor of the state of Thuringia, which transferred operations on September 23, 1947 to the state-owned Thuringian Railways . From there she came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1949 . This served the entire route until September 29, 1974, then only the section Mühlhausen – Schlotheim. Freight traffic was stopped here at the end of 1994 and passenger traffic on May 31, 1997. On August 15, 1998, the Schlotheim – Mühlhausen section was closed. The route has now been completely dismantled and partly integrated into the Unstrut-Werra cycle path .

Web links

Commons : Ebeleben – Mühlhausen railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Forgotten paths.
• For the history of the route at www.bahnhof-schlotheim.de
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Ebeleben – Mühlhausen railway line in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schlotheim - Ebeleben on Bahnrassenradwege.de, accessed on May 29, 2020