Ebersdorf b.Coburg – Neustadt b.Coburg railway line
| Ebersdorf (b Coburg) –Neustadt (b Coburg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5124 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 831 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 30.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ebersdorf b.Coburg – Neustadt b.Coburg railway was a 30-kilometer single-track branch line in the Coburg district that ran from Ebersdorf via Weidhausen and Hof-Steinach to Neustadt bei Coburg .
Since the route from Leutendorf followed the Steinach , it has the name Steinachtalbahn in literature . Another name was Karussellbahn , because together with the railway line from Neustadt via Coburg to Ebersdorf there was a ring railway on which there were also continuous train connections Coburg-Ebersdorf-Hof-Steinach-Neustadt-Coburg.
Route description
The line branched off the Coburg – Lichtenfels railway line on the northern side of the Ebersdorf train station and ran in an easterly direction via Frohnlach to Sonnefeld . There the train turned south to Weidhausen. Behind Weidhausen, the route led again in an easterly direction through the Sonnefelder Forest with an altitude difference of around 20 meters down into the Steinachtal. The parallel border between the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and the Kingdom of Bavaria was not crossed. From Leutendorf, where the route crossed the Steinach for the first time, the route ran parallel to the Steinach, first in the river valley and after another river crossing at Hof an der Steinach along the eastern slope to Wörlsdorf . Hof-Steinach station had a locomotive station and was a branch of the Coburg depot . Behind Wörlsdorf, the Steinach was crossed a third time before Fürth am Berg , then followed the Thuringian Heubisch -Mupperg, where the route crossed the Steinach for the last time and headed northwest to Neustadt. While the two older stations in Sonnefeld and Weidhausen were made of red brick masonry, the remaining station buildings were built as half-timbered houses.
The smallest arc radius was 300 meters, the greatest inclination was 1: 62.5.
history
In 1897 a state treaty on railway construction was concluded between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Duchy of Saxony Coburg and Gotha after the basket-making trade in Sonnefeld and Weidhausen had been pushing for years to do so. On August 1, 1901, the first section between Ebersdorf and Weidhausen was opened. It was not until 1913 that a second state treaty was concluded on the continuation of the route through the Steinach Valley to Neustadt, which Neustadt in particular had striven for. The inauguration of the second section of the route did not take place until November 1, 1920, as the construction work had ceased during the First World War . In the case of the Reichsbahn, the line that belonged to the Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt had the course book route number 164e; the travel time of the passenger trains was about 70 minutes. In 1939 five passenger trains ran in each direction on weekdays.
The section from kilometers 23.5 to 27.3 with the Heubisch-Mupperg train station was in Thuringia . In the summer of 1945, the demarcation of the border interrupted the train service there and the section was dismantled in 1954. Between Neustadt-Süd and the inner-German border , the track was dismantled in 1976. Passenger trains were maintained on the 23-kilometer stretch between Ebersdorf and Fürth am Berg until June 1, 1975. The journey time on the route book route 831 was around 40 minutes, mostly the class 86 was used as a locomotive, and finally the rail bus . In 1963 there were only two pairs of trains on weekdays, the rest of the service was done by bus. Freight traffic was maintained for a few years before the Wörlsdorf – Fürth section was closed on August 1, 1986 and three years later, on May 27, 1989, Hof-Steinach – Wörlsdorf. On May 30, 1992, freight traffic on the remnant Ebersdorf – Hof-Steinach was discontinued. From 1992 to 1993 the line between Weidhausen and Hof-Steinach was dismantled. The last section from Ebersdorf to Weidhausen was finally dismantled in 2000 after a planned reactivation could not be implemented. The route number was 5124. Today there are still some railway stations and flood bridges as remnants of the route.
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis, Stefan Goldschmidt and Bernd Schmitt: Railway in the Coburg region . Verlag Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg, Coburg 1996, ISBN 3-9802748-4-5
- Kerstin Schäfer: The high-rise buildings of the Upper Franconian branch lines. History, inventory and conversion . Neustadt / Coburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-944237-05-3 .
