Erbach – Fehl-Ritzhausen railway line
| Erbach-Fehl-Ritzhausen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 3732 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 251e (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 12 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 17 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| State (D): | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Erbach – Fehl-Ritzhausen railway was a single-track, non-electrified railway line in Rhineland-Palatinate . The railway line connected Erbach on the Limburg – Altenkirchen railway with Fehl-Ritzhausen on the Westerwaldquerbahn . The railway line was mainly known for the large concrete viaduct at Erbach over the Nister .
history
The district town of Marienberg in the remote Oberwesterwaldkreis did not have a nearby train station until the 1880s. Only with the opening of the second section of the Limburg – Altenkirchen railway was there a railway connection near the district town. The section from Fehl-Ritzhausen to Marienberg was opened together with the Westerwaldquerbahn.
The rest of the route was a little more difficult to lay out. Due to unsuitable subsoil near Erbach, the route could not simply be led east of the Nister, but had to be built on the western slope of the river. Next to the crossing of the Limburg – Altenkirchen railway line, an eleven-arched 300 m long and 40 m high concrete viaduct, which was then the largest in the German Empire, was built over the Nister in just six months. The railway line was opened on August 31, 1911.
In 1957 the viaduct over the Nister was comprehensively renovated.
Traffic was quite brisk, in 1963 ten pairs of trains ran on weekdays, plus one Erbach – Marienberg and one to Fehl-Ritzhausen – Marienberg trains, and nine pairs of trains ran on Sundays. Used came railcars .
On September 26, 1971, passenger traffic on the entire route and goods traffic between Marienberg and Fehl-Ritzhausen were suspended. On July 1, 1996, the remaining section, which until the end of 1994 - albeit only sporadically - was still served by freight traffic, was closed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 .
- ↑ a b c http://genealogie.familie-denker.de The Great Bridge (accessed on September 12, 2011)
- ↑ a b c www.nistertal-westerwald.de The Erbacher Brücke (PDF document; 77 kB) (accessed on September 12, 2011)
- ↑ a b The Westerwald-Querbahn ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 12, 2011)
- ↑ a b Kramer, cabin basket: Farewell to the rail. Freight routes from 1994 to today . Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , p. 61
- ↑ verkehrsrelktionen.uue.org Die Bauwerke (accessed on September 12)
- ↑ www.westerwaelder-bahnen.net Erbach – Fehl-Ritzhausen (accessed on September 12, 2011)
- ↑ List of the federally-owned lines in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate that have been closed since 1994. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office , July 8, 2013, archived from the original on April 12, 2016 ; Retrieved April 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
