Forchheim – Höchstadt railway line
| Forchheim (Oberfr) –Hochstadt (Aisch) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5112 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 822 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 22.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Forchheim – Höchstadt an der Aisch line was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line in Forchheim and ran in the Aischgrund via Hemhofen to Höchstadt an der Aisch . It was also known as the Aischgrundbahn , Hirtenbachtalbahn or Hemhofenbahn .
history
The 23-kilometer standard-gauge local railway was opened on November 16, 1892 by the Bavarian State Railway.
The passenger traffic was brisk; In 1963, nine pairs of passenger trains ran on weekdays and five on Sundays.
For the construction of the federal motorway 3 , a ceiling construction station was built near Gremsdorf in 1961/62 , where the building materials were delivered and prepared for construction. That brought a considerable amount of additional freight. After the work was completed, the facilities were dismantled.
Passenger traffic ended on September 28, 1984. In response to this, the association “Localbahn Aischgrund e. V. “, which aimed to set up a museum railroad. However, this project was only partially successful, as an intermediary for other museum railways. In the meantime the association has dissolved.
The last freight train between Hemhofen and Höchstadt ran on March 2, 1995. This section was closed on October 1, 1995. Freight traffic to Hemhofen ended on December 31, 1999.
In the 1990s, the railway was part of a planned maximum network of the city-surrounding railway Erlangen , a project of the city of Erlangen and the districts of Erlangen-Höchstadt and Forchheim . Most recently, the first stage of operation was to resume diesel-powered passenger traffic between Forchheim and Hemhofen and, in the future, to extend it to Höchstadt. In 2002 the negotiations on this restart failed when the neighboring communities did not want to take on the associated financial risk.
As a result, at the end of 2002, DB Netz began a procedure under Section 11 AEG for the surrender and shutdown of railway infrastructure facilities for the remaining Forchheim – Hemhofen section. The efforts of the Deutsche Regionalisenbahn , which then leased the section for a while, were unsuccessful. On April 1, 2005 the section was closed.
On September 4, 2007, the Federal Railway Authority finally opened the participation procedure for the final exemption (de-dedication) of the entire 22-kilometer route, which was completed on February 21, 2008 in accordance with the application. The railway line no longer exists legally. In sections, their areas are to be used for the construction of bypass roads and cycle paths .
Forchheim station operating situation
At Forchheim station, the branch line to Ebermannstadt branches off. Until around 1990, track 1 led directly from the train station to Höchstadt, and track 5 directly from the train station to Behringersmühle. The Trubbach Bridge, located south of the station, had four tracks for this purpose. As part of renovation work, the two outer tracks of the bridge were shut down and tracks 1 and 5 in the station area were threaded directly into the main line to Nuremberg. Platform track 1 was dismantled. In the course of the S-Bahn construction work, track 1 was reinstalled a few years later as a butt track for the trains ending in Forchheim, but no longer connected in the north towards Bamberg. As part of the renovation of Forchheim station as part of the four-track expansion of the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line , track 1 has been a through track for regional traffic since 2018.
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis, Ekkehard Martin, Stefan Winkler: Franconian branch lines then and now - Upper Franconia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1986. ISBN 3-922138-25-X .
- Günther Klebes: Forchheim-Höchstadt local railway: left and right of the Aischgrund railway . H & L publications Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 1992. ISBN 3-928786-05-9 .
- Kerstin Schäfer: The high-rise buildings of the Upper Franconian branch lines: history, inventory and conversion. Michael Resch, Coburg 2013, ISBN = 978-3-944237-05-3.
Web links
- Information and pictures about the Aischgrundbahn on bahnhofsbilder.de (private)
- Information and pictures about the route on hirtenbachtalbahn.de (private)
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Mrugalla: The DB and the motorway construction . In: railway magazine . No. 3 , 2020, p. 50 .
- ↑ Federal Railway Office: List of federally closed lines in the state of Bavaria since 1994 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bundesanzeiger 2007, issue no.173, page 7519
- ↑ Nordbayerische Nachrichten, March 14th, 2008 ( Memento of the original of September 8th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German Unity Transport Project No. 8: Forchheim – Eggolsheim section on vde8.de , accessed on November 3, 2017
