Frei-Weinheim – Jugenheim-Partenheim railway line
| Selztalbahn Frei Weinheim - Ingelheim - Jugenheim-Partenheim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 21.46 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The former Rhine-Hessian railway line between Frei-Weinheim and Jugenheim - Partenheim was called Zuckerlottche or Selztalbahn . It got its nickname Sugar Lotch from the beet campaign that takes place every autumn .
history
The South German Railway Company (SEG) received on 21 June 1902 by the Hessian Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig in Darmstadt approval to construct and operate a railway line between the Rheinhessen places free-Weinheim and Jugenheim-Partenheim. The 21.459 km long standard gauge branch line through the Selztal was opened on October 23, 1904. The route initially had an economic importance that should not be underestimated for the neighboring communities, especially due to the handling of goods between rail and ship in Frei-Weinheimer Hafen and between secondary and main lines in Ingelheim.
On the basis of Article 95 of the Weimar Constitution , the law on the State Treaty on the Transfer of State Railways to the Reich of April 30, 1920, transferred railway supervision from the People's State of Hesse to the German Reich on August 1, 1922 , in fact from the Hessian Ministry of Finance to the Railway Directorate Mainz .
When the license expired on June 1, 1954, the SEG ceased operations between Ingelheim Nord and Jugenheim-Partenheim. The last passenger train ran on May 31, 1954. The Deutsche Bundesbahn continued freight traffic until the end of the 1955 beet campaign. The track dismantling began in the spring of 1956. The former route through the Selztal from Ingelheim to Stadecken-Elsheim is now largely used as a cycle path (Selztal cycle path ). A short section from the DB Ingelheim station is still in operation as a siding for the Boehringer Ingelheim company.
While the passenger traffic between Frei-Weinheim and Nieder-Ingelheim ended as early as 1952, this section of the route was still served by freight traffic until May 1976. The tracks were dismantled in 1996.
literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 1: Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 3-88255-651-X , p. 230-240 .
- Gottfried Braun: The sugar candy . Historical Association Ingelheim am Rhein e. V.
- Norbert Lickhardt: Where the sugar candy once snorted. Self-published, 2014.