Göttingen – Bodenfelde railway line

Göttingen – Bodenfelde railway line
Route
Route number :	1801
Course book section (DB) :	356 South, until 1992: 245, until 1986: 246, until 1970: 202d, ex 200c
Route length:	36.780 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	9.2  ‰
Minimum radius :	500 m
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend von Bebra and formerly von Kassel 0.0 Göttingen ⊙ until about 1986 Lutter Bundesstrasse 27 / former A388 3.3 Turn ⊙ until 1976 3.3 to Hanover , branch since approx. 1990 SFS Hannover – Würzburg and Bundesstrasse 3 rope Autobahn 7 (Hanover– Kassel ) 8.0 Lenglern ⊙ closed in 1988–2005 Harste 11.2 Emmenhausen ⊙ until 1988 14.2 Lödingsen ⊙ 17.8 Adelebsen ⊙ 20.7 Eberhausen 1929-1973 Cut out Hessenbach 24.7 Offensen (Kr North) ⊙ 28.2 Verliehausen ⊙ until 1988 Sultry awl Lower Saxony / Hesse state border parallel to the Sollingbahn 32.1 Vernawahlshausen ⊙ (former train station) Sultry (2 × each) State border Hesse / Lower Saxony (3 ×) from Northeim 36.5 Bodenfelde ⊙ to Ottbergen

The Göttingen – Bodenfelde railway line , also known as the Bodenfelder Bahn in Göttingen , is a standard-gauge railway in southern Lower Saxony . The single-track, non-electrified branch line runs from Göttingen to Bodenfelde through the Weser Uplands . It mainly serves to develop the region, but also for through traffic. For example, the Düsseldorf –Göttingen connection used to run over this route .

In Adelebsen there is freight traffic through a basalt quarry.

Route

The route runs roughly from south-east to north-west, with important intermediate stops being Lenglern and Adelebsen .

Today it branches off from the Hannöverschen Südbahn (part of the old north-south line ) about 3 kilometers north of the Göttingen train station at the former Weende stop , until the construction of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg it had its own track up to the passenger station. One after the other, she crosses the high-speed route, federal highway 3 and the Leine . At the western edge of the Leine ditch , it crosses under the federal motorway 7 and rises until shortly before Lödingsen . It runs between Emmenhausen and Offensen in the Münden Nature Park . From Lödingsen to Bodenfelde, the route follows the Schwülme river towards the Weser . This section is sometimes referred to as the “Schwülmetalbahn” . The Vernawahlshausen stop is in the state of Hesse . From there it runs parallel to the Solling Railway, which it joins at Bodenfelde station.

history

Prehistory and construction

Even when planning the Hanover – Hann. Münden – Kassel (opened here 1854–1856) variants west of Göttingen were under discussion. In the mid-1860s, a connection between Göttingen and the Carlsbahn near Bad Karlshafen was discussed via Adelebsen. This was vehemently demanded, especially in Adelebsen with its quarries, which were already important at the time. This line would also have been interesting for long-distance traffic, as the Halle – Hann. Münden was connected from Arenshausen to Göttingen in 1867 (Eichenberger curve) , but the extension to Kassel was controversial. However, the connection Arenshausen – Münden (–Kassel) was finally established in 1872, and in 1878 the Solling Railway was opened further north via Uslar and Hardegsen . The east-west traffic bypassed Göttingen and Adelebsen, and another long-distance line was not to be expected. Three decades of demands and discussions followed. Among other things, the west extension of the narrow-gauge Gartetalbahn (Duderstadt – Göttingen) via Adelebsen and Uslar to Schönhagen (Han) was planned from 1897 (the last section would have corresponded to the later Uslar – Schönhagen railway ).

From around 1901 the Prussian State Railways became interested in this region again. On June 25, 1904, the Prussian state parliament decided on a package of several branch and small railways, including one from Göttingen to Bodenfelde. The route was measured from 1906, and construction began in spring 1908. It was briefly disturbed by flooding on the Leine , but the terrain was unproblematic. With a maximum incline of 1: 109, the branch line was flatter than the neighboring main lines Sollingbahn or Dransfelder Rampe . The Göttingen – Bodenfelde railway was opened on August 15, 1910.

Until 1945

The branch line became one of the most profitable in the empire in the 1920s. In Adelebsen, 2000 tons of basalt were loaded from three quarries every day. In addition, through traffic developed. From 1926 to 1928 the train stations in Lenglern, Adelebsen and Verliehausen were expanded.

During the Second World War, an armaments factory was attached to the line near Lenglern. This railway line was also damaged in fighting in April 1945, including when a gun train was shot at. Allegedly, damage in Emmenhausen only occurred when the US troops re-enacted the fighting for filming and set fire to a freight car with ammunition. The train was available again in mid-June.

A rail bus from around 1970 on the Göttingen side of Vernawahlshausen station. Behind (higher) the Sollingbahn

1950s to 1980s

Former stop in Emmenhausen (Bovenden) , as it was 32 years after it was closed

Traffic increased again in the 1950s and early 1960s but did not reach the pre-war level. Basalt mining around Adelebsen declined, today only one opencast mine is still in operation. A sawmill was established for this purpose. Passenger traffic has also declined since the mid-1960s. In 1973 the Eberhausen stop was closed, in 1976 Weende, in 1988 Lenglern, Emmenhausen and Verliehausen were given up. Since 1976 only the trains on the Göttingen line have stopped in Vernawahlshausen (see picture), those of the Sollingbahn have been running through the former transfer station since then, and the station building was demolished in the same year. The Bundesbahn vacillated several times between medium-term shutdown and expansion for long-distance traffic from the Ruhr area to Göttingen. To date, neither one nor the other has been implemented.

Until the opening of the new Eggetunnel between Kassel and Paderborn , trains from Kassel to the Ruhr area were diverted several times via Adelebsen when the direct route through the Egge Mountains was blocked by landslides, as in 1988.

During the construction of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg, a long bridge was created for the railway line to Bodenfelde, which also crosses the later federal highway 3.

For the construction of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg , the previous introduction to the Göttingen station was dismantled. The traffic of the branch line was first provisionally diverted from Weende over the new line until a bridge was built in the area of ​​the former railway embankment over the route of the high-speed line and the B 3, which was built a decade later, and the trains in the area of ​​the former Weende stop in the north South route were threaded. This made the Bodenfeld trains the first to use the new line in Göttingen.

today

In December 2005 the stop in Lenglern, which was closed in 1988, was reopened after constant pressure on the railway and the Lower Saxony regional transport company. The route, which was still working with mechanical signal boxes in Adelebsen and Bodenfelde, has been controlled by an electronic signal box in Göttingen since October 2008. Contrary to the original announcements, the maximum speed of the route remains at 60 km / h for most of the route. While two level crossings in Erbsen and Lödingsen were technically secured by half barriers in October / November 2013, the technical security of some other level crossings is still unclear. Several missing technical safeguards lead to speed restrictions. Since the end of 2009, the section between Offensen (km 25.6) and Bodenfelde can be driven at 80 km / h. Access to the train in Lenglern is not barrier-free. You can only change trains in Bodenfelde via stairs. There are no maps or information about the location, buses or taxis for the onward journey at all stops. In the summer of 2017, the Adelebsen train station was converted to make it barrier-free .

Service offer

3 Lint of the DB-Harz-Weser-Bahn meet in August 2013 in Bodenfelde. You continue to Ottbergen, Nordhausen and Göttingen. Four months later, the Nordwestbahn took over, only the Northeim route is currently (2017) operated by the DB.

The route has been operated by the NordWestBahn since December 15, 2013 . This introduced an hourly service on weekdays and thus expanded the range of services compared to the previous operator DB Regio , which since December 2007 has only offered a two-hour basic cycle through a regional train with additional school trains . Due to the lack of crossroads (only possible in Adelebsen), the travel time between Bodenfelde and Göttingen increased by around six to eight minutes with the reintroduction of the hourly service and was now around 50 minutes. As of 2015, the fixed hourly service was again dispensed with, trips with and without idle time in Bodenfelde alternate.

The trains continue in Bodenfelde via the Sollingbahn to Ottbergen (also known as the Oberweserbahn ). Since December 2015, they have been coupled with the trains from the direction of Holzminden ; Together they continue on the route via Altenbeken to Paderborn . In Ottbergen you can change trains in the direction of Höxter – Holzminden – Kreiensen . The NordWestBahn operates three-part diesel railcars of the Bombardier Talent type . DB Regio used two-part LINT railcars until December 14, 2013 . Until 2005, the DB series 614 and 628 were mostly used.

In 1910 there were five pairs of passenger trains with a journey time of 82 minutes, in 1937 ten pairs of trains, and since the 1950s between 13 and 16 pairs of trains, including several long-running express trains that only stopped in Adelebsen. A pair of express trains ran from Düsseldorf to Göttingen until 1989, which in 1983 was upgraded to a surcharge-free express train. The cars have been reassigned as through cars in Bodenfelde in recent years .

Planning

View of the Adelebsen train station, which was rebuilt in 2017

The reopening of a stop in Verliehausen has been under discussion since 2014. In May 2015, a reopening was approved by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Transport. A realization is possible in the medium to long term .

Others

In the modular train path pricing system of Deutsche Bahn, this route belongs to category Z1 and since October 13, 2008 there has been a supply with GSM-R .

At Adelebsen station there is a possibility to cross trains, all other stations are only stops.

The route between Göttingen and Bodenfelde belongs to the Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen (VSN). The BahnCard is not valid for journeys within the association .

literature

• Gustav Meier, Gerd Busse, Harald Henne, Klaus-Peter Lorenz: Railway Göttingen - Bodenfelde, railway line - lifeline . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1989, ISBN 3-927587-03-6
• Gerd Aschoff, Gerd Busse, Gustav Meier: Highest Railway. On the past and present of the Bundesbahn branch line Göttingen – Adelebsen – Bodenfelde . Publisher: PRO BAHN - Göttingen Regional Group.

Web links

Commons : Göttingen-Bodenfelde railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Klocke: Track opened without singing and sounding. 100 years of Bodenfelder Bahn / Gustav Meier is researching for the anniversary year . In: Göttinger Tageblatt. January 25, 2010, page 10. goettinger-tageblatt.de of January 24, 2010, accessed on January 25, 2010.
2. ^ Report in the HNA of October 9, 2013, accessed on December 16, 2013
3. ↑ Announcement in the HNA of March 11, 2017, accessed on March 16, 2017
4. ^ Together through Ostwestfalen-Lippe - Flyer 2013 ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Report in the HNA of May 18, 2015, accessed on June 19, 2015.
6. ^ Report in the NDR of May 18, 2015, accessed on June 9, 2015.