Railway line Hüttenwerke Oberhausen – Walsum Südhafen

Oberhausen – Walsum Südhafen (HOAG route)
Route length:	approx. 15 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Public transport route
Route length:	6.8 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	750  =
Legend (0.0) Walsum south harbor to Schwelgern (0.5) Walsum colliery Little Emscher (1.1) Oberhausen – Wesel railway line (1.5) B 8 Aldenrade (2.7) A 59 Schwelgern – Lohberg colliery railway (3.7) L 155 City limit Duisburg / Oberhausen (5.1) Emscher formerly for the Hugo Haniel colliery by Oxea (7.0) A 3 formerly from / to Sterkrade colliery (9.3) to the route to Oberhausen-Sterkrade L 287 Oberhausen – Arnhem railway line Public transport route from Sterkrade 112 MAN Turbo B 223 A 516 Eisenheim formerly from / to the Jacobi colliery formerly from Zeche Osterfeld ( Sweeping track in central position) OLGA Park Duisburg-Ruhrort – Dortmund railway line Duisburg-Wedau – Bottrop Süd railway line A 42 Emscher Rhine-Herne Canal Duisburg – Quakenbrück railway line Freight line Oberhausen West – Bottrop South planned tram route to Essen 105 Gasometer (planned, together with105) formerly to Gutehoffnungshütte formerly to Gutehoffnungshütte New center of Oberhausen B 231 formerly from Gutehoffnungshütte Lipperfeld Duisburg – Dortmund railway line Oberhausen Hbf – Essen-Altenessen Oberhausen Brückorstrasse-Am Damm Fire station B 223 Oberhausen Hbf ( Sweeping track in central position) Route to Mülheim (Ruhr) 112 Swell:

The railway smelters Oberhausen-Walsum South Harbor was a metallurgical and coal train , which the former steelworks of Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen and the mines Jacobi , Sterkrade , Hugo Haniel with the railways Oberhausen-Arnhem , Oberhausen-Wesel with the Walsumer south port in Duisburg-Walsum Association . A branch led to the Jacobi colliery and a section still in operation leads to the Celanese chemical plant in Holten .

Route

The route runs along an embankment and was free of intersections except for three level crossings at the level of Kreisstraße 10, Landstraße 155 near Holten and Bundesstraße 223 in Sterkrade . It crossed under the Oberhausen – Arnhem railway line in Walsum and crossed Bundesstraße 8 , at Wehofen it crossed the Bundesautobahn 59 and the former Lohberg colliery , in Sterkrade the Bundesautobahn 516 , in Osterfeld it crossed the Landstraße 511, the Emscher , the Rhein-Herne- Canal , the former Oberhausen – Dorsten railway line and in the area of ​​the former smelter site, the current CentrO , federal highway 231 and the railway line from Oberhausen to Essen-Altenessen .

The embankment was designed in such a way that the railway line to Walsum's southern harbor could be expanded to two tracks. It was electrified from the Sterkrade station to the Sterkrade colliery and again from Wehofen to the Walsumer Südhafen. Some concrete masts for the overhead line are still there.

history

To connect the Gutehoffnungshütte with the mines north of the Emscher, the line from the Oberhausen ironworks to Sterkrade was built in 1891. In 1905, the route from Sterkrade to the newly built company port Walsum Süd was extended.

The railway line was last operated by Eisenbahn und Häfen , a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp , until the smelter was closed and the collieries were closed. It was used to open up the coal area in Oberhausen and as a works railway for Gutehoffnungshütte and Ruhrchemie , later the Celanese chemical plant , where a short section of the Oberhausen – Arnhem railway line is still in operation today.

After the smelter in Oberhausen had been largely demolished and the mines along the route closed, the Oberhausen – Sterkrade line was closed in 1994 and the Celanese connection, now (2013) Oxea , to the Walsum port in 1995.

The city of Oberhausen campaigned that the still existing southern part of the smelting and colliery railway from Oberhausen main station to Sterkrade be used for public transport and was due to the settlement of the new shopping and leisure center, the CentrO, on the former smelter site in 1995 –1996 converted into a public transport route for trams and buses .

The route of the remaining section, leading from Holten to Walsum, was expanded into a cycle and hiking trail in 2004 under the name HOAG route .

literature

• Oberhausen homeland book. Published by the City of Oberhausen, edited by Wilhelm Seipp, Oberhausen, December 1964
• City traffic. 41st year, July 1996, EK - Verlag, Freiburg, ISSN  0038-9013

Map series:

• Land surveying office of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Kreiskarte Kreis Wesel 1: 50000 . 5th edition. 1991, ISBN 3-89439-578-8 .
• FALKPLAN DUISBURG / MOERS; 36th edition 2002; Falk Verlag, Ostfildern, ISBN 3-88445-117-0
• FALKPLAN MÜLHEIM / OBERHAUSEN; 16th edition February 1971; Falk Verlag, Hamburg
• FALKPLAN MÜLHEIM / OBERHAUSEN; 36th edition 1997/98; Falk Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 3-88445-137-5

Web links

• Oberhausen.de
• STOAG.de history
• Urbanrail.net
• bahnen-am-niederrhein.de Route map of the Thyssen Krupp Steel plant
• bahnen-am-niederrhein.de Thyssen Krupp Steel works railway
• digitalis.uni-koeln.de Gutehoffnung The harbor in Walsum
• digitalis.uni-koeln.de Gutehoffnung Die Hüttenbahnen
• Hoag-Trasse for railroad cycling
• map-hoag-trasse.pdf
• Press release of the regional association Ruhr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bahnrassenradeln NW 3.01a: HOAG-Trasse Achim Bartoschek Retrieved on May 24, 2013
3. ↑ ruhrgebiet-industriekultur.de, Green Path and HOAG-Trasse