Halle – Vienenburg railway line
The Halle – Vienenburg railway is a non-electrified main line in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony . It is an important link between the Halle agglomeration and the northern Harz foreland . It was opened in several sections from 1862 to 1872 by the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft and is now operated by DB Netz , except for the disused section between Heudeber-Danstedt and Vienenburg . The traffic between Heudeber-Danstedt and Vienenburg has been using the railway line further south via Wernigerode since 1996 .
The single-track electrified line on which the Central German S-Bahn runs runs between Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof and Halle-Trotha , parallel to the Halle (Saale) –Halberstadt railway line.
history
As early as 1840 and 1841, the two later line endpoints Halle and Vienenburg were connected to the railway network. The Oschersleben – Jerxheim – Wolfenbüttel line also went into operation in 1843 , which already resulted in a rail link, albeit one that ran far north. Nevertheless, there were still plans for a railway line closer to the Harz, which should connect Halberstadt directly to the west.
The first section of today's route from Halberstadt to Wegeleben was opened in 1862 with the Halberstadt – Thale railway line.
In 1864, a state treaty between Prussia and Braunschweig was concluded, which provided for a rail link between Halberstadt and Vienenburg. A reasonably flat route at a distance from the Harz was selected via Heudeber-Danstedt and Wasserleben . The Kingdom of Hanover, on the basis of which Vienenburg was at that time, initially rejected this project. Only after Prussia's victory in the German War and the resulting annexation of Hanover was the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft (MHE) able to start construction on this section in 1867. On March 1, 1869, this connection was put into operation. The Wegeleben – Aschersleben section had previously been inaugurated in 1865 . In 1871 this route was extended to the neighboring Könnern , and from there the last section to Halle (Saale) was completed in 1872.
From 1875 the connection in the direction of Hildesheim was available from Vienenburg via the Vienenburg – Langelsheim railway line . The direct rail route Halle – Hanover was thus complete.
After the nationalization of the MHE, long-distance traffic had shifted to the state railway lines that ran further north, but the line was of considerable importance for supra-regional freight traffic.
During the Second World War , the traffic increased further, the route was an important part of the connection between the Ruhr area and Central Germany. At the end of the war, numerous train stations along the route were the target of Allied air raids. The train traffic came to a standstill for the time being as the retreating Wehrmacht caused further destruction.
Due to the division of Germany , the line between Vienenburg in the British occupation zone and Wasserleben in the Soviet occupation zone was interrupted in 1945 . On the Soviet side, the second track was dismantled as a reparation payment , and the track from Wasserleben to the border was added.
After the fall of the Wall in 1990, efforts were made to reactivate the connection between Halberstadt and Vienenburg. However, since the railway leaves out larger places such as Wernigerode and Ilsenburg , the decision was made in favor of the Heudeber-Danstedt – Ilsenburg railway line, which runs south . This also led beyond the state border to Bad Harzburg until 1945 .
Since the route of the old line in the Bad Harzburg area could no longer be used, the Deutsche Bahn decided to build a new line that unthreads from the original line from Stapelburg and runs north to the Halberstadt – Vienenburg connection. Shortly before the state border, it threads into the old route and follows it to Vienenburg. Since the line on Lower Saxony uses the old route, the project on site could be viewed as a renovation of an existing line, which in turn enabled the establishment of level crossings . On June 2, 1996, the approximately ten-kilometer section was opened. Since then, the passenger trains between Halberstadt and Vienenburg have been using the Halberstadt – Heudeber-Danstedt section of the old route as well as the three-kilometer-long section on Lower Saxony soil and otherwise travel via the southern connection via Ilsenburg and Wernigerode.
The section between Heudeber-Danstedt and Wasserleben was still used by passenger trains until September 28, 2002, which continued on the route of the former Osterwieck-Wasserleben railway to Osterwieck . Then the traffic was stopped, on June 30, 2003 the line was closed by the Federal Railway Authority .
From the end of the 1990s, the Halle – Halberstadt section was completely rebuilt , making it usable for the use of tilting technology trains with a top speed of 160 km / h. The control and safety technology was modernized and an electronic signal box was built in Sandersleben (Anh) . The track systems of many train stations were dismantled to what is necessary today; some train stations were closed.
At the end of 2009 there were problems with the subsurface in the section between Frose and Nachterstedt , and the maximum speed had to be reduced to 50 km / h in this section. Between August and December 2012, this section was completely closed. The subsoil was compacted in order to eliminate possible cavities under the line, then the line tracks were relocated. 5.5 million euros were invested for this.
The connection from Halberstadt via Wernigerode to Vienenburg was converted in 2007 for operation with tilting technology trains. At the time of the 2008 timetable change, travel time was reduced again due to the completion of renovation work.
However, since December 2015, the tilting technology has no longer been used.
In preparation for the renovation of the Halle railway junction, a new switch connection was installed in Halle-Trotha station in summer 2015. This enables direct train journeys from the Halle – Vienenburg line to the parallel single-track S-Bahn line.
business
Between Halle, Halberstadt and Hanover, regional express trains operated by Deutsche Bahn ( HarzExpress ) and local trains of the northern Harz network operated by Veolia Verkehr Sachsen-Anhalt ran every two hours until 2014, stopping at all stations. At the weekend Veolia operates a connection between Berlin and Wernigerode , which also uses the Halberstadt – Heudeber-Danstedt section.
The stations on the separate track between Halle (Saale) main station and Halle-Trotha are served by the S3 line of the Central German S-Bahn .
Since December 2014 the regional express / now Harz-Elbe-Express from Halle (Saale) has ended in Goslar , between Vienenburg and Goslar it runs directly without stopping in Bad Harzburg. In addition, the regional train line of Veolia Verkehr Sachsen-Anhalt from Halberstadt is regularly connected to Goslar. This resulted in hourly connections between Halle and the imperial city on the Harz, where there is a connection to Hanover. As part of a private contract, the operation of the regional express train Halle – Goslar was awarded to Veolia Verkehr Sachsen-Anhalt for two years from December 2015. Diesel multiple units of the type LINT 41 are used . By dispensing with tilting technology, the travel time to Halle has been extended, but the acceleration of the regional train line has resulted in an hourly service between Goslar and Halle. The stops of the previous regional train line between Halberstadt and Aschersleben are served by an additional line.
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literature
- Dirk Endisch: The Halberstadt – Vienenburg line . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-36-6 .
- Josef Högemann: Railways in the Harz (I). Volume 1: The State Railways . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1995, ISBN 3-927587-43-5 .
- Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Return to the rail. Reactivated and new routes in passenger traffic 1980–2001 . transpress, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-71185-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Josef Högemann: Eisenbahnchronik Harz - The history of the railways in the Harz , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 3-88255-722-2 , p. 25
- ↑ List of the federally closed lines in the state of Saxony-Anhalt that have been closed since 1994. (XLSX) Federal Railway Authority, accessed on June 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Line renovation with high-tech: DB starts modernizing Frose – Nachterstedt in August. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, July 11, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 12, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ North Harz route released for tilting technology traffic. In: bahninfo.de. June 16, 2008, accessed November 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Falgowski: There is no S-Bahn going to Trotha for the time being. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. February 20, 2015, accessed September 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Harz-Elbe-Express will soon run regularly to Goslar. In: zughalt.de. March 25, 2014, accessed November 20, 2018 .
- ↑ NASA, award in the award procedure "RX Halle (Saale) - Goslar" ( Memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )