Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line

Crailsheim – Heilbronn Hbf
Route number (DB) :	4950
Course book section (DB) :	710.4 (Heilbronn tram) 783 785 (SHA-Hessental – Crailsheim)
Route length:	88.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	to SHA-Hessental, from Cappel: 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	<20  ‰
Top speed:	160 km / h
Dual track :	(continuous)
Legend from Nuremberg from Königshofen 30,446 Crailsheim 409 m to Goldshöfe 32,200 Crailsheim Flügelau (Awanst) 36.200 Maulach 432 m 40.824 Eckartshausen - Ilshofen 435 m 42.300 Gaugshausen 430 m 44.700 Großaltdorf 412 m 47.900 Vellberg 381 m Buhler 51.885 Sulzdorf 383 m 57.667 Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental 371 m to Waiblingen 58.700 Hessentaler Tunnel (143 m) 59.900 Michelbach (Bilz) 351 m 62.200 Tullauer Tunnel (129 m) Stove 64.734 Schwäbisch Hall 306 m 66.400 Haller Tunnel (72 m) 66.500 Gottwollshauser Tunnel (287 m) 69.100 Wackershofen tunnel (78 m) 69.706 Wackershofen open air museum 71.200 Gailenkirchen (Württ) 355 m 75.700 copper 365 m von Forchtenberg (until 1995) 79.363 Waldenburg (Württ) 351 m 85.064 Neuenstein 298 m 90.080 Cappel (Bft) 251 m 90.845 Öhringen Römerwall (Bft) 91.876 Öhringen Hbf 235 m Ear 93.285 Öhringen West 240 m 96.010 Bitzfeld 233 m 97.853 Bretzfeld 225 m 99.200 Scheppach 229 m 100.834 Wieslensdorf 240 m 102.358 Eschenau (b Heilbronn) 234 m 104.257 Affaltrach 219 m 105.944 Willsbach 206 m 106.506 Sülzbach school 203 m 107.399 Sülzbach 196 m Sulm 109.240 Ellhofen 189 m 110.040 Ellhofen commercial area 193 m 111.420 Weinberg 193 m 112.513 Weinsberg West 197 m 113.500 Weinsberg Tunnel (891 m) 114.414 Heilbronn Trappensee 186 m 114.797 Heilbronn Pfühlpark ( Abzw ) Inner city route of the Heilbronn light rail von Marbach (until 2000) 115.800 Heilbronn Abzw Pfühl 116.100 Heilbronn Karlstor (until 2003) from Würzburg Neckar 118.600 Heilbronn main station 158 m to Stuttgart to Karlsruhe Swell:

Stadtbahn - railcar at Wieslensdorf stop

Regional Express with double-deck coaches on the Öhringen Viaduct

Level crossing in Weinsberg 2003, before electrification

The Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway is a double-track , 88.2 kilometer long main line in northeast Baden-Württemberg that runs from Crailsheim to Heilbronn . The route is electrified in sections . The Royal Württemberg State Railways opened what was then known as the Kocherbahn , starting from Heilbronn in 1862 to Schwäbisch Hall and in 1867 to Crailsheim.

Based on the name of the Hohenlohe region crossed , the Baden-Württemberg local transport company markets the continuous train offer on the route as Hohenlohebahn (course book route 783), while the section to Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental is also part of the Murrbahn (Stuttgart – Crailsheim, course book route 785).

history

The cities of Crailsheim, Heilbronn, Künzelsau and Weinsberg turned in February and March 1857 with a request for a rail connection to the King and the Assembly of the Wuerttemberg Estates . In April, the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies recommended the construction of a Heilbronn – Crailsheim – Nuremberg railway line. In May 1858, the meeting of the estates voted for the route via Weinsberg and Öhringen to Crailsheim. This variant, proposed by the official assembly of the Oberamt Weinsberg and the population of the Weinsberger Valley , was the longest of three and, because of the necessary construction of the 891 meter long Weinsberg tunnel between Heilbronn and Weinsberg, was much more expensive, but had the advantage that all larger towns of the Weinsberger Tales and last but not least Weinsberg itself could be connected. The Heilbronn – Schwäbisch Hall section was opened on August 4, 1862, the Schwäbisch Hall – Crailsheim section on December 10, 1867. The planning and construction of the line was headed by Carl Julius Abel . The originally single-track line was expanded to double-track from 1887 to 1890.

The newly built Murrtalbahn was connected to the Kocherbahn in the then neighboring municipality of Hessental in 1879 and not to the Schwäbisch Hall train station itself. This was disadvantageous for the city, as the detour via Hessental was necessary for the trip to Stuttgart. On the other hand, it makes the Stuttgart – Nuremberg connection shorter. As a result, Hessental developed into the more important train station in today's Schwäbisch Hall, although it is about four kilometers away from the city center.

In the 1985 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan , the Crailsheim – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental section was part of the upgraded Nuremberg – Stuttgart line . As part of the project, line improvements and signal adjustments were planned between Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental and Crailsheim in order to increase the line speed to a maximum of 200 km / h. The project was not included in the following Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan in 1992 .

The section between Crailsheim and Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental was electrified in 1996 as part of the electrical expansion of the Murrbahn.

Buildings

• Viaduct over the Bühler near Vellberg
• Viaduct over the Kocher near Tullau

Partial expansion as S-Bahn line

The Heilbronner Stadtbahn has been running to Öhringen - Cappel since December 2005 . For this purpose, the line from Heilbronn to Öhringen was electrified for the first time, and eight new stops were created. In order to enable the construction work to be carried out more cost-effectively, the entire rail traffic between Öhringen and Heilbronn was suspended from June 2003 to December 2005, this section has since been served by rail replacement traffic, thus, according to Deutsche Bahn, additional costs of four million euros could be avoided . Despite this measure, there were repeated unplanned additional costs and delays in the reconstruction of the route. The conversion cost around € 60.3 million.

It was planned to build an access point in the Öhringen Römerwall station. In June 2005 it was expected that the station could go into operation at the end of 2006, but there were delays in planning for several reasons. In mid-2009, completion was expected by the beginning of 2013; after further delays, planning was abandoned in April 2014.

The S-Bahn traffic between Heilbronn and Öhringen is operated by the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG), which uses GT8-100C / 2S and GT8-100D / 2S-M railcars for this purpose . On the other hand, diesel multiple units of the 642 series are used as regional express trains on the route Heilbronn Hbf - Crailsheim and as regional trains between Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental and Öhringen Hbf , operated by the Westfrankenbahn . As an extension of the RB 18 , a connection from Heilbronn to Öhringen and back in the morning is offered by Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg with trains of the Bombardier Talent type .

From mid-March to early June 2013, the platform at Schwäbisch Hall station was modernized and raised to a height of 55 centimeters.

Freight transport

From the reopening of the line between Öhringen and Heilbronn in December 2005 to 2012, the Öhringen packaging manufacturer Huber was served by a shunting locomotive from Heilbronn. Only between Crailsheim and Hessental are there through freight trains on the route Nürnberg– Kornwestheim Rbf .

Inner city route of the Heilbronn light rail

Since 2005, there has been a ramp between the Heilbronn Trappensee and Heilbronn Pfühlpark stops , via which the Heilbronn Stadtbahn branches off to the city center. After the Bahnhofsvorplatz stop (since the end of 2013 Hauptbahnhof / Willy-Brandt-Platz ), the tram continues via a level crossing of the Frankenbahn on the Kraichgaubahn in the direction of Karlsruhe .

Passenger numbers

According to surveys by the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft, in 2008 13,400 passengers used the trams on the route between Heilbronn and Öhringen every day. The journeys of the DB Regio were used by around 700 passengers a day, before the introduction of the tram in 2002 it was 585.

future

An extension of the Stadtbahn via Öhringen-Cappel to Waldenburg or Schwäbisch Hall is under public discussion. A connection to Künzelsau from Waldenburg was examined from 2008. However, in 2012 the Hohenlohe District Assembly decided not to pursue these plans any further due to the forecast insufficient profitability.

The services from December 2019 were tendered across Europe in October 2015 by the Baden-Württemberg local transport company as part of the Netz 11 Hohenlohe-Franken-Untermain tender . DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH , which plans to use Siemens Desiro Classic vehicles , was awarded the contract .

According to a cabinet proposal for the electrification of the Baden-Württemberg rail network, which is to be passed in the cabinet on April 10, 2018, the plan is to electrify the Hohenlohebahn between Öhringen and Schwäbisch Hall by 2025. A feasibility study showed that four tunnels near Schwäbisch Hall are not the height required for electrification. There is no concrete plan for this yet.

literature

• Klaus Bindewald: The Heilbronn Stadtbahn: Rail traffic between Eppingen and Öhringen . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2005, ISBN 3-89735-416-0 .
• Christhard Schrenk: With the steam horse from the Neckar to the stove. 125 years of the Heilbronn-Schwäbisch Hall railway line . Issue 18. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1987, ISBN 3-928990-31-4 ( stadtarchiv-heilbronn.de [PDF] Small series of publications from the Heilbronn City Archives).
• Albrecht Bedal: Raging Roland on rails. 150 years of Hohenlohebahn . Ed .: Hohenloher Freilandmuseum eV (=  Small writings of the Hohenloher Freilandmuseum . Issue 20/2012). Schwäbisch Hall 2012.

Web links

Commons : Hohenlohebahn  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Page of the timetable in the timetable from 1944
• Website for the 150th anniversary of the "Hohenlohebahn" 2012
• 783 Hohenlohebahn Heilbronn - Schwäbisch Hall - Crailsheim at bwbahnfans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
3. ^ Wilhelm Linkerhägner: Bundesverkehrswegeplanung '85 . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 66 , no. 10 , 1990, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 933-936 .
4. ^ Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Rails of the future in Baden-Württemberg . Memorandum of the working group of the chambers of industry and commerce in Baden-Württemberg. Mannheim December 1986, p. 56 .
5. ↑ the rail bus. 5/2004, p. 89
6. ↑ Financing. In: karlsruher-modell.de. TransportTechnologie-Consult Karlsruhe GmbH (TTK), accessed on January 16, 2017 . 
7. ^ Ralf Reichert: Clear the way for the stop at Römerwall . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . August 27th, 2009 ( on Stimme.de [accessed on September 13th, 2009]).
8. ↑ Announcement of public resolutions. (PDF; 59 KiB) April 9, 2014, accessed on July 2, 2016 : “The plans for the construction of the Römerwall stop are being abandoned; the administration is instructed to end the project. " 
9. ↑ swp.de
10. ↑ the rail bus. 4/2006, p. 75.
11. ↑ Tobis Würth: Better rail connection for Hall: Vision of Pelgrim - skepticism on the railroad. Haller Tagblatt , May 29, 2013, accessed on September 22, 2017 . 
12. ^ Freight train times for KBS 784 (Nuremberg-) Ansbach - Crailsheim - Kornwestheim. cargonautus.de, accessed on June 23, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Joachim Kinzinger: 13,400 passengers a day . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . December 3, 2008 ( on Stimme.de [accessed December 3, 2008]).
14. ↑ Hartmut Hölscher: Around 700 passengers every day . In: Heilbronn voice . January 9th, 2009 ( on Stimme.de [accessed on January 9th, 2009]).
15. ↑ Matthias Stolla: The train hasn't left yet . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . November 27th, 2008 ( on Stimme.de [accessed on January 18, 2009]).
16. ^ Hagen Stegmüller: Communities fear costs . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . December 20, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed January 18, 2009]).
17. ↑ Matthias Stolla: council sets Kettle Valley Railway on ice . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . July 17, 2012 ( from Stimme.de [accessed August 7, 2012]).
18. ↑ Germany-Stuttgart: Public rail transport / public rail transport 2015 / S 199-361527 contract announcement services. Tenders Electronic Daily , October 14, 2015, accessed May 13, 2016 . 
19. ↑ DB will be operating on the Hohenlohe-Franken-Untermain network with modernized railcars from December 2019. Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg, January 11, 2017, accessed on January 11, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Michael Schwarz: More than a billion for rail . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . April 7, 2018 ( Stimme.de [accessed April 8, 2018]).
21. ↑ Monika Everling: Local Transport: Will there soon be movement for the Hohenlohebahn? . Southwest Press . April 19, 2018. Accessed March 1, 2020.