Hildesheim – Goslar railway line

Hildesheim Hbf – Goslar
Route number (DB) :	1773
Course book section (DB) :	320
Route length:	53.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	160 km / h
Legend from Nordstemmen 40.63 Hildesheim Central Station according to Lehrte to Braunschweig 43.17 Hildesheim East Innermost 47.42 Marienburg (Han) after Hildesia 50.73 Large fertilizing to Bad Gandersheim 54.50 Crouch 59.31 Derneburg (Han) to Seesen to Braunschweig Federal motorway 7 Federal motorway 39 Innermost 65.55 Baddeckestedt (formerly Bf) 69.53 Klein Elbe ( Bk ) Bundesstrasse 6 Kreiensen – Börßum former federal road 6 from Kreiensen 75.28 Salzgitter-Ringelheim according to Börßum Bundesstrasse 6 , Bundesstrasse 248 80.72 Othfresen 85.42 Dörnten to Vienenburg 89.31 Grauhof Pbf (former wedge station) to Langelsheim Bundesstrasse 6 from Neuekrug-Hahausen 94.06 Goslar to Vienenburg Swell:

The Hildesheim – Goslar line is a 53-kilometer, double-track, non-electrified main line in the northern Harz foreland . It mainly serves to connect the tourist region in the northern Harz ( Goslar , Bad Harzburg and Wernigerode ) with Hildesheim and Hanover . The Erixx , which connects Bad Harzburg via Goslar to Hanover's main train station , runs on it. The most important stopover and junction on the route is the Salzgitter-Ringelheim train station .

course

Hildesheim Central Station

The route runs from Hildesheim in a mostly south-easterly direction. The occasional term “Innerstebahn” leads to confusion with the Innerstetalbahn upstream and is not officially used. The Lammetalbahn branches off in Groß Düngen , in Derneburg it was linked to the former Braunschweig - Seesen line of the Braunschweig State Railway (see Derneburg – Seesen railway and Braunschweig – Derneburg railway ). It continues via Baddeckestedt and crosses the Braunschweig – Kreiensen railway line at Salzgitter-Ringelheim station . From about Othfresen it leaves the Innerste and climbs over the former Grauhof railway junction to Goslar.

Federal highway 6 and the Innerste run consistently parallel to the route . The name Innerstetalbahn , however, refers to the Oberharzbahn .

history

The renewed platform in the direction of Goslar in the Salzgitter-Ringelheim train station

The gatekeeper's house crouching

Even before the borders between Hanover , Braunschweig and Prussia fell in 1867 , the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahn (MHE) was looking for a connection from Halberstadt to the west. The first goal was to get a connection in the direction of Kreiensen via Vienenburg . The Halberstadt – Vienenburg railway was operational in 1869. From there it was built from 1875 to 1877 via Grauhof and Langelsheim to both Neuekrug- Hahausen (on the Braunschweig – Kreiensen railway line) and the Innerstetal Railway to Clausthal .

Around the same time, the Hanover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft (HAE) was looking for a connection to the east that bypassed the cities of Hanover and Braunschweig. It built the Weserbahn from Löhne via Hameln to Elze until 1875 , from where there was already a connection to Hildesheim via the Hannöversche Südbahn and the Lehrte – Nordstemmen line . They signed a contract with the MHE to build a line from Hildesheim to Grauhof and to connect it there. However, the HAE got into economic difficulties, so that the project had to be taken over by the MHE.

On May 19, 1875, goods traffic from Hildesheim via Grauhof to Vienenburg began, and passenger traffic on June 30. On May 1, 1883, the Braunschweigische Eisenbahn, the successor to the privatized Braunschweigische Staatseisenbahn , put the extension to Goslar into operation. At the same time, the gap between Goslar and Langelsheim was closed.

The route soon became part of a long-distance connection from the Netherlands and northern Westphalia via Löhne, Hildesheim and Halberstadt to Halle and Leipzig, and in some cases further to Poland and today's Czech Republic. Freight traffic took the direct connection from Grauhof to Vienenburg, the slightly weaker passenger traffic ran there via Goslar, and from 1912 onwards via Bad Harzburg and Wernigerode. In addition, there were the slowly increasing trains for holidaymakers from Hamburg and Bremen via Hanover to Goslar, some of which also led through coaches via Halberstadt to Berlin.

With the division of Germany, there was no through traffic. In 1956 the connection from Grauhof to Vienenburg was given up. The northern connection of the Harz with express trains and later interregios to Hanover and Hamburg was initially retained.

passenger traffic

Regional train from Hanover to Bad Harzburg via Goslar (2005)

Since 1996 there has been a connection to Halberstadt and Halle (Saale) again with the neutrated Heudeber-Danstedt-Vienenburg railway . Since the re-routing, this route has been served with a regional express line from Hanover via Goslar and Halberstadt to Halle (Saale).

For Expo 2000 , the route between Goslar and Hildesheim was expanded for tilting technology , and since then diesel multiple units of the 612 series have operated on this connection . In addition, there are other local trains from Bad Harzburg to Hanover, which serve all stations except for the Groß Düngen train station, the Groß Düngen train station is only served by the trains of the Lammetalbahn and some morning trains in the direction of Hildesheim. Travelers to Hildesheim can therefore use the regional express from Goslar.

Interregio traffic was discontinued after the Expo, since then only regional trains have been running on this connection. Both lines run between Hanover and Bad Harzburg every two hours. Due to the use of tilting technology and a different number of intermediate stops, there is no congruent hourly cycle.

Since the timetable change in December 2014, the regional express from Halle only runs to Goslar. The LNVG justifies this step with an increase in the profitability of the line through a uniform vehicle concept without tilting multiple units. In return, an hourly regional express will be set up from Bad Harzburg to Hanover, which has good connections to Halle in Goslar. As part of the Europe-wide tender for the Lower Saxony Southeast diesel network ( DINSO ), the OHE subsidiary erixx was able to secure the operation of the regional express line. The company has been operating the line for 15 years with LINT 54 diesel multiple units from the LNVG vehicle pool since December 2014 .

Planning

The regional association for the greater Braunschweig area is examining the relocation of the RB 43 Goslar - Braunschweig line via Salzgitter-Bad as part of the northern Harz concept. Today the line goes via Vienenburg. A variant of a new Ringelheim curve to be built is also being examined. At Ringelheim station, an extension of the pedestrian underpass is also being examined so that the low entry speeds caused by the passenger crossings can be eliminated. There is also a requirement to convert the Baddeckstedt or Derneburg stop between Salzgitter-Ringelheim and Groß Düngen into a train station so that trains can turn around here in unusual operating situations.

literature

• Josef Högemann: Railways in the Harz (I). Volume 1: The State Railways . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1995, ISBN 3-927587-43-5 , p. 12 f., 22 ff .
• Michael Bahls: The Hanover-Altenbeken Railway . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2006, ISBN 3-927587-77-X .
• Jutta Finke: Hildesheim and the Hanoverian Harz Railway. Planning and construction of the Hildesheim – Vienenburg railway line . In: Hildesheimer Heimat-Kalender 1997 . Publishing house Gebrüder Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1997, p. 131-139 .
• Jutta Finke: The Marienburg train station and the Marienburg – Diekholzen small train . In: Hildesheimer Heimat-Kalender 1998 . Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1998, p. 106-110 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ LNVG, SPNV-Konzept 2013+, pp. 124–125  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Press release of the LNVG on the award of the DINSO network to erixx (PDF) ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Regional Association Greater Braunschweig, Committee for Regional Transport, Item 2: Local Transport Plan for Greater Braunschweig - Draft (PDF), April 24, 2019, pp. 143, 149, 151