Railway line Holenbrunn – Leupoldsdorf
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| Route number : | 5031 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | last 854 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 10.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Holenbrunn – Leupoldsdorf railway was a single-track branch line in northeastern Bavaria . It was one of the seven railway lines that previously opened up the Fichtel Mountains .
history
For topographical reasons, the district town of Wunsiedel was not included in the course of the Oberkotzau – Holenbrunn railway, opened on August 15, 1877 , which ended in the Bamberg – Hof railway in Oberkotzau and was extended southwards on May 15, 1878 to Marktredwitz . That is why the four-kilometer junction to Wunsiedel went into operation on the same day. This line was laid out by the Bavarian State Railroad as a "main line with secondary importance" ( secondary lines only existed in Bavaria from 1882), the main line character is still recognizable from the preserved Wunsiedel reception building and the former control room.
On November 8, 1913, the 6.89 km long continuation of the route from Wunsiedel to Leupoldsdorf took place as a local railway , which thus reached a total length of 10.54 km. Allegedly, this happened at the instigation of the owner of the hammer lock in Leupoldsdorf, Rosa von Müller. She was no longer in possession of the castle when it opened.
description
In contrast to other branch lines into the Fichtelgebirge, the railway had no significant gradients. From Holenbrunn coming led to the southwest down to the densely built-up valley north of Kösseine - Luisenburg - massif . In the elongated urban area of Wunsiedel and further on to Tröstau there were numerous rail connections to industrial companies along the route . The Wunsiedel station was laid out on multiple tracks, with a house platform and two intermediate platforms . In Tröstau, in addition to the brick-built, single-storey station building, there were two loading tracks accessible via a trapezoidal switch. The Schönbrunn stop and the Leupoldsdorf terminus were equipped with low wooden buildings.
traffic
In addition to freight traffic, the railway had extensive passenger traffic. In the years after the Second World War ran between Holenbrunn and Wunsiedel weekdays eighteen and a half pairs of trains , to the end point Leupoldsdorf nevertheless still eleven and a half pairs of trains. Eleven and a half and eight pairs of trains were en route on Sundays and public holidays. The excursion traffic to the Luisenburg rock labyrinth and the Luisenburg Festival played no insignificant role.
In 1970 the offer was already reduced to two and a half train pairs to Wunsiedel and one and a half further to Leupoldsdorf. These services were carried out with rail buses of the VT 95 series as well as two- and four-axle conversion cars behind diesel locomotives of the V 100 series .
In the years before the complete closure, there were always special trips by railroad fans. A special guest was the WUMAG - railcar VT 761, the entire route as on June 6, 1985 special train drove on. The city of Wunsiedel organized special trips almost every year under the motto “A city goes on a journey”. The last of these trains ran on June 4, 1994.
The V 60 series was also used in freight transport . Until 1982 two freight trains ran a day. The main customer was the company Risse bei Schönbrunn, which received several wagons with quartz every day . Fertilizer and coal were unloaded in Tröstau, and mainly fuel in Wunsiedel.
Cessation of operations
On September 28, 1975, passenger traffic on the eleven-kilometer route was stopped. In the fall of 1981 the station building in Leupoldsdorf was demolished. On September 25, 1993, freight traffic on the section between the junction Risse west of Schönbrunn and Leupoldsdorf was stopped and this was shut down. This company had tried to maintain the route. However, the Hof / Wunsiedel area should become the pioneer of the new freight transport concept of Deutsche Bahn : Bulky goods should be collected in the Hof-Neuhof station and distributed from there by truck , small shippers should no longer be served by rail. Instead, the quartz is already being reloaded onto trucks abroad.
On October 19, 1994 the loading of quartz was stopped, on December 31, 1994 the remaining route was closed.
Reuse
Today, the railway line is largely used for the Bavaria-Bohemia Bridge Cycle Route , which connects Leupoldsdorf via Holenbrunn and further towards Selb with Asch / Aš in the Czech Republic.
Web links
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis / Ekkehard Martin / Stefan Winkler: Franconian branch lines then and now . Egglham 1986. ISBN 3-922138-30-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Bernd Schmitt and Gerald Hoch: Branch lines in Upper Franconia . 1st edition. Michael Resch, Coburg 1999, ISBN 3-9805967-4-5 , p. 175 ff .
- ^ Robert Zintl: Bavarian branch lines . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-531-6 , p. 40 .
- ↑ http://www.brueckenradweg.eu/