Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line

Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof
TWE route map around 1925
Route number (DB) :	9163 (Versmold incl. - Gütersloh) 9164 (Gütersloh - Hövelhof) 9165 (Ibbenbüren - Versmold excl.) 9166 (Brochterbeck - Saerbeck harbor)
Course book section (DB) :	12400 ("Teuto-Express" museum railway)
Route length:	93 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4
Maximum slope :	12.5  ‰
Minimum radius :	180 m
Top speed:	50 km / h
Route owner:	Ibbenbüren – Versmold (excl.): LWS Lappwaldbahn Service Versmold (incl.) - Hövelhof: Teutoburg Forest Railway
Legend Hanover West Railway from Rheine 0.0 Ibbenbüren (DB) ⊙ 0.1 Hanover West Railway to Osnabrück until 1964 head track with platform, then Anst Schäfer 0.540 Infrastructure boundary DB / LWS Protection switch (DB switch 36) 0.6 Ibbenbueren East 1.9 Ibbenbueren Aasee ⊙ Ibbenbürener Aa A 30 4.1 Bocketal (7.2) Saerbeck harbor (in Ibbenbüren-Dörenthe) (5.7) BÜ Münsterstr. ( B 219 ) (5.1) Anst Dörenthe (0.0) 6.2 Brochterbeck 10.0 Tecklenburg A 1 12.1 EÜ Tecklenburger Str. 14.7 Lengerich (Westf) city 15.5 Former industrial trunk line city of Lengerich 17.1 Lengerich-Hohne Pbf Main line Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg Infrastructure boundary Bw Lengerich-Hohne (TWE vehicle hall) Dyckerhoff (Anst) Bw Lengerich-Hohne (TWE locomotive workshop) 18.4 Lengerich-Hohne Gbf (Abzw) 18.7 Lengerich-Mockery 20.7 Highest 22.4 Westerbeck 24.6 Lienen 25.2 Himels (Anst) 26,140 State border NRW / Lower Saxony 28.1 EÜ Between the waves ⊙ 28.9 BÜ Münsterstr. ( B 51 ) 28.9 Bad Iburg 29.9 EÜ Am Kreuzbrink ⊙ 30.0 Glaner Bach ⊙ 30.5 EÜ Schulstr. ⊙ Remseder Bach Bever (Salzbach) 35.9 Bad Laer 39.0 Müschen Bever (Suessbach) Landwehrbach 40.620 State border Lower Saxony / North Rhine-Westphalia ⊙ 42.4 Cold store (starting, currently closed) 42.870 LWS / TWE infrastructure boundary 43.1 Transgas (rst) 43.7 BÜ Westheider Weg (B 476) Brüninghaus (Anst) 44.1 Versmold ⊙ Aabach / Bockhorster Bach Goat stream new Hessel old Hessel 48.6 Niedick ⊙ Loddenbach Rhedaer Bach (3.0) Harsewinkel West EÜ Münsterstr. (B 513) (0.0) 52.3 Claas (Anst) ⊙ Abrooksbach 54.9 Harsewinkel ⊙ Wöstenbach 58.1 Marienfeld (Westf) ⊙ Lutter Welplagebach 60.7 Niehues ⊙ 62.3 Airfield (Awanst) ⊙ 64.0 Blankenhagen ⊙ 64.3 E.ON (Anst, formerly VEW ) Schlangenbach 66.9 BÜ Berliner Str. (B 61) 67.4 EÜ Carl-Miele-Str. Diekötter (Anst) 68.0 Gütersloh North ⊙ 68.3 Kemena (Anst, former Sewerin ) 68.9 Amtenbrink (Anst) Gütersloh Hbf VzG route 1700 ⊙ Gütersloh Hbf VzG route 2990 Infrastructure boundary 69.4 Gütersloh Hbf (Abzw) ⊙ 70.0 Gütersloh Carl-Miele-Str. 70.5 Wolters (Anst) 70.8 Gütersloh Sunderweg 71.1 Lienke + Anst Drahtwolf (Anst, currently closed) Dalke 73.1 Gütersloh Ost (formerly Sundern) ⊙ Knisterbach 73.8 Spexard 74.1 Spexard A 2 Wiedey 75.1 Gütersloh Ubf (KLV-Terminal City GT Logistik) 75.4 Stockbrügger (Anst) old Ölbach new Ölbach 76.2 Varensell ⊙ 78.0 Verl West 80.0 Verl ⊙ 81.9 Bornholte ⊙ Rodenbach Wapelbach 84.9 Kaunitz ⊙ Sennebach Furlbach 88.7 Espeln-Riege ⊙ Ems Hallerbach 92.6 Infrastructure border TWE / DB Sennebahn from Bielefeld ⊙ 93.4 Hövelhof (DB) ⊙ Sennebahn to Paderborn Swell:

The Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line is a 93-kilometer, single-track and non- electrified branch line for public transport , which was built in sections between 1899 and 1903 by the Berlin-based railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter and has since been used by the Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE ) is operated as a non-federally owned railway (NE-Bahn).

The line is linked to the Deutsche Bahn network in Ibbenbüren , Lengerich (Westphalia) , Gütersloh and Hövelhof . Branch lines connect the Saerbeck port on the Dortmund-Ems Canal in Ibbenbüren- Dörenthe , the Claas agricultural machinery factory in Harsewinkel West and Gütersloh Airport in the direction of Gütersloh.

For the 50.6 kilometer long northern part of the TWE infrastructure Ibbenbüren - Lengerich - Versmold, a procedure for surrender or line closure was initiated in accordance with Section 11 of the General Railway Act (AEG). LWS Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH has been the new owner of this section since December 1st, 2015 . In the southern part of the TWE route, the 25.1 kilometer section Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl is to be included in the requirements planning of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the reactivation of local rail passenger transport .

Company opening

• November 1, 1900: Gütersloh - Bad Laer (32 km)
• July 19, 1901: Bad Laer - Ibbenbüren (36 km)
• April 19, 1903: Gütersloh - Hövelhof (25 km)

Adjustment of passenger trains

• April 15, 1967: Sundays and public holidays
• May 25, 1968: Ibbenbüren - Versmold
• May 21, 1977: Versmold - Gütersloh
• October 31, 1978: Gütersloh - Hövelhof

Route description

Routing

As in the Versmolder Bruch, the tracks in many dead straight sections are only attached to simple wooden sleepers with spring nails and instead of gravel, they are often embedded in blast furnace slag from Georgsmarienhütte .

In its 93 kilometer long course, the main line of the Teutoburg Forest Railway crosses topographically, geologically and culturally and historically very diverse landscapes in the denominationally and territorially strongly divided area in the border area between Tecklenburger , Münster , Ravensberger and Osnabrücker Land .

After the striking ascent from Ibbenbüren through the Bocketal, the north-western part is characterized by a winding route along the southern flank of the eponymous Teutoburg Forest (highest point 112.35  m above sea level in Bad Iburg station) with numerous short inclines (strongest inclination angle 1:80), the during the steam locomotive era required water stations at the apexes in Brochterbeck and Iburg. In the further course, the character south of Bad Laer changes to an extremely straight line flat land stretch (lowest point 65.43  m above sea level in the Harsewinkel station) through the park landscape of the Münsterland to East Westphalia .

Between Gütersloh and Verl, a heavily sprawled area is first crossed, which is characterized by numerous industrial sites that have emerged in recent decades, and then in the Paderborn district, the foothills of the Senne landscape with the source area of ​​the Ems are grazed.

Especially in Lengerich and in the southern part from Bad Laer, the train stations were topographically favorable in the town centers, which still correspond to the main settlement areas today.

Railway stations and structures

The Harsewinkel station corresponds to a model used several times by Vering & Waechter around 1900.

Between 1900 and 1903, Vering & Waechter built two-storey small-town train stations in Tecklenburg, Lengerich (Westf) Stadt, Bad Iburg, Versmold, Harsewinkel and Verl, largely identical to the eaves , with a pitched roof of around 40 ° and exposed brickwork made of red clay tiles. A toothed frieze (German band) made up of bricks that stood across or over a corner divided the street and track side horizontally divided by four window axes at the level of the first mezzanine ceiling, while a tooth cut (battlement frieze) emphasized the knee and pilaster strips the building contours .

Depending on the local requirements, a half-timbered extension with a goods floor was arranged either on the right or on the left, and mostly on the other side of the building a brick-built, single-storey side wing with a waiting hall / restaurant. While the windows of the official apartment on the first floor were always designed in the form of segmental arches, the round arched openings on all doors and windows in the official and common rooms on the ground floor and on the small gable windows arranged in pairs were a typical distinguishing feature from the similarly structured contemporary reception buildings of the Prussian state railway administration represent.

Like the station buildings that were built at the same time in the Weser Uplands for the Vorwohle-Emmerthaler Eisenbahn , Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn in the Berlin / Brandenburg area and Thuringia / Anhalt on the Gera-Meuselwitz-Wuitzer Eisenbahn , they were all based on the same architectural uniform design, which was first developed by Vering & Waechter Realized in 1896 on the Kleinbahn Groß Peterwitz – Katscher and Kleinbahn Voldagsen-Duingen-Delligsen lines and was used again and again in different versions until 1903.

The Kaunitz village community has taken over and restored the historic TWE station building

In Lienen, Varensell and Kaunitz there are still three of the single-storey rural railway stations typical of small railways with gently sloping gable roofs from the early days of the TWE. The similar station buildings Ibbenbüren Ost, Brochterbeck, Bad Laer and Marienfeld, however, have not been preserved.

While conversions have greatly changed the appearance of the Lengerich (Westphalia) Stadt, Versmold and Verl stations, the original character can still be seen in the buildings in Tecklenburg, Lienen, Bad Iburg, Harsewinkel, Varensell and Kaunitz in particular. Only the vehicle and workshop buildings in the Lengerich-Hohne depot and in the Gütersloh Nord train station, the locomotive shed and store, as well as the reception and administration building are used for operational purposes.

In the former reception buildings of Lengerich-Hohne Pbf, Versmold, Marienfeld and Verl there are now catering companies, in Kaunitz a community meeting place for the village community. Although the (former) restaurants at the Höste, Niedick and Blankenhagen stops are not station buildings in the strict sense, they still functioned as a railway agency for the TWE for decades .

The ramps to the bridge over the main route Münster-Osnabrück in Lengerich-Hohne, a long, high embankment near Bad Iburg-Glane and the prestressed concrete bridge over the B 513 with its access ramps built in 1966 for the connecting route to Harsewinkel West are striking structures that shape the landscape.

Lengerich-Hohne passenger station

Lengerich-Hohne passenger station in front of the DB station building on the main Münster – Osnabrück line

As a crossing point for TWE passenger trains, the Lengerich passenger station directly opposite the Lengerich (Westf) state train station on the Münster - Osnabrück taxiway was the operating center in the northern section of the route.

The two-storey reception building with a half-hip roof is an individual litter and as such cannot be compared with any other building on this or any other route built by Vering & Waechter. After the cessation of passenger traffic between Ibbenbüren and Versmold, the station was initially largely inoperative in 1968.

Even if the second platform track is now out of service, the Teuto Express nostalgic train still drives to the station today under the last official name Lengerich-Hohne Pbf , which again has a certain importance as a transfer point for leisure and tourist traffic from the direction of Münster and Osnabrück to the Tecklenburger Land as well as to the health resorts Bad Iburg and Bad Laer.

Gütersloh Nord train station

Above Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in Gütersloh is “Am Grubenhof 2”, the reception building of the Gütersloh Nord TWE train station, which was opened in 1925, and was built in 1921.

Today's operation center of the Teutoburg Forest Railway is the railhead Gütersloh North , which was created from 1921 to 1925, when the TWE because of the four-track expansion of the adjacent main route Hamm - Minden be laid needed. The main features of the track layout still correspond to the conception of that time. The line from Ibbenbüren / Lengerich / Versmold ends in track 5 and that from Verl / Hövelhof in track 3 on both sides of a head platform. There is no direct access option for the TWE to the platform tracks at Gütersloh main station, but is being sought for the planned reactivation of passenger train traffic.

The railway facilities include a total of eight shunting and loading tracks as well as a two-tier locomotive shed. The facade and roof of the three-story reception and administration building were extensively renovated in 2013.

The double-track underpass of Carl-Miele-Straße in the area of ​​the northern entrance to the station is used on a joint abutment with the bridge structure of the parallel track systems from Gütersloh main station. The main line in the direction of Verl, which runs in a 180-degree curve around the Miele plant , crosses under the four-track main line Hamm - Bielefeld between route kilometers 68.9 and 69.3 in a short tunnel. South of this so-called "Wirus Bridge" is a remote-controlled junction from the dispatcher in the signal box of Gütersloh main station to the connecting track running through the Miele factory premises in the Deutsche Bahn freight station.

Line closures in the Steinfurt district and in the Osnabrück district

At the end of August 2010, the summer storms with heavy rain from the Cathleen valley caused a dam slide at a height of 8 km between Brochterbeck and Tecklenburg. Since then, the Saerbeck port in Ibbenbüren-Dörenthe can only be reached from Ibbenbüren with a change of direction at Brochterbeck station. At the beginning of September 2011, the TWE closed another section of the route between km 34.675 and km 30.450 near Bad Iburg-Glane due to embankment and bridge damage. On January 15, 2013, the TWE announced that Bad Iburg train station could no longer be reached from either direction. A special inspection of the bridge at km 28.055 showed signs of damage that it should be closed to railway operations with immediate effect. Despite the fact that several sections are impassable, the entire length of the route is still a non-disused transport facility that has been dedicated to the public railway infrastructure throughout.

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  The TWE route from Tecklenburg to Brochterbeck has been closed since September 2010.

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  In September 2011, the TWE will also block the main line from Bad Iburg to Bad Laer.

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  In Bad Iburg, ten months after the closure, between Glane and Visbeck ...

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  ... the orphaned route of the TWE is already completely overgrown by plants.

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  Only the whistle board gives an idea of ​​the tracks under the lush vegetation.

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  The northern section of the route taken over by the LWS in 2015 begins at the state border.

On August 1, 2013, the TWE management announced that the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn would like to sell the northern part of its railway infrastructure on the 43.6 kilometer long Ibbenbüren - Versmold section and the 7.1 kilometer branch Brochterbeck - Saerbeck port. Should a transfer of the route to a third party fail, TWE reserves the right to submit an application for release from the operating obligation. On November 21, 2014, the TWE announced the official initiation of the legally prescribed procedure for surrender or line closure in accordance with Section 11 of the General Railway Act (AEG) for the 50.6 km northern section of the TWE infrastructure between Ibbenbüren and Versmold. The existing discussions with a potential buyer should be continued regardless of this.

Sale and repair

In February 2015, Lappwaldbahn Service GmbH (LWS) from Saxony-Anhalt , which specializes in freight transport , announced that it had officially applied for the northern parts of the route between Ibbenbüren and Versmold that were tendered for takeover. After the sale of the northern TWE line to LWS on December 1, 2015, a freight train ran for the first time on December 21, 2015, under the responsibility of the new line owner, on the tracks between Versmold and Ibbenbüren, which had been provisionally made usable again. In 2017, the line between Ibbenbüren and Dörenthe harbor was renovated by the Lappwaldbahn. In the run-up to the State Horticultural Show Bad Iburg 2018 , the superstructure on the stretch between Lengerich and Bad Iburg was renovated and a bridge was replaced, which made museum trips over Lengerich possible during the State Horticultural Show. In 2019 bridges south of Bad Iburg were renovated. The Bad Iburg station is to be expanded and a new platform to be built in Bad Laer.

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  Newly laid sleepers in the area of ​​a level crossing in Bad Laer-Müschen on May 20, 2020. The old wooden sleepers have been piled up on the right.

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  The same level crossing looking south towards Versmold.

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  Refurbished bridge Am Kreuzbrink in Bad Iburg on July 24, 2020

Planned reactivation of passenger traffic

Two modern lightweight, low-floor railcars of the type Alstom Coradia LINT and Bombardier Talent give an outlook on the future of local rail transport at the anniversary celebration “100 years of the Teutoburg Forest Railway”.

In 1996, for the first time, politics addressed the reactivation of local rail passenger transport (SPNV) on the TWE route. Since the end of passenger train traffic, especially in the Gütersloh / Verl area, many commercial sites, residential areas, school and leisure facilities have emerged near the TWE, which promise new potential for passengers. Thousands of people commute to the large companies Miele and Bertelsmann, which can be reached on foot by train.

After reports on the possible sale and liquidation of the TWE, the Gütersloh district committee unanimously passed the fundamental decision on June 22, 2009, according to which "the route infrastructure of the Teutoburg Forest Railway as far as possible over its entire length Ibbenbüren - Lengerich - Gütersloh - Hövelhof as a functional non-federal railway line of the public To get traffic ”. The district of Gütersloh and the district administrator are requested to secure the TWE route for the local economy and the options of local rail transport.

Shortly after the takeover of TWE by Captrain Germany , the management informed in May 2010 at a conference of mayors in the district building in Gütersloh about a possible suspension of freight traffic on the Teutoburg Forest Railway. The reason for this announcement is the dilapidated superstructure of the line. In the near future, there will be considerable investments in tracks and bridges, which they no longer want to take on because the volume of goods traffic has fallen sharply.

At the same time, the company expressed its interest in using measures to increase freight traffic and the reactivation of the regional rail transport in the Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl section planned by the Verkehrsverbund Ostwestfalen-Lippe (VVOWL) ​​and to maintain the line at full capacity. The company appealed to decision-makers in the Gütersloh district and in the municipalities to support the local rail transport project.

At first, the city of Gütersloh was less interested in support than the other neighboring communities because it would benefit less from reactivation and would have to reduce its own parallel offers in order to achieve the calculated benefit-cost ratio. Nevertheless, in September 2010 both the district and, in October 2010, the three cities involved, Harsewinkel, Gütersloh and Verl, decided to subsidize the operating costs of reactivation with a total of one million euros per year to the VVOWL.

After the Europe-wide tender for the OWL diesel network, which began immediately afterwards, in July 2011 the contracting authorities transferred the services for Lot North, which optionally includes the TWE route Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl, to the Bielefeld-based Eurobahn (Keolis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG). The option included an additional 260,000 train kilometers per year and could have been pulled until December 2014, but this did not happen.

The TWE route Versmold - Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl - Hövelhof is included in the North Rhine-Westphalian infrastructure requirements plan from 2006 with level 2. As a result of a standardized assessment from the end of September 2010, a benefit-cost ratio of 1.98 is assumed for the Harsewinkel - Gütersloh - Verl section. In the local traffic plan of the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) of October 2011, up to nine intermediate stops are provided for the 25.1 kilometer section due to the relatively high density of settlements: Harsewinkel, Marienfeld, Blankenhagen, Gütersloh Hbf, Gütersloh Carl-Miele-Straße, Gütersloh Auf der Haar, Spexard, Verl Eiserstraße, Verl. Around 49,000 people live in the catchment area of ​​these stations.

In order to prepare and accelerate the reactivation projects in Westphalia-Lippe, the NWL Association Assembly on December 18, 2012, among other things, released funds for planning costs for the construction preparation of regional rail transport projects on the TWE route. As a result, on May 23, 2013, the TWE publicly tendered the railway surveying work between Verl and Harsewinkel. With regard to the reactivation of local rail transport, the services include the measurement of approximately 26 kilometers of track including the Gütersloh Hbf / Gütersloh Nord connection, 77 level crossings, ancillary facilities and existing platforms.

An expert opinion presented to the VVOWL and NWL committees in December 2014 put the investment volume for the railroad-compatible route expansion for 80 km / h top speed at 31.7 million euros. Furthermore, up to 4,915 passengers per day and a time saving compared to the regular bus of around 15 minutes are forecast.

In December 2014, the NWL special purpose association meeting decided unanimously to make the preliminary planning results of stages 1 and 2 available to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for a reassessment of the Harsewinkel - Verl regional rail reactivation measure. Thereupon representatives of the NRW Ministry of Transport and the association agreed on an early assessment of the plans. The standardized assessment published in December 2018 by the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) proves the economic benefits necessary for the state funding of investments and the financing of future operating costs for the local transport project with a cost-benefit factor of 1.6. The feasibility study predicts u. a. that 3,500 people use the offer every day and avoid six million car kilometers every year. The measure is to be registered with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia via the regional council in Detmold for inclusion in the public transport requirement plan and proposed via the transport committee for inclusion in the infrastructure financing plan. If the final decision on state funding for the project, which is now valued at 34.5 million euros, is made in 2019, the plans provide for the start of operations in 2023.

The adjacent section Verl - Hövelhof is being checked by the local mayors and the Institute for System Dynamics and Mechatronics of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for its suitability for an “Urban Rail” test operation with self-driving rail vehicles.

On May 25, 2020, the Zweckverband Eisenbahn Personenverkehr Münsterland (ZVM) decided in its association assembly to commission a feasibility study for reactivating local rail passenger transport in the Ibbenbüren - Lengerich section.

Museum railroad Teuto-Express

Steam locomotive 50 3655 of the Teuto-Express in Brochterbeck

→ Main article : Teuto Express

Even before regular passenger train operations were discontinued, special trains for school and company outings with up to 1,000 people ran on the Teutoburg Forest Railway. As a result of 1977 in the entire network of the former German Federal Railroad imposed (DB) steam locomotive ban found railway clubs new uses for their well when not contained in federal ownership private railroad in the TWE steam locomotives . In the following years, historical special trains with the steam locomotives 01 150 , 24 009, 24 083 , 38 1772 , 44 404 were used on the scenic sections of the Teutoburg Forest Railway , which developed into a popular figure for the TWE.

In 1977, a new museum railway stopping point for the Teuto-Express , initiated by the Tecklenburger Land Tourismusverband and operated on a voluntary basis by the Lengerich-based association for the promotion of railway tradition , was built at the Ibbenbüren Aasee lake, which was created for local recreation .

With its tender locomotive 50 3655 , tank locomotive 78 468 , diesel locomotive V 36 412 and 14 restored passenger cars, the museum train presents the wide range of types from earlier railway eras as a "rolling museum" in the northern section of Ibbenbüren-Tecklenburg-Lengerich-Lienen-Bad Iburg-Bad Laer.

Trivia

The water crane and buffer stop at Gütersloh North Station have been a listed building since 1992.

Monument protection

The former Iburger entry signal produced by the Braunschweig railway signal construction institute Max Jüdel & Co. has been preserved as the only form signal on the TWE route; Today it belongs to the Mühlenstroth steam train in Gütersloh-Isselhorst .

The water crane from the steam locomotive era and two buffer stops at the head of the Gütersloh TWE train station are under monument protection and were added to the list of architectural monuments in Gütersloh on February 17, 1992 under No. A192 .

On February 5, 2013, the main committee of the city of Lengerich commissioned the LWL Office for Monument Preservation in Münster to examine the monumental worthiness of the TWE buildings and systems in Lengerich-Hohne (passenger station, intersection structure, vehicle hall, locomotive workshop, boiler shop, administration and ancillary buildings) . Historians from the action alliance pro TWE had previously presented the cultural significance of the ensemble in a citizens' application as a testimony to the history of private, small and branch lines in Westphalia.

Neo-Gothic replica

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  "Wörlitzer Bahnhof" in Dessau-Roßlau ...

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  ... and "Teutoburg Forest Train Station"

The first “Teutoburg Forest Train Station” in Gütersloh was built in 1900 roughly where track 1 is located in the main train station today at the level of the bike station. Although the former neo-Gothic brick building was demolished in September 1925, you can still get an impression of an almost identical structure.

Image comparisons of both the platform and the prominent side of the street with the stepped gable and clock tower show that the construction company Vering & Waechter used existing architectural plans of their own house for the Wörlitz train station in Dessau, which opened in 1894, when building the original TWE terminus in Gütersloh would have. While the Gütersloh copy had a functional extension with goods handling , the Dessau model of the architect Lembke in the then residence city of the Duchy of Anhalt had a small extension for the prince's room instead.

Picture gallery

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  “Teuto Express” platform Ibbenbüren-Aasee with a route into the Bocketal to the pass near Brochterbeck

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  Tecklenburg station (from 1901) is waiting for a new public use

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  Bad Iburg station (from 1901, extension with water tower added in 1927) is the highest point of the TWE line

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  Former TWE stop at Niedick between Versmold and Harsewinkel

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  Former TWE stop Bornholte with waiting hall between Verl and Kaunitz

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  In the Ramselbruch near Espeln-Riege, a pine forest typical of the Senne is crossed

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  The TWE ends at the confluence with the Sennebahn in Hövelhof

literature

• Hans Wolfgang Rogl, Dieter Höltge: The Teutoburg Forest Railway. Railway friends Hanover, 1970.
• Hans Wolfgang Rogl: Teutoburg Forest Railway - 75 years in the service of transport. Anniversary brochure. 1975, OCLC 720972777 .
• Rolf Löttgers: Private railways in Germany: The German Railway Company 1960–1969. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1983, ISBN 3-440-05162-5 .
• Werner Menninghaus: The Cöln-Mindener Railway in East Westphalia - From Planzug 1 to Intercity. Verlag Uhle & Kleimann, 1983, ISBN 3-922657-27-3 .
• Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway. Verlag Uhle & Kleimann, 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2 .
• Rolf Löttgers: The small railroad era in color - German private railways in the sixties. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1987, ISBN 3-440-05235-4 .
• Josef Högemann: Steam locomotives on the Teutoburg Forest Railway. Kenning Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-927587-19-2 .
• Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway. Kenning Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-927587-69-9 .
• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 6: North Rhine-Westphalia - northeastern part. EK-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-88255-664-1 .
• Andreas Mölder: Raw wood transport at the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-AG. (PDF; 2.6 MiB) Bachelor thesis Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen 2002.
• Josef Högemann: The Teuto Express - steam trains in Tecklenburger, Münster and Osnabrücker Land. Lokrundschau Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-931647-20-X .
• Rolf Westheider: With the Texas-Wackel-Express into the world - review of the 110-year history of the Teutoburg Forest Railway. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. 2010.
• Josef Högemann: Teutoburg Forest Railway in distress. In: Bahn-Report. Volume 28, issue 4/2010, issue No. 166, ISSN  0178-4528 , pp. 50–52.
• Josef Högemann: TWE between decline and hope. In: Bahn-Report. Volume 30, issue 2/2012, issue No. 176, ISSN  0178-4528 , pp. 46–49.

Web links

Commons : Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• TWE Bahnbetriebs GmbH (company homepage of the railway company)
• Eisenbahn-Tradition eV (operator of museum train rides on the TWE route)
• Action alliance pro TWE (non-partisan citizens' initiative to maintain the TWE route)
• Film contribution WDR-Lokalzeit Münsterland from September 12, 2011 (archived on Youtube)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Northern section of the TWE infrastructure is for sale ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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. Press release Captrain Germany from November 21, 2014  
4. ↑ TWE signs contracts with the Lappwaldbahn . December 1, 2015, accessed December 1, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Reactivate the TWE route - the transport association aims to reassess the project In: Westfalen-Blatt. December 10, 2014.
6. ↑ First freight train journeys possible from the beginning of 2020. In: noz.de. February 20, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019 . 
7. ^ Josef Högemann: Harsewinkel station. In: The great archive of German train stations. GeraNova Zeitschriften-Verlag, Munich. Loose-leaf collection. ISSN  0949-2127
8. ↑ TWE has to keep waiting. In: New Westphalian. December 29, 2011, accessed May 26, 2012.
9. ↑ TWE on the siding? In: Westfälische Nachrichten. October 8, 2010, accessed May 22, 2012.
10. ↑ Track between Glane and Laer closed - Is it out of steam train journeys? In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. September 9, 2011, accessed October 14, 2015.
11. ^ Current homepage Eisenbahn-Tradition eV, accessed on January 26, 2013.
12. ↑ Half of the TWE route is to be sold - Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn is interested. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. August 1, 2013, accessed October 15, 2015.
13. ↑ Northern section of the TWE infrastructure is for sale ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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. Press release Captrain Germany from November 21, 2014  
14. ↑ Freight transport specialist Lappwaldbahn negotiates TWE route In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. February 18, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015.
15. ↑ 200 tons of freight on TWE tracks - the first freight train is rolling In: Westfälische Nachrichten. December 30, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016.
16. ↑ Renovation work between Bad Laer and Ibbenbühren . In: railway magazine . No. 10 , 2017, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 21 .
17. ↑ ailing railway bridge in Bad Iburg is renewed , noz.de, February 23, 2018 accessed on February 22 of 2019.
18. ↑ Working on schedule . In: railway magazine . No. 8 , 2019, pp. 31 .
19. ^ Motion by the GREEN parliamentary group of June 15, 2009, Gütersloh district, DS-No. 2521/1 to the district committee on June 22, 2009.
20. ↑ TWE route offers future prospects for the OWL economic region ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ City does not want to jump on the bandwagon. In: New Westphalian. September 30, 2010, accessed November 19, 2011.
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25. ↑ Update of the Infrastructure Funding Program 2013 (template: 173/12), Item 5 of the 23rd public meeting, December 18, 2012 in Unna. nwl-info.de, accessed on February 27, 2016 . 
26. ↑ Public tender of the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-AG: Railway technical surveying work from May 23, 2013
27. ↑ Costs for TWE reactivation determined - Verkehrsverband assumes almost 32 million euros / New approach in Düsseldorf In: Neue Westfälische. Retrieved December 9, 2014, same day.
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29. ^ TWE reactivation: The decision will be made in 2016. In: Die Glocke. May 8, 2015, accessed May 9, 2015.
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31. ↑ TWE is to be included in the state's public transport requirement plan - first departure in 2023? In: Westfalen-Blatt. Retrieved December 7, 2018, same day.
32. ↑ Reactivation of the TWE route with self-driving cars is being checked - driverless on the train from Hövelhof to Verl? In: Westfalen-Blatt. January 20, 2018, accessed February 6, 2018.
33. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung, Passenger traffic on the TWE tracks - A study is to come first, May 28, 2020
34. ↑ Rolf Westheider: With the TWE to the Weißen Rößl - excursions in times of the early economic miracle. In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Gütersloh 2014. Flöttmann Verlag, Gütersloh 2013, ISBN 978-3-87231-130-6 , pp. 74-77.
35. ↑ Citizens' application for the forest railway - the monument office is asked. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. Retrieved February 7, 2013, same day.
36. ↑ TWE buildings should be listed as a historical monument - an important cultural asset. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. February 2, 2013, accessed February 7, 2013.
37. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 6: North Rhine-Westphalia - northeastern part. EK-Verlag, 2000.
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