Kappel Gutachbrücke – Bonndorf railway line (Black Forest)

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Kappel Gutachbrücke – Bonndorf (Black Forest)
Route number (DB) : 4302
Course book range : 306f (1944)
Route length: 19.78 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 10  ‰
Minimum radius : 200 m
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Neustadt (Black Forest)
   
 0.00 Kappel Gutach Bridge 788 m
   
 to Donaueschingen
   
 3.59 Kappel-Grünwald 807 m
   
 Haslach viaduct
   
 6.79 Lenzkirch switchback station 804 m
   
 Herrgottsbächle
   
 8.16 Unterlenzkirch 807 m
   
 8.20 Gschindbach
   
 9.50 Klausenbach Viaduct
   
 12.13 Saatfeld timber loading station 826 m
   
 12.80 Reichenbächle
   
 12.90 Bundesstrasse 315
   
 14.19 Gündelwangen 825 m
   
 19.78 Bonndorf (Black Forest) 858 m

The Kappel Gutachbrücke – Bonndorf (Black Forest) railway is a disused branch line in the south of Baden-Württemberg .

Route description

The 19.78-kilometer branch line in the southern Black Forest , which branched off from the Höllentalbahn at Kappel Gutachbrücke station, was used by trains that started at Neustadt station in the Black Forest and changed direction after almost seven kilometers at Lenzkirch station .

Progress map Höllentalbahn and railway line to Bonndorf

history

The line was opened on September 26, 1907 on the basis of a Baden law of May 28, 1900 by the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways . The law for the construction of the line was preceded by a long development phase. Several petitions urged a connection from the Höllentalbahn via Bonndorf to Weizen and the Swiss border. With the opening of the eastern Höllentalbahn in 1901 via Löffingen to Donaueschingen , however, such a connection was no longer conceivable, which is why the aforementioned Baden law only provided for a branch line to Bonndorf. Initially, the route should only lead through the then still independent municipality of Unterlenzkirch, which the larger municipality of Lenzkirch did not accept and insisted on its own train station. This request was complied with, and a route was chosen which provided for a hairpin in the Haslachtal in the form of a terminus station . Coming from Kappel Gutachbrücke, the route ran on the left side of the Haslachtal, to cross the Haslach on a lattice girder bridge shortly before Lenzkirch and then to flow into the Lenzkirch train station. Here every train had to turn heads and drove on the right side of the Haslach valley, which it left shortly before Holzschlag, via Unterlenzkirch in the direction of Bonndorf. This extremely unfavorable route could have been prevented by bridging the Haslach valley, but this was not done out of consideration for Lenzkirch's interests. The result was a railway line that Albert Kuntzemüller described as the worst Baden state railway line. The line was built by Grün & Bilfinger AG , while the planning and construction management was in the hands of the railway engineer Karl Rümmele .

Engineering structures

Klausenbach Viaduct with freight train, around 1972

The line had two larger bridge structures: By means of a lattice girder bridge within Lenzkirch, the Haslach and the federal highway 315 were crossed in the Kappel-Gutachbrücke – Lenzkirch section . The Klausenbach Viaduct, a fish belly bridge, is still located on the Lenzkirch – Bonndorf (Black Forest) section . Another is the Reichenbach dam at Holzschlag, with which the flat Reichenbach valley is crossed in a 180-degree curve. This dam is still completely preserved today.

business

Since the distance for a maximum axle load was designed of 16 tons, were mainly tank engines , of the type Badische VI b and special trains also Schlepptender locomotives of the series 50 are used. The steam operation was replaced by Uerdingen rail buses of the 798 series including control and trailer cars.

The timetable was designed so that the first train started early in the morning in Bonndorf and the last one ended in Bonndorf in the evening. That is why there was a locomotive shed and a water crane in Bonndorf . When passenger traffic was discontinued on August 1, 1966, goods traffic in the form of transfer freight trains remained on the line for ten years, operated with class 211 diesel locomotives . In freight traffic, a freight train ran every working day. In the last two years of operation, the freight train only drove three times a week, after having only carried 300 wagons a year in the end. Until after the Second World War, large quantities of wood were transported over the route. For this purpose, the Lenzkirch, Gündelwangen and Bonndorf (Black Forest) stations had wooden loading ramps. The latter was connected to the Isele sawmill via a taxiway. As a special feature, the Saatfeld timber loading station was located between the Lenzkirch and Gündelwangen train stations in the Fürstenberg forest. Here, parallel to the main track, was a loading track with a loading ramp and loading gauge .

The beer transport was a specialty: The Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus , eleven kilometers away, procured three refrigerated trucks in 1873 , which were stationed at Tiengen (Upper Rhine) station. When the line to Bonndorf was completed in 1907, the beer was transported via the nearby Bonndorf train station with a beer wagon stationed here. In 1926 the beer transport was relocated from Bonndorf to the now completed Dreiseenbahn and the even closer Seebrugg station.

From 1953 to 1966 Bonndorf was the destination of special trains from the TOUROPA program. Until the 1970s, special children's home trains were still running, with which children, especially from the Ruhr area, were taken to the children's homes in Bonndorf. All operations were discontinued with effect from January 1, 1977. The reason for the discontinuation was the competition from the parallel rail bus traffic , which caused the passenger numbers on this railway line to drop rapidly, especially since the rail bus was able to better connect the communities of Gündelwangen, Holzschlag and Kappel in particular than their respective distant railway stations.

Decommissioning and dismantling

After the line was closed, the tracks were dismantled and the Lenzkirch train station dismantled in the 1980s. Only a window frame made of sandstone reminds of him, which was set up in today's Lenzkirch spa gardens at his location.

Except for the former Lenzkirch train station, the other reception buildings have been preserved. Between 2003 and 2008, the Bähnle cycle path was set up along almost the entire length of the former railway line . This has been a section of the Southern Black Forest Cycle Route since 2009 , which leads around the Southern Black Forest Nature Park . In addition, a section of the Black Forest Panorama Cycle Path also leads over the former railway line.

  • Former Kappel-Gutachbrücke station

  • Kappel-Grünwald station

  • Window frame of the former Lenzkirch train station

  • Former Unterlenzkirch train station

  • Klausenbach Viaduct

  • Freight train in Gündelwangen

  • Freight train at the "Bonndorf railway bridge" on the return journey to Neustadt

  • Former Bonndorf train station (Black Forest)

literature

  • Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 127-129 .
  • Dieter Bertelsmann, Josef Brandl: In the Black Forest. The branch line from Lenzkirch to Bonndorf on a scale of 1:87. in: Eisenbahn Journal. Modellbahn-Bibliothek , Verlagsgruppe Bahn, Fürstenfeldbruck 2007, ISBN 3-89610-179-2

Web links

Commons : Kappel Gutachbrücke – Bonndorf railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Handbook of the German Railway Lines: Opening dates 1835-1935, line lengths, concessions, ownership structure . Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 .
  2. ↑ a b 140 years of the railway in Freiburg - branch lines . Freiburg 1985.
  3. ^ The railway from Bonndorf to Neustadt 1907 to 1976 Text: Meinrad Götz; Bonndorf steam train support group .
  4. ^ Albert Kuntzemüller : The Baden Railways . G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1953.
  5. ^ Ordinance sheet of the General Directorate of the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways, born in 1873 and following
  6. ^ History of the railway beer wagons. EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2000, ISBN 3-88255-442-8 , p. 66.
  7. ^ City of Bonndorf in the Black Forest (ed.): Bonndorf. City on the Black Forest . Verlag Karl Schillinger, Freiburg / Bonndorf im Schwarzwald 1980, ISBN 3-921340-11-X , p. 76.
  8. ^ Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The Black Forest Railway and the Villingen Railway Depot . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1991, ISBN 3-88255-774-5 .
  9. ↑ Chronicle of the Bähnle Cycle Path , accessed on July 25, 2013