Kassel – Naumburg railway line

Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe West – Naumburg (district Kassel)
Route number (DB) :	9390
Course book section (DB) :	formerly 531, 198c
Route length:	33.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	Baunatal – Großenritte: 600 V  =
Maximum slope :	25.5  ‰
Minimum radius :	190 m (Großenritte – Naumburg: 180) m
Top speed:	KS-Wilhelmshöhe – Bt .: 60 km / h Bt. – Großenritte (EBO-Fz.): 40 km / h Bt. – Großenritte (BOStraB-Fz.): 60 km / h Grossenritte – Naumburg: 40 km / h
Train control :	PZB
Legend 0.0 Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe West formerly Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Kleinbf Main-Weser-Bahn from Ks-Wilhelmshöhe DB Workshop Cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe South 0.8 Handover to DB Netz Main-Weser-Bahn to Frankfurt 3.4 Kassel-Niederzwehren West before 1945: small train station Tram city center ↔ Oberzwehren 4.5 Kassel-Nordshausen A 44 Tram from Oberzwehren 7.0 Altenbauna Altenbauna Baunsberg Altenbauna VW factory left: system change BOStrab / EBO right: VW plant Altenbauna allotment garden association Altenbauna town center Altenbauna Albert-Einstein-Str. Großenritte Hünstein 10.3 Großenritte train station (with turning loop ) Infrastructure boundary HLB / RMN 13.7 Elgershausen 18.4 Hoof (Kr Kassel) Highest point on the route 19.3 Breitenbach 21.6 Breitenbach quarries 25.2 Sand (Kr Kassel) 26.0 Bad Emstal spa gardens 27.8 Balhorn 31.2 Altenstädt (since 1940) 33.4 Naumburg (Bz Kassel)

System change on the Kassel-Naumburg railway line in the operation of the Kassel tram just behind the VW-Werk stop in the direction of Baunatal from the BOStrab to the EBO (recognizable by a sign on the signal system). The Volkswagenwerk Kassel can be seen on the left.

The Kassel – Naumburg line is a branch line in Hesse . Today it is operated by the Hessische Landesbahn GmbH .

history

The line was built by the Kassel-Naumburg Railway (KNE). The standard gauge 33.4 km long line ran from the station Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Kleinbahnhof from October 29, 1903 to Schauenburg - Elgershausen and from March 31, 1904 to the Naumburg train station (Bz Kassel) . In 1966, the KNE became part of the Hessian State Railway .

At the end of 2005, the route was taken over by the Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn AG, which now operates as HLB Basis AG and represents the railway infrastructure company of the Hessian State Railway .

VW freight train in Süsterfeld-Helleböhn (Am Rennsteig)

Hoof am Schauenberg station

Naumburg train station (Bz Kassel)

The KNE trains began and ended on May 31, 1970 in Kassel's main train station . Passenger traffic on the main line was stopped on September 4, 1977. The freight west of Baunatal - Altenbauna ended May 31, 1991. On the remaining section is an active freight on the VW factory Baunatal performed. In addition, Regionalbahn Kassel GmbH in Baunatal uses part of the route to Großenritte for a tram line .

The route from Wilhelmshöhe to Naumburg has been used by a museum railway since 1972 , which the Verein Hessencourrier e. V. operates. Until 2007, it was located in the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Süd train station . However, the station had to give way to a workshop for cantus . For this reason, a new Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Hessencourrier station was built in the immediate vicinity, from which steam trains have been departing since 2007.

In order to prevent the impending closure of the section from Großenritte to Naumburg, an association had to lease the route. The Hessencourrier e. V. founded the Association Regionalmuseum Naumburger Kleinbahn e. In March 1992 together with the district of Kassel , the cities of Naumburg and Baunatal and the communities of Bad Emstal and Schauenburg. V. (RMN). Thanks to the membership fees and the great personal commitment of the club members, operations on the Grossenritte – Naumburg section have been maintained so far.

Freight transport

Since January 1, 2015, freight traffic to Baunatal is no longer carried out by HLB Basis , but by DB Cargo .

Tram traffic since 1995

Based on the model of the so-called “ Karlsruhe Model ”, the Kassel tram has been running on a section of the route since 1995 . The trams coming from the city center merge south of Altenbauna station into the railway line and run on it to Großenritte station . In this context, the intermediate stops at Altenbauna Kleingartenverein, Altenbauna Stadtmitte, Altenbauna Albert-Einstein-Straße and Großenritte Hünstein have also been newly established. In this area, the trams do not run according to the ordinance on the construction and operation of trams (BOStrab), but according to the railway building and operating regulations (EBO). Two small halls were built in Großenritte, in which railway and tram vehicles are parked. Tram lines 2 and 5 run on the route (only for work and school trips). Analogous to the Kassel – Waldkappel line, the Kassel – Naumburg line is also served by tram vehicles in tram-train mode, but is not included in the system of nach RegioTram Kassel operated according to the same concept integrated.

future

In December 2012 it was announced that the city of Baunatal is examining whether a RegioTram connection between the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station , the Baunatal ZOB and the Schauenburg district of Elgershausen would be worthwhile, as the discontinuation of bus route 58 means that the connection to Baunatal and thus to many Medical centers has gotten worse.

A study by Hessen Mobil from 2017 gave a good chance of reactivation. As of July 2018, a feasibility study for reactivating the route ("Kassel - Baunatal - Schauenburg - Naumburg") is in progress. In January 2019, the North Hessian Transport Association announced that it was not aiming for reactivation between Baunatal-Großenritte and Naumburg. The reasons given were the investment costs and the peripheral location of the stations.

As a result of the feasibility study, a connection between Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and Baunatal-Großenritte with Regiotram vehicles and diesel railcars with a travel time of around 13 minutes is basically conceivable. Further variants (such as a connection to Schauenburg-Hoof) and numerous details are still being investigated.

literature

• Kassel-Naumburger Eisenbahn AG (Ed.): The Kassel-Naumburger Eisenbahn AG . Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-937189-03-3 .
• Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of Hessische Landesbahn GmbH . Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-929082-26-5 .
• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 8: Hesse . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-88255-667-6 , p. 331-366 .

Web links

Commons : Kassel – Naumburg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Hessencourrier  - travel guide

• www.kne-online.de
• www.hessencourrier.de
• Course book table from 1944

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rail network conditions of use - special section (SNB-BT). EIU Hessencourrier, November 28, 2010, accessed on July 29, 2020 . 
2. ↑ railway magazine . No. 3 , 2015, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 23 .
3. ↑ Peter Ketteritzsch: Good chances for Regiotram in the Bauna valley. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . February 3, 2017, accessed August 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Planning of the Horlofftalbahn should start. Reactivation of rail lines. Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development , July 16, 2018, accessed on October 21, 2018 . 
5. ↑ NVV does not seek to reactivate the rail connection between Baunatal-Großenritte and Naumburg. Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund, January 25, 2019, accessed on January 30, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Boris Naumann: Kassel / Baunatal: NVV plans fast train connection - Baunatal. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . August 10, 2019, accessed August 11, 2019 .