Kirchhain – Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway line

Kirchhain – Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden
Route number (DB) :	3950
Course book section (DB) :	last 527 (1980)
Route length:	20.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Dual track :	-
Legend from Marburg from Gemünden (Wohra) 20.1 Kirchhain (Bz Kassel ) 19.7 Main-Weser-Bahn to Kassel 17.5 Bundesstrasse 62 16.8 Small 16.3 ohm 15.4 Amöneburg (district Kassel) 15.0 ohm 14.8 Old Ohm 13.9 Rüdigheim (district of Marburg) 11.9 Schweinsberg 10.7 former state border Prussia / Hesse 10.1 Nieder-Ofleiden 8.7 Basalt factory in Mitteldt. Hard stone industry 8.1 (End of the route since 1999) 7.8 Ober-Ofleiden 7.2 L 3073 7.0 Homberg (Ohm) 6.1 Ohm Viaduct Homberg 5.2 Neuhaus (Upper Hesse) 4.0 Waldershausen 1.3 Federal motorway 5 1.1 ohm 0.4 Felda from Fulda 0.0 Castle u. Nieder-Gemünden (formerly Bf) 237  m after casting Swell:

The Kirchhain – Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden railway , also known as the Ohmtalbahn , is a secondary railway line in Central Hesse that ran from the Kirchhain station (Bz Kassel) to the Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden station .

The line was operated from 1900/01 to 1980 in passenger traffic. There is currently only freight traffic on a 12-kilometer section. The remaining eight kilometers were dismantled in 1999.

course

Special train between Rüdigheim and Amöneburg (2005)

The 20.1 kilometer route leads from Kirchhain station along the course of the river Ohm via Homberg (Ohm) to Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden . The route runs through topographically simple terrain, so there are no major engineering structures apart from the Ohm viaduct in Homberg.

In Kirchhain there is a connection to the Main-Weser-Bahn and formerly to the Wohratalbahn .

After the closure and dismantling of the southern Ohm Valley Railway, the Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station on the Vogelsberg Railway was reduced to a stopping point.

history

The route was built in two sections that were opened shortly after one another.

The northern section of the route from Kirchhain to Nieder-Ofleiden was built at the instigation and expense of the Prussian district of Kirchhain and opened on April 1, 1900 as the Kirchhain district railway . The operation of the branch line was taken over by the Prussian State Railways .

With the southern half of the route between Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden and Nieder-Ofleiden, the Hessian State Railways closed the gap between their Vogelsberg Railway and the Prussian Main-Weser Railway on April 1, 1901 . From then on, the line was operated jointly by both state railways.

In 1935/36 the Schweinsberg train station received a new reception building , in the style between homeland security architecture and modernity.

The district of Marburg-Biedenkopf and the Vogelsbergkreis commissioned a preliminary study on a possible reactivation of the route in 2020.

business

Connection operation of the MHI

The mostly moderate passenger traffic was carried out by rail buses from the 1970s. Freight traffic was much more important, there were numerous commercial connections on the route, which were served well into the 1980s. Passenger traffic was stopped on the entire route on May 31, 1980. After goods traffic on the eight-kilometer section between the Mitteldeutsche Hartstein-Industrie freight yard and Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden had been suspended, this section was closed on September 28, 1991. The tracks were dismantled in 1999, but all bridges have been preserved.

Current end of the route at Ober-Ofleiden

The remaining line is still in operation for freight traffic and was comprehensively renovated in 2009: two bridges were built and the switches and tracks were replaced at the Mitteldeutsche Hartstein-Industrie and Nieder-Ofleiden freight stations. There were irregular special trips.

literature

• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939 , 1st edition. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , vol. 2.2, p. 817ff (route 077).

Web links

• Photos of the route (2014)
• Documentation of the route on rostendeschienen.de ( Memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200-215 (213f).
4. ↑ reactivation study commissioned . In: railway magazine . No. 4 , 2020, p. 32 .
5. ↑ Pro Bahn Hessen passenger newspaper No. 74 (PDF; 775 kiB)