Landshut – Rottenburg railway line
| Landshut (Bay) Hbf – Rottenburg (Laaber) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5632 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 932 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 27.46 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 25 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Landshut – Rottenburg (Pfettrachtalbahn) railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It led from Landshut to Rottenburg an der Laaber , which was called Rottenburger Bockerl among the residents . From 2011 to 2017, regular special trips took place on the remaining 14.2 kilometer section between Landshut and Untersteuhausen . This section was operated as a museum railway. However, due to a bridge damage at Pfettrach, passenger traffic was stopped again. Since then, the route has only been used to park freight cars.
planning
As early as 1867 and 1878, also for military reasons, the possibilities of connecting the cities of Landshut and Ingolstadt with a railway line were examined in detail . The investigations showed that there was no general need for through traffic. In 1890 the Landshut city council asked for a concession to project a railway from Landshut to Pfeffenhausen and another from Pfeffenhausen to Eggmühl .
In September 1891 the Münchner Lokalbahn AG submitted its report. This envisaged a 20.09 kilometer route to Pfeffenhausen with construction costs of 1,250,000 marks . The construction of a route from Pfeffenhausen to Eggmühl, on the other hand, would not have met the traffic interests of the upper Laabertal, which was oriented towards the district capital Landshut.
In the supplement to the draft Local Railway Act of December 12, 1895, the Royal Bavarian State Government decided that a local railway from Landshut to Pfeffenhausen with a continuation to Rottenburg would be most appropriate. The possibility of further building towards Ingolstadt was left open. The land required for the construction of the railway was transferred to the Bavarian state free of charge. On June 17, 1896, the Landshut – Rottenburg local railway project was approved by a local railway law. It was promised that it would benefit domestic agriculture above all, except for the cultivation of grain and livestock, namely for the cultivation of hops in the Hallertau .
construction
As was customary at the time, many Italian workers were also involved in building the railway. The greatest inclines were the ramp at Arth (20 per mille), the watershed between Pfettrach and Laber (23 per mille) and the ridge from Pfeffenhausen towards Rottenburg (25 per mille). The last stop in Rottenburg was created 1.1 km away from the market, since the place 20 meters above the grading was of the final destination.
The first cost estimate was 1,444,000 marks. Between Landshut and Pfeffenhausen, however, a route that was almost a kilometer shorter than originally planned was chosen, which meant that only around 170,000 cubic meters of earth had to be moved. This resulted in a final total cost of 1,377,763 marks, of which the state provided 1,210,499 marks. On October 29, 1900, the first test drive took place behind a D VII , and on November 3, the route was officially opened with the handling of four special trains.
business
The Rottenburger Bockerl was a typical Bavarian local train that ran past large grain and hop fields as well as farms and mills. There were many GmP among the trains , which resulted in long travel times as a result of the shunting stops at the stations. Passenger traffic was dominated by visitors to the weekly, cattle and annual markets. Pure freight trains were initially rare.
By 1930, two D XI locomotives and at times also a D VII were in operation. The route conditions and the quality of the superstructure only allowed a maximum speed of 30 km / h. In the summer of 1921, three trains ran in each direction. The evening train took 99 minutes, which corresponds to a cruising speed of 16.7 km / h. At the crossings, the train was only allowed to travel at 15 km / h, with some only at 10 km / h.
The Zornhofer Berg was notorious, where in autumn due to falling leaves and in winter due to snowfall when trains were very busy, the Bockerl sometimes got stuck and had to make a new attempt with fewer cars. Around 1930 the two D XI were reinforced by a BB II .
From 1935 to around 1940, a D XI, a BB II and a Pt 2/3 were in service. In 1940 the Pt 2/3 was replaced by a GtL 4/4 . From 1943 onwards, only several locomotives of the Pt 2/3 series ran. In 1951 GtL 4/5 took their place. According to the 1952 summer schedule, you were still on the road for a good hour.
When the timetable changed in 1955, the steam locomotives largely disappeared from the line, only one was pre-tensioned for school traffic , mostly the 98 1006. Now Uerdingen rail buses were used, namely in the combination VT 98 + VB 98 + VS 98, at times also a VB 140 initially with a G-wagon for general cargo. Car trains (passenger and freight trains) were pulled by BR 64 , later by V 100 .
attitude
Despite all efforts, the traffic shifted more and more to the street. With the timetable change on May 25, 1974, passenger train traffic was discontinued and switched to rail buses . The rail bus 798 669-8, which on this day with members of the Modellisenbahn-Club Landshut e. V. drove from Landshut to Rottenburg was the last. The Rottenburger Stadtkapelle played I had a comrade , at 8:45 p.m. the railcar made its way back.
Railway systems that were no longer needed for freight traffic disappeared. The Weihmichl station building was demolished in September 1974 and the bus shelter in Arth in February 1975. On January 31, 1982, ticket and baggage handling at Rottenburg station was closed.
Vehicles of the 260 series kept up the low freight traffic . Occasionally, machines from the 211 , 212 and 218 series were also used.
In 1990 the Rottenburger Bockerl e. V. , which in 1994 became a member of Dampfzugfreunde Landshut-Rottenburg e. V. was renamed. Since the beginning of the 1990s, class 365 and 335 locomotives have been rolling to Rottenburg for shunting purposes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and finally only when needed . Despite the renovation of the superstructure in the 1980s, the maximum speed was often only 30 km / h as at the start of operations. The railway friends repeatedly organized special trips. On June 12, 1994 the V 200 002 pulled a special train to Rottenburg, on June 27, 1993 the 23 105 and August 14, 1994 with the 41 1150-6 carried out special trips.
On September 27, 1998, the last train on the entire route ran with the steam locomotive 41 1150-6 as part of a farewell trip. From Untereuhausen (km 14.2) to Rottenburg, the tracks and sleepers were removed from the track bed in 2002/03.
reactivation
The remaining section of the route has been leased by the owner DB Netz to the Dampfzugfreunde Landshut-Rottenburg eV since September 15, 2000 , which operates a museum railroad via the EIU : BayernBahn in cooperation with the Bavarian Railway Museum . The necessary license was granted in 2005, but the start of operations was postponed several times. In the area of the level crossing over the B 299 near Oberndorf near Weihmichl, the track and superstructure were completely renewed over a length of 50 meters by the end of 2007 after large amounts of diesel entered the ground in an accident with a tanker truck on September 14, 2006. The district of Landshut and the municipality of Altdorf are skeptical of the museum railway project: District administrator and mayor declared several times " that their goal [was] to de-mine the railway line and to build a footpath and cycle path on the route ".
On June 4, 2011, a train again ran on the route for the first time. On this and the following day a special steam train commuted several times between Landshut and Neuhausen. More driving days followed and since 2012 there has been regular tourist traffic on several Sundays of the year with diesel or steam traction.
literature
- Walther Zeitler: Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate . Buch- und Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Weiden 1985, ISBN 3-924350-01-9 .
- Günter Begert senior, Heinrich Stangl: Landshut (Bay) –Rottenburg (Laaber) . In: secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany (compilation as loose-leaf edition) . Weltbild Verlag, 1994, ISSN 0949-2143 .
- History and stories of the local railway Landshut - Rottenburg (illustrated book, 230 pages, over 300 illustrations); Author: Franz Moises; Self-published by Edition Ferdinand Mader; Rottenburg ad Laaber, 08781/3234, ISBN 3-00-011343-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ What is meant is an exemption in accordance with Section 23 of the General Railway Act .
- ↑ cf. Point reactivation and its sources
- ↑ "The museum railway should run": Report in the Landshuter Zeitung of December 7th, 2007 ( memento of the original of December 12th, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "New traffic lights for more safety on the way to school": Message on the Landshut district website with a statement on the Landshut – Unterneuhausen (Arth) railway line ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum Nördlingen : Current information from the Bavarian Railway Museum ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of May 30, 2011, accessed June 6, 2011; skr, red: Route 5632. Landshut (Bay) Hbf-Rottenburg (Laaber) . In: IBSE-Telegram 247 (June 2011), p. 2f.
- ↑ cf. Current timetable at www.bahn.de or currently for 2015 also http://www.bayernbahn.de/uploads/files/fahrplan.pdf
