Langenbach – Enzelhausen railway line

Langenbach (Oberbay) –Enzelhausen
Route number (DB) :	5633
Course book range :	424b (1968)
Route length:	28.76 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	CE
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Minimum radius :	200 m
Top speed:	40 km / h
Legend from Munich Hbf 0.000 Langenbach (Oberbay) 428 m to Regensburg Hbf Amperes Amperkanal 2.910 Hague (Amper) 5,542 Anglberg Connection to the Zolling power plant 6.120 Anglberg 7.210 Unterzolling 8.500 Flitzing 10.650 Thonhausen 13.650 Attenkirchen 16.870 Figlsdorf 18.120 Grundl 20.170 Nandlstadt 23.020 Reichertshausen (Hallertau) 24.850 Au (Hallertau) from Mainburg 28.760 Enzelhausen (until 1909: Au) 446 m to Wolnzach train station Swell:

The Langenbach – Enzelhausen railway is a branch line in Bavaria . It ran mostly through the Hallertau hop region in Upper Bavaria and connected the Munich – Regensburg railway with the Wolnzach Bahnhof – Mainburg railway . Together with the latter, it was popularly known as the Hallertauer Lokalbahn or Holledauer Bockerl .

history

Connecting line at the Zolling power plant at today's end of the line (2017)

Bridge over the Amper near Haag an der Amper

When Mainburg was connected to the railway network in 1895, preference was initially given to the shorter route to Wolnzach Bahnhof - to the displeasure of the cities of Freising and Moosburg . Therefore, between 1897 and 1903, investigations were carried out with the aim of realizing another local railway through the Hallertau to one of the two towns on the Isar. The Local Railway Act of August 10, 1904 finally provided for a line that branches off the Munich – Regensburg railway line at Langenbach station , follows the Ampertal westwards and from Zolling, taking into account numerous localities, reaches Enzelhausen station in the direction of Wolnzach. Construction began on August 12, 1907, and the opening took place on May 1, 1909.

Up until after the Second World War, there were usually around three pairs of trains per day, often running continuously from Mainburg to Freising, although the direction of travel had to be changed in Enzelhausen and the locomotive had to be relocated. Despite this necessary shunting maneuver, through trains from Wolnzach to Freising were rare and limited to individual trains in individual timetable periods.

The PtL 2/2 genus was used until around 1911 , but it turned out to be too weak due to the difficult route. After a short time, the line was used in a common circuit with the line to Wolnzach Bahnhof mainly by the local wet steam locomotives of type D XI . From 1922 they were replaced by the four-axle Bavarian GtL 4/4 (series 98 ⁸ ). Since the 1930s, the 57 ¹⁰ , 70 ⁰ and 98 ¹⁰ series have been used again and again , and occasionally other machines such as the 54 ^15-17 or 64 series . The locomotives were usually provided by the Ingolstadt depot , while maintenance took place on site at the Mainburg locomotive station during the steam locomotive era.

On April 29, 1945, the Wehrmacht blew up the Amper and Amper Canal Bridge near Haag (Amper). The train service was provisionally resumed in autumn 1945.

From 1953, the young German Federal Railroad switched the locomotive-hauled passenger trains to new single-engine rail buses of the VT 95 series and diesel multiple units of the pre-war series VT 70 ⁹ . Around 1960, the timetable provided for four pairs of trains on Sundays and public holidays and five on weekdays, three of which ran continuously from Freising to Mainburg. Due to falling passenger numbers due to automobilization during the economic boom, rail buses increasingly drove without sidecars in the 1960s. On September 27, 1969, travel between Mainburg, Enzelhausen and Unterzolling was discontinued. Passenger traffic on the Freising – Langenbach – Unterzolling route barely managed to save itself through connecting traffic into the S-Bahn era. It was last provided by twin-engine rail buses of the VT 98 series and discontinued on June 3, 1973.

The Freising-Neustift stop on the Munich-Regensburg railway line was closed in 1975. It had been used almost exclusively by the local railway trains. As a replacement for the passenger trains, rail buses initially ran between Freising and Mainburg, which are now part of the popular MVV regional bus routes 602/603 with around 25 pairs of trips on weekdays and 12 on weekends.

Since the freight traffic between Au (Hallertau) and Unterzolling had ceased after the passenger train, the line in this section was shut down in 1970 and the tracks were dismantled immediately afterwards. The Au (Hallertau) station, which can no longer be approached from Langenbach, was operated until the end of 1995 as a branch journey with the freight trains on the Wolnzach Bahnhof – Mainburg line . Together with this, the Enzelhausen - Au (Hallertau) section fell victim to the austerity and restructuring measures in the course of the railway reform on September 1, 1996 and was closed.

The general goods traffic Anglberg – Unterzolling ended for the same reasons on January 1, 1998. The section that has not been used since then was formally closed on November 30 of the same year. The were used to 1973. steam locomotives series 50 of Bahnbetriebswerke Plattling or Mühldorf , then Muhldorfer diesel locomotives of the class 218 .

business

Today train traffic is limited to the connection to the Zolling power plant . It burns an average of 750,000 tons of hard coal per year, which is usually delivered twice a day to the power plant's own Anglberg station via the Langenbach station and comes mainly from Polish coal fields. The class 232 diesel locomotives that had previously been in use since 2002 were replaced by the class 247 (Class 77) in 2011 .

Occasionally there are special steam train trips between Freising and Haag (Amper), most recently in September 2014. Since the Langenbach station was renovated, local trains can no longer stop at the platform there.

outlook

In 2018, the use of the route to Zolling as an extension of line S1 of the Munich S-Bahn, investigated and proposed by the transport planner Martin Vieregg, was discussed. The journey from Freising to Zolling would take 13 to 14 minutes and could defuse the tense parking situation at Freising train station.

Web links

Commons : Langenbach – Enzelhausen railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Holledauer Bockerl

Individual evidence

1. ^ DB Netz AG: Infrastructure Register. In: geovdbn.deutschebahn.com , accessed on May 10, 2020.
2. ↑ Route map of the Munich Railway Directorate , as of March 1952. In: Karl Bürger: Munich - Mühldorf - Simbach. Glory, decline and renaissance of a royal Bavarian railway. An eventful traffic history with a revolutionary future . Self-published, Walpertskirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056474-1 .
3. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
4. ^ ^{A b} Günter Begert, Heinrich Stangl: Branch lines between Arber and Hallertau . Ed .: Siegfried Bufe. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1999, ISBN 3-922138-69-1 , p. 157-167 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Josef Schmalzl: Chronicle of the Hallertau local railways . Self-published, Haag adAmper 1985.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Deutsche Bundesbahn (ed.): Course books, pocket timetables . (various years).
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Alois Graßl: The most important locomotives. In: bockerl.de. Retrieved May 27, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Wolfram Alteneder, Clemens Schüssler: The branch lines of the BD Munich . Verlag C. Kersting, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-925250-03-4 , p. 41 .
9. ^ Reinhard Pospischil, Ernst Rudolph: S-Bahn Munich . Alba, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-87094-358-0 , p. 91-92 .
10. ^ Alois Graßl: Numbers and dates. In: bockerl.de. Retrieved May 27, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Anna Schwarz: S-Bahn to Zolling is supposed to solve the park drama at Freising station. Münchner Merkur, November 8, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2019 .