Leinefelde – Treysa railway line
The Leinefelde – Treysa railway is a railway line in Thuringia and Hesse that linked the cities of Leinefelde , Eschwege , Spangenberg , Malsfeld , Homberg (Efze) and Treysa .
The railway line is part of the Kanonenbahn .
history
Overall, the route had a complex route with numerous bridges and tunnels , so that heavy military trains could drive over the route with a maximum gradient of 1:50 . The connection planned as a strategic railway never achieved the intended significance, as the military preferred to use the less incline Leinefelde – Kassel route .
On October 31, 1875, the section Eschwege - Eschwege West (then "Niederhone") was opened together with the Göttingen - Bebra connection . Niederhone - Treysa followed on May 15, 1879 and on May 15, 1880 Eschwege - Silberhausen separation station. The northernmost section Silberhausen Trennungsbahnhof - Leinefelde was opened on October 3rd, 1870 as an extension of the Gotha – Leinefelde railway and part of a connection planned at the time from Hanover - Göttingen - Gotha - southern Germany . For the Kanonenbahn line coming from the east from Nordhausen , the shared use of this section in Leinefelde, also going east, resulted in a change of direction for through trains, which was a second important disadvantage compared to the Leinefelde – Kassel line.
At the beginning of the 20th century , the line was given the originally planned second track, which was dismantled after the First World War at the instigation of the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission . The line was downgraded to a branch line because the connection was only of regional importance.
The Second World War , in which some rerouting trains finally gave the route a (weak) military significance, it survived with little damage: On March 24, 1945 a train near Oberbeisheim lost freight wagons on the downhill section to Malsfeld ; the Fulda Bridge there was damaged, parts of the bridge fell into the river. On March 31, 1945, an ammunition train exploded in Waldkappel station after being shot at by an aircraft. 17 people died, nothing was left of the reception building . The Friedaviadukt was blown up in the last days of the war in 1945. After 1945, the inner German border interrupted the connection between Geismar and Schwebda .
In Hesse , the line was gradually abandoned from the mid- 1970s . First, on May 26, 1974, the Malsfeld – Waldkappel traffic was ended, as was the freight traffic between Spangenberg and Waldkappel. The passenger traffic Treysa - Malsfeld was set on May 30, 1981. On the same day the last train Eschwege – Schwebda (–Wanfried, see railway line Schwebda – Wartha ) left. At the end of the winter timetable 1984/85, the last passenger train ran from Eschwege West via Waldkappel (–Kassel, see Kassel – Waldkappel railway line ) on May 31, 1985 , on June 1 between Eschwege West and Eschwege City.
Freight traffic between Eschwege and Schwebda ended on October 1, 1994, between Eschwege and Eschwege West on December 15, 2002. Freight traffic between Homberg and Oberbeisheim was no longer served when passenger traffic was discontinued in 1981, Malsfeld – Oberbeisheim was closed on December 31, 1988 set. On May 31, 1986, freight traffic between the Pfieffewiese connection and Spangenberg ended, and on September 1, 1994, traffic from Malsfeld to this connection also ended. The southern Malsfeld connecting curve was used for operation, the northern one had been shut down earlier. The last daily freight service between Homberg and Treysa ended on June 25, 2002. Freight traffic was possible between Eschwege West and Waldkappel until December 31, 1991.
On the Thuringian side, Geismar was served in passenger traffic until December 31, 1992, after which the operating license for the ailing Lengenfeld Viaduct expired . Freight traffic west of Dingelstädt had already been stopped around 1970. Until May 28, 1994, the journey was continued as far as Küllstedt , on August 2, 1996 the rest between the former separation station to Dingelstädt was also abandoned for passenger traffic after freight traffic had been idle since the beginning of the year. In the weeks that followed, the railway rebuilt the route to Gotha ; the switch towards Eschwege was not reinstalled. In 1998 the Silberhausen – Dingelstädt section was officially closed.
In early 2009 requested DB Netz the exemption from railway operation purposes between 51.750 kilometers ( overpass on the route Bebra in Eschwege - Nidda Witzenhausen ) and 62.450 kilometers (Waldkappel North Road). The section from Eschwege West (km 50.09) followed in mid-2011. Mid-2013 was also used for the portions of Waldkappel (Km 62,45) to 90.42 kilometers (intersection with actuating Bach times in field) and from the border in kilometers 37.385 kilometers to 40.63 (at Kellaer Bach, west of Frieda tunnel ). The latter section was extended to kilometer 45.427 ( Werra bridge in Eschwege ) at the end of 2014 .
Operation today
The Eschwege Stadt - Eschwege West section has been in operation again for local rail passenger transport since 2009 . Attempts are being made to preserve the structures of the disused sections of the cannon railway network.
Section Leinefelde - Eschwege
The section between Leinefelde and the former Silberhausen separation station is still in operation as part of the Gotha – Leinefelde railway line . There is no longer a track connection to the “Kanonenbahn” in the direction of Eschwege.
In January 2006, the “Kanonenbahnmuseum” was opened in Großbartloff in cooperation with the Lengenfeld Unterm Stein cannon railway association. In addition to a miniature replica of the section Dingelstädt - Lengenfeld unterm Stein in gauge 0, there are many antiques (uniforms, tickets, instruments and old pictures) to discover and information on the history of the entire cannon railway.
The same association, in cooperation with the neighboring municipalities of the Dingelstädt – Geismar section, intends to buy this disused section of the route in order to set up a trolley route combined with a cycle path on the former second track . To this end, a gGmbH is to be founded, in which the association and the community of Lengenfeld unterm Stein will initially participate. Since 2003, the association has been using the route as a draisine route under a rental agreement with DB Netz AG . Since that year the "Kanonenbahnfest" has been held there every year. After long negotiations, the railway approved the Entenberg Tunnel in June 2006 . Thus, trips to Großbartloff were now possible. DB Netz, however, approved the crossing of the 24-meter-high railway viaduct in Lengenfeld unterm Stein right from the start. Since 2010, the Lengenfeld - Geismar and Lengenfeld - Küllstedt routes (driving through the Küllstedter tunnel ) can be used continuously. Since special trips to Dingelstädt have also been offered, a total of around 23½ kilometers of the historic cannon railway line can be explored by draisine.
The Kanonenbahn cycle path between Dingelstädt and Geismar has been completed on the second track since 2019 . The bike has to be pushed over the Lengenfeld Viaduct.
Section Eschwege - Eschwege West
The Eschwege West - Eschwege section was reactivated and electrified by HLB Basis AG for regional traffic . The restart took place on December 12, 2009. The Eschwege West station was abandoned on December 12, 2009 after the renovation work was completed for the 2009/2010 timetable change and replaced by two new stations ("Eschwege-Niederhone" and " Eschwege "). At this Eschwege city station, a modern one with a parking garage was built opposite the old station building. The trains on the “RB7” Bebra - Göttingen line operated by Cantus now travel via Eschwege-Niederhone to Eschwege, where the trains change direction .
Section Eschwege West - Waldkappel
Since July 24, 2010, a signaling hiking trail was in operation between Bischhausen and Waldkappel. There it was possible to ride the part of the route between km 58.9 and km 60.8 with bicycle trolleys. As a special feature, these trips were designed in such a way that the signaling technology was included and thus the importance of the operational signals of the Deutsche Bahn is made clear to the visitors. As a result, the bicycle trolleys had priority over road traffic at the gated level crossings ; this was unique in Germany . Operations ceased in 2012.
photos
Threshold cross at the west exit Küllstedt, decorated on the occasion of the closure of Dingelstädt – Küllstedt
East portal of the Bischofferoder tunnel
West portal of the Bischofferoder tunnel
Bridge of the Kanonenbahn over the Fulda near Malsfeld
Bridge of the cannon railway over the Bebra – Baunatal – Guntershausen railway line near Malsfeld
Malsfeld: Ramp (above) from the Bebra – Baunatal-Guntershausen railway line (center) to the Kanonenbahn
former station of the Kanonenbahn in Malsfeld
Homberg (Efze) station
Eschwege city station with Cantus train
See also
literature
- Eduard Fritze: Eichsfelder Kanonenbahn 1880-1994 and Küllstedt station. Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2003
- Günter Fromm: The History of the Kanonenbahn. Leinefelde - Eschwege 1880–1945. Leinefelde - Geismar 1880–1992. Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2004
- Paul Lauerwald: The Leinefelde – Eschwege-West cannon railway. Quedlinburg 1998, 68 pages, 23 color and 30 black-and-white illustrations, several overview plans , ISBN 3-933178-01-0
- Bernward Seipel: The cannon train and the Lengenfeld station under the stone. Publisher Cordier, Heiligenstadt 2013
Web links
- Photos of the route between Treysa and Homberg (2014)
- The route at forgotten tracks
- The route at schruft.de
- Description of the tunnel and route history on eisenbahntunnel-portal.de
- Use of a section as a draisine route at erlebnis-draisine.de with a story
- Course book 1944
- Thüringische Landeszeitung: Dismantled rails will be relocated from December 18, 2012
- Thüringer Allgemeine: Kanonenbahn rolled to Dingelstädt on December 23, 2012 for the first time during the dress rehearsal
- werra-meissner-bahnen.de with information about the Kanonenbahn and Eschwege station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 .
- ↑ http://www.werra-meissner-bahnen.de/inhalt/eisenbahnen/6710-09-schicksalsschlag.html Fateful stroke in the last hour
- ↑ Reinhold Salzmann: The cannon train. History and fate of a major rail project. In: Rund um den Alheimer , Volume 34 (2013), pp. 6–23 (17).
- ^ Martin Krauss: Development of the Railway Infrastructure 1997/98. In: Bahn-Report , issue 2/1999, pp. 4–7, here: p. 7.
- ↑ Federal Railway Office , Frankfurt / Saarbrücken branch: Public announcement in accordance with Section 23, Paragraph 2 of the General Railway Act (AEG), exemption from railway operations relating to parcels in the communities of Hessisch-Lichtenau, Waldkappel, Wehretal and Eschwege. From March 9, 2009 (Ref. 55101 - paw - 09 - 0103; eBAnz AT30 2009 B2 )
- ↑ Federal Railway Office, Frankfurt / Saarbrücken branch: Public announcement in accordance with Section 23 (2) of the General Railway Act, exemption from railway operation purposes regarding parcels in Eschwege. From July 21, 2011 (Ref. 551pf / 127 - 2011 # 048/55122 - 11 - 0630 e; eBAnz AT89 2011 B2 )
- ↑ Federal Railway Office, Frankfurt / Saarbrücken branch: Public announcement in accordance with Section 23, Paragraph 2 of the General Railway Act, exemption from railway operations relating to part of the 6710 Silberhausen – Treysa line. From July 31, 2013 (Ref. 55170 - 551pf / 131 - 2013 # 007; BAnz AT 08/09/2013 B7 )
- ↑ Federal Railway Office, Frankfurt / Saarbrücken branch: Public announcement in accordance with Section 23, Paragraph 2 of the General Railway Act, exemption from railway operations relating to part of the 6710 Silberhausen – Treysa line. From July 30, 2013 (Ref. 55170 - 551pf / 131 - 2013 # 006; BAnz AT 08.08.2013 B12 )
- ↑ Federal Railway Office, Frankfurt / Saarbrücken branch: Public announcement in accordance with Section 23, Paragraph 2 of the General Railway Act, exemption from railway operations relating to part of the 6710 Silberhausen – Treysa line. From November 20, 2014 (Ref. 55125 - 551pf / 131 - 2013 # 006; BAnz AT November 28, 2014 B6 )
- ↑ Routes on the draisine route. In: erlebnis-draisine.de. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Pictures of the new reception building
- ^ Kanonenbahn ( Memento from February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )