Lohr – Wertheim railway line

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Lohr train station-Wertheim
Route number (DB) : 5213
Course book section (DB) : 803 (1976)
Route length: 37.1 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 5  ‰
Minimum radius : 264 m
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Würzburg
Station, station
 0.000 Lohr train station
   
 to Aschaffenburg
Station without passenger traffic
 1,852 Lohr city
   
 Connection of Gerresheimer Lohr GmbH
   
   
 6.000 Rodenbach
   
 9.550 Neustadt (Main)
   
 15.230 Rothenfels (Unterfr)
   
 17.710 Hafenlohr
   
 20.450 Marktheidenfeld
   
 26.570 Lengfurt - Trennfeld
   
 32.200 Bettingberg
   
 32.300 Bettingberg tunnel (730 m)
   
 34.500 Kreuzwertheim
   
 34.900 Kaffelstein tunnel (231 m)
   
 35.500 Main bridge Wertheim (178 m)
   
 35.600 Schlossberg tunnel (626 m)
   
 Deaf
   
 by Lauda
Station, station
 37.100 Wertheim
Route - straight ahead
 to Miltenberg West
Swell:

The Lohr – Wertheim line was a branch line in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg . Most of it ran along the Main from Lohr am Main to Wertheim . In Wertheim there was a connection to the railway lines to Miltenberg and Lauda .

history

The 37.1 kilometer long line began operating on October 1, 1881, by the Royal Bavarian State Railways , 1.6 kilometers of the line lay in Baden territory. However, as early as 1885 the Bavarian railway administration described the connection as one of the worst-frequented routes in its network, which did not change significantly in the decades that followed.

In the years after the Second World War, a large number of the trains began in Gemünden , some of them also went through Wertheim to Miltenberg . The route experienced an upswing in freight traffic for around ten years from 1959 to supply the A 3 motorway construction sites and for transports from the Faulbach gravel works to the 7 construction sites .

Passenger traffic between Lohr Stadtbahnhof and Wertheim was discontinued on May 30, 1976, the section Lohr Bahnhof – Lohr Stadt followed on May 22, 1977. Freight traffic is still carried out there today, primarily to supply the local glassworks (as of 2020). Freight traffic between Lengfurt-Trennfeld and Wertheim ceased on May 26, 1979, and between Lohr Stadt and Lengfurt-Trennfeld on September 29, 1991. The route there was dismantled in 1980/81 and 1993 respectively.

The three tunnels of the railway line - the Bettingberg tunnel , the Kaffelstein tunnel and the Schlossberg tunnel Wertheim - were closed in 1980/81. After the line was closed, the Bettingberg Tunnel was used by Daimler-Benz AG for experiments with the track bus for a while .

  • Tunnel on the Lohr – Wertheim railway line

  • Bettingberg tunnel
    (east entrance)

  • Schlossberg Tunnel Wertheim
    (north entrance)

The railway bridge over the Main from Kreuzwertheim to Wertheim was dismantled in 1984 and installed 175 kilometers further up the Main near Schweinfurt on the Kitzingen – Schweinfurt railway line . The railway bridge over the Tauber in Wertheim was closed.

  • Bridges on the Lohr – Wertheim railway line

  • Main bridge Wertheim
    (view east side, without railway bridge superstructure)

  • Old railway bridge superstructure, in Schweinfurt since 1984

  • Tauber Bridge Wertheim

future

Lohr city station

The resumption of passenger traffic on the section Lohr Bahnhof - Lohr Stadt is being discussed. This measure is included in the district's local transport plan. An hourly regional train from Lohr Stadt via Würzburg to Marktbreit is planned in the target timetable for Germany .

Operating points

Bettingen ceiling construction station

In the Wertheim town of Bettingen, there was a so-called ceiling construction station on the railway line at kilometer 30.4 during the construction of the federal motorway 3 . There building material for the motorway was approached in block trains, which were tipped into an underground bunker on a siding.

Wertheim

literature

  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 1 : Historical development and railway construction . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-766-4 .
  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-768-0 .
  • Manfred Schneider, Viktor Jagodics (Ed.): The Lohrer Bahn . GHK-Verlag, Kreuzwertheim 2005, ISBN 3-00-017942-9 .

Web links

Commons : Lohr – Wertheim railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
  2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  3. ^ Map of the Federal Railway Directorate Stuttgart 1983
  4. ^ Map of the Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt 1983
  5. ^ Alexander Wörn: The branch line Lohr - Wertheim . In: The Rail Bus, Edition 2/2014, p. 11.
  6. ↑ ibid., P. 12.
  7. ^ Günter Dutt: A journey through 150 years of tunnel structures in Württemberg . In: Yearbook for Railway History . No. 28 . Uhle & Kleimann, 1996, ISSN  0340-4250 , p. 47-63 .
  8. ↑ Negotiations to reactivate the Lohr city station. In: Main-Post. April 2, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Target timetable Germany-Takt Second expert draft Bavaria Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Retrieved June 19, 2019
  10. ↑ Faulbacher Kies for Autobahn at main-echo.de, accessed on May 16, 2016