Railway line Mühlhausen – Treffurt

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Mühlhausen – Treffurt
Normannstein stop
Normannstein stop
Route length: 31.8 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route - straight ahead
from Leinefelde
Station, station
0.00 Mulhouse 202.4 m
   
to Gotha and Ebeleben
   
6.96 Oberdorla 217.6 m
   
9.10 Langula 234.3 m
   
17.25 Heyerode 437.0 m
   
18.50 Viaduct near Heyerode
   
21.06 Diedorf 372.4 m
   
24.37 Turning houses 301.7 m
   
26.30 Normannstein 260.7 m
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28.70 Border Thuringia / Hesse
(former inner German border )
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29.45 Field mill
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30.00 Hesse / Thuringia
border (former inner German border)
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from Schwebda
   
31.79 Hit 176.6 m
   
to Wartha

The railway line Mühlhausen – Treffurt , also called Vogteier Bimmelbahn , was a railway line in Thuringia that connected Mühlhausen with Treffurt .

history

The line was put into operation on April 1, 1911 between Heyerode and Treffurt and on July 1, 1911 between Mühlhausen / Thuringia and Heyerode by the Prussian State Railway as a standard gauge branch line with a length of 31.8 km. It led from the Mühlhausen train station to the southwest in the cut of the Rieseninger Mountain to the Vogtei and then with an incline of 1:40 to the height of the Hainich . to the Heyerode train station: then past the Heyerode border house to the almost one kilometer long Diedorf cut. The place, which is important for its industrial operations (tobacco processing and hosiery), was brought to work by rail. The quarry near Wendehausen and the brickworks near Kleintöpfer (both no longer exist today) also had economic interests in the railway line.

Part of the route just before Treffurt with the breakpoint Feldmühle came after the German division of the Federal Republic of Germany . Until 1952, the trains crossed Hessian territory in the privileged through-rail traffic without stopping at the Feldmühle stop; from 1952 the Treffurt station was no longer served. So until 1960 (in freight traffic) the terminus was called Normannstein, in passenger traffic until September 29, 1968, Wendehausen. Until September 2, 1969 there was freight traffic to Langula. Today the route is dismantled. The Felchta – Oberdorla and Langula – Normannstein sections have been redesigned as a railway cycle path , the route is part of the Unstrut-Werra cycle path . In the old Heyerode train station, the apex of the line, there is now an excursion restaurant.

photos

literature

  • Günter Fromm: Treffurt and its railways. Verlag Rockstuhl 1995. ISBN 3-929000-40-7
  • Paul Lauerwald: Mühlhausen (Thür) - Wendehausen - Treffurt . In: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then & now. 107 Supplementary delivery. 12 pages DIN A4 , GeraMond Munich 2014, ISSN  0949-2143
  • Harald Rockstuhl, Reiner Schmalzl: The Mühlhausen – Treffurter Railway 1911-1969 - Vogteier Bimmel. Mühlhausen – Oberdorla – Langula – Heyerode – Diedorf – Wendehausen – Normannstein – Feldmühle – Treffurt. Bad Langensalza 2010, 96 pages, 129 illustrations, 77 of them in color, 1 map, ISBN 978-3-86777-214-3

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