Mannheim-Rheinau – Ketsch railway line
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| Route number (DB) : | 4022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 300c (1965) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 6.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 7 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Mannheim-Rheinau – Ketsch line was a branch line in Baden-Württemberg that was closed in 1966 .
Geographical location
The line branched off from the Mannheim-Rheinau station in a southerly direction from the Baden Rheinbahn and connected the southern Mannheim suburbs of Ketsch and Brühl and later the Schütte-Lanz airship works on the border between Mannheim-Rheinau and Brühl to the railway.
history
Infrastructure
The branch line was single-track , not electrified and was opened by the Baden State Railways in the northern part to Brühl on October 1, 1905 on the basis of a Baden law of June 30, 1902. On the basis of a law of July 15, 1910, the section to Ketch followed on July 1, 1912.
The “Mannheim-Rheinau Luftschiffwerft” stop did not exist before the First World War . When airship production had to be discontinued in 1922 in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the route increasingly lost its importance. The “Mannheim-Rheinau Luftschiffwerft” stop was temporarily abandoned.
business
The passenger trains running on the route were only in 3rd class , after the class reform in 1954 the (new) 2nd class.
In the last peace timetable before the First World War , 12 pairs of trains ran daily. That was still the case in 1944. In 1955 the route and the "Mannheim-Rheinau Luftschiffwerft" stop, which had been reactivated in the meantime, were still served by five pairs of trains, and traffic was gradually shifted to buses . In 1965 there were still two pairs of trains running every day. On September 25, 1966, the line was closed despite protests by Schütte-Lanz and the two municipalities, and the tracks were dismantled.
Todays situation
The replacement for the rail connection was the 7001 rail bus between Mannheim Hbf and Ketsch. It is now part of the VRN line 710 and is operated by the Rhein-Neckar (BRN) bus service .
The "Bahnhofstrasse" in Brühl and the "Bahnhofsanlage" in Ketsch as well as the building of the former train station restaurant in Brühl still remind of the former railway line. The bus stop in Ketsch at the former train station is still called Ketsch, Bahnhof .
Worth knowing
The regionally known saying “Ketsch, Brühl, Antwerpen” goes back to the course of the former branch line. Antwerp is a corruption of “An den Werften” and describes the former stop at the airship yard.
literature
- Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
- Kursbureau des Reichs-Postamts (Ed.): Reichs-Kursbuch. Overview of the rail, post and steamship connections in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland as well as the more important connections of the rest of Europe and the steamship connections with non-European countries . Berlin 1914. Reprint 1974, Table 245a.
- Wolfgang Löckel: Mannheim, here Mannheim. Highlights from the history of rail transport in the city of squares . Ludwigshafen 2008. ISBN 978-3-934845-40-4 , pp. 194, 206.
- Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985. ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 28.
Web links
- In the middle of one of the most prosperous German areas - and yet almost forgotten: Rheinau - Ketsch. In: verkehrsrelüste.de. Archived from the original on May 26, 2012 ; Retrieved April 23, 2013 .
- Excerpt from the course book from 1944
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory 421 K 1: Railway Directorate / Federal Railway Directorate Karlsruhe: Plan roles - structural view. State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Department General State Archive Karlsruhe, accessed on September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ Kilometrage according to the route overview map of the Federal Railway Directorate Stuttgart from 1947, printed in Löckel, p. 206.
- ^ Opening dates according to Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Handbook of German Railway Lines: Opening dates 1835–1935, route lengths, concessions, ownership structure . Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 .
- ↑ Kursbureau des Reichs-Postamts (ed.): Reichs-Kursbuch , Table 247c.
- ↑ Kursbureau des Reichs-Postamts (ed.): Reichs-Kursbuch , Table 247c.
- ↑ a b c Schwetzinger Zeitung : The last whistle for the "Bähnle"
- ^ Rhein-Neckar industrial culture: Schütte-Lanz airship shipyard in Brühl