Nabburg – Schönsee railway line

Nabburg – Schönsee (Upper Palatinate)
Monument at Oberviechtach train station
Route number :	5804
Course book section (DB) :	last 859
Route length:	46.0 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Weiden (Oberpf) 0.0 Nabburg to Regensburg Hbf 2.7 At first Flourchemie Stulln 3.3 Brensdorf Regensburg – Weiden Naab Federal highway 93 4.7 Wölsendorf 8.6 Old butterflies Schwarzach 9.9 Schwarzach (b Nabburg) 12.9 Willhof Schwarzach 14.4 Altendorf (b Nabburg) 17.6 Schwarzhofen 22.0 Pertolzhofen 25.6 Niedermurach 28.9 Oberviechtach 32.9 Lind (Oberpf) 36.7 Winklarn 40.5 Gaisthal 46.0 Schönsee (Oberpf)

The Nabburg – Schönsee railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It ran from Nabburg through the Upper Palatinate Forest via Oberviechtach to Schönsee .

history

In the 1890s there were first plans for a railway line in this area, the starting point should be the stations Nabburg or Schwarzenfeld on the Regensburg – Weiden railway line . In addition, there were other projects that included an extension of the Bodenwöhr – Neunburg vorm Wald railway line , which was under construction . In 1898, the Nabburg / Schwarzenfeld – Schönsee project was approved, and two years later the concession for the Nabburg – Oberviechtach line was issued.

The construction costs of the 29 km long section Nabburg – Oberviechtach amounted to around 1.8 million marks, the acquisition costs for the required building land had to be raised by the neighboring communities. On August 18, 1904, the line operated by the Royal Bavarian State Railways was opened. The extension to Schönsee, where around 1,300 people lived around that time - as in Oberviechtach - was approved in the summer of 1904, and the actual construction work did not begin until three years later. The 13 km long section was opened on August 1, 1913, and the construction costs were around 1.4 million marks.

Passenger traffic, which in recent years had been served exclusively by rail buses, was discontinued on May 30, 1976. Regular freight traffic ended on June 3, 1984 in Lind, the apex of the line at an altitude of 575 m. In the remaining section, it lasted until October 15, 1994, mainly thanks to the Bundeswehr base in Oberviechtach.

Since then it has only been driven to the Stulln junction. On May 1, 2006, the remaining section from Nabburg to Stulln was converted into a non-public siding of Fluorchemie Stulln. In 2010, the Nabburg-Stulln junction was therefore listed as out of service in the list of operating points and replaced by the newly created Nabburg DB border . The siding is served by DB Cargo if required .

Route description

The 29 km long route began in Nabburg station on the Regensburg – Weiden railway line, which it follows on the west side to the Stulln junction . The route that was otherwise dismantled still had the Brensdorf stop at km 3.3, then crossed the Naab and ran up the Schwarzach and Murach valleys to the former district town of Oberviechtach . From there, the 17 km long extension opened in 1913 led to the end point at Schönsee .

The bridge over the Naab has been preserved . This is remarkable due to the combination of different bridge construction techniques with which the Regensburg – Weiden railway line , a street, the river, another street and the federal highway 93 are crossed one after the other .

The former railway line has been converted into a cycle path and is part of the Bavarian-Bohemian Friendship Path .

literature

• Gerald Hoch, Andreas Kuhfahl: Branch lines in the Upper Palatinate. Decline or renaissance from the 1970s to the new millennium. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag Resch, Neustadt bei Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-7-X .
• Udo Kandler: Branch line Portrait - Nabburg – Schönsee: Local line in the Upper Palatinate Forest. In: Eisenbahn-Journal. April 2004, ISSN  0720-051X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Branch line Portrait - Nabburg – Schönsee: Local line to the Upper Palatinate Forest. In: Eisenbahn-Journal. April 2004, p. 36.
2. ↑ Branch line Portrait - Nabburg – Schönsee: Local line to the Upper Palatinate Forest. In: Eisenbahn-Journal. April 2004, p. 36 ff.
3. ↑ Federal Railway Authority : List of the disused routes in Bavaria (since 01.01.1994) ( Microsoft Excel file, 16 kB) on eba.bund.de, from September 11, 2017, accessed on May 14, 2018.
4. ↑ Directory of operating locations of DB Netz AG. DB Netz , accessed on July 6, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Photos of a car delivery in Stulln on March 19, 2018. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 6, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof (Oberviechtach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Timetable 1944/45