Railway line Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg – Bischofsgrün
| Abzw Schlömen – Bischofsgrün | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Bischofsgrün station, 1987
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| Route number : | 5006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 818 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 18.3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 33 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg – Bischofsgrün line was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the Bayreuth – Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg railway line at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg at the Schlömen junction and led to Bischofsgrün . It was one of the seven railway lines that previously opened up the Fichtel Mountains .
course
The line began at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg station ( 50 ° 5 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 54.1 ″ E ) and initially used the track of the leased railway in the direction of Bayreuth . At Schlömen it branched off to the south-east, for this purpose a signal box (with a block) ( 50 ° 4 ′ 32.5 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 41 ″ E ) was built on the outskirts . Then the route roughly followed the course of the White Main . From Bad Berneck to Bischofsgrün it ran with a steep slope parallel to the river. The difference in altitude between Himmelkron and Bischofsgrün was 266 meters, the 33 ‰ climb from Röhrenhof far exceeded that of the inclined plane . The terminus at Bischofsgrün ( 50 ° 3 '14.1 ″ N , 11 ° 46 ′ 28.5 ″ E ) was in the Glasermühle district over a kilometer outside and a good 50 meters below the main town.
history
The route was built in three sections. On November 28, 1896, the railway reached the spa town and former district office of Berneck, the following year Goldmühl and finally the Bischofsgrün station on October 20, 1898. A locomotive station was set up there for the maintenance and servicing of the steam locomotives. There were freight sidings to a company in Goldmühl and for gravel transport to a hard stone works in Röhrenhof.
Passenger traffic on the entire route was stopped on May 26, 1974, freight traffic between Röhrenhof and Bischofsgrün on May 31, 1986. The Goldmühl – Hartsteinwerk Röhrenhof section has since been used as a siding. On July 22, 1992, after a dam slide between Lanzendorf and Bad Berneck, which affected the line, freight traffic also east of Lanzendorf was stopped. The section was closed on December 31, 1993. On January 5, 1993 the wagons were still there was picked up from the abandoned stretch of road that was trapped there for half a year because of the dam slide. The section from Schlömen to Lanzendorf was finally closed on June 30, 2006. The railway line was completely dismantled.
vehicles
The use of the class GtL 4/4 (later 98.8), which also pulled passenger trains on the steep route, is documented from the steam locomotive era. The “dieselization” took place with rail buses VT 95 in passenger and locomotives of the V 60 series in freight traffic. Shortly before the shutdown, class 614 multiple units also came onto the line. On September 28, 1985, a special train with twelve wagons was probably the longest passenger train in the history of the route from Goldmühl via Neuenmarkt to Heidelberg and back. On March 9, 1986, the route was operated by the V 36 235 of the Franconian Switzerland steam railway with two historic passenger coaches ( Donnerbüchsen ). On May 30, 1986 , the last freight train to Bischofsgrün, which carried a four-axle conversion wagon for railway fans, pulled 211 294 as an exception
The route today
The route has been largely dismantled today, the route was not kept free when the A 9 was rebuilt . In Bad Berneck, the train station ( 50 ° 2 ′ 36.2 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 53 ″ E ) was demolished; the new B 303 now runs on the former station site . To the east of Bad Berneck, the route is used as a cycle path . The buildings of the Bischofsgrün train station have been preserved.
gallery
End of the route in Bischofsgrün
Bischofsgrün station building and goods shed
Hand switch lever and switch lantern in Bischofsgrün 1987
Bad Berneck train station (view towards Bischofsgrün)
Schlömen: Bridge on the road to Himmelkron 2012 (track with steel double sleepers)
Steel double sleepers Thyssen 1933
Schlömen junction (switch with concrete sleepers)
Web links
literature
- Bernd Schmitt / Gerald Hoch: branch lines in Upper Franconia . Michael Resch, Coburg 1999, ISBN 3-9805967-4-5 .
- Kerstin Schäfer: The high-rise buildings of the Upper Franconian branch lines. History, inventory and conversion. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-944237-05-3 .