Railway line Neusäß – Welden

Neusäß – Welden
Route number (DB) :	5301
Course book section (DB) :	last 913, formerly 411a
Route length:	up to 1933: 19.2 km from 1933: 20.571 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Augsburg 4,664 Junction since 1933 4.700 Neusäß (until 1933) 6.400 Neusäß (since 1933) 5.7 00 7.000 End of realignment in 1933 to Ulm 7.900 Lohwald 9.000 mutton 11.500 Aystetten 16.600 Horgau 19.500 Adelsried 21.200 Bonstetten 23.500 Streitheim 25.235 Welden

The Neusäß – Welden railway , also known as the Weldenbahn , was a branch line in Bavaria . It led from Neusäß near Augsburg to Welden . The passenger trains began and ended in Augsburg Hbf - as did the route kilometers. Initially, the line branched off from the main Augsburg – Ulm line at the old Neusäßer station . In 1933 a new, second line was built between Augsburg and Neusäß. As a result, the operational separation no longer took place in Neusäß, but earlier.

history

The Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the Neusaess from originally 19.2 km long route on December 5, 1903. All trains began and ended in the Augsburg Central Station where the Kilometrierung their origin had. The volume of traffic on the line met the expectations of the operator, who classified the line as the second most profitable local railway in Swabia in 1909 . From Aystetten , the route did not take the direct route to Adelsried , but was initially built far to the west. This detour was due to the community of Horgau , because there was also a desire for a rail connection there.

Between 1929 and 1933, the main line Augsburg – Ulm was relocated northwest of Augsburg-Oberhausen as part of electrification . The separation from the Augsburg – Donauwörth – Nördlingen line was generously redesigned at the northern end of Oberhausen station. From there to the previous route at the level of the northwestern end of Neusäß, the track was built on a new route. The branch of the Weldenbahn was also moved to the new, more northerly route. From the operational separation at kilometer 4.633, the two lines formed a structural unit for about two kilometers. The trains from to Welden drove between the two tracks of the main line to the new switchless stop in Neusäß, before the previous route was reached a few hundred meters further. This new route went into operation on May 31, 1933. The Augsburg – Welden route was thus extended by around 1.3 km. The Augsburg Hirblinger Strasse passenger train station was opened on the new route section in 1940, seven years after it was opened.

Connected to Augsburg by the railway line , a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp , the Horgau satellite camp , was put into operation in March 1945 as a forest factory of the Messerschmitt works. At the beginning of April 1945 it was dissolved again.

Since 1949 there was a rail bus connection from Augsburg to Welden parallel to the railway line . This and the growing individual motorized traffic resulted in a decline in traffic performance by rail. From June 1, 1975, the company was closed on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and public holidays. On January 21, 1986, passenger traffic was finally discontinued due to a resolution passed on July 17, 1985 in the administrative board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

The consistently low freight traffic to Welden soon followed. This was officially discontinued on May 31, 1986 and a buffer stop was installed at the new end of the line in Lohwald . Since BASF missed this, it sent a freight train loaded with fertilizer to BayWa in October 1986 . As a result, the local authorities - without the knowledge of the Munich Federal Railway Directorate - dismantled the buffer stop at short notice in order to avoid reloading the freight onto trucks. In addition, a railway association procured its own short freight train and stationed it in Welden. The association hoped to avert the final closure and to open a museum. However, this did not happen because the Deutsche Bundesbahn feared competition with its rail bus services.

The tracks in the Lohwald – Welden section were finally dismantled between spring and summer 1987. The Keim paint factory in Lohwald was supplied by rail until July 31, 1989; After the company was relocated to Diedorf , the remaining section could also be shut down and dismantled in the same year. Only between Augsburg Hirblinger Straße and Neusäß has the track remained until today, but is no longer used. The switches were expanded with the remaining shutdown in 1989. Due to the need to build a bypass bridge, the tracks in today's bridge area had to be expanded. The expanded track sections are still available on site today. The track is also still available in the area of ​​the exit to the line to Ulm , but is no longer used either. Furthermore, there are still some removed, but never removed, track remains at Adelsried train station .

Todays situation

The Weldenbahn was largely preserved as an asphalted railway cycle path . This is known as the District Administrator Dr. Frey cycle path and is also used by inline skaters . The station areas of Neusäß-Lohwald, Aystetten and Welden, however, were built over. In public transport by lines 500 (Augsburg - Aystetten) and 501 (Augsburg - Welden). Regionalbus Augsburg GmbH (RBA) was responsible for operational management until April 2017 , and since then the Demmelmair company.

media

• Michael Baumgärtner, Jürgen Fiedler: The Weldenbahn - History of a Bavarian Local Railway . Holzwinkler Modell-Bahn-Club e. V., Welden 1993.
• Franz Schaffer, Jürgen Schiffler, Gerd Peykel: Line closure in congested areas , arguments for reactivating the Augsburg – Welden railway line ; in: Augsburger Sozialgeographische Hefte No. 3 ; Paul Kieser Verlag Neusäß / Augsburg 1979
• Video DVD: The Weldenbahn - History of a Bavarian Local Railway , Authors Association Helmut Fuchs, Elmar Kretz, Klaus Böhme and Rolf Mühler and Photo Optik Mayer, 2011

Web links

• With the Weldenbahn, the Holzwinkel found connection to the world , article in the Augsburger Allgemeine from 7 December 2010
• Course book table from 1944
• Description of today's railway cycle path on www.achim-bartoschek.de
• Route description on www.vergessene-bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Siegfried Baum: Augsburg – Welden . In: secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany (compilation as loose-leaf edition) . Weltbild Verlag GmbH, 1994, ISSN  0949-2143 .
2. ↑ Video DVD: The Weldenbahn - History of a Bavarian Local Railway , Authors' Association Helmut Fuchs, Elmar Kretz, Klaus Böhme and Rolf Mühler and Photo Optik Mayer, 2011
3. ^ Augsburg - Welden. Retrieved November 9, 2014 . 
4. ^ Old line Augsburg Oberhausen - Neusäß. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .