Neustadt (Aisch) –Demantsfürth-Uehlfeld railway line
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| Route number (DB) : | 5915 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | last 806 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 15.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Neustadt (Aisch) –Demantsfürth-Uehlfeld line , also known as the Aisch Valley Railway , was a branch line in Bavaria . It connected the Uehlfeld market in the Bavarian administrative district of Middle Franconia with Neustadt an der Aisch on the Nuremberg – Würzburg main line .
history
The Bavarian State Railroad opened operations on the single-track, standard-gauge local railway through the Aischgrund on July 12, 1904. Starting from the Neustadt (Aisch) Bahnhof station, the line led in a north-easterly direction to the Neustadt (Aisch) Stadt stop (km 1.5, at the gymnasium, which later became Neustadthalle ) and then along the river to the Uehlfeld district of Demantsfürth, where the terminus was built, about two kilometers from the center of Uehlfeld. An extension down the valley to Höchstadt an der Aisch and thus a continuous connection to Forchheim never came about.
Diespeck, Gutenstetten and Dachsbach were stops manned by agents.
The number of train pairs rose from three in 1904 to four in 1914, and this number was reached again in 1939. After the Second World War, the route was then operated better: in 1950 there were six trains, even seven on Saturdays and four trains on Sundays.
When the Deutsche Bundesbahn restricted the operation of its branch lines more and more, in the 1970s rail traffic was reduced to journeys on weekdays, and on May 30, 1976 the end of passenger traffic came, which was subsequently replaced by rail buses . Freight traffic lasted until September 23, 1993, and was officially closed at the end of 1993.
Todays situation
The rails were dismantled and the trains were replaced by buses from Neustädter Bahnhof to Uehlfeld and back. The Aisch Valley Cycle Path now runs along parts of the old route .
The charming Art Nouveau train station building Demantsfürth-Uehlfeld still exists and is a listed building.
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis, Ekkehard Martin: Franconian branch lines then and now - Middle and Lower Franconia. Egglham 1987
- Ulrich Rockelmann: Searching for traces. Dismantled railway lines in the Nuremberg area. Hofmann Verlag Nürnberg 1999, ISBN 3-87191-270-0 , pages 64 to 70.
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch publishing house 1828–1978. ) P. 500.
- ^ Reichsbahn-Zentralamt Berlin (ed.): Official station directory of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . 1938.
- ↑ List of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, No. D-5-75-167-15