Railway line Gau Odernheim – Osthofen
Gau Odernheim – Osthofen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Section Dittelsheim-Heßloch
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Route number (DB) : | 3564 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book section (DB) : | last 662 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 18.755 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Gau Odernheim – Osthofen railway was a branch line from Gau-Odernheim to Osthofen .
Geographical location
The line was in Rheinhessen and connected the Gau-Odernheim station on the Alzey – Bodenheim line and Osthofen station on the Mainz – Mannheim line .
history
The construction of the line was started by the Hessian Ludwig Railway , which became part of the Prussian-Hessian Railway Association on April 1, 1897 . The line was opened on May 17, 1897. On February 10, 1914, “as darkness fell”, new “double light pre-signals ” were put into operation along the entire route , which corresponded to the shape signal model that is still in use today .
Passenger traffic was shut down on September 29, 1974. Freight traffic followed in sections. Most recently, the route was only used in autumn and winter during the beet campaign . Freight traffic from Dittelsheim-Heßloch-Monzernheim was discontinued on April 1, 1976, Monzernheim-Bechtheim on May 27, 1983, Bechtheim-Osthofen on December 31, 1985. From February 28, 1990, none drove between Hillesheim-Dorndürkheim and Dittelsheim-Heßloch More freight trains, and on December 31, 1992 the remaining traffic between Gau-Odernheim and Hillesheim-Dorndürkheim was also stopped. The line was dismantled in 1998.
Planned reuse
The community of Gau-Odernheim planned to create a cycle path on the former section to Hillesheim. This failed, however, after an investigation report found a biotope with lizards on the former railway line . The alternative of expanding a parallel economic route, however, could not be financed. In the meantime, a cycle path on farm roads between Gau-Odernheim and Hillesheim has been implemented.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 24, 1914, No. 5. Announcement No. 50, p. 33.
- ↑ Hillesheim cycle path put on hold for the time being - biotope with lizards on the former railway line destroys the Gau-Odernheim's plan by Heinz-Jürgen Boller from February 19, 2013 on Allgemeine-zeitung.de
- ↑ January Haugner: New bike path near Gau-Odernheim. Allgemeine Zeitung, May 18, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 .