Pfaffenhausen – Kirchheim railway line
| Pfaffenhausen – Kirchheim (Schwab) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book range : | 404q (1944), 405d | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 6.879 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 7.69 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 315 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pfaffenhausen – Kirchheim line was a branch line in Bavaria . It branched off the Günzburg – Mindelheim railway line in Pfaffenhausen and leads to Kirchheim in Swabia . It was opened on July 15, 1909 and closed on September 24, 1966, passenger traffic ended on May 29, 1960. In autumn 1966, the line was dismantled.
history
In the time before construction there was a long discussion as to whether the train should lead to Kirchheim via Türkheim through the Flossachtal , from Rammingen via Tussenhausen or from Mindelheim via Pfaffenhausen. The only thing that was certain at the time was that there should be a railway line to Kirchheim that should branch off from the Buchloe – Memmingen railway line . One reason for this was that the counts of the Fugger von Glött line of counts had great influence in the Kingdom of Bavaria as "hereditary imperial councils". Finally, it was decided to take the route from Mindelheim via Pfaffenhausen.
Construction of the railway did not begin until December 1907, although the permit had already been received in 1904. In the spring of 1909, construction work was finished. On Easter Sunday of this year, rail operations were provisionally started. On July 15, 1909, the festive opening of the company took place.
At the end of 1910, after a year of construction, the railway line from Pfaffenhausen to Krumbach was completed and inaugurated. Together with the section between Günzburg and Krumbach, which was completed in 1892, there was now a continuous line between Günzburg and Mindelheim - what is now known as the Mittelschwabenbahn, it connects the main lines Augsburg-Ulm and Buchloe-Memmingen.
The railway line, which was frequented by passengers in the first few years of operation and on which goods traffic also took place, could be traveled at a maximum speed of 50 km / h. During and shortly after each of the two world wars, regular train services to Kirchheim were suspended, in the First World War from 1917/18 to 1920, in the Second World War between 1945 and 1946.
From 1953 the abandonment of the 6.88 km long branch line between Pfaffenhausen and Kirchheim slowly began. Between 1953 and 1959, passenger traffic only consisted of the freight trains being provided with a passenger car for school traffic.
Today, State Road 2037 , which connects Pfaffenhausen with Kirchheim and was built around ten years after the track was dismantled, runs along a long section of the former railway line. In the Pfaffenhausen area, the road deviates from the former railway line. In Kirchheim, the street names Bahnhofstraße and Am Bahnhof are still reminiscent of the community's earlier railway connection.
See also
literature
- Siegfried Baum: Swabian Railway . The traffic history of the local railways in Central Swabia. Verlag Wolfgang Zimmer, Eppstein im Taunus 1969.
- The railroad has been rolling through the Mindeltal for 100 years . In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . June 16, 2009 ( online [accessed October 13, 2011] article on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the railway line).
Web links
- Reiner Schruft: Pfaffenhausen - Kirchheim (Schwab). In: Forgotten paths . Accessed on October 13, 2011 (state of the route in November 2008).
- Course book 1944. Retrieved October 13, 2011 .
- Contemporary description of the railway line from 1909. Retrieved October 13, 2011 .
