Radolfzell – Mengen railway line

Radolfzell quantities
Route number (DB) :	4330
Course book section (DB) :	732, ex 304h
Timetable field :	831 (1996-2006)
Route length:	56.78 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	17  ‰
Minimum radius :	245 m
Dual track :	Radolfzell – Brandbühl West Brandbühl East – Stahringen
Legend from Basel Bad Bf −0.050 Radolfzell 398  m to Constance 1.465 Radolfzell-Haselbrunn 2.700 Haselbrunn (Radolfzell) 4,261 Brandbühl West formerly Rehbösch ( Üst ) 4.759 Brandbühl Tunnel (259 m) 5.241 Brandbühl Ost (Üst) 7.270 Stahringen 440  m to Friedrichshafen 8.000 Infrastructure border DB Netz / District of Constance 10.800 Wahlwies Federal motorway 98 13.820 Nenzingen 17.366 Stockach 481  m 17.690 Canal of the Stockacher Aach 17.850 Infrastructure border district of Constance / Ablachtalbahn 17.860 Stockacher Aach 20.830 Zizenhausen 22.300 Stockacher Aach, Bundesstrasse 313 22.600 Hoppetenzell 23.800 Stockacher Aach, Bundesstrasse 313 24.760 Mühlingen-Zoznegg 27.350 Stockacher Aach 27.652 Schwackenreute 621  m to Altshausen 31.930 Sauldorf 614  m 32.800 Connection Tegometall 34.420 Bichtlingen 35.600 Ablach 37.724 Messkirch 607  m 40.560 Ablach 41.590 Menningen-Leitishofen 41.700 Ablach 44.000 Ablach 44.420 Göggingen (Baden) 45.300 Ablach 47.400 old connection Tegometall 47.500 new connection Tegometall 47.731 Krauchenwies 581  m 48.700 Ablach 49.500 State road 466 to Sigmaringen 51.850 Zielfingen 53.900 Connection of the Dillmann sawmill 55.100 left Ennetacher Ablach 55.930 Infrastructure boundary Ablachtalbahn / DB Netz 56.000 right Ennetacher Ablach from Sigmaringen 56.731 amounts 559  m to Ulm Swell:

The Radolfzell – Mengen railway line (also the Ablachtal Railway or Hegau-Ablachtal Railway ) is a railway connection in Baden-Württemberg . It runs from Radolfzell on Lake Constance via Stahringen and Stockach to Mengen . The section from Radolfzell to Stahringen is classified as a main line , the further line to Mengen as a branch line .

The line was built as part of a long-distance traffic connection from Ulm to Lake Constance and Switzerland . Regular passenger traffic ended between 1954 and 1982. The southern section between Radolfzell and Stockach was reactivated for local rail passenger traffic in 1996 and has been operated under the Seehäsle brand name ever since . The northern section of the route from Stockach to Mengen, however, is only used by freight and special trains . Due to construction defects, parts of this section had to be temporarily closed in 2005 and from 2018 until further notice. The Stockach – Sauldorf section is therefore currently not accessible.

Route name and route

The name "Seehäsle" is based on the product name " Seehas ", under which the S-Bahn- like offer of the former Mittelthurgau Railway (today: SBB GmbH ) in the district of Constance is operated on the route between Constance and Engen . With the Seehas , the trains of the Seehäsle to Stockach in Radolfzell are clocked. In Stahringen , the railway to Friedrichshafen branches off, which in turn is called Seehänsele .

history

prehistory

On September 2, 1859, a transnational assembly of representatives from the region between the Alb, Lake Constance and Black Forest decided to campaign for the construction of a railway line between Ulm , Lake Constance and the Black Forest . Railway committees were established in all cities along the planned route.

They planned to design the new railway line from Ulm via Ehingen , Riedlingen , Mengen, Meßkirch, Stockach, Radolfzell, Singen , Schaffhausen , Waldshut and Säckingen to Basel and saw from Meßkirch a branch via Tuttlingen and Donaueschingen to Freiburg and on over the Rhine and the Vosges as far as Chaumont . Great importance was attached to this route because it represented the shortest connection between Vienna and Paris and was also to become important as the shortest rail route from Berlin via Leipzig , Nuremberg , Ulm, Radolfzell, Schaffhausen, Zurich to Milan .

In 1865 the sovereign states of Baden , Prussia and Württemberg , which were loosely united in the German Confederation , signed trilateral treaties on "transnational" rail projects and to pass through the Prussian province of Hohenzollernsche Land .

These contracts allowed among other projects the construction of zollernalb railway , the railway line Ulm-Sigmaringen and routes Radolfzell sets / Sigmaringen and Schwacke Reute-Altshausen . The connection points of the Baden and Württemberg state railways should be in Sigmaringen, Mengen and Pfullendorf .

The two southern German states paid close attention to the fact that their routes would attract as much “through traffic” as possible. The Kingdom of Württemberg began building the railway from Ulm to Mengen, but the project was delayed on the Baden side.

Construction of the Hegau-Ablachtalbahn

Quantities with train station around 1900

The construction of the Hegau-Ablachtalbahn between 1865 and 1873 by the Badische Staatsbahn was preceded by planning by supraregional committees and the local railway committees.

The Hegau-Ablachtalbahn was built and opened in several sections:

The Radolfzell – Messkirch section was built between 1866 and 1870. The embankment was designed for double-track traffic , as were the stone abutments of the bridges, which can still be seen today on the two large bridges between Mühlingen and Zizenhausen . However, only one track was laid, and so far it has remained. The first to be opened on July 20, 1867, was the Radolfzell – Stahringen – Stockach line. The Stockach – Schwackenreute – Meßkirch route followed on February 3, 1870.

For further construction between Meßkirch and Mengen, the Hohenzollern region that belonged to Prussia had to be crossed. Prussia, which had no railway ambitions of its own in southern Germany, wanted the main towns of its two principalities to be connected to the railway network of neighboring countries. In order to permit the crossing of Hohenzollern in the Krauchenwies area , Prussia stipulated that Baden had to build a branch line from Krauchenwies to Sigmaringen. So the two lines Meßkirch-Mengen and Krauchenwies-Sigmaringen were built in 1873 at Baden state expense. From the Krauchenwies train station, two tracks ran parallel through the Princely Park. The bearings and pillars of the Ablach Bridge in the park are reminiscent of the double-track rail system. Only further away, at the height of today's Krauchenwies lido ( Steidlesee ), does the Krauchenwies – Sigmaringen railway branch off to the north. On September 6, 1873, the route from Meßkirch via Krauchenwies to Mengen was inaugurated together with the route from Krauchenwies to Sigmaringen. Independently of this, Prussia also achieved that the Hohenzollernsche Lande in Hechingen received a connection to the railways of the neighboring countries without first building its own rail network.

There was local resistance because of the construction of the branch line from Meßkirch to Pfullendorf and the branch line from Meßkirch to Tuttlingen , although the latter route had already been marked out. The engineer Robert Gerwig , who had planned the Baden Black Forest Railway and now designed the route from Radolfzell to Meßkirch, relocated the planned junction station in Meßkirch to the "green meadow" near Schwackenreute. The Schwackenreute station was given a large dimension as a crossing station. On August 11, 1873, the Baden State Railways opened the connection to Pfullendorf (western part of the Altshausen – Schwackenreute railway line ) in Schwackenreute . A branch in the Black Forest from Schwackenreute in a westerly direction, bypassing Tuttlingen, to the connection to the Black Forest Railway near Hattingen was also planned. The plan was not carried out, however, instead Württemberg built the Tuttlingen – Inzigkofen railway line .

The route only partially fulfilled its supra-regional function; There were no continuous train connections on the Ulm – Radolfzell line. The pair of express trains deployed on November 1, 1873, which took 100 minutes to travel from Radolfzell via Mengen to Ulm, was discontinued in 1875 due to a lack of profitability and there was hardly any demand. In 1879 the Radolfzell – Mengen railway line was downgraded to a branch line . From then on, the entire route was served by passenger trains that stopped everywhere.

The railway and the Second World War

During the Second World War , the Radolfzell – Mengen railway was important to the war effort. Since the summer of 1944, the air sovereignty of the Allies had also become evident in the south of the country. Low-flying, unmolested by the barely functioning German air defense, attacked military and traffic targets.

On July 24, 1944, a fighter-bomber association between Bichtlingen and Meßkirch shot at a freight train loaded with slaughter cattle, killing a Meßkirch farmer and cattle dealer.

With the progressive loss of air sovereignty, trains could soon no longer run during the day. At the beginning of 1945 a train between Stockach and Schwackenreute came under fire. Two boys at the age of 17 who were sitting in the train on the way home from Überlingen were fatally hit by the machine gun volleys.

On February 22, 1945, a squadron of seven British Mosquito fighter-bombers as part of the Allied Operation Clarion had their sights on the most important train stations along the Singen-Mengen-Ulm line. Singen, Stockach and Mengen were also targeted. In Meßkirch, fighter-bombers attacked the station area and a freight train and a shunting locomotive. In addition to the two locomotives, the water tower, which was then still next to the station building, was hit.

After the attack, high-explosive bombs had badly damaged the entire station area and the tracks; Fragments of the railroad tracks stood upright like garden fences, one bomb crater lined up against the other. Mountains of rubble piled up on the streets, damaged vehicles and wagons, animal carcasses, injured and dead lay everywhere. It had also hit the freight yard very badly. The railway bridge and the Bahnhofstrasse bridge over the Grabenbach, which was still open at the time, were destroyed, the station building was also hit, and half of the residential building for the railway staff opposite was razed to the ground; That house had also had most of the dead.

Between shutdown and maintenance

The line was shut down in stages by the Deutsche Bundesbahn : On December 13, 1954, passenger traffic on the Krauchenwies – Mengen section was stopped, and all traffic on September 1, 1960, followed by the dismantling of this section. The rails were removed from the Krauchenwies train station to the connection to the Dillmann sawmill at Mengen. Passenger traffic on the Meßkirch – Sigmaringen line was discontinued on June 1, 1969. On May 28, 1972, passenger traffic followed on the Stockach – Meßkirch line, and on September 25, 1982, the southern section of the Stockach – Radolfzell line followed.

Krauchenwies train station

From the Krauchenwies train station, there were temporarily two sidings to the Tegometall company, of which only the northern, larger connection is in operation today. This was put into operation in 1982. For this purpose, a 900 meter long track was inserted after Ablacher Strasse at Krauchenwies train station, which leads to the company's plant.

On September 29, 1986, at the instigation of Tegometall, the Krauchenwies – Mengen line was put back into operation for goods traffic after it had been rebuilt with state subsidies. After the construction of two level crossings over the federal road 311 , the state road 456 and the Andelsbach bridge, goods traffic went back into operation here. The route status at that time was " siding of the quantitative train station". On the same day, September 29, 1986, freight traffic on the Messkirch – Krauchenwies line was stopped. The cessation of all traffic took place on March 1, 1987. The route was opened again for freight traffic on May 28, 1989. On the same day, the route status between Meßkirch and Mengen was declared a "branch line".

As a result of the rail reform and the regionalization of rail transport, there was a renaissance in local rail transport in the 1990s, from which the Radolfzell – Mengen railway also benefited. On September 8, 1996, the section between Stockach and Radolfzell, which had been closed for passenger traffic, was reactivated and operated by the Mittelthurgau Railway. The district of Konstanz leased the section between Stahringen and Stockach from Deutsche Bahn and had it completely renovated.

Because of the market-oriented offer Cargo ( MORA C ), a restructuring program of the then DB Cargo AG, the freight transport division of Deutsche Bahn AG , which was announced in 2001, the Schwackenreute – Mengen route was taken over on January 2, 2002 Wagonload traffic through the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn (HzL). Between 2003 and 2005 there was regular gravel traffic between Schwackenreute – Mengen – Balingen – Dotternhausen . The HzL used two-axle vehicle cars for this . The regular freight traffic had shrunk in August 2004 to a daily pair of freight trains.

The three municipalities of Sauldorf , Hohenfels and Mühlingen are continuing their efforts to unite the interests of agriculture, nature conservation and tourism across the district boundaries. In September 2002 it became known that DB Netz AG was tendering the Stockach – Schwackenreute section of the route in accordance with Section 11 AEG to take over the route infrastructure to third parties on November 16, 2002. A working group called "Draisine" with members from the three municipalities tried to hold talks with Deutsche Bahn in November 2002 after the intention to shut down became known. It was planned to use the Stockach – Schwackenreute – Sauldorf – Meßkirch railway line for the self-marketing locations and to present the railway with an alternative usage concept. This stipulated that a draisine route should be put into operation from Stockach to Meßkirch. The legal structure of this draisine operation was also worked out.

On March 26, 2003, the application for shutdown came. The Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) organized special train journeys on the Stockach – Mengen route in September 2003; around 3,000 people took advantage of this offer.

Bridge over the Ablach in the Princely Park Krauchenwies

In April 2004, the communities along the Stockach – Mengen railway line wanted to jointly represent their interests with regard to the continued use of the track connection. It was important to the neighboring communities that the route also served other purposes, especially tourist purposes, in addition to the heavy goods traffic of the Tegometall company, e.g. B. Special trips, museum trains and trolley transport. A private operation by Tego also always includes the option of further goods and passenger transport, because according to railway law, every owner must grant interested users “non-discriminatory access” to the route. The VCD announced in May 2004 that DB Netz AG was negotiating with Tegometall about the sale of the 38-kilometer-long railway line from Mengen to Stockach, at a price of one million euros. A few years earlier, according to Zwick, the railway had demanded 3.5 million marks (1.79 million euros) for the Stockach – Schwackenreute section alone. The company Tegometall is interested in it because of its heavy goods traffic. The VCD wanted to secure the route for public transport through the participation of the public sector and therefore suggested its acquisition by a special purpose association of the affected municipalities and the districts of Sigmaringen and Konstanz. Also in May 2004, Klaus Arnoldi from the VCD state board announced that in order to be able to put the route back into continuous operation, the worst defects in the superstructure would first have to be removed and the level crossings secured. For this, around 450,000 euros would have to be raised for the route rehabilitation. Then the rails and the track structure would have to be made ready for a speed of 80 km / h. The route from Mengen to Stockach was bought in October 2004 by the Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH . The affected districts of Sigmaringen and Konstanz were not prepared to take over or participate. One of the two managing directors of this company based in Constance is Ulrich Bohnacker from the Krauchenwies-based company Tegometall, which has previously used the route. This averted the threat of closure. The Federal Railway Authority continues to act as the supervisory authority . Local public transport such as the operation of special trains is still possible on the route. Since the rails are still available to the public, draisine rides are prohibited. The mayor of Mühlingen, Manfred Jüppner, stated that in the event of a suspension, the company would first have to offer the line to the neighboring municipalities or the districts of Sigmaringen and Konstanz for sale.

The section between Stockach and Schwackenreute was closed in the spring of 2005 due to defects in the superstructure. The Schwackenreute – Switzerland gravel transport carried out by HzL ran through Mengen – Tuttlingen until July 2005. For the same reason, the section from Krauchenwies via Meßkirch to Schwackenreute was closed in July 2005. In September 2005 the Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH announced that the route was currently partially closed for maintenance work. It is still public, but has no approval for passenger traffic. In addition, most of the stations have already been sold to third parties, such as the Stockacher Bahnhof. According to the Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH , a permit according to § 6 AEG is available. However, the permit required for operational management in accordance with Section 7a AEG is still missing, which is why the operational management has not yet been transferred to the new owner or a company commissioned by her. This means that there is only freight traffic from Mengen to Krauchenwies, which HzL operates on behalf of DB Cargo .

In September 2005 the city of Meßkirch notarized the purchase of the inner-city, around 23,000 square meter former train station area of ​​Meßkirch. The city has invested around 400,000 euros with the aim of creating a compact shopping area.

The media reported in November 2008 that there were plans to expand the route to a speed of 140 km / h, until Krauchenwies this speed would already be possible. According to Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH , the intention is to let freight trains run on the route again. Matthias Lieb from the VCD in Stuttgart sees the Hegau-Ablachbahn as a shortening diagonal from Ulm to Radolfzell, which could relieve the congested route via Friedrichshafen. He thinks the track has a perspective. With regard to freight transport, too, he is assuming that trains will run regularly on the railway line again.

In March 2009, the state of Baden-Württemberg declared that it wanted to support the non-federally owned railways in the state financially so that they could repair their infrastructure. The support package also includes the line from Mengen to Krauchenwies to Stockach. The state of Baden-Württemberg is providing five million euros from the economic stimulus package II for the Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH route between Stockach and Mengen. The Ministry of the Interior wants to shift more freight traffic than before from road to rail. Between 2009 and 2010, extensive renovation measures were carried out on the route, level crossings and bridges.

As a railway infrastructure company, Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH provides third-party railway companies with the use of the route for a fee. The railway line can be used by freight and passenger trains. For passenger transport, however, there is continuous traffic between Mengen and Stockach without train stops. From August 2011 the Schwackenreute – Switzerland gravel traffic took place again.

The Stockach – Sauldorf section has been closed to all traffic since at least July 2018 because the embankment lacks the necessary stability.

Efforts to reactivate the Stockach – Mengen line for passenger traffic

NE 81 of the HzL on the Seehäsle

A reactivation of the northern section of the line from Stockach to Mengen for passenger traffic was also considered. The idea to extend the Seehäsle into the district of Sigmaringen and to let it drive to Mengen came from Meßkirch in 1999. In June 2001, the regional association Bodensee-Oberschwaben commissioned an expert opinion in which primarily the regional potential in the area between Stockach and Mengen was examined. However, it was forecast that the number of passengers would be too low for the resumption of train traffic. According to conservative estimates, at least 37 million German marks would have to be invested in order to set up a passenger train service on the route. A number of 64 million marks is more likely. In addition, there would be annual operating costs of around four million marks.

After a special train trip on the Stockach – Mengen section in September 2003, the Verkehrsclub Deutschland -Landesverband Baden-Württemberg decided to found a "Hegau-Ablachtal-Bahn interest group" and called on citizens and public institutions to take the 40-kilometer-long threat of closure Engage railway line. The founding took place in the presence of the federal chairman of the traffic club Germany, Michael Gehrmann, and Klaus Arnoldi from the VCD state executive committee on May 14th 2004 in Mengen. Politicians were not present. In a report on the review of the SMA study, carried out by the Vieregg-Rössler agency with the title Review of the study presented by SMA und Partner AG in June 2001 "Resumption of passenger traffic on the Stockach - Mengen route". In July 2004, the lack of profitability of the route as a regional train was confirmed, but the idea of re-examining the route as part of a supra-regional axis from Munich and Ulm to Basel , for which it had been designed and built in the 19th century, was raised.

The concept of the Bodensee-S-Bahn initiative is also aiming to reactivate the northern section of the route for passenger traffic . At the beginning of 2019, the Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH offered the Stockach – Mengen route to the neighboring communities for sale. Since the country also has the route on a reactivation list, the chances of resuming passenger rail services have increased. The application submitted by the route operator to the Federal Network Agency at the beginning of November 2019 for the approval of significantly reduced train path prices from the 2020/2021 timetable period aims in the same direction .

Operation Radolfzell – Stockach 1996–2006

NE 81 in the HzL depot in Immendingen

Seehäsle master vehicles of the Mittelthurgau Railway were from the reactivation of the SPNV in 1996 on three prototypes of the diesel multiple unit type GTW 2/6 from the Swiss manufacturer Stadler Rail (Bm 596 671-673). From 2005, two additional conversion control cars were used due to the high demand in school traffic.

After the liquidation of the Mittelthurgau Railway (MThB), operations were transferred to the successor company EuroThurbo in 2003 , which in turn was merged with the German SBB subsidiary SBB GmbH in 2005 .

Due to frequent breakdowns of the GTW railcars used, a wide variety of replacement vehicles were used sporadically from 2001 onwards: a railcar garnish (VT 98 + VS 98) of the high forest railway , RegioSprinter the Rurtalbahn GmbH and Regio Shuttles of Hohenzollerischen country Bahn AG (HzL). From October 2005, all three GTW railcars had to be parked: They were replaced by a MAN rail bus set from the HzL and three NE 81s from the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn , which were maintained by the HzL in Immendingen . It was not until August 28, 2006 that two refurbished GTWs were used again.

Since SBB GmbH described these GTW prototypes as "permanently unusable" and demanded money from the Constance district for replacement vehicles, the contract with SBB GmbH was terminated at the end of 2006. The GTW prototypes were sold to the Italian Ferrovie del Sud Est via an intermediary .

Radolfzell – Stockach operation since 2006

HzL Regio Shuttle to Stockach in Radolfzell (2011)

Logo of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn, the current operator of the Seehäsle traffic

HzL prevailed both for operation from 2006 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2023. Until 2008, as an interim three NE 81 ex Bahn Upper Swabia- used, now they were new Regio-Shuttle - railcars replaced (the NE 81 went to the SWEG ). The traffic is handled by the HzL-Verkehrsbetrieb Ringzug in Immendingen , where the railcars are also serviced. During peak hours on weekdays, a half-hour today will cycle between Radolfzell and Stockach offered. Outside of rush hour and on weekends, trains run every hour. In Radolfzell, cheap connections to Konstanz , Singen and z. T. Friedrichshafen exist.

In November 2008, all level crossings at Stahringen and Wahlwies were rebuilt and adapted to current standards.

In 2012, DB Netz AG sold the section between Stahringen and Stockach for around € 275,000 to the previous leaseholder, the district of Konstanz. In contrast to leased routes, state subsidies for route maintenance are possible. The district operates the route through its own EVU "seehäsle" .

Trivia

In November 1983, advertising photos for a US company were made on the Radolfzell - Krauchenwies railway line. For this purpose, the historic Orient Express drove back and forth several times for a day , which attracted many spectators.

Remarks

1. ^ According to another source July 10, 1867
2. ^ According to another source September 26, 1982
3. ↑ According to other information, the Krauchenwies – Mengen railway line, which was closed in 1960 and then dismantled, was reopened on October 1st after the laying of new tracks. At the same time, the Messkirch – Krauchenwies line was finally closed; the tracks should be dismantled. See. Once upon a time. In: Südkurier of October 26, 2011.

literature

• Frank von Meißner: New regional shuttles for Seehäsle. In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , 7/2008.
• Frank von Meißner: News from Seehas & Co. In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , 7/2006.
• Michael Kochems, Frank von Meißner: Regional trains in the southwest. ALBA-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-87094-240-1 .
• Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny: The railway on Lake Constance. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3-88255-758-3 , pp. 24-26.
• Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 146-148 .

Web links

Commons : Hegau-Ablachtal-Bahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Ablachtal-Bahn GmbH
• Website of the HzL
• Considerations for reactivating the entire route up to Mengen on the side of the VCD
• Newspaper article on the 2001-2003 route
• SBB: GTW in action again. SBB GmbH , 2006, archived from the original ; accessed on November 25, 2018 . 
• Stockach - Mengen / Sigmaringen, data and facts on www.vergessene-bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Gregor Moser: Minister of Transport takes a position on the subject of passenger transport on the Ablachtalbahn. In: Südkurier . July 20, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018 : "(Transport Minister Winfried Hermann in a reply to Andrea Bogner-Unden ) The section between Stockach and Sauldorf is currently closed due to the lack of stability of the embankment." 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Alfred Th. Heim: Ablachbahn already planned as a long-distance route during construction. In: Südkurier from August 10, 2004.
5. ^ Karlheinz Fahlbusch (kf): In 100 minutes from the lake to Ulm. In: Südkurier of February 12, 2005.
6. ^ ^{A b} According to Matthias Lieb from the Verkehrsclub Deutschland in Stuttgart in Gregor Moser: Railway: Control technology must be modernized - freight trains should run again. Transitions are more expensive than planned . In: Südkurier of November 12, 2008.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alfred Th. Heim: When the bombs fell. In: Südkurier from February 22, 2005.
8. ↑ Peter Hermann: The city of Pfullendorf was flooded by hamsterers. In: Südkurier of March 3, 2005.
9. ↑ Reiner Schruft: New connection Tegometall Krauchenwies. April 2008, accessed November 25, 2018 . 
10. ↑ HzL takes over DB Cargo freight traffic in the Neckar-Alb / Upper Swabia area. Railfan from July 24, 2001.
11. ^ Cooperation between DB Cargo and NE-Bahnen as part of Mora C. Railfan from November 5, 2001.
12. ^ ^{A b} Peter Hermann: Sale of the railway line perfect. In: Südkurier of October 27, 2004.
13. ↑ ^{a b} eu: All working together. In: Südkurier of November 16, 2002.
14. ↑ Draisine to Meßkirch. In: Südkurier of November 12, 2002.
15. ↑ ^{a b c} Karlheinz Fahlbusch (kf): “We need rails!” In: Südkurier from May 18, 2004.
16. ↑ ^{a b c} Markus Vonberg: Together on the train. In: Südkurier of April 29, 2004.
17. ↑ ^{a b c d} Markus Vonberg: “ Founding a special purpose association”. In: Südkurier from May 6, 2004.
18. ↑ ^{a b} Hegau-Ablachtal-Bahn. Cycling instead of taking a train: tour to Meßkirch. In: Südkurier from September 23, 2005.
19. ↑ Peter Hermann: The route has now been sold. In: Südkurier of October 27, 2004
20. ↑ Manfred Dieterle-Jöchle (dim): Railway premises bought. In: Südkurier from September 20, 2005.
21. ↑ Shopping mile next to the railway line. In: Südkurier, May 16, 2006.
22. ↑ However, due to the lack of signaling technology, the route can only be driven at 40 km / h.
23. ^ Gregor Moser (mos): Railway: Control technology must be modernized - freight trains should run again. Transitions are more expensive than planned. In: Südkurier of November 12, 2008.
24. ↑ Economic stimulus program for the freight lines of the non-federally owned railways in Baden-Württemberg. (No longer available online.) Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg , March 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved in March 2009 : “The funding of the freight transport infrastructures of the non-federal railways in Baden-Württemberg with funds from the federal economic stimulus program II in connection with the state's investment program (...) has a total volume of 20 million euros, spread over the period of three years. (...) A total of 104.4 kilometers are affected by the economic stimulus program on the following routes: (...) Mengen - Krauchenwies - Stockach " 
25. ↑ Economic stimulus program for the freight lines of the non-federally owned railways in Baden-Württemberg. Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn e. V., March 2009, accessed on November 25, 2018 (citing the press release of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior of March 5, 2009, which is no longer available in the original). 
26. ^ Gregor Moser (mos): Mayor Zwick makes no comment. In: Südkurier of May 8, 2010.
27. ↑ Photos of the physical barrier in Sauldorf: "Ablachtalbahn today IV: Meßkirch - Schwackenreute Part 2 Sauldorf 1". Turntable Internet Forums , November 23, 2018, accessed November 25, 2018 . 
28. ↑ ^{a b c} No move between Stockach sets. Yesterday the report was presented - the number of passengers for passenger transport would be too low. In: Südkurier of September 13, 2001.
29. ↑ Missing passengers. Expert opinion: Hardly any demand for Seehas continuation. In: Südkurier of September 14, 2001.
30. ↑ 40 kilometers of rail will have a lobby. VCD press release November 21, 2003
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