Railway line Saal – Kelheim

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Hall (Danube) - Kelheim
Route number (DB) : 5853
Course book section (DB) : ex 411e (1963), 411n (1944)
Route length: 5.5 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Regensburg
Station, station
 0.0 Hall (Danube)
   
 to Ingolstadt
   
 0.5 In the first place, the Kelheim Fibers pulp factory and canal port
   
 2.6 Kelheim Ost formerly Affecking
   
 4.6 Kelheim
   
 5.5 Kelheim Danube transshipment point and pulp factory PWA

The Saal – Kelheim line was a branch line in Bavaria . It led from Saal an der Donau to Kelheim .

history

Series 614 diesel multiple unit in pop paint at Kelheim station in July 1975

When planning the Danube Valley Railway in Bavaria , which was built between 1869 and 1874, the exact route was initially controversial. The cities of Kelheim and Abensberg both insisted on a direct rail connection. The railway construction law of April 29, 1869, for example, left the exact line layout open. The Kelheim variant would have required the construction of an expensive tunnel parallel to the Danube breakthrough at Weltenburg , which is why Abensberg was ultimately awarded the contract. To compensate for this, a 5.5 km long branch line was built between Saal ad Donau and Kelheim, which was inaugurated on February 15, 1875.

A siding led from the Kelheim terminus to a ship landing stage on the Danube. This was built at the same time as the railway and was listed in the route directories as the Kelheim Danube transshipment point station . There was no rail connection to the canal port on the other bank of the Danube , so that the handling of goods between the railroad and the Ludwig Canal remained insignificant. There was also a loading platform for a quarry on the land, and soon the newly established cellulose factory . In the course of its expansion, the land was given up in 1915.

The stop, which was still listed as Affecking in the station and route directories in 1938, was called Kelheim Ost in the route book 1944 (and also in 1976) .

Factory locomotive of the Kelheim pulp mill 1979

The pulp mill of the Waldhof-Aschaffenburg paper mills operated its premises with its own factory railway and thus ensured brisk freight traffic. At the end of the 1970s, two steam shunting locomotives were still in use here, both of which still exist. Number 1 is now with the steam locomotive community 41 096. Number 2, called "Emma", built by Krauss-Maffei in 1936, reached the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen via the Dollnstein – Rennertshofen museum train .

Passenger traffic was brisk at times. In 1944 eight pairs of trains operated. In 1963, 16 pairs of trains ran on weekdays as 2nd class railcars, four of them continuously to and from Regensburg. From the 1970s until the shutdown in 1988, only three pairs of trains drove the VT 614 at times that were unattractive for work and school traffic.

In 1978 an industrial port was built with the Main-Danube Canal , which ensures brisk freight traffic.

On May 29, 1988, passenger traffic was stopped.

Due to the bankruptcy of the pulp mill in 1993, there was no longer any freight customer at the end of the route. As a result, operations ceased on January 2, 1997 when the rayon factory was connected.

In response to an application dated December 2, 1997, these 5.0 km of the line were officially closed by the Federal Railway Authority on February 28, 1998 . Only the 500 meters from the station hall (Danube) remained as siding for viscose staple fiber factory of the company Kelheim Fibers and the canal port in operation. In 2015, the section from Kelheim Fibers was redesigned and is therefore no longer available for rail traffic.

Current condition

Today there are still remains of track on large parts of the route. The Donaupark commercial and residential area has been created on the site of the pulp factory . In 2002 the police station moved into the reception building of the Kelheim train station . On the remaining piece, the viscose wool factory and the traffic from the lime works in Saal to the canal port continue to ensure brisk freight traffic.

The local public transport is carried out with several bus lines of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Landkreis Kelheim . The Verkehrsclub Deutschland proposed in 2016 that the route be reopened and that S-Bahn- like transport be offered.

literature

  • Klaus-Ulrich Gimbal: The main railways in the Regensburg area , in Regensburger Eisenbahnfreunde RSWE eV (Hrsg.): Eisenbahnknoten Regensburg. 140 years of rail traffic in the cathedral city , 2000, transpress Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-613-71135-4 , page 62
  • Manfred Bräunlein: Ludwig Canal and Railway. Paths and wrong turns between the Main and the Danube. Verlag Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2003, ISBN 3-87707-613-0 , page 83f.
  • Historic branch lines in Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria. History and stories about almost forgotten railway lines in Eastern Bavaria. The book for the MZ series . H. Gietl Verlag Regenstauf and Mittelbayerische Zeitung Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86646-556-5 , page 85ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Bufe: "Eisenbahn in Niederbayern", p. 8, 2nd edition 1986, Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham
  2. ↑ a b Klaus-Ulrich Gimbal: The main railways in the Regensburg area , in Regensburger Eisenbahnfreunde RSWE eV (Ed.): Regensburg railway node 140 years of rail traffic in the cathedral city , 2000, transpress Verlag, Stuttgart
  3. ^ Manfred Bräunlein: Ludwig Canal and Railway. Paths and wrong turns between the Main and the Danube. Verlag Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2003, ISBN 3-87707-613-0 , page 83f.
  4. ↑ website of Damplokgemeinschaft 41096
  5. ↑ Experience the fascination of railways. Guide through the vehicle collection of the Bavarian Railway Museum. Self-published by the Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum Nördlingen, 7th revised edition 2014, page 48.
  6. ↑ For example in the 1976 timetable: Departures from Kelheim to Regensburg on weekdays except Saturdays at 10:20 am, 12:36 pm and 4:36 pm
  7. ↑ a b Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail. Freight routes from 1994 to today . transpress Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , page 122.
  8. ↑ Entry Zellstofffabrik Waldhof, Kelheim plant at www.albert-gieseler.de
  9. ^ Federal Railway Authority : List of disused routes in Bavaria (since January 1, 1994) , accessed on April 2, 2020
  10. ↑ a b By Beate Weigert 13 March 2016 2:11 pm: "S-Bahn" idea meets with a response. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  11. ^ Website of the development company Donaupark
  12. ↑ Kelheim Police Station ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), project report by the Landshut State Building Authority

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 38.4 "  N , 11 ° 52 ′ 23.3"  E