Railway line Salzburg – Hangender Stein

Salzburg – hanging stone
Course book range :	450 b (1944)
Route length:	13.6 + 1.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	800 volts  =
Dual track :	Salzburg local train station - Fünfhaus
Legend from Lamprechtshausen Salzkammergut local train from Bad Ischl 0.0 Salzburg local train station 420 m 0.2 Kiesel (from 1941) Rosenheim – Salzburg railway line 0.5 Five house 420 m Tram Salzburg (from 1909) 1.1 Kurhaus 419 m 1.5 Bazaar 423 m Salzburg tram (until 1908) Tram Salzburg (from 1909) 1.9 Inner stone (until 1904) 2.0 Mozart Bridge (from 1904) 420 m 2.3 Outer stone 423 m 2.6 Bürgelstein (from 1909) 3.0 Franz Josef Bad (1930 to 1943) 3.1 Aignerstrasse 3.8 Weichselbaumerhof (from 1943) 4.1 Parsch local railway Karolinenbrücke over the Salzach Salzburg tram (until 1908) 2.8 Inner Nonntal (until 1899) 3.0 Nonntal (from 1899) 421 m 3.5 Leopoldskron 3.6 Outer Nonntal (from 1887) 421 m 4.4 Municipal cemetery 423 m 4.9 Small main 423 m 6.0 Morning 430 m 6.6 Wasteland (1907 to 1909) 7.1 Hellbrunn 436 m 8.9 Anif 440 m 10.8 Grödig 447 m 11.5 Buchbichl (from 1949) 12.3 St. Leonhard -Gartenau 453 m 12.8 St. Leonhard-Drachenloch (from 1892) 13.2 Drachenloch (until 1892) 13.6 Hanging stone 461 m to Berchtesgaden

The Salzburg – Hangender Stein railway line , usually known as the local line or, colloquially, the Rote Elektro , was a 13.6-kilometer branch line in Austria . The standard gauge and electrified line led from the Salzburg local train station to Grödig . There, at the Hangender Stein station, there was a connection to the Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein railway , with which the route described here was closely linked. In the center of Salzburg, on the other hand, there was a close connection with the former Salzburg tram , between the local train station and Fünfhaus both modes of transport shared the route, which was expanded to two tracks in 1909. Another link was with the adjoining railway line Salzburg Lamprechtshausen that exists to this day and demarcating the treated here south line or Südlokalbahn to Hang Enderstein mostly as Northern Line or North local railway was called.

The transport company responsible for the Salzburg – Hangender Stein railway line was the Salzburg Railway and Tramway Company (SETG). After the SETG was liquidated in 1948, the Salzburg municipal transport company was responsible for the route, which in turn was absorbed by the Salzburg municipal utilities in 1950 .

history

surviving Gartenau steam tram locomotive , exhibited in the Chomutov depot of the National Technical Museum in Prague

In the years 1884 and 1885, the director of the Linz tramway company Alexander Werner and the civil engineer Franz Kreuter tried to get permission to build and operate a railway from the then Salzburg state train station towards the Bavarian state border. On April 21, 1885, Werner finally received the concession for a local railway. Construction work began in June 1886, and the line , which was initially operated as a steam tram , was opened in three sections:

• August 10, 1886: Salzburg main train station - center - outer stone
• August 29, 1886: Outer Stone - Hellbrunn
• November 20, 1886: Hellbrunn – Drachenloch

A Red Electric car in Parsch (1909)

As far as Nonntal, the local railway was laid out like a tram; only later on was its own railway body available. On August 31, 1892, the route was shortened by around 400 meters when the new terminus at St. Leonhard-Drachenloch replaced the old terminus at Drachenloch.

On May 1, 1893, the 1.8 kilometer long branch line between Äußerer Stein and Salzburg- Parsch train station finally went into operation, thus establishing a connection to the valley station of the Gaisbergbahn and the Salzburg-Tiroler Bahn . It made it possible for freight trains to bypass the city center, and from then on the goods could be handed over to the state railway in Parsch. In addition to the steam trams, horse-drawn trams traveled to Parsch in 1893 and between 1895 and 1902 . The local railway was also strengthened between 1887 and 1908 on the local train station – Bazar section with additional horse-drawn carriages. The later electric tram, however, only used the local railway line between the local train station and Fünfhaus.

On October 1, 1907, the extension between St. Leonhard-Drachenloch and Hangender Stein went into operation. The Hangender Stein border station was operated jointly with the Royal Bavarian State Railways, which also extended the route from Berchtesgaden there on October 1, 1907. Shortly afterwards, on July 1, 1909, electrical operations were started between Salzburg and Hangender Stein, after the Bavarian route there had been electrified since January 15, 1908. The power system chosen in the Austrian section was 800 volts direct current , which was a common voltage for trams at the time. In contrast, the Bavarian section was electrified with 1000 volts direct current. This difference arose from the route: the Bavarian section was consistently carried out on its own railway track, while the Austrian section was mostly on public roads. The steam locomotives were still in use in freight transport until 1919.

There was a continuous joint line from Salzburg to Berchtesgaden, on which green painted vehicles of the Royal Bavarian State Railways ran to Salzburg and red painted cars of the SETG to Berchtesgaden. The vehicles were structurally identical, there were also uniform tariffs and cross-border personnel deployment.

After the St. Leonhard – Hangender Stein section had already been closed on October 2, 1938, together with the adjacent Bavarian section, the remaining operations were also shut down on October 31, 1953 . The reason for this was the increasing individual traffic and the associated road expansion.

Web links

• Local railway Salzburg – Hangender Stein on www.regionale-schienen.at
• 120 years of railway history in the Berchtesgadener Land at www.regionale-schienen.at (PDF; 1.7 MB)
• Salzburg Local Railway . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
• Gunter Mackinger: 120 years of railway history in the Berchtesgadener Land - traditionally “closely connected” to Salzburg. In: Berchtesgadener Land Bahn 09/2010 ( presentation, pdf , regional-schienen.at).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Wegenstein: Multi-track railway lines in Austria, 5th part. In: Eisenbahnverkehr aktuell, September 1991, p. 5
2. ^ Concessions document of April 21, 1885, for the Locomotiv-Eisenbahn from Salzburg to the Austrian-Bavarian border in the direction of Berchtesgaden . In: Reichsgesetzblatt . Born in 1885. Vienna April 21, 1885, p. 179 ( onb.ac.at ).
3. ^ Announcement of the Ministry of Railways of July 19, 1908, regarding the amendment of the provisions in § 11 of the very highest concession document of April 21, 1885, RG Bl. No. 70, for the locomotive railway from Salzburg to the Austrian-Bavarian border in the direction towards Berchtesgaden . In: Reichsgesetzblatt . Born in 1908. Vienna August 8, 1908, p. 571 ( onb.ac.at ).
4. ↑ Execution instruction of the State Office for Transport of March 15, 1920, regarding the amendment of the provisions in the third and fourth paragraph of § 6 of the Very Highest Concession Deed of April 21, 1885, RG Bl. No. 70, for the locomotive railway from Salzburg to the Austrian-Bavarian Imperial border in the direction of Berchtesgaden . In: State Law Gazette for the Republic of Austria . Born in 1920. Vienna March 15, 1920, p. 208 ( onb.ac.at ).
5. ^ Concessions document of October 15, 1892, for the local train (steam tramway) from Salzburg to Parsch . In: Reichsgesetzblatt . Born in 1892. Vienna, November 18, 1892, p. 863 ( onb.ac.at ).
6. ↑ The Gaisbergbahn at www.schmalspur-europa.at
7. ↑ Salzburg-Berchtesgaden electric train . In: Walter Reichel (ed.): Electric power companies and railways . Volume VI, Issue 6. R. Oldenbourg, February 24, 1908, p. 111 f . ( archive.org ).
8. ^ Electric railways in Berchtesgadener Land . In: Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering . Volume XXVI, Issue 40. Vienna October 4, 1908, p. 863 ( onb.ac.at ).