Railway line Schönaicher First – Schönaich
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| Route number (DB) : | 4872 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 318b (1944) , 327d (1950) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 3.02 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Schönaicher First – Schönaich railway line was a 3.02 kilometer long, single-track, standard-gauge branch line in Baden-Württemberg . The branch line branched in Keilbahnhof Schönaicher First - today Böblingen Zimmerschlag - from today operated Schönbuchbahn and led from there to Schönaich .
history
When the Schönbuchbahn opened in 1910, the community of Schönaich , located on the edge of the Schönbuch , was in the shadow of traffic. Although there were already plans for a route through the Aichtal at that time , it should lead via Schönaich and Waldenbuch to Nürtingen on the Plochingen – Tübingen railway line . The section to Waldenbuch had already been approved by the Württemberg state parliament and included in the budget. Also Steinenbronn should be a stop to this as Aichtal railway obtain projected route. The test excavations for this stretch can still be seen in the Roter Berg area in the southeast of Schönaich. However, due to the war , these plans could no longer be realized.
After the war, the Deutsche Reichsbahn finally opened the branch line treated here on May 1, 1922, which improved the traffic situation for Schönaich. The extension was not realized, however, Waldenbuch and Steinenbronn received their own rail connection to the north in 1928 with the Siebenmühlentalbahn .
The railway to Schönaich always remained in the shadow of the Dettenhausen route, so that the Deutsche Bundesbahn gave up passenger transport on October 30, 1954 and rail buses took over operations. With the cessation of freight traffic on July 1, 1959, it was finally shut down. Only the first 644 meters of the branch line were still up in the 2000s as an access road to the siding of the company Schill + Seilacher . This was shortly before the created there hairpin . The rest of the route has been completely dismantled and partly devastated . A shorter section is used as a gravel cycle and pedestrian path. In Schönaich, a 300-meter-long section was built over with a housing estate. The former station area in Schönaich is also completely built on, but the reception building - completely surrounded by new buildings - has been preserved. Furthermore, the street names Bahnhofstraße , Eisenbahnweg and Dammweg are reminiscent of the earlier rail connection to Schönaich.
A Regio-Shuttle of the Schönbuchbahn with a freight wagon on the way from the Zimmererschlag train station to the Schill + Seilacher plant connection, 2005
Switch with the former Schill + Seilacher siding, the railway line in the background, 2018
