Schiltach – Schramberg railway line

Schiltach – Schramberg
Route number (DB) :	4252
Course book section (DB) :	302f (1958), 304h (1944)
Route length:	8.76 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	1:50 = 20  ‰
Minimum radius :	100 m
Top speed:	20 km / h
Legend from Hausach 0.00 Schiltach to Eutingen im Gäu 0.27 Tiny 0.33 Kirchberg Tunnel (274 m) 0.95 Schiltach city 1.70 Reichenbächle 2.30 Schiltach (summer meadow) 3.10 Flood passage 4.11 Surety court 4.60 Schiltach 5.00 Kienbach 5.40 Kienbächle 6.20 Brook bridge 6.70 Finsterbach 7.50 Schiltach 8.76 Schramberg

The Schiltach – Schramberg railway was a branch line in Baden-Württemberg . It led from Schiltach to Schramberg in the Black Forest .

history

With the plans for the Black Forest Railway , the route over the Schiltach Valley , the so-called Schiltach Line , was also considered. This route would have been significantly cheaper than the summer line that was ultimately implemented , but at that time in the Baden state parliament it was impossible to imagine running a railway across the royal Württemberg region , namely across the area of ​​the city of Schramberg . Ultimately, it is thanks to Robert Gerwig , chief building officer from Baden, that the adventurous mountain railway over the summer line as it is today.

However, the idea of ​​the rail connection never came to a standstill. When the Kinzig Valley Railway was finally built continuously to Freudenstadt in 1886 , a railway connection from Schiltach to Schramberg offered itself . Karl von Leibbrand , honorary citizen of the city of Schramberg and a member of the state parliament in Stuttgart , campaigned vehemently for the construction of a rail link to Schramberg.

In 1885, industry, township, and land negotiated funding. The city offered 12,000 marks, the industry offered 50,000 marks as a subsidy for the railway. The Majolika company provided the building site for the Schramberg terminus free of charge. But the country wanted a sum of 120,000 marks made available in order to achieve a guaranteed annual surplus of 19,000 marks.

The demands of the state were accepted and so it was decided on May 5, 1887 in the Stuttgart state parliament to build the railway line. The construction was carried out from Schramberg and was only financed by the Württemberg state , although most of the route is in Baden territory.

One of the demands made by the Grand Duchy of Baden on the property developer Württemberg was the requirement to build the Kirchberg tunnel. A route along the Kirchberg, past the Schiltacher Vorstadt and along Bachstraße was not approved for topographical and urban planning reasons. By the time the entire route was completed, the originally estimated construction costs increased by 90% to a total of 1.6 million marks.

Construction of the railway began in 1891, and the railway line was inaugurated on October 8, 1892. A “Schiltach Stadt” stop was built on the site of today's green space between “Treffpunkt” and “Friedrich-Grohe-Halle”.

At the beginning of the 1900s there were already plans to extend it to Rottweil. The proposed route should lead from Schramberg via Amtlehen, Kirnbach, Sulgen-Sulgau, Aichhalden and Dunningen to Rottweil. Three tunnels should have been built between Schramberg and Kirnbach. The gradient from Schramberg to Aichhalden should not exceed 4%. However, the project was not pursued any further.

Due to the sometimes very narrow and winding route, the top speed was limited to 20 km / h from the start. Therefore the connection - especially in passenger traffic - was relatively slow and unattractive in the later years; the bus traffic at that time became increasingly competitive. In freight transport, however, there were no losses, which still paid off.

From 1953 Uerdingen rail buses were used for passenger transport. When it was opened, it was the Württemberg class B locomotives that were used, and later, among others, Württemberg Tn .

On November 23, 1959, passenger traffic was discontinued on the railway line, and goods traffic on April 6, 1990 after a dam slide. The official shutdown took place on October 31, 1991. In 1992 the tracks were almost completely removed.

Search for clues

The station bridge in Schiltach with the monument VT 98, at that time still on the bridge

Bridge summer meadow

The following remains of the route are still there today:

• The upper station bridge
• The Kirchberg tunnel
• Bridge summer meadow
• Railroad keeper's house rear fief court

The most spectacular remnant of the route is probably the upper station bridge , which has been maintained by the city of Schiltach and has been the Schiltach railway point since 2014 , where a VT 98.9 rail bus with control and trailer cars is located on the branch of the railway line . A station-like situation with a roof was created. Together with the old signal box and the actual upper station bridge, the whole thing is a small museum. In 2013 the vehicles (798 726, 996 742 and 998 094) were overhauled in Duisburg. The upper station bridge is a rarity as a parallel girder bridge with an underlying roadway and double framework made of metal. In southern Germany this type of construction can only be found here. There are five larger examples of this type, but the bridge here is the only one that has remained unchanged and in the original.

The tunnel has now been partially walled up on both sides to prevent accidents and vandalism. The bridge over the Schiltach on the Sommerwiese has been preserved in the original with the track , but is neglected. The station keeper's house is privately owned, the former train station restaurant is run down and currently unused.

A cycle path runs along the old railway line between Hinterlehengericht and Schramberg .

literature

• Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 233-235 .
• Andreas Morgenstern: New Red Brummer Monument . In: railway magazine . No. 7 . Alba, 2014, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 25-27 .

Web links

Commons : Schiltach – Schramberg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Excerpt from the course book from 1944
• Tunnel portals on the Schiltach – Schramberg route
• Schramberg-Schiltach railway line (with pictures from the operating time and before dismantling)
• Schramberg-Schiltach railway line (with pictures from June 2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.schiltach.de/de/Unser-St%C3%A4dtle/Die-Bahngeschichte
2. ↑ http://www.bbbahn.eu/schramberg.htm
3. ↑ http://www.schiltach.de/de/Unser-St%C3%A4dtle/Die-Bahngeschichte
4. ↑ Text passage from “Paysagesblog”, “Memories of the“ märklinModerne ””, including a picture of the 94 129 on the said route. Accessed on March 15, 2019.
5. ^ Eisenbahn-magazin 1/2014, p. 26
6. ↑ http://www.eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de/lb/inhalt/tunnelportale/4252-kirchberg.html