Zenngrundbahn

Siegelsdorf – Market Erlbach
Route number :	5913
Course book section (DB) :	807
Route length:	17.690 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend from Nürnberg Hbf 0.000 Siegeldorf 306 m to Würzburg Hbf 2.210 Raindorf 3.800 Göckershof (until 1925) 5.564 Langenzenn Zenn 6.759 Hardhof Bundesstrasse 8 9.180 Foliage village 10.200 Heinersdorf (until 1925) 11,520 Wilhermsdorf 12.300 Wilhermsdorf Mitte (since 1998) 12.700 Dippoldsberg (until 1925) 14,529 Adelsdorf 334 m 16.103 Eschenbach (near Erlbach Market) 356 m 17.690 Erlbach market 383 m Swell:

The Zenngrundbahn , named after the river Zenn dominated landscape is a branch line in the regional transport system Nuremberg , in Siegelsdorf by the Nuremberg-Würzburg railway branches off and after Erlbach leads. It is not electrified and has a single track; the only possible crossing is at Wilhermsdorf station . The trains run to and from Fürth Hauptbahnhof or Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof . The Zenngrundbahn was the first Vizinalbahn in Bavaria and was of particular importance for the town of Langenzenn because of the brickworks there.

history

After the founding of a railway committee on April 1, 1867, the city of Langenzenn made a first request to the Royal Ministry of Commerce on April 15, followed by a request to the “Most Serene and Most Powerful King” on May 14. With the enactment of the Donation Act on April 29, 1869, the license to build and operate the Vizinalbahn Siegelsdorf – Langenzenn was granted. Construction work began in November 1870, the technical inspection in May 1872, the section to Langenzenn was opened on May 24, 1872.

Wilhermsdorf station (2007)

The building permit for the extension to Wilhermsdorf was granted on May 26, 1892, and the line opened on September 9, 1895. The construction of the further extension to Markt Erlbach was approved on June 30, 1900. Construction work began in January 1902 and the technical acceptance could take place on November 29, 1902. The line was opened on December 5, 1902.

For the 1987 winter timetable, the Zenngrundbahn was fully integrated into the collective tariff of the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association and has been using route number R12 ever since .

In connection with the regionalization of local rail transport, the Bayerntakt was introduced on the Zenngrundbahn. That meant an expansion of the offer, every hour from Monday to Friday and every two hours on weekends. In September 1997 a new stop was planned at Wilhermsdorfer Schlossplatz and opened in 1998 as Wilhermsdorf Mitte.

Markt Erlbach station (2007)

The operating times of the “ rail bus ” have been reduced to one pair of journeys in the early morning between Markt Erlbach and Siegelsdorf and two pairs of journeys between Fürth and Markt Erlbach in late morning traffic. After cuts in the equalization levies for the transport of severely disabled people (federal government) and schoolchildren (state Bavaria) in 2004, bus services were discontinued. The transport company did not apply for a further extension of the approval for the operation of the bus routes and justified this with the lack of economic profitability after the subsidies were discontinued. The district of Fürth did not provide a substitute offer, not even through collective call taxes from / to the Siegelsdorf train station.

The regional rail services on the route were put out to tender in 2005 by the Bavarian Railway Company as part of the " Nuremberg Diesel Network " for 10 years. The then DB Regio Mittelfranken, later DB Regio Franken , today DB Regio Bayern was awarded the contract in March 2006 and has been using the route since December 14, 2008 under the name "Mittelfrankenbahn" with new class 648 railcars . For the “small timetable change” in summer 2012, eight pairs of trains were extended to Nuremberg on workdays and seven on Sundays. The prerequisite was the completion of the four-track expansion on the Nuremberg - Fürth line.

Web links

Commons : Zenngrundbahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route and operating points on the OpenRailwayMap
• Route description on local traffic Franconia (private)

Individual evidence

1. ^ DB Netz AG: Infrastructure Register. In: geovdbn.deutschebahn.com , accessed on June 3, 2020.
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Mittelfrankenbahn and Bavarian Railway Company will continue to expand services from December 2011. (No longer available online.) In: DB Group Press Release 172/2011. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 31, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )