Simbach – Pocking railway line
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 Pocking train station
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| Route number : | 5727 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 427e (1969) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 28.38 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Simbach – Pocking railway was a branch line in Bavaria . It ran from Simbach am Inn to Pocking in Lower Bavaria .
Preliminary work
Original planning
On April 9, 1894, the Rotthalmünster market together with the communities up to Simbach asked the General Management of the Royal Bavarian State Railways to build a local railway from Simbach am Inn to Rotthalmünster. When this was unsuccessful, a train from Vilshofen to Simbach was requested instead .
This request was made by a delegation in Munich . There they had nothing left for this plan, but they now showed a certain interest in the original wish for a train from Simbach to Rotthalmünster. So on December 3, 1896, another application was made to build this line. On January 30, 1897, the Ministry of the Royal House and the Foreign Ministry granted permission to project a Simbach am Inn – Rotthalmünster local railway . In 1897 state construction intern Ernst Arnold began planning a route that would lead along the Inn to Rotthalmünster.
The intervention of Kößlarn
But now the Kößlarn market stepped on the scene. On December 7, 1897, the Kößlarn Railway Committee applied for a route from Simbach through the Lower Bavarian hill country via Wittibreut to Kößlarn and only from there to Rotthalmünster. Mayor Johann Abtmaier cited the isolation of Kößlarn as the reason that forced them to take a stand against a railway project along the Inn.
The State Railways decided that only one line could be built and the line along the Inn was cheaper than the line proposed by Kößlarn. There was a lengthy tug-of-war about the route. In 1899 Kößlarn sent a list of the goods that would probably have to be transported on the route favored by Kößlarn, and it was calculated that 61,260 tons were transported per year. On May 6, 1899, Chairman of the Council of Ministers Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim , citing the data available to him , rejected this calculation as a huge overestimation. The Kößlarner line had to stand back due to inefficiency, because it was 3.7 kilometers longer and had 153 meters more inclines lost.
Nevertheless, on October 27, 1900, Kößlarn and Wittibreut sent a new petition to Munich to build a railway to Kößlarn. General director Gustav Ebermayer ignored the letter, but let it be known that they would be ready to carry out a Rotthalmünster – Kößlarn project if they would transfer 1,000 marks. The money was immediately transferred from Kößlarn.
Railway construction Simbach – Rotthalmünster – Kößlarn
In April 1901, construction work began in Rotthalmünster. Pastor Franz Xaver Almer immediately complained to the general management that the railway was being built too close to the rectory and the parish grounds. The subsequent correspondence and on-site visits caused a further delay. In 1902 another deputation from Kößlarn was presented in Munich with the request for further construction to Kößlarn.
On May 19, 1903, the decisive hearing took place in Rotthalmünster, at which all those affected were represented, from the district administrator to the representative of each rural community. It turned out that 195,000 marks had to be raised for the purchase of the land, which could be raised to 15,000 marks.
On August 10, 1904, the law on the 23.07 kilometer long Simbach – Tutting – Rotthalmünster local railway came into force. Kößlarn had to continue to fear. It was not until the law of June 26, 1908 that the construction of the 6.23 kilometer remaining stretch to Kößlarn was approved. On October 29, 1910, the railway line from Simbach to Rotthalmünster was opened, and on May 1, 1911, the remaining line to Kößlarn.
Railway construction Tutting – Pocking
The construction of a link to Pocking was now being tackled. As early as June 27, 1901, a railway committee for a local Simbach – Pocking railway had highlighted the need for a continuous connection from Simbach to Passau . Therefore, there was an urgent need to connect the new line to the Passau-Neumarkt-Sankt Veit railway . To travel by train from Simbach to Passau, you had to cover 84 kilometers in five to six hours over Austrian territory. The construction of a route from Tutting to Pocking, it was argued, would reduce the distance to 40 miles and the time required for a trip to three hours. It was also complained that participants on a pilgrimage from Passau to Altötting had to pay a fare of 2,000 marks to the Austrian railways and also had to accept customs visits.
On July 28, 1906, all those interested met in Pocking. An application by the then municipality of Hartkirchen to run the planned route via Hartkirchen was rejected because otherwise it would have been almost 20 kilometers instead of eight kilometers. On November 2, 1912, the Tutting – Pocking route was decided and opened on December 1, 1914 with 8.87 kilometers.
business
The trains ran continuously from Simbach to Pocking and by branch line from Tutting via Rotthalmünster to Kößlarn. In 1921 four pairs of trains ran from Simbach to Pocking, the journey time for the 28.4 kilometers was 105 minutes, which resulted in a cruising speed of 16 km / h. Three pairs of passenger trains drove daily on the Tutting – Kößlarn railway line, covering the 9.8-kilometer route in 38 minutes. In the winter of 1953/54 Uerdinger rail buses appeared on both routes , reducing the travel time to 57 and 22 minutes respectively. At that time, eight pairs of trains ran every day on both routes.
Nevertheless, the company turned out to be less and less profitable. On October 2, 1960, the German Federal Railroad stopped passenger train services between Tutting and Kößlarn. On June 1, 1969, passenger train traffic between Pocking and Simbach and freight train traffic between Simbach and Tutting were shut down. On January 1, 1970, freight traffic between Rotthalmünster and Kößlarn was stopped. In February 1972 work began on dismantling the line.
Only the freight train traffic between Pocking and Rotthalmünster was maintained until the closure of the Tutting – Rotthalmünster section on January 1, 1996. The Bundeswehr transports from the Rottal barracks in Kirchham remained . The siding to the barracks was dismantled early on, and loading was carried out at Tutting station instead, until the barracks were finally closed in 2002. And so the freight traffic from Pocking to Tutting was stopped on December 31, 2001. On April 23, 2003, the Tutting – Pocking railway line was shut down.
In 2007, the former route was exempted from railway operations by the Federal Railway Authority in a procedure under Section 23 of the General Railway Act, thus releasing the last binding under railway law . Today only two bridges and streets that are named after train stations remind of the railway line. A cycle path was built in 2008 on the route of the Tutting – Pocking section. From Tutting to the southeast of Schambach, the federal motorway 94 is being built on the route .
Web links
- Searching for traces of the railway: Documentation with photos
- Pictures of the dismantling of the Tutting – Pocking line
literature
- Walther Zeitler : Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. Weiden 1985, ISBN 3-924350-01-9 .
- Karl Bürger: Munich - Mühldorf - Simbach. Glory, decline and renaissance of a royal Bavarian railway. Moving traffic history with a revolutionary future, self-published, Walpertskirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-05-6474-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Route map of the Munich Railway Directorate , as of March 1952. In: Karl Bürger: Munich - Mühldorf - Simbach. Glory, decline and renaissance of a royal Bavarian railway. An eventful traffic history with a revolutionary future . Self-published, Walpertskirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056474-1 .
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
- ↑ Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail - freight lines 1994 to today. Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , p. 123.