Heidelberg – Speyer railway line
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Route number (DB) : | 4103 (Heidelberg – Schwetzingen) 4024 (Schwetzingen – Speyer) |
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Course book section (DB) : | 300a (1963) , 302b (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 27.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum slope : | 6 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minimum radius : | 180 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Heidelberg – Speyer line was a single-track branch line opened in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate in 1873 .
history
The first section was opened on July 17, 1873, from Heidelberg past Eppelheim and Plankstadt to Schwetzingen . From Schwetzingen it was continued on December 10, 1873 over the ship bridge that had existed since 1865 to Speyer . The Heidelberg-Speyer-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was the building contractor and until the nationalization on July 1, 1894, the owner of the line, the operator was the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways . The basis for the construction was a Baden law of February 2, 1870, a Baden concession of April 3, 1872 and a Bavarian-Baden State Treaty of November 23, 1871.
The ship bridge was replaced on January 20, 1938 by a permanent bridge structure. At the same time the Lußhof train station was abandoned.
On March 23, 1945, the bridge was blown up by retreating German armed forces . The railway line was bombed on October 13, 1941, but not so badly damaged that rail traffic was impossible. After the end of the war, the Schwetzingen – Speyer section was closed due to the lack of a bridge over the Rhine. Only the short spur track to the industrial area Hockenheim - Talhaus remained for the transport of goods received.
The Pfaffengrund halt was opened on January 23, 1950.
The tram Heidelberg-Schwetzingen ran passenger friendly right through the villages and established a strong competition for the railway track. Due to the weak demand still remaining part was railway in passenger and freight traffic on 1 February 1967. decommissioned . From 1968 the line was dismantled.
The line was reactivated in sections as a provisional construction site access to the high-speed line Mannheim – Stuttgart , which was built in the 1980s .
Todays situation
As a replacement, the 7007 rail bus ran between Heidelberg and Speyer , which, unlike the railroad, also served Ketsch , Hockenheim , Reilingen and Altlußheim , but no longer Eppelheim and Plankstadt. The line, now number 717, is now operated by the Rhein-Neckar (BRN) bus service . In addition, lines 3 and 4 of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn run from Speyer via Ludwigshafen and Mannheim to Heidelberg, which means that there is still a rail connection between Heidelberg and Speyer, which, however, follows a different route than the original railway line.
A remnant section of the railway line will continue to be used in Speyer as a siding for the Rhine port .
literature
- Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 38-44 .
Web links
verkehrsrelktionen.de:
further evidence:
- Excerpt from the course book from 1914
- Excerpt from the course book from 1944
- Historical photos on the website of the Schwetzinger Zeitung / Hockenheimer daily newspaper
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory 421 K 1: Railway Directorate / Federal Railway Directorate Karlsruhe: Plan roles - structural view. State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Department General State Archive Karlsruhe, accessed on September 1, 2011 .
- ↑ For the designation of the station see: Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Hg.): Official Journal of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of January 8, 1938, No. 2. Announcement No. 26, p. 14, and excerpt from the timetable from 1944 (web links).
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
- ↑ http://www.s197410804.online.de/Zeiten/1933.htm
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of January 8, 1938, No. 2. Announcement No. 26, p. 14.
- ↑ When the railroad was still driving over the ship bridge. In: Schwetzinger Zeitung / morgenweb.de. January 3, 2013, accessed March 19, 2017 .
- ↑ The Imperial Cathedral of Speyer - History - Timeline ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.s197410804.online.de/Zeiten/1945.htm
- ↑ http://www.s197410804.online.de/Zeiten/1965.htm
- ^ Karl Gerhard Baur: The new Mannheim - Stuttgart line in the Rhine Valley . In: Railway courier . No. 5, 1986, ISSN 0170-5288 , pp. 6-14
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 . ; 6221: 187 321 in use at WLC . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2018, p. 120.