Sprendlingen – Fürfeld railway line

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Sprendlingen – Fürfeld
"Bawettche" railway line
Route number : 3568
Route length: 14.2 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Bingen am Rhein ( Rheinhessenbahn )
Station, station
 0.0 Sprendlingen (Rheinhess.)
   
 to Worms (Rheinhessenbahn)
   
 2.5 Badenheim
   
 5.9 Wöllstein
   
 10.4 Neu-Bamberg -Freilaubersheim
   
 11.5 Frei-Laubersheim
   
 14.2 Fürfeld

In Rheinhessen located railway Sprendlingen-Fürfeld the South German railway company (SEG) - popularly Bawettche called - combined Sprendlingen (at the railway Worms-Bingen City ) with Fürfeld .

history

The railway line was built between May 1887 and October 1898. The first construction phase from Sprendlingen via Badenheim to Wöllstein went into operation on October 11, 1888. Further construction was delayed due to the difficult terrain. Numerous curves were necessary to keep the gradient of the route as low as possible. From October 5, 1898, the trains ran to Fürfeld. A continuation beyond Fürfeld and a connection to the Alsenz Valley Railway was planned, but was not implemented.

In the first decades, two tank locomotives, four passenger cars, two own freight cars and two master trainers' cars were available for operation on the line in Rheinhessen Switzerland .

On the basis of Article 95 of the Weimar Constitution , the law on the State Treaty on the Transfer of State Railways to the Reich of April 30, 1920, transferred railway supervision from the People's State of Hesse to the German Reich on August 1, 1922 , in fact from the Hessian Ministry of Finance to the Railway Directorate Mainz .

The Süddeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft (SEG) handed over the line to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1953 as part of the restructuring of the company, which commissioned the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) with the operational management. From 1959 this was also the owner of the infrastructure.

On March 31 of the same year, passenger traffic was stopped. After that, the rails were only used for freight traffic. At the end of 1958, the Wöllstein – Fürfeld section was closed and the tracks were dismantled. Because of the Wöllstein brick industry, the Sprendlingen – Wöllstein line remained in operation until July 31, 1973. With the construction of the federal highway 61 came the closure of this remaining stretch, since building a bridge seemed too expensive.

Transport geographical importance

The route served to open up the quarries near Frei-Laubersheim and Neu-Bamberg , to transport agricultural products such as beets and wine and the products of the Wöllstein brick industry. Passenger traffic played a subordinate role. The Regional tramway Bad Kreuznach-St. Johann der Kreuznacher trams and suburban railways crossed the railway line near Badenheim from 1912 to 1953, where, as in Sprendlingen, it was possible to change between the two modes of transport.

Structural remains

On the route between Wöllstein and Frei-Laubersheim there is now a cycling and hiking trail. The reception building in Badenheim has been preserved, is now used for residential purposes and has been given a modern extension. The train station is mentioned in the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , but the reception building is obviously not classified as a cultural monument.

Worth knowing

The Alsenz – Obermoschel local railway, which was closed in 1935, also has the popular nickname Bawettche .

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 1: Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-88255-651-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGBl. 1922, p. 773.
  2. ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of August 19, 1922, No. 49. Announcement No. 919, p. 558.
  3. ↑ Cycle Path Frei-Laubersheim – Wöllstein on the private website Bahnrassenradeln
  4. ^ Judith Lembke: At home in the old train station . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 17, 2019, p. 52.
  5. ^ Dieter Krienke: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 18.1: Mainz-Bingen district. Cities of Bingen and Ingelheim, Budenheim community, Gau-Algesheim, Heidesheim, Rhein-Nahe and Sprendlingen-Gensingen municipalities . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2007. ISBN 3-88462-231-5 , p. 641.
  6. ^ City of Obermoschel: Bawettche .

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