Stolberg – Münsterbusch railway line
The railway line Stolberg (Rhineland) Hauptbahnhof – Münsterbusch was a 3.8 km long railway line primarily for freight train traffic in the area of the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the city region of Aachen . Their route number was 2574. She was from 1887 to 1980. Its distinguishing feature was the railhead Münsterbusch upstream hairpin , which are traversed because of the height difference had. The station was initially in the area of the municipality of Büsbach , after the incorporation in 1935 in the urban area of Stolberg.
history
In the 1830s who took over Belgian Industrial James Cockerill , the coal mine James at Münsterbusch in Inderevier and dropped a stone road from Aachen on Eilendorf after Münsterbusch build. His brother John Cockerill was there on the same time Munster Kohlberg the zinc smelter Heinrichshütte build. Plans to connect the Stolberg industry to the railway network in the 1840s and the following decades were disappointed. Finally, Prussia approved the construction and operation of the line from Stolberg (Rh.) To Münsterbusch with a railway law of April 19, 1886 . It was built in 1887 by the Royal Directorate of the Rhenish Railway Company as a branch of the Stolberg Valley Railway at the height of the Stolberger Spiegelmanufaktur . After the first train ran on June 20, 1887, the line was officially opened on July 1, 1887.
The route began in the Stolberger Bahnhof at the connection of the Vennbahn and after crossing the Inde led over a hairpin bend to the Münsterbuscher Bahnhof because of the gradient. Several tracks were available for the loading and storage of goods, and there had been a simple, single-storey station building since 1888. On the route there were siding for the Aachen share spinning mill (ASA) in the Hamm as well as for the Heinrichshütte gas production plant and the former Zincoli plant in Münsterbusch.
Passenger traffic was stopped in 1945.
On March 14, 1961, the second track on the Stolberger Talbahn was shut down by the Federal Railroad and then dismantled. In the course of this measure, the Münsterbusch route was changed in such a way that it led directly to the Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf when coming from Münsterbusch.
On September 1, 1980, the route was officially closed and the route was then converted into a hiking trail. The station facilities were completely removed.
literature
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Rhineland. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-396-9 .
Web links
- Route Stolberg (Rheinl.) Hbf - Münsterbusch - photographic review with 147 photos
- Trains to the Zinkhütte Münsterbusch - the freight train route from Stolberg (Rheinl.) To Münsterbusch in the 1970s
- Railroad cycling in North Rhine-Westphalia NW 1.07a Stolberg: branch line to Münsterbusch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Route numbers in the Aachen region
- ↑ Stolberg Hbf - Münsterbusch on: eisenbahn-stolberg.de
- ↑ Preuss. Collection of Laws of 1886, No. 13, p. 125.