Straubing – Miltach railway line

Straubing – Miltach
Route number :	5812
Course book section (DB) :	932 (old: 423h, 424d, 875, 902)
Route length:	49.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Minimum radius :	185 m
Legend from Regensburg Hbf 0.0 Straubing 331 m to Passau 1.4 Straubing East Recycling center Straubing 4.9 Ittling 322 m to the port of Straubing 7.9 sand 315 m Danube bridge arch , ⊙ 9.7 Bow (formerly Bf) 320 m 10.8 Arch east ⊙ 12.4 Bärndorf 16.1 Hunderdorf 339 m 19.7 Stone castle 340 m 22.9 Wiespoint 418 m 24.3 Menach Bridge 24.8 Mitterfels 410 m Bridge ⊙ 27.9 Haselbach 410 m 31.3 Haibach 418 m 34.2 Konzell South 446 m 37.8 Konzell-stripau 520 m 40.2 Rattenberg 44.2 Altrandsberg 415 m 46.5 Untervierau 386 m Rain bridge from Bad Kötzting 49.1 Miltach 383 m to Cham

The Straubing – Miltach railway is a branch line in Bavaria . It runs from Straubing in Lower Bavaria via Bogen to Miltach in the Upper Palatinate . Only the short section from Straubing to Bogen is still in operation, the further section to Miltach has been closed. Passenger traffic is carried out by the Gäubodenbahn .

Track construction to Konzell

On January 20, 1884, the city of Straubing applied to the government in Munich to build a local railway to Viechtach in the Bavarian Forest , and when this was rejected, a through railway to Cham. This effort was rejected with reference to the already built forest railway and only the construction of a branch line was promised.

The decision was made for the Konzell, which had only 200 inhabitants at the time, as the terminus. On May 26, 1892, the railway construction was legally approved. According to the Local Railway Act, those interested had to raise 195,000 marks for the purchase of the land. After lengthy discussions, the city of Straubing took responsibility for this. The route measured 32.7 km with a straight line Straubing - Konzell of 21.3 km.

On December 9, 1895, the first section from Straubing to Bogen was officially opened. With firecrackers and military music from the 11th Infantry Regiment, the decorated train that had left Straubing at 12 o'clock drove into Bogen station. At four o'clock he set off for the return trip. The next section from Bogen to Steinburg followed on May 16, 1896 and finally from Steinburg to Konzell on December 5, 1896. Passenger traffic in 1897 with 186,556 passengers exceeded expectations considerably, as numerous students took the train to Straubing to school. Freight traffic soon exceeded 20,000 tons, to which a large brickworks in Bärndorf played its part.

Further construction to Miltach

Straubing immediately asked for the building to be continued in Miltach. After some discussions about the route, the law of June 30, 1900 decided to extend the Konzell - Miltach route. To translate the Konzell ridge and the Klinglbach, 210,000 m³ of earth had to be moved so that the Klinglbach and the rain could be crossed with a bridge immediately before Miltach.

In the profitability calculations, Konzell, the former terminus, already had 1,000 inhabitants. Once again, Straubing took over the liability for the total expenditure that was necessary for the purchase of the property, Kötzting contributed 10,000 marks and Mitterfels 3,000 marks.

On June 1, 1905, the remainder of the Straubing - Miltach line was opened and the connection to the Cham - Kötzting branch line opened in 1892 was created. This gave the Upper Bavarian Forest a continuous north-south railway connection between Straubing and Cham. The station received 6 tracks.

In 1919 a one-story station building was built in Miltach, with natural stone masonry, large windows, door openings with arcade arches and a tiled hipped roof.

Shutdown

Since the 50th anniversary of the route in 1945 could not be celebrated, a 60th anniversary celebration was celebrated in 1955, at which the children received free tickets. In the mid-1960s, the fight against the closure of the line began, on which locomotives of the 70 ° series could be seen until the 1950s . Later, Uerdinger rail buses and V100s in front of three-axle conversion wagons provided passenger transport. In 1969 a takeover by Regentalbahn AG was unsuccessful .

former station building in Konzell-Süd

Bridge over the disused railway line at Mitterfels

On February 27, 1973, the Nolte-Möbel KG company in Hunderdorf celebrated the loading of the 5,000. Large containers. In September 1978, the Bischof und Klein company received the 5,000th DB wagon on its siding in Konzell.

Despite all efforts to the contrary, the board of directors of the DB decided on May 26, 1983 to stop the passenger train service between Steinburg and Miltach. It was noted that the number of trains on this section had decreased from 16 in 1978 to only four, while the number of passengers had dropped from 165 to 23 per day. In the end only one pair of rail buses was running.

Bogen station

The closure took place in several stages and began on September 27, 1984 with the end of passenger traffic between Steinburg and Miltach. On December 1, 1986, the entire traffic between Bogen-Ost and Konzell followed, so that the route was divided into two parts. From May 27, 1994, the passenger traffic from Straubing ended in Bogen, which meant the closure of the Bogen - Bogen Ost route. In the last years of operation, the Regentalbahn handled the Konzell - Miltach freight traffic until it was discontinued on October 31, 1995. The remaining part of Straubing - Bogen is operationally linked to the Gäubodenbahn in passenger traffic .

Railway bridge arch

Danube bridge at Bogen

The Danube bridge at Bogen with its flood bridges reaches a length of 547 m. It is used by the Gäubodenbahn. Due to structural defects on the bridge, vehicles requiring route class D4 suffer a theoretical loss of travel time of 12.5 minutes. However, this does not have the full effect on the light locomotives of the 628 series.

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Bike path on the former route and remains of the railway

In 1988 the Bogen Ost – Konzell cycle path was opened, and in 1997 the Konzell – Miltach cycle path. 37 km of the now 39 km long Bogen – Miltach cycle path run along the former railway line. Three larger structures still preserved shaped the face of the railway line.

Shortly before Mitterfels, a 90 m long steel bridge leads at a height of 23 m over the Menachtal (Perlbachtal). The cycle path laid out on the railway line leads over the bridge to the Mitterfels station, which has also been preserved. In Miltach, the train crossed the rain on a steel bridge resting on four pillars , also part of the cycle path.

In Konzell Süd, the station building , goods handling and locomotive shed have been preserved.

Future prospects

According to the concept of the Bavarian State Government for more electric mobility on the rails in Bavaria, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann proposed the route from a Bavarian perspective as a pilot project for operation with overhead line / diesel hybrid vehicles.

literature

• Walther Zeitler: Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Weiden 1985, ISBN 3-924350-01-9 .
• Franz Tosch, Franz; Brembeck, Josef: You didn't live to see his 100th birthday. The Bogen - Miltach section of the Straubing – Cham railway line. In: Mitterfelser Magazin. No. 2. Working group Heimatgeschichte Mitterfels eV, July 1996, pp. 48–60 , accessed on May 17, 2014 . 

Web links

Commons : Miltach-Straubing railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pictures of course books and train stations
• Gall, Sigurd: Wiespoint stop. Memories of a "train station" of a special kind. In: Mitterfelser Magazin. No. 2. Working group Heimatgeschichte Mitterfels eV, July 1996, pp. 63–65 , accessed on May 17, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Franz Tosch, Franz; Brembeck, Josef: You didn't live to see his 100th birthday. In: Mitterfelser Magazin. No. 2. Working group Heimatgeschichte Mitterfels eV, July 1996, pp. 48–60 , accessed on May 17, 2014 .  
2. ↑ Height according to the contour line image on: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ) see map section Haselbach
3. ↑ Height according to the contour diagram on: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ) see map section Haibach
4. ↑ DB Netze, Infrastructure Status and Development Report 2012, p. 272 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ More electromobility on the rails. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration, January 23, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2019 . 

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