Tønder – Højer Sluse railway line
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 Tønder train station
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 Location of the route
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| Route number : | TdrHoj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 13 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway line Tønder – Højer Sluse (German: Tondern – Hoyerschleuse; also Tønder – Højer-Banen or Højerbanen ) was a route north of today's German-Danish border. It was built by the Prussian State Railways and put into operation on June 15, 1892. It was part of the South Jutian Cross Railway , which ran from Sønderborg via Højer to the lock a few hundred meters south-west. The route was mainly important because of the ferry traffic from “Hoyerschleuse” to Sylt .
history
With the completion of the Marschbahn from Altona via Husum and Niebüll, the district town of Tondern had developed into a regional railway junction, having been connected to the Eastern Main Railway in northern Schleswig via a cross-connection to Tingleff since 1868 . From the main train station to the west of the old town in 1887, the line was moved via Mögeltondern and Hoyer to the Hoyerschleuse transshipment port. From there paddle steamers drove to the Sylt port of Munkmarsch , where there was a rail connection by island railway to the main town of Westerland and there in turn to the north-south route of the Sylt island railway . The increasing spa tourism on Sylt made the railway line more and more important up to the First World War, with D-trains running between Hamburg and Hoyerschleuse.
In 1920, North Schleswig became part of Denmark , the route was taken over by the DSB with the route name TdrHoj . Because of the demarcation, visitors to Sylt coming from the south had to cross the new German-Danish border twice. That is why there were considerations on the German side to establish a direct rail connection to Sylt. This was created with the Hindenburgdamm inaugurated in 1927 .
As a result, the Hoyerschleuse ferry port and ultimately the entire railway line lost a large part of their economic basis. The increasing motorization, also as a result of the massive funding of road construction in North Schleswig by the Danish government, caused the volume of traffic on the railway line to decrease further. In addition, the area immediately north of the new border was increasingly sidelined economically.
Passenger traffic on the route was stopped on May 15, 1935. The freight traffic was maintained until the final closure of the line on March 31, 1962. Then the rails were dismantled.
literature
- Flemming Wraae, Steen Thunberg: 70 år med Højerbanen . Flemming Wraae, Højer 1995, ISBN 87-985561-1-8 (Danish)
Web links
- Uwe Brodersen: Sidste tog fra Højer. Dengang.dk, accessed January 3, 2015 (Danish).
- På Sporet af nedlagt bane. Retrieved January 3, 2015 (Danish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two teachers are working on a book project about the railway era in Hoyer. In: thunbergs.dk. 1995, accessed July 22, 2019 .