Villach – Rosenbach railway line

Villach – Rosenbach (–Jesenice)
Route number (ÖBB) :	413 01 Villach Hbf – Villach Süd Gvbf-Auen 222 02 Villach Süd Gvbf-Auen - State border next to Rosenbach– (Jesenice)
Course book route (ÖBB) :	651
Route length:	22.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV, 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	22.7  ‰
Minimum radius :	215 m
Top speed:	90 km / h
Legend Drautalbahn (from Klagenfurt ) Rudolfsbahn (from St. Veit an der Glan ) 164.264 Villach main station 498 m. ü. A. Drautalbahn (to San Candido / Innichen) 164.620 0.000 0.252 Villach Hbf-Draubrücke (from the Drautalbahn) Outside 1,071 379,139 Villach Westbahnhof 381,682 Villach Warmbad 382.733 Villach Süd Gvbf-Auen Rudolfsbahn (to Tarvisio ) 383.139 3.948 Gail 5.083 Villach Süd Gvbf-Ost Rudolfsbahn (from Tarvisio) 5.364 Godersdorf 511  m above sea level A. 7.008 Finkenstein 530  m above sea level A. 10.685 Faak am See 573  m above sea level A. 11.7 Faakersee Strand (abandoned May 30, 1999) 14.807 Ledenitzen West (since September 4, 2017) 16.012 Ledenitzen (until September 3, 2017 PV) 605  m above sea level A. 19.525 Winkl in the Rosental 616  m above sea level A. Rosentalbahn (from Klagenfurt) 22.622 Rosenbach 601  m above sea level A. Rosentalbahn (to Jesenice )

The Villach – Rosenbach railway (as part of the Karawanken Railway leading to Jesenice ) is a single-track, electrified main line in Austria , which was originally planned and built as part of a continuous railway connection between Salzburg and Trieste and opened on September 30, 1906. It runs from Villach to Rosenbach , where there is a connection to Slovenia through the Karawanken tunnel .

basis

In 1901 one of the Government of the construction of the second railway connection with Trieste decided where in the planned Karawankenbahn railway the vane track Villach-Rosenbach (Initial Station Name: bear pit) on the one hand the existing (circuitous) route Villach-Klagenfurt relieve the other hand, the costly embodiment of the track Villach-Tarvis-Aßling should hold back. The relevant law for the manufacture of several railways at state expense came into force on June 8, 1901 and provided the building and investment framework that would last until the end of 1905.

route

The Villach – Rosenbach railway line (originally: Bärengraben) as part of the construction of several railways planned in 1901 at state expense (project: second railway connection with Trieste )

The line is single-track, only the Rosenbach – Jesenice section with the 7,976-meter-long Karawanken tunnel ( Predor Karavanke in Slovenian ) is double-track; but it is to be reduced to a single track. The entire line is electrified with an alternating voltage of 15 kV and a frequency of 16.7 Hz, the Jesenice station is a system transfer station for the Slovenian 3 kV direct voltage system. The union of the eastern Karawankenbahn (part leading through the Rosental) and the western route takes place in Rosenbach. The western route in Austria also runs along the Faaker See . The importance of the route fell sharply after the wars in Yugoslavia and only grew again in recent years. However, it has not yet regained its importance.

Rosenbach: Opening of the Karawankenbahn on September 30, 1906

Rosenbach border station in October 2006

today

The route between Villach and Rosenbach is currently operated as the S-Bahn line S2. An almost continuous hourly bus and train service connects these two cities. Long-distance trains no longer stop in Rosenbach after Slovenia joined the EU . Cross-border regional traffic from Jesenice to Villach takes place at least once a day, and more often in the 2020 summer season, especially Monday to Friday.

The station and the site were extensively renovated in the course of the introduction of the S-Bahn, but also dismantled (many unused sidings removed). There is now a central platform with underground access for passenger traffic. Because the frequency was too low, a lift was not used.

literature

• 60 of the supplements to the shorthand minutes of the House of Representatives. XVII. Session 1901. Government bill. Draft law concerning the production of several railways at state expense and the establishment of a construction and investment program for the state railway administration for the period up to the end of 1905. In:  Stenographic protocols of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat 1861-1918 , year 0017, XVII. Session, pp. 85-309. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Hans Withalm: The Karawankenbahn . Self-published, Klagenfurt 1906, OBV .
• Franz Brosch: Linz-Selzthal-Klagenfurt-Triest. Pyhrnbahn, Karawankenbahn, Wocheiner and Karstbahn . Hendschels Luginsland , Volume 39, ZDB -ID 53393-2 . Hendschel, Frankfurt am Main 1913, OBV .
• Alfred Luft (Red.): The Karawankenbahn . Association of Carinthian Railway Friends - Carinthian Museum Railways, Klagenfurt 1977, OBV .
• Elmar Oberegger : 100 years of the Transalpina. Pyhrnbahn, Karawankenbahn, Wocheinerbahn, Karstbahn (1906/2006) and Tauernbahn (1909/2009) . Publications of the Information Office for Austrian Railway History, Volume 2009,7, ZDB -ID 2278238-2 . Information office for Austrian railway history, Sattledt 2009, OBV .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 16. Bärengraben line (Villach – Aßling). In:  Stenographic minutes of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat 1861–1918. (…) Technical-commercial report on the second railway connection with Trieste , year 0017, XVII. Session, p. 17. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ RGBl. 1901/63. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1901, pp. 201–207. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ The opening of the Karawanken Railway. In:  Wiener Zeitung , supplement Wiener Abendpost , No. 225/1906, October 1, 1906, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .