Vilshofen – Aidenbach railway line
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| Route number : | 5834 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | last 417h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 12.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Vilshofen (Niederbay) –Aidenbach line was a branch line in Bavaria . It was opened on November 21, 1898. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1962, all traffic in 1988. The line was then dismantled.
history
Prehistory and construction
On January 6, 1883, a meeting took place in Aidenbach to discuss the construction of a railway line from Vilshofen via Aidenbach to Pfarrkirchen. They were initiated by the estate inspector of the Aretin estates in Haidenburg, Baron von Hafenbrädl. Under the leadership of Reichsrat Aretin , it was decided to submit a petition to the Royal State Government in Munich. On February 29, 1884, the responsible railway committee dealt with this secondary railway . According to the committee speaker, Baron von Soden, a plan had already been completed in 1869 in which this variant did not play a role. Rather, the Rottalbahn between Neumarkt-St. Veit and Pocking was built in 1879; the Pocking– Passau route was built in 1888.
On May 17, 1885, representatives of the surrounding communities met in Aidenbach to form a committee for the construction of a local railway , which provided a branch line from Vilshofen to Aidenbach. Farmers and traders provided the incentive. They argued that they could conveniently transport their products by rail. Again there was the submission of a resolution to the Royal Ministry of Transport in Munich for the planning of this 12.5 kilometer long route, and financial support was offered. The district, district and private sponsors made 31,000 marks available. In addition, Aidenbach agreed to provide the ground and 100,000 bricks for the construction of the Aidenbach train station and the route free of charge.
On March 16, 1896, after the project planning, the purchase of land and the takeover of land gifts from Aidenbach and Vilshofen for the railway, the profitability calculation and many other planning procedures, the Royal State Railroad Munich approved the construction of the line. With the technical test run by the State Railway Administration on November 12, 1898, the line was tested and opened to the public on November 21, 1898. The total cost of the route including the buildings was 744,086 marks.
business
The trains took around 35 minutes for the 12.5 kilometers. The Taferl freight train stop, with its extensive field railroad facilities, served as a transshipment point for the adjacent granite works and was served daily by freight trains. The cost of the route had paid off in less than ten years. Plans to continue the Aufhausen – Kröhstorf railway as far as Aldersbach , which was completed in 1915 , whereby a rail-bound local transport network and diversion system should be implemented, were not implemented.
Shutdown
The growing individual traffic in the second half of the 20th century led to a sharp decline in the number of travelers. The Deutsche Bundesbahn responded with a thinned offer. From the summer schedule of 1960 onwards, there was only one working pair of trains. On October 12, 1961, the responsible Federal Railway Directorate in Regensburg initiated the procedure to shut down passenger traffic, which the Administrative Council approved on July 18, 1962 and finally the Federal Transport Minister on September 14, 1962. The cessation of passenger traffic was completed on September 30, 1962.
The conditions for freight transport, however, were initially significantly better. Almost exclusively agricultural goods have been transported since the granite transports stopped, but the volume was so great that the German Federal Railroad decided in 1985 to repair the superstructure, which had already been severely degraded. DM 700,000 was invested in the first almost two-kilometer section. However, the construction work on the second section was not carried out when the sugar beet loading community terminated the existing contract with the Federal Railroad. Since the beet transports had now made up over half of the annual transport volume and had now ceased to exist, the closure procedure for all transport was initiated in the spring of 1987. On December 30, 1987, the last delivery train from Aidenbach to Vilshofen drove. On December 31, 1987 the closure of this branch line was completed.
Today around half of the former route has been converted into a footpath and bike path .
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis: The local railway Vilshofen-Aidenbach , Schweinfurt 1993, ISBN 3-928786-05-9
- Siegfried Bufe: Branch lines in the Passauer Land , 1998, ISBN 3-922138-66-7
- Ludwig Maier: Local Railway Vilshofen-Aidenbach , 1998