Seelenwald railway keeper's house

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Seelenwald railway keeper's house
Passing the Black Forest Express
Passing 58 311 with a special train

The Seelenwald Bahnwärterhaus (also: Wärterposten 61 / WP 61 ) is a building in Triberg in the Black Forest and part of the Badische Schwarzwaldbahn cultural monument .

Geographical location

The building is located in the district of the district Gremmelsbach of Triberg at kilometer 60.1 of the two-pronged Baden Black Forest Railway. It stands in a secluded location immediately southwest of the railway line , about 50 meters above Gremmelsbach in the forest and about 500 meters from the town center between the Seelenwald Tunnel III and the Gremmelsbach Tunnel . On the road side, it can only be reached via forest paths.

history

The railway guard's house is the residential building of the former WP 61 guard post. It was built around 1870 together with the railway line. Its railroad use ceased to exist during the 1970s and it fell into disrepair. Exempted from railway operation purposes , it was sold to a private interested party, renovated in terms of monument preservation and has been rented as a holiday accommodation since 2014. It is one of the few preserved of what were once numerous railway keeper's houses along the Black Forest Railway.

The neighboring former signal box

Opposite the guard post, on the other side of the railway line , was the mechanical signal box of the Seelenwald block , from which four points and the barriers of a level crossing were operated in addition to the block signals . The last service building there was from 1921. The signal box and level crossing are no longer there.

The turnouts have been remote-controlled from Triberg since 1983. They are part of the Triberg Seelenwald transfer point .

The building

Building description

A half-timbered building with 1.5 storeys sits on a basement. The building stands on a slope and is covered by a half-hip roof. It is a type of construction that was often to be found along the route. Due to the hillside location, the ground floor level, made of quarry stone, is a cellar at the rear. The bathroom and basement are now on this level. Historically, utility rooms and a stable for keeping small animals were housed here. Towards the railway line, a component has been pulled forward in the middle, which enables a view up and down onto the tracks on the upper floor.

The outer walls of the upper floor, the residential floor, are clad with shingles , the roof gables are boarded up. This upper floor is the living level in which the kitchen is also located: living room, bedroom, room (parlor), kitchen and toilet. Another bedroom is in the attic next to the attic. The floor plans are still original.

There are two chimneys for the front and back of the house. In the living room there is a historical green tiled stove which, like the wood stove in the kitchen, is heated with wood. The windows throughout the house have wooden shutters.

A guest room has now been set up in the attic, originally a farm and feed storage area.

Monument protection

The railway keeper's house is part of the totality of the cultural monument "Badische Schwarzwaldbahn". The entire length of the “Badische Schwarzwaldbahn” is a cultural monument according to Section 2, Paragraph 1 of the Act for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany , p. 102f.
  2. ^ The railway keeper's house in the soul forest (web links).
  3. ↑ floor plan . At ferien-im-baudenkmal.de
  4. ↑ Cremer, p. 185; Information from the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg v. September 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 32.5 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 9.1 ″  E