Bodenseegürtelbahn

Train on the lakeshore near Überlingen

Bodenseegürtelbahn is currently a name for several adjoining railway lines in southern Germany. These run, mostly parallel to the northern shore of Lake Constance , from Radolfzell to the east via Stahringen and Friedrichshafen to Lindau (Lake Constance) . The term is used in particular in local media, in the course book tables 731 and 751 of the Deutsche Bahn AG as well as in specific reference works, sometimes also in the spelling Bodensee-Gürtelbahn .

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the name Bodenseegürtelbahn was used for railway lines in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, which, through their connection, represented a holistic ring railway or belt railway around Lake Constance .

Subsections

Today's Bodenseegürtelbahn consists of four sections with a different building history and each with its own kilometer .

• Radolfzell – Stahringen, part of the Radolfzell – Mengen railway line (1867)
• Stahringen – Friedrichshafen City (1895–1901)
• Friedrichshafen City – Lindau-Aeschach Abzw (1899)
• Lindau-Aeschach Abzw – Lindau Hbf, part of the Allgäu Railway (1854)

At the time of the state railways, it connected Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria in the south, after the three states had previously built north-south connections towards Lake Constance. In the historical context, at least as a planning idea for a ring-shaped connection, the following routes belong to the Bodenseegürtelbahn:

• Aeschach curve (1878)
• Lindau-Reutin – Wolfurt-Lauterach Nord, part of the Lindau – Bludenz railway in Bavaria and Austria (1872)
• Wolfurt-Lauterach North-St. Margrethen in Austria and Switzerland (1873)
• St. Margarethen – Rorschach, part of the Chur – Rorschach railway in Switzerland (1858)
• Rorschach – Konstanz, part of the lake line in Switzerland and Germany (1869–1871)
• Konstanz – Radolfzell, part of the Hochrheinbahn in Germany (1863)

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon: Bodensee bei Zeno.org .
3. ↑ Württemberg Railways. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 10: Transitional bridges - intermediate station . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1923, p.  436 (Section II. History, No. 4).
4. ↑ Meyer's Large Conversation Encyclopedia: Bodensee bei Zeno.org .