Donauuferbahn (Vienna)

Vienna Nussdorf – Winterhafenbrücke
Route number (ÖBB) :	124 01
Course book route (ÖBB) :	945
Route length:	12.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	80 km / h
Dual track :	Vienna Brigittenau - Vienna Donaukaibahnhof
Legend Franz-Josefs-Bahn from Gmünd −0.100 Vienna Nussdorf Franz-Josefs-Bahn to Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof Danube Canal (146 m) Suburban line from Vienna Hütteldorf former Northwest Railway Bridge 1,100 to Wien Nordwestbf Vienna Brigittenau (marshalling yard) 1.489 from Wien Nordwestbf Vienna Brigittenau-Süd Floridsdorfer Bridge (Brigittenau-Floridsdorf) Vienna Kaiserplatz (loading point) 2.280 Vienna Handelskai Nordbahn 2.500 Loading track Vienna intermediate bridges Vienna Traisengasse Storage intermediate bridges Handelskai (loading point) from Vienna Praterstern 4,122 Vienna Donauuferbahnhof Intermediate bridges Kommunalbad-Reichsbrücke Vienna Praterkai (loading point) Exhibition street formerly based on the exhibition grounds / municipal warehouse Vienna warehouse (Bahnbetriebsamt) Military swimming school 8,483 Vienna Donaukaibahnhof to Vienna Simmering Stadlauer Ostbahnbrücke Donaukaibahnhof (stop) 9,886 to Freudenau Hafen duty-free zone & lease port 11,431 Terminal Vienna Freudenau Hafen (Winterhafen) Praterspitz 12.800 Winterhafenbrücke ( Danube Canal , until 1945, since 2008) Donauländebahn to Ober Hetzendorf

Vienna, railway facilities, general map (1880)

Vienna, Donauuferbahn in red, overview map (1877/78)

Vienna, local traffic map (1926)

The Donauuferbahn in Vienna is a 12.8 kilometer long railway line that runs on the right bank next to the main stream of the regulated Danube , which was flooded in 1875 . On the island created by the regulation of the Danube ( then 2nd district, since 1900 also 20th district ) it runs parallel to the river for the full length of the island at a short distance.

history

A light rail train at the Communalbad-Reichsbrücke stop, 1900

In the year the regulation came into effect, 1875, a track curve was built from the north station to the Danube bank, in 1876 the northern part of the Danube bank line from Nussdorf (connection to the Franz-Josefs-Bahn ) to the Stadlauer Ostbahnbrücke opened; there was also a connecting track to the Eastern Railway in the direction of Simmering . The southernmost part of the Donauuferbahn was built until 1880, and the Winter Harbor Bridge and thus the connection to the tangential south of Vienna Donauländebahn was created.

The purpose of the construction of the Danube Bank Railway was, after the Danube regulation in the Vienna area on the right bank of the river, along the Handelskai (Stromhafen) and in the Freudenauer Hafen (see Vienna Ports ), to transfer goods to the Danube shipping and to the newly created factories, warehouses, storage areas and freight stations deal with.

The railway took over the delivery of the goods intended for Vienna as well as the onward transport of the freight destined for other parts of the country via:

• the Vienna Stadtbahn (including suburban line ),
• the Franz-Josefs-Bahn ,
• the Donauländebahn to the Ostbahn, the Pottendorfer line and the Südbahn as well

• via the Northern Railway , which is connected to the Southern and Western Railway via today's main line and the Vienna Penzing – Vienna Meidling railway .

On July 9, 1885, the traffic section of the Vienna City Council decided on a petition to be sent to the responsible authorities to activate passenger traffic on the Danube-Ufer-Bahn . Thirteen years later, on June 1, 1898, the Vienna Brigittenau – Prater – warehouse section was opened for passenger traffic. There was modest passenger traffic in connection with the aforementioned Viennese railway lines. The timetable for May 1901 recorded eight trains between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., most of which ran from Wien Westbahnhof via Speising (connecting line) and Klein-Schwechat (Donauländebahn) and stopped at the following passenger stops (listed upstream) on the Donauuferbahn before they reached Heiligenstadt , km 38 , achieved:

• Praterspitz, km 27
• Donauquai train station, km 31
• Military swimming school, km 32
• Exhibition street, km 33
• Communalbad- Reichsbrücke , km 35
• Intermediate bridges , km 36
• Brigittenau - Floridsdorf , km 37

Eight trains also drove in the opposite direction. At that time, passenger trains took 40 minutes for the 11-kilometer route from Praterspitz to Heiligenstadt or back. Passenger traffic existed until the Second World War.

On July 20, 1934, Josef Gerl and Rudolf Anzböck carried out an explosive attack on a signal system on the Danube Bank Railway, with Gerl seriously injuring a gendarme while on the run. On July 24, 1934, he was sentenced to death by a court martial and hanged the same day.

In 1945 the Wehrmacht blew up the winter harbor bridge, which made the connection to the Donauländebahn . After the connection had not been needed for decades, the bridge was rebuilt as part of the expansion program for the Port of Vienna Freudenau and reopened at the end of 2008. The Vienna Freudenau station was also subjected to extensive renovation work.

The Donauuferbahn was electrified. With the Donauländebahn , connecting railway and suburb line (S45 of the Vienna S-Bahn ) connecting clockwise , since the renovation of the Donauländebahn was completed in 2009, it has made it possible to bypass the right bank of the city of Vienna until 1945. Furthermore, since the north-west railway bridge had to give way to a road bridge at the beginning of the 1960s, the Donauuferbahn has been the only access to the freight station Vienna Nordwestbahnhof (intended for relocation) .

The 2.3 kilometer long northernmost part of the railway is now served at frequent intervals by the S45, whose trains, coming from Heiligenstadt, drove on the Danube shore line from 1993 to 1996 to a provisional station at the Floridsdorfer bridge and since then to the newly built station Wien Handelskai , where the connection is made with the underground line U6, which has been crossing at high altitude since then, and the main rapid transit line.

In the early 2000s, the City of Vienna and ÖBB planned to extend the S45 downstream to the Wien Praterkai station (S80) at the Stadlauer Ostbahnbrücke. The extension of the U2 to Stadlau was then preferred to this project by the city administration. In the year the U2 extension went into operation, 2010, the S45 extension was discussed by ÖVP members of parliament by asking Transport Minister Doris Bures .

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  Donauuferbahn at Brigittenau station

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  Donauuferbahn at the Handelskai

literature

• Ludwig Huss: The Danube Bank Railway in Vienna. Lecture given on March 2, 1878 . In: Josef Melan : Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . Volume 30.1878, XXX. Year, ZDB -ID 2534647-7 . Waldheim, Vienna 1878, pp. 113–124, drawings / plans: sheets 22–24. - Full text online (PDF; 5.3 MB) .
• Ludwig Huss: Communications about the Danube-Bank railway line Vienna – Kaiser-Ebersdorf (...) Lecture, given (...) on December 11, 1880 . In: Josef Melan: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . Volume 33.1881, XXXIII. Vintage, ZDB-ID 2534647-7. Self-published, Vienna 1881, p. 1 ff., Drawings / plans: pages 1 ff. ( PDF ; 7.5 MiB).
• Hans Peter Pawlik , Josef Otto Slezak , Otto Wagner (Ill.): Wagner's work for Vienna. Total work of art light rail . International Archives for Locomotive History , Volume 44, ZDB -ID 256348-4 . Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85416-185-9 .
• Austrian Federal Railways, Alfred Horn: ÖBB manual . Austrian Federal Railways, ÖBB-Handbuch, Volume 1993, ZDB -ID 644323-0 . Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7002-0824-3 .

Web links

Commons : Donauuferbahn (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 2: De - Gy . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 74.
2. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Danube bank railway. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 155/1885, July 10, 1885, p. 2 Mitt. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Daily news. (...) Opening of the Danube bank railway for general passenger traffic. In:  Tages-Post , No. 125/1898, June 3, 1898, p. 4, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Question of 9 July 2010 on Parliament's website

Remarks

1. ↑ During the planning and construction of the bridges over the Danube Canal and Winterhafen, the Kaiserebersdorf (-Albern) station was the southern end of the line. See the contributions by Ludwig Huss (1836–1899).