Gaubahn
| Ochsenfurt – Weikersheim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 5204 (Ochsenfurt - former infrastructure border ) 4955 (Weikersheim - former infrastructure border) |
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| Course book section (DB) : | 415c | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 36.552 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 18 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Gaubahn was a single-track, non-electrified railway line in Franconia , between Main Franconia and Tauber Franconia , the largest part of which was in Bavaria and only a smaller part in Baden-Württemberg . It led from Ochsenfurt am Main via Bieberehren to Weikersheim .
history
The 36.552 km long branch line was opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways (K.Bay.Sts.B.) on April 30, 1907, initially to Röttingen . On the basis of state treaties between the countries involved, it was extended on November 17, 1909 to Weikersheim on the Crailsheim – Königshofen line , with the Royal Württemberg State Railways (KWSt.E.) responsible for the last section of the line , with only Weikersheim and Schäftersheim were in Württemberg territory. In addition, she received a branch to Creglingen at the same time in Bieberehren .
The importance of the railway lay in the transport of agricultural goods, especially the sugar beets that are grown in the Ochsenfurt Gau . Freight traffic was therefore served considerably longer than passenger traffic; the latter ended on September 29, 1974.
Due to a dilapidated bridge, the Röttingen – Schäftersheim section was closed in 1984. After restrictions between Weikersheim and Schäftersheim, freight traffic ended on September 29, 1990, and between Ochsenfurt and Röttingen finally on May 31, 1992. By March 1994, the tracks were dismantled. From then on, sugar beet was transported by road with trucks.
Operating points
Map with all coordinates of the Gaubahn operating points: OSM | WikiMap
Ochsenfurt
The reception building of the Ochsenfurt train station ( ⊙ ) was built in the round arch style around 1860 and put into operation in 1862. When the station is today at a breakpoint of Category 5. Until the closure of Gaubahn Ochsenfurt interchange was towards Bieberehren.
High City
The former Hohenstadt stop ( ⊙ ) was located at kilometer 2.7, north and below the municipality of Hohestadt am Thierbach, only around one kilometer from the junction to the Würzburg-Treuchtlingen railway line. In addition, there was once a connecting or loading track at the nearby Fuchsenmühle. Since the Hohestadt stop was around one kilometer away and 70 meters above sea level (which corresponds to a 15-minute walk), it was abandoned as early as 1961. At around the same time, the connecting or loading track to the mill was shut down.
Tückelhausen
The former Tückelhausen train station ( ⊙ ) was located at km 4.4, south of the municipality of Tückelhausen am Thierbach. The train station was very important for the rural population as it enabled mobility in the direction of Ochsenfurt and Würzburg. The way was otherwise very difficult and there were few vehicles. In the summer of 1983, the operation of the station with its loading platform, which was once connected on both sides, was stopped and the reception building was demolished.
Acholshausen
The former Acholshausen train station ( ⊙ ) was located at 6.9 km, east of the municipality of Acholshausen. In front of the former station area, the Burgweg and at its end the Klingengraben are crossed by the route. After the completion of the Gaubahn connection to the Giebelstadt military airfield, Adolf Hitler visited a troop parade of the VI on September 17, 1936. Army Corps and got off at Acholshausen station. He drove the way to the airport in his state coach. The railway police were posted in front of the saloon car with which Hitler arrived and the entire station square was secured by SS. SS was also located above the surrounding quarries to monitor the entire area. As early as the 1960s, the station was no longer manned by staff. The station was stopped in 1978. The loading track and reception building were then removed.
Gaukönigshofen
The former Gaukönigshofen train station ( ⊙ ) was a branching station at 8.2 km. In November 1907 it was put into operation when the line opened. The agency building is a one-story wooden building with an attached general cargo warehouse. The station had a through track and a passing track with two unpaved outer platforms. Further rails led to the loading ramp and beet loading.
Connection to Giebelstadt airfield
From 1934 the construction company Grün & Bilfinger from Mannheim built a supply railway to the Giebelstadt airfield , which was in operation from 1935 to 1960. The branch line branched off soon after the station Gaukönigshofen and served exclusively to freight, mostly liquid fuels. During the war years of 1939/40, a train with 20 wagons of gravel or cement drove over it almost every day to build the runway and later to extend it. After the Second World War, the branch was still used by the American armed forces and was finally dismantled in the 1960s.
Rittershausen
The former Rittershausen train station ( ⊙ ) was located at 10.5 km, west of the municipality of Rittershausen. The brick entrance building in Rittershausen no longer exists; it was torn down while the line was still in operation and replaced by an unpaved outer platform. At the station there was a large sugar beet loading ramp with a loading platform on both sides since 1962. Immediately behind the platform, the street that led to the left led into the village.
Sonderhofen
The former Sonderhofen train station ( ⊙ ) was located at kilometer 12.5, northeast of the community of Sonderhofen. Directly in front of the train station, the WÜ 41 district road to Bolzhausen crossed the Gaubahn at the level crossing. In planning since 1952, a large beet loading ramp was only built there in 1961 and the agency building was demolished at the same time.
Gelchsheim
The former Gelchsheim train station ( ⊙ ) was a crossing station at kilometer 15.4, west of the Gelchsheim town center, south of the former level crossing on State Road 2422 between Gelchsheim and Riedenheim. The agency building was a one-story wooden building with an attached general cargo warehouse. The station had a through track, a passing track with two unpaved outer platforms. There was a siding to the nearby Baywa warehouse. In 1963 a large beet loading ramp was also built here, but nothing can be seen of it. The warehouse has been empty since 2017.
Aub-Baldersheim
Former Aub-Baldersheim (station ⊙ ) was crossing station at kilometer 19.5, east of Auber district Baldersheim near the railway crossing the state road 2269 between Aub and Baldersheim. The Baldersheim community only wanted its own train station and forbade itself with the following telegram to the Kgl. District Office Ochsenfurt to bring the city of Aub into play as namesake: “The entire municipality of Baldersheim insists on its resolution of April 2nd and demands that the stop should not be called Aub-Baldersheim, but only Baldersheim. Haaf, Mayor. “Only 3 days later the Kgl. General Directorate of the Railway a word of power back and from then on it stayed - until the end - at the station "Aub-Baldersheim". Text of the telegram: “The declaration of commitment by interested parties is inadmissible and cannot be accepted on the railway side, the ministerially approved designation Aub / Baldersheim is retained. General Directorate Munich signed Rieß. "
Burgerroth
The former Burgerroth stop ( ⊙ ) was located at km 22.3, south of the town of Burgerroth, near the local road to Buch. The breakpoint originally only had a wooden hut as a shelter. The sugar beets were loaded by hand. As early as 1951, the small community and neighboring Aufstetten tried to build a loading ramp. The railway was asked to provide the necessary building material. But it took until 1964 for the loading ramp to be built. It still exists today.
Bieberehren
The former Bieberehren train station ( ⊙ ) was a crossing, transfer and branching station on route kilometer 25.5 of the Gaubahn, on the northern outskirts of Bieberehren near the confluence of the Gollach in the Tauber east of the state road 2268. In November 1907 it was opened with the opening of the line put into operation. The wooden agency building had a small signal box front building with which three entry signals and a switch were set, all other switches were set by hand and could be locked. Between 1909 and 1992 the Bieberehren – Creglingen railway branched off from the Gaubahn. The warehouse on Freiladestrasse was built after 1963 and is still standing today.
Röttingen
The former Röttingen train station ( ⊙ ) was an intersection station at kilometer 28.3, east of the city center of Röttingen on the road to Bieberehren. After the railway bridge in Röttingen was closed in 1984, Röttingen was the terminus of the Gaubahn on the Main Franconian side. Due to the dismantling of the track system in 1992, the sugar beet loading ramp was also torn down. Today only the former agency building and Bahnhofstrasse in the village remind of the former railway connection.
Röttingen city
The former Röttingen Stadt stop ( ⊙ ) was at kilometer 29.4 east of the city center of Röttingen, about one kilometer west of the train station after the Rippach Bridge above the city and north of the city wall of Röttingen. The stop for passenger transport only had an unpaved outer platform. The service of the breakpoint was stopped in 1924 due to a lack of profitability.
Tauberrettersheim
The former Tauberrettersheim train station ( ⊙ ) was located on the 32.2 km route on the north side of the Tauber on State Road 2268. Like Schäftersheim train station, the station building was built by the Royal Württemberg State Railways. In contrast to the Bavarian railways, it is not made of wood, but of stone. The operation of the station was stopped on December 31, 1983.
Schaefersheim
The former Schäftersheim station ( ⊙ ) was located at 34.4 km on the north side of the Tauber on the L 2251 / L 1001. The station building, like the Tauberrettersheim station, was built by the Royal Württemberg State Railways. In contrast to the Bavarian railways, it is not made of wood, but of stone. The station was provided with facilities for passenger and freight traffic and had a sugar beet loading ramp. The route first crossed the Tauberlauf with two openings each 24.5 m wide and a subsequent flood bridge with three openings each 16.5 m wide before reaching the village of Schäftersheim.
Weikersheim city
The former Weikersheim Stadt ( ⊙ ) stop , with its location close to the city, served the better development of the place. At the time, there was also a connection to a nearby district hospital at the stop. At the end of 1923, the stopping point was stopped.
Weikersheim
Weikersheim ( ⊙ ) station was built for the Taubertalbahn from 1869 to 1872 and was once the terminus of the Gaubahn. It is still located today as a wedge station on the Crailsheim – Königshofen railway line . From Weikersheim, the railway line runs downriver in the Taubertal to Wertheim. In the opposite direction, the railway line branches off to Weikersheim in the direction of the Laudenbach district in Vorbachtal , a left side valley of the Taubertal.
Current condition
The railway line today forms the Gaubahn cycle path from Ochsenfurt to Bieberehren . In the so-called Bavarian Network for Cyclists, it connects to the Main Cycle Route in Ochsenfurt and to the Romantic Road Cycle Route in Bieberehren. The Gaubahn cycle path is now paved throughout.
The route was blocked in several places, making it difficult to reactivate the railway line in the future. The cycle path leaves the railway line there.
- In Ochsenfurt the Gaubahn-route was used for the construction of the road in the direction Goßmannsdorf ( Südtangente , ⊙ taken) to complete.
- At Tückelhausen, the state road ( ⊙ ) has been straightened so that it intersects the railway line at an acute angle and much higher. A new bridge was built over the road for the cycle path.
- In Sonderhofen there are houses ( ⊙ ) on the street "Am Schmalenbach" on the railway line.
- In Röttingen, a senior citizens' center ( ⊙ ) was built on the station grounds.
literature
- Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 151-153 .
- Andreas Kuhfahl: Branch lines in Lower Franconia . Eisenbahn Fachbuch Verlag, Neustadt bei Coburg 2003, ISBN 3-9805967-9-6 , pp. 88-107.
Web links
- WürzburgWiki: Gaubahn
- Excerpt from the course book from 1944
- Photo documentation of the condition in 2010 at www.vergessene-bahnen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small guesthouse in the Weikersheim train station with an apartment - the train station. In: imbahnhof.de. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
- ^ Lines of the Westfrankenbahn. In: bahn.de. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Gaubahn cycle path in www.radreise-wiki.de
- ↑ Gaubahn cycle path in www.schoene-radtouren.de
- ↑ Homepage Bavarian network for cyclists , there under "Cycle Paths" - "Lower Franconia"