Railway line Abzw Baienfurt West – Baienfurt Gbf

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Railway line Abzw Baienfurt West – Baienfurt Gbf
Line of the railway line Abzw Baienfurt West – Baienfurt Gbf
Route number (DB) : 4521
Course book section (DB) : -
Route length: 0.85 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Top speed: 25 km / h
Legend
   
 Route from Niederbiegen
   
 0.000 Abzw Weingarten (until 1999 "Abzw Baienfurt West")
   
 Route to Weingarten
   
 0.850 Baienfurt Gbf
   
 Joined Stora Enso in 2003
   
 1.010 Infrastructure border DB Netz / Stora Enso
   
 Stora Enso works railway
The paper mill with its extensive track systems

The standard gauge railway line Abzw Baienfurt West – Baienfurt Gbf was a 0.85 kilometer long branch line in Baden-Württemberg . The short branch line was opened on October 1, 1911 by the private Lokalbahn Aktien-Gesellschaft (LAG) and was shut down on July 9, 2015; previously it had been without regular operation since the end of 2012. The line complemented the neighboring Niederbiegen – Weingarten line, which was opened at the same time , from which it used the first 2.1 kilometers to the junction (Abzw) Baienfurt West. After the liquidation of the LAG in 1938, the line was nationalized on August 1, 1938 and last served by Deutsche Bahn AG until 2008 . There was never any scheduled passenger traffic on the route, it was used exclusively for freight traffic .

prehistory

When the Württemberg Southern Railway was extended northwards from Ravensburg in 1849, the town of Baienfurt , which had 800 inhabitants at the time, was just as neglected in the layout of the Southern Railway as the neighboring vineyard . In the second half of the 19th century, Baienfurt also developed into an important industrial location - with a certain delay to its southern neighbors Weingarten and Ravensburg . At the center of this development was the Baienfurt paper mill, which was built between 1870 and 1873, and the factory, which has been part of the Stora Enso Group since 1998, has remained the largest employer in the area to this day. At the turn of the century, Baienfurt was in a similar situation to Weingarten until 1888: The next train station on the Südbahn (Niederbiegen) was two and a half kilometers from the town center, and it was also just under two and a half kilometers to the end of the steam tram in Weingarten . This also gave rise to the urgent need to improve the traffic situation in Baienfurt.

history

In order to improve the situation, the LAG built the line to Baienfurt in 1911; it was built together with the Niederbiegen – Weingarten line. Both routes opened on October 1, 1911. Coming from the direction of Niederbiegen, the Baienfurt branch branches off from the main route at the Baienfurt West junction at kilometer 2.10, where the kilometering of the route covered here begins. From the junction it continues on the left to the Baienfurt freight yard , where the route continues on the premises of the Stora Enso Baienfurt GmbH & Co. KG paper mill . The Baienfurt paper mill , which was independent until 1968 , then became part of Feldmühle AG . This was taken over in 1990 by the Swedish company Stora . Stora, in turn, merged in 1998 with the Finnish forest group Enso to form the Finnish-Swedish group Stora Enso , to which the factory now belongs. The paper mill has its own works railway with 4600 meters of track, in 2003 this was expanded by another 950 meters. At times there was also internal works traffic, during which pulp rolls were transported from the pulp mill to the stock preparation.

At the end of 2008, the group shut down the board machine at the Baienfurt site, leaving only a cutting center with 40 employees. This removed the operational basis of the Baienfurt railway line. Finished paper rolls were delivered on schedule in sliding wall wagons, which were then cut into formats and transported away again. Wood chips, that is, chopped up pieces of wood for the electricity-generating refinery, were also transported sporadically. The volume of traffic varied between two and ten freight cars per working day.

Due to the very infrequent use of the route and upcoming investments, DB Netz put the route, including the Niederbiegen – Weingarten branch, out to tender for takeover by other railway infrastructure companies from December 2014 to March 2015 . Since no new IM could be found within the deadline, the route was closed with the approval of the Federal Railway Authority on July 2, 2015 with effect from July 9, 2015.

Passenger traffic to and from Baienfurt, on the other hand, was handled by the electrically operated Ravensburg – Weingarten – Baienfurt tram, which was built parallel to the line under discussion here. This meter-gauge line was opened two weeks earlier on September 13, 1911, its final stop - called Baienfurt Ort - was a little south of the freight yard in the center of Baienfurt.

Regular locomotive

LAG 7 “FÜSSEN” in the Baienfurt paper mill

The LAG 7 “FÜSSEN” steam locomotive has become the long-standing locomotive on the Baienfurt line . The C-Coupler, built by Krauss in 1889 , was implemented in 1911 on the occasion of the opening of the line from the Marktoberdorf – Füssen railway line to Upper Swabia, which also belongs to the LAG . In 1928 it was finally sold to the Baienfurt paper mill and has been preserved to this day.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Surrender of railway infrastructure. Section 4520 Niederbiegen - Abzw. Weingarten and route 4521 Abzw. Weingarten - Baienfurt. Call for applications from December 19, 2014 to March 19, 2015. (PDF) (No longer available online.) DB Netz AG, Southwest Regional Area, December 19, 2014, archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  2. ↑ List of lines closed since the railway reform on the website of the Federal Railway Authority