Freight bypass Freiburg

		Rhine Valley Railway from Offenburg
		Gundelfingen (Breisgau)
	0.0	Gundelfingen Abzw
		Rheintalbahn to Freiburg Hbf
	3.7	Freiburg Gbf
		Link to Breisach
		Route Breisach ↔ Freiburg Hbf
		Connecting curve from Breisach (until 1945)
		Dreisam
	8.1	Freiburg South
		Rhine Valley Railway from Freiburg Hbf
	11.1	Leutersberg (Abzw)
		Rhine Valley Railway to Basel

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Branch of the freight bypass (right) near Gundelfingen

The Freiburg freight bypass is a railway line in the west of Freiburg im Breisgau reserved exclusively for freight traffic . The freight bypass enables freight trains to bypass the heavily frequented main train station in Freiburg im Breisgau on a direct, separate route.

The freight bypass line is classified as a main line , has two tracks throughout and is electrified with overhead lines. It belongs to the highest route class D4, which means the permissible axle load is 22.5 t and the load per meter is 8.0 t / m.

Point train control (PZB 90) is used on the freight bypass railway , in contrast to the parallel Mannheim – Basel line , which is equipped with line train control (LZB).

history

In order to relieve the main station, the Freiburg freight yard was built between 1901 and 1905 .

The initially planned location was south of the main train station on the Mannheim – Basel railway line , but since this provoked protests from the surrounding population, an undeveloped area west of the city center was used instead.

Since this area was far away from the existing railway facilities, it was linked by a new railway line that is linked to the Rhine Valley Railway north and south of Freiburg. The new route could be planned in a straight line, so it is almost a kilometer shorter than the old route via the main train station.

The freight bypass was inaugurated on September 4, 1905. At that time it was still well outside the urban area, the Stühlinger and Haslach were the only buildings west of the main line.

In over a hundred years the city has expanded far to the west, so that today the freight railway runs through built-up areas instead of through fields.

future

As part of the upgraded and new line from Karlsruhe to Basel , a new freight bypass line (so-called "Freiburg freight bypass") is being built far outside the city, which will bypass Freiburg along the A 5 . All long-distance freight trains are to be routed extensively around Freiburg on the new railway. As a result , there are no other freight trains on the old freight railway, apart from the trains on the Rolling Road , which start or end at the Freiburg freight yard , so that the old freight bypass can be used for other purposes.

Therefore, as part of the " Breisgau-S-Bahn 2020 " project, the route is to be served by S-Bahn trains on the connections Freiburg Hbf– Bad Krozingen - Staufen - Münstertal and Freiburg Hbf– Elzach . To this end, two new connecting curves are to be created that will connect the freight bypass line in the direction of the main station to the Freiburg – Colmar line . In addition, the five stops Tullastraße, Neue Messe, Runzmattenweg, Haslach and St. Georgen are to be built along the route.

literature

Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Baden . part 1

Web links

Commons : Güterumgehungsbahn Freiburg - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .
↑ This is the plan approval sections (PfA) 8.1 to 8.4 of the new line, see https://www.karlsruhe-basel.de/streckenabschnitte-pfa.html

[1] DB Netze - Infrastructure Register

[2] Railway Atlas Germany 2009/2010 . 7th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0 .

[3] This is the plan approval sections (PfA) 8.1 to 8.4 of the new line, see https://www.karlsruhe-basel.de/streckenabschnitte-pfa.html