Merseburg – Querfurt railway line

Merseburg – Querfurt
Route number :	6807
Course book section (DB) :	586
Route length:	36.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	CM4, CE
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend from Halle (Saale) Hbf from Schafstädt and from Halle-Nietleben -0.017 Merseburg central station to Leipzig-Leutzsch according to Bebra Bundesstrasse 91 2.213 Merseburg miners ring from Merseburg Gbf and from Leuna 3.000 Merseburg South former Awanst and Abzw to Geusa to Geusa 4,861 Beuna (Geiseltal) State road 181 Beuna industrial park, formerly to Großkayna Federal motorway 38 Frankleben 10,550 Braunsbedra East 11,866 Braunsbedra Braunsbedra / Krumpa industrial park State road 178 14.069 Krumpa 17.431 Müelte (Geiseltal) city Viaduct Müelte (264 m), Geisel 18.229 Müelte (Geiseltal) former connection to Stöbnitz Stöbnitz 21.600 Leipzig Hbf – Ebensfeld (high-speed line) 22,345 20,400 Kilometer jump +1945 m 22.090 Langeneichstädt (formerly the train station) 28,850 Nemsdorf-Goehrendorf Federal Highway 180 State road 178 Transverse from Röblingen am See Sidings at industrial area 34.730 Querfurt to Vitzenburg (Unstrut)

The Merseburg – Querfurt railway line (also Geiseltalbahn ) is a branch line in Saxony-Anhalt . It leads from Merseburg via Müuellen to Querfurt . The lines from Querfurt to Röblingen am See and to Vitzenburg are closed (1999 and 2003), but still exist.

history

The railway line was built in the 1880s, the section Mü between Merseburg in December 1886. In 1911 it was extended to Querfurt, so it was no longer a branch line. Numerous companies along the route were given siding, such as the sugar factory in Körbisdorf in 1894 and the briquette factory in Pfännerhall in 1912.

Viadukt Müelte (2013)

Because of the lignite mining in the Geiseltal , the railway had to be relocated for the first time in 1935; it now ran directly between Wernsdorf and Körbisdorf, and Wernsdorf also received a new train station. In 1953, the railway line was relocated again, which now made a wide bend north around Körbisdorf and Benndorf. The next station was now that of Neumark-Bedra. The last relocation took place in 1958, when the railway bypassed a large part of the central (now former) Geiseltal in the south. Today the remains of former connecting railways and large freight yards (Braunsbedra, Beuna) testify to the past industrial activity in the Geiseltal.

The section Müuellen – Merseburg Süd was electrified for goods traffic from 1959 to 1996.

Burgenlandbahn GmbH took over operations as a joint subsidiary of DB Regio AG and Karsdorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft at the beginning of 1999. The route was part of the contract for the Saxony-Anhalt South network with the state of Saxony-Anhalt, which ran until December 31, 2006. After the second invitation to tender, which was carried out in 2003, the network was awarded again to the now pure DB subsidiary Burgenlandbahn for a further twelve years until 2018. This contract was extended in January 2017 and ran until December 14, 2019.

Crossing structure over the high-speed route Ebensfeld – Leipzig at km 21.6 (2012)

At the beginning of December 2008, a class 672 railcar set off from Merseburg in the direction of Querfurt without any staff or passengers. There was no accident, not even at the level crossings. Only shortly before Querfurt did the train stop.

In mid-2017, 250 to 350 passengers used the route every day. The numbers have fluctuated over the past few years. According to Wolfgang Ball, spokesman for the state-owned local transport service Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH, an expansion of the stations and the route to a continuous maximum speed of 80 km / h is necessary to prevent an impending termination.

The route was not included in the Saxony-Anhalt diesel network , but was put out to tender in 2017 together with the Weißenfels – Zeitz route . In October 2018, DB Regio was awarded the contract for the new Elster-Geiseltal network and is expected to operate the route until December 2032.

Trains travel as RB 78 Merseburg-Querfurt main station in Einstundentakt . The trains each cross clearly after the usual minute of symmetry . On weekdays, individual trains end and begin in Müelte. This happens every two hours on the weekend. The route is completely in the tariff area of ​​the Central German Transport Association .

Vehicle use

DWA LVT / S of the Burgenland Railway in Merseburg station (2019)

Burgenlandbahn used DWA LVT / S railcars . DB class 641 railcars (Alstom Coradia A TER) have been in service since December 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Merseburg – Querfurt railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Location, course and some permitted speeds and signals on the OpenRailwayMap
• Website of the Burgenland Railway
• Public transport map of Saxony-Anhalt 2010 (PDF; 1.9 MB)
• Tradition in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Halle in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008. 6 edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 ; Pp. 57, 130
2. ↑ Chronicle of the Geiseltalorte by Steffan Bruns , accessed on April 12, 2015
3. ↑ Map with the missing places in the Geiseltal , accessed on April 12, 2015
4. ↑ Local rail transport competition in 2007. Accessed on September 18, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt: DB Regio gets contract extension in the SPNV network south. In: eurailpress.de. DVV Media Group GmbH, January 25, 2017, accessed on February 9, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Regional train in Saxony-Anhalt for 40 kilometers without a driver. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 11, 2012, accessed May 13, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Michael Bertram and Jan Iven: Merseburg-Querfurt connection: Burgenlandbahn remains in the Saalekreis - for the time being . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . October 2, 2017 ( mz-web.de [accessed November 10, 2017]).
8. ↑ NASA GmbH Annual Report 2015. (PDF) (No longer available online.) August 2016, archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on February 9, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt: Allocation of the local rail transport network Elster-Geiseltal started. In: eurailpress.de. DVV Media Group GmbH, September 12, 2017, accessed on September 18, 2017 . 
10. ↑ NASA grants DB Regio contract for Elster-Geiseltal network. PM no. 18/16. Local transport service Saxony-Anhalt , October 12, 2018, accessed on November 7, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Timetable 2020 Merseburg Hbf - Müuellen (Geiseltal) - Querfurt
12. ↑ Timetable 2020 Querfurt - Müuellen (Geiseltal) - Merseburg Hbf
13. ↑ tariff zone plan of the MDV. Retrieved January 4, 2020 .