Gurktalbahn

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Gurktalbahn
Treibach-Althofen-Klein Glödnitz
Geographical data
continent Europe
country Austria
state Carinthia
Route-related data
Route length: 28.8 km
Gauge : 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge )
Legend
End station - start of the route
 0.0 Treibach-Althofen crossing from the Rudolfsbahn 615  m above sea level A.
Stop, stop
 1,600 Hohenholz
   
 3.259 Pöckstein intermediate watering 595  m above sea level A.
   
 5.290 Hacklwirt route dismantled 603  m above sea level A.
   
 6.632 Wire drawing 608  m above sea level A.
   
 8.295 Gundersdorf 619  m above sea level A.
   
 9.802 Mellach 621  m above sea level A.
   
 12.673 Strasbourg 637  m above sea level A.
   
 16.987 Cucumber 661  m above sea level A.
   
 18.645 Draschelbach 670  m above sea level A.
   
 20.145 Prosegger 675  m above sea level A.
   
 21,367 Zweinitz 678  m above sea level A.
   
 25.555 Weitensfeld 700  m above sea level A.
   
 27.612 Altenmarkt 717  m above sea level A.
   
 28,849 Little Glödnitz 724  m above sea level A.
Opening of the Gurktalbahn
Postcard from 1900 with Klein Glödnitz station and a train with a T.3 locomotive
Ticket approach at the Hohenholz stop

The Gurktalbahn is a narrow-gauge railway in Carinthia that was originally put into operation in 1898 , and today only a part of it is used as a museum railway . In 1974 this section was reopened as the first Austrian museum railway. The Gurktalbahn was designed as a branch line of the Southern Railway at the end of the 19th century, when the most important railway connections in Austria had already been built . A standard-gauge route proved to be impossible to finance, so a narrow-gauge railway with a 760 mm gauge was used. A route revision was carried out on June 26 and 27, 1894 and the planning was completed in 1896. The company " Stern & Hafferl " was commissioned with the construction and began work in December 1897. On May 10, 1898, a "Gurktalbahn AG" based in Vienna was founded as the operating company.

The Gurktalbahn was inaugurated on October 9, 1898, and regular rail traffic began the following day. Used initially came three from the Krauss Neopost branch in Linz built tank locomotives of the series T . The line branched off from the Southern Railway in Treibach-Althofen and ran along the Gurk via Strasbourg to Kleinglödnitz .

The line was nationalized on January 1, 1932 and operated from then on by the BBÖ . In the course of the increasing motorization of the population, income fell in the mid-1950s, and in the 1960s, the Gurktalbahn was first considered to be discontinued. On June 5, 1968, there was a derailment as a result of the track being washed away. The Austrian Ministry of Transport then partially complied with the ÖBB's request for the line to be closed by a resolution passed on November 26, 1968. Passenger traffic was completely stopped and the tracks from Gurk removed. At the request of a customer, freight traffic was maintained between Treibach and Strasbourg as required. On February 14, 1972, this traffic was finally abandoned for lack of cost recovery. In the same year, the removal of the web began.

The three-kilometer section between Treibach-Althofen and Pöckstein-Zwischenwässern was retained. A museum railway originally operated by the “Association of Carinthian Railway Friends” has been running here since June 1, 1974 . The association was founded on April 4, 1969 and originally tried to maintain the Gurktalbahn to Gurk as a museum. The Gurktalbahn was the first museum railway in Austria and is used in the summer months. The current operator is the Gurkthalbahn-Kärntner Museumbahn association since 1974 .

literature

  • Dieter Stanfel: Gurkthalbahn. Treibach-Althofen - Strasbourg - Klein-Glödnitz. narrow-gauge (0.76 m) local railway . Heyn Verlag, Klagenfurt 1980, ISBN 3-85366-328-1 .
  • Dieter Stanfel: The Gurktalbahn - A narrow-gauge railway in Carinthia . bahnmedien.at, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-9502648-3-8
  • Peter Wegenstein: Bahn im Bild Volume 74 - Narrow Gauge Railways in Carinthia . Pospischil publishing house, Vienna 1990
  • Alfred Niel: "The Gurktal and its railway". Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1964, second expanded edition 1972

Web links

Commons : Gurktalbahn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 14 ° 27 ′ 53.3 ″  E