Hansabahn Dortmund HHW 6141
The Hansabahn is a regular-gauge , single-track railroad in Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia . It once connected the Dortmund city harbor (west of the Dortmund-Ems canal ) clockwise in a ring with the Dortmund Hardenberghafen (east of the canal). It is part of the formerly extensive railway lines of the former Hoesch AG and therefore bears the abbreviation HHW in front of the respective track number.
course
The Werkbahntrasse branches off as track HHW 6.5.40 on Westfaliastrasse in the Dortmund city harbor from the through track of the Dortmund railway , which is operated by Captrain Deutschland . It runs in an arc to the southeast, rising into the site of the former Hoesch steelworks Union in the west of Dortmund. There it turns north as track HHW 6.5.52 and fans out into a large shunting group. Past the former HHW interlocking "Union District 62", it runs as track HHW 6.2.08 further north under the motorway feeder road OW III a and crosses the premises of the municipal recycling company EDG / DOGA. Now it leads as track HHW 01/06/41 in the field of the suburb Huckarde several engineering structures, initially a closed When bridge over the Franziusstraße, then the seven-membered Hansa-bridge section as a steel girder structure of the partially under listed former Dortmund ring gas line ▼ and then parallel to the Cöln-Mindener-Bahn east past the former Hansa colliery . After a closed tub bridge over Lindbergstrasse, where the HHW signal box "Union District 61" was located, which was demolished in the 1990s, the HHW route 6.1.41 reaches the industrial monument of the former Hansa coking plant (km 1.1). The connection point 6.1.48 of the former Hansa coking plant is located at km 1.25.
To the east, it continues to the north and passes under the Dortmund freight bypass line between Huckarde and Scharnhorst at km 2.0 . At km 2.25, the “Mooskamp” low-traffic road is now crossed at an unrestricted level crossing in the Mengede district . At 2.5 km there is the connection point of the former mine connection railway to the locomotive hall of the former Hansa coking plant, which now leads to the Dortmund local transport museum . With a slight increase, the former Hoesch landfill "Bodelschwingher Heide" is now crossed in a right-hand curve before the Cöln-Mindener railway is crossed with another steel girder bridge at km 2.9. Running to the east, the route now reaches Ellinghauser Strasse at 3.8 km, which was also crossed by a bridge until 2005. This and the emergency bridge over the Emscher to the east were dismantled by ThyssenKrupp Steel AG (TKS) so that the tracks now end at a buffer stop west of Ellinghauser Strasse. After crossing the Emscher, the HHW-Werkbahntrasse reached the Ellinghausen land sale earlier , which was given up due to the closure of the last Dortmund coking plant in Kaiserstuhl on the Westfalenhütte at the turn of the year 2001/2002. Today, the Swedish furniture store IKEA's largest logistics warehouse in Europe is located there. As a result, major changes to the track infrastructure took place on this area, which meet the new requirements. The route, which is again covered with tracks, runs further east as a connecting line, crosses the Dortmund-Ems Canal and then curves south into the Hardenberghafen in Dortmund.
history
The railway line of the Hoesch-Hütten-Werke (HHW) was built in the mid-1920s as a connecting line between the new central Hansa coking plant and the aforementioned Dortmund ports, as well as the Union steelworks. The rail connection in the city harbor was mainly used to transport coal, coke and steel from the Union steelworks, the coking plant and the Hansa colliery. Since the closure of the neighboring mines in Dortmund-Westhusen and Bodelschwingh in the 1980s, the coal required on Hansa has been brought from the mines in the surrounding area from Hardenberghafen to Hansa via the railway line. Due to these bulk goods transports, all the bridge structures on the HHW railway line that have been preserved are closed or lined with tub-like protective walls.
In the last few years until the Hansa coking plant ceased operations in 1992, the transports from Hardenberghafen via Ellinghausen and the northern mine connection railway passed the Hansa locomotive hall, so that the HHW 6.1.41 track between the northern and southern connection points was 2.5 km and 1.25 could be shut down. Since the bridge tests required by railway law on the structures south of the Hansa coking plant, especially on the multi-section Hansa bridge, proved to be very costly and the route had become useless due to deliveries from the north, the Dortmund Railway, which was entrusted with maintaining the route, operated as a subsidiary of Hoesch Stahl AG also closed the section of the route between EDG / DOGA and the Hansa coking plant in 1988. The Hansa bridge train was blocked with massive steel bars.
The remaining traffic on the northern section after the closure of the Hansa coking plant at the end of 1992 was still the coal shunting between the land sales on the dump in Ellinghausen, the Hardenberghafen and the last Dortmund coking plant Kaiserstuhl on the Westfalenhütte, as well as a feeder function between the Hardenberghafen and the still in operation locomotive repair of the former coking plant Hansa am Mooskamp. RAG Bahn und Hafenbetriebe waited there until 2001 for diesel locomotives for use in the eastern district. With the closure of the RAG coking plant in Kaiserstuhl at the end of 2001, however, RAG closed both land sales and the locomotive workshop on Mooskamp. This meant that the entire route north of the EDG / DOGA was initially without traffic. The high price of steel, as well as the plans of the Emscher Cooperative that were ultimately not implemented for an extended rainwater retention basin in Ellinghausen, led in 2004 to TKS dismantling two bridges and thus also cutting the northern connection.
After all, only the track to Halde Ellinghausen from the Hardenberghafen went back into operation as a connecting line in 2005, because of the newly created goods distribution center (GVZ) from IKEA.
Current situation in 2020
Since the suspension of steel sheet pile production for waterway construction by HSP Hoesch Spundwand und Profil , a subsidiary of Salzgitter AG , on December 17, 2015 , the Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH has ceased freight traffic, although the 9270 entry point on Westfaliastraße is still available. Other connections in this area were ThyssenKrupp Edelstahl in the east and the municipal subsidiary EDG / DOGA as a back-country in the north. However, both have stated that they do not want to hold onto the siding for the occasional delivery of individual freight wagons.
In 2017, the Essen-based Thelen Group bought the approx. 46 hectare HSP area from TKSE. Together with the City of Dortmund, the Thelen Group, as an investor, is developing the former factory premises under the name “Smart Rhino” into a future campus close to the city center for the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences. Mixed urban structures and green spaces are also to be created here. The factory tracks HHW 6.5.40, 6.5.52, 6.2.34, 6.2.35, 6.4.05, 6.4.11 and 6.4.31 have been in operation again since October 2018 and are to be rededicated for museum rail traffic, but the remaining track systems will be reduced in favor of other development opportunities for the areas.
On the northern section between Hardenberghafen and Halde Ellinghausen, goods traffic for the logistics center there continues to take place on weekdays. The track capacities here have recently been greatly expanded.
The section between Huckarder Straße (HHW Stellwerk Union District 62) and Ellinghauser Straße (km 3.8) is dedicated to the railway law in accordance with the ordinance on the construction and operation of connecting railways (BOA) in North Rhine-Westphalia and is used from the Mooskamp depot in the museum traffic of Verkehrshistorische Working group of the Dortmunder Stadtwerke ev (ex Westfälische Almetalbahn ev) (EVU).
These trips currently start and end at the Mooskamp depot at the former locomotive repairs of the Hansa coking plant on Mooskamp. In cooperation with the industrial monument Former Hansa Coking Plant, there are also shuttle trips on special occasions. For this touristic operation, numerous bridge structures have been examined under railway law and approved again.
Future perspective 2020 ff. - IGA 2027
As one of the five cities in the Ruhr area that have successfully applied for the “International Horticultural Exhibition” (IGA) 2027, the city of Dortmund is planning, together with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (RVR), the IGA future garden “Emscher Nordwärts” from Rheinische Strasse across the former HSP area, the industrial monument coking plant Hansa, the Deusenberg and the Mooskamp depot. This is completely opened up by the HHW railway line and can be linked with the Dortmund harbor and the northern part of the city.
This is supported, on the one hand, by the fact that almost all track infrastructures are already in place and, on the other hand, that the Mooskamp depot is connected by an operator who is licensed under railway law. In the future, the part of the HHW-Werkbahntrasse, which is already used as a museum, could therefore be connected to the port to the south via the “Smart Rhino” development area (HSP) so that streams of visitors can reach the future garden of the IGA 2027 and the industrial monument coking plant Hansa. Together with the owners, the city of Dortmund, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the industrial monument foundation , we are working on the feasibility of these goals. Both parts of the route are currently only separated from each other by two different dedications.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see map / aerial photo of Dortmund at the regional association Ruhr in Essen or at the city of Dortmund
- ↑ http://dev.presse.dortmund.de/presse/project/assets/template3.jsp?iid=presse&smi=6.0&detail=on&path=4649317d79dde283c125725900512e87/6024a24fda2f9f1ac12574cf0031cac4&OpenDocument=&Highlight=0,hoesch%20&template=pressesuchedetail ( page no longer available , Search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://innenstadtnord.dortmund.de/project/assets/template7.jsp?smi=2.4&tid=75470 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.dortmunder-eisenbahn.de/tmpl/ExtensionPage____10150.aspx?epslanguage=ML
- ↑ http://www.schmidt-domain.de/downloads/schienenauto.pdf
