Harmersbachtalbahn

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '26 "  N , 8 ° 5' 48"  E

Biberach – Oberharmersbach
Railcar train in the Oberharmersbach-Riersbach terminus
Route number :	9427
Course book section (DB) :	722
Route length:	10.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C2
Legend Black Forest Railway from Offenburg 0.0 Biberach (Baden) Black Forest Railway to Constance 3.3 Zell am Harmersbach 4.5 Birach 5.5 Unterharmersbach 7.0 Kirnbach green 9.0 Oberharmersbach village 10.6 Oberharmersbach- Riersbach

The Harmersbachtalbahn is a 10.6 km long branch line that branches off from the Black Forest Railway in Biberach (Baden) and ends in Oberharmersbach- Riersbach and is operated by the SWEG .

history

It was opened on December 15, 1904 by the construction and operating company Vering & Waechter in Berlin , from which it was transferred on April 1, 1917 to the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft AG . Since 1963 it has belonged to the state-owned Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-AG (SWEG), which still operates the route today.

Since December 2005, individual journeys beyond Biberach to and from Offenburg have been linked. Rail traffic is supplemented by a parallel SWEG bus line that was operated by a local subcontractor until 2019. SWEG has been operating the bus transport itself since 2019.

Since December 2014, the route has no longer been operated independently by SWEG, but as a service ordered by the state of Baden-Württemberg under a transport contract . At the same time, the offer was condensed to an almost hourly cycle.

literature

• Gerd Wolff, Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways. Volume 2: Bathing . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-653-6 , p. 309-315 .

Web links

Commons : Harmersbachtalbahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Significant improvements for local rail passenger transport in the Ortenau district. Ortenaukreis district office, November 7, 2014, accessed on September 20, 2015 .