Horber Rail Days
The Horber Rail Days (abbreviated to HST ) are a specialist rail transport conference that has been held in Horb am Neckar every year since 1983 in mid-November (from the day of penance and prayer to the following Sunday) .
history
The Horber Rail Days were first organized in 1983 by Kurt Bielecki . Around this time, numerous local and supraregional initiatives emerged with the aim of promoting rail transport (for example the Pro Bahn passenger association in 1981 or the magazine Schiene 1982). These and many more use the Horber conference as a meeting point and platform. In 1986 the Horber Rail Days received the European Environmental Protection Award for this.
Bielecki, who later also became chairman of Pro Bahn, headed the Horber Schienentage until his death in 1999. Since then, the conference has been organized by a team headed by Rudolf Barth, who also supported the HST e. V. protrudes. The city of Horb provides organizational support for the conference.
In 2013, a field trip to Tunisia was offered outside the conference . Another excursion to Tunisia took place in 2015.
Topics and goals
The lectures deal with all aspects of promoting rail transport (passenger and freight transport):
- Presentation of successful rail projects
- Transport policy discussions
- Infrastructure expansion
- Innovative rail technology
- Timetable concepts
- Passenger concerns
- Culture and media
The conference program is complemented by excursions that present exemplary projects or offer opportunities for in-depth discussions. Objectives were, among many others, the diameter line Zurich , the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn , the Esslinger O bus or the European Parliament .
Every year a sponsorship award for outstanding work in the scientific field is awarded, this is endowed with a monetary amount and is also presented at the conference.
The contributions of the individual lectures will be published in a two-volume printed conference proceedings.
The aim of the Horber Rail Days is the specialist discussion on all matters relating to rail transport with the aim of sustainably strengthening and promoting rail transport. The exchange of experiences between speakers and conference participants generates impulses that are also published in a "Horber Resolution".
target group
The hallmark of the Horber Rail Days is that they are not limited to a narrowly defined target group , but rather bring participants from various origins into conversation with one another:
- Interested citizens,
- Committed people from citizens' groups, passenger and environmental associations,
- Politician,
- Media representatives,
- Practitioners from transport companies and authorities,
- Scientists and students,
- Children and young people at the local youth traffic day.
Around 200 participants and forty speakers take part regularly.
Local youth traffic day
During the Horber Schienentage, the local youth traffic day takes place for schoolchildren from Horb and the surrounding area, during which the children and young people at Horb station can get to know the train.
future
The Horber Rail Days will also take place in the future. After internal restructuring, the individual burdens of the members of the sponsoring association, who all organize the event on a voluntary basis, could be reduced and the work spread across several shoulders. New comrades-in-arms have also been added.
Previously, a report in the local press had speculated about the possible end of the Horber rail days. The reason given by the organizer, Rudolf Barth, is that the current workload is too high for the active participants. In addition, it was openly discussed whether the current form of the rail days as a multi-day conference still makes sense, or whether other forms such as shorter technical discussions and excursions would be better in the future. These topics were discussed publicly at the 32nd Horber Rail Days; the current form of the event was confirmed as sensible by the participants.
After internal disputes, the public relations officer, Markus Robold, and the conference leader Bernhard Strobel left the organization team of the Horber rail days at the beginning of 2015. The local press had previously reported on a power struggle between Robold and the Org-Team (board member of the sponsoring association).
Web links
Website of the Horber Rail Days
Individual evidence
- ^ Article in the PRO BAHN Post of the Pro Bahn Regional Association Upper Bavaria from December 1999
- ↑ See announcement on the HST homepage
- ↑ See the program overviews on the HST homepage
- ↑ Specialized excursions during the Horber Rail Days on the Horber Rail Days website
- ^ The possible end of the Horber Schienentage and the effects , Neckar Chronicle of April 5, 2014
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Power struggle during the rail days
- ↑ Why Markus Robold announced his retirement from the Horber Rail Days