Roßdorf industrial railway
| Roßdorf industrial railway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route length: | 12.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
The: Industriebahn Roßdorf served to develop the basalt quarry in Roßberg near Roßdorf , east of Darmstadt , on the northern edge of the Odenwald , which today belongs to the Odenwälder hard stone industry .
history
1st operating phase: The quarry, which is still active today, received a four-kilometer-long industrial railway with a gauge of 600 mm for the first time in 1888 . It made it possible to transport the mined basalt from the quarry to the Ober-Ramstadt station on the Odenwaldbahn in the south and reload it onto the standard gauge Hessian Ludwigsbahn .
2. Operating phase: When the Darmstadt Ost – Groß-Zimmer railway line, which is much closer to the quarry, was opened in 1897 , a siding with a loading facility was built there. The distance between the quarry and this section of the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community was only 500 meters. As a result, the industrial line was extended to there and the old route including loading facilities in Ober-Ramstadt was abandoned.
3rd phase of operation: In 1906 an aerial cableway was built to replace the Roßberg quarry and the loading facility on the siding to the Darmstadt Ost – Groß -zimmer line. The industrial railway continued to operate within the quarry until 1958, when it was replaced by non-rail vehicles.
Locomotives
The following locomotives have been used over the years:
- Bn2t Hagans (serial number 201, built in 1888)
- Bn2t Hagans (serial number 212, year of construction 1888) "ROSSBERG"
- Bn2t Hagans (serial number 203, built in 1889)
- Bn2 Hagans (serial number 258, built in 1892) "BREITWIESER"
- Bn2t Maschinenfabrik Güstrow (serial number 747, built in 1896) "ROSSDORF"
- B-dm O&K (serial number 5105, built in 1933) RL1a
- B-dm Deutz
- B-dm Gmeinder , 22/24 PS, No. 4
- B-dm Gemeinder, 15 HP, No. 5
- B-dm Jung ZL 114 (?), No. 9
literature
- Wolfgang Bleiweis: The branch line Darmstadt-Ost-Groß-Zimmer . In: The railway and its history = series of publications by the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg 2 (Ed .: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg). Darmstadt 1985, pp. 79-83.
- Andreas Christopher: Works railways of the Odenwälder Hartstein-Industrie AG (OHI)