Seckbach industrial railway

Seckbach industrial railway
Route length:	2.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Line from Hanau Lahmeyerbrücke route to Frankfurt HIM Main track Wächtersbacher Straße Magnus U4 / U7 Main track Kruppstraße Vaillant , VEDAG , Preussag , Lurgi , Gotek, Lesonal , Fries Werft Union , Deutsche Asphalt GmbH , Landis & Gyr , Blumör

The Seckbach industrial railway opened up the Frankfurt - Seckbach industrial area as an industrial connecting railway from 1913 .

history

A train with locomotive D 5 shuttles between Gwinnerstraße and "Am Erlenbruch" near Flinschstraße.

The technically quite complex connecting line was part of the Frankfurt port railway . The Frankfurt – Hanau railway line, running between the main tracks of the port railway and the Seckbach industrial area, was crossed with a specially built bridge (today: Lahmeyerbrücke ). The Frankfurt port railway, in turn, was connected to the tracks of the state railway in the Ostbahnhof and to inland shipping on the Main in the Frankfurt Osthafen . In the area of ​​the Seckbach industrial area, however, streets were crossed with level crossings on the same rails , as was the tram and later subway route (U4 / U7) .

In the Seckbach industrial area, the steel construction company JS Fries Sohn and Lurgi Apparatebau, among others, had a direct connection to rail freight traffic .

During the time of National Socialism , the route was also used to transport Frankfurt Jews , Sinti and Roma from the Kruppstrasse labor camp to the extermination camps .

Because of their industrial importance, the railway facilities were the target of Allied bombing raids during World War II .

Restructuring began in the 1970s. On the one hand, this affected the local companies: They either moved away or gave up. On the other hand, the shift of goods transport to trucks on a large scale began in the 1980s . In the 1990s, this meant the end of the Seckbach industrial railway. The connection was cut, the Lahmeyerbrücke became a pedestrian bridge. Some of the tracks of the railway are still on the former line.

literature

• Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall , Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-89494-136-7 .
• Rhine-Main City Atlas. 13th edition, Munich 1989/90, pp. 82, 102.

Web links

Commons : Industriebahn Seckbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial plaque in Kruppstrasse camp
2. ^ Anita Strecker: The Art of Shunting , Frankfurter Rundschau, July 7, 2009
3. ↑ Photo: Steam locomotive crosses the Lahmeyerbrücke , approx. 1930