Kalteneck (Hutthurm)
Kalteneck is a district of the Hutthurm market in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau . The place is in the valley of the Ilz about one kilometer northwest of Hutthurm at the highway slip road 2131, which crosses the Ilz here on a bridge.
The station
The village of Kalteneck was created through the construction of the Passau – Freyung railway line . As early as March 4, 1884, the Hauzenberg market administration wrote to the Passau railway construction section to build a train station above Hutthurm an der Ilz. A station there is of great advantage for the stone merchants and stonemasons who depend on the Hauzenberg granite . This was the result of a declaration by Lorenz Kinateder, the main industrialist of the Hauzenberg stone industry, who at the same time turned against a train station in Hutthurm or Büchlberg .
After a long tug-of-war, Kalteneck actually got its own train station, based on the Berching model, with water extraction for locomotives. The railway line was opened in 1890. The railway connection helped the local stone industry to flourish through new and easier sales channels. When the Deggendorf – Kalteneck railway line was built in 1914, with Kalteneck as its terminus, the station had even become a railway junction.
The railway lines by Kalteneck in 1995 and 2002 shut down , but not released . The line between Passau and Freyung was reactivated by volunteers under the name “ Ilztalbahn ” . Since July 2011 there has been regular traffic on weekends and holidays on the entire route. From the 2014 season, Kalteneck will again be used as an alternative station.
The molding and frame factory
The favorable conditions with the availability of wood, water and a train station in 1901 prompted the Munich molding manufacturers FX Spagl and H. Pernpointner to build the molding factory Spagl & Co. , OHG in Kalteneck . Spagl manufactures semi-finished and finished products and is today one of the leading European manufacturers of picture moldings and picture frames made of wood.
literature
- Ulrich Pietrusky, Donatus Moosauer: The Bavarian Forest - rediscovered in flight , Morsak Verlag, Grafenau, 1985, ISBN 3-87553-228-7
Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ' N , 13 ° 27' E