Kleinbahn Heiligenhaus – Hösel

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Heiligenhaus-Hösel
Route length: 6.7 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend
   
 electric small train from Velbert
   
 0.0 Heiligenhaus town hall
   
 Depot
   
 1.0 At the basement
   
 Talburg colliery
   
 Oberilp
   
 Unterilp
   
 3.1 Economy sticks
   
 Size Bird bush
   
 At the break
   
 Stinshoff sand pit
   
 Schlipperhaus
   
 6.7 Hösel state train station

The Heiligenhaus – Hösel small railway was a steam-powered small railway that existed from 1899 until it was closed in 1923 . After it was founded in 1899, it had a direct connection to the electric trams of Bergische Kleinbahn AG in Heiligenhaus . The electrification of the railway, which was initially planned, was never implemented due to the large distance to the headquarters in Neviges and the resulting voltage drop in the power supply. The railway was shut down on January 26, 1923.

history

On January 26, 1898, the electric overland tram from Elberfeld to Velbert was completed. The village of Heiligenhaus pushed for further construction from Velbert via Heiligenhaus to Hösel . The small iron industry in Heiligenhaus wanted to move their goods to the Hösel state train station from the road, which was completed in 1874, to rail. The Hösel station was officially opened on February 1, 1872 with the Ruhr Valley Railway . The people of Heiligenhaus and industry wanted the train to Hösel because there were good and fast connections to Düsseldorf . Freight traffic was very brisk, and passenger traffic also played a major role.

On October 11, 1899, the 6.5-kilometer electric tram line from Velbert to Heiligenhaus was opened. Since the power supply from the headquarters in Neviges only allowed electrical operation to Heiligenhaus, the further route to Hösel had to be operated by steam locomotives . The steam tram was built with a 1000 mm gauge on Vignole rails of 20.5 kg / m. The route length was 6.84 kilometers. The state police acceptance took place on October 10, 1899 and the opening of operations on October 15, 1899. The steam train was jokingly called "Püffer" by the population.

On January 26, 1923, the line was closed. In 1926 the Niederbergbahn was opened from Kettwig via Heiligenhaus to Velbert and Heiligenhaus was again connected to the Ruhrtalbahn.

Route

The route led from Hösel via the Heiligenhauser districts of Oberilp and Unterilp to Heiligenhaus. Outside of Heiligenhaus, the train ran on its own track, partly next to the Provincial Road to Hösel. The length of the route from Hösel train station to the monument in Heiligenhaus was 6.84 kilometers. The journey time was around 30 minutes.

The route began in Hösel at the point where the parking deck, completed in 1996, is today. There was a locomotive shed and a goods shed, as well as several parking and loading tracks. The loading track ran parallel to the track of the state railway so that the goods could be reloaded there.

The railway line ran from Hösel station initially parallel to Bahnhofstrasse to Hugo-Henkel-Strasse. There she turned right and ran behind the houses Kohlstrasse 2-8 to the intersection Kohlstrasse / corner of Rodenwaldstrasse, where the Schlipperhaus stop was. From there the route led to Bismarckstrasse on a railway embankment, which is now the Wolf-von-Niebelschütz-Promenade. An embankment was reached through a cut in the terrain, which began in the area of ​​the house at Bismarckstrasse 47 with a right curve and ran behind the former restaurant Haus Waldeck, which led along today's street Am Graben to Eggerscheidter Strasse. After a left curve behind the old barn of the Boltenburg restaurant, the Stinshoff stop was reached. Via Eggerscheidter Strasse, the train reached the intersection with Bahnhofstrasse, where the tracks changed to the left side of Heiligenhauser Strasse. The last stop in Hösel was Im Bruch.

The next stop was Großvogelbusch in Hasselbeck . Then came the stop of the same name with a siding at the Stöcken restaurant. Between the Unterilp and Oberilp stops, the track lay on a separate track next to the Provinzialstraße. This was followed by the stops Gastwirtschaft Auf'm Keller, Riegels, Kettwiger Straße, Hotel Zur Krone and Denkmal, where you could change to the 1952 tram to Velbert.

In Heiligenhaus the rails ran in the middle of the main road. Behind the town hall, which was only built in 1923, was the depot with a locomotive and goods shed and a workshop, as well as several parking and loading tracks for reloading the goods onto the wagons, which took over the onward transport to and from the factories.

The route from Hösel via Heiligenhaus to Velbert is now served by the VRR bus route 770.

business

The driving operation was carried out as combined passenger and goods traffic (GmP). Ten pairs of trains ran between 5:00 a.m. and 0:30 a.m. ( theater train from Hösel to Heiligenhaus). A mail van was brought along five times a day. The fare from Hösel to Heiligenhaus was 25 pfennigs. In the direction of Heiligenhaus fertilizers, molding sand and coal were transported, in the direction of Hösel mainly finished products for the lock and fittings industry.

operator

Bergische Kleinbahn AG was founded on June 21, 1897 by the Continentale Society for Electrical Enterprises (later Schuckert & Co. ) in Nuremberg , based in Neviges. On June 23, 1897, operations began on the route between the Neviges branch and Velbert, which the Continentale had built since August 11, 1896. On July 12, 1897, operations began on the route from Elberfeld to Neviges. The following routes were in operation by 1899:

  • January 26, 1898: from Neviges to Velbert monument
  • April 10, 1898: from the Velbert monument to the Velbert cemetery
  • 0March 5, 1899: Velbert cemetery to Werden
  • 0May 2, 1899: from Neviges to Langenberg Town Hall
  • October 11, 1899: from Velbert to Heiligenhaus

Setting and remains

During the occupation of the Ruhr area by Belgian and French soldiers, the Ruhr Valley Railway from Düsseldorf to Kettwig was stopped. Due to the lack of connections and the economic development as a result of inflation, the operation of the small railway was stopped on January 26, 1923 . In the following years it was completely dismantled and scrapped.

The freight and passenger cars continued to be used in electrical operation; the freight wagons were complete until the Bergische Kleinbahnen rail traffic was discontinued in 1961.

Today there are hardly any remains of the small train. In Hösel, the Wolf-von-Niebelschütz-Promenade runs on the former embankment. The terminus at the state train station in Hösel, which opened in 1872, stood where the "Maria-Theresien-Stift" nursing home is now.

literature

  • Theo Volmert: Hösel. Reports from its millennial history . Ed .: Kulturkreis Hösel e. V. 1980.
  • Helmut Kuwertz: The small train in Hösel . In: vorOrt - magazine for Hösel and Eggerscheidt . Issue 11, 23 August 2007, p. 91 f .
  • Helmut Kuwertz: The small train in Hösel . In: vorOrt - magazine for Hösel and Eggerscheidt . Issue 14, November 30, 2007, p. 106 ff .
  • The small train in Hösel. 3. Continuation . In: vorOrt - magazine for Hösel and Eggerscheidt . Issue 14, May 30, 2008, p. 99 ff .
  • Lothar Riedel: The Velbert – Heiligenhaus – Hösel small train. The traffic history of a narrow-gauge railway in Niederbergischen . 2nd Edition. Riedel, Mülheim (Ruhr) 1996, ISBN 3-00-001056-4 .
  • Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 5: Bergisches and Siegerland. From Wuppertal to Bonn . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1996, ISBN 3-88255-333-2 .
  • Lothar Riedel, Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 5: North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-88255-662-5 , p. 179-186 .

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