Lammetalbahn

Bad Gandersheim - large fertilization
Route number (DB) :	1822
Course book section (DB) :	373
Route length:	formerly 32 km 9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend from Hildesheim 31.7 Large fertilizing to Goslar 29.4 Wesseln 27.6 Bad Salzdetfurth brine bath Lamb 26.3 Bad Salzdetfurth (formerly Bf) 22.8 Bodenburg (new stop) 22.4 Bodenburg (old Bf) to Elze 19.1 Sehlem 17.8 Harbarnsen 14.2 Grazes 12.3 Lamspringe 9.0 Gehrenrode 4.6 Altgandersheim from Börßum 0.0 Bad Gandersheim to Kreiensen Swell:

The Lamb Valley Railway is a branch line , which in large fertilizer from the Hildesheim-Goslar railway branches and now has Bad Salzdetfurth to Bodenburg leads. From there it continued via Lamspringe to Bad Gandersheim on the Braunschweigische Südbahn .

The remaining piece, which is completely in the area of ​​the city of Bad Salzdetfurth, is now used mainly for tourist and commuter traffic. The route here follows the Lamme river .

history

Wesseln stop

Train exit from Bad Salzdetfurth

Terminus in Bodenburg

The first section from Groß Düngen to Bad Salzdetfurth was opened on October 1st, 1900. The line to Bodenburg had been extended by November 7, 1901, where it met the extension of the branch line of the State Railroad from Elze on the Hanover Southern Railway to Gronau (Leine) , which opened on the same day . On October 1, 1902, the last section from Bodenburg via Lamspringe to Bad Gandersheim was opened to traffic.

From 1913 onwards , accumulator railcars were used on the Wittfeld route.

In 1966 passenger traffic was given up, and in 1974 goods traffic on the neighboring route between Elze and Bodenburg was given up. Passenger traffic between Bad Gandersheim and Bodenburg ceased after September 27, 1975. At the beginning of 1982, the section between Sehlem and Harbarnsen was also abandoned for freight traffic, followed by the section between Harbarnsen and Lamspringe on May 31, 1985 and finally the section between Bodenburg and Sehlem on May 30, 1987. In these sections, the route was cut during the construction of the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg . Due to the planned closure, no intersection structure was planned at Lamspringe when the new line was planned and built in the 1980s. In the planning and construction of the Kassemühle viaduct for the new line west of Sehlem, however, the route was still taken into account.

The tracks from Bad Gandersheim to Lamspringe were dismantled in 1994. Altgandersheim and Lamspringe were served by smaller freight trains almost to the end (mainly agricultural goods, late autumn sugar beet campaign in Altgandersheim, timber transports from the Cetto company in Lamspringe). Until the end of the 1980s, the then company Auer SOG also had a siding in the north of Bad Gandersheim. Even earlier there was a machine factory in Fricke and a porcelain factory, both Lamspringe, which used this route.

The section from Groß Düngen to Bodenburg was also threatened with closure in the 1980s and 1990s, but was preserved under pressure from the state and the city of Salzdetfurth. It was renovated from 2001 to 2003, and a new station was set up at the brine bath. Wesseln station, which was abandoned in 1991, was reopened in 2003 after modernization. The old Bodenburg station was abandoned in order to save a level crossing and replaced by a simple terminus a few hundred meters east of the former station. A combined platform for train and bus could also be built so that travelers can reach their connections to Bockenem and Bad Gandersheim quickly and with a short transfer route.

When the eurobahn went into operation in December 2003, the bus service in the Lammetal was adapted in favor of rail. At the same time, the ordered rail transport service was expanded by 160% by LNVG . As a result of the changed operating offer, the number of passenger kilometers on the route increased by 240% by 2006.

Today's meaning

The euro Bahn took over on 14 December 2003 operation of the Deutsche Bahn AG . With the timetable change in December 2011, the NordWestBahn took over the passenger services of the Lammetalbahn. She is traveling except Sunday morning the combination of Bodenburg on large Fertilize with by binding to Hildesheim in every hour . The timetable, whose symmetry time is four minutes later than usual, is not optimally geared to the connections in Hildesheim shortly before half an hour. Most trains continue on the Weserbahn to Hameln and Löhne .

As an association partner, the Lammetalbahn, together with Stadtverkehr Hildesheim and Regionalverkehr Hildesheim (RVHI) and the responsible authorities (district of Hildesheim, city of Hildesheim), will form part of the ROSA tariff association from December 2019 .

There are LINT from the vehicle pool of railcars Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen used.

In 2012, goods were also transported to Bad Salzdetfurth from Monday to Friday. Class 261 locomotives are used there . The trains come from the Hanover-Linden marshalling yard. From there you drive via Lehrte and Sehnde to Hildesheim and then on to Bad Salzdetfurth.

The Bad Gandersheim – Lamspringe section is now an asphalted cycle and hiking path that leads through the open, slightly hilly Heberbörde along extensive natural hedges through meadows and fields past sculptures of various genres (see: Sculpture Path ). The two large natural stone viaducts from around 1900 in the urban area of ​​Bad Gandersheim, which are under monument protection, are worth seeing.

Web links

• Uwe Helbig: The Lammetalbahn. Train and bus in the southern district of Hildesheim. Pro Bahn , accessed on July 3, 2017 . 
• Photos of the current state of the line
• 1944 timetable with stations and mileage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ^ DB project group Hanover – Würzburg (North) (ed.): New line Hanover – Würzburg: Graste. Lamspringe. Brochure (14 pages, folded) as of July 1, 1984
4. ^ DB project group Hanover – Würzburg (North) (ed.): New line Hanover – Würzburg: Sehlem, Harbarnsen, Netze. Brochure (14 pages, folded) as of July 1, 1984
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. LNVG, sub-network Weser- / Lammetalbahn 
6. ↑ Press release of August 21, 2019: ROSA is well received - The ROSA tariff association for the Hildesheim region starts in December 2019