Laxenburg Railway

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Mödling – Laxenburg
Route length: 4.7 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Vienna
Station, station
 0.00 Mödling 215.915  m above sea level A.
   
 to Gloggnitz
   
 0.3 Connection to Korkstein AG
   
 0.5 Connection to the coal store of the Vienna material magazine
   
 1.1 Abzw Griesfeld to the Wiener Lokalbahnen
   
 1.3 Viennese local railways Barrier post 1a
   
 1.4 Connection of Griesfeld brickworks
   
 4.0 Wiener Neustädter Canal (length 5.2 m)
   
 4.0 Aspang Railway
   
 4.7 Laxenburg 182,062  m above sea level A.

The Laxenburger Bahn was a railway line in Lower Austria between Mödling and Laxenburg . It was a wing path .

The Kaiserbahnhof 2012
The current end of the former Laxenburger Bahn in Mödling station
The very last remains of track in Wiener Neudorf

history

First years of operation

The railway, which was licensed on February 4, 1844, was opened after around six months of construction on September 28, 1845, four years after the southern railway , as Austria's first local railway . The construction costs amounted to 159,000 guilders . At first there was a steam farm in summer and a horse farm in winter. The reason for the construction was Laxenburg Castle , which was used by the Habsburgs as a summer residence.

Just like the southern railway line at first, the local railway was operated by the Vienna-Gloggnitz railway company . The reception building of the Laxenburg train station was particularly elaborately equipped as a train station for the nearby Laxenburg Palace .

Although the railway was nationalized in 1853, shortly afterwards it became the property of the Kk Südbahn-Gesellschaft .

Project for a railway from Laxenburg to Vienna

In 1899 there was a plan to build an electric train from Laxenburg via Mödling, Maria-Enzersdorf, Brunn am Gebirge, Perchtoldsdorf, Rodaun, via Liesing, Atzgersdorf, Altmanndorf to Vienna . A consortium chaired by Prince Wrede was set up for this purpose . The final stop in Vienna should be a street next to the Hofoper, possibly Operngasse . For parts of the route whose local conditions did not allow a new building, peage traffic with other already existing transport companies was considered . Such a line would have become a direct competitor for the parallel southern line, as well as for the local line Vienna – Baden , the steam tramway from Mödling to Vienna and the parallel lines from Vienna.

Climax

Due to the Laxenburg excursion area, up to 15 pairs of trains with all three carriage classes ran daily around the turn of the century . The travel time from Mödling to Laxenburg was ten minutes.

Until the end of the First World War , the route was regularly used by court trains , both of the Habsburgs and their guests who visited them in Laxenburg Castle.

Test drives with Austria's first diesel locomotive took place here in 1924 .

Shutdown

Passenger traffic was discontinued on March 31, 1932, at the same time as the Mödling – Hinterbrühl local railway , also because of competition from the LOBEG (load transport and omnibus operating company) bus service . Freight traffic continued to exist. Laxenburg station was deleted from the station directory in 1938.

From September 21, 1942 on the Mödling – Griesfeld section (length 1.870 km) passenger traffic was resumed for worker trains to the Ostmark aircraft engine works near Wiener Neudorf. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, public transport was suspended, but the tracks could be used by the Soviet occupying forces for trips on demand. After 1950 the route fell into disrepair.

Relics

Mödling

In Mödling, not much more than the street name An der Laxenburger Bahn reminded of their existence until 2008 . However, the street was named after the former mayor Heinrich Horny after the death of the mayor.

A short section of the main line is still in operation as a loading siding in Mödling.

Laxenburg

In Laxenburg, the received station building from 1847 is particularly reminiscent of the railway. After several temporary uses, it now serves as a restaurant under the name Kaiserbahnhof . The overgrown railway embankment can still be seen in places between the train station and the Aspangbahn .

literature

  • Hellmuth Fröhlich: Forgotten rails . In: Railway. Technical supplement “Die Modelleisenbahn” , issue 4. Minirex, Lucerne 1968, ISSN  1421-2900 , ISSN  0013-2756 , p. 54.
  • Hellmuth R. Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg, wing runway with Kaiserbahnhof . Slezak, Vienna 1989. ISBN 3-85416-147-6 (paperback), ISBN 3-85416-144-1 (paperboard)
  • Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Railways in the south of Vienna - On rails through the Mödling district. Kral, 2015. ISBN 9783990039

Web links

Commons : Laxenburger Bahn  - Collection of Images
  • Traffic changes from August 1, 1883, see: (Südbahn.) Wiener Zeitung, July 27, 1883, left column, 3rd paragraph from [5]

Remarks

  1. ↑ On the opening day, 2069 people are likely to have used the train.
  2. ↑ According to the winter timetable of the southern railway , nine trains ran daily in each direction from November 5, 1883 . (Winter timetable of the southern railway.) […] On the Liesing-Kaltenleutgabe line… Wiener Zeitung, October 25, 1883, r. Sp. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b P (eter) F (riedrich) Kupka: The Austrian-Hungarian Railways 1822-1867. Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 69
  2. ^ Imperial building permit from June 6, 1840, Zl. 28.393; Concessionaire: kk priv. Vienna-Raaber railway company . - In: Merry: Forgotten rails .
  3. ^ Opening of the Laxenburg Railway on… Wiener Zeitung, September 28, 1845 [2]
  4. ^ Austrian Railways. Railway to the kk Lustschloss Laxenburg. Wiener Zeitung, September 30, 1845 [3]
  5. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 68.
  6. ^ Correspondences. (An electric train Laxenburg-Vienna.) Badener Zeitung, June 10, 1899, p. 5, bottom right [4]
  7. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , p. 76.
  8. ↑ Figlhuber: Mödling – Laxenburg , pp. 68–73.
  9. ↑ Subject to a special train service for special occasions. - In: Merry: Forgotten rails .
  10. ↑ a b Merry: Forgotten rails .
  11. ↑ Street naming Dr. Heinrich Horny Strasse local council meeting in Mödling on Friday, November 21, 2008, accessed on February 19, 2009.
  12. ↑ Regio-Wiki Dr. Heinrich Horny Regio wiki entry about Dr. Heinrich Horny.
  13. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association