Hanover Southern Railway

Hannover Hbf – Kassel Hbf
Route number (DB) :	1732
Course book section (DB) :	350 Hannover Hbf – Göttingen Siekweg 360.4 Hannover Hbf – Barnten 611 Hann. Münden – Kassel Hbf (ex 250, 257, 600)
Route length:	166 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
Dual track :	continuous
Legend from Hamburg / Heidebahn Line from Minden / Bremen S-Bahn Hanover 0.0 Hanover Central Station according to Lehrte formerly to Hannover Hbf horse tower (Bbf) Hanover local station Hanover-Altenbekener Hannover Südbf ( Gbf , 1880 ~ 1995) former route to Altenbeken (until 1909) 3.1 Hanover Bismarckstrasse 3.6 Junction Hannover Bismarckstr. (SFS) to Altenbeken Freight bypass Hanover from Hanover freight bypass 7.0 Hannover-Wülfel (until 1977 Pbf ) former Messebf (1953 to 1998) 8.0 Hanover Fair / Laatzen 11.9 Rethen (leash) SFS to Würzburg Innermost 18.4 Sarstedt 21.4 High-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg 22.8 Barnts to Hildesheim 26.5 Nordstemmen ( wedge station ) rope 29.7 Poppenburg 32.9 Elze (Han) 32.9 formerly to Bodenburg 32.9 to Hameln Row 39.0 Dumbbells 42.2 Bruggen (Han) 45.8 Godenau 49.8 Alfeld (leash) rope 58.7 Freden (leash) from Börßum 68.8 Kreiensen (wedge station) formerly to Osterode to Holzminden 76.8 from Einbeck center 76.8 Einbeck-Salzderhelden 82.4 Edesheim (Leine) SFS from Hanover A 7 85.0 Edesheim (Leine) North ( Abzw ) Edesheim (Leine) (Abzw) 86.2 Edesheim (Leine) South (Abzw) SFS to Würzburg (SFS bypasses Northeim) Rhume ( Rhumebrücke (91 m)) from Nordhausen 88.6 Northeim (Han) (wedge station) 89.4 Northeim (Han) Gbf to Ottbergen 92.0 Sudheim SFS from Hanover (SFS bypasses Northeim) B 3 97.8 Norten-Hardenberg former route to the Reyershausen potash mine 101.7 Bovenden Bovender lid (400 m) from Bodenfelde Göttingen turn B 3 (formerly federal motorway 388 ) 106.6 Göttingen Gbf 108.1 Goettingen B 3 former Gartetalbahn to Duderstadt ( narrow gauge ) former route to Bebra (until 1922) rope after Bebra (from 1922) (110.6) Göttingen-Siekweg ( Abzw ) SFS to Würzburg 112.1 A 7 113.0 B 3 (Dransfelder Str.) 113.1 Gross Ellershausen 114.8 B 3 119.2 B 3 (Rischenkrug) 123.2 Basaltwork 123.6 Raiffeisen 123.8 Dransfeld 128.0 B 3 BK Wellersen 132.1 Upper Sweden 135.9 Volkmarshäuser Tunnel (325 m) 136.2 Volkmarshausen 140.5 Münden north 140.8 Private connection 141.0 Port railway Weser transshipment point 141.3 Werratalbrücke Münden and B 80 142.0 Line from Halle (Saale) 142.0 Hann Münden 144.8 Instead of Bonaforth 148.7 Wilhelmshausen planned connection route to Warburg 151.4 Speele 155.2 Kragenhof SFS from Göttingen Fulda , state border Lower Saxony - Hesse Lohberg tunnel (1039 m) ( Flyover structure ) 157.6 Fulda valley - Ihringshausen 161.3 Vellmar - Niedervellmar Link from Warburg Junction Kassel northwest 162.4 Kassel Rbf North 163.8 Kassel Rbf SFS to Würzburg Freight route to Kassel-Unterstadt from Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe from Warburg System change 15 kV ~ / 600 V = 166.2 Kassel Central Station RegioTram Kassel

The Hannöversche Südbahn , also the Hanover – Kassel line, is a double-track, electrified main line in Lower Saxony and Hesse . It runs from Hanover via Göttingen and Hann. Münden to Kassel .

history

1856: The Hanover Southern Railway: The Kragenhof Bridge near Kassel ; Wood engraving from the Illustrirten Zeitung

Growing south portal of the Volkmarshausen tunnel

Rail bus in the former Kragenhof stop (bridge) near Spiekershausen

For the construction of a railway from Hanover to the south of the kingdom , the then City Syndic of Göttingen, Ferdinand Oesterley , campaigned as early as the 1830s . In 1847, Rudolph Berg also carried out preparatory work for the "Hannover-Kassel connection". Its northern sections Hanover – Alfeld and Alfeld – Göttingen were opened on May 1, 1853 and July 31, 1854, respectively, and are still in operation as part of the once important north-south line . The southern section from Göttingen to Hann. Münden , also known as Dransfelder Rampe , was opened on May 8, 1856, and parts of it were shut down from 1980 to 1995. The connection of Hann. Münden to Kassel was added in 1856, it is still in operation as part of the Hanover Southern Railway.

The term Hannöversche Südbahn became obsolete with the Prussian annexation in 1866 , but it has been adopted by railway enthusiasts in today's usage. The largest section from Hanover to Göttingen is now included in the north-south route.

This railway connection was also built by the Royal Hanover State Railways to transport the Hann. Münden to connect with its port to the capital of the Kingdom of Hanover. As far as Göttingen, the route was relatively easy to lead through the Leinetal - but bypassing the important brewery town of Einbeck . In order to avoid a line over the Hessian area, the following southern section was made despite difficult terrain and enormous inclines over Dransfeld to Hann. Münden out. Hence the name Dransfelder Rampe for this section of the route.

Although the total distance up Kragenhof (just before Kassel) except the Brunswick town Kreiensen was completely hannöverschem and Lower Saxon area today, the two track sections since been Reichsbahn times Hannover-Göttingen and Göttingen Hann. Münden is treated differently in the company. First, they received different course book numbers (Hannover-Göttingen: 202/250; Göttingen-Hann Munden. 202a / 257), and on the other the responsibility lay the directorates for the northern part in Hanover, for the southern sector in Kassel, later in Frankfurt Main .

Until the 1960s, this line was one of the most important main connections in Germany along its entire length. Due to the demarcation after the Second World War, the traffic flow shifted in a north-south direction, which was noticeable on this north-south connection in addition to the Cologne – Frankfurt routes. This changed, at least for the Dransfelder Rampe, when in 1963 the north-south route Hanover – Gemünden (Main) and in 1964 the Werra valley route from Kassel – Hann. Münden – Eichenberg were electrified . The Göttingen – Dransfeld – Hann. Münden remained without a contact wire. From then on, the trains took the eight kilometers longer, but significantly less incline and electrified route via Eichenberg . The Dransfelder Rampe was left with three local trains in each direction on weekdays, in 1980 passenger traffic on this section was stopped and two years later the dismantling of the tracks between Göttingen and Dransfeld began. The rest of the section served by Hann. Münden was used as a freight siding for another 10 to 15 years, until this was also closed down and the track was partially dismantled. This meant that the Hannöversche Südbahn in the Göttingen – Hann. Münden interrupted.

In view of the steadily increasing load on the line, the line was also equipped with new signal box technology and additional overtaking tracks and the superstructure was reinforced in the 1960s. The increasing load led to discussions about the construction of a new line.

With the introduction of hourly Intercity traffic, the remaining section from Hanover to Göttingen was chronically overloaded. IC shared the route with D, express, local and freight trains. It is not uncommon for several trains to follow each other in block distance . Kassel was separated from the IC network due to its terminus station , the trains took the route from Göttingen via Bebra .

In the course of the construction of the high-speed line Hannover – Würzburg , the Hannöversche Südbahn was relocated to the east in the area of ​​the Northeimer Kiesseen. Construction work on the new line could only begin after operations on the relocated section of the line had started in November 1985. In the city of Hanover and Laatzen, nine level crossings were removed as part of the construction of the high-speed line. In the common section north of Göttingen (as far as Edesheim), several level crossings have also been removed. In 1978 and 1979, the planning approval decisions for the necessary replacement systems in this section were issued.

Fuldatal-Ihringshausen station with Cantus railcars. The Bundesbahn intended to do without this station after the construction of the high-speed line (in the trough).

When the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg , which runs between Hanover and Göttingen almost parallel to the Hanover Southern Railway and offers several connections to this, was opened over its entire length in 1991 , the northern section also lost its most important long-distance connections. From then on, IC connections ran via the high-speed route and were increasingly converted into ICE connections. Interregio and express trains, however, continued to use the old route. The Interregio trains have now been converted to IC. Since the high-speed route is reserved for freight traffic from 11 p.m. onwards, an ICE from Göttingen takes the route via the Hannöversche Südbahn. Kassel was also connected to the high-speed network with the Wilhelmshöhe long-distance train station.

business

Hanover – Göttingen

A railcar in the direction of Nordhausen ( Südharz route ) leaves Göttingen station .

While ICE long-distance traffic takes place almost exclusively on the high-speed route , the former Stralsund – Karlsruhe interregional trains, which have now been renamed " Intercity ", ran every two hours until the timetable change in December 2009 . At the 2009 timetable change, this IC line was relocated from individual trains between Hanover and Göttingen to the high-speed line, which means that the stops in Northeim, Kreiensen and Alfeld have been omitted; Only one IC train pair operates on the existing route (as of: 2011 timetable).

Since December 2005, the metronome of the railway company of the same name has been serving regional traffic on the route from Hamburg via Uelzen and Hanover to Göttingen every hour , this replaces all regional trains of Deutsche Bahn (except for the section from Hanover via Sarstedt to Hildesheim) . The connection from Löhne via Hameln , Elze and Nordstemmen to Hildesheim was operated by the eurobahn from 2003 until the timetable change in December 2011 . Since 2011, the NordWestBahn has taken over the service of the Weserbahn and Lammetalbahn .

In the section between Hanover and Barnten, trains to Hildesheim also use the Hannöversche Südbahn. Since December 2008, the Hanover S-Bahn has been running with the S 4 line between Bennemühlen and Hildesheim. In addition, a regional express runs from Hanover to Bad Harzburg every hour . These trains were operated by DB Regio until December 2014 , and since then by the OHE subsidiary erixx .

Night and car trains are also on the "old" route. The route is still heavily frequented by freight traffic.

Göttingen – Kassel

The route on the section of the Dransfeld ramp, which has been converted into a railway cycle path

→ Main article : Dransfeld ramp

The former section from Göttingen via Dransfeld to Hann. Münden has mostly been converted into a cycle path or designated and overgrown as a fauna-flora-habitat area . Individual plots have now been built over with residential or commercial buildings.

After the cessation of passenger traffic via Dransfeld in May 1980, all trains ran exclusively via Eichenberg . As before, the neighboring locations of the Dransfeld route were served by rail buses, in the timetable under number 2554, today the RBB line 120.

In the section Hann. Münden – Kassel today the regional trains of the cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft from Göttingen, coming via Eichenberg, and the regional trains of the DB Regio from the direction of Erfurt / Halle (Saale) until 2015 . Here, too, there is a lot of freight traffic. Since December 2015 the RE 9 of Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland has been running the route via Hann. Münden and Eichenberg to Halle (Saale).

Picture gallery

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  Hanover Central Station (with Ernst-August- Platz)

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  Laatzen exhibition center

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  Sarstedt station

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  Elze train station

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  Freden (Leine) train station

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  Einbeck - Salzderhelden train station

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  Goettingen train station

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  Former Dransfeld train station

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  Hann Münden station

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  Kassel main train station

literature

• Jens-Uwe Brinkmann: On rails through time. The Göttingen train station from the Hanover Southern Railway to the end of the steam age. Edition Peperkorn, Göttingen 2001.
• Ferdinand Osterley: About the Hannoversche Süd-Eisenbahn . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1846 ( digitized ).
• Deutsche Bundesbahn, general agency Göttingen of the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover (Ed.): 125 years of the Alfeld – Göttingen railway line , Göttingen 1979.

Web links

Commons : Hannöversche Südbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Hannöversche Südbahn  - travel guide

• Information about the northern section of the Hanover Southern Railway

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Information and pictures about the tunnels on the 1732 line on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
3. ^ Helmut Knocke : Berg, Theodor F. Rudolph. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 51 and more often. ( online at google books )
4. ↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, general agency Göttingen of the Federal Railway Directorate Hanover (ed.): 125 years of the Alfeld – Göttingen railway line , Göttingen 1979, p. 23.
5. ^ H. Weber: The new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: Bundesbahndirektion Hannover (Ed.): 1843 - 1983: 140 years of the Hannover Railway Directorate . Hannover, approx. 1983, pp. 95-97.
6. ^ Project group of the NBS Hanover of the Bahnbauzentrale (Ed.): New line Hanover – Würzburg: The Northeim - Göttingen section , brochure, 44 A4 pages as of May 1988, p. 7
7. ↑ Helmut Weber, Walter Engels, Helmut Maak: The new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: Railway technical review . 28, No. 10, 1979, pp. 725-734.

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