Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein railway line
| Berchtesgaden – hanging stone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book range : | 248 c | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 12.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 1000 volts = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein railway line , usually known as the local line or colloquially as the Green Electric , was a 12.6 km long cross-border branch line . The standard-gauge and electrified line ran from Berchtesgaden in Bavaria to Grödig in Austria . There, at Hangender Stein station, there was a connection to the Salzburg – Hangender Stein railway , the so-called Red Electric . The railway described here was operationally closely linked to this. At the starting point in Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof there was again a link with the Freilassing – Berchtesgaden railway and the Königsseebahn .
history
After Berchtesgaden had been connected to the railway network from Freilassing in 1888 , the Royal Bavarian State Railways began building the adjoining Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein local railway at the end of 1905, which was initially steam-powered. On July 16, 1907, the Berchtesgaden– Marktschellenberg section , at that time still Schellenberg Markt , was opened, and on October 1, 1907, it was completed to Hangender Stein. On the same day, the steam tram coming from the Salzburg local train station from St. Leonhard-Drachenloch to Hangender Stein was extended.
On January 15, 1908, electrical operations began between Berchtesgaden and Hangender Stein. From July 1, 1909, with the electrification of the Austrian connection route, there was continuous electrical operation on the entire route between Salzburg and Berchtesgaden. There was a common line, on this run green painted vehicles of the Royal Bavarian State Railways to Salzburg and red painted vehicles of the Salzburg Railway and Tramway Company (SETG) to Berchtesgaden. This was a predecessor of today's Salzburg AG . The vehicles were largely identical, there were also uniform tariffs and cross-border personnel deployment.
Before that, on May 29, 1909, the Königsseebahn to Königssee went into operation at the other end point in Berchtesgaden . There was a track connection between the two railway lines on the Berchtesgaden station forecourt . This was only used as an operating track for business trips and also served as an electrical connection between the two railways, which were fed by the joint Gartenau hydropower station . The Bavarian part, like the Königsseebahn, was electrified with 1000 volts DC. The power system chosen for the Austrian section was 800 volts direct current , which was a common voltage for trams at the time. This difference arose from the route: the Bavarian section was consistently carried out on its own railway track, while the Austrian section was mostly on public roads.
On October 2, 1938, the local line between Berchtesgaden and Hangender Stein, and beyond on the Austrian side to St. Leonhard, was finally shut down. The reason for this was the planned and partially started construction of a double-track main line between Berchtesgaden and Salzburg, which was never completed due to the outbreak of World War II . In addition, due to political repression, there was a significant drop in passengers on the route from 1933 onwards.
In the position paper of the VDV (April 2020) the route was listed as a "test case of a route to be reactivated".
Web links
- Detailed route description on www.kbaystb.de
- Description of the hanging stone tunnel at www.eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salzburg-Berchtesgaden electric train . In: Walter Reichel (ed.): Electric power companies and railways . Volume VI, Issue 6. R. Oldenbourg, February 24, 1908, p. 111 f . ( archive.org ).
- ^ Electric railways in Berchtesgadener Land . In: Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering . Volume XXVI, Issue 40. Vienna October 4, 1908, p. 863 ( onb.ac.at ).
- ↑ 120 years of railway history in Berchtesgadener Land on www.regionale-schienen.at (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ On the agenda: reactivation of railway lines on www.vdv.de (PDF)