Local railway Korneuburg – Hohenau

Korneuburg – Ernstbrunn – Mistelbach – Hohenau
Route number (ÖBB) :	181 01
Route number :	1811
Route length:	79.830 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4 (Korneuburg - Stetten, Mistelbach Lokalbahn - Hohenau) B2 (Stetten - Ernstbrunn)
Maximum slope :	27  ‰
Minimum radius :	147 m
Top speed:	40 km / h
Legend from Vienna 0.000 Korneuburg 170 m to Retz – Znojmo 2.362 Agricultural storage siding 2.557 Pioneer Park siding 3.805 Siding from Fetter 4.241 Siding from Flaga 5.245 Siding substation Bisamberg 5.463 Stetten fossil world 8,617 Rückersdorf- Harmannsdorf 178 m 11,490 Mollmannsdorf 209 m 15,081 Würnitz - Hetzmannsdorf 260 m 17,100 Weinsteig - Großrußbach 19.806 Karnabrunn 21,922 EK B 6 21,990 Wetzleinsdorf 250 m 25.176 Naglern - Simonsfeld 29.937 Ernstbrunn 256 m 29,993 Siding cement works 30.064 EK B 6 33,870 Niederleis 38,000 Count Sulz 290 m 41,400 Schletz 43,569 Asparn on the Zaya 223 m Laaer Ostbahn from Gänserndorf 49,446 EK B 40 from Laaer Ostbahn 49.817 Mistelbach local train station 50.640 EK B 46 56.109 Wilfersdorf - Hobersdorf 58,309 Bullendorf 60,700 Ebersdorf 62.039 Prinzendorf - Rannersdorf 66.251 House churches 69.542 Neusiedl - Ortisei from Bad Pirawarth 71.787 Dobermannsdorf 168 m to Poysdorf from Vienna 79.830 Hohenau 151 m to Břeclav only bicycle trolleys

The Korneuburg – Hohenau local line is a branch line in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel . It runs from Korneuburg via Ernstbrunn and Mistelbach to Hohenau . The owner and operator are the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).

Daily passenger traffic ceased in 1988. From May to October the Nostalgieexpress Leiser Berge runs on Saturdays and public holidays. Freight traffic is still handled between Korneuburg and Ernstbrunn by the ÖBB and the Regiobahn. In the Mistelbach LKB-Hohenau section, freight traffic will also be resumed from the end of 2020. The section from Ernstbrunn to Asparn an der Zaya is currently used as a tourist train and traversed by railroad trolleys (Weinvierteldraisine). The Zayatal rail taxi drives between Grafensulz and Mistelbach.

With the 2015/2016 timetable change, freight traffic between Mitstelbach LKB and Hohenau was discontinued, and the route was then discontinued under railway law. However, the initiative of the Neue Landesbahn (NLB) association and four neighboring communities succeeded in acquiring the line from the ÖBB. A reopening as a connecting railway is planned for the end of 2020.

history

Prinzendorf-Rannersdorf station from around 1906 to 1910

Steam railcar number 30 , delivered for the Korneuburg – Ernstbrunn local railway (before 1907)

The route that crosses the Weinviertel in an east-west direction was opened on November 26, 1904 between Korneuburg and Ernstbrunn and extended to Hohenau on November 15, 1906. On June 18, 1914, the Lower Austrian State Railways took over operations. In addition to the transport-related development of the Weinviertel, the railway also gained military importance, as the barracks in Korneuburg and Mistelbach are directly on the route. After the state railways were dissolved in 1921, their lines became the property of the Austrian Federal Railways (then BBÖ), which is still the owner of the infrastructure today.

On May 28, 1988, passenger traffic was suspended on large parts of the Weinviertel route network, including between Korneuburg and Hohenau. Freight traffic is currently still in operation between Korneuburg and Harmannsdorf-Rückersdorf, as well as between Mistelbach and Hohenau. Until 1999, occasional nostalgic special trips were carried out over the entire route, then the Ernstbrunn – Mistelbach section had to be closed due to defects in the superstructure.

Local train location

Due to its proximity to Vienna and the sometimes quite steep route through a charming, sparsely populated landscape, the local railway was often used as a location for films.

In 1976 the line and the Niederleis and Karnabrunn train stations were used as a filming location for an episode of the series " The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk " with Fritz Muliar , Heinz Marecek and Harald Serafin . The action takes place in Russia at the time of the First World War, a train made up of flat roof freight cars and (more than anachronistic) an ÖBB 93 locomotive was used.

In 1978, the railway and station scenes for the film " Steiner - The Iron Cross II " with Richard Burton and directed by Andrew V. McLaglan were shot again in Karnabrunn . During a staged bombardment of the train station, the old goods shed and a water tower built especially for the film were blown up. While the shed from the construction phase of the railway was blown up as planned, the water tower refused to the chagrin of the film crew.

Also in 1978 Universal Pictures shot scenes for the remake of " The Prisoner of Zenda " with Peter Sellers , Lynne Frederick and Elke Sommer at the Karnabrunn train station . For the film, the train station was fitted into a pre-alpine scenery by means of a matt painting . A historic train with the 17c 372 locomotive from the Strasshof Railway Museum was used.

These and several other "appearances" in films earned the Karnabrunn train station the nickname "Filmbahnhof".

Reuse

To revive and reactivate the route in commuter and excursion traffic, the association "Neue Landesbahn" was founded. A future project proposed by the association that can be implemented quickly provides for an easy-to-remember timetable for passenger traffic for the Floridsdorf-Korneuburg-Ernstbrunn route. The operating company "regiobahn Leiser Berge" is founded to operate the railway infrastructure and is planning to start operations in December 2017.

Since 2007, a trolleybus has been set up between Ernstbrunn and Asparn / Zaya to promote tourism; this use is also intended to prevent further deterioration and the removal of the tracks.

From May to the end of October, the NostalgieExpress Leiser Berge runs from Vienna Praterstern via Korneuburg to Ernstbrunn and back on Saturdays and public holidays .

Furthermore, at the end of September 2012, the "Zayataler Schienentaxi" (a museum railway company with an ÖBB X626 rail trolley and passenger sidecars on Sundays and public holidays from May to October) between Asparn ad Zaya and Mistelbach was officially opened. In 2018, the Zayatal rail taxi was extended to Grafensulz. The Hohenau – Mistelbach connection was previously used as an international alternative route for the northern line to Vienna, mainly in the event of floods on the March . The ÖBB management wants to lead the alternative route via Slovakia in the future. The route was discontinued at the 2015/2016 timetable change. The Neue Landesbahn association and four of the six neighboring communities (Wilfersdorf, Hauskirchen, Neusiedl / Zaya, Hohenau) founded the Zayatalbahn GMBH, which acquired the line from ÖBB in 2019. A reopening as a connecting railway is planned for the end of 2020, after which a nostalgic operation and goods traffic to the warehouses Wilfersdorf and Dobermannsdorf will be carried out. Freight traffic will be handled by the Regiobahn, which already serves many warehouses in the Korneuburg-Ernstbrunn section, on the Retz-Drosendorf local railway and other routes in the Weinviertel.

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  Stetten stop

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  Rückersdorf-Harmannsdorf train station

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  Ernstbrunn railway station
  (freight traffic only)

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  The draisine route near Niederleis

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  Route between Grafensulz and Schletz

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  Schletz stop

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  Entering the Asparn train station from the direction of Ernstbrunn

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  The abandoned Asparn train station

literature

• Wolfdieter Hufnagl: The Lower Austrian State Railways . Transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-71214-8 .
• Detlef Löffler, Gerald Pohl, Alfred Jirout, Karl Zellhofer: Regionalbahn Korneuburg - Ernstbrunn. An unforgettable railway experience at the gates of Vienna . ÖBB special edition. Art Quarterly Publishing House, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502841-2-6 .
• Karl Zellhofer, Martin Zellhofer: About the Weinviertel Semmering. The Korneuburg – Ernstbrunn railway line. From the state railway to the regiobahn . Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503611-8-6 .

Web links

Commons : Lokalbahn Korneuburg-Hohenau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.landesbahn.at "Neue Landesbahn" association
• Photo ride 2008 ( Memento from September 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• Photos from planned operations in the 1980s of the Korneuburg - Mistelbach LB section by Michael Heussler on zenfolio.com
• Photos from Dobermannsdorf station ( Memento from June 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• BR 2070.068 at Ernstbrunn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nostalgia Express Quiet Mountains on [1]
2. ↑ Train line through the Zayatal should attract tourists. Retrieved August 5, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Opening of the Korneuburg – Ernstbrunn regional railway. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 14461/1904, November 26, 1904, p. 3, top left. (Online at ANNO ).
4. ^ ^{A b} Franz Ladner, Gerhard Ullram: 100 Years of the Landesbahn . Ed .: Verein Neue Landesbahn. 2nd Edition. New State Railway Association, Mistelbach 2006, p. 63 .
5. ↑ The "regiobahn" can start . In: kurier.at , May 13, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2013.
6. ↑ It starts on December 13th, 2015 (timetable change!)… . In: regiobahn Leiser Berge Eisenbahninf Infrastruktur Ges. MbH (in formation): regiobahn.at , accessed on August 26, 2013.
7. ^ NostalgieExpress Leiserberge , accessed on January 4, 2016
8. ↑ Go to the alpacas: the rail taxi will be extended. May 24, 2018, accessed August 5, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Successful revival of the Zayatalbahn. January 9, 2020, accessed August 5, 2020 . 

Remarks

1. ↑ Licenses: RGBl. 1904/67. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1904, pp. 161–165 (online at ANNO ). as well as
   RGBl. 1906/34. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1906, pp. 341–346 (online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ redemptions: BGBl 1934/373. In:  Federal Law Gazette for the Federal State of Austria , year 1934, p. 855 (online at ANNO ). and
   Federal Law Gazette 1935/504. In:  Federal Law Gazette for the Federal State of Austria , year 1935, p. 1816 (online at ANNO ). .