Local railway Mürzzuschlag – Neuberg

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Local railway Mürzzuschlag – Neuberg
Railcar series 5047 in Neuberg Ort (1991)
Railcar series 5047 in Neuberg Ort (1991)
Route number : ex 159 01
Course book route (ÖBB) : ex 53
Route length: 12,452 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route - straight ahead
Südbahn from Vienna Südbahnhof
Station, station
0.000 Mürzzuschlag 681 m
   
Southern runway to Spielfeld - Straß
   
1,577 Mürz
   
2.154 Eichhorn Valley
   
3.815 Coal life 688 m
   
6,589 Chapels 702 m
   
8.380 Hirschbach Bridge 712 m
   
9,380 Veitscher Magnesitwerke connection line
   
9,994 Arzbach 716 m
   
11.276 Veitschbach
   
11,422 Neuberg an der Mürz 731 m
   
12,174 Connection railway Austrian Federal Forests
   
12,452 Neuberg place

The local line Mürzzuschlag – Neuberg was a standard gauge branch line in Styria in Austria . It ran from Mürzzuschlag on the southern railway to Neuberg an der Mürz in the upper Mürz Valley and was mainly characterized by freight traffic to a large sawmill of the Austrian Federal Forests in Neuberg.

history

Construction, follow-up projects

Neuberg an der Mürz railway station around 1900

With the law of March 12, 1876, the formal legal basis was created for the construction of a standard gauge locomotive railway at state expense from Mürzzuschlag in connection with the southern railway to Neuberg . The railway was to be built as a secondary railway , on which, among other things, the trains had to run at a maximum speed of 15 kilometers per hour .

The local railway ( length: 12.3 km ) was opened on 1 December 1879 by August 27 the same year kk privileged Southern Railway Company adopted came from 1 January 1889 in its own director of state enterprise and was last of the ÖBB entertain . The goods traffic to a large sawmill of the Austrian Federal Forests in Neuberg was particularly important .

Planned extension road Kernhof – Terz – Mürzsteg – Neuberg and Terz – Maria Zell 1899 mapped.

When the railway opened, it was likely that it was planned to extend it to Freiland , which is more than 60 km away , since in the summer of 1881 it was reported that the route had already been tracked and welcomed by all neighboring communities.

In 1888 there was a legal plan to build a branch line belonging to the Leobersdorfer Bahn , Traisen – Freiland – St. Egyd – Kernhof – Terz – Mürzsteg – Neuberg . Had this wing runway been built in its entirety (or the narrow-gauge connection Mariazell – Niederalpl –Neuberg), there would have been an almost straight, approximately 100 km long north-south connection between St. Pölten and Mürzzuschlag . - Such a Tulln – St. Line with more or less rich branches. Pölten – Mürzzuschlag was already under discussion as one of its competing projects (aiming to connect the west and south lines) before the construction of the Leobersdorfer Bahn , ditto the St. Pölten – Mürzzuschlag line, around which the Baron Korb- Weidenheim and Moriz Ritter von Trebersburg, then Ernst Graf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein and Dr. Hermann Rössler as well as Emil Seybel and Victor Ritter von Ofenheim applied and, after construction started in spring 1871 (without claiming a state subsidy), it should have been completed in autumn 1872. Due to the founders' crash in 1873, the project was no longer ready for a decision for years.

In July 1926, a ten-member railway committee was set up in the town hall of Mariazell , which was given the task of doing all the preparatory work for the construction of the Neuberg – Mariazell – Kernhof railway , in particular of immediately issuing a pre-concession . The project was the subject of parliamentary initiatives until after the Great Depression in 1929 and was accordingly perceived by the public.

The railway line was known around 1970 as the last operational area of the series 91 steam locomotives of  the ÖBB.

Already in 1981 the community of Neuberg had the idea of ​​a more local stop near the Kuhhörndlbrücke, but the new stop "Neuberg Ort" could not be put into operation until the beginning of the 1985 summer timetable.

attitude

Special train with class 91 locomotive in Neuberg station.

On May 29, 1987 the pair of GmP trains 80955/80956 ran for the last time with the 2062.050 diesel locomotive between Mürzzuschlag and Neuberg Ort. Two days later, the route was switched to train control without radio, which meant that the Kapellen and Neuberg stations were no longer necessary.

In the last few years before the discontinuation, regular service with railcars of the 5047 series was introduced in economical one-man operation (conductors-less journeys, the train driver also sells tickets), but these measures could not prevent the cessation of operations and the replacement of the transport connection by postbuses.

Passenger traffic was discontinued on July 6, 1996, and total discontinuation on December 31, 2000.

Although private operators had been talking about resuming freight traffic several times since the shutdown, the ÖBB submitted an application to the Ministry of Transport for the final suspension of the route at the end of 2007.

In October 2009, the state of Styria bought the disused route in order to build a cycle path from Mürzzuschlag to Neuberg. The execution work (construction costs 780,000 euros) began in September 2010 by a company based in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district. The asphalting was completed at the end of 2010, and on June 19, 2011, the new cycle path was officially opened.

In autumn 2009, the Neuberg community acquired the historic station building there , which is under monument protection, with the aim, among other things, of keeping the imperial waiting room accessible to the public .

literature

  • For the routes: St. Pölten - Leobersdorf, Leobersdorf - Gutenstein, Scheibmühl - Kernhof (Mariazell), Neuberg - Mürzzuschlag . Illustrirter Führer on the Imperial and Royal Austrian State Railways, Volume 11. 3rd edition. Steyrermühl, Vienna 1900, OBV .

Web links

Commons : Lokalbahn Mürzzuschlag – Neuberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b RGBl. 1876/41. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1876, p. 99 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rgb.
  2. a b History of the Railways of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 248
  3. ^ History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 257
  4. ^ History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 382
  5. Railway and traffic news. (...) Railway Neuberg – Schrambach. In:  Oesterreichische tourist newspaper , year 1881, issue No. 5, September 1, 1881 (1st year), p. 54, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / otz.
  6. RGBl. 1888/109. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe , year 1888, p. 376 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rgb.
  7. ^ Motion from the manor's railway commission. Law of ..., regarding the local railways to be secured in 1894 (...) Article II. In:  388 of the supplements to the shorthand records of the manor , year 0011, XI. Session, p. 12. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sph.
  8. Transportation. Local railway Neuberg – Mariazell. In:  Oesterreichische tourist newspaper , year 1894, no. 5/1894 (XIV. Year), p. 53, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / otz.
  9. ^ History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 187.
  10. From the business world. (...) Connection of the southern railway with the western railway. In:  Morgen-Post , No. 311/1870 (XXth year), November 10, 1870, p. 5 (unpaginated) middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / mop.
  11. a b (Hans) MüllnerHohes Haus! (...). In:  Stenographic Protocol. 114th session of the National Council of the Republic of Austria, December 17, 1929 , year 0005, III. Legislative period, p. 3236 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / spe.
  12. ^ The railway construction Neuberg-Mariazell-Kernhof. In:  Die Neue Zeitung , July 14, 1926, p. 3, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nzg.
  13. The Neuberg – Mariazell – Kernhof railway construction project. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 141/1930 (CCXXVII. Year), June 21, 1930, p. 7, column 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  14. Railway No. 8, 1985, p. 150
  15. Peter Wegenstein: Data on the history of the Austrian railways In: Eisenbahnverkehr Aktuell No. 6, 1988, p. 10
  16. Neubergerbahn: Purchase done . In: kleinezeitung.at , June 16, 2009, accessed on March 23, 2011, the
    cycle path is “on track” . In: kleinezeitung.at , July 17, 2009, accessed on March 23, 2011.
  17. The construction work begins  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kleinezeitung.at , September 3, 2009, accessed on March 23, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / neu.kleinezeitung.at  
  18. a b Mürzzuschlag - Neuberg: The branch line became the noble cycle path . In: graz.radln.net , ARGUS Steiermark, June 20, 2011, accessed on July 29, 2013.
  19. Cross-country skiing on the new bike path . In: kleinezeitung.at , January 7, 2011, accessed on March 23, 2011.
  20. Old station new again . In: kleinezeitung.at , October 5, 2011, accessed on March 23, 2011.

Remarks

  1. After 1918, tunneling under the Göller massif was considered for this project . - See: Peter Melichar et al. (Ed.): Economy . Lower Austria in the 20th Century, Volume 2. Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78246-9 , p. 54, online .