Local railway Rhein – Ettenheimmünster
| Local railway Rhein – Ettenheimmünster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book section (DB) : | 303a (1950); 305r (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 15.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm, from 1922/1927: 1435 mm |
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| Maximum slope : | 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | Narrow gauge: 80 m, standard gauge: 180 m |
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The local railway Rhein – Ettenheimmünster was put into operation on December 22nd, 1893 by a consortium consisting of the railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter , Mitteldeutscher Creditbank and Moritz von Cohn and incorporated into the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft AG with effect from April 1st, 1899 .
It began on the banks of the Rhine opposite the Alsatian town of Rheinau , which was connected to Strasbourg by an overland tram and to which a ship bridge led over. The railway ran eastward through the lowlands to Orschweier - today part of Mahlberg - where it crossed the Badische Hauptbahn Offenburg - Freiburg . Then it continued into the Black Forest via the baroque town of Ettenheim , where the depot was located, to the end point in Ettenheimmünster .
While the two branches of the route were only used three to five times a day, the Orschweier – Ettenheim section had twice the number of pairs of trains.
In the time of crisis after the First World War , the railway company tried to streamline operations. Therefore the section west of Orschweier - half of the line - was shut down on October 24, 1921 and then dismantled. The Rheinufer – Kappel route had not been served since 1918 because the left bank of the Rhine had meanwhile become French.
The eastern part was called "little train Orschweier-Ettenheimmünster" on standard gauge umgespurt what the operation was temporarily suspended on August 6 1,922th The reopening took place on September 17, 1922 to Ettenheim and on January 21, 1923 to Münchweier. The last part did not follow until December 11, 1927.
In this form, the railway survived the following decades including the Second World War . With the beginning of the summer timetable in 1954, passenger transport was discontinued, which had been supplemented by bus trips for a long time . The freight from Ettenheim rested since August 18, 1957, the remaining traffic ended on 31 August 1966. At that time, the train - since 1963 - already the property of the South West German railway company (SWEG).
literature
- Gerd Wolff, Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways. Volume 2: Baden EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-653-6 , pp. 388-394
- Bernhard Uttenweiler: 's Ettenheimer Bähnle. History of the local railway from Ettenheimmünster to the Rhine. Historic Association Ettenheim, Ettenheim 1992
- Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 89-94 .