Muellheim-Badenweiler Railway

Muellheim (Baden) - Badenweiler
A. Borsig, Berlin: 2x2 / 2 composite tender locomotive for 1 m gauge, built in 1898 for Mülheim Badenweiler Eisenbahn
Course book section (DB) :	307h (1934) 307f (1944)
Route length:	7.57 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	from 1914: 1000 V  =
Maximum slope :	33  ‰
Minimum radius :	40 m
Legend Rhine Valley Railway from Karlsruhe 0.00 Muellheim (Baden) 250  m above sea level NN Rhine Valley Railway to Basel Neuchâtel runs 1.65 Muellheim Kogermühle Neuchâtel runs 1.95 Müllheim gym 2.35 Müllheim district court 2.75 Müllheim (Baden) city 4.03 Niederweiler Warteck 4.40 Niederweiler 295  m above sea level NN 5.45 Evasion 5.80 Badenweiler-Oberweiler 330  m above sea level NN 6.65 Badenweiler Hasenburg Klemmbach 7.57 Badenweiler 420  m above sea level NN

The Müllheim-Badenweiler Eisenbahn AG ( MBE ) is a former railway company in southern Baden that operated the meter-gauge railway line from Müllheim to Badenweiler . The line was opened in 1896 and closed in 1955. Within the city of Müllheim, it was laid out like a tram . The railway was initially operated as a steam tram and electrified in 1914. It overcame a height difference of 170 meters over a length of 7.57 kilometers between the state train station in Müllheim and the spa town of Badenweiler .

history

Muellheim-Badenweiler Eisenbahn-AG share of more than 1,000 marks, January 1, 1913

The railway was founded in 1894 with the significant participation of the railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter as Localbahn Müllheim-Badenweiler ("Badenweiler Bähnle"). On February 15, 1896, the operation was opened as a steam-powered tram. Eight intermediate stops were served from the start. Initially, Vering & Waechter ran the business itself, and in 1899 the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft (DEBG) took over management. From January 1, 1913, the Müllheim-Badenweiler Eisenbahn AG ran the company. The steam trains were replaced on April 7, 1914 by electric vehicles that were operated with 1000 volts  DC voltage.

The former train station in Badenweiler is a listed building and is now privately owned, 2012

In the 1950s, the company, whose main shareholder was Rheinische Elektrizitäts-AG in Mannheim, lost interest in continuing to operate the railway. From March 1, 1955, the state of Baden-Württemberg became its owner, and it came to the Mittelbadische Eisenbahnen on March 29, 1955 . They found that the railway was in very poor condition and modernization could not be financed. It stopped all rail traffic on May 22, 1955. Since then, the Müllheim-Badenweiler transport company has been using buses as part of the Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs AG (SWEG) .

The tracks were completely dismantled in 1970. The former route in Badenweiler is still clearly visible north of the Klemmbach at the level of the Fischermühle. The bridge there over the Klemmbach was demolished after 1972, as was the car shed in Müllheim. The railway station building and the car shed in Badenweiler were still there in 2005.

With a curve radius of 40 meters, the railway had the smallest radius of all private Baden railways.

vehicles

For steam operation, the railway initially had three B-coupled wet steam tank locomotives from Borsig ( 1–3 , construction numbers 4474–4476) and another tank locomotive ( 4 , construction number 4644) of the Mallet type . The railway had six passenger cars , a baggage and mail car , four freight cars and a company vehicle . Locomotive 1 came to the Spremberger Stadtbahn as number 6 and stayed there until 1957, the 2 was handed over to the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1920 , where it was number 61 in 1954. After electrification, number 4 ran from 1914 to 1926 on the Spreewaldbahn .

Five four-axle railcars with the numbers 21 to 25 were procured for electrical operation . The traction current was taken via two massive pantographs from the overhead contact line , which is similar to a full railroad . The wheel sets of the individual bogies were connected to one another with coupling rods . The passenger cars from the steam operation continued to be used and three more vehicles were added later. The bogie cars occasionally had central entrances, the sidecar was a summer car . Two freight cars were also purchased at a later date. In 1955, railcar 22 was the only vehicle that went to the later Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for test purposes and was added to the inventory there as ET 01.22. It was parked in Ittersbach for a long time and was taken out of service before 1972. The remaining vehicles were scrapped in Müllheim in the summer of 1955.

literature

• Stefan Kirner: The local railway from Müllheim to Badenweiler . Kenning, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-19-1 .
• Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 101-105 .
• Gerd Wolff, Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways. Volume 2: Bathing . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-653-6 , p. 92-103 .

Web links

• Reiner Schruft: Muellheim (Baden) - Badenweiler. In: vergierter-Bahnen.de. Retrieved May 21, 2007 . 
• Deutsche Reichsbahn (Hrsg.): German course book. Annual timetable 1944/1945 . Table 703f. July 3, 1944 ( pkjs.de ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} G. Schacher: The local railway Müllheim - Badenweiler . In: Tram magazine . No. 5 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart May 1972, p. 69-73 .
2. ↑ Reiner Schruft: Müllheim (Baden) - Müllheim city. In: vergierter-bahnen.de. Retrieved August 3, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Reiner Schruft: Müllheim (Baden) City - Badenweiler. In: vergierter-bahnen.de. Retrieved August 3, 2017 . 
4. ^ Albert Kuntzemüller : The Baden Railways 1840-1940 . Self-published by the Geographic Institutes of the Universities of Freiburg i. Br. And Heidelberg, Freiburg im Breisgau 1940, p. 191 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Stefan Kirner: The local railway from Müllheim-Badenweiler . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-19-1 , p. 28 .