Marburg circular path

Marburg-Dreihausen
Course book range :	193c (1944)
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend 0.0 Marburg South Krbf 0.4 Heating oil store (until 1998) 0.5 Handover to the Main-Weser Railway 1.2 B 255 / L 3125 1.3 Industrial connections (until 1998) 1.9 Cappel 2.6 Stone mill (not always operated) 2.7 Connection stone mill 4.2 Connection to Raiffeisen 4.3 Ronhausen 4.8 Hilgerbach 6.2 Bortshausen 6.3 Hilgerbach 8.3 Dirt road 9.2 L 3089 9.6 Ebsdorf 11.2 Heskem 11.4 L 3125 13.3 Wittelsberg 16.3 Connection nickel 2 16.5 Dreihausen 16.6 Connection nickel 3 16.7 Connection Neeb

The Marburger Kreisbahn was owned by the district of Marburg an der Lahn. It had been licensed as a standard gauge small railway under Prussian law. The 16.6-kilometer route led from Marburg Süd train station in a south-easterly direction to Ebsdorfergrund as far as Dreihausen .

history

The first section to Ebsdorf was opened on April 5, 1905, the second section to the terminus followed on September 19, 1905. The main reason for building the railway was freight traffic.

Timetable 1944

Passenger traffic offered three to five pairs of trains a day. From August 1, 1950, the district also set up its own bus routes in this area. Among other reasons, this led to the suspension of rail passenger traffic on November 30, 1956. The bus operation of the Marburger Kreisbahn was transferred to Stadtwerke Marburg on January 1st, 1982.

In freight transport, a considerable volume of freight had to be handled at times by transporting building materials and stones. In Dreihausen five of his time working Basaltwerke with sidings . Nevertheless, all traffic was stopped at the end of 1972 after nobody wanted to pay for a pending renewal of the track. In the last few years, since January 1, 1968, the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was in charge of the operation.

Freight traffic was stopped on December 31, 1972 between km 1.4 and Dreihausen after nobody wanted to pay for a renewal of the superstructure. Between km 0.4 and km 1.4, freight trains ran until 1998. Then the last part of the Marburg circular railway was shut down.

Passenger traffic ended on November 30, 1956

The dismantling took place from kilometer 1.4 to kilometer 16.7 as well as in the district station Marburg Süd in 1973, from kilometer 0.4 to kilometer 1.4 in 2005.

Former plans

There were plans to connect the Marburger Kreisbahn with the Ohmtalbahn with a new route from Wittelsberg to Schweinsberg . This should branch off south of the Wittelsberg train station and lead via Rauischholzhausen, Roßdorf and Mardorf to Schweinsberg. Finally, the plans were rejected again. A planned extension to the Lumdatalbahn from Lollar to Grünberg also did not materialize, as did the planning of the extension to Mücke on the Vogelsbergbahn, discussed as early as 1905 . For the latter planning, the State of Hesse had already given a commitment to provide the railway site and to assume 1/3 of the construction costs. In the State Archives Marburg a track plan of the station mosquito is received from 1906, showing the planned expansions in this case.

route

Former Ebsdorf train station

The route of the Marburger Kreisbahn began at the Marburg Süd state train station, to which there was a track connection. The administration and workshops of the railway were also located here. The tracks initially ran in a southerly direction parallel to the state railway tracks and then swiveled to the southeast to what is now the Marburg district of Cappel , where a stop was located. From here the route ran between the Lahn and the foot of the Lahnberge along to Ronhausen (train station). Then began the eastward slope to cross the Lahnberge, in the course of which the Bortshausen stop was located. Beyond the apex, the Ebsdorf station was reached. The route ran, now rising again in a north-easterly direction to Wittelsberg (train station), where it turned to the south-east and finally reached the terminus at Dreihausen with its basalt quarries.

Todays situation

The winding railway line next to an oxbow lake of the Lahn

The tracks of the Marburger Kreisbahn are now completely dismantled. In Ebsdorf, Wittelsberg and Dreihausen the former station buildings and in Marburg Süd the former administration building are reminiscent of the circular railway. The last remaining steam locomotive, which was initially a monument in Dreihausen after it was discontinued, is now with the Wetterau Railway Friends in Bad Nauheim .

A cycle path was built on the route from Cappel to Ebsdorf. In the area of ​​the Marburg Süd, Ebsdorf and Wittelsberg stations, the route is built on in other ways.

literature

• Egbert Nolte: The Marburger Kreisbahn . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1999, ISBN 3933613140
• Gerd Wolff, Andreas Christopher: German small and private railways. Volume 8: Hesse . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-88255-667-6 , p. 273 ff .

Web links

• Photos of the route (2015)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marburger Kreisbahn. Search in "Historical image documents from Hessen". In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ^ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways - Part 8: Hessen , p. 274
3. ↑ as a sketch printed in Erich Preuß , Oliver Strüber (ed.): The large archive of German railway stations. Gera Mond Verlag GmbH, 1996–2020, ISSN  0949-2127 , single article , Bahnhof Mücke (Hess), p. 4.
4. ↑ Our steam locomotive. Railway friends Wetterau e. V., accessed on October 21, 2016 .