Neuhauser Bockerlbahn

Neuhauser Bockerlbahn
Route length:	12 km
Gauge :	600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Country:	Germany
State:	Bavaria
Opening:	1919
Shutdown:	1922
Legend from Bayrischzell 0.0 Fischhausen-Neuhaus 807 m to Schliersee 0.7 Dürnbach Bridge (46 m long) 1.5 Ankelgraben Bridge (90 m long) 2.7 Laubenries Bridge 3.1 Stockeralm 901 m 3.2 Bremsberg III 3.6 Bremsberg II 4.3 Bremsberg I. 4.6 Spitzing 1132.7 m 5.8 Bridge over the shithole 6.6 Bridge in the moss 7.1 Wurzhütte 9.0 Bleckstein 9.6 Hairpin 10.1 Bleckstein elevator ~ 12 Waitzingeralm

The Neuhauser Bockerlbahn was a narrow-gauge Bavarian forest railway . From 1919 to 1922 it connected the Fischhausen-Neuhaus station on the Schliersee – Bayrischzell railway line with the extensive forest areas in the high elevations on both sides of the Spitzingsattel .

The route was used exclusively for freight traffic. The sole purpose of the short-lived railway was the removal of the by severe hair dryer - storms caused on 5 and 6 January and 16 March and 8 July 1919 290,000 cubic meters of storm wood . A special feature of the 600 mm ropeway was its construction in topographically difficult terrain, which among other things led to the creation of a total of three braking mountains , two switchbacks and a cable car .

Large parts of the route are still preserved today as farm roads, and the remains of buildings and engineering structures still exist. The “Friends of the Neuhauser Bockerlbahn” laid out the “Bockerlbahnweg” with information boards at the essential points of the route.

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  Bridge abutment near the Stockeralm

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  Bockerlbahnweg information boards on the Spitzingsattel

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  Bleckstein incision

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  Hairpin at the Valepper Bridge

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  Loaded car as a memorial near the Laubenries Bridge

Web links

Commons : Neuhauser Bockerlbahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hans Dieter Metz: Foehn storm in the Spitzing area - an event of the century , 2002 (The history of the Neuhauser Bockerlbahn)
• Hans Dieter Metz: The "Neuhauser Bockerlbahn" , 2002 (long version: detailed description)
• Hans Dieter Metz: Fischhausen - Neuhaus - Josefstal: Bockerlbahn, from December 5, 2002 (via web archive from October 29, 2007)

• The "Neuhauser Bockerlbahn" (introduction)
• Guide for the excursion into the storm damage = area of ​​the Schliersee Forestry Office , September 17, 1920
• The original plan of the "Bockerlbahn"
• The Neuhauser "Bockerlbahn" in pictures

• The railway connection from Neuhaus to Spitzingsee and into the Valepp (historical photos from the construction and operating time, via the web archive from March 4, 2016)
• Wolfgang Mletzko: Spitzingsee Forest Railway. The route of the forest railway today: a search for clues. Retrieved on June 7, 2017 (photo documentation of the current state). 

literature

• Gerald Wehrmann, Die Neuhauser Bockerlbahn, Miesbach 2012 (self-published, without ISBN, website with brief content and pictures )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website on the history of the Neuhauser Bockerlbahn
2. ^ Wehrmann, from page 73