Bad Berleburg – Allendorf railway line

Bad Berleburg – Allendorf (Eder)
Special train in Battenberg (Eder) 2006
Route number (DB) :	2872
Course book section (DB) :	322.1 (Hatzfeld-Allendorf)
Route length:	36.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Dual track :	-
Legend 0.0 Bad Berleburg (formerly Bf ) 418  m 2.3 Listen ( Abzw ) 2.4 Rothaarbahn to Erndtebrück 3.2 Space land 5.5 Meckhaus 7.2 Arfeld 8.4 Eder 11.7 Schwarzenau (Eder) 14.0 Beddelhausen (Eder) State border North Rhine-Westphalia / Hesse 18.4 Hatzfeld (Eder) 21.2 Eifa 21.5 Eifaer Bach 22.0 Side ditch of the Eder 22.5 Inflow to the Friedenthal hydropower plant 22.9 Holzhausen (Eder) 23.4 Eder 23.7 Eder 24.4 Reddighhäuser hammer 24.6 Hammer (Anst) 25.5 Reddighausen 26.5 26.8 Dodenau Tunnel (325 m) 27.2 Dodenau (last Hp ) 31.7 Battenberg-Auhammer ( Anst , formerly Hp ) 32.5 Viessmann Battenberg ( Establishment ) 33.3 Battenberg (Eder) ( Anst , formerly Hp ) 304  m 33.8 Side ditch of the Eder 34.2 Eder 34.8 Battenfeld ( Anst , formerly Hp ) 35.1 Nitzelbach 35.8 Linspherbach formerly Ruhr-Eder-Bahn from Winterberg 36.2 Allendorf (Eder) (see Nuttlar – Frankenberg railway line ) Burgwaldbahn from Marburg Frankenberg (Eder) Lower Edertal Railway to Korbach Swell:

The Bad Berleburg – Allendorf railway , also known as the Obere Edertalbahn or Ederberglandbahn , runs from Bad Berleburg to Allendorf (Eder) , where it joins the Nuttlar – Frankenberg railway ("Ruhr-Eder-Bahn"). It branched off at the Hörre junction from the Erndtebrück – Bad Berleburg railway (“Rothaarbahn”) and is 36.2 kilometers long.

history

opening

After the Nuttlar – Frankenberg railway from Winterberg to Frankenberg (Eder) was opened in 1908 , construction work on the Upper Edertal Railway progressed. It was opened in several stages. Several of the station buildings on the route were built by government builder Alois Holtmeyer .

section	Opened on
Bad Berleburg - Raumland	August 1, 1910
Raumland - Arfeld	August 15, 1911
Arfeld - Hatzfeld (Eder)	April 1, 1911
Hatzfeld (Eder) - Allendorf (Eder)	November 17, 1910

In the years after the opening, traffic developed extremely positively. From the 1950s , however, it went back again.

Shutdown

Bad Berleburg train station

Passenger traffic by rail ended completely on May 30, 1981. In previous years, demand had fallen so sharply that the company was no longer profitable. The route was also closed for freight traffic between Arfeld and Hatzfeld on the same day. A year later it also ended between Bad Berleburg and Arfeld. This section was dismantled in 1983. The rest of the freight traffic was largely ended in 1995 and 2002 respectively. The section between Allendorf (Eder) and Battenberg (Eder) was last used by freight trains in 2017. From Battenberg-Auhammer, the line to Bad Berleburg has been completely dismantled.

section	km	General meeting closed on	Dismantling
Bad Berleburg - Arfeld	0.0 - 7.2	November 30, 1982	1983
Arfeld - Hatzfeld (Eder)	7.2-18.3	May 30, 1981	1983
Hatzfeld (Eder) - Auhammer	18.3-31.0	May 29, 1995	2000
Auhammer area	31.0-31.8	December 15, 2002	2005
Battenberg-Auhammer - Battenberg (Eder)	31.8-33.3	December 15, 2002	not degraded

Todays situation

Battenberg (Eder) station in spring 2009

Today there is no longer any freight traffic between Allendorf and Battenberg, which ended completely in 2017. Wood was loaded in the Battenberg (Eder) station. The section up to the Auhammer has not had any freight traffic since 2002, but has not yet been dismantled with the exception of a short section in the Auhammer area.

From 2005 to 2007, under the auspices of the Kurhessenbahn , excursion trains of the 628.2 and 628.4 series ran on Sundays and public holidays between Frankenberg (Eder) and Battenberg-Auhammer from May to October . Since the end of excursion traffic in 2007, the section has only been used by passenger trains, such as the Eder Bike Tour in June every year until 2017. Viessmann is also no longer supplied.

Today (as of January 9, 2020): the route is completely closed.

Edertalradweg / Ederauenradweg

Bike path on the old railway line

In the section between Bad Berleburg and Auhammer, the Ederauenradweg was partly relocated to the old railway line. For this purpose, the route was de-dedicated , the rails removed and most of the route paved.

Web links

Commons : Obere Edertalbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Eder Cycle Route  - travel guide

• Article about the Upper Edertalbahn in the Regiowiki of the HNA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels on route 2872 on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
4. ↑ End of goods traffic to Battenberg? . In: Hessenschiene 104 (magazine; July – September 2016), pp. 8–9