Leinefelde – Wulften railway line

Leinefelde – Wulften
Route number :	1811
Course book section (DB) :	248 (Wulften – Duderstadt 1974) 599 (Leinefelde – Teistungen 2000)
Route length:	39.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Gotha from Halle 0.0 Leinefelde ( train station ) formerly B 80 and formerly B 247 to Hann. Münden formerly B 80 and formerly B 247 2.8 Breitenbach (Eichsfeld) formerly B 80 and formerly B 247 4.9 Worbis 8.5 Wintzingerode 11.2 Ferna Brickyard siding 14.4 Performance inner German border or Thuringia / Lower Saxony 19.3 Duderstadt to Göttingen Göttingen small train B 446 22.0 Westerode 22.0 Beet loading siding 23.7 Mingerode 25.4 Obernfeld 27.3 Rollshausen B 27 31.7 Gieboldehausen Rhume 36.9 Bilshausen Or from Northeim 39.9 Bulging to Nordhausen

The Leinefelde – Wulften line , also known as the Untereichsfeldbahn , was a single-track , non- electrified branch line and served as a connection from Leinefelde in Thuringia and Duderstadt in Lower Saxony to the southern Harz line .

history

The Wulften – Duderstadt line was commissioned on November 1, 1889, and Duderstadt – Leinefelde was continued on September 1, 1897. Passenger traffic was served by six to seven pairs of trains (1944), and around half of the trains ran continuously over the entire route , the other trains did not run continuously, but began or ended in Duderstadt, both in the direction of Wulften and in the direction of Leinefelde. The section Duderstadt - Teistungen was interrupted after the Second World War in 1945 as a result of the division of Germany . In 1947, in the Soviet-occupied area, the line north of Worbis was dismantled as a reparation payment , but it was rebuilt as far as Teistungen in 1950 to reconnect a brick factory; passenger traffic was also resumed.

The Duderstadt – Wulften section was in operation for passenger services until July 26, 1974. Freight traffic ended on January 2, 1995, and the line was officially closed on February 29, 1996.

Operations continued on the Teistungen –Leinefelde section in the GDR and Thuringia. Several attempts to extend the route back to Duderstadt after the opening of the border failed. Local freight traffic has played no role since the brickworks closed in 1992 and was discontinued on December 31, 1994. Passenger traffic on the Thuringian section was given up on June 9, 2001. Most recently, the Erfurt Railway operated it on behalf of the DB with modern diesel railcars of the Regio-Shuttle type .

Current condition

The Wulften-Duderstadt section was largely dismantled between 2001 and 2005. The Wulften – Rollshausen section serves entirely as a cycle path; in Duderstadt, an industrial company has expanded beyond the route. The extensive station area of ​​Duderstadt lay fallow for a long time, and the station building was separated from the former track system with a metal fence.

At the beginning of 2012, Otto Bock boss Hans Georg Näder acquired the Duderstädter station area including the reception building. The building now houses, among other things, a pediatric and adolescent doctor mixed practice. Since 2014, the station area has been significantly upgraded as part of the "Areal Bahnhof" project, the fence has been removed and new tracks laid on the fallow site, on which various historic rail vehicles, including two Uerdingen rail buses and a dining car , are now exhibited in a museum, as well Parking spaces for 30 cars, a new platform and a roof reminiscent of an old platform roof were built. The area created in this way is intended to keep memories of the railway line alive as a “living monument”.

The Teistungen – Leinefelde section was dismantled in the mid to late 2000s. The former route with the Worbis bypass of the B 247 is built over between Worbis and Wintzigerode . At Breitenbach, the route has been interrupted since the early 2000s by the construction of the Südharzautobahn .

Part of the route was converted to the Unstrut-Hahle cycle path .

reactivation

In 2013 the Lower Saxony Ministry of Transport examined whether the railway line (along with 72 others) could be reactivated. However, it fell off the list of reactivation candidates in October 2013 because the tracks had been largely dismantled, the embankment partially built on and the costs were therefore too high.

• 

  A railcar enters the Worbis station (August 1998)

• 

  Wulften station (April 2012)

• 

  Unstrut-Hahle cycle path west of Wintzingerode

See also

• Railway in Thuringia
• List of railway lines in Thuringia
• Leinefelde train station

literature

• Paul Lauerwald: Railways in the Eichsfeld . Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 1994, pp. 97 ff, ISBN 3-923453-56-6 .
• Paul Lauerwald: The Eichsfeld branch line Leinefelde-Teistungen-Duderstadt-Wulften. Gernrode 2005, ISBN 3-933178-12-6 .
• Paul Lauerwald: Wulften-Duderstadt-Teistungen-Leinefelde. In: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then & now. 99th supplementary delivery , Munich: GeraMond 2013, ISSN  0949-2143 .

Web links

Commons : Leinefelde – Wulften railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Illustrated route inspection from 2005 on vergessene-bahnen.de
• Illustrated description of the cycle path between Duderstadt and Wulften on bahntrassenradwege.de
• Illustrated description of the Wulften-Duderstadt-Worbis cycle path on bahntrassenradeln.de
• Driver's cab ride Leinefelde-Teistungen

map

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reiner Schruft: Wulften - Duderstadt. Retrieved October 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Hans Georg Näder buys Duderstädter Bahnhof. Retrieved October 22, 2018 . 
3. ^ Old train station: New face and young patients. Retrieved October 17, 2018 . 
4. ↑ The old station area in Duderstadt gets parking spaces. Retrieved October 16, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Rail bus arrived at the former train station in Duderstadt. Retrieved October 16, 2018 . 
6. ^ Ulrich Lottmann: Railway line through Duderstadt will not be reactivated. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. October 23, 2013, accessed October 8, 2017 .