Odenwaldbahn (Hesse)

Eberbach – Hanau
Route number (DB) :	4113 3556 (Babenhausen W9 - W91)
Course book section (DB) :	641
Route length:	88.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Maximum slope :	<20  ‰
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	No
Legend from Mosbach-Neckarelz 0.000 Eberbach to Heidelberg Rst 0.431 Regional border south-west / center 1.200 Eberbach North Itterhof 4,322 Eberbach Canali (Anst) 7.000 Gaimühle 7.450 State border Baden-Württemberg / Hesse 10.400 Friedrichsdorf (b Eberbach) 10,000 Short valley viaduct (60 m) Friedrichsdorf 10,571 Rindengrund Viaduct (60 m) 11,438 Haintal Viaduct (160 m) 11,598 12,911 Hesseck - Kailbach Hammerberg 16.459 Hesseck- Schöllenbach 18.400 Crowberg 19,036 Krähbergtunnel (3100 m) 22,136 from Beerfelden 23,600 Beerfelden - Hetzbach 24,414 Himbächel Viaduct (242 m) 24.656 25.900 Ebersberg (b Erbach) Beauty 27.400 Beauty 30.310 Mümling 30.3386 30.3500 Mileage jump 30.830 Erbach (Odenw) 32,307 Erbach (Odenw) North 33.792 Mümling 34.105 Bundesstrasse 47 34.181 Michelstadt 37.700 Bundesstrasse 45 38.652 Bad König- Zell 40.788 Bad King 41.723 Bundesstrasse 45 42.682 Mümling 43.000 Etzen buttocks 44.750 Höchst Mümling-Grumbach 46.842 Bundesstrasse 45 47.281 Höchst (Odenw) to Aschaffenburg 48.810 Höchst Hetschbach 49,546 Frau-Nauses-Tunnel (1205 m) 50.751 53.101 Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach 53.338 Bundesstrasse 426 to Darmstadt (see below) 55.800 Bundesstrasse 45 57.044 Groß-Umstadt Mitte 58.500 Groß-Umstadt Nord (planned) 59.700 Rich 60.774 Groß-Umstadt Klein-Umstadt 63,996 Babenhausen - Langstadt 67.311 Bundesstrasse 26 from Dieburg 68.1889 68.2000 Mileage jump 68.226 Babenhausen (Hess) to Aschaffenburg 70.100 Link 70.285 Gersprenz 74.000 At the Wehrmacht airfield in Zellhausen 75.100 Federal motorway 3 75.525 Mainhausen - Zellhausen 78,341 Seligenstadt (Hess) 82.993 Hainburg - Hainstadt 85.531 Hanau-Klein-Auheim 86.135 Auheim Main Bridge 86,369 from Aschaffenburg Hbf Hanau port railway from the routes from Friedberg and Göttingen 88.150 Hanau south side to Frankfurt Hbf (via Offenbach) to Frankfurt (Main) Schlachthof (S-Bahn) to Frankfurt Süd (via Maintal)
Darmstadt – Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach
Route number (DB) :	3554
Course book section (DB) :	641
Route length:	28.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Maximum slope :	<20  ‰
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	Darmstadt North - Darmstadt East
Legend Rhein-Main-Bahn from Darmstadt Hbf from Da-Arheilgen (from the Main-Neckar-Bahn ) Freight route from Mainz 3.813 Darmstadt North to Dieburg Kastanienallee (junction; to the Rhein-Main-Bahn) from the former main station (until 1912) 7.479 Darmstadt Ost (until 1900: Rosenhöhe ) to the Bessunger Forsthaus 8.086 Bundesstrasse 26 9.340 Darmbach 9.414 Darmstadt Lichtwiese 12,992 Muhltal 16.031 Ober-Ramstadt 20.900 Zeilhard 21.208 Engelberg tunnel (238 m) 21,446 21,838 Bundesstrasse 38 Gersprenz Valley Railway from Groß Bieberau 23.494 Reinheim (Odenw) former Rodgaubahn to Dieburg 24,900 Gersprenz 28.610 Otzberg-Lengfeld from Hanau (see above) 31,650 Bundesstrasse 426 31,887 Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach to Eberbach (see above) Swell:

The Odenwaldbahn (also Hessische Odenwaldbahn to distinguish it from the Badische Odenwaldbahn ) is a mostly single-track mainline railway in standard gauge , which crosses the Odenwald in southern Hesse and northern Baden-Württemberg and with two branches, one from Darmstadt and one from Hanau , to Eberbach am Neckar leads. Regionally the railway line is sometimes also called Mümlingbahn , as it follows the Mümling valley from Hetzbach to Höchst .

history

planning

The route was discussed controversially and politically influenced for many years in the 1860s. The state capital Darmstadt of the Grand Duchy of Hesse wanted a route through the Gersprenztal via Reinheim , Brensbach , Höllerbach and the Kinzig- into Mümlingtal . The opposite position was a route directed towards Frankfurt am Main via Dieburg . The route implemented later was chosen as a compromise. Coming from Eberbach am Neckar , it leads through the Odenwald via Wiebelsbach-Heubach , where it branches off, one to Babenhausen and Hanau and the other to Reinheim and Darmstadt. So the traffic should flow from the Odenwald into the former residence city of Darmstadt of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and not past it.

The concession was granted by the government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse on April 4, 1868 to the Hessian Ludwig Railway. The project was financed with a public loan of 4 million thalers (in today's currency € 6.12 million).

construction

Construction began in the summer of 1868. A single-track main line was built in standard gauge , which crosses the Odenwald in southern Hesse and northern Baden-Württemberg . In September 1868, construction work began on the 1205-meter-long Frau-Nauses tunnel between Wiebelsbach and Höchst in the Mümlingtal. These cost eleven lives and were completed by Christmas 1870. Construction work began in Darmstadt on February 1, 1869, and progressed rapidly towards Reinheim without any difficulties. The line from Darmstadt Ludwigsbahnhof to Ober-Ramstadt was opened on December 28, 1870. On May 15, 1871 to Reinheim and two months later to Wiebelsbach-Heubach. On December 24, 1871, the section to Erbach (Odenw) was inaugurated .

The branch between Hanau Hauptbahnhof and Wiebelsbach-Heubach was opened in two segments between Babenhausen and Wiebelsbach-Heubach, on June 29, 1870 from Babenhausen to Groß-Umstadt and on December 27, 1870 between Groß-Umstadt and Wiebelsbach-Heubach. The section between Hanau and Babenhausen did not follow until May 1, 1882. The Odenwaldbahn crosses the Rhein-Main-Bahn in Babenhausen .

On August 3, 1875, the Hessian Ludwigsbahn received the Hesse-Darmstadt concession for the 31-kilometer route, which also lay in its southern section in the Grand Duchy of Baden ; the Baden section of the route was secured by a state treaty between the two Grand Duchies of February 19, 1874. Due to the topography , in order to overcome the watershed between the Main and Neckar, many engineering structures were required between Erbach and Eberbach , including the Himbächel Viaduct and the Krähberg Tunnel , as well as gradients of 1:70. For this purpose, the route at Hetzbach turned from the Mümlingtal in a 90-degree curve to the east into the Pfeifersgrund , led under the Krähberg ( 554.9  m above sea level ) and thus reached the Schöllenbachtal and then the Ittertal . On March 1, 1882, the 7.23 kilometer long Erbach – Hetzbach section, i.e. the stretch right up to the construction site of the Krähberg tunnel, was opened. On May 1st, the Hetzbach - Kailbach section followed, which also included the Krähberg tunnel.

The last section between Kailbach and Eberbach was opened on May 27, 1882, initially for passenger traffic and five days later for freight traffic , making the Odenwaldbahn passable along its entire length. Completion was originally planned for 1879, at the same time as the opening of the Neckar Valley Railway from Neckargemünd to Jagstfeld , but this could not be met due to the tight financial situation of the Hessian Ludwig Railway Company. In 1871, passenger trains took two hours to cover the 56-kilometer route between Darmstadt and Erbach.

expansion

connections

The Odenwaldbahn received a number of additions and connections from other routes over the years:

• On October 10, 1887, the Gersprenz Valley Railway to Reichelsheim in Reinheim was connected to the Odenwald Railway.
• On October 1st, 1896 the Rodgaubahn was opened from Reinheim via Dieburg to Offenbach am Main .
• The Überwaldbahn was an attempt to create a cross connection between Bergstrasse and Odenwaldbahn. The Überwaldbahn was opened in 1901 from Weinheim to Wahlen , where this ambitious attempt finally ended permanently due to the cost of the mountain crossing and the Odenwaldbahn never reached.
• On May 1, 1904, the branch line to Beerfelden was put into operation.
• On December 1, 1912, the Bachgaubahn was put into operation between Höchst and Aschaffenburg .

Further infrastructure

On April 1, 1898, the line was provided with a telegraph long - distance line coming in continuation from the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line , referred to internally as "Telecommunications Line No. 7".

Telegraph trunk line No. 7

railway station	Callsign	Commissioning day
Frankfurt (Main) Ostbahnhof	Fo	April 1, 1898
Hanau West	Ha	May 7, 1898
Hanau Ostbahnhof	Han	April 1, 1898
Seligenstadt		August 27, 1898
Babenhausen	Ba	April 1, 1898
Groß-Umstadt		August 27, 1898
Wiebelsbach-Heubach	W.	April 1, 1898
Michelstadt	Wed	April 1, 1898
Hetzbach		August 27, 1898
Eberbach	Ea	April 1, 1898

On February 10, 1914, new "double -light pre- signals " were put into operation "when darkness fell" in the section between Darmstadt and Wiebelsbach-Heubach , which corresponded to the form signal model that is still in use today . On April 1, 1914, the section Hanau Ost - Eberbach followed .

Hold

On October 1, 1908, the Zellhausen stop was established. From January 20, 1935, the stop was connected to express and general cargo traffic, limited to items of cargo up to 250 kg.

In 1910/1911, the Zell-Kirchbrombach station (today the Bad König-Zell stop ) and the Gaimühle station at that time were expanded.

Designations

In the course of time, some stations were renamed, with the timetable change in December 2005, a whole series of station names were adapted to the place names changed after the Hessian regional reform of 1974:

Operating office	since 2006	until 2005	Historical name
railway station	Groß-Umstadt Mitte	Groß Umstadt
Breakpoint	Groß-Umstadt-Klein Umstadt	Small Umstadt
Breakpoint	Babenhausen-Langstadt	Langstadt
Breakpoint	Mainhausen-Zellhausen	Zellhausen
railway station	Hainburg-Hainstadt	Hainstadt (Kr Offenbach)	Hainstadt (Hess.) Until February 29, 1912
Breakpoint	Hanau-Klein Auheim	Little Auheim
railway station	Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach	Wiebelsbach-Heubach
Breakpoint	Höchst-Hetschbach	Hetschbach
railway station	Höchst (Odenw)	Höchst (Odenw)	Höchst-Neustadt until February 29, 1912
railway station	Höchst-Mümling-Grumbach	Mümling-Grumbach
Breakpoint	Bad Koenig-Zell	Zell-Kirchbrombach
Breakpoint	Beerfelden-Hetzbach	Hetzbach	Hetzbach-Beerfelden until May 1, 1904. Then the station at the opening of the railway line Hetzbach-Beerfelden in Hetzbach renamed.
Breakpoint	Hesseck-Schöllenbach	Schöllenbach-Hesselbach
Breakpoint	Hesseck-Kailbach	Kailbach
Breakpoint	Otzberg-Lengfeld	Lengfeld
Breakpoint	Muhltal	Lower Ramstadt-Traisa

Dismantling the infrastructure

In the seventies of the twentieth century, large-scale dismantling work began on the Odenwaldbahn . Numerous stops were no longer served and given up ( Zeilhard , Richen , Etzen-Gesäß , Schönnen , Ebersberg , Gaimühle ), and train stations were reduced to stops (Hetzbach, Kailbach , Klein-Umstadt , Langstadt ). Since then, there has been no possibility of crossing for 30 kilometers between Erbach and Eberbach , which greatly reduces the train density on the route. The connecting railways were partially shut down:

• the Gersprenz Valley Railway in May 1964.
• the Hetzbach – Beerfelden railway on June 23, 1964.
• the southern section of the Rodgau Railway on July 20, 1965.
• the Bachgaubahn on May 26, 1974. Where the track to Breuberg initially as a siding for the local industry, especially the Metzeler rubber AG Munich, work Breuberg later: Pirelli , continued to be used tires Werke GmbH & Co KG.

At times it was even considered to completely abandon the mountain route between Erbach and Eberbach. This did not happen, however, the Kailbach and Schöllenbach stops were operated again from 1994 after they had been closed in 1977.

Operation until 2005

From 1925 on, in addition to local traffic, there were also three “ Heckeneilzüge ” that connected Frankfurt via Hanau, Erbach and Eberbach with Stuttgart and from 1984 to 1988 were even designated as D-trains . The locomotive was initially changed in Heilbronn and later in Eberbach. The travel time between Frankfurt and Stuttgart was 3.5 hours, that between Frankfurt and Erbach about 85 minutes.

After the Second World War came steam locomotive of the series 65 for use and could be found here almost on all trains. Due to its technical properties (including traction), it was very suitable for the Odenwaldbahn. Three -axle conversion cars were mostly used for passenger transport. Freight trains were often carried with the 50 series . Occasional rail bus sets ran between Hanau and Wiebelsbach . All the locomotives were stationed in Darmstadt.

In 1970 the steam operation ended on the Odenwald distance train services were of the diesel locomotives of the 212 series adopted. With the beginning of the nineties, multiple units of the class 628 increasingly came onto the line, before the remaining locomotive-hauled trains, the 212 was gradually replaced by the class 216 , which in turn was initially replaced at the end of the nineties by the class 215 , which was already there were replaced after a short time by the 218 series released in other regions . The locomotive-hauled trains ran more and more frequently as push- pull trains , the fleet of cars in the end consisted of n-cars .

The freight traffic was stopped in 2001 by the Deutsche Bahn . The through trains of passenger traffic from Frankfurt to Stuttgart were discontinued in December 2004 after the state of Baden-Württemberg was no longer interested in them.

In 1982 passenger trains took one hour and 17 minutes to cover the 56-kilometer route between Darmstadt and Erbach, and in 2004 one hour and 10 minutes. Today it is 54 minutes, which corresponds to a cruising speed of 62 km / h.

present

Reopening of the TU-Lichtwiese stop

Modernization of the infrastructure

Around the year 2005 the railway infrastructure of the Odenwaldbahn was modernized with considerable financial means. The maximum line speed was increased in places from 90 to 120 km / h and the predominant form signals were replaced by light signals that are controlled by a central signal box in the Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach station. At several train stations ( Darmstadt Ost , Ober-Ramstadt, Reinheim, Wiebelsbach, Groß-Umstadt), access to the trains has been improved with new platforms . In Darmstadt Nord , a new track connection was created that enables direct travel in the direction of Frankfurt on the Main-Neckar Railway , as well as a new stopping point at the Technical University of Darmstadt , Darmstadt TU-Lichtwiese . As part of this modernization, there were also dismantling measures, for example the train stations in Lengfeld and Zell were converted into stops .

In Darmstadt, the TU-Lichtwiese stop was set up on the university campus. In the local transport plan 2011–2016 ^[outdated] of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district and the city of Darmstadt, the Groß-Umstadt Nord stop, which is currently being planned, is also mentioned.

Since December 2011 the Odenwaldbahn has also been running to Pfungstadt .

In August 2019, the RMV announced that the passenger demand in the Odenwald network has increased by over 50 percent to 15,000 passengers per day since the VIAS started operating and the introduction of the improved timetable concept. Since the possibilities for expanding capacity on the existing infrastructure have largely been exhausted, RMV and local partners are looking for ways to expand them in a feasibility study.

business

ITINO of the Odenwaldbahn

Since the timetable change on December 11, 2005, passenger traffic on the Odenwaldbahn has been operated by the railway company VIAS GmbH . Since then, two-part Itino diesel multiple units from Bombardier Transportation , which are provided by the Vehicle Management Region Frankfurt RheinMain GmbH (fahma), have been in use. Due to the length of the platforms, which is a uniform 120 meters, a maximum of three units can drive together. However, the originally 22 vehicles were not enough to offer enough space on all connections. There were bottlenecks especially in rush hour traffic because, among other things, the increase in passenger numbers due to the new direct connections had been estimated too low. In 2007 four more ITINOS were therefore ordered. These were registered in February 2010 and increase the number of vehicles to 26 railcars.

In December 2013, after a tender, VIAS was again awarded the contract to operate the Odenwald and Pfungstadt railways. The new contract is valid from December 2015 for 12 years. The existing Itino vehicles will continue to be used, although capacity adjustments have been made for some journeys.

From the timetable change in December 2017, four new Coradia LINT 54 vehicles are to be used on the section between Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach and Hanau on the RB 86 line . Since the two vehicle types are not compatible with each other, the new vehicles will be used on isolated circuits, while the ITINO vehicles that will become available will be used to reinforce other trains, especially during rush hour. In contrast to the ITINO vehicles, the new vehicles are no longer procured by fahma , but directly by VIAS Rail GmbH as the operator of the Odenwaldbahn. The new vehicles cost around 16 million euros.

service

In the local rail passenger transport , the Odenwaldbahn is served by the following lines of the RMV :

line	route	Clock frequency
RE 85	Frankfurt  - Hanau  - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach (- Erbach)	Every two hours
RB 86	Hanau  - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach	every hour (Mon-Sat and Sun in the afternoon), every two hours (Sun in the morning)
RE 80	Darmstadt  - Reinheim  - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach	Every two hours (Mon-Fri)
RB 81	Darmstadt  - Reinheim - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach (-  Eberbach )	Every two hours
RB 82	Frankfurt  - Darmstadt North  - Reinheim - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach (- Eberbach)	Every two hours

Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach station, junction of the Odenwaldbahn

Platforms in Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach

Eberbach, terminus of the Odenwaldbahn

The route of the lines RB 81 and RB 82 is identical between Erbach and Darmstadt Nord, which means that there is an hourly service at all stations on this section.

Between Eberbach and Erbach there is a direct connection to Frankfurt with the RB 82 line, without a stop between Darmstadt-Nord and Frankfurt / M Hbf. In the opposite direction, however, the RB 81 runs from Darmstadt to Eberbach, with two exceptions. This means that there is a direct connection to Frankfurt to the north on this section of the route, but a change to the south is usually necessary.

Since the timetable change on December 11, 2005, direct journeys from the Odenwaldbahn via the new track connection in Darmstadt Nord to Frankfurt have been possible. This connection is served by the RB 82 line from Eberbach or Erbach to and from Frankfurt every two hours. Some of these trains run with the maximum possible triple traction during rush hour . The travel time from Erbach to Frankfurt (Main) via Darmstadt Nord is now 85 minutes.

The trains ending in Frankfurt run from there after a short turning time as RE 85 via Hanau to Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach. At the weekend and occasionally during rush hour traffic , the RE 85 trains to and from Erbach are tied through. This means that on weekends in the northern Odenwald there is a direct train to and from Frankfurt approximately every hour.

When trains meet in Babenhausen, you can change to the Rhein-Main-Bahn via Dieburg to Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof and on to Mainz Hauptbahnhof / Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof and in the opposite direction to Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof . Since the timetable change in 2005, the connections on Sundays and public holidays were no longer coordinated, so that longer transition times resulted. Since the timetable change in December 2016, the connections in Babenhausen have been fully coordinated on Sundays and public holidays.

There is currently no freight traffic on the Odenwaldbahn. In order to be able to continue to operate it, it was contractually agreed on January 27, 2006, with the assumption of costs, the receipt of points in Ober-Ramstadt for the Caparol company and in Reinheim for the basalt quarry of the Odenwälder hard stone industry .

The trains on the RB 81 line, which ended in Darmstadt until December 2011, have been running on the Pfungstadtbahn as the RB 66 line to Pfungstadt since the timetable change .

Accidents

On February 17th, 2008 the first major accident of an ITINO occurred on the Odenwaldbahn. At 8:50 am, an ITINO coming from Eberbach rammed a truck at Schöllenbach near the Krähbergtunnel , which blocked a level crossing . There were only two slightly injured because the driver's cab of the truck remained undamaged and the train did not derail, but pushed the truck off the track into a ditch. A total of around one million euros in damage was caused to the railways, routes, trucks and loads. One problem, however, was that VIAS GmbH lost its only hidden reserve with the train and temporarily had to use a RegioSprinter from the Rurtalbahn as a replacement.

On May 17, 2017, a cyclist was hit by a train at an open level crossing in Babenhausen and killed. From a dirt road she wanted to cross the rails by bicycle. The engine driver braked and drew attention to the train with a loud whistle, but could no longer prevent the accident. Maybe she was wearing headphones.

Cultural meaning

Himbächel Viaduct

The entire length of the route is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . With a total length of 120 kilometers, it is very scenic, especially in its southern part: between Erbach and Eberbach there is a mountain stretch with numerous engineering structures . The Himbächel Viaduct with a total length of 250 meters and a maximum height of 40 meters above ground, the Haintal Viaduct with a length of 173 meters and two 60 meter long viaducts over the Rindengrund and the "short valley" are the most impressive viaducts and bridges .

The route has three tunnels: the 240-meter-long Engelberg tunnel near Reinheim, the 1205-meter-long tunnel near Frau-Nauses, both eight meters wide prepared for a second track , and the Krähberg tunnel with a length of 3100 meters, which is also the longest single-track tunnel in Germany is on the standard lane.

In the upper Mümlingtal, the maximum gradient is 1:70 and the smallest curve radius is 300 meters.

The technically complex train in an impressive landscape was a tourist attraction from the start . Hereditary Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse and his wife, Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland , accompanied the Count of Erbach-Schönberg with their guest, Prince Arthur of Great Britain and Ireland , a brother of the Hereditary Grand Duchess, traveled the route to Erbach as early as the beginning of 1872.

The signal box "Reinheim Rf" was taken over in 2008 by the association Museumsstellwerk Reinheim eV and is being restored. A museum for interlocking and signaling technology will be set up there. In 2009 the building was 100 years old. In 1995, a water tank and the associated water crane were restored to working condition in Erbach station , so that steam locomotives for special trains can be historically correctly supplied with water.

literature

• Kurt Michael Hess: The Odenwald interest group and the railway. In: 50 Years of Regional Development Odenwald: 1953–2003. a magazine for the 50th birthday of the Odenwald eV Erbach 2003 community of interests .
• Odenwald interest group: 100 years of the Odenwald Railway . Groß-Umstadt 1982, DNB 870212397 .
• Willy Reinshagen: Country party. With steam and diesel through the Odenwald . In: Lok Magazin 3/2002, pp. 66–80.
• Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 1 : Historical development and railway construction . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-766-4 .
• Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railways between Neckar, Tauber and Main . tape 2 : Design, operation and machine service . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-88255-768-0 .
• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 436 ff . (Route 026).
• Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 460 ff . (Route 027).
• Utz von Wagner: The Odenwaldbahn. A romantic train journey from Darmstadt to Eberbach EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-354-5 .
• Forgotten railway romance in the Odenwald, (DVD 62 minutes in color), RioGrande video library, Fürstenfeldbruck

Web links

Commons : Odenwaldbahn  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Odenwaldbahn (Hessen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the operator Vias
• Railways in the Odenwald and elsewhere ...
• Odenwaldbahn timetable (line 64)
• private page about the Odenwaldbahn and the Mühltal train station ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Fight the crowded trains
• Museum signal box Reinheim eV

Remarks

1. ↑ Originally: fs.
2. ↑ Originally: Hainstadt (Kr. Offenbach) (Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 26, 1912, No. 4. Announcement No. 66, p. 27).
3. ↑ Originally: Höchst (Odenw.) (Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 26, 1912, No. 4. Announcement No. 66, p. 27).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Krähberg station, Odenwaldkreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
3. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
4. ↑ Odenwald Railway. In: Advertisement sheet for the Dieburg u. Neustadt No. 43 u. 97/1862. No. 27, 58 and 87/1864.
5. ↑ Planning for the construction of the Odenwaldbahn. In: Advertisement sheet for the Dieburg u. Neustadt, No. 40/1865.
6. ↑ The Odenwald Railway . In: Starkenburger Provinzial-Anzeiger - Dieburger Kreisblatt No. 20 u. 38/1866.
7. ↑ Hessisches Regierungsblatt 1968, p. 601 (No. 22).
8. ↑ 100 years of the Odenwald Railway, p. 17f.
9. ^ The railway work in this section. In: Starkenburger Provinzial-Anzeiger - Dieburger Kreisblatt No. 53 u. 57/1870.
10. ^ The commissioning of the Ober-Ramstadt - Reinheim section, planned for April 1, 1871, has to be postponed. In: Starkenburger Provinzial-Anzeiger - Dieburger Kreisblatt, No. 27/1871.
11. ^ Fritz Gevert: From the railway construction in Ober-Ramstadt. In: Faith and Home, September - November 1935.
12. ↑ Erwin Netscher: The construction of the Odenwald railway. In: Odenwälder Nachrichten (Ober-Ramstadt) March 25, 1939.
13. ^ Karl-Heinz Schanz: The Hessian Ludwig Railway Company and the construction of the Odenwald Railway. In: Supplement No. 14, Odenwälder Nachrichten, June 2000.
14. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 82f (No. 55).
15. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, pp. 84f (No. 14).
16. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, pp. 84f (No. 22).
17. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 88f (No. 56).
18. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, pp. 80f (No. 25).
19. ↑ With the 27th ds. Mts. Further sections of the Odenwaldbahn, from Groß-Umstadt to Wiebelsbach-Heubach and from Darmstadt to Ober-Ramstadt, will be opened to public transport. In: Starkenburger Provinzial-Anzeiger - Dieburger Kreisblatt, No. 108/1870.
20. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 82f (No. 54).
21. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 148f (No. 16).
22. ^ In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt 1875, p. 451 (No. 40).
23. ↑ State Treaty between the Grand Duchies of Baden and Hesse printed in: Hessisches Regierungsblatt 1875, p. 344 (No. 29).
24. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 148f (No. 14).
25. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 148f (No. 15).
26. ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 148f (No. 23).
27. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 15 of April 2, 1898, p. 93, Announcement No. 154.
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29. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 20 of May 7, 1898, p. 155, Announcement No. 203.
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31. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 39 of August 27, 1898, p. 267, Announcement No. 342.
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33. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 39 of August 27, 1898, p. 267, Announcement No. 342.
34. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 24, 1914, No. 5. Announcement No. 50, p. 33.
35. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 21, 1914, No. 14. Announcement No. 158, p. 97.
36. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of September 19, 1908, No. 56. Announcement No. 747, p. 625.
37. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of January 18, 1936, No. 3. Announcement No. 26, p. 17.
38. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 14, 1911, No. 2. Announcement No. 28, p. 11.
39. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 15, 1911, No. 35. Announcement No. 447, p. 262.
40. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 26, 1912, No. 4. Announcement No. 66, p. 27.
41. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 26, 1912, No. 4. Announcement No. 66, p. 27.
42. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of April 23, 1904, No. 21. Announcement No. 188, p. 300.
43. ^ Utz von Wagner: The Odenwaldbahn. A romantic train journey from Darmstadt to Eberbach = Eisenbahn-Bildarchiv 15. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-354-5 , p. 8.
44. ^ Local transport plan 2011–2016 of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district and the Darmstadt City of Science. (PDF; 2.7 MiB) (No longer available online.) In: dadina.de. December 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
45. ↑ Rhein Main Verkehrsverbund, press release, making Odenwaldbahn fit for the future, August 7, 2019
46. ↑ Echo online from February 27, 2010: Green light for the Itinos to operate  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 20, 2009.  
47. ↑ The old operators are also the new operators ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). RMV press release. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
48. ↑ OREGmbH: Additional vehicles on the Odenwald-Bahn: public transport mobility portal . In: www.odenwaldmobil.de. Archived from the original on June 13, 2016 ; accessed on June 13, 2016 . 
49. ↑ Four new vehicles for Odenwaldbahn. Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, October 11, 2017, accessed on October 23, 2017 . 
50. ↑ Information on the Darmstadt - Pfungstadt railway line. In: dadina.de. December 1, 2011, accessed May 20, 2019 . 
51. ↑ http://hessenschau.de/panorama/16-jaehrige-in-babenhausen-von-zug-erfasst-und-getoetet,unfall-babenhausen-112.html
52. ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels on route 3554 on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
53. ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels on route 4113 on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
54. ↑ 100 years of the Odenwald Railway. P. 13.

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