Perm Railway

Perm Railway
Perm-Bahn in orange Connections to the bypass in yellow
Route number :	15060
Route length:	10.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	30 km / h
Legend 0.0 Permanent tunnel 0.2 Brockbach today's federal motorway 30 later route from Velpe (see below) today's federal highway 1 7.1 State border North Rhine-Westphalia / Lower Saxony later route to Natrup-Hagen (see below) Hasbergen – Osnabrück from Hasbergen 10.9 Wulffskotten to Georgsmarienhütte
Bypass
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Osnabrück 0.0 Velpe (Westf) to Rheine 0.4 Brockbach today's federal motorway 30 former route from Perm (see above) x, x Bk Habichtswald today's federal highway 1 7.1 State border North Rhine-Westphalia / Lower Saxony former route to Georgsmarienhütte (see above) from Hasbergen Leeden to Munster Swell:

The Perm Railway was a railway line that ran from the Perm tunnel between Laggenbeck and Velpe to the Hasbergen railway station .

Ore railway

The ore railway connected the Perm tunnel with the Hasbergen – Georgsmarienhütte railway line . The ores from Ibbenbürener ore mining could be transported inexpensively to the Georgs-Marien-Hütte in Georgsmarienhütte , because the much longer and more expensive route via Osnabrück was saved. The railway line began at the Erzwaschen am Perm tunnel and ran through the farmers' groups Ahlert, Tolksdorf and Osterberg across the state border between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, crossing the Goldbach and the Hasbergen - Gaste road. The route then rose in the direction of Kirchberg in Hasbergen, crossed Tecklenburger Strasse on iron girder bridges in the center of Hasbergen and then also the Osnabrück - Münster railway line before it then merged with the so-called Hüttenbahn at Wulfskotten station.

The operator was the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein (GMV). Operations ceased in 1926. At times there was also passenger traffic, its operator was the Georgsmarienhütten-Eisenbahn (GME).

After the war, the last major relic of the Perm Railway was the railway bridge over Tecklenburger Straße until the early 1960s. It and the embankment separating the town center were only removed when the town center was renovated in the mid-1970s. Today's small police station in Hasbergen is exactly where the Perm Railway once passed through the town.

Bypass

Southern part

During the Second World War, the line was reactivated and the Todt organization connected it to the railway line towards Münster with a connecting curve. In this way, the line served as a bypass for Osnabrück until 1949 . When the Allies launched air raids on this city in the last days of the war, the Wehrmacht tried to defend the railway line with rail - mounted anti-aircraft guns by placing them on the Perm Railway.

Northern part

Because of numerous bombing raids on Osnabrück, the Deutsche Reichsbahn was forced to bypass the destroyed Osnabrück station . The old route of the Erzbahn it offered itself particularly as these from Hasbergen on the route Osnabrück Minster for Löhne-Rheine railway led.

Only about 200 m were still missing to connect to the railway line in Velpe , since the Perm tunnel is located below the railway line. This bypass was completed in 1944. It was used for passenger and freight traffic until 1946. It was finally dismantled in 1949.

literature

• Lothar H. Hülsmann, Wilfried Scheidemann: The railways of the Georgs-Marien-Hütte. Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 1985, ISBN 3-922657-38-9
• Gerd Hahn: Hasbergen train station. Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-49-4
• Hans Röhrs : The early ore mining and the iron and steel industry in the Tecklenburger Land . Ibbenbürener Vereindruckerei, Ibbenbüren 1987, ISBN 3-921290-23-6
• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 9: Lower Saxony 1 - Between Weser and Ems . Eisenbahn Kurier Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-668-4

Web links

• Information about the Perm Railway

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .