Wiesloch tram
The Wiesloch tram was the first rail connection between the city of Wiesloch and the Baden main line. It was operated as a horse-drawn tram for the entire time .
history
On April 15, 1843, the Heidelberg – Karlsruhe state railway was opened, which was part of the Baden main line from Mannheim to Basel . The Wiesloch railway station was about three kilometers west of the city, so that it only partially benefit from the railway had.
In order to give its citizens better access to the railway, the city of Wiesloch opened a meter-gauge tram on September 1, 1886 , which ran from the post office in the city center to the train station. According to the railway timetable, around 16-18 trips a day were offered. In addition to people, it also transported mail and general cargo.
The station was initially called Wiesloch, especially since there was also a Walldorf stop on the main line, which was still recorded in the timetable in 1950, although no trains stopped there since the end of the war in 1945. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the train station responsible for both cities has been called Wiesloch-Walldorf. The horse-drawn tram from this station to the city of Walldorf was only opened in 1902 and electrified in 1907.
On May 14, 1901, the Badische Lokal-Eisenbahnen AG (BLEAG) gave Wiesloch a city station in the immediate vicinity of the city center. It was on the route from Wiesloch-Walldorf via Wiesloch Stadt to Meckesheim an der Elsenz , which established a cross connection to the Elsenz Valley Railway from Heidelberg via Sinsheim to Heilbronn. On the section from the state train station to the city train station and to the Oberstadt stop (later: sanatorium) - a total of 3.8 kilometers - particularly dense traffic was offered. Therefore, from July 8, 1901, it was electrified with direct current and driven on with two-axle railcars.
This made the horse-drawn tram superfluous, even if its route ran along the Leimbach a few hundred meters north of the local railway. The Badische Lokal-Eisenbahnen AG acquired the horse-drawn tram and shut it down on July 4, 1901. In addition, on July 23, 1901 , the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft opened an electric railway from Wiesloch Stadtpark to Heidelberg , which was part of the Heidelberg tram in 1905 and closed in 1973.
literature
- Dieter Höltge: German trams and light rail vehicles, Volume 2 - Northern Baden-Württemberg. Gifhorn 1979, ISBN 3-921237-45-9 .
- Klaus Rothenhöfer: Wiesloch's rail traffic in the 19th century. From the Baden broad gauge to the end of the horse-drawn tram . In: Wiesloch. Contributions to History , Volume 2, published by the Wiesloch City Archives, Regional Culture Publishing House, Ubstadt-Weiher 2001, ISBN 3-89735-169-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timeline of Heidelberg history from 1850. Website of the Heidelberg History Association, accessed on January 24, 2018