Rodgaubahn
The Rodgaubahn is a railway line from Offenbach (Main) via Rodgau to Rödermark - Ober-Roden , originally single-track and since 2003 double- track . The name Rodgaubahn derives from the medieval name Rodgau , a part of the former Maingau , which it crosses in its entirety.
history
Since about 1870, there were serious efforts and advances of the local level, the Rodgau by a railway to open up, but initially by the state were not taken up. So after the first unsuccessful initiative in 1877, a "Railway Committee" was formed. But this too did not receive an answer from the state capital Darmstadt until after four years that the preparatory work for a railway project Offenbach- Reinheim could begin at its own expense. It was not until 1888 that the government finally approved, and after further discussions about connecting the railway in Offenbach am Main to the Prussian State Railway , the building permit was granted in 1895. In Offenbach it was initially decided to have its own station south of the Prussian State Railroad station. The line was built by the Grand Ducal Hessian State Railways . Now it only took until September 30, 1896, when the new line from Offenbach via Dieburg to Reinheim (today: route number 3661) with a length of 42.2 kilometers could be opened.
In the following years, the Rodgau Railway was connected to two other railway lines:
- On December 1, 1898, the Offenbach-Bieber – Dietzenbach line was opened as a branch from Offenbach-Bieber .
- On April 1, 1905, the newly opened Dreieichbahn from Buchschlag in Ober-Roden was connected to the so-called Rodgaubahn from around this point on .
On February 10, 1914, “when darkness fell” in the Dieburg – Reinheim section, new “double light pre-signals ” were put into operation, which corresponded to the model of the form signal that is still in use today .
In 1923, the railway facilities in the Offenbach city area were raised in the embankment in order to achieve freedom from crossing with road traffic. For this purpose, a new main train station was built in Offenbach, into which the Rodgaubahn now also flowed, whose own train station was abandoned.
business
Initially, four pairs of trains ran daily. After the Dreieichbahn was connected, there were only two continuous pairs of trains between Offenbach and Dieburg. The trains initially ran in steam operation, and increasingly with diesel locomotives after the Second World War . The importance of the connection lay in the growing commuter traffic from the northern Odenwald and the eastern district of Offenbach to jobs in the leather goods industry in the city of Offenbach.
On May 28, 1965, passenger traffic between Dieburg and Reinheim was stopped, partly because of the parallel bus route. In 1967 this route - initially only between Dieburg and Groß -zimmer - was dismantled. Freight trains still drove to and from the Odenwaldbahn on the line to Darmstadt Ost , until this was also shut down in 1970. In 1989 the remaining section of the line to Reinheim was dismantled.
Train
Already at the end of the 1950s, a conversion of the line to S-Bahn operation was discussed. It took until March 23, 2001 for the conversion of the Rodgau Railway to a double-track, electrified line as part of the Frankfurt S-Bahn network to begin. In the course of the expansion work, 13 stops and stations were modernized and two new ones built. 15 bridge structures were built and 18 level crossings were secured with new barrier systems.
With the 2003/2004 timetable change on December 14, 2003, the S-Bahn began operating and the Rodgau Railway was integrated into the Rhein-Main S-Bahn network operated by DB Regio AG . It is used by line S1 ( Wiesbaden –Ober-Roden) - and in its northern section also by line S2 ( Niedernhausen –Dietzenbach). Initially, an extension of the S1 to Dieburg and an extension of the S2 to Ober-Roden were considered, but this failed due to a lack of economic efficiency. Therefore the section from Ober-Roden to Dieburg was not electrified. Today this section is traveling from Buchschlag coming Dreieich train .
literature
- Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen , ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss Verlag Stuttgart, 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, 1,448 pages, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 . Vol. 2.2, p. 766ff (route 066).
- Werner Stolzenburg: The Rodgaubahn . In: The railway and its history = series of publications of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg 2 (Ed .: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg). Darmstadt 1985, pp. 71–78.
Web links
- Literature on Rodgaubahn in the Hessian Bibliography
- The Rodgaubahn in transition to the S-Bahn at bahngalerie.de
- Documentation about the S-Bahn expansion of the Rodgau Railway
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ 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.
S-Bahn: Leading article • Line overview • City tunnel Frankfurt (S1 – S6, S8, S9) • City tunnel Offenbach (S1 / S2 / S8 / S9) | S1 West Taunus Railway • East Rodgaubahn | S2 West Main-Lahn-Bahn • East Offenbach-Bieber – Dietzenbach | S3 North Limes Railway • South Main-Neckar Railway | S4 North Kronberger Bahn | S5 North Homburg Railway | S6 North Main-Weser-Bahn | S7 Riedbahn | S8 / S9 West Mainbahn • Frankfurt Airport Loop • East Südmainische S-Bahn
Suburban railways: Königsteiner Bahn (12) | Soden Railway (11) | Taunusbahn (15) | Friedrichsdorf – Friedberg (16) | Ländchesbahn (21) | Niddertal Railway (34) | Horlofftalbahn ( 47 / 48 ) | Hanau Railway (54) | Dreieichbahn (61) | Odenwaldbahn (80/81/82/85/86)
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