Rosentalbahn

Rosentalbahn Sankt Veit an der Glan – Rosenbach
Route number :	413 01 Sankt Veit an der Glan – Klagenfurt Hbf 409 01 Klagenfurt Hbf – Rosenbach 222 02 Rosenbach state border
Course book route (ÖBB) :	221 (Villach Hbf – Jesenice) 601 (Friesach – Spittal-Millstättersee) 660 (Klagenfurt Hbf – Rosenbach)
Route length:	62.812 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	St. Veit ad Glan – Klagenfurt Hbf and Rosenbach – Jesenice 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	26  ‰
Top speed:	160 km / h
Dual track :	St. Veit ad Glan – Klagenfurt, Rosenbach – Jesenice
Legend Rudolfsbahn 0.000 St. Veit ad Glan 476  m above sea level A. Branch from the Rudolfsbahn 1,100 St. Veit ad Glan-Süd 2.114 0.000 0.675 Glandorf 3.254 Connection railway ( Awanst ) FunderMax 4,518 Willersdorf 29.05.1994 abandoned 6,700 Zollfeld abandoned on May 28, 1967 7,969 8,000 Error profile −31 m 9.228 Maria Hall 453  m above sea level A. 12.378 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) GBV II (Laudon-Kaserne) 13,592 Klagenfurt Annabichl Glan 16.773 Klagenfurt Ostbahnhof 440  m above sea level A. Drautalbahn 17,960 Klagenfurt Hbf 440  m above sea level A. Branch from the Drautalbahn 19.218 Klagenfurt Süd since October 29, 2015 19,995 Viktring (closed in 2015) 440  m above sea level A. 23,000 Köttmannsdorf (closed in 1967) 25,046 Maria Rain 525  m above sea level A. Ferlach reservoir Ferlacher Bahn 30.079 Weizelsdorf 31,526 Weizelsdorf Ort (until Dec. 10, 2016), since August 2020 nostalgia operation 32.729 St. Johann im Rosental (until Dec. 10, 2016), since August 2020 nostalgia operation 35,462 Feistritz im Rosental , since August 2020 nostalgia operation 498  m above sea level A. Feistritz Viaduct (193 m) 36.725 Feistritz im Rosental West (until December 10, 2016) 37.472 Suetschach (until December 10, 2016) 38.637 Ladinach (until December 10, 2016) 42,146 Maria misery in the rose valley 525  m above sea level A. Rosenbach Viaduct (239 m) 46.138 Lessach tunnel (111 m) from Villach 47.791 Rosenbach 601  m above sea level A. 49.260 Karawanken tunnel (7976.5 m) 53.635 637.265 State border to Rosenbach Austria - Slovenia 631.800 631.825 Error profile +25 m Tarvisio – Ljubljana from Tarvisio 630.211 Jesenice (Assling) 573  m above sea level A. to Ljubljana to Nova Gorica

As Rosental train the eastern part of today Karawankenbahn railway in Austria called. The route runs from Sankt Veit an der Glan via Klagenfurt and Rosenbach to Jesenice in Slovenia . The section between Rosenbach and Jesenice through the Karawanken tunnel is part of the national long-distance connection between Salzburg and Zagreb . The railway line is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways . With the 2016/17 timetable change, traffic between Weizelsdorf and Rosenbach was suspended. The route was sold to the state of Carinthia. NBIK nostalgia trains have been running between Weizelsdorf and Feistritz since summer 2020.

history

In the agrarian Rosental , iron was processed in the area of Feistritz in the Rosental from the 16th century , and there were iron processing plants in Ferlach as well . When in 1863 the Südbahn-Gesellschaft connected Carinthia to the railway network with the Kärntner Bahn , the Rosental was bypassed. The iron produced here still had to be transported over the Loiblpass in horse-drawn vehicles. As early as 1896, a consortium of local business people tried to build a local railway from Klagenfurt to Ferlach. However, these attempts were unsuccessful.

The pricing policy of the privatized Südbahn-Gesellschaft, which had a de facto monopoly on north-south traffic in Austria-Hungary , led the Reichsrat to several legislative initiatives for a second rail link to Trieste , all of which were unsuccessful. Only the Alpine Railway Act passed on June 6, 1901 made the construction of the so-called New Alpine Railway possible . In the same year, construction work began on the 7,976 m long Karawanken tunnel . From 1903 up to 4,500 people worked on the routes from Villach ( Karawankenbahn ) and Klagenfurt . Overcoming the Sattnitz mountains and the rugged slopes of the Karawanken required the construction of several large bridges. At the beginning of May 1906, the Klagenfurt-Feistritz section was finally opened, and the rest of the railway line opened on September 30 of the same year. In the same year Ferlach also got a connection to the Rosentalbahn with the Ferlacher Bahn .

The new rail connection of the Rosental led to an upswing in the local steel industry. In the year the railway opened, the Krainische Industriegesellschaft took over the Feistritz plant and expanded it over the next few years. The ironworks in Waidisch, Unterloibl and Ferlach merged to form the Carinthian iron and steelworks company KESTAG. The Rosentalbahn developed into an important north-south connection. In the summer of 1914, five pairs of express trains drove here every day.

After the end of the First World War and the referendum in Carinthia in 1920 , changed territorial conditions led to a change in traffic flows and the decline of the Rosental Railway began. In October 1931 the last scheduled express train ran through the Rosental, in 1933 the Krainische Industriegesellschaft closed its Feistritz plant under the impact of the global economic crisis . During the Second World War , armaments production at the Jungfer battery factory, which opened in Feistritz in 1939, and the German attack on Yugoslavia in 1941 led to a short-lived increase in traffic.

In the 1970s, the construction of the Ferlach reservoir led to initial considerations to discontinue the railway, because the bridge over the Drau was below the destination . Finally the bridge was lifted and is now only 80 cm above the water level. With the closure of the Ferlacher steelworks in the course of the steel crisis and the discontinuation of the Ferlacher Bahn in 1996, the railway lost a large part of its freight traffic. In 2012, the loading points in Weizelsdorf and Feistritz im Rosental were closed. Since then, goods have only been loaded at Viktring station.

The condition of the line between Klagenfurt and Rosenbach deteriorated increasingly. Up until 2009, there were nine kilometers of slow speed zones between Rosenbach and Klagenfurt, where the maximum speed was only 10 to 30 km / h. The travel time from Klagenfurt to Rosenbach was correspondingly long at over an hour. Without the speed limits, passing (diverted) passenger trains would have only needed around 25 to 30 minutes for the Klagenfurt – Rosenbach route, regional trains a good 40 minutes. In July 2009, however, this route was renovated and all 10 km / h speed limits have been removed. Almost all switches and signals along the route were also dismantled. The pure travel time on the entire route was shortened to a good 40 minutes, and as of the 2009/10 timetable change, another pair of trains also ran on this abandoned route.

From August 1, 2011 up to and including December 9, 2016, passenger traffic was limited to a single train, which only ran the entire Rosenbach – Klagenfurt route on weekdays (except Saturdays). The train left Rosenbach at 6:24 a.m. and arrived at Klagenfurt Hbf at 7:15 a.m. after a journey time of 51 minutes.

In December 2016, the last remaining train in the Weizelsdorf-Rosenbach section was discontinued. This step was justified with the low passenger frequency on the route and the necessary investments. The discontinued section became the property of the Province of Carinthia. In August 2020, the route between Weizeldorf and Feistritz was reopened for NBIK nostalgic trains.

Since the summer of 2011, the remaining Klagenfurt-Weizelsdorf section has been used by the S-Bahn line S3 of the Carinthia S-Bahn . Since then, buses have been running from Weizelsdorf to Ferlach and parallel to the Rosentalbahn to Rosenbach and Ledenitzen (connection to the S2), depending on the arrival time of the trains from Klagenfurt . For this purpose, Weizelsdorf train station was modernized and a park and ride facility was built. In 2015, the Klagenfurt-Süd stop was opened and passenger traffic at Viktring station was discontinued.

Train traffic

Since the 2008/09 timetable change, only class 5022 (Desiro) railcars have been running on the route. The modest freight traffic was served by the 2068 series or the 2016 series.

During construction work or operational disruptions on the Villach – Rosenbach railway line , the Rosentalbahn was also used as a diversion route, albeit rarely for international traffic. Between St. Veit an der Glan and Klagenfurt, the route is mainly used by passenger trains on the Vienna - Villach route .

On December 9, 2016, the last scheduled passenger train ran its entire length between Rosenbach via the Rosental to Klagenfurt main station. Since then, all train traffic on the route between Rosenbach and Weizelsdorf has been suspended, and it is no longer included in the ÖBB rail network. In August 2020, the section between Weizelsdorf and Feistritz was reopened for nostalgia trains of the nostalgia railways in Carinthia (NBIK). On the section between Klagenfurt main station and Weizelsdorf, S-Bahn line 3 has been running every hour since August 1, 2011. With the 2016/17 timetable change, line S3 was extended to Völkermarkt-Kühnsdorf.

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  Viktring train station in the Klagenfurt city area

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  Railway line in Lambichl

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  Railway station in Maria Rain

Route description, freight traffic and electrification

The stops between the Klagenfurt and Weizelsdorf stations are the Mössingerstraße stop and the Maria Rain station, where all but one of the tracks were made unusable in the course of the construction work on the S3 S-Bahn line.

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  Railway bridge over the Ferlacher reservoir near Weizelsdorf

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  Rosental steam train in Weizelsdorf station

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  Feistritz train station in the Rosental

In the area of ​​the Feistritz train station in Rosental there are industrial plants that once required a connection to the rail network. The journeys were scheduled to take place at lunchtime on weekdays (except Saturday). In addition to Feistritz station, Weizelsdorf station also played an important role in timber loading until a few years ago, when this area of ​​responsibility was completely relocated to the street.

The electrical contact line with 15 kV, 16.7 Hz extends from Rosenbach through the Karawanken tunnel to Jesenice station . The design of the overhead contact line in Slovenia corresponds to the Italian standard, as Italy carried out the electrification in the then occupied Slovenia before 1945. The part from Klagenfurt to Rosenbach is not electrified. However, the ÖBB are planning to expand the Klagenfurt – Weizelsdorf line in the coming years. With December 11, 2016, d. H. In the course of the timetable change in 2016/2017, all traffic between Rosenbach and Weizelsdorf was suspended, but the main tracks are to be retained for the time being. Since August 2020, nostalgia trains of the nostalgia railways in Carinthia (NBIK) have been running between Weizelsdorf and Feistritz.

Trivia

For the 1992 American feature film Shining Through (German title: Like a light in a dark night ), some scenes were shot on the partly mountainous Rosentalbahn.

literature

• Hans Withalm: The Karawankenbahn . Self-published, Klagenfurt 1906, OBV , ÖNB .
• Hanns Barth: Karawankenbahn. Travel guide on the new Austrian alpine railways Klagenfurt - Aßling - Villach . State printing office, Vienna 1907, OBV .
• Alfred Luft: The Karawankenbahn . Association of Carinthian Railway Friends - Carinthian Museum Railways, Klagenfurt 1977, ÖNB .
• Horst Knely: The difficult realization of the Rosentalbahn. Carinthia I, volume 1.180.1990. Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1990, pp. 707–727, OBV .
• Brigitte Entner: Karawanken and Rosentalbahn . In: Martina Berchtold-Ogris (among others): The Drau is a woman of its own - a river and its cultural history . Založnik Drava, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85435-327-8 , p. 140–.
• KK Ministry of Railways in Vienna: The new Austrian Alpine railways. Otto Maas publishing house, Vienna 1908, Upper Austrian regional library
• Alenka Hain, Werner Koroschitz, Tamara Pinter: Game over: an industrial history: [catalog to the exhibition] = Primer industrijske zgogovine [catalog k razstavi]. Založnik Drava, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-85435-496-7 .
• Martin Lischka: The new alpine railways: the climax and completion of the Austrian mountain railway construction: Pyhrn, Tauern, Karawanken and Wocheinerbahn in their function as the "second railway connection with Trieste". Dissertation University of Vienna, Vienna 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved August 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Opening of the Rosentalbahn - nostalgic railways in Carinthia - NBiK. Retrieved August 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alenka Hain, Werner Koroschitz, Tamara Pinter: Game over: an industrial history: [catalog for the exhibition] = Primer industrijske zgodovine: [catalog k razstavi] . Drava, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2006, ISBN 3-85435-496-7 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Brigitte Entner, Vida Obid: The Drau is a woman of its own: a river and its cultural history = Drava je svoja frava: h culture in zgodovini Drave . Drava, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2001, ISBN 3-85435-327-8 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Lischka: The new alpine railways: the climax and completion of the Austrian mountain railroad construction: Pyhrn, Tauern, Karawanken and Wocheinerbahn in their function as the "second rail link with Trieste" . Dissertation University of Vienna, Vienna 2017.
6. ↑ ÖBB close five freight yards. October 31, 2012, accessed July 19, 2019 . 
7. ^ Rosental: Extension of the S-Bahn line to rail. November 16, 2016, accessed July 19, 2019 . 
8. ^ Statement by a train driver on YouTube
9. ↑ 60 million euros by 2023: Carinthia's rail future is on the rails ktn.gv.at written on December 17, 2015, accessed on March 13, 2016
10. ^ Nostalgic railways in Carinthia - NBiK. Retrieved August 5, 2020 (Dutch). 
11. ↑ Lessacher tunnel on route 409 01, railway tunnel in Austria. Retrieved July 19, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Rosentalbahn II  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Pictures from the Lessacher Tunnel
• Current (PDF; 42 kB) timetable of the ÖBB.
• Pictures from the Rosentalbahn