Schmalkalden – Kleinschmalkalden railway line

Schmalkalden – Kleinschmalkalden
Route number :	6699
Course book section (DB) :	574 (1996)
Route length:	9.54 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Wernshausen 0.06 Schmalkalden ( wedge station ) according to Zella-Mehlis 0.40 silence 0.70 Schmalkalde 1.05 Schmalkalden Heron Gate 3.82 Connection to the new hut 5.00 Flohbach 5.37 Flea Seligenthal 6.50 Seligenthal viaduct 7.20 Hohleborn (from 1954) 8.6 Hundsrück Tunnel (86 m) 8.70 Schmalkaldetal viaduct from Brotterode 9.54 Kleinschmalkalden (Pappenheim)

The Schmalkalden – Kleinschmalkalden railway was a branch line in Thuringia . It connected Schmalkalden and Kleinschmalkalden south of the Thuringian Forest .

history

Special train with railcars of the ÖBB in Kleinschmalkalden (around 1995)

On November 3, 1892, the section from Schmalkalden to Floh-Seligenthal was opened, one year later, on November 6, the section from Floh-Seligenthal to Kleinschmalkalden. Trains mostly ran from Schmalkalden to Brotterode , there was a joint operation with the adjoining circular railway.

On October 30, 1996, rail passenger traffic ended. Freight traffic between Floh-Seligenthal and Kleinschmalkalden ended on December 31, 1994, on the remainder a year later on January 1, 1996. An attempt by a private railway to continue the traffic at its own expense failed after a few days. A few special trains were still running until the line was closed, and on June 30, 1999 this was history too.

The route was dismantled in 2001/02 and a railway cycle path , the Mommelstein cycle path , was built.

literature

• Markus Schmidt, Georg Thielmann: The Mommelsteinblitz . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-88255-429-0 .

Web links

Commons : Schmalkalden – Brotterode railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Course book 1944
• Forgotten paths

Individual evidence