Solmsbachtalbahn
| Grävenwiesbach – Albshausen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Braunfels-Oberndorf train station
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number (DB) : | 3746 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 637 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 24 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Solmsbachtalbahn (or the shorter Solmstalbahn ) was a single-track, non-electrified branch line in the Hintertaunus . The 24-kilometer route with VzG number 3746 led from Grävenwiesbach to Wetzlar and was largely based on Solmsbach . In 1999 the 8-kilometer section between Grävenwiesbach and Brandoberndorf was reactivated as a section of the Taunus Railway .
course
The Solms brook valley course begins in originally as a hairpin executed station Grävenwiesbach at the end of the route Usingen- Weilmünster . A 1300 meter long tunnel leads to the valley of the Solmsbach that gives it its name at Waldsolms - Hasselborn . Then you reached Brandoberndorf , the end point of today's Taunusbahn , but the new stop was created a few meters in front of the old train station.
After further course of the valley of the Solms stream the route reached after a further short tunnel behind Burgsolms - Oberdorf the Lahntalhotel web , from where both routes just a kilometer parallel to the station Albshausen run where they are merged operational.
history
construction
When the second construction phase of the Usinger Bahn to Weilmünster was completed on June 1, 1909, the Prussian State Railways began planning a connecting line through the Solmstal to Wetzlar . It was supposed to establish the connection between Usingen (or further on from Frankfurt am Main ) and the Lahn Valley Railway to Wetzlar. The line could only be opened on November 1, 1912, because the route required several engineering structures (especially two tunnels) due to the difficult terrain.
business
The trains of the Solmsbachtalbahn did not end in Albshausen , but drove for years coming from Frankfurt to Wetzlar, some even further to Giessen . After the steam locomotives , the route was mainly driven by diesel locomotives such as V 100 or V 160 and n-type cars , later also with Uerdingen rail buses of the VT 95 and VT 98 series.
Decommissioning / dismantling
In May 1975, the then Deutsche Bundesbahn made tough cuts in the timetable. As on many other routes, weekend traffic was canceled. At the same time, a rail replacement service with buses was set up. In 1985 , when the timetable changed on May 31, passenger traffic was stopped. The freight was followed on 28 May 1988, so the track was completely shut down.
In 1990, when the Taunusbahn, which was also shortly before closure, was modernized on the Hochtaunuskreis side , dismantling of the Solmsbachtalbahn began in the Lahn-Dill district . Most of the station buildings at the former train stations are privately owned and well preserved, only that of Burgsolms-Oberndorf was dismantled early on because it was in disrepair. Along the mostly still visible railway embankment there are a few preserved bridges as well as isolated remnants of the railway such as hectometer stones.
Reactivation of a section
After the Taunusbahn has been able to count more passengers from year to year since 1993, the Lahn-Dill district also wanted to be reconnected to this route. He acquired the Grävenwiesbach – Brandoberndorf route and brought it to the Hochtaunus Transport Association (VHT). 17 million DM were invested in reactivating the 8-kilometer route.
On November 15, 1999, a shuttle service was set up on the reopened section. The Jägerhaus stop was not put back into operation and a new stop was set up in Brandoberndorf a little east of the old train station, which is now used as a residential building. Somewhat swiveled there is now a double-track parking facility operated as an alternate junction . When the signaling technology had also been adapted, the trains ran continuously to Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Frankfurt am Main from May 28, 2000 . The expected number of 300 travelers a day was soon exceeded. In Brandoberndorf, two bus routes connect to Braunfels and Wetzlar .
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 978 ff . (Route 107).
Web links
- Photos of the Solmstalbahn (2014)
- Private page about railway lines in the Hintertaunus
- Royal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (Main): Branch line (Wetzlar -) Albshausen - Grävenwiesbach.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de/lb/inhalt/tunnelportale/3746-burgsolms.html Pictures of the filled tunnel
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .