Baden tram

The last surviving railcar of the Baden tram, Car 100 from 1900. Delivered by the Grazer Waggonfabrik , received at the Museumstramway Mariazell .

Tram in Baden (scheme)
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Baden tram (ring line)
Baden tram (line to Rauhenstein)
Baden tram (line to Vöslau)
Baden tram (line to Traiskirchen)
Baden tram (line to Guntramsdorf)

The tram of the city of Baden near Vienna was one of the oldest tram operators in Austria-Hungary . On August 14th, 1872, the Badener Tramway-Gesellschaft was established , whose licensed lines were originally intended to be narrow-gauge.

In 1873, the Badener Tramway Company began operating a standard-gauge horse-drawn tram. The first line was electrified as early as 1894.

A special feature of the Baden tram was that its network mainly consisted of overland lines - to Rauhenstein im Helenental , (Bad) Vöslau , Traiskirchen and Guntramsdorf  - with the route to Rauhenstein partly showing the characteristics of an inner city line, but more like an overland line in the outer section. Only one ring line was operated in the city center.

history

The tram in Baden has had to struggle with considerable economic problems since it was commissioned; For several years it only ran during the course season (May 1 to October 15 at the latest). In 1882 the company was sold to the Südbahngesellschaft , and operations were transferred to a private company, J. E. Löwenfeld's Witwe & Sohn , until December 31, 1884 . For 1883, the Südbahngesellschaft announced the construction of a tramway route from the Südbahnhof to the Stadtpark as the first section of the later ring line or, even beyond that, to [or even into Helenental, through] Berggasse [today: Marchetstraße ] . Also in 1882 for the project that wanted to connect to the existing Baden-Südbahnhof - Rauhenstein tram (but never realized) a line from the k. Via Sattelbach and Heiligenkreuz to Kaltenleut ents was established . k. Ministry of Commerce granted the civil engineer Franz Mörth the temporary permit for technical preparatory work (see also: Kaltenleutgender Bahn ). Two years later, the start of construction on the same or a related project was in the near future , whereby it was established that the railway line from Baden through the romantic Helenenthal via Alland and Klausen-Leopoldsdorf with the connection to the Western Railway had already been laid in 1872.

On July 16, 1894, the former Baden - Rauhenstein / Helenental (3.24 km) horse-drawn railway was opened as an electric railway. Power was supplied above ground using a trolley cable .

On May 22, 1895, the Baden - Vöslau line (4.88 km) was opened. In the middle of 1897 there was a plan to extend the tram line ending in Vöslau am Bad to the southern tram station “Vöslau”, as well as branching off in the area of ​​the tram stop “Goldeck” (see: Electric Vöslau – Baden, route plan Vöslau (1909) Electric Vöslau Baden Plan Vöslau (1909) .jpg ) to build a route leading through the forest prayer to the Iron Gate . The permit issued for preliminary work stipulated a narrow-gauge small train , which, if the project had been implemented, would have required a change compared to the standard-gauge tram line.

On October 5, 1898, for the (unrealized) general project of the Actien-Gesellschaft der Wiener Lokalbahnen to run a standard-gauge local railway with electrical operations from the tram terminal in Rauhenstein to Alland, route revision and station commission took place. On July 21, 1899, on the occasion of the route revision planned for the 25th of the same month, the Weikersdorf municipal committee dealt with the project of a narrow-gauge railway line with steam operation for freight traffic Baden-Alland operated by the Wiener Lokalbahngesellschaft . This project, which competed with a Pollack project , provided for a route restricting road traffic on Weilburgstrasse and would only have been supported if a. the construction of a building (of at least four meters) would have been planned or the route across the Vistula valley would have been planned.

The project of a circular railway , which was discussed as early as 1894, but was initially abandoned due to the negative attitude of the local council , was finally implemented: the inner-city ring line was opened on August 30, 1899.

In the autumn of 1908, automobile traffic was introduced to Heiligenkreuz-Alland-Klausen-Leopoldsdorf , which was discontinued for the time being in 1911 due to the poor road condition and the associated operating decit ( intensive wear and tear of the rubber tires and machine components ).

When in 1911 a new project for an electric standard-gauge railway through the Helenental to Alland-Klausen-Leopolsdsdorf and probably later to the Westbahn with a junction to Sattelbach and Heiligenkreuz emerged, the Weikersdorf community committee made a decision for the almost unconditional euphoria that had prevailed until then An end to the construction of the railway could be foreseen: In the expectation of upcoming freight transports and the associated burden for the city and tourism, the existing route was to be relocated to the right of the Schwechat and the extension - to protect the front Helenental valley - via the unpopulated, wooded Vistula valley back to the cholera chapel be led into the valley.

After years of neglect, the tram to Rauhenstein was closed on weekdays from September 15, 1931, and the branch line to Traiskirchen on December 15, 1931. The Baden – Bad Vöslau tram was also replaced by buses on September 30, 1931, but due to fierce resistance from passengers and protests by the Sooss local representatives, it was put back into operation on December 20, 1931 instead of bus traffic.

Even before the Second World War , tram operation on the lines to Rauhenstein and Traiskirchen was shut down, but the latter kept freight traffic.

As an independent tram operator, the system no longer exists today. The line to Guntramsdorf is now part of the Vienna – Baden local railway (Wiener Lokalbahn, also WLB). The line to Traiskirchen is no longer electrified today, but is still used by WLB as a freight connecting railway for the industrial park at the Semperit site in Traiskirchen. At the Traiskirchen Aspangbahn train station there is still a track connection between WLB and ÖBB .

As the last independent line, the line to Bad Vöslau was shut down on February 14, 1951 ( announcement by the Federal Ministry of Transport and nationalized companies of April 16, 1951 regarding the expiry of the concession for the local railway from Baden to Vöslau ).

vehicles

Horse-drawn carriage

Horse-drawn carriage
No.	Manufacturer	Years of construction	Whereabouts	comment
1-5	Hernals	1873	→ 14-18
6-12	Hernals	1873	→ 13, 7-12	Summer car
13-18	Simmering  ?	1885	→ 1–6

Electric railcars

Electric railcars
No.	Manufacturer	Years of construction or conversion years	Whereabouts	comment
101-110	Graz	1894
111-112	MAN	1894
95-99	Graz	1899
100	Graz	1901
92-94		1908		ex sidecar
76-85		1910-1912		ex Vienna
97 "	WLB	1927
76 "-79", 95 "-98"		1942		ex Vienna

The Museumstramway Mariazell – Erlaufsee owns the restored original railcar 100 of the Baden tram. The 314 railcar preserved in the Remise transport museum was part of Baden's inventory from 1947 and was used as a WLB work vehicle for a long time.

sidecar

sidecar
No.	Manufacturer	Years of construction or conversion years	Whereabouts	comment
1-18				ex horse tram
15 "-17"	Graz	1899
14 "-15" '		1908		ex railcar
18 "-23		1905		ex Vienna
101 ... 110		1926-1931		ex railcar
1"		1926		ex WLB
5 "–8"		1942		ex Vienna

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  Horse tram line Rauhenstein, contemporary engraving (around 1880)

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  Horse tram on the Rauhenstein line

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  Motor car 79 of the Baden tram on Josefsplatz in front of the Frauenhof

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  Car no.104 (built in 1894) in front of the Kurhaus, which was completed in 1886. (Location: northwesternmost point of the ring line)

literature

• Hans Sternhart, Hans Pötschner: One hundred years Badner Bahn. The history of the Badner tram and the local railway Vienna-Baden . Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-900134-19-7 .
• Hans Sternhart, Hans Pötschner: One hundred years Badner Bahn. Pictures from the history of the Badner tram and the local railway Vienna-Baden. Small edition . Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-900134-21-9 .
• Hans Pötschner: Local Railway Vienna - Baden . In: Eisenbahn-Sammheft , Volume 14. Slezak, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-900134-60-X .
• Hans Lehnhart: The tram in Baden near Vienna . Tram magazine  44, 1982.

Remarks

1. ↑ From 1886 until further notice, the draft horses are likely to have been provided by the Allgemeine Österreich Transport-Gesellschaft ( Tramway-Omnibusse (Annonce). In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , June 22, 1886, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). ). - See: Baden Local Chronicle. Badener Tramway-Gesellschaft .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , April 27, 1886, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ At the end of the driving season the draft horses were sometimes auctioned off by hand. - See: Announcement. On October 18, 1884 ... In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , October 11, 1884, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ The line was completed by the end of 1894 in mid-July of this year. J. has not been excluded. - See: Correspondences. Vöslau. (Electric train Baden-Vöslau.). In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , July 11, 1894, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
4. ↑ In December 1894, which was Schwechat crossing Spulersteg as iron bridge plate [today: Sauerhofbrücke ] completed. Their overly long construction period may have had an impact on the assumptions of a railway opening date that had to be corrected several times. - See: Electric train “Baden – Vöslau”. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , December 19, 1894, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ Immediately after its announcement to the public, this project, aimed at the Alland terminus, turned out to be a route that would lead beyond Alland to the Westbahn, the Rekawinkel confluence, which had not only been on the agenda of a meeting of the Baden municipal committee , but also at which Representative of the political authority , the head of the district administration of Baden, Count Alberti, had made a statement. - His statement basically affirmed the project, but postulated the use of the route for freight traffic with circumvention of the soft pattern of the Baden-Weikersdorf currayon as an essential requirement . - See: The electric railway Baden – Alland – Rekawinkel .. In:  Badener Zeitung , October 12, 1898, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). This western development could have continued, starting from Baden, as far as the imperial border in the east, since as early as 1897 the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry gave Viktor Roback, a building contractor for local railways , Vienna, technical preparatory work for a local railroad from Baden to be operated with electric or steam power via Oyenhausen, Unter-Waltersdorf, Seibersdorf, Mannersdorf, Sommerein and Kaiserlicher Steinbruch to Bruck a. d. Leitha had been granted. - See: Local News. Local railway Baden - Bruck a. d. L .. In:  Badener Zeitung , October 26, 1898, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). .
   The project of the local railway Gramat-Neusiedl - Weikersdorf - Baden - Alland - Rekawinkel intended a similar railway connection coming from the east, bypassing Vienna and leading to the Westbahn , for which the Ministry of Railways approved preliminary technical work to the existing action committee in January 1903 . - See: Local News. On the project of the local railway Gramat-Neusiedl - Baden - Alland - Rekawinkel .. In:  Badener Zeitung , March 18, 1903, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). For a project with the same goal, the kk priv. Länderbank in Vienna was granted technical preparatory work in the spring of 1904, but a western rail connection would have been linked to the confluence with the planned Rekawinkel – Hainfeld railway line . - See: Local Railway Klausen-Leopoldsdorf - Baden - Gramat-Neusiedl .. In:  Badener Zeitung , May 4, 1904, p. 3, top right. (Online at ANNO ).
   
6. ↑ ^{a b} With this route, the bypassing of the Badner Lindkogel in the south, the railway would have had to deal with over 140 meters in altitude on a distance of approx. 2.7 km to the apex, Jägerhaus.
7. ↑ Even before the First World War , the Baden Railways were subject to recurring criticism. - See: The conditions on our local electric train .. In:  Badener Zeitung , July 8, 1911, p. 5, top right (online at ANNO ). as well as
   accident of the actress Mrs. Kramer-Glöckner. In:  Badener Zeitung , 23 August 1911, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). and
   a trip from Baden to Vöslau in 1911 .. In:  Badener Zeitung , September 6, 1911, p. 3, center right (online at ANNO ).
8. ↑ Such an initiative had u. a. found advocates twenty years earlier, see: Vöslau. (Electric train.). In:  Badener Zeitung , March 27, 1912, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). as well as (electric train.). In:  Badener Zeitung , May 8, 1912, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).

Web links

• Photo of the restored railcar 100 on the Mariazell – Erlaufsee museum tramway
• Share of the Badener Tramway-Gesellschaft geerkens.at
• Article about the Baden tram bmgt.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volkswirthschaftliche Zeitung. (The Baden Tramway Society). In:  Das Vaterland , August 9, 1872, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ Trade, Industry, Transport and Agriculture. (Badener Tramway Company.). In:  Wiener Zeitung , August 9, 1883, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
3. ^ ^{A b c} Badener Tramway-Gesellschaft. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , July 25, 1885, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
4. ↑ Locales. Company opening .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , April 26, 1884, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ Locales. Tramway traffic .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , September 29, 1883, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). as well as locales. Season end .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , October 13, 1883, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
6. ↑ Local messages. The Badener Tramway sells. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , January 3, 1882, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
7. ^ The Badener Tramway sells. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , January 7, 1882, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
8. ^ News from the districts. Südbahn-Gesellschaft .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , June 3, 1882, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
9. ↑ Local messages. A new tramway line .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , July 11, 1882, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
10. ↑ Locales. The new Helenenthal railway. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , March 10, 1883, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
11. ^ A new railway project. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , July 25, 1882, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
12. ^ The railway through Helenenthal .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , June 21, 1884, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
13. ↑ (Electric train in Baden.). In:  Wiener Zeitung , July 16, 1894, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
14. ↑ ^{a b c} History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 556
15. ↑ Local messages. - Electrische Bahn Baden – Vöslau .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , May 22, 1895, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
16. ↑ Vöslau. (Electric train Vöslau - Waldandacht - Iron Gate.). In:  Badener Zeitung , August 28, 1897, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
17. ↑ Local messages. Electric train Baden-Alland .. In:  Badener Zeitung , September 28, 1898, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
18. ↑ Election of two delegates on the occasion of the inspection (...). In:  Badener Zeitung , July 26, 1899, p. 3 middle (online at ANNO ).
19. ↑ On the opening of the Ringbahnlinie .. In:  Badener Zeitung , August 26, 1899, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
20. ↑ The second commissionelle test drive on the electric ring railway…. In:  Badener Zeitung , August 30, 1899, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
21. ↑ The automobile traffic to Klausen – Alland – Heiligenkreuz ceased. In:  Badener Zeitung , May 20, 1911, p. 5, top right (online at ANNO ).
22. ^ Communal newspaper. Meeting of the community committee Weikersdorf on Thursday, March 16, 1911. (…) The same speaker then reports (…). In:  Badener Zeitung , March 18, 1911, p. 3, top center (online at ANNO ).
23. ↑ Derailment of a train of the local electric railways on the Baden – Rauhenstein line. In:  Badener Zeitung , September 15, 1926, p. 4, bottom center (online at ANNO ).
24. ^ Electric Südbahn - Rauhenstein .. In:  Badener Zeitung , September 9, 1931, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
25. ^ Traffic cessation. In:  Badener Zeitung , December 16, 1931, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
26. ↑ Cessation of electrical operation on the Baden - Bad Vöslau line. In:  Badener Zeitung , September 23, 1931, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
27. ↑ Submitted. Again on the cessation of the Baden – Sooss – Vöslau electrical operation. In:  Badener Zeitung , October 7, 1931, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
28. ↑ Submitted. On the cessation of electrical operations in Baden – Sooß – Vöslau .. In:  Badener Zeitung , October 14, 1931, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
29. ^ The new bus connection with Vöslau. In:  Badener Zeitung , October 10, 1931, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
30. ↑ Local traffic Baden-Vöslau .. In:  Badener Zeitung , December 19, 1931, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
31. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 114/1951
32. ↑ A two-horse saloon car leaves the terminus Rauhenstein / Helenental in the direction of the city. Rauhenstein ruins in the background .