Bingerbrück – Rüdesheim route
The Bingerbrück-Rüdesheim trajectory was a railway ferry across the Rhine that connected the right and left Rhine routes from 1862 to 1900 .
On December 15, 1859, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft fully commissioned the Left Rhine route from Cologne to Bingerbrück . A few months later, on May 26, 1860, the Rhein-Nahe railway company from Bingerbrück to Neunkirchen in the Saar area was completed and in 1862 the Nassau Rheinbahn was opened on the right bank of the Rhine in the Rüdesheim - Oberlahnstein section . The route between Rüdesheim am Rhein and Wiesbaden had been in existence since 1856. The connection from Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main was only possible from the left bank of the Rhine in a wide arc via Mainz and Darmstadt . In order not to leave the onward transport of travelers and goods, especially the coal from the Saar and Ruhr , to the previous shipping , the Rhein-Nahe-Eisenbahn and Nassauische Staatsbahn decided on a trajectory between Bingerbrück and Rüdesheim.
The loading facility for the vehicles was built on the right bank of the Rhine 1500 meters west of the Rüdesheim (Rhine) station at river km 528.8. Its ramp can still be seen today at the parking lot on Bundesstraße 42 . It was built on the left bank of the Rhine at Bingerbrück train station near the Mouse Tower. Initially with two paddle steamers ( Bingerbrück and Rüdesheim ), operations began. Passenger ferry traffic has been offered on the paddle steamers since November 5, 1861. Passenger carriages were not transferred. The freight trajectory went into operation on September 1, 1862. Rail ramps on both banks made it possible to drive the wagons on and off the wooden pontoons . The freight wagons stood on pontoons that were coupled alongside the paddle steamers.
The transfer of the freight cars ended in 1900. The Prussian State Railways continued to operate the ferry until July 1907 for passenger transport . After the traffic ceased, passengers were transported free of charge by tram to Bingen and were able to use the Bingen-Rüdesheim ferry there. In 1915 this became superfluous with the completion of the Hindenburg Bridge (which was destroyed in 1945 and not rebuilt) .
Signal box human-nature-technology
In the rooms of the former signal box Bingerbrück Ost there is now an exhibition about the history of the region and especially about the former trajectory.
Web links
literature
- Walter Goertz: Bingerbrück-Rüdesheim railway project 1862-1905 . Wiesbaden 2007.
- K.-H. Lautensack: 100 years of Binger Verkehrsbetriebe . Weiler 2005, ISBN 978-3-938184-02-8 .
- Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railway Rhine bridges in Germany . Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, ISBN 3-88255-689-7 .
- Hans Schlieper: Railway trajectories across the Rhine and Lake Constance . Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-87094-369-1 , pp. 73-80.
- Max Maria von Weber: School of the Railway System . 4th edition, Leipzig 1885.