Bonn – Oberkassel route
| Bonn – Oberkassel route | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route length: | 5.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trajectory length: | 550 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trajectory operation: | 1870-1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
With the Bonn-Oberkassel train ferry , a train ferry that connected Rhenish Railway Company from 1870 to 1914 their right- and left-bank railway lines.
Construction of the railway lines
After taking over the Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn on January 1, 1857, the Rheinische Eisenbahn built the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine in sections to Bingerbrück . With the opening of the last section on December 15, 1859, it was connected to southern Germany via the Hessian Ludwig Railway. On the basis of a concession, she built the Pfaffendorfer Rhine Bridge below the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress and the Lahn Bridge from Oberlahnstein to Niederlahnstein with a connection to the Nassau State Railway by 1864 . As a result, on June 3, 1864, another rail connection to southern Germany was established on the right bank of the Rhine.
In 1866, under slight pressure from the state, the Rheinische Eisenbahn applied for a continuation of the right bank route from Niederlahnstein via Oberkassel to Troisdorf . With the concession granted on December 24, 1866, the railway company received the state requirement to connect the new railway line with the line on the left bank of the Rhine near Bonn by means of a trajectory.
Construction of the trajectory
The construction of the trajectory began immediately. It was used in advance to transport material for the construction of the new stretch on the right bank of the Rhine. This was opened in 1869 to Neuwied and on October 27, 1869 to Oberkassel together with the Trajekt.
The trajectory essentially corresponded to the two tested trajectories of the Rheinische Bahn in Spyck and Rheinhausen , which went into operation in 1865 and 1866. In Bonn the ferry pontoons also crossed the river with their own drive between two wire ropes, but here at an angle of 45 ° against the current in the direction of Oberkassel. The three planned routes were completed in 1868, 1870 and the last only in 1873. The ramps from the riverside station to the water had an incline of 1:38. The three ferry pontoons were each 70 meters long and 9.50 meters wide. Each could carry either up to ten freight cars or seven passenger cars or a locomotive.
Behind the Oberkassel train station, the trajectory turned left towards the bank. On the Bonn side, the Bonn-Trajekt train station was built near the bank, and a freight station was built between the left Rhine route and Coblenzer Strasse (today Friedrich-Ebert-Allee / B 9 ) at the level of today's Bundeskunsthalle , which continued to support the industry there until after Second World War served. The line reached the main line at the Kessenich block and from 1870 onwards led to Bonn Central Station on its own track. This track is still partially available today, but is no longer operational; it is located next to the Bad Godesberg – Bonn route in the Straßburger Weg - Kaiserstraße area until just before the main train station. A well-preserved section of track is located directly under the Reuter Bridge , both rails with sleepers can still be seen here.
Ferry traffic
In the opening year, the timetable shows freight trains and six passenger train journeys from Niederlahnstein to Bonn every day. After continuing the stretch on the right bank of the Rhine to Troisdorf, only shuttle trains were run between Bonn and Oberkassel. For these seven daily trips in each direction, two ferry routes were sufficient. The translation took about 20 minutes ( push the train onto the ferry , decouple, translate, couple and pull the train off the ferry.)
Below are some examples of the services provided by the Trajektanstalt:
1871: 45,280 cars and 132 locomotives
1873: 93,107 wagons and 274 locomotives (peak year)
1879: 47,841 cars and 39 locomotives
Adjustment of the trajectory
At the beginning of the First World War, the ferry traffic was initially temporarily discontinued, then finally on January 1, 1919. The river banks were dismantled in the same year and dismantled on the Bonner Ufer as far as the Bonn-Trajekt freight yard. In Oberkassel, a shipyard was built on the bank that used the former trajectory track as a siding.
In Bonn, the trajectory was roughly at the site of today's Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke . In the 1970s, the facilities were removed as part of the redesign of the Rheinaue for the 1979 Federal Garden Show . The route up to the Post Tower can still be seen today as Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee / Marie-Kahle-Allee. In 2012/13 at the intersection of Franz-Josef-Straß-Allee / Marie-Kahle-Allee and Friedrich-Ebert-Allee ( Bundesstraße 9 ) a roundabout, the so-called “Trajektknoten” (also “Trajektkreisel”, since 2016 “Helmut-Schmidt -Space)".
gallery
Ramp of the former Bonn railway project, on the left bank of the Rhine, at low tide
Support pillars of the former Bonn railway trajectory, on the left bank of the Rhine, at low tide
Support pillars of the former Bonn railway trajectory, on the left bank of the Rhine, at low tide
Ramp of the former Bonn railway project, on the right bank of the Rhine, at low tide
literature
- Klaus Kemp: The Bonn-Oberkassel trajectory. In: VdEF-Mitteilungen. No. 9, 1973, ZDB ID 1157927-4 .; Ders .: The Bonn-Oberkassel route . In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , ISSN 0068-0052 , Volume 35, Bonn 1984, pp. 187-214.
- Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft: Report on the results of the administration, construction and operation of the Rheinische Eisenbahn. 1862-1874, ZDB ID 611463-5 .
- Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft: Business reports. 1875-1882, ZDB -ID 611464-7 and ZDB -ID 611465-9 .
- Hans Schlieper: Railway trajectories across the Rhine and Lake Constance. Alba Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2009, ISBN 978-3-87094-369-1 .
Web links
- Beuel local history museum with a model of the system.
- The Bonn-Oberkassel route - extensive documentation
- Beueler railway trajectory reappears in the Rhine in General-Anzeiger Bonn from November 3, 2018.
- Measuring table sheet Bonn from 1910 .
Remarks
- ↑ Ponte is a Rhenish name for a ferry.
- ↑ Thomas Kliemann: GA series "Bonn builds" - Trajektkreisel: In the carousel of Bonn history. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de . May 17, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
- ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
- ↑ The traffic rolls over the traffic junction ( memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , press release of the city of Bonn, July 4, 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 5 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 28 ″ E