Mainz – Gustavsburg route

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The Rhine trajectory Mainz – Gustavsburg was a railway ferry that connected the Hessian Ludwigsbahn railway systems , which were unconnected in and near Mainz on both sides of the Rhine , from 1858 to 1862.

Station staff in Bischofsheim with the “Landskron” locomotive (1867), which was also used in shunting traffic on the trajectory.

Starting position

In 1853 the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line went into operation. When the Rhein-Main-Bahn opened in 1858 , it ended, coming from Aschaffenburg and Darmstadt , initially on the right bank of the Rhine in Gustavsburg . The Hessian Ludwig Railway now owned railway systems on both sides of the Rhine that were not (yet) connected by tracks . The Mainz – Gustavsburg trajectory was intended to remedy this gap in operation.

business

For the trajectory, a more than 4 km long connection from Bischofsheim to the port of Gustavsburg was laid and the Gustavsburg port station was opened. On the Mainz side, a track was built from the terminus of the Mainz – Ludwigshafen railway line to the Rhine to Mainz-Weisenau . The railway procured two paddle steamers to which the pontoons were coupled alongside, on which the freight wagons that were to be transferred stood.

One of the two ferry boats that connected the train stations in Mainz and Gustavsburg until the south bridge was built in 1862. In the background you can see the newly built road bridge and the still existing ship bridge.

Passenger traffic began on August 1, 1858. Passengers used the train as a ferry , passenger coaches were not transferred. The goods trajectory went into operation on November 18, 1858.

The End

The south bridge in Mainz was built from 1860 to 1862 as a connection between the Hessian Ludwig Railway's railway systems on both sides of the Rhine. It was put into operation on December 20, 1862 and has been in service since January 3, 1863. This eliminated the task of the trajectory that ceased operations.

literature

  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railway Rhine bridges in Germany. EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2003, ISBN 3-88255-689-7 ( Eisenbahn-Kurier ).
  • Hans Schlieper: Railway trajectories across the Rhine and Lake Constance. Alba, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-87094-369-1 , pp. 80-85.
  • Rosel Spaniol: Early railway systems in Mainz, then and now. A contribution to the city's history and archeology. German Society for Railway History, Karlsruhe 1979, ISBN 3-921700-29-9 ( Railways and Museums 24).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlieper, p. 81.
  2. ^ Fritz Paetz: Data collection on the history of the railways on the Main, Rhine and Neckar . Bensheim-Auerbach 1985, p. 9.