Stolzenfels – Oberlahnstein trajectory

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The Stolzenfels – Oberlahnstein trajectory was a railway ferry (trajectory) across the Rhine between Stolzenfels and Oberlahnstein , which connected the right and left Rhine routes from 1862 to 1864 .

history

The construction of the trajectory between Stolzenfels and Oberlahnstein is to be seen in connection with the extension of the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine from Koblenz to Bingerbrück . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV had long reservations about the construction of the railway line because of its proximity to France . Now that the construction of the Nassau Rheinbahn from Rüdesheim to Oberlahnstein by the Duchy of Nassau became apparent, the king gave way. The first train arrived in Koblenz in 1858, and in 1859 the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine was extended to Bingerbrück. On the right bank of the Rhine, the line reached Oberlahnstein in 1862 and Niederlahnstein in 1864 . On the Prussian side, the plans envisaged building a railway bridge over the Rhine in Koblenz to connect the stretch on the left bank of the Rhine with the stretch on the right bank of the Rhine as far as the mouth of the Lahn . This enabled a connection from Koblenz to Frankfurt . The Lahntalbahn was now also connected to Koblenz.

Since they did not want to wait for the construction of the Pfaffendorfer Bridge (1862–1864) in Koblenz, the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft reached an agreement with the Nassau State Railways to use a railway ferry between Stolzenfels and Oberlahnstein as an interim solution. In favor of Stolzenfels, there was already a stop near the mouth of the Königsbach with a simple loading ramp for shipping on the Rhine .

The trajekt was operated from 1862 to 1864 until the completion of the Pfaffendorfer bridge. On June 3, 1864, the new bridge in Koblenz and the railway bridge over the Lahn between Ober- and Niederlahnstein were put into operation. With the end of the railway ferry, the stop in Stolzenfels was given up. Track systems and buildings were dismantled by 1865.

literature

  • Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
    • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
    • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
  • Arnulf Hader, Günther Meier: Railway ferries in the world. From the traject to the three-deck ferry . Koehler Verlag, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-7822-0393-3
  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: Railway Rhine bridges in Germany . Freiburg 2003. ISBN 3-88255-689-7
  • Hans Schlieper: Railway trajectories across the Rhine and Lake Constance . Alba Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-87094-369-1

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 9 ″  E