Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn , abbreviated to UeBB , was a Swiss railway company that operated the Bauma - Uerikon railway . The connection originally planned as part of a north-south connection from Lake Constance to the Gotthard Railway ultimately only served as a local railway and was in operation along its entire length from 1901 to 1948.
history
prehistory
The initiator of the Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn was the spinning mill owner Adolf Guyer-Zeller from Neuthal near Bäretswil, who wanted to connect the Zurich Oberland communities and his spinning mill in Neuthal to the Gotthard line and the Arlbergbahn . The route actually carried out was preceded by several ideas and concession attempts for other solutions. Guyer-Zeller was an advocate of a transversal Lake Constance - Lake Zurich with connection to the Gotthard Railway . It was to lead from Eschlikon via Turbenthal- Bauma- Hinwil to Lake Zurich, cross it by ferry and connect to the Gotthard line on the opposite bank . Alternatively, the detour via the Rapperswil lake dam would have been possible.
Tösstalbahn
First, Guyer-Zeller supported the Tössthalbahn -Comité, founded in 1865 - a commission to plan a railway line through the Tösstal. After Guyer-Zeller noticed that the planning was only planning a branch line from Winterthur to Bauma without continuing south, he resigned from the commission in 1870.
Töss – Allmann Railway
After the Töss Valley Railway had no interest in a continuous route, Guyer-Zeller founded its own commission in May 1871, the Töss-Allmannbahn Comité.
The Töss-Allmann-Bahn was to lead from Winterthur via Lakes - Turbenthal - Bauma - Bäretswil - Emmetschloo - Hinwil - Hadlikon - Edikon to Bubikon , where it would have connected to the Wallisellen - Chur line operated by the United Swiss Railways (VSB), which would later made the connection to the Arlbergbahn. A branch line should of Edikon from forest reach. To complement the Töss – Allmann Railway, Guyer suggested further routes. To the south, the Bubikon – Stäfa line and a ferry connection were to connect to the Wädenswil-Einsiedeln railway , which is currently being planned . This connection would have reached the Gotthard Railway between Schwyz and Brunnen . To the north, the Turbenthal – Eschlikon – Weinfelden route was to be built so that Romanshorn on Lake Constance would have been reached via the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB) , making the route the shortest connection between Lake Constance and Gotthard.
After the construction of the Töss Valley Railway was secured, the committee only applied for the concessions for a Töss – Allmann Railway for the missing section Bauma – Bäretswil – Hinwil – Bubikon with the branch from Edikon to Wald, and Turbenthal – Eschlikon to the canton border between Zurich and Thurgau at Seelmatten. The licenses were granted on July 22nd, 1871, but lapsed unused.
Northeast Railway
After the Töss-Allmannbahn failed, Guyer-Zeller tried in 1885 in the role of auditor for the Swiss Northeast Railway to persuade his railway to build the Hinwil – Bäretswil – Bauma line. This refused the request and instead used the financial means to take over the bankrupt Effretikon – Wetzikon – Hinwil railway , which was previously prevented by Guyer-Zeller. He was accused of having abused his function as auditor in the NOB for his own interests with the aim of creating a rail connection for the spinning mill in Neuthal.
Narrow-gauge railways
In 1890, the silk manufacturer Ferdinand Hotz proposed a narrow-gauge railway Wetzikon – Bäretswil – Bauma, which was granted a concession in 1891. For the time being, it prevented Guyer-Zeller from receiving a concession for the Hinwil – Bäretswil – Bauma route. Furthermore, in June 1893, a Wetzikon – Stäfa tram was granted a concession.
Executed variant
On February 4, 1895, the application for a concession for a standard gauge railway line Uerikon – Hinwil – Bauma was submitted, with which a connection of the Tösstalbahn with the railway line Effretikon – Hinwil , the Glattthalbahn and the right bank Zurichseebahn should be achieved. Via the right bank of the Zürichseebahn, travelers would reach miles and could then take a ferry across Lake Zürich to Horgen and take a cable car to the Horgen Oberdorf station on the Thalwil – Arth-Goldau railway line . This route should also have been supplemented by a branch from Turbenthal on the Tösstalbahn to Eschlikon and supplemented with a feeder line Uster – Gossau – Grüningen – Hombrechtikon.
construction
On August 4, 1898, the Uerikon – Bauma railway company was founded with two million Swiss francs share capital. Another million had to be raised in bonds for the construction of the railway. Before the construction of the railway began on June 5, 1899, Adolph Guyer-Zeller died on April 3 of a heart condition. On Thursday, May 30th, 1901, the inauguration of the UeBB, popularly known as the Überbeibahn , took place.
business
The 25.3 km long line ran from Uerikon on Lake Zurich up to Hombrechtikon , Wolfhausen , Bubikon , Dürnten , Hinwil , Ettenhausen-Emmetschlo, Bäretswil and Neuthal to Bauma on the Tösstalbahn . Only five trains ran daily in each direction and their operation was carried out by the Tösstalbahn. With the opening, two steam locomotives, four passenger cars, two baggage cars and 19 freight cars were put into operation. But even in the first years of operation, the income did not meet expectations, because the UeBB rail line did not follow the main flow of traffic in the Zurich Oberland , and landslides often interrupted operations. As early as 1903, an engineer from the Oerlikon machine factory was considering whether the operation with battery locomotives could be made more cost-effective. In order to save money, the railway ran its own operations from January 1, 1905. In 1907 the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) took over a steam railcar that had been procured by the NOB as a loner and was discontinued as CZm 1/2 31. Until 1948 there were always large deficits, so that the end of the UeBB was approaching.
attitude
In a referendum in the canton of Zurich in 1946 the reorganization of the three railways Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn , the Uster-Oetwil-Bahn and the Wetzikon-Meilen-Bahn was approved and the failed transport connections were to be replaced by buses from the Zürcher Oberland (VZO) public transport company . The Hinwil – Bäretswil – Bauma section was the last private railway to be nationalized and, after electrification, was transferred to the SBB, paid for by the UeBB. The rebuilt line opened on October 9, 1947 and the SBB passenger trains ran until 1969, when they too had to give way to bus operations. The UeBB continued to operate until October 2, 1948, as the delivery of the buses was delayed. Soon afterwards, the rails on the Uerikon – Hombrechtikon and Hinwil – Dürnten route were broken off. The rolling stock was sold to various railway companies.
remains
Today, apart from the upper Hinwil – Bauma section, only the Wolfhausen – Bubikon industrial track remains of the once hopefully opened railway line. From the Uerikon – Hombrechtikon – Wolfhausen section, remnants of the old route can be made out in some places: a railway embankment around the Brunegg hill between Uerikon and Hombrechtikon, other railway embankments through a moor above Uerikon and in Dürnten towards Edikon. In Hombrechtikon and Dürnten the station buildings still stand without tracks.
The Museum Railway Steam Railway Association Zürcher Oberland (DVZO) has been running this route from Hinwil to Bauma on weekends in the summer months since 1978 .
The DVZO has meanwhile become a licensed railway company and owner of the entire infrastructure from outside the Bauma station to and with the Bäretswil station. In Neuthal there is a DVZO office in the form of barrier post 98a. Today this is the last barrier post with a manually operated barrier in Switzerland. On the main road Bauma – Bäretswil in Bussenthal, a radio controlled electrical barrier system works today.
In winter, the flat wagons of Circus Knie , which is located in Rapperswil, were parked above the Bäretswil station in winter up until the 1990s .
On request, special trips can be made on the Hinwil – Bauma route in the winter months.
Literature / sources
- Werner Neuhaus: From the annals of the Uerikon – Bauma railway. Th.Gut + Co. Verlag, Stäfa 1974
- Walter Aeschimann / Hugo Wenger: Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn, review and outlook. 192 pages; Self-published by DVZO , 1984
Web links
- DVZO
- Uerikon - Bauma Bahn (UeBB) In: discontinued-bahnen.ch by Jürg Ehrbar
- Swisstopo, time travel through maps from 1854 to today with the route of the railway
Individual evidence
- ↑ The connection is gone! (No longer available online.) In: Buebiker News. February 19, 2014, archived from the original on January 11, 2016 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Wolfgang Wahl: Adolf Guyer-Zeller and the Töss-Allmannbahn . In: IG Tösstallinie (Ed.): Train number 34 . 20th year, no. 34 , 2013, p. 7–10 ( igtoesstallinie.ch [PDF]).
- ↑ Goldau becomes a railway junction. In: Homepage for Arth, Oberarth and Goldau :. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .
- ^ A b Doris Müller-Füglistaler: Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1839–1899) . In: Antiquarian Society in Zurich (ed.): Communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich . tape 59 . Hans Rohr, 1992, ISSN 0304-4327 , p. 144-150 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ draft decision V . In: Swiss Government (Ed.): Federal Gazette . tape 2 , no. 29 , 1871, pp. 1090-1092 ( PDF ).
- ↑ draft decision V . In: Swiss Government (Ed.): Federal Gazette . tape 2 , no. 29 , 1871, pp. 1092-1094 ( PDF ).
- ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly regarding the renewal of the concession for a narrow-gauge railway from Wetzikon via Bäretswil to Bauma and failure to accept a license application for a standard-gauge railway from Bauma via Bäretswil to Hinwil . In: Swiss Government (Ed.): Federal Gazette . tape 2 , no. 16 , 1894, pp. 306-311 ( PDF ).
- ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly concerning the concession of a narrow-gauge tram from Wetzikon to Stäfa . In: Swiss Government (Ed.): Federal Gazette . tape 3 , no. 26 , 1893, pp. 472-482 ( PDF ).
- ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly regarding the concession of a railway from Ürikon via Hinweil to Bauma . In: Swiss Government (Ed.): Federal Gazette . tape 3 , no. 26 , 1895, p. 307-391 ( PDF ).
- ↑ Max Bührer, Kurt Schmid, Jakob Zollinger: With carts, coaches, trains and buses . In: Municipality of Bubikon (ed.): Bubikon - Wolfhausen Two villages - one municipality . tape 2 . Wetzikon 1983, ISBN 3-85981-118-5 , Die Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn, p. 284-289 .
- ^ H. Spyri: The operation of branch lines of Swiss normal railways with accumulator locomotives . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 41/42 , 1903, pp. 124–127 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-24040 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '58.7 " N , 8 ° 50' 32.4" E ; CH1903: 706094 / 243406