Villebahn

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Connecting railway United Ville
Route length: 7.475 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 1.2 kV  =
Maximum slope : 1: 41.9  ‰
Minimum radius : 180 m
Top speed: 40 km / h

The Villebahn (full name flashing membrane United Ville ) was a standard gauge - works railway ( mine railway siding ) for the transportation of products from the works of lignite in Hurth in Ville in Huerth . It was created as a works railway of the Ribbertwerke , was later extended and finally taken over by the Roddergrube , which in turn merged into the Rheinbraun .

The line was opened continuously on March 21, 1902 and finally dismantled in 1974 after the coal fields were dismantled.

Route sections

The route sections were opened as follows:

  • November 23, 1888: State train station Kalscheuren to Ribbert-Werke, as the connecting railway of the Ribbert Werke ( Hermülheim ) at that time.
  • 1898–1899: Ribbert works to the Theresia mine on Alstädter Berg in Alt-Hürth .
  • 1903: Theresia mine to Berrenrath station and Vereinigte Ville station of the mine field of the same name (to the end of the line at buffer stop 01, pull-out track - Knapsack ). From there in 1906 siding to Deutsche Carbid AG (→ Knapsack Chemical Park ).
  • 1906: Transfer station Ville-Berrenrath to the Louisenbahn of the Louise mine in Türnich . Route length Villebahn - Louisenbahn: Bf Kalscheuren - Grube Louise 11,179 km.
  • October 15, 1908: abandonment of the connection to Kalscheuren and connection to the Kendenich freight station of the meanwhile standard-gauge Cologne-Bonn railways (whose narrow-gauge line has been crossed at ground level since 1898) with the connection there to the state railway and to the Godorf Rhine port (via cross- rail ). The section to Kalscheuren remained unused for many years and was finally recultivated for agriculture in 1920. Today this part of the route is partly a public dirt road.
  • 1909 Connection of the Hürtherberg union from around the Luxemburger Strasse level crossing.

Characteristic

The length of the route up to February 10, 1919, excluding station tracks, was 7.475 kilometers from the Ville-Nord signal box to Kalscheuren station. Due to their steep gradients of 1: 41.9 and 1:40, the route of the Villebahn and the Schwarzbahn was often used as training and examination routes for prospective locomotive drivers and stokers . In addition to 100 tons and 90 tons EL-2 - locomotives were diesel and steam locomotives used.

The route disabilities and their first since 1956 barriers secured transitions (Bonn, Luxemburger-, cross and road Brandl) the local and supra-local traffic considerably.

In 1956 the line was electrified with an overhead line with 1.2 kV direct current . The permitted speed was initially 15 km / h, from May 12, 1953 then 40 km / h. When driving uphill, the permitted number of axles was 150 for two locomotives and 120 for one train locomotive .

The End

The operation of the section Ville Nord – KBE-Kendenich took place on December 13, 1972. The track dismantling took place until the end of autumn 1974. The underlying brown coal was mined. Some bridge structures remained in place until 2003. Today next to the route at the beginning is the street Hürther Bogen , in the middle of which there is space for a track to the central bus station, Hürth Park . The tasks of the route were taken over by the Black Railway . For this purpose, the route was moved higher in the upper part to the edge of the former pits and expanded for heavy loads (axle load up to 27 t).

The street An der Villenbahn in Alt-Hürth still reminds of the route . There are also some railings made of rail pieces on the route. In front of the house Bonnstr. 247, in Hermülheim there is even a 10 meter long section of the Villebahn.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on this and on the following: Chapter The connection to the Kalscheuren state train station in Clemens Klug: Die Vorläufer der Ribbertwerke in Hürther Heimat 65/66 (1990) p. 72 ff

Web links

literature

  • Helmut Neßeler (in collaboration with Manfred Coenen, RWE-Power archive): The Villebahn. The story of a mine connection railway in the Rhenish lignite mining area. 1902-2009. dbh-Verlag, Frechen 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028578-3 ( documenta berchemensis historica. Vol. 11)
  • For further literature see the linked articles