Langau – Lackenhof forest railway

Langau – Lackenhof forest railway
Lowry of the Rothwald and Langau Railway and detail of the journal bearing
Route length:	4.7 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )

The Langau – Lackenhof forest railway was a horse-drawn meter gauge - forest railway with metal- clad wooden rails from Langau near Gaming to Ötscherwiese near Lackenhof in Lower Austria . It was moved by the Festetics family (Domain Gaming) in 1828 and operated until 1867/1868.

history

Firewood from trees that were felled on the White Ois , the upper reaches of the Ybbs , were drifted unbundled to Langau . In order to transport this wood to the Erlauf that flows into the Danube , the Langau – Lackenhof horse-drawn tram was relocated in 1828 . From 1856 it was also used to transport wood felled in the Rothwald , which had previously been transported to the Oisklause with the Rothwald Railway .

Route

The 4.7 km long route led from Langau past Lackenhof, through the Weitental to the Ötscherwiese.

Superstructure

The track consisted of 5.25 meter long wooden rails with a track width of 1000 mm, which were fitted with iron flat rails. The route of the railway is still visible today and serves as a bike and hiking trail.

Transport chain

The drying and transport of the firewood from Rothwald to Vienna took about 2 years. The following transport chain was run through from 1854:

Rothwaldbahn from the Great Primeval Forest to the Oisklause (7.4 km)

Drift on the Ois from the Oisklause to Langau

Langau – Lackenhof horse-drawn tram (4.7 km)

In winter, with sleigh on a 1350 m long Schlittweg about Raneck to a 340 m long Eisriese above a 570 m long water to a giant cell in Juckfidelgraben and from there through the Nestelberggraben in the Erlauf in Tormäuern

Meets on the Erlauf to the Danube near Pöchlarn

Wood planks on the Danube from Pöchlarn to Vienna

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Franz Exner: Modern transport in the service of agriculture and forestry. Weimar, 1877.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hermann Weiß, Hildegard Wiesenhofer and Franz Wiesenhofer: "The Trift Being on the Great Erlauf" - The Beginnings of the Erlauftrift.
^ Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg : Handbook for special railway technology. 1878. Fifth volume, pp. 532-533 (see also reprint from 2020. ISBN 978-3-84604-840-5 ).
↑ Werner Tippelt: Wood, iron and coal. In: Lunz am See. Pp. 40-44.
^ Karl Lukan : Voralpenbuch. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna, ISBN 3224176016 . P. 142ff.

literature

Manfred Hohn : Forest railways in Austria . 3. Edition. Verlag Josef Otto Slezak , Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85416-195-6 .

47.87331 15.17135Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '23.9 " N , 15 ° 10' 16.9" E

[1] Wilhelm Franz Exner: Modern transport in the service of agriculture and forestry. Weimar, 1877.

[Weiß-Wiesenhofer-2] Hermann Weiß, Hildegard Wiesenhofer and Franz Wiesenhofer: "The Trift Being on the Great Erlauf" - The Beginnings of the Erlauftrift.

[Heusinger-3] Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg : Handbook for special railway technology. 1878. Fifth volume, pp. 532-533 (see also reprint from 2020. ISBN 978-3-84604-840-5 ).

[4] Werner Tippelt: Wood, iron and coal. In: Lunz am See. Pp. 40-44.

[Lukan-5] Karl Lukan : Voralpenbuch. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna, ISBN 3224176016 . P. 142ff.