Alternating path

Aspang Market-Friedberg

Route

Route number :

167 01

Course book route (ÖBB) :

520

Route length:

21.473 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Route class :

D3

Maximum slope :

22.5 ‰

Minimum radius :

250 m

Legend

	Aspang Railway from Vienna
0.000	Aspang	473 m above sea level A.
0.580	Bridge Murtalbach and Gemeindestraße
0.799	Bridge B54
1,698	Bridge L137
1.807	Great Pestingbach Bridge
1,869	Bridge on the municipal road
1.912 2.117	Court Mountain Tunnel (205 m)
2.270	Murtal Viaduct
2,438 2,787	Samberg Tunnel (349 m)
3.294	Ungarbach Viaduct I L137
3,797 4,356	Windhof spiral tunnel (559 m)
4,415	Ungarbach Viaduct II L137
4,770	Ice pond viaduct
5.468	Small Hartberg Viaduct
5,539 5,812	Small Hartberg Tunnel (273 m)
4.908	Habischleiten Viaduct
6.603	Fadner Viaduct
7.413	Rash Zöbern
7,560	AB Kaolinwerke	(abandoned)
7,879	EK municipal road
8.055	Koglgraben Viaduct
9,452	Hat. Mönichkirchen (closed)
9,694 12,171	Great Hartberg Tunnel (2,477 m)
13.755	Grenzbach and L4182
13.755	State border Lower Austria / Styria
14.077	Diving-Schaueregg	650 m above sea level A.
14.238	Höllgraben Viaduct
16,315	Wiesmath Viaduct
16.812 18.024	Wiesenhöftunnel (1,212 m)
18,046	Pinka bridge
18,315	Bridge Baumgartenweg and Hundsmühlbach
19,450	Mäuslstill Viaduct
19.798	Grollergraben Viaduct
20,151	Geistbründlgraben bridge
20,429	Underpass way
20.618	Hst. Pinggau Markt vorm. Hat.	561 m above sea level A.
20.669	Road bridge L422
20,930	City moat viaduct
21.059	Elevated road
21,473	Friedberg	551 m above sea level A.
	Pinkatalbahn to Oberwart
	Thermenbahn to Fehring

The Wechselbahn is a railway line in Lower Austria and Styria from Aspang to Friedberg . It connects the Aspangbahn with the Thermenbahn (from Friedberg to Fehring ) and the Pinkatalbahn (from Friedberg to Oberwart ).

The railway line is named after the mountain range of the Wechsel , over which it leads to its edge.

history

Opening of the Wechselbahn, 1910

The construction of the Wechselbahn took place in the course of the construction of the "New Alpine Railways" with which the Austro-Hungarian state tried to break the transport monopoly of the private southern railway company to Trieste. The railway line opened on October 11, 1910 and opened to traffic the following day. 16 workers were killed and more than 1,600 people were injured during construction.

The Hartberg tunnel near Mönichkirchen was used by the moving Führer headquarters “Spring Storm” from April 1941 as a place to lead the Balkan campaign.

vehicles

Since the beginning of 2005, the railcars ÖBB 5022 (Desiro) from Siemens and VT 5047 have been used on the passenger route, and the 2016 Hercules series on locomotive-hauled trains (mostly city shuttle trains ) . Freight trains are usually also hauled with this type. Up to this point in time, the VT 5047 and VT 5147 and the locomotives of the 2143 and 2043 series were running on the route .

More pictures

Aspang train station
Bridge over the Great Pestingbach
Murtal Viaduct
Ausschlag-Zöbern train station
The former stopping and loading point Mönichkirchen was the seat of Hitler's "Spring Storm" in 1941

Diving-Schaueregg station

The Pinggau Markt stop used to be a stopping and loading point

Friedberg station

literature

Hannes Mohr : Geology of the Wechselbahn (especially the Groszen Hartberg tunnel) . Hölder, Vienna 1913. ( Permalink Austrian Library Association ).
Rosa Allerbauer: Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Wechselbahn, 1910–1985 . Tourist office diving, diving 1985. ( Permalink Austrian library network ).
Peter Wegenstein (texts, route sketch), Hellmuth Fröhlich (photo): The route over the change. This volume covers the routes Wiener Neustadt-Fehring, Bierbaum-Neudau, Friedberg state border next to Rechnitz and Oberwart-Oberschützen . Bahn im Bild, Volume 77, ZDB -ID 52827-4 . Pospischil, Vienna 1991.
Franz Trimmel: Wechselbahn - Episodes from the life of a 100-year-old . 1st edition. KRAL publishing house, Berndorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-902447-97-5 . ( Permalink German National Library ).

Web links

Commons : Wechselbahn - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Pictures of all tunnel portals

Individual evidence

↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Awards on the occasion of the completion of the alternate career. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 16572/1910, October 11, 1910, p. 1, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
↑ The opening of the Wechselbahn. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16573/1910, October 12, 1910, p. 12, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.

[1] Little Chronicle. (...) Awards on the occasion of the completion of the alternate career. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 16572/1910, October 11, 1910, p. 1, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.

[2] The opening of the Wechselbahn. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16573/1910, October 12, 1910, p. 12, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.