Local public transport in the Weinviertel

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Weinviertel railway network

The public transport in the wine district includes, among others, the branch lines in the wine district , also Lokalbahnen called. These are low-level railway lines in the Weinviertel , the northeast region of Lower Austria , which are now largely closed.

history

Building the network in the monarchy

Abandoned Poysdorf station on the Enzersdorf – Dobermannsdorf local railway

Already during the times of the Austrian monarchy , four main lines were built in the central area of ​​the royal city of Vienna to the north and northeast: the north line Vienna Nordbahnhof –Lundenburg ( Břeclav ) - Krakow towards Galicia 1836/37, the north-west line Vienna north-west station - Retz - Znaim to Bohemia 1838, and the eastern line with the eastern line Vienna Südbahnhof - Pressburg - Budapest via Marchegg to Hungary from 1850 and the northern line Vienna Ostbahnhof - Brno - Prague - Tetschen-Bodenbach via Moravia to Silesia and Prussia in the 1870s.

After 1885, numerous branch lines called local lines were built in the Weinviertel ; the Crown Land of Lower Austria had its own local railway law. By 1915, one of the densest secondary line networks in today's Austrian states was built. The first route was the Stammersdorfer Lokalbahn , which went into operation on April 26, 1903 between Stammersdorf and Auersthal . All railway lines were built in standard gauge . With the opening of the railway line from Siebenbrunn - Leopoldsdorf to Engelhartstetten and Orth an der Donau on June 30, 1909, the network of Weinviertel branch lines was complete.

Second republic

The regional trains of the Weinviertel-Landesbahn to Obersdorf (1), Sulz Museumsdorf (2) and Gänserndorf (3) cross at Groß Schweinbarth station

After the First World War , and even more so after the Second World War , the Weinviertel was transformed from a central European transit area into a “dead end” sealed off by the Iron Curtain . For the time being, all of the railways were transferred to the Lower Austrian State Railways and, in 1922, after their dissolution, to the Federal Railways of Austria . Although the Weinviertel is largely a commuter catchment area of ​​the metropolitan region of Vienna, passenger traffic has been discontinued on almost all branch lines in the Weinviertel, in some cases also freight traffic . Today, most of these lines are overgrown and closed due to impassability, and some of the tracks have even been completely removed. Freight traffic is still handled on some routes.

Even after the end of the Eastern Bloc , the country-oriented local transport billion in 1976, and even the resumption of border traffic flows and the coming EU accession of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2004, the dismantling of the network continued - contrary to the protests of regional policy. The so far last abandoned railway line between Bad Pirawarth and Gaweinstal was closed in 2004.

The three only local railways still in operation are the Absdorf – Stockerau local line (connection north line - Franz-Josefs-Bahn ), the Gänserndorf – Marchegg line (connection north line - east line ) and the Weinviertel-Landesbahn , consisting of lines from the former Stammersdorfer local line and Local railway Gänserndorf – Mistelbach , which will also be discontinued in December 2019. The Absdorf – Stockerau local line is also the only electrified branch line in the Weinviertel.

Current traffic concepts

Today, the Weinviertel is one of the NUTS 3 target regions in Austria. The network of transport links to the central area of ​​Vienna, which is organized within the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR), is strongly radial, but tangential. The Weinviertel is still primarily Vienna's commuter catchment area. Due to the expansion of the Vienna outer motorway ring ( regional ring ) and the connected northern motorway A 5 (Brno) and Marchfeld expressway S 8 (Bratislava), it is to be expected that commuter traffic will be shifted even more significantly from local public transport to the individual transport sector.

On the other hand, based on the media presence of the Hainburger Auen and the successful cross-border Thayatal - Podyjí National Park , the Weinviertel is trying to establish itself as a tourist destination , whereby the opportunities are primarily seen in the gentle tourism sector due to the non-existent mass tourism development . Another regional development approach is based on the success of organic agriculture in Austria, with which the agrarian Weinviertel could establish itself even more intensively as a high-quality local supplier in the Vienna area. The lack of a public transport structure is an obstacle for both concepts.

Local initiatives demand a reorientation of the traffic concepts for the Weinviertel, especially with the revitalization of the branch lines, and there are declarations of intent from the Lower Austrian spatial planning to respond. The Wiener Lokalbahnen also considered reactivating the cross-border traffic of the Pressburger Bahn , which had been closed since 1945 .

Overview of the branch lines of the Weinviertel

Surname course comment
Stammersdorfer local railway Stammersdorf - Obersdorf - Groß-Schweinbarth -
Bad Pirawarth - Sulz-Nexing - Zistersdorf - Dobermannsdorf 		Stammersdorf - Obersdorf: removed
Obersdorf - Bad Pirawarth: closed since December 2019
Bad Pirawarth - Dobermannsdorf: closed
Local railway Drösing – Zistersdorf Drösing - Zistersdorf freight traffic only
Local railway Gänserndorf – Mistelbach Gänserndorf - Groß Schweinbarth - Bad Pirawarth - Gaweinstal - Mistelbach Gänserndorf - Bad Pirawarth: in operation until December 2019
Bad Pirawarth - Paasdorf: removed
Local railway Korneuburg – Hohenau Korneuburg - Ernstbrunn - Mistelbach Local Railway - Dobermannsdorf - Hohenau Korneuburg - Ernstbrunn: Freight traffic, Leiser Berge adventure train
Ernstbrunn - Mistelbach Lb: closed 1
Mistelbach Lb - Hohenau: only goods traffic
Absdorf – Stockerau local railway Absdorf -Hippersdorf - Stockerau in operation
Local railway Enzersdorf near Staatz – Poysdorf Enzersdorf near Staatz - Poysdorf worn away
Dobermannsdorf - Poysdorf Dobermannsdorf - Poysdorf worn away
Local railway Siebenbrunn – Engelhartstetten Siebenbrunn - Leopoldsdorf - Breitstetten - Engelhartstetten / Orth on the Danube worn away
Gänserndorf – Marchegg railway line Gänserndorf - Marchegg in operation
Pulkautalbahn 2 Novosedly - Laa an der Thaya - Zellerndorf - Sigmundsherberg Novosedly - Laa an der Thaya: removed
Laa an der Thaya - Zellerndorf: only goods traffic
Zellerndorf - Sigmundsherberg: blocked
Local railway Retz – Drosendorf 2 Retz - Weitersfeld - Drosendorf Retz - Drosendorf: Phylloxera Express

1 The Ernstbrunn - Mistelbach section is currently used as a tourist train and trolleybuses are used.
2 parts of the route are in the Waldviertel .

See also

literature

  • Wolfdieter Hufnagl: The Lower Austrian State Railways . Transpress publishing house
  • Karl Zellhofer, Martin Zellhofer: About the Weinviertel Semmering. The Korneuburg – Ernstbrunn railway line. From the state railway to the regiobahn . Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503611-8-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Weblink Knoll / Niederösterreichische Verkehrsorganisationsgesellschaft
  2. ^ Muzik: Branch lines - State of Lower Austria, the ÖBB may not release from the local transport contract. In: OTS. APA, March 7, 2001, accessed February 4, 2010 (OTS 20010307 OTS0024).
  3. ↑ cf. Card . In: BMVIT (Ed.): Framework plan 2009 for Lower Austria . 2009 ( bmvit.gv.at [PDF; accessed on February 3, 2010]).
  4. ↑ Concepts such as the enjoyment regions of the Waldviertel. Enjoyment Region Austria: Map ( Memento from February 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
  5. ↑ Example: Unknown: The Weinviertel branch line concept. Retrieved January 26, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Wiener Lokalbahnen want to revive the Pressburger-Bahn. wieninternational.at, archived from the original on March 10, 2010 ; Retrieved February 5, 2010 .