Wohratalbahn

Kirchhain (Bz Kassel) –Gemünden (Wohra)

Route number (DB) :

3951

Course book section (DB) :

193p (1950–1972)

Route length:

19.2 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Top speed:

50 km / h

Legend

		from Zimmerrode
		von Frankenberg (Eder) (rejected planning)
	19.2	Gemünden (Wohra)
	18.9	Holzbach
	17.6	Gemünden (Wohra) south
	14.3	Wohra
	13.9	Wohra
	13.6	Wohra
	11.4	Halsdorf
	11.1	Halsdorf Gbf
		Connection to Bracht airfield
	10.9	Bundesstrasse 3
	9.6	Ernsthausen -Wambach
	7.5	L 3077
	7.3	Rauschenberg
	5.2	Hair mill
	0.7	Frankfurt – Kassel
	0.6	Wohra
	0.7	from Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
	0.0	Kirchhain (Bz Kassel)
		to Kassel
		to Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden

Swell:

The Wohratalbahn was a branch line in Hesse . It ran along the Wohra from Kirchhain on the Main-Weser Railway to Gemünden with a connection to the Kellerwald Railway and was almost 20 kilometers long.

history

Gemünden (Wohra) train station, street side

The line was opened on May 1, 1914. It was planned to extend the Kellerwaldbahn , which also ended at Gemünden (Wohra) station, to Frankenberg (Eder) . However, this project failed when the First World War broke out . As a result, the meaning originally intended for it never became a reality.

In the 1930s, a connecting railway to the Bracht military airfield was opened, which branched off from the Halsdorf train station . After the Second World War, the airport and the connecting railway were closed.

Passenger traffic was stopped on May 28, 1972 after the number of passengers had dropped sharply.

Freight traffic initially took place until December 19, 1981. The line was closed on December 31st of that year and dismantled one year later.

Todays situation

preserved bridge near Kirchhain

The Wohratalbahn has now been completely dismantled except for an approximately 200 meter long section at the Kirchhain train station (Bz Kassel) , which is only used as a siding.

Most of the bridges along the route have been preserved to this day, only a few have been blown up.

In the area of a field path crossing near Himmelsberg, two pieces of track were laid in the meadow to commemorate the Wohratalbahn.

The station buildings have also been preserved and mostly serve as a residential building.

literature

Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 960 ff . (Route 104).

Web links

Commons : Wohratalbahn - collection of images, videos and audio files

Photos of the route (2014)
Wohlratalbahn on rostendeschienen.de ( Memento from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
^ Working group on village culture and village history in Halsdorf., Wohratal-Halsdorf .: 1200 years of Halsdorf: a book from the village . Working group on village culture and village history in Halsdorf c / o K.-D. Engel, Wohratal, Hohe Str. 11 2002, ISBN 978-3-8311-3529-5 .
↑ Tracks in service facilities (FKIH) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.5 MiB)

[1] DB Netze - Infrastructure Register

[2] Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .

[3] Working group on village culture and village history in Halsdorf., Wohratal-Halsdorf .: 1200 years of Halsdorf: a book from the village . Working group on village culture and village history in Halsdorf c / o K.-D. Engel, Wohratal, Hohe Str. 11 2002, ISBN 978-3-8311-3529-5 .

[4] Tracks in service facilities (FKIH) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.5 MiB)