Vilshofen – Ortenburg railway line

Vilshofen (Niederbay) -Ortenburg
The Wolfachtalbahn near Neustift
Route number :	5833
Course book range :	ex 417 k
Route length:	10.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C2
Top speed:	50 km / h
Legend from Obertraubling to Aidenbach 0.000 Vilshofen (Niederbay) to Passau Hbf 2.500 Time warning 5.200 Knadlarn 6.170 Neustift-Blindham 6.700 Blindham 8.100 Maierhof 9.500 Soeldenau 10.900 Ortenburg Swell:

The Vilshofen (Niederbay) –Ortenburg railway , also known as the Wolfachtalbahn , is a branch line in Bavaria . It was opened on January 16, 1908, and the passenger service was discontinued on September 30, 1962.

history

In 1824/25 a main road (today the B8) was built along the Danube to Passau, which meant that the old main road from Vilshofen via Ortenburg to Passau lost its duties. The original plan for a railway line in 1861 envisaged a connection Simbach – Pocking – Ortenburg – Vilshofen, but you decided to go with today's “Rottalbahn” Pocking – Fürstenzell – Passau , which was opened in 1879.

Also in 1861, operations began on the main Vilshofen – Passau line on the right of the Danube. Thus the Protestant Ortenburg was almost isolated. When the Vilshofen – Aidenbach railway was opened in 1898 , fears that there would be no more rail connections grew. An application made in 1897 for the construction of a narrow-gauge railway connection was not heard, and the request for a grant to build a private railway was also not granted. In September 1899 the population turned to Prince Regent Luitpold , whereupon the state government signaled in the spring of 1900 that the line had been included in the draft law for the next local railway period.

With income from the beer and malt tax, which were collected for ten years, the land was bought and on August 10, 1904, the building permit for the local railway along the Wolfach was granted. Project planning began in September 1904 and construction of the line began in November 1906. Construction progressed quickly, on January 8, 1908, the first test drives were made and successfully completed. On January 16, 1908, the route was opened with a big celebration.

business

After the Second World War, makeshift passenger cars were used, and some modern rail buses were used. Nevertheless, the passenger traffic fell significantly and was stopped on September 30, 1962, despite protests and petitions from the population. This ended part of the express and luggage shipping.

This led to the Ortenburg train station being closed on June 1, 1975. The freight traffic Neustift - Blindham was stopped on October 31, 1994. The goods for the Raiffeisen central warehouse have now been transported onto the road. A partial closure of the line was expected, which took place for the Blindham – Ortenburg section on April 2, 1995.

The Lower Bavarian gravel works and the asphalt works of the Berger Bau company are still served by Deutsche Bahn . Occasionally there are special trips by the Passau Railway Friends .

As the traffic with ballast trains increased, the line was renovated in 2013. In 2013, freight trains operated three times a week by DB Cargo Deutschland and also regularly operated by other railway companies (EVU). There were through trains to Switzerland.

Bike path

The three-kilometer bike path Maierhof-Söldenau-Ortenburg on the subgrade of the railway embankment was opened in November of 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Federal Railway Office : List of the disused routes in Bavaria (since 01.01.1994) ( Microsoft Excel file, 16 kB) on eba.bund.de, from September 11, 2017, accessed on December 19, 2018.
4. ↑ eisenbahn-magazin 6/2013, p. 19