Zabergäubahn

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Lauffen (Neckar) -Leonbronn
Route of the Zabergäubahn
Route number : 4901
Course book section (DB) : 781 (until 1986)
Route length: 20.25 km
Gauge : up to 1964/65: 750 mm
from 1964/65: 1435 mm
Maximum slope : 17  ‰
Minimum radius : 150 m
Top speed: Narrow gauge: 25 km / h
Standard gauge: 60 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Frankenbahn from Würzburg
Station, station
 0.00 Lauffen (Neckar) 171.7 m
Bridge (medium)
 Bahnhofstrasse
   
 Frankenbahn to Stuttgart
   
 2.73 Hausen (Zaber) (until 1964) 172.0 m
   
 3.65 Establishment of the lower bell mill
   
 3.72 Anst sawmill Ernst
   
 4.33 Anst Obere Schellenmühle (before 1964)
   
 5.22 Meimsheim 179.7 m
   
 5.70 Zaber
   
 7.36 Brackenheim 200.5 m
   
 10.17 Frauenzimmern - Cleebronn 191.0 m
   
 11.82 Güglingen 197.1 m
   
 12.10 Zaber
   
 12.51 Güglingen- Eibensbach (until 1924)
   
 14.46 Pfaffenhofen (Württ) 203.3 m
   
 16.20 Hamlet (Zaber) 210.0 m
   
 17.79 Zaberfeld 218.6 m
   
 17.85 Zaber
   
 20.25 Leonbronn 244.6 m
The station building in Brackenheim in November 2006, the guardrail formed the edge of the platform
The Güglingen reception building in November 2006
Level crossing in Pfaffenhofen, May 2013

The Zabergäubahn was a 20.25 kilometer branch line from Lauffen am Neckar to Leonbronn , which ran through the Zabergäus landscape of the same name . As a spur track them chained in Lauffener station from the Franconia Railway from. Originally designed as narrow-gauge railway was built, the route in the 1960s was on standard gauge umgespurt .

history

On August 28, 1896, the Royal Württemberg State Railways (KWStE) opened operations on the narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 750 millimeters from Lauffen am Neckar to Güglingen . In April 1901, the construction work for the extension of the line to Leonbronn began; this extension went into operation on October 18, 1901.

The small town of Leonbronn, however, should not remain the end of the line. Instead, the towns of Sternenfels , Kürnbach , Oberderdingen , Großvillars and Knittlingen to the west also wanted a railway connection that would have connected the Zabergäu with Bretten. The city of Bretten, on the other hand, was conveniently located at the intersection of the Württemberg Western Railway from Stuttgart to Bruchsal with the Kraichgau Railway from Karlsruhe to Heilbronn . In the end, however, the Royal Württemberg State Railways found a western extension to be unprofitable. To this end, the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways began building a standard-gauge branch line from Bretten to Kürnbach after the First World War . Since the Deutsche Reichsbahn , which succeeded the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways in 1920, had other priorities, construction was discontinued, although the substructure was almost completely finished. For this reason there is a reception building in Knittlingen that never fulfilled its originally planned function, but was still labeled Knittlingen.

The line that is not in operation leaves the Kraichgaubahn in Bretten near today's Bretten Stadtmitte stop to the north, and leads in a right-hand bend south of the road south of the sports field to cross the Kraichgaubahn at today's Bretten Schulzentrum stop. Shortly after today's sports center, it crosses Weißach and Bundesstraße 35 , as well as the Seebergerbach in the area of ​​today's quarry . After the Knittlingen train station, it changed in an approximately right-angled double curve into the valley of the Seebergerbach and followed its course to the north of Großvillars. From shortly before Oberderdingen it leads straight north to run between Unter- and Oberderdingen. The continuation via Sternenfels to Leonbronn was planned by means of a tunnel .

Since the narrow-gauge railway no longer met the requirements of the Deutsche Bundesbahn after the Second World War, the Deutsche Bundesbahn set up a parallel rail bus service from 1954 and thinned the timetable for passenger trains with the aim of closing the line . However, the rail buses were sometimes slower than the narrow-gauge railroad, which was not very fast anyway. On June 20, 1959, a serious accident with 45 fatalities occurred in this traffic when a fully occupied train bus near Lauffen was hit by a train of the Frankenbahn at a level crossing and dragged along 400 meters. As a result, the neighboring communities and the local economy founded the "Action Community Zabergäu", which was able to push through a relocation of traffic, the modernization of the route and the gauge change. The renovation took place in stages between May 3, 1964 and July 25, 1965. This and the simultaneous removal of many level crossings made it possible to increase the maximum speed from 25 km / h to 60 km / h, thus reducing the travel time between the endpoints from 69 to 35 minutes.

On July 25, 1986 the passenger traffic was stopped, on September 25, 1994 also the goods traffic, which consisted mainly of the transport of agricultural products. Since then, the track in the area of ​​the Lauffen train station has been interrupted and the line officially closed .

future

According to the plan from 2005, operations on the Zabergäubahn between Lauffen and Zaberfeld should be resumed as part of the Heilbronn urban railway network by 2011 at the latest . Instead, the construction of the new Heilbronn – Neckarsulm line, known as the north branch , was brought forward. The realization of the southern branch of the Stadtbahn on the Zabergäubahn is uncertain. As of March 2010, it fails due to the lack of financial possibilities of the neighboring communities and the district, as the federal and state governments refuse to participate in the financing. Most of the level crossings have meanwhile been paved, which would also have to be reversed. On November 27, 2015, Ministerial Director Lahl held a meeting with representatives of the Heilbronn district and local members of the state parliament in the State Transport Ministry . Although the state has generally agreed to support reactivation there, according to von Lahl, there are great uncertainties regarding the funding modalities. However, funding would be essential for reactivation.

In its meeting on April 18, 2016, the administrative committee of the Heilbronn district council decided to develop an operating concept and technical preliminary planning, which should precede a further standardized assessment . The standardized assessment as the basis for further decisions and funding applications was commissioned in July 2017.

Baden-Württemberg's transport planners Gerhard Schnaitmann has spoken out in November 2016 an extension of the light rail north, the future into Zabergäu the south by bound to be.

In 2017, the Local Agenda 21 advocates the “continuation of the southern axis into the Zabergäu and Bottwartal”.

On March 20, 2017, the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG) presented its feasibility study on the Zabergäubahn to the administrative committee of the district council. Accordingly, the Zabergäubahn can be reactivated on the old route. Further stops are planned to be Heilbronn- Böckingen , Heilbronn- Klingenberg , Lauffen Süd and Güglingen Sophienstrasse.

In contrast to the nearby Bottwartalbahn, the Zabergäubahn has not been completely de-dedicated and can therefore be reactivated more easily, but the minimum hurdle of the so-called standardized assessment must be overcome . The financing must then be clarified. Support from the state in the form of so-called regionalization funds is no longer to be expected.

On Thursday, August 24, 2017, the Minister of Transport Winfried Hermann described the reactivation of the Zabergäubahn as one of the “two major future projects” at an election campaign event in Ilsfeld. The politicians present, including Hermann, the Greens Bundestag candidate Catherine Kern for the Neckar-Zaber constituency as well as the Großbottwarer Mayor Ralf Zimmermann and the Ilsfeld Mayor Thomas Knödler, hope for regionalization funds from the federal government for regional rail projects and for the (re) Activation of the Zabergäubahn.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Knupfer, Josef Högemann: Bottwar and Zabergäubahn. Narrow gauge railways Heilbronn Süd – Marbach and Lauffen – Leonbronn . Kenning, Nordhorn 1992, ISBN 3-927587-07-9 .
  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Kraichgau. Railway history between the Rhine and Neckar . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-769-9 .
  • Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 160-163 .
  • Ludger Kenning: The Bottwartal and the Zabergäubahn . Kenning, Nordhorn 2004, ISBN 3-933613-47-7 .

Movie

Web links

Commons : Zabergäubahn  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Marc-André Schygulla: Bretten. North Baden. Dynamic changes in traffic routes using the example of Bretten. 3. An unfinished one and its relics. In: verkehrsrelktionen.de: Decommissioned railways and their relics. Retrieved September 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme: Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6918 “Bretten” . Collection in the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The catastrophe scenes of the present = railway accidents in Germany, vol. 2. Pürgen 1983. ISBN 3-921304-50-4 , p. 49.
  4. ↑ Thomas Dorn: It takes a long breath . In: Heilbronn voice . January 9, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on April 23, 2009]).
  5. ↑ Thomas Dorn: Stadtbahn does not go to Zabergäu . In: Heilbronn voice . March 17, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on March 21, 2010]).
  6. ↑ Constructive conversation about possible reactivation of the Zabergäubahn . ( baden-wuerttemberg.de [accessed on November 18, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Next course for the Zabergäubahn. Retrieved July 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Light rail visions . In: Heilbronn voice . November 18, 2012 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 18, 2012]).
  9. ↑ Peter Boxheimer: Ideas for the rail network . In: Heilbronn voice . November 19, 2012 ( Stimme.de [accessed November 19, 2012]).
  10. ↑ Kilian Krauth: The citizens' movement Local Agenda 21 invites all interested parties to five dates this spring to collect ideas for a sustainable public transport concept in the city of Heilbronn. In: Heilbronn voice . February 12, 2017 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on February 12, 2017]). : "With the Stadtbahn, the continuation of the southern axis into the Zabergäu and the Bottwartal should not be forgotten."
  11. ↑ Reto Bosch: Zabergäubahn: unusable platforms, but an acceptable bridge. The feasibility study for the Zabergäubahn was presented in the district council on Monday. The conclusion of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft: The route can be reactivated ... In: Heilbronner Voice . March 21, 2017 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on March 21, 2017]). : “Can the Zabergäubahn line, which was closed in the mid-90s, be reactivated on the old route? The AVG answered this question with a resounding yes. "
  12. ↑ Steffan Maurhoff: Will the old railway line of the future generate steam? In: Heilbronn voice . May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Steffan Maurhoff: Hope for money for regional rail projects . In: Heilbronn voice . August 26, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017 .