Amberg–Lauterhofen railway

The railway line Amberg- Lauterhofen, also known as "Louder Höfer Bocklin " in the vernacular, was a 28- kilometer branch line and opened from Amberg two main communities in the former county of Neumarkt. Was opened the route on 7 December 1903 by the Bavarian State Railway.

The routes initially led a short distance parallel to the railway line Nuremberg - Schwandorf, crossed the Vils and then turned in yet Amberger urban area in the Drahthammer station to the west. About the Köfer Inger Heide they arrived in the Jura countryside, where she dismounted with a fairly steep slope into Lauterachtal, which they then followed up to the market Kastl, which is dominated by the impressive fortress-monastery. At the end point Lauterhofen a quarry made ​​for an additional traffic to the usual freight of an agricultural area. Nevertheless, the freight officially ended on 1 April 1972. The last goods train was already down on 29 March 1972.

The passenger rail was discontinued on 1 July 1962. Even before the Second World War were Kastl and Lauterhofen to their district town of Neumarkt a force postal communication was later expanded into a web bus Amberg- Neumarkt. This development could not be stopped by the use of railcars, which have been used since the thirties and replaced by railcars VT 98 series since the fifties.

The line was then dismantled and is now in parts part of Schweppermann Bike Path from Neumarkt to black box.