Holzminden–Scherfede railway

The railway track timber Minden- Scherfede was a 49 km long main line, the wood Minden to Scherfede ( now part of Warburg ) led and therefore the railway Altenbeken - Kreiensen association with the Upper Ruhrtalbahn. She was from 1876 to 1984 in continuous operation. The most important place on the former route is the city Beverungen.

Course

The route ran from northeast to southwest through the forested mountains. They crossed the Weser near Fürstenberg. In Wehrden connection existed at the Solling Railway (but only in the direction of Northeim ), which was crossed just behind the train station. The line led by Beverungen, from there the valley of Bever up and through the Warburg flare. In Nörde the railway line Hamm- Warburg was crossed. In Scherfede was the Upper Ruhrtalbahn, however, runs in the valley of Diemel here reached.

History

The line was built by the Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company ( BME) to whatever the Prussian State Railways continue to connect the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway to the east. For this purpose, a connection to Holzminden offered, because from there led the network of former Brunswick State Railway over Kreiensen, Salzgitter Ringelsheim and Jerxheim selectively to the Magdeburg- Halberstadt Railway ( MHE, in Oschersleben ) and the Berlin- Potsdam Railway (BPE, in Schoningen ). On the route coal trains and express trains posh should be used. Local concerns played no role in the route guidance. In the Warburg Boerde it was passed by larger resorts such as Borgentreich and Warburg. The Duchy of Brunswick had privatized its former state railways in 1870; the BME and the BPE had acquired shares. Even before completion of the Upper Ruhrtalbahn (1873 ) began in 1872 the construction work to close the last gap in a private rail network from the Rhine to the Spree. On October 15, 1876, the traffic was recorded. End of 1876 drove a fast pair of Berlin- Aachen University. A year later, a luxury train came to Paris and Ostend to do so.

Meanwhile, the state railway idea had prevailed in Prussia from 1879 /80, the routes of BME were transferred to the Prussian state railways in 1882. Wood Minden- Scherfede was just a bit inconvenient near major train among many that combined two gradient -rich stretches with each other and inclined to lay the main traffic directions. Hoexter and Warburg were bypassed unfavorable for regional transport. The long-distance trains were laid on the track over Altenbeken. It was not until 1900, when the traffic grew strongly, a D- train pair Berlin- Cologne is inserted again and the route in 1907 expanded to double track. In Nörde a connecting curve was built, the diversions wood Minden- Nörde - Altenbeken ( Soest ) allowed.

After the Second World War, the section of wood Minden to Wehrden had one last heyday, as the Weser bridge the railway line Altenbeken - Kreiensen was destroyed in Corvey. They built northwest of Wehrden a connecting curve ( " Englishman curve" ), and allowed trips from Holzminden to Altenbeken on the Fürstenberger bridge. From 1954 it was no longer necessary. The track rose to a regional development track down, even if it was used until the end of a D- train Aachen- wood Minden- Brunswick. Often it was used until the early 1990s for transfers of vehicles and tanks of the NATO forces. The British Army of the Rhine here was responsible for the maintenance of the Weser bridge Furstenberg. On June 2, 1984 ended passenger. The freight was set 1984-2001 in sections: On May 30, 1984 Beverungen - Borgholz; May 31, 1988 Fürstenberg Beverungen; on May 31, 1992 Wood Minden- Fürstenberg and Borg timber Nörde; on 10 June 2001 Nörde - Scherfede.

Current situation

The railway line is now largely still present, but except in Scherfede no longer connected to the other routes and impassable. The web site development company NRW (BEG ), a joint venture of the State of North Rhine -Westphalia and the Deutsche Bahn AG plans, however, a partial expansion of the disused railway line to an alley bike path.

Planned cuts, total extension of 22.3 kilometers:

• Project Hoexter: New municipal bike path between Lüchtringen and Godelheim of 3.1 kilometers for 611,000 euros. The Hoexter behaves been hesitant to the national program because the municipality would have to co-finance and already runs the river Weser near. Would primarily benefit the Höxteraner Lüchtringen district and the Lower Saxon community Boffzen. The route would also allow the use of its own river bridge crossing for cyclists between Fürstenberg and Godelheim.

• Project Beverungen: The section between Blankenau and Dalhausen comprises 11.2 kilometers and will be expanded to approximately 1.89 million euros.

• Project Borgentreich: In the city of Borgentreich are repealed on the track at Natzungen and Borgholz the tracks to 9.1 kilometers and the route for cyclists will be paved. The estimated cost amounts to 1.4 million euros.

The cities Warburg (the section Rimbeck - Nörde ) and Willebadessen (the section Eissen ) have put a stake in the country's program for financial reasons only once.