Ludwig South-North Railway
The Ludwig South - North Railway was built by the Royal Bavarian State Railways as a first state railway 1843-1854 and partially opened. It was named after King Ludwig I ( Bavaria), initially more for his Ludwig-Danube- Main Canal entered as for railways. The route from Lindau via Kempten, Augsburg, Nördlingen, Nuremberg, Bamberg to Hof. There is following the paths of the Saxon- Bavarian Railway.
- 2.2.1 See also
- 2.3.1 See also
- Southern section 3.1
- 3.2 center section
- 3.3 northern section
History
Once built with private funds and routes operated by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway from Nuremberg to Fürth and Munich - Augsburg Railway Company had been successful, railway committees were founded in many places in Bavaria for construction of private railway lines. , The Bavarian State but decided to tackle the construction of additional rail lines as a national task. On 14 January 1841, he joined with the Kingdom of Saxony and the Duchy of Saxe -Altenburg a contract to build a railway line from Leipzig to Nuremberg with border crossing at court and the requirement that all partners to complete this route within six years. In Bavaria, it was decided to conduct this railway line over Augsburg and Kempten, Lindau at Lake Constance on. The law of the railway line, which received the name of Louis -South-North Railway was adopted on August 25, 1843 in Munich. At a cost of 51.5 million guilders the entire route should be completed within 10 years. For the section Augsburg- yard had been costed 33 million guilders. In a prepared base for two tracks, only one track should initially be placed. The construction management of the route took over on July 1, 1841 Chief engineer Friedrich August von Pauli and the royal circle Baurat Paul Camille von Denis, who, however, in 1842 already retired and the construction of the Palatine railways took over.
Streckenbau
North section of Nuremberg -Hof
In Saxony started yet in 1841 the Saxon- Bavarian Railway Company private, were involved in Saxony and Saxony -Altenburg with 25 %, with the construction. In Bavaria they had founded in 1841 the Royal Railway Commission to Nuremberg and in 1842 started the land acquisition. The construction of the route you took 1843 in attack. Reason for the late start of construction was the search for a route with not too large gradients and simultaneous connection of as many Bavarian towns. This one had to take into account in addition to a few detours, and the inclined plane at the Fichtelgebirge in New Market Wirsberg with an average gradient of 23 ‰.
Was opened to the northern part of the Ludwig South-North Railway in a length of 203 kilometers in five stages:
The opening ceremony of the first section was already in Nuremberg on August 25, 1848, the birthday of the king, instead. They had to comply with the agreed construction period of six years either in Bavaria or Saxony. In Saxony, delays have occurred mainly because of the large engineering structures on Magpie and Göltzschtal, so there the route until 1851 could be driven. In Erlangen, where the railway line runs parallel to the Ludwig -Main -Danube Canal, it passes through the 306 meter-long castle mountain tunnel, the oldest railway tunnel in Bavaria. In Bamberg, completed in 1852, the Louis -West train via Würzburg to Aschaffenburg. In court the route ended up in 1880 in a terminal station, the old train station.
The south-north railway tangierte initially Fürth in the east. After the breakpoint in Doos she crossed the same height as the Ludwig train and proceeded north across Poppenreuth Neuronhof and Ronhof the breakpoint Großgründlach. 1865, the railway line Nuremberg -Würzburg was opened, which was led by Doos together with the north-south railway and Fürth crossed quite central. In 1876 the construction of the " Fürth arc " decided. The Ludwig South-North Railway branched west of the Seven arch bridge over the Rednitz in a wide arc to the north over Unterfarrnbach, a bridge over the Regnitz, the Vach station in stalls as well as a bridge over the Ludwig- Danube -Main Canal at Herboldshof after Großgründlach to the original route.