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Herford–Himmighausen Railway
The Herford–Himmighausen railway is a 48 km-long line from Herford via Detmold to Himmighausen (leading to Altenbeken) and is a single-track and electrified main line. It is located in Ostwestfalen-Lippe in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of Deutsche Bahn’s Münster-Ostwestfalen regional network (MOW), which has its headquarters in Münster. In Herford this route is known as the ''Lippische Bahn'' (Lippe Railway). The line from Herford to Detmold was built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company. History The line was built in 1880 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (''Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) branching off its trunk line between Bielefeld and Minden. Construction started in Herford and followed the easy course of the Werre river uphill. On 31 December 1880, the line was initially opened for freight only and only as far as Detmold. A short time later, the CME was nationalised and the route became part of the Prussian s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15 KV AC Railway Electrification
Railway electrification systems using at are used on transport railways in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway. The high voltage enables high power transmission with the lower frequency reducing the losses of the traction motors that were available at the beginning of the 20th century. Railway electrification in late 20th century tends to use AC systems which has become the preferred standard for new railway electrifications but extensions of the existing networks are not completely unlikely. In particular, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (opened on 1 June 2016) still uses 15 kV, 16.7 Hz electrification. Due to high conversion costs, it is unlikely that existing systems will be converted to despite the fact that this would reduce the weight of the on-board step-down transformers to one third that of the present devices. History The first electrified railways used series-wound DC motors, first at 600 V and then 1,500 V. Areas with 3 kV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horn-Bad Meinberg
Horn-Bad Meinberg (; Low German: '' Häoern-Möomag '') is a German city in the Lippe district in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia on the edge of the Teutoburg forest. The district Bad Meinberg is a spa resort. It has 17,263 inhabitants (2019). It was formed in 1970 by merging various other municipalities that had grown together, including Bad Meinberg and Horn - the new entity's original name was Bad Meinberg-Horn, before taking its present name. Horn-Bad Meinberg is the location of the Externsteine, a rock formation consisting of several tall, narrow columns. Geography In the municipality are the two highest peaks of the Eggegebirge, the Lipp Velmerstot (441 m) and the Prussian Velmerstot with about (464 m) above sea level and the highest elevation of the Teutoburg forest, the Barnacken with (446 m). The deepest point of the metropolitan area is (125 m). Between the districts Horn and Holzhausen-Externsteine is the most famous natural monument of the Teutoburg For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cologne-Minden Railway Company
The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: ''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', ''CME'') was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia. Founding The founding of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1843 in Cologne ended a long struggle for a railway line between the Rhineland and the German North Sea ports, as well as the Prussian capital of Berlin. From the 1830s several railway committees in the cities of Düsseldorf, Cologne and Aachen attempted to find a solution with each other and the Prussian government. The focus of all these efforts was to avoid the Dutch duties on trade on the Rhine, which significantly increased the cost of import and export of goods via the Rhine. Some of the Cologne committee members under David Hansemann (1790–1864)—a merchant and banker fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state district capital. Münster was the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Today it is known as the bicycle capital of Germany. Münster gained the status of a ''Großstadt'' (major city) with more than 100,000 inhabitants in 1915. , there are 300,000 people living in the city, with about 61,500 students, only some of whom are recorded in the official population statistics as having their primary residence in Münster. Münster is a part of the international Euregio region with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants (Enschede, Hengelo, Gronau, Osnabrück). History Early history In 793, Charlemagne sent out Ludger as a miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Bahn
The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the second-largest transport company in the world, after the German postal and logistics company / DHL, and is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. Deutsche Bahn was the largest railway company in the world by revenue in 2015; in 2019, DB Passenger transport companies carried around 4.8 billion passengers, and DB logistics companies transported approximately 232 million tons of goods in rail freight transport. The group is divided into several companies, including ''DB Fernverkehr'' (long-distance passenger), '' DB Regio'' (local passenger services) and ''DB Cargo'' (rail freight). The Group subsidiary ''DB Netz'' also operates large parts of the German railway infrastructure, making it the largest rail network in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostwestfalen-Lippe
Ostwestfalen-Lippe (, literally ''East(ern) Westphalia-Lippe'', abbreviation OWL) is the eastern region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, congruent with the administrative region of Detmold and containing the eastern part of Westphalia, joined with the Lippe region. The region has a population of about two million inhabitants. The major cities are Bielefeld, Paderborn, Gütersloh, Minden, Detmold, and Herford. The highest hill of Ostwestfalen-Lippe is the Totenkopf (498 m). Some major globally operating companies are headquartered in the region, for example Bertelsmann, Miele, Dr. Oetker, Melitta, Gerry Weber, DMG Mori Aktiengesellschaft, Hörmann, Schüco, Wincor Nixdorf, Phoenix Contact, HEGLA and Claas. In 2012 OWL became Germans BMBF Leading Edge Technology Cluster for intelligent Technical Systems (it's OWL [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenbeken Station
Altenbeken station is in the municipality of Altenbeken in the Paderborn district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station has a great importance as a hub for local and long-distance transport due to its location on the line from the Ruhr area to Warburg and Kassel, as well as to Holzminden–Kreiensen, Hanover and Herford. Its importance has increased recently because of the lack of Intercity-Express/Intercity services on the so-called Mid-Germany Railway (german: Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung). History The railway from Paderborn to Warburg opened in 1853, originally without a station at Altenbeken. The station was built with the branch line to Holzminden opened on 1 October 1864, the station building was opened in 1865. During the time of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (1920–1949), the station was part of the territory of the Directorate of Kassel (''Reichsbahndirektion Kassel'') and under Deutsche Bundesbahn it continued to be under the Directorate of Kassel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamm–Warburg Railway
The Hamm–Warburg railway is a 131 km long main line railway in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is part of an east-west line, known as the ''Mid-Germany Connection'' (german: Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung), and is served by Intercity (Deutsche Bahn), InterCity trains between the Ruhr and Kassel, Erfurt Hauptbahnhof, Erfurt and Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin. In addition, there are dense freight and regional services. The line was opened between 1850 and 1853 and is one of the List of the first German railways to 1870, oldest railways in Germany. The most important stops are in Soest (Germany) station, Soest, Lippstadt station, Lippstadt and Paderborn Hauptbahnhof, Paderborn. Altenbeken station is also a major point for train connections. In Warburg the line connects with the Kassel–Warburg railway, line to Kassel. Between Hamm and Paderborn the track allows speeds of up to 200 km/h. Route The line from Hamm to Paderborn is relatively flat as it runs throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehberg Tunnel
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Rehberg may refer to: Places * Rehberg, a neighborhood of Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria * Rehberg, part of the Spantekow municipality in Vorpommern-Greifswald, Germany * Rehberg (Harz), the 4th highest mountain in Lower Saxony, Germany * Rehberg (Wasgau), the highest hill on German soil in the Franco-German Wasgau uplands * German name of Liberk * German name of Srní (Klatovy District) Other uses *Rehberg (surname) Rehberg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * August Wilhelm Rehberg (1757-1836), German philosopher * Denny Rehberg (born 1955), American politician *Eckhardt Rehberg (born 1954), German politician * Friedrich Rehberg (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Driburg
Bad Driburg () is a town and spa in Höxter (district), Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, situated on the river Aa (Nethe), Aa and the Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway. Geography Bad Driburg lies on the eastern slopes of the Eggegebirge which is roughly 20 km east of Paderborn. Constituent communities Bad Driburg consists of 10 districts: * Alhausen * Driburg * Dringenberg with Siebenstern * Erpentrup * Herste * Kühlsen * Langeland * Neuenheerse * Pömbsen with Bad Hermannsborn * Reelsen History Prehistory Archaeology, Archaeological finds bear witness to settlement in the Driburg area between about 3000 and 1800 BC, in the Middle and New Stone Age. Further important finds from the Bronze Age attest to quite a high culture living in the area between about 1800 and 600 BC. Ancient times Finds of potsherds and above all coins dating up to AD 15 show at least that there was peaceful trade between the Ancient Rome, Romans and the Cherusci, a Germanic tribe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenbeken–Kreiensen Railway
The Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway is part of a former long-distance route in Germany from the Ruhr area via Altenbeken, Höxter-Ottbergen, Holzminden, Kreiensen and Seesen towards Berlin. The once continuous double track main line railway is now operated as a single track east of Ottbergen. It runs through the Egge ridge and along the northern edge of the Solling hills. The section in North Rhine-Westphalia up to and including Holzminden is also known as the Egge Railway (german: Eggebahn). History The line from Altenbeken to Godelheim was opened on 1 October 1864 by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company and extended on 10 October 1865 to Holzminden. It connected with the Brunswick Southern Railway, which was opened by the Duchy of Brunswick State Railway between Holzminden and Kreiensen on 10 October 1865, creating a link with Brunswick (Braunschweig). To connect with the Brunswick area the line bypassed the town of Einbeck with two tunnels and a long climb. Originally the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himmighausen
Nieheim () is a town in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Historical names of Nieheim are: Nihem, Nyem, and Nym. The town covers an area of about 80 km2 and has about 6,250 inhabitants. Geography Nieheim lies roughly 10 km northeast of Brakel. Constituent communities Nieheim consists of the following 10 centres: * Entrup * Eversen * Erwitzen * Himmighausen * Holzhausen * Merlsheim * Nieheim * Oeynhausen * Schönenberg * Sommersell mit Kariensiek History Nieheim, with its more than 750-year-old history reaches well back into the Middle Ages. From its beginnings as a community, it grew after being granted municipal privileges (lower court rights, market rights and minting rights, among others) in Bishop Bernhard IV's time (1228 - 1247), into today's town of Nieheim. After quickly developing from a former farming town and Hanseatic member, Nieheim has risen today to be a climatic spa with a function as a minor centre, and a mediaeval town with fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
