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Wiesentalbahn
The Wiese Valley Railway (german: Wiesentalbahn) is a 27.2 km long, electrified main line in German Baden-Württemberg in the tri-national area of Germany, Switzerland and France near the Swiss city of Basel. It is part of the Basel trinational S-Bahn and referenced as . It runs alongside the river Wiese from Basel Badischer Bahnhof in Basel (on Swiss territory) to Zell (Wiesental). It is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) History The line was built as the first private railway in the Grand Duchy of Baden by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (''Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft'') and opened on 7 June 1862 to Schopfheim with a length of 20 km. It was continued up the valley as the ''Hintere Wiesenthalbahn'' (“rear” Wiese Valley Railway) on 5 February 1876 by the Schopfheim-Zell Railway Company (''Schopfheim-Zeller Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''). This was followed on 7 July 1889 by a narrow-gauge railway owned by the Baden railway consortium of Herrm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zell (Wiesental) Station
Zell (Wiesental) station is the only station in Zell im Wiesental in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the terminus of the Wiese Valley Railway (''Wiesentalbahn''), which runs from Basel Badischer Bahnhof. Since the summer of 2003, Zell station has been served only by the Basel Regional S-Bahn. History After the opening of the line between Basel and Schopfheim in 1862 by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (''Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft'') from the ''Badischen Bahnhof'' (Baden station) in Basel, the line was extended to Zell on 5 June 1876 by the Schopfheim-Zell Railway Company (''Schopfheim-Zeller Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''). This was followed on 7 July 1889 by a railway owned by the Baden railway consortium of Herrmann Bachstein, later called the South German Railway Company (''Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG''), the Zell im Wiesental–Todtnau railway, known as the Upper Wiese Valley Railway (''Obere Wiesentalbahn'') and also as the ''Todtnauerli''. Passenger s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lörrach
Lörrach () is a town in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including the Milka chocolate factory owned by Mondelez International. The city population has grown over the last century, with only 10,794 in 1905, it has now increased its population to 49,382. Nearby is the castle of Rötteln on the Wiesental, whose lords became the counts of Hachberg and a residence of the Margraves of Baden; this was destroyed by the troops of Louis XIV in 1678, but was rebuilt in 1867. Lörrach received market rights in 1403, but it did not obtain the privileges of a city until 1682. After the Napoleonic epoch, the town was included in the Grand Duchy of Baden. On 21 September 1848, Gustav Struve attempted to start a revolutionary uprising in Lörrach as part of the Revolutions of 1848–49. It failed, and Struve was caught a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lörrach Hauptbahnhof
Lörrach Hauptbahnhof is one of seven stations and halts in Lörrach in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The station located on the Wiese Valley Railway (''Wiesentalbahn'') from Basel Badischer station to Zell im Wiesental and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. Its train services are part of the Basel S-Bahn and are operated by SBB GmbH, a subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways. History Lörrach station was opened in 1862 as part of the first private railway in the Grand Duchy of Baden, which was built by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (''Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft''). The line ran from the Basel Baden station in Basel, where it connected to the Baden Mainline, to Schopfheim. It was extended to Zell in 1876. The first test run was carried out on 10 May 1862 and on 5 June the line was formally opened in the presence of the Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden. In the 1860s, before the opening of the line, the location the Lörrach station was a controversia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Federal Railways
Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usually referred to by the initials of its German, French, and Italian names, either as SBB CFF FFS, or used separately. The Romansh version of its name, ''Viafiers federalas svizras'', is not officially used. The official English abbreviation is "SBB", instead of the English acronym such as "SFR", which stands for ''Swiss Federal Railways'' itself. The company, founded in 1902, is headquartered in Bern. It used to be a government institution, but since 1999 it has been a special stock corporation whose shares are held by the Swiss Confederation and the Swiss cantons. It is currently the largest rail and transport company of Switzerland, and operates on most standard gauge lines of the Swiss network. It also heavily collaborates with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SBB CFF FFS
Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usually referred to by the initials of its German, French, and Italian names, either as SBB CFF FFS, or used separately. The Romansh version of its name, ''Viafiers federalas svizras'', is not officially used. The official English abbreviation is "SBB", instead of the English acronym such as "SFR", which stands for ''Swiss Federal Railways'' itself. The company, founded in 1902, is headquartered in Bern. It used to be a government institution, but since 1999 it has been a special stock corporation whose shares are held by the Swiss Confederation and the Swiss cantons. It is currently the largest rail and transport company of Switzerland, and operates on most standard gauge lines of the Swiss network. It also heavily collaborates with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South German Railway Company
The South German Railway Company (''Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG'') or SEG was founded on 11 February 1895, in Darmstadt by the railway entrepreneur, Herrmann Bachstein, and several bank managers. Bachstein's railway The majority of shares were owned by the Bank für Handel und Industrie in Darmstadt. In 1908 this share was bought out by Hugo Stinnes and other industrialists, who founded the Rhine Westphalia Railway Company (''Rheinisch-Westfälische Bahn-GmbH'' or ''RWB'') in 1909, in order to bring together the numerous tramway operations of the Ruhrgebiet. Major shareholders in the RWB included the city of Essen (48%), the district of Essen (27%) and the '' Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk'' or ''RWE'' (25%). The SEG was formed by Hermann Bachstein with the aim of reorganising the railways in the states of Baden and Hesse that were part of the ''Hermann Bachstein Branch Line Central Organisation'' (''Centralverwaltung für Secundärbahnen Herrmann Bachste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schopfheim
Schopfheim is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Wiese, 10 km north of Rheinfelden, and 13 km east of Lörrach. The town is the birthplace of Gisela Oeri, Max Picard, and Arno Villringer. Transport The Wiese Valley Railway The Wiese Valley Railway (german: Wiesentalbahn) is a 27.2 km long, electrified main line in German Baden-Württemberg in the tri-national area of Germany, Switzerland and France near the Swiss city of Basel. It is part of the Basel trinationa ... runs through the town and serves four stations: , , , and . Gallery Schopfheim, straatzicht die Hauptstrasse foto5 2013-07-26 13.53.jpg, Market square Schopfheim, die evangelische Kirche foto2 2013-07-26 13.46.jpg, Reformed church Schopfheim, die katholische Kirche foto3 2013-07-26 13.57.JPG, Catholic church References Lörrach (district) Baden {{Lörrach-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918. It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subsequently split into the states of Baden-Durlach and Baden-Baden, which were reunified in 1771. It then became the much-enlarged Grand Duchy of Baden after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire from 1803 to 1806 and was a sovereign country until it joined the German Empire in 1871. In 1918, it became part of the Weimar Republic as the Republic of Baden. Baden was bordered to the north by the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt; to the west, along most of its length, by the river Rhine, which separated Baden from the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate and Alsace in modern France; to the south by Switzerland; and to the east by the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Bavaria. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary empire led by an emperor, although has been used in German to denote the Roman Empire because it had a weak hereditary tradition. In the case of the German Empire, the official name was , which is properly translated as "German Empire" because the official position of head of state in the constitution of the German Empire was officially a "presidency" of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia who would assume "the title of German Emperor" as referring to the German people, but was not emperor of Germany as in an emperor of a state. –The German Empire" ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''. vol. 63, issue 376, pp. 591–603; here p. 593. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel Trinational S-Bahn
,french: RER trinational de Bâle , image = Logo trireno black.svg , alt = logo trireno , imagesize = 180 , image2 = Basel 2012-08 Mattes 1 (283).JPG , alt2 = S-Bahn train at Basel SBB , imagesize2 = , image3 = , alt3 = , imagesize3 = , caption2 = S-Bahn train at Basel SBB , owner = SBB CFF FFS, SBB GmbH, DB, SNCF Mobilités , locale = Basel metropolitan area , transit_type = S-Bahn , lines = , stations = 108 , ridership = , annual_ridership = 47 million (2019) , chief_executive = , headquarters = Basel, Switzerland , website = , callcentre = , began_operation = , operation_will_start = , ended_operation = , operator = SBB CFF FFS, DB Regio, TER Grand Est , marks = , host = , vehicles = , train_length = , headway = , system_length = , notrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), Saint-Louis (FR-68), Weil am Rhein (DE-BW) , twintowns = Shanghai, Miami Beach , website = www.bs.ch Basel ( , ), also known as Basle ( ),french: Bâle ; it, Basilea ; rm, label= Sutsilvan, Basileia; other rm, Basilea . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 175,000 inhabitants. The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city is famous for its many museums, including the Kunstmuseum, which is the first collection of art accessibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Line (railway)
The main line, or mainline in American English, of a railway is a track that is used for through trains or is the principal artery of the system from which branch lines, yards, sidings and spurs are connected. It generally refers to a route between towns, as opposed to a route providing suburban or metro services. It may also be called a trunk line, for example the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada, the Trunk Line in Norway, and the Trunk Line Bridge No. 237 in the United States. For capacity reasons, main lines in many countries have at least a double track and often contain multiple parallel tracks. Main line tracks are typically operated at higher speeds than branch lines and are generally built and maintained to a higher standard than yards and branch lines. Main lines may also be operated under shared access by a number of railway companies, with sidings and branches operated by private companies or single railway companies. Railway points (UK) or switches (US) are usuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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