The Deggendorf—Metten railway was a local Bavarian branch line (''
Lokalbahn
A ''Lokalbahn'' or ''Localbahn'' ("local line", plural: -en) is a secondary railway line worked by local trains serving rural areas, typically in Austria and the south German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. ''Lokalbahnen'' appeared at t ...
'') in southern Germany. It was established by the ''Aktiengesellschaft der Lokalbahn
Deggendorf
Deggendorf (; ) is a town in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the Deggendorf district.
It is located on the left bank approximately in the middle between the Danube cities of Regensburg and Passau. The Danube forms the town's natural border towards ...
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Metten
Metten is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany. The town grew up around the Benedictine Metten Abbey, founded in 766. Metten is also the birthplace of former Bayern Munich
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'', a railway company in eastern Bavarian that built and operated this standard gauge line between the two towns.
The company was founded, on the one hand, to provide a railway link to the town of Metten, well known for its monastery (''Kloster Metten'') and, on the other hand, to export stone from the granite quarries in the surrounding area.
The
concession was issued on 7 September 1890. That same year construction started and, on 17 October 1891, it was opened to traffic. The length of the ''Paterbahn'', as it was called in the local dialect, was 4.22 kilometres. In addition, in Metten there was a 1.1 kilometre long branch to the quarries. The two steam locomotives that worked the line were called ''Deggendorf'' (Krauss 1891/ 2451 - B n2t - 1,435 mm, scrapped in 1965) and ''Metten'' (Krauss 1891/ 2452 - B n2t - 1,435 mm, scrapped in 1953).
The line was taken over on 1 February 1928 by the
Regentalbahn AG who continued to operate it. They worked it with their locomotive ''Osser'' (Maffei 1922/ 5478 - C h2t - 1,435 mm) as well as the 'new' ''Deggendorf'' (Maffei 1927/ 5684 - D h2t - 1,435 mm).
On 6 November 1975 the last steam train ran down the line. On 23 September 1983 the last passenger train was underway. Goods traffic ceased in 1991 and on 1 August 1993 the line was finally closed.
See also
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List of closed railway lines in Bavaria
This is a list of closed railway lines in Bavaria.
Cessation of passenger services on railway lines in Bavaria since 1950
1950s
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Bavarian branch lines
Bavarian branch lines comprised nearly half the total railway network in Bavaria, a state in the southeastern Germany that was a Kingdom of Bavaria, kingdom in the days of the German Empire. The construction era for branch lines lasted from 1872 ...
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Regentalbahn
The Regentalbahn (''Regentalbahn AG – Die Länderbahn'') is railway company based in Bavaria, and is owned by Ferrovie dello Stato and the Luxembourg infrastructure fund ''Cube'', through the German holding company of Netinera. It runs railway ...
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References
*Gerd Wolff: ''Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen. Band 7: Bayern''. EK Verlag, Freiburg 2002
*Andreas Fried, Klaus-Peter Quill: ''Regentalbahn''. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1999
External links
Information about the Deggendorf-Metten Lokalbahn (private)
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Branch lines in Bavaria