The Friedrichshafen Stadt–Friedrichshafen Hafen railway (or ''Friedrichshafen City–Friedrichshafen Port railway''; German: ''Bahnstrecke Friedrichshafen Stadt–Friedrichshafen Hafen'') is a standard gauge and non-electrified railway line in the city of

Friedrichshafen Friedrichshafen ( or ; Low Alemannic: ''Hafe'' or ''Fridrichshafe'') is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance (the ''Bodensee'') in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. It is the district capital (''Kre ...

in the German state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

. It connects the town station with the port station. The 816 metre-long branch line has its own VzG route number, 4531, although operationally it is a connection between two parts of the same station.

History

After Friedrichshafen had been connected to the first section of the

Ulm–Friedrichshafen railway The Ulm–Friedrichshafen railway, also known as the Württembergische Südbahn (Württemberg Southern Railway), is an electrified main line (railway), main line in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. It was built from 1846 to 1850 ...

in 1847, the

Royal Württemberg State Railways The Royal Württemberg State Railways (''Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.W.St.E.'') were the state railways of the Kingdom of Württemberg (from 1918 the ''People's State of Württemberg'') between 1843 and 1920. Please ...

(''Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen'') began on the construction of the extension towards the port in 1849. The new line to the shore of

Lake Constance Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three Body of water, bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, ca ...

finally opened on 1 June 1850. Its maximum gradient is 1:45 and its

minimum curve radius The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest allowable design radius for the centerline of railway tracks under a particular set of conditions. It has an important bearing on construction costs and operating costs and, in combination with ...

is 150 metre. Its main purpose continues to be to link the German railway network and the international Friedrichshafen–Romanshorn ferry line. Until 1974 there was a

train ferry A train ferry is a ship (ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles. Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with railway tracks, and the vessel has a door at the front and/or rear to give access to the wharves. In the United States, train f ...

to Switzerland. The line has been electrified since December 2021.

Operations

The line belongs to

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 se ...

. In addition to carrying DB regional trains, it has been used since 1 June 1997 by the railcars of the private Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn (BOB) between city and port stations, which have to reverse in the city station. In terms of fares, the connection – like all lines in the region – has been integrated into the ''Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund'' (Bodensee-Oberschwaben transport association, bodo), which was founded on 1 January 2004, from the start.

References

Footnotes

Sources

* * * (reprint of 1895 edition)

External links

1944 timetable
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