The Maxau Railway (German: ''Maxaubahn'') was a 9.7 kilometre long, railway line opened in 1862, that linked the
old Karlsruhe station with the Rhine at
Knielingen, near to the ''
Maxau'' estate. After the completion of a
pontoon over the
Rhine
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, in 1865 the link to the Palatine railway network at
Maximiliansau was completed. The line was built by the city of Karlsruhe and operated by the
Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway
The Grand Duchy of Baden was an independent state in what is now southwestern Germany until the creation of the German Empire in 1871. It had its own state-owned railway company, the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways (''Großherzoglich Badische ...
and later taken over by the Baden state railways. In the course of several renovations in 1895, 1913 and 1938 the course of the line was changed and the original trackbed was given up. During its existence the line provided access to the industrial and port facilities in western Karlsruhe as well as the link between the Baden and Palatine railway networks as part of the
Karlsruhe–Landau–Neustadt link.
See also
*
Palatine Maximilian Railway
A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times.
Sources
* Karl Müller, ''Die badischen Eisenbahnen in historisch-statistischer Darstellung'', Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, 1904, S. 125-130
* Ernst Otto Bräunche (Hrsg.), ''Rheinhafen Karlsruhe 1901-2001'', INFO Verlag, Karlsruhe 2001
External links
Traces of the Maxau Railway at verkehrsrelikte.de{dead link, date=January 2018 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes
Railway lines in Baden-Württemberg