The term Gäubahn (Gau Railway) is used in table 740 of

Deutsche Bahn (, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). DB was fou ...

's timetable, which covers the route from

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

to Singen (Hohentwiel) and

Freudenstadt Freudenstadt (, Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is the capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to ...

. It consists of the

Stuttgart–Horb railway The Stuttgart–Horb railway is a 67.227 kilometer-long railway in the southern part of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, running from Stuttgart to Horb. It forms part of a railway known as the Gäubahn () or Gäu Railway. The Royal W� ...

( VzG line number 4860), the Horb–

Tuttlingen Tuttlingen (; Alemannic: ''Duttlinga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. Nendingen, ''Möhringen'' and ''Eßlingen'' are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen. Tuttlingen is located in Swabia ...

section of the

Plochingen–Immendingen railway The Plochingen–Immendingen railway is a main-line railway line in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It runs from Plochingen via Horb am Neckar to Immendingen, following the upper reaches of the Neckar from Plochingen to Neckartailfingen ...

(4600), the Tuttlingen–Hattingen railway (4661), the Hattingen–Singen (Hohentwiel) section of the Black Forest Railway (4250) and the

Eutingen im Gäu Eutingen (Swabian German, Swabian: ''Eudinge'') is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt (district), Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Notable people * Olaf Saile (1901–1952), was a German writer References ...

–Freudenstadt section of the Eutingen im Gäu–Schiltach railway line (4880). Its name is derived from the various

Gäu In the south German language (of the Alemannic-speaking area, or in Switzerland), a ''gäu'' landscape (''gäulandschaft'') refers to an area of open, level countryside. These regions typically have fertile soils resulting from depositions of loess ...

landscapes it crosses: the ''Korngäu'' (cereal-growing Gäu), which merges into the ''Obere Gäue'' (Upper Gäus) at

Herrenberg Herrenberg (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Härrabärg'' or ''Haerebärg'') is a town in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 30 km south of Stuttgart and 20 km from Tübingen. After Sindelfingen, Böblingen, and Leonberg, it ...

, and finally the Hecken- und Schlehengäu near

. It is part of the overall network of the Trans-European Networks.

History

Historically, the name Gäubahn, also spelled ''Gäu-Bahn'', only referred to the line between Stuttgart and Freudenstadt, which opened in 1879. In the 1930s, the term was extended to include the Eutingen im Gäu–

Horb am Neckar Horb am Neckar is a town in the southwest of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river, between Offenburg to the west (about away) and Tübingen to the east (about away). It has aroun ...

section, which was formerly part of the

Nagold Valley Railway The Nagold Valley Railway (German: ''Nagoldtalbahn'') is a railway line in the northern part of the Black Forest in Germany which links Pforzheim with Horb am Neckar and, for most of its route, follows the valley of the River Nagold. Trains on ...

. The expression became common in the 1950s for the section from Horb am Neckar to Singen (Hohentwiel) before Deutsche Bahn started using it in the headings of the corresponding timetable tables in the mid-1990s.

References

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