Holenbrunn–Selb railway

Holenbrunn–Selb-Plößberg
Overview
Line number	5032 (Holenbrunn–Selb Stadt), 5033 (Selb-Plößberg–Selb Stadt)
Service
Route number	858 (Selb Stadt–Selb-Plößberg)
Technical
Line length	26.5 km (16.5 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Route map Legend km elev from Weiden from Leupoldsdorf 0.0 Wunsiedel-Holenbrunn (formerly Holenbrunn) to Hof 2.9 Göpfersgrün 4.7 Johanneszeche 8.0 Thiersheim 12.4 Höchstädt-Thierstein 15.8 Schwarzenhammer 19.8 Unterweißenbach 22.7 3.8 Selb Stadt (former station) 2.7 Selb Nord porcelain factory siding Selb Untere Stadt (1894-1914) 1.7 Erkersreuth from Cheb 0.0 Selb-Plößberg (former station) to Oberkotzau (–Hof) Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Holenbrunn–Selb railway was a branch line in Bavaria in southern Germany. It opened on 25 October 1894 initially just between Selb-Plößberg to Selb Untere Stadt. At Selb Untere Stadt this Lokalbahn line branched from the Cheb–Oberkotzau railway that went to Asch and Franzensbad over the border. The railway continued, as a goods line only, to the porcelain factory at Ludwigsmühle.

History[]

On 1 May 1914 the Lokalbahn was extended via Thiersheim to Holenbrunn on the . As a result, the station of Untere Stadt was closed and a new station with goods facilities were built to the north of the town and called Selb Stadt. A small shed (Bahnbetriebswerk), which was maintained by Bw Hof, enabled locomotives to be serviced. Today a small railway museum is housed in this shed.

Numerous industrial sidings ran into the porcelain factories in the vicinity of the town that, like the , were worked by their own diesel locomotives or like, Heinrich & Co., with a fireless locomotive that handled goods wagons on the firm’s site.

Cross-border passenger services from Selb-Plößberg to Asch were suspended in 1945 at the end of the Second World War and reopened in 2015. The 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long section from Selb-Stadt via Höchstädt-Thierstein to Holenbrunn was finally closed in 1986.

When Wunsiedel Stadt station was closed to passenger services, Holenbrunn station was renamed Wunsiedel-Holenbrunn station.

References[]

Footnotes[]

Sources[]

• Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland [German railway atlas]. Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.

External links[]

• History of the railway in Selb (private)