Visitors to the Markt Schwaben local history museum can indulge in memories of old railroad times.
At the anniversary exhibition "150 Years of the Railway".
Markt Schwaben - Who among the elderly does not like to remember those gently rocking journeys in the red rail bus that danced a little on every switch?
As a child, who did not stand excitedly on a bridge when a snorting and rattling steam locomotive drove through under them and enveloped you in warming clouds for brief moments?
Or that conductor who pinched a hole in your ticket with a serious look and large pliers?
All these memories are awakened when you visit the new special exhibition "150 Years of the Railway in Markt Schwaben" in the local history museum.
The friends of the museum, led by Bernd Romir, have again put together many photos, sketches and exhibits on 14 boards in order to document one of the most important pillars of mobility in the community in retrospect.
+
Bernd Romir, head of the Markt Schwaben local history museum.
© Johannes Dziemballa
25 years ago, on the last anniversary of the rolling wheels on steel rails, the Ebersberger Zeitung had already published several special pages on this.
They can also be seen as a visible document of the times.
As soon as you enter the small foyer in the museum at Bahnhofstrasse 28, it becomes clear that this is about the railway: a so-called distant signal disc and a signal wing greet you from the wall.
In ancient times, these signs indicated to a train driver whether he was allowed to stand or drive;
this happened in Markt Schwaben as early as 1871.
Markt Schwaben: When the trip to Munich took 63 minutes
The first timetables show that a trip to Munich once took exactly 63 minutes, with a total of five stops.
Today just 26 minutes pass during a stop to travel to the state capital in a comfortable double-decker wagon on the regional train.
While black metal dinosaurs, fueled by coal, were still pounding through the town back then, nowadays the S-Bahn glides almost silently and has been in service for almost 50 years.
Further opening days
The special exhibition in the Heimatmuseum is still open on the following days:
Wednesday, November 17, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 21, 2 to 5 p.m.
Sunday, December 5, 2 to 5 p.m.
Railway expert Karl Bürger told the visitors at the opening of the exhibition on Saturday that the planning for the Munich-Mühldorf-Simbach railway line was already in place in 1863 - “by law”.
Originally, this route was even considered as a section of an international long-distance connection, “to Trieste in Italy”.
But nothing came of it after all, “after all,” said Bürger, “the Austrian Empress was already traveling on these rails in her saloon car, and once even drove the legendary Orient Express”.
Two world wars and the capital required for this repeatedly prevented the expansion of the route to the east, but ultimately nature conservationists and the constant urge for more individual traffic triggered a trend against the railways.
+
Railway connoisseur Karl Bürger.
© Johannes Dziemballa
Those who mourn this - not always good old - times can now indulge in memories in the Markt Schwabener Heimatmuseum.
Countless photos of all kinds of locomotives can be seen here, pictures of the so-called nostalgic train in 1998, documents about the construction of the first pedestrian bridge over the maze of tracks at the level of the Burgerfeld, from a corner of the room a doll, disguised as a conductor, greets you.
Some miniature locomotives can also be seen in the glass showcase, as Peter Haslbeck from the Modellisenbahn-Club reports, precisely labeled, with precise information on type and time.
There is a tiny shunting locomotive as well as former freight wagons or an elegant express train from yesteryear.
+
Historic photo of the Markt Schwaben train station.
© Johannes Dziemballa
“Express trains should run with us again at some point,” says railway connoisseur Karl Bürger, “once the ABS 38, the planned expansion route from Markt Schwaben to Freilassing, is ready.
It will be two-track and electrified, the trains will go up to 200 km / h ”.
However, this project has been worked on for many years with no visible result, very different from the 19th century.
Bürger: "It took just eight years from the first stroke of the pen to the realization of the route, unfortunately it takes much longer today".
Who knows what the railways will look like in 2046 - then the local world of rail will celebrate its 175th anniversary.
Which will definitely be celebrated with another exhibition in the local history museum.
Friedbert Wood
