150 years of the railway in Abensberg

On 1 June 1874, Abensberg was in a celebratory mood! For the first time, a railway puffed along the newly built Abensberg station. The schoolchildren, their teachers, the clergy, the town magistrate and many guests of honour marched from the town square up the new Bahnhofstraße to celebrate this sensation. Just a few years earlier, the route of the so-called Lower Danube Valley Railway from Ingolstadt to Regensburg had been planned and realised.
From 20 September 2024 to 1 June 2025, the Abensberg Town Museum is presenting a major special exhibition that sheds light on the planning and implementation of the railway construction as well as the diverse effects of infrastructural change on the region and its people.
The exhibition in the Herzogskasten not only unravels the dense chain of events in the run-up to the construction of the railway, but also focuses on the cultural and historical issues of the time. The connection to the railway network had a lasting impact on the region - economically, culturally and socially. It set in motion a structural change that affected all areas of people's lives and still has an impact today.
What did the railway have to do with the founding of a Protestant congregation in Abensberg? Why did it bring Munich beer to the pubs and how did regional craft businesses react to the greater competitive pressure in the big cities? What is the story behind one of Germany's first electric railway lines in Offenstetten and why did several thousand soldiers come to the region in the summer of 1903 to build a temporary light railway?
These and many other questions are answered on the "round trip" through the region's railway history. Visitors can marvel at train models, a replica of Abensberg railway station and the railway bridge over the Abens. For the first time, the exhibition brings together large-scale documents and photographs from national collections and archives on the subject. For that real travelling feeling, you can make yourself comfortable on real train seats and glide virtually along the tracks of the Lower Danube Valley Railway.

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Last edited on 23.09.2024