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Moor station Nicklheim with mountain view.
The field railway served for transporting peat from the moor to the peat factory Nicklheim near Raubling. After the peat factory was shut down, Bockerlbahn rides are offered into the renatured moor landscape.
In the 19th century, peat was used as a fuel for heating residential houses. Farmers and settlers went into the "Fuizn" to cut peat; peat was considered the coal of the poor man. Only with industrialization from 1876 onwards was peat extracted on a large scale, removed by machines, and the moor drained. For the emerging Nicklheim, this meant jobs and the establishment of a settlement. Many seasonal workers toiled during the summer in piecework; some settled permanently on the brown, peat-extracted areas, and a new place emerged: today's Nicklheim (municipality of Raubling).
Due to the emergence of other, more profitable fuels, from the mid-1950s peat in Nicklheim was mainly extracted for potting soil. However, coinciding with growing environmental awareness, the peat factory in Raubling closed in 2006. It was declared a landscape protection area in 1989 and has since been continuously watered and renatured. The Filzen are unique in Europe because there is no larger moor renaturation in Europe than here at the gates of Rosenheim.
An initiative of volunteers has made it its goal not to let the old peat-cutting and local history be forgotten. After renovations of tracks, Bockerlbahn, and buildings, tours for students can also be offered.
More information at https://www.fuizler.net
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A newly constructed, wheelchair-accessible path connects the hiking parking lot at the sports home with the moor station. It is made of diabase slate and is 1.1 kilometers long. Route proposal Nicklheimer Filze >>
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The track systems in the Nicklheimer Filze were almost completely dismantled. From 2017, the renewal of the track system began as voluntary work. 1820 sleepers were installed on 1.4 km of rails and can be operated with two locomotives from the 1960s, Diema 2049 and 2281. The peat train pulls wooden, two-axle peat wagons behind it, in which the passengers have a seat.
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