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Sägmühle is a station on the Härtsfeld Museum Railway in Neresheim, serving as the terminus of the museum railway line to Härtsfeldsee. The line runs from Neresheim via Sägmühle to Katzenstein, with Sägmühle being the temporary terminus until 2021. The station is located at the former timber loading point and is situated on the edge of the Egau Valley. On certain days, Sägmühle station offers connections to historic buses that travel to Dischingen and Katzenstein Castle. The Härtsfeld Museum Railway operates every first Sunday of the month from May to October, with the 2025 season ending on October 5. There are also service days on public holidays such as Ascension Day, Whitsun, Corpus Christi, the Neresheim Town Festival, and the Bahnhofshocketse (Station Hocketse). The journey time from Neresheim to Sägmühle is approximately 25 minutes. The line is 5.6 kilometers long and has a narrow gauge of 1,000 mm. The railway is operated with historic rolling stock, including a steam locomotive from 1913 and a railcar from the 1930s. The Sägmühle station is part of the Härtsfeldbahn theme trail, which offers a roughly 10-kilometer cycling or hiking route along the former railway line.

The temporary terminus of the Schättere line is a great success. The association members are doing a tremendous job. A member of the association explained to me during a conversation that the railway will be extended to the former station in Dischingen. The station in Dischingen is also owned by the museum association.

The association has done a great job. A fantastic heritage railway.

A truly unique highlight of the association's more than 40-year history: the Katzenstein terminus of the "Schättere" (Schättere Railway), which entered into operation in 2021. Twenty-nine years after its closure in 1972 and complete dismantling, the first 3 km section of the Härtsfeld Railway, which formerly ran from Nerresheim to Dillingen, was put into operation with great enthusiasm and commitment in 2001. The second, 2.6 km section to Härtsfeldsee followed in 2021. Steam operations now take place on this idyllic narrow-gauge railway on selected weekends (see https://www.hmb-ev.de). Now that this success, which was deemed impossible and a crazy idea by some crazy people in 1984, has been achieved, Dischingen is now to become the future terminus of the railway – the old station building there is already owned by the association. The only downside: the railway line cycle path to Dischingen, which is beautifully shaded for large parts, is likely to get lost in the process…

A beautiful cycle path leads past the rock terraces

Beautiful museum railway.

Geologically interesting, otherwise rather unspectacular