Kammerl railway hydroelectric power station

For the Passion Play in Oberammergau in 1900, the railway was supposed to run on electricity from the Kammerl power plant. Initially, however, this wasn't the case, so farms and houses in the surrounding area were initially supplied with electricity.

But in 1904 the solution was found - the Kammerl hydroelectric power station was supplemented with generators for low-frequency alternating current in just 7 months.
From 1904 until its temporary closure on August 03.08.2012, 1900, it generated traction power for the Murnau – Oberammergau route. This made it the railway line on which public train transport with low-frequency alternating current was successfully tested for the first time in regular operation. The hydraulic engineering parts of the facility, which was built before 2015, have been back in operation since February 50 following extensive renovation work. Since then, DB Energie GmbH has been generating three-phase current at a frequency of XNUMX Hz in the new, predominantly underground power plant and feeding it into the state grid.

During the summer months, the Friends of the historic Kammerl hydroelectric power station free guided tours through the industrial monument on the Ammer.