On June 13th I was on a nice bike tour (about 65 km long) with fellow mapper vobs. We went to see the pump storage station Glems near Reutlingen.
By-product was the mapping of some residential streets in Mittelstadt and Reicheneck and of some forest tracks.
He told me that the line MEZGN-WDLNG (110 kV) from Wendlingen to Metzingen was being torn down. On the way back we saw that confirmed near Neckartenzlingen. The whole installation was already removed, including the foundations for the pylons leaving nothing but dug-up ground.

Boohoo! Don't get me wrong, despite my interest in the power grid I still think that power lines are no enrichment for the landscape and often clutter pretty views. But if you knew how much work it was to map this line for OSM you'd understand why I'm sad. Although we (some of the Yahoo painting was done by somebody else) could take a lot of it from Yahoo aerial images, the ends were outside the Yahoo area (I estimate 4 km) so I had to do them "manually".
Now I'll have to remove it from OSM again.

Removing this line makes sense though. They have a 380 kV line running between the same stations (the one to the south of Nürtingen). Plus they made a branch from the famous "Nord-Süd-Leitung" (380 kV also) near Rommelsbach to Metzingen. So redundancy is still maintained.

I wonder if they're also going to touch the line WDL-TRS (also 110 kV) which runs right through Mittelstadt and Oferdingen. It would make even more sense to remove this one as it runs over residential areas.
They haven't maintained the towers for a long time obviously, the paint comes off so there are rusty spots. This might be an indication that they are going to abandon this line too. But when we passed under it on the bike tour that I mentioned, it was clearly hearable that it is still under voltage.
Btw, I still haven't figured out where this one eventually ends. One end is Wendlingen but I'm not sure what TRS could mean. It passes the stations Reutlingen-West and Nehren (south of Tübingen) but has no connection to them.