Northern Bohemian Railway

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The route network of the Bohemian Northern Railway
Seal mark Bohemian Northern Railway

The kk privileged Bohemian Northern Railway (BNB) was a railway company in Austria whose routes were in what is now the Czech Republic . The company's railway area was in northern Bohemia between Prague , Bodenbach , Turnau and Rumburg . The seat of the company was in Prague.

history

Ernst Graf Waldstein-Wartenberg , Albert Graf Nostitz-Rhinek , Albrecht Graf Kaunitz , Franz Altgraf Salm , Friedrich Zdekauer Ritter von Treukon , Clemens Bachofen von Echt, and Adalbert were granted the concession to build and operate a railway called “Böhmische Nordbahn” Lanna , Johann Münzberg , A. Eyffert and Carl Georg Fröhlich on October 6th, 1865. The content of the concession was the construction of a “locomotive railway starting from the kk priv. Turnau-Kralupp-Prague railway between Jungbunzlau and Ofen via Böhmisch Leipa to Rumburg , possibly with the continuation towards Löbau for the connection to the Saxon railway - in connection with a similar railway on the one hand via Bensen to Bodenbach for the connection with the Elbe at Tetschen and to the connection to the kk priv. Northern State Railway and on the other hand to Warnsdorf with the possible continuation towards Zittau , also for connection to the Saxon railway “ In addition, the concessionaires were also given the V The right to build a route through the Polzental between Böhmisch Leipa and Bensen was granted. In the event that the route from Aussig –Böhmisch Leipa– Liebenau , which was licensed on November 16, 1865, did not come to fruition , the concessionaires were obliged to build this line if the state administration "recognized the line as necessary in the interests of industry" .

"Actie" over 150 guilders ö.W. by 1867

The licensed routes were to be started in 1867 and put into operation by 1870. Part of this concession was also the obligation to provide a second track " if the annual gross profit of the railway per Austrian mile for two consecutive years exceeds the sum of 180,000 guilders in Austrian currency . " The concession period was set at 90 years from the day the company opened.

The Böhmische Nordbahn-Gesellschaft was established on March 31, 1867 as a privileged joint stock company with a share capital of 8 million guilders. A total of 53,333 shares with a nominal value of 150 guilders were issued.

Due to the consequences of the German War between Austria and Prussia in 1866, the construction of the lines made only slow progress. Some sections were created as emergency works. The routes were opened in 1867 (Bakow – Böhmisch Leipa) and 1869 (Bodenbach – Warnsdorf, Böhmisch Leipa – Rumburg, Bensen – Böhmisch Leipa).

As a result, the Bohemian Northern Railway tried to expand its route network northwards towards Prussia. In connection with the Vienna – Jungbunzlau line of the Austrian Northwest Railway (ÖNWB), which was completed in 1870, the shortest connection between Berlin and Vienna was to be created. In order to realize this project, all that was missing around 1870 was the approximately 70 kilometer long connection between Rumburg and Spremberg via Bautzen. The concession for the “ Rumburg – Schluckenau railway line, possibly with the continuation towards Bautzen ” was awarded to the Bohemian Northern Railway on July 17, 1871. However, the Kingdom of Saxony was opposed to such a privately financed north-south connection between Austria and Prussia. On January 30, 1872, the Saxon Ministry of Finance issued a decree that the Bohemian Northern Railway would only receive the requested concession at the same time as the Schandau – Schluckenau (–Bautzen) route desired by Saxony . However, the BNB showed no interest in a continuous connection from the Elbe Valley to Upper Lusatia, which would have been in direct competition with its own main connection Bakow – Rumburg. So the project of a direct rail link between Rumburg and Spremberg was ultimately not carried out. The Schandau – Bautzen line went into operation in 1877 as the Saxon state railway, bypassing Austrian territory.

After the merger with the Turnau-Kralup-Prager Eisenbahn (TKPE) on January 1, 1883, the route network of the Bohemian Northern Railway was over 300 km, with the Prague – Georgswalde-Ebersbach connection now also an important mainline to the Bohemian Northern Railway, which in Ebersbach / Sa. Connection to the Royal Saxon State Railways had.

On January 1, 1908, the company was nationalized. The vehicles and routes were transferred to the property of the kk Austrian State Railways kkStB.

The routes

Main lines

Local railways

Routes operated for the owner's account

Driving resources

Locomotives of the Bohemian Northern Railway
line BNB no. number Manufacturer Construction year Axis formula kkStB no. ČSD no. DR no.
I , II 1-6 (TK), 7-12 12 Sigl / Vienna 1865-1874 1Bn2 123.01-06 232.301 -
IIa 13-20 8th Floridsdorf , Wr. Neustadt 1889-1899 Cn2t 103.01-08 253.001-005 -
IIb 131-133 3 Wr.Neustadt 1903/04 2'C n2 127.01-03 353.001-003 -
IIc 181-186 6th BMMF 1905-1908 1Ch2 128.01-06 342.001-006 -
III 21-26 (TK), 27-38 18th Sigl / Wr. Neustadt , Sigl / Vienna 1865-1868 Cn2t 147.01-13 322.101-103 -
IV 39–43 (TK) 5 Sigl / Wr. Neustadt 1872-1873 Cn2 147.14-18 322.104-107 -
V 57-89 33 Sigl / Wr. Neustadt , Wr. Neustadt 1871-1901 Cn2 53.31-63 323.101-113 -
Va 151-156 6th Wr. Neustadt 1903-1908 Dn2 74.01-06 414.101-106 k. A.
VI 91-103 11 + 2 Krauss 1882-1905 Cn2t 362.01-13 320.101-112 k. A.
Via 111-121 11 Wr. Neustadt , BMMF 1896-1905 Cn2t 162.05-12, 43-45 313,405-412, 432-433 98.1203-1228
VIb 126-127 2 BMMF 1907 C1'n2t 265.01-02 312.701-702 90.301-302
VII 90 1 Krauss / Munich 1881 Cn2t 96.07 - -

literature

  • List of locomotives, tenders, water cars and railcars of the kk Austrian state railways and the state-operated private railways as of June 30, 1917 . Publishing house of the kk Austrian State Railways, Vienna 1918.
  • Siegfried Bufe, Heribert Schröpfer: Railways in the Sudetenland , Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Egglham 1991, ISBN 3-922138-42-X
  • Helmut Griebl: ČSD steam locomotives . Part 2. Slezak publishing house, Vienna 1969.
  • Pavel Schreier: Příběhy z dějin našich drah , Mladá fronta, Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-204-1505-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the Austrian Empire of May 26, 1866
  2. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the Austrian Empire of March 10, 1866
  3. ↑ Historical securities at www.geerkens.at
  4. ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe from August 5, 1871
  5. ^ Hans von Polenz: Railways in the Bautzener Land ; Ostsächsische Eisenbahnfreunde eV, Löbau 2006; ISBN 3-00-018243-8 ; P. 25f
  6. ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe of August 18, 1908
  7. ↑ ÖNB-ANNO + / Reichsgesetzblatt 1849-1918