Baden local railways

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The Badische local railways AG (BLEAG) was a subsidiary of the West German railway company (WEG) in Cologne. They founded BLEAG on October 27, 1898 in Karlsruhe together with Privy Councilor Friedrich Lenz and some banks as an operations management company for the Baden railways of the WEG with a share capital of six million marks.

Partial bond for 1000 marks from Badische Lokal-Eisenbahnen AG dated May 23, 1901

In 1914, the route network comprised four standard-gauge railway companies with a route length of 97 kilometers:

  • Bruchsal - Ubstadt - Odenheim - Hilsbach ( Katzbachbahn , 26.5 km) with branch line Ubstadt - Menzingen ( Kraichtalbahn , 14.9 km), opened gradually from March 5, 1896
  • Bühl - Oberbühlertal ( Bühlertalbahn , 6.0 km), opened on December 28, 1896
  • Wiesloch-Walldorf - Wiesloch Stadt - Meckesheim (19.1 km) ( branch line Wiesloch – Meckesheim / Waldangelloch ) opened on May 14, 1901, with a branch line Wiesloch Stadt - Waldangelloch (13.2 km), opened on October 16, 1901
  • Neckarbischofsheim - Hüffenhardt ( Krebsbachtalbahn , 17.1 km), opened on October 16, 1902

as well as the Albtalbahn with 56.4 km in meter gauge:

and the three-rail Ettlinger Seitenbahn .

Until 1910, BLEAG was also the owner of two other branch lines in Württemberg:

  • Aalen - Neresheim - Dillingen ( Härtsfeldbahn , meter gauge, 55.5 km), opened gradually from October 29, 1901
  • Reutlingen - Gönningen ( Gönninger Bahn , standard gauge, 16.5 km), opened on September 20, 1902

These were sold to the Württembergische Nebenbahnen AG ; With the proceeds, the Albtalbahn could be electrified.

In the global economic crisis around 1930, BLEAG ran into financial difficulties. In order to be able to continue rail operations, she had to take out a loan of 100,000 Reichsmarks, for which the state of Baden took over the guarantee. Nevertheless, the company went bankrupt on September 26, 1931.

The railways were sold to Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft AG (DEBG) with effect from January 1, 1932 for 500,000 marks . Only the Brötzingen - Ittersbach section of the Albtalbahn had already been left to the city of Pforzheim on February 1, 1931, which electrified it (again) and operated it itself as the Pforzheimer Kleinbahn .

literature

Gerd Wolff / Hans-Dieter Menges: German small and private railways, Volume 2: Baden. Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-653-6 , page 275

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