Bad Langensalza – Haussommern railway line
| Bad Langensalza - house summer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6732 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 647 (1969) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 27.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | approx. 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Bad Langensalza – Haussommern railway was a standard gauge railway in Thuringia .
history
Kleinbahn AG Langensalza-Kirchheilingen
On July 27, 1911, the Kleinbahn AG Langensalza-Kirchheilingen was founded to build a railway line from Langensalza to Kirchheilingen . The shareholders were the Prussian state , the province of Saxony , the district and the city of Langensalza and the city of Thamsbrück .
On July 4, 1913, the 15 km long Langensalza – Kirchheilingen line was opened, previously from May 21, 1913, goods traffic had already been carried out on the Langensalza – Marxleben section. In 1914 four pairs of trains ran daily. There were two three-axle steam locomotives, three passenger cars, a baggage car and thirteen freight cars.
Langensalzaer Kleinbahn
On January 18, 1916, the company name was changed to Langensalzaer Kleinbahn AG , with the wish to be able to continue building as soon as possible. But the First World War and its consequences delayed the project. Other parts were only added in sections. In October 1920 the Kirchheiligen – Groß Urleben section was used, and in November 1922 traffic to Bruchstedt was started.
It was not until July 13, 1923 that the final point of Haussummer could be reached; the total length of the route was 27.4 km. The Langensalza Süd station was opposite the Langensalza state station and a terminal station was built in Bruchstedt so that the station could be brought as close as possible to the town in a hairpin.
Langensalzaer Eisenbahn AG
The administration was incumbent on the small railway department of the Provincial Association of Saxony in Merseburg until 1945 . From July 1, 1946, the Langensalzaer Eisenbahn AG, as it was called from September 14, 1943, belonged to the Landesbahnen Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH / VVB in Halle / Saale .
On April 1, 1949, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over operations for twenty years. The newer section Kirchheilingen – Haussömmern was closed on September 24, 1967, the remaining line on December 1, 1969. The line has been dismantled from Bad Langensalza Ost station. Until then, there is still occasional freight traffic to a connection, the track is operated as a station track. The Unstrut Cycle Path now runs on parts of the former railway embankment between Thamsbrück and Bad Langensalza Ost.
literature
- Günter Fromm , Harald Rockstuhl : The history of the Langensalzaer Kleinbahn AG 1913-1967. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 1999, ISBN 978-3932554544 .
