Bergwitz – Kemberg railway line
| Bergwitz – Kemberg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6983 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 181b | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 6 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Bergwitz – Kemberg railway was a standard-gauge, branch line- like small railway in eastern Saxony-Anhalt , in what is now the Wittenberg district .
In Bergwitz, the railway had a connection to the state railway Berlin - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Halle (Saale) / Leipzig ( Anhalter Bahn ) and ran to Kemberg, 6 km away . The line was opened by the Bergwitz – Kemberg GmbH railway on February 10, 1903 with an operating length of 6.0 km.
History and operation
From 1903 to 1951 this railway line connected the towns of Bergwitz and Kemberg. The former train station in Kemberg has meanwhile been demolished. Today there is a supermarket there.
Until the expropriation in 1946, management was the responsibility of the small railroad department of the Provincial Association of Saxony , which had its seat in Merseburg . Then the railway came to the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH in Halle (Saale), in 1948 to the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises (VVB) of the state of Saxony-Anhalt's transport system.
On April 1, 1949, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the line, which ceased operations on October 3, 1951.
Lore
The records relating to the Bergwitz - Kemberg Kleinbahn are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
