South Lusatian Railway

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The routes of the South Lusatian Railway

The South Lusatian Railway , also called the South Lusatian State Railway , was a project to develop the southern Upper Lusatia with railways. The routes were realized in the years 1874 to 1879, they are today among other things part of the national main line connection from Dresden via Zittau to Liberec .

history

As early as 1864, when the Zittau – Großschönau connection had been approved, there were initial projects to continue this route in southern Upper Lusatia on a direct route towards Dresden. Initial plans included a route via Warnsdorf and Sohland and then on to the Saxon-Silesian Railway near Bischofswerda or Fischbach . Later a route via Warnsdorf, Eibau , Ebersbach , Sohland and Neukirch towards Pirna was approved.

The basis for the construction was a state treaty concluded in Dresden on September 29, 1869 between Austria and the Kingdom of Saxony , which dealt with the railway connections on the Bohemian-Saxon border near Weipert , Georgswalde and Warnsdorf . This contract regulated in particular the legal conditions for crossing the Austrian territory at Warnsdorf, Ebersbach and Neusalza. This treaty was ratified in May 1871.

Construction of the line began in 1872. In July 1872, the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce issued a building consensus for the sections located on Austrian territory. On November 1, 1874, the first section from Seifhennersdorf via Eibau to Ebersbach was put into operation following the Zittau – Seifhennersdorf line under construction. On May 1, 1875, the continuation to Sohland was completed.

The project had been born thirteen years earlier on March 30th, 1862 in Sohland / Spree , when personalities from politics and business from the border region came together to discuss the "construction of a railway between." Under the chairmanship of the jeweler Christian Gottlieb Herbrig from Taubenheim (Spree) Zittau and Bischofswerda " to advise. But it was only through the committee "Committees for the construction of a railway for southern Upper Lusatia" , which was founded shortly thereafter , that the relevant work could be accelerated. The committee was chaired by the mayor of the city of Neusalza, today Neusalza-Spremberg , August Adolph Tuchatsch until 1885. He was supported by, among others, the elder of Spremberg Carl Traugott Wünsche and judicial advisor Gustav Hermann Schulze , lawyer and notary, at the Royal Saxon District Court Neusalza as secretary. It was thanks to the tireless work of the board of directors, especially GH Schulzes, that the Saxon state parliament approved the costs of the railway construction in 1867/1868. Although the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 temporarily interrupted the construction work, after clarification of open legal questions regarding land, the railway construction then proceeded rapidly, so that the Ebersbach - Sohland railway section of the "South Lusatian Railway" on May 1st, 1875 could be opened, whereby the two municipalities Neusalza and Spremberg with the station "Neusalza-Spremberg" got a connection to the Saxon railway network (cf. W. Heinich 1918, p. 142).

The further construction of the route was delayed. The main reason for this was the difficulties in planning the Bautzen – Schandau railway line , which was originally supposed to run over the Bohemian Schluckenau . However, since Austria refused the necessary concession here, a new route had to be found exclusively on Saxon territory. The line finally joined the planned route of the South Lusatian Railway in Wilthen and used it as far as Neustadt in Saxony. This section was therefore planned and built on two tracks. The remaining sections to the Dürrröhrsdorf station of the Kamenz – Pirna railway were opened on September 1, 1877, at the same time as the Bautzen – Schandau railway.

In order to shorten the route, the Saxon state parliament approved the short connecting railways Oberoderwitz – Eibau and Niederneukirch – Bischofswerda in 1875/76. Construction of the lines began in 1877. On August 15, 1879 (Niederneukirch – Bischofswerda) and October 15, 1879 (Oberoderwitz – Eibau) the lines were put into operation.

For more information on the routes of the South Lusatian Railway, see main article:

Sources and literature

  • Petition from Mayor Tuchatsch zu Neusalza u. Gene. the Südlausitzer Eisenbahn concerning the High Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Saxony, Dresden . Neusalza: Oeser 1868, XIV p.
  • Walter Heinich : Spremberg. Attempt on a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Spremberg / Schirgiswalde 1918, chap .: The Railway , pp. 142–143.
  • Gunther Leupolt : The history of the station of Neusalza-Spremberg . In: History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg, Volume 3. Ed .: Kultur- und Heimatfreunde e. V. Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 2007, pp. 95-103
  • Lutz Mohr : Neusalza-Spremberg. A journey through time (1242-2017) . Anniversary edition. Author and publishing service Frank Nürnberger ( Oberlausitzer Verlag ), Spitzkunnersdorf 2017, chapter: Departure into modern times - municipal institutions and companies , pp. 39–43, ISBN 978-3-9818434-0-8
  • Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volkswirthschaftliche Zeitung. […] (South Lusatian Railway.) The Fatherland, August 7, 1872 [1]
  2. ↑ Victor von Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System (1917) on www.zeno.org
  3. ↑ R. G. Bl. No. 61/1871