Bitterfeld – Stumsdorf railway line

Bitterfeld – Stumsdorf
Route number (DB) :	6832
Course book section (DB) :	252 (2002)
Route length:	21.434 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Maximum slope :	10.3  ‰
Minimum radius :	150 m
Top speed:	20 km / h
Legend from Leipzig from Halle 0.0 Bitterfeld to Berlin to Dessau Infrastructure border DB Netz / RBB 2.4 Pit Antonie 2.7 Infrastructure border RBB / ZIG 5.4 Sandersdorf planned Initially Progroup paper mill 9.5 Heideloh Federal motorway 9 11.7 Großzöberitz 13.5 Established Verbio Ethanol Zörbig GmbH 14.2 Established Verbio Ethanol Zörbig GmbH 14.7 ZIG / ENON infrastructure boundary 15.5 Zörbig to Radegast ( Three-rail track ) 16.4 Anst Grain Trade, Agl. reduced 19.8 Infrastructure boundary ENON / DB Netz from Halle 20.5 Stumsdorf to Koethen

The Bitterfeld – Stumsdorf railway , also known as the Saftbahn , is a 20.5-kilometer branch line in Saxony-Anhalt .

history

The construction of a railway line between Bitterfeld via Zörbig and Stumsdorf was planned as early as 1882. In 1884 the Prussian state parliament approved the construction of this route. But it was not until a narrow-gauge railway between Köthen and Zörbig via Radegast was planned from 1894 onwards that the project was pursued further, and in 1896 the city of Zörbig promised a financial contribution. On October 1, 1897, the line was opened to traffic. In 1910, the line of the narrow-gauge Dessau-Radegast-Köthener Bahn (DRKE) to Radegast, which followed in Zörbig , was extended to three tracks in order to better connect the Radegast sugar factory. The route was well frequented by rush hour traffic to Bitterfeld and traffic to the lignite and chemical district. But agricultural products were also transported on it. It was popularly known as the “juice train” because of the sugar beet syrup that was transported on it.

Branch of the siding to the Verbio bioethanol plant in Zörbig

In passenger traffic in 1944 eight pairs of trains ran on weekdays over the entire route, plus trains over sections of the route. In 1990 there were twelve pairs of trains on weekdays on the whole route. With the decline of the Bitterfeld industry after 1990, traffic also fell rapidly. Freight traffic was stopped on December 31, 1995. The last passenger train ran on September 28, 2002. The route was advertised for takeover, but the takeover conditions were not acceptable to those interested. On August 1, 2004, the line between Grube Antonie and Stumsdorf was closed. With the commissioning of a bioethanol plant in Zörbig, however, the situation changed. The city of Zörbig founded the Zörbiger Infrastrukturgesellschaft mbH (ZIG). On January 1, 2005, it took over the line between Grube Antonie and Stumsdorf from DB Netz on lease for 20 years. On August 11th, the new company's first freight train ran between Zörbig and Bitterfeld. For cost reasons, the unused route between Zörbig and Stumsdorf was returned by ZIG to the owner DB Netz on January 1, 2017, who sold it to Putlitz- based ENON GmbH & Co. KG following a tender . The aim of the new owner is to prevent the tracks from being dismantled and deedicated.

For the commissioning of the Progroup paper mill in the Stakendorfer Busch industrial area, which is planned for August 2020 , the municipality of Sandersdorf-Brehna decided to connect the siding to the juice railway between Sandersdorf and Heideloh.

literature

• Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails - disused railway lines 2000–2005 . Transpress, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-71295-4 , p. 41 f.

Web links

Commons : Bitterfeld – Stumsdorf railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Private website for the Bitterfeld – Stumsdorf railway line

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rail network conditions of use of Zörbiger Infrastrukturgesellschaft mbH, special section (SNB-BT, valid from: 01.11.2014). (PDF) Zörbiger Infrastrukturgesellschaft mbH, February 20, 2014, accessed on July 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Dirk Endisch: Small and private railways in the lower Saale valley , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Korntal-Münchingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-936893-22-9 , p. 19
3. ^ The railway line Bitterfeld - Stumsdorf, news. Sebastian Herbsleb, July 2, 2017, accessed July 15, 2017 . 
4. ^ Saxony-Anhalt, brief reports . In: Bahn-Report . tape 35 , no. 208 , July 1, 2017, ISSN  0178-4528 , p. 46 .
5. ↑ Freight trains from Zörbig to Stumsdorf ?: Brandenburger company is new owner. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. August 8, 2017, accessed January 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Christine Färber: Siding for the Stakendorfer Busch Committee votes for the juice train variant. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. October 18, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .