Eilenburg – Bitterfeld railway line

Eilenburg – Bitterfeld

		from Guben
		from Lutherstadt Wittenberg
		from Wurzen
	0.0	Eilenburg
		to Leipzig
		to Halle
		Eilenburg West
		Zschepplin
		Hohenprießnitz
		Whimsy
		Löbnitz
		from Leipzig
		from Halle
		Bitterfeld
		to Berlin
		to Magdeburg

The Eilenburg – Bitterfeld railway was a railway project at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Prussian province of Saxony , which was supposed to connect the two up-and-coming industrial cities of Eilenburg and Bitterfeld . However, the project did not get beyond the planning stage.

history

In 1896 the city of Eilenburg joined a meeting of interests formed in Löbnitz to build a railway line between Eilenburg and Bitterfeld. The manor owner Schirmer was elected chairman, and the mayor of Eilenburg Ludwig Sydow became his deputy. On September 29 of the same year, the Eilenburger Neuste Nachrichten reported that the preparatory work for the railway construction was beginning. In fact, this first meeting was purely declaratory.

It was not until July 1906 that the Eilenburg Council decided to set up a railway construction commission. In a decree issued by the Prussian Minister of Public Works , Paul von Breitenbach , on December 29, 1908, the residents' request was met to build a standard-gauge small railway that would run along the left bank of the Mulde from Eilenburg to Bitterfeld. In 1909 the governor of the Provincial Association of the Province of Saxony took over the project planning.

In 1913 the memorandum appeared on the current status of the project developed by the governor of the province of Saxony for a standard-gauge small railway Eilenburg – Bitterfeld and an industrial railway in Eilenburg, presented by the chairman of the Eilenburg – Bitterfeld railway construction committee, Mayor Dr. Belian, Eilenburg . In the meantime, Eilenburg's mayor at that time, Alfred Belian, chaired the planning commission and expanded the project to include an industrial railway for his city. The text was supplemented by a yield calculation for the imaginary railway and a more detailed explanation of the industrial railway project.

The project suffered a setback due to the First World War. Then in 1919 the construction of the line from Eilenburg to Wurzen began . In 1925 another meeting took place in Eilenburg, at which representatives of the governor from Merseburg, the district committees Delitzsch and Bitterfeld and the Eilenburg magistrate were present. The governor's representative agreed to rework the project.

The economic development at the end of the 1920s brought the work of the planning commission to a standstill again. A last meeting of interests in 1930 expressed the sympathy again, but stated that the necessary financial resources could not be raised. In the meantime, the era of small railroad construction in Germany had come to an end and the priorities had changed significantly under National Socialist rule and after the end of the war. A realization of the project therefore no longer had any real chances.

The exact course of the planned route is not known at the moment. What is certain is that it should run to the left of the Mulde, where the communities of Hohenprießnitz and Löbnitz campaigned for a railway connection. The city of Eilenburg planned another stop in the west, which would have been the fourth traffic stop in the city. Planned stops in Zschepplin and Wellaune / Bad Düben West as well as in other locations can also be assumed. It is not known how the line should thread into the Bitterfeld station .

source

Chronicle of the city of Eilenburg 800 to 1923. Eilenburger Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co, Eilenburg 1991.

Individual evidence

^ Otto Künnemann: Eilenburg railway junction. in: Yearbook for Eilenburg and the surrounding area 2005. Heide-Druck publishing house, Bad Düben 2005.

[1] Otto Künnemann: Eilenburg railway junction. in: Yearbook for Eilenburg and the surrounding area 2005. Heide-Druck publishing house, Bad Düben 2005.