Heudeber – Mattierzoll railway line
| Kleinbahn Heudeber – Mattierzoll Süd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 6871 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 676 (1970) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 250 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Heudeber – Mattierzoll railway was an approximately 21 km long, standard-gauge railway that connected the Halle – Vienenburg railway in Heudeber - Danstedt in what is now Saxony-Anhalt with the Mattierzoll station in the Wolfenbüttel district in what is now Lower Saxony .
history
The original operator was the Kleinbahn-AG Heudeber-Mattierzoll . The founders of the company included the Kingdom of Prussia , the province of Saxony , the district of Halberstadt and the railway construction company Lenz & Co. , which also ran the company until 1903. Thereafter, the Province of Saxony took over their share and from 1923 also the management.
Freight traffic began on August 1, 1898; passenger traffic followed exactly one month later. The operating center was the Hessen train station , which had belonged to the state of Braunschweig until 1941 . The division of Germany into zones of occupation after the end of World War II led to the interruption of traffic between Mattierzoll and Veltheim in the summer of 1945 . Furthermore, the small train should be dismantled as a reparation payment . This did not happen, however, because the districts affected intervened and the state of the superstructure was very poor.
Then the train came to the Saxon Provincial Railways . From this, in turn, all small and private railways managed by it were placed under the administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1949 . From this point in time, the Hessen railway station was the operational site of the Halberstadt depot .
In 1951 the previous small station in Heudeber was abandoned and the railway line at the Mulmke junction was connected directly to the Halle – Vienenburg railway line .
Passenger traffic between Veltheim and Hesse ceased on November 20, 1961, and the entire operation followed on December 7, 1969. Passenger traffic between Heudeber-Danstedt and Hessen ended on May 31, 1970. However, the line was not dismantled because it should be able to be reactivated in the event of a crisis due to its proximity to the border . The Heudeber-Danstedt- Zilly section was even renovated again and officially closed in 1995.
Lore
The tradition of Kleinbahn AG Heudeber - Mattierzoll is in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
literature
- Dirk Endisch, Uwe Oswald: Small and private railways in the northern Harz foreland , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Göppingen 2004, ISBN 3-936893-11-X