Kamieniec Ząbkowicki – Złoty Stok railway line

Kamieniec Ząbkowicki – Złoty Stok Kamenz (Schles) –Reichenstein
Course book range :	157g (1944) , 226 (1989)
Route length:	11.775 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Legend from Międzylesie and from Legnica Kamenz Klbf (Connecting track) 0.000 Kamieniec Ząbkowicki formerly Kamenz (Schles) (Involvement in Staatsbf since 1930) to Wrocław and Katowice 3.253 Byczeń formerly Baitzen Nysa Kłodzka 5.291 Sosnowa Śląska formerly Wolmsdorf 9,151 Płonica Śląska formerly Dörndorf 11.775 Złoty Stok formerly Reichenstein Swell:

The Kamieniec Ząbkowicki – Złoty Stok railway , formerly also Reichensteiner Bahn , was a branch line in Poland . It led in Lower Silesia from Kamieniec Ząbkowicki ( Kamenz in Silesia ) to Złoty Stok ( Reichenstein ).

history

While the state railway lines in the Frankenstein district were largely completed in the mid-1870s, some peripheral areas still remained far from the railway lines. This included the southern tip of the district with the town of Reichenstein, which lay at the foot of the Reichensteiner Mountains directly on the Austrian-Silesian border. The owners of an arsenic works in Reichenstein were particularly interested in a rail link . As such, a Kommerzienrat Güttler from Reichenstein is initially named, later the Güttler brothers from Hamburg .

Timetable valid from May 1, 1903

On November 3, 1900, the line was opened as a standard-gauge private small railway, the construction of which had cost a total of two million marks . The starting point was a separate train station on the south side of the state train station in Kamenz. A short connecting track was used to transfer freight wagons. In Reichenstein, the facilities of the arsenic works “Reicher Trost” and the gold removal facility were directly connected with a siding.

A continuation of the route to Austria via Weißwasser to Jauernig to connect to the Barzdorf – Jauernig local railway, which had existed since 1896, was planned. The First World War and its consequences prevented the project.

In contrast, the Kamenz – Reichenstein small railway opened a 32-kilometer bus route from Patschkau via the Czechoslovak Weißwasser in Silesia ( Bílá Voda ) to Reichenstein and on to Bad Landeck on July 31, 1929 .

Złoty Stok Railway Station (2008)

Dismantled line at Złoty Stok (2008)

In 1930 the line was integrated directly into the Kamenz (Schles) state train station. This means that from now on, passengers changing trains will no longer have to walk to the small train station. The short stretch from the small train station to the new branch to the state train station was given up, the small train station itself remained for operational purposes (until today).

From 1939 the small railway company operated as Reichensteiner Bahn . The timetable from the summer of 1939 recorded nine pairs of trains on weekdays and six on Sundays. Another for day trippers was added in the summer on Sundays from May 28th to August 27th.

After the Second World War , the railway area was now on Polish territory, and the small railway company effectively ceased to exist. The track and vehicles came to the Polish state railway PKP . The end point Reichenstein was initially called Polonized Rychłowice , it was not until 1947 that the place name Złoty Stok , which is still valid today, was introduced. The mining of gold and arsenic was stopped under Polish administration in 1961, which caused the volume of goods traffic to decline steadily.

After 1967 only three pairs of passenger trains ran daily. The permissible line speed on the worn tracks was last only 10 to 15 km / h. The trains took almost an hour in 1989, almost twice as much as in 1914. In June 1989, travel was discontinued in favor of an intercity bus route.

During the heavy flooding in July 1997 , the bridge over the Glatzer Neisse was torn away by the masses of water and the route was then shut down. The tracks are dismantled today.

Vehicle use

In 1939 there were two steam locomotives, one railcar, two passenger cars, one pack car, 18 freight cars and one omnibus.

The PKP used steam locomotives of the Ty2 and TKt48 series until the end of the 1980s . A switch to more modern types of traction no longer took place. So-called Donnerbüchsen of German origin were used in passenger trains until the end .

literature

• Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 ( East German Railway History 4).

Web links

Commons : Reichensteiner Bahn  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Kamieniec Ząbkowicki – Złoty Stok on bazakolejowa.pl
• Description (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Atlas linii polski kolejowych . 1st edition. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2011, ISBN 978-83-931006-4-4 .
2. ↑ Data on atlaskolejowy.net
3. ↑ measuring table sheet 3246 Reichenstein 1930
4. ↑ Summer timetable 1939
5. ↑ https://baitzen.weebly.com/eisenbahn-und-schloss.html