Krensitz – Delitzsch railway line

Krensitz Süd – Delitzsch City

6915

Route length:

37.3 km

	from Halle (Saale)
0.0	Krensitz south 107 m
	to Eilenburg
2.1	Krostitz Nord earlier: Lehelitz
2.9	Krostitz Ost formerly: Fir
3.5	Krostitz
5.0	Krostitz Süd formerly: Pröttitz
6.1	Kletzen
6.8	Zschölkau Nord earlier: Hohenossig
7.9	Zschölkau
9.7	Rackwitz Süd formerly Güntheritz
	Connection to the Leipzig – Bitterfeld line
10.4	Rackwitz East	120 m
	Leipzig – Bitterfeld
13.4	Wolteritz used to be Lössen
17.4	Radefeld - Hayna
19.2	Freiroda (Kr Delitzsch)
23.2	Glesien
25.4	Kölsa (Kr Delitzsch)
28.0	Zwochau (Kr Delitzsch)
28.9	Zwochau Ost earlier: Grabschütz
31.2	Lissa (Kr Delitzsch)
	Halle (Saale) –Cottbus
34.7	Delitzsch West
	to Delitzsch Gbf
36.1	Delitzsch South
	from Leipzig
37.3	Delitzsch city
	to Bitterfeld

The Krensitz – Delitzsch railway was a branch line in what is now the Free State of Saxony , which was originally built and operated as a Delitzsch Kleinbahn . It ran from Krensitz via Rackwitz to Delitzsch .

The standard-gauge line, last 37 kilometers long, opened up numerous places in what was then the Prussian district of Delitzsch until 1947 , apart from the Dessau – Leipzig (Berliner Bahn) and Eilenburg – Halle (Sorauer Bahn) state railway lines that crossed in the district town . The railway leading from Krensitz to Delitzsch also crossed parts of the large lignite mining area between Delitzsch and Leipzig .

history

On May 2, 1902, passenger traffic from Crensitz (later Krensitz ) to Groß Crostitz (later Krostitz ) began; freight traffic followed on May 15. Emil Ferber had built the railway in 1902 and after an expansion on December 23, 1904 (entry in the commercial register on June 23, 1905) founded the "Kleinbahn Crensitz-Crostitz AG", which had already been liquidated on May 8, 1909. After a slight extension on February 1, 1905 to Crostitz Tanne and on June 18, 1906 to Crostitz-Hohenleina, further construction was suspended for a few years.

The "Neue Kleinbahn AG Crensitz-Crostitz" founded on August 29, 1911 with the participation of the Prussian state and the province of Saxony took over the line on September 1, 1911 from the "Kleinbahnen Bau- und Betriebsgesellschaft Emil Ferber & Co zu Halle". From January 28, 1914 it was called "Crostitzer Kleinbahn AG".

After the beginning of the First World War, the line was extended to Rackwitz near Leipzig on April 1, 1915, where another connection to the state railway was established. The small train station was named Rackwitz-Güntheritz. Since June 1, 1915, operations have been run by the small railway department of the Provincial Association of Saxony in Merseburg. Attempts were made to counteract the inadequate passenger and freight transport numbers up to the Second World War by using multiple units and thinning the timetable; From 1929 to 1939, only one pair of trains ran between Krensitz and Krostitz-Hohenleina every working day, while seven pairs of trains were used from there to Rackwitz-Güntheritz.

Share of RM 1000 in Delitzscher Kleinbahn-AG from February 25, 1929

The Crostitzer Kleinbahn was renamed on June 9, 1927 in "Delitzscher Kleinbahn AG". After that, Delitzsch West opened a new line in a south-westerly direction on November 1, 1928 - initially only for freight trains - to Zwochau . Passenger traffic only started here when the line was extended to Rackwitz-Güntheritz on August 3, 1929 and the line, which now forms a semicircle, was completed. The connection from Delitzsch West, where the center of operations was now, to Delitzsch Berliner Bahnhof was a railway-owned bus line; Since December 15, 1936, there was also a rail connection to Delitzsch Stadt, which extended the small railway network by 2.6 kilometers to a total of 37.3 kilometers and made the shuttle bus superfluous. From August 14, 1942, the small railway carried the name "Delitzscher Eisenbahn AG".

After the Second World War, 82 percent of the shares were in the hands of the Reich, the state, the province and the district. Nevertheless, the railway was placed under compulsory state administration in 1946 and the management of the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH from January 1, 1947 . From this in turn the small and private railways managed by it were handed over to the administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1949 . Passenger traffic ended between Delitzsch and Glesien on May 28, 1967, on the section to Rackwitz on May 30, 1970 and from there to Krensitz on May 26, 1972. Freight traffic continued until June 3, 1973, most recently between Rackwitz and Krensitz .

Today all tracks have been removed. Only a few embankments, e.g. B. in Rackwitz, still give an idea of the course of the small train.

Lore

The records relating to the Delitzscher Kleinbahn are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

literature

Hartmut Schöttge: The Delitzscher Kleinbahn. The history of the Crostitzer and Delitzscher Kleinbahn (1902–1972) . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1992, ISBN 3-927587-14-1 .
Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archive of German Small Railways and Private Railways. Saxony-Anhalt. (Routes, vehicles, operations) . transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71087-0 .

Web links

supporting documents

↑ Official announcements / opening of routes. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 69, No. 33 (August 15, 1929), pp. 878f.

[1] Official announcements / opening of routes. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 69, No. 33 (August 15, 1929), pp. 878f.