Wasserleben – Börßum railway line
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 Wasserleben station
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| Route number (DB) : | 6870 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 327 Wasserleben – Osterwieck West 677 (1971, DR) |
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 250 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wasserleben – Börßum railway line was a branch line in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony , which was originally built by the private Osterwieck-Wasserlebener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (OWE) founded by Herrmann Bachstein . The line branched off the Halle – Vienenburg railway line in Wasserleben and headed east to Börßum , where it merged with the Braunschweig – Bad Harzburg railway line .
history
The main line of the OWE was the railway line opened on May 19, 1882 by the city of Osterwieck , which connected the city to the Wasserleben station five kilometers away on the Halle – Vienenburg railway line . The central administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein ran operations there from the beginning.
On the other hand, on May 6, 1905, the OWE acquired Hornburg's small railway, which opened on June 1, 1895 and connected this small town to the Börßum railway junction four kilometers away . The missing intermediate section in the Ilse valley - from Osterwieck via Hoppenstedt to Hornburg - was completed by the OWE on November 2nd, 1908. This completed a 21-kilometer cross-connection, which - with the exception of a two-kilometer section around Börßum - lay entirely in the Halberstadt district of the Prussian province of Saxony . This railway was very lucrative, especially in freight transport.
With effect from August 1, 1941, the town of Hornburg was assigned to the Wolfenbüttel district in the state of Braunschweig and therefore became part of the British zone after the Second World War, while the Halberstadt district came under the Soviet occupation zone. Here the railway was placed under Sequester of the Province of Saxony with a length of almost 15 kilometers in 1946 and handed over to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1949 . This ended on November 20, 1961 the passenger traffic between Bühne-Rimbeck and Hoppenstedt and from May 22, 1971 west of Osterwieck, from January 2, 1984 Osterwieck West was served again.
Passenger traffic took place between Heudeber-Danstedt and Osterwieck West until September 28, 2002. Most recently, eight pairs of trains drove each day. The timetable was free of intersections.
The goods traffic Osterwieck – Hoppenstedt ended on May 30, 1976 and on the remaining part on December 31, 1994.
The seven-kilometer-long western section was still operated by the Central Management for Secundairbahnen H. Bachstein, which from 1973 onwards combined it with a few bus routes in its Hornburg GmbH transport company . Two Henschel diesel locomotives were available for goods traffic, especially to the Hornburg sugar factory (closed in 1965). Two MAN rail buses were used for passenger transport. Rail traffic ended here on May 27, 1978; In the end it had only consisted of trips by railcars that were used during the day on behalf of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the Braunschweig / Salzgitter / Helmstedt area, but visited their home station Hornburg at night.
Since the end of passenger traffic between Heudeber-Danstedt and Osterwieck West, the entire line has been closed.
Lore
The records of the Osterwieck-Wasserleben Railway Company are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 11: Lower Saxony 3 . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-670-4 .
- Dirk Endisch, Uwe Oswald: Small and private railways in the northern Harz foreland , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Göppingen 2004, ISBN 3-936893-11-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 .