Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway Company

The Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway Company , also spelled Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburger Railway Company or Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway for short , was a railway company in Prussia . Its main line was the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line , and in later years it operated a few other lines in the region. In 1880 it became the property of the Kingdom of Prussia and thus became part of the Prussian State Railways .

history

Shares of the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway were used to secure this Potsdam city bond for 100 Thaler from May 22, 1852 (see text on the bond)

In 1837 the Berlin-Potsdamer Railway Company was formed in Berlin with a share capital of 700,000 thalers. The trunk line from Berlin to Potsdam, built under their direction, went into operation on October 29, 1838. The Potsdam-Magdeburger-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, founded in 1843 with a share capital of 4 million talers, operated the extension of the line from Potsdam via Brandenburg an der Havel and Genthin to Magdeburg. With the commissioning of the line from Potsdam to Magdeburg on August 7, 1846, it took over the shares of the Berlin-Potsdam railway company. From then on, the company referred to itself as the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway Company . Its seat was initially Potsdam, in 1868 the company moved to Berlin.

In the early 1870s there were a number of changes in the company's route network. The old flood-prone route was relocated to the east between Burg and Biederitz . The track systems in Magdeburg were completely redesigned. The result was the current central station in Magdeburg, to the Company together with the Magdeburg-Halberstadt Railway and the Magdeburg-Kothen Halle-Leipzig Railway Company built. The western station building of the station, which no longer exists today, was reached by the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway. A new Elbe crossing was built between Biederitz and Magdeburg. The Potsdamer Bahnhof in Berlin was also expanded. On June 1, 1874, the company opened a new railway line from Biederitz to the Prussian-Anhalt state border with connections to Zerbst and Dessau .

On June 1, 1874, the company opened the Wannseebahn, which led from Zehlendorf via the newly built stations in Schlachtensee and Wannsee to Kohlhasenbrück (later called Neubabelsberg and now Griebnitzsee ), where it reached the mainline again. New train stations in Friedenau and Groß-Lichterfelde were also built on the main line .

However, the company's financial situation had developed negatively after 1870. In 1878 the Prussian state began negotiations to take over the company. A corresponding contract was signed on December 24, 1879 and confirmed by the law of February 14, 1880. On April 1, 1880, the company became state property for a purchase price of 40 million marks. The lines of the company were subordinated to the Magdeburg Railway Directorate.

Lore

Large parts of the records from the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway Company are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

Web links

• Tradition of the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway company in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department

literature

• Statute of the Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway Company, in: G esetz-Sammlung for the Royal Prussian States , September 22, 1845, no. 28
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: The Prussian Railways ( Die Eisenbahnen Deutschlands ; 2.2), Berlin 1844

• Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway , in: Victor von Röll , Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens , Volume 2. Berlin, Vienna 1912, pp. 235–236; Digitized .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway , in: Victor von Röll , Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens , Volume 2. Berlin, Vienna 1912, pp. 235–236; Digitized