Bockwaer Railway Company
The AG Bockwaer Eisenbahngesellschaft was a railway company in Saxony . She was the owner of a coal railway near Bockwa in the Zwickau coal field . In 1909 the company was dissolved.
history
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The Zwickau – Bockwa State Coal Railway had existed on the left bank of the Zwickau Mulde as early as 1854, and in 1859 it merged with the Zwickau – Schwarzenberg line . For the shafts on the right bank of the Mulde near Bockwa, however, the removal of the coal that had been extracted remained cumbersome, so the construction of a private coal railroad was considered. On 22 December 1859, the constituted corporation Bockwaer railway company of the trough of the state railway with the aim of a coal train from the pits right after the station Cainsdorf to build.
The line was opened on September 4, 1861. The company carried out the operation itself with state railroad cars. In the following years, the Bockwaer Eisenbahngesellschaft developed into the most profitable coal railway company in the Zwickau hard coal area. In the course of the operating time, there were a total of 60 sidings to the coal pits of the railway area.
At the turn of the century, most of the shafts gradually closed and profitable operation was no longer possible. In 1903 only the hard coal works Carl G. Falk and Altgemeinde Bockwa were still in operation. In 1908, the Altgemeinde coal works finally submitted an offer to the coal railway shareholders to purchase their shares for 500 marks each. The supervisory board agreed to this offer and the Bockwaer Eisenbahngesellschaft dissolved. The property was transferred to the Altgemeinde coal works on September 1, 1909.
The remaining track systems were henceforth operated as a connecting railway. In 1991 the line was finally closed. The tracks were dismantled in 2004.
Locomotives
At the opening of operations in 1861 Hartmann in Chemnitz acquired two tank locomotives with the names BOCKWA and MULDENTHAL of the type 1B n2t . Both locomotives remained in service until the company was dissolved.
The MULDENTHAL remained in operation at the Zwickauer Kohlenbahnen as a works locomotive until 1952 and was then secured for museum preservation. At the time, with 91 years of service, it was the oldest operational locomotive in Germany. It has been part of the Dresden Transport Museum since 1956 .
Another locomotive , called ROSS , was built by Hartmann in 1848 for the Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company . It was converted into a tank locomotive in 1861 and sold to the Bockwaer Eisenbahngesellschaft in 1864. In 1888 it was scrapped due to an accident.
See also
- Oberhohndorf-Reinsdorfer coal railway
- Brückenbergschachtbahn
- Bürgererschachtbahn
- from Arnimsche Kohlenbahn
literature
- Norbert Peschke : The Zwickau hard coal mining and its coal railways . Zschiesche GmbH, Wilkau-Haßlau 2007, ISBN 3-9808512-9-X .
- Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways . transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
Web links
- The Bockwa freight yard on www.sachsenschiene.net
- Locomotive Muldenthal 1962 in front of the Dresden Transport Museum on the Joachim Schmidt Railway Foundation
