Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Railway Company
The Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CAAE) was a railway company in Saxony . Until 1876 she was the owner of the Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf railway line, opened in 1875, and the Zwotental – Klingenthal branch line in West Saxony. The seat of the company was in Dresden .
history
The Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft was founded in 1872 with the aim of leading a railway into the Saxon Ore Mountains , which according to earlier plans by the railway company Bethel Henry Strousberg should also compete with the Dresden - Chemnitz - Plauen - Hof state railway .
In July 1872, the company received the concession to build and operate a railway line, which should reach Adorf in the Vogtland from Chemnitz via Aue and Schöneck . The Saxon Railway Construction Company received the order to build the line. However, this ran into financial difficulties, so that the construction was finally carried out by the Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft from 1874 onwards. Despite the difficult topography of the route, construction was completed on November 15, 1875. The section Aue - Eibenstock - Schöneck / Vogtl running in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde . opened on September 7, 1875. In addition, the 8 km long branch line from Zwotental to the state border near Klingenthal was added on December 24, 1875 , where the connection to the Falkenau – Graslitz (border) of the Buschtěhrad Railway was established.
Since the revenues fell short of expectations in the first year of operation, the company sold its railway to the Saxon state on July 15, 1876.
literature
- Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
- Siegfried Bergelt: On the trail of the old West Saxony main line - the Chemnitz - Aue - Adorf railway line . Bildverlag Böttger, Witzschdorf 2004, ISBN 3-9808250-7-8 .