Deggendorf-Plattlinger Eisenbahn AG
The Deggendorf-Plattlinger Eisenbahn AG was founded in 1865 with a share capital of 300,000 guilders. The capital was divided into 3,000 shares for the holder of 100 guilders.
Railway line and operation
On February 18, 1865, the company received the royal concession to build a locomotive-operated standard-gauge railway for passenger and freight traffic between the eastern railway station in Plattling and Fischerdorf on the right bank of the Danube opposite Deggendorf . The horse-drawn tram, which was planned at the beginning, was not used, but had to accept the end of the line on the right bank, as the Danube bridge built in 1859 was too weak for locomotive operation.
The railway line was Bavaria's first secondary railway and was soon popularly known as the “Krautbahn”. From the first station of the AG der Bayerischen Ostbahnen in Plattling, opened in 1860, it led 8.5 km without major engineering structures to Fischerdorf, was extended by 525 m on a dam in 1869 to the new Danube site opposite Deggendorf and, after the renovation of the station facilities in Plattling, had a length of 8,695 m. It was opened on March 8, 1866; however, operations had already started on March 1st. In 1867, four pairs of trains ran daily between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. in trains with mixed goods and passengers. An intermediate stop was possible in Schiltorn.
Although the railway was able to pay a dividend of 6% in the first few years , operations were left to the Bavarian Eastern Railway on August 10, 1867. With a contract dated September 6, 1872, the Deggendorf – Plattlinger Railway was completely owned by the AG der Bayerische Ostbahnen for a purchase price of 273,000 guilders.
vehicles
In terms of vehicles, the company owned two locomotives, four passenger cars, a mail car and a few freight cars. The light locomotives were B-coupled inner frame machines made by Joseph Anton von Maffei , Munich, with an axle base of only 1.835 m. They were named "Deggendorf" (Maffei 1866/575) and "Bayerischer Wald" (Maffei 1866/576) and required 24 minutes for the route. The machines were given the numbers D 13 and D 14 on the Ostbahn . The Bavarian State Railroad assigned them to locomotive group D II No. 1176 and 1177. They were retired in December and October 1895. Before that, the "Deggendorf" had pulled the shuttle trains between Geiselhöring and Sünching on the Regensburg – Passau railway line , while the Bayerwald had ended up on the Miltenberg – Amorbach line .
Shutdown
During the construction of the Bavarian Forest Railway from Plattling via Deggendorf, Zwiesel to Bayerisch Eisenstein from 1873, the route of the Deggendorf – Plattlinger Railway could not be used, because the new railway line had to be built at the beginning of the Bavarian Forest northwest of the old route due to the steep gradients , and Deggendorf one higher station required. In addition, the Ostbahn moved the station in Plattling a few hundred meters to the west. Therefore, the Deggendorf – Plattlinger Eisenbahn ceased its traffic on September 16, 1877 with the opening of the forest railway by the Bavarian State Railway , which had already taken over the Eastern Railway on May 15, 1875 and was immediately dismantled. Today the Alter Bahnhof street in the Fischerdorf district of Deggendorf is reminiscent of the former “Krautbahn”.
literature
- Walther Zeitler : Railways in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. 2nd Edition. Amberg 1997.
- Wolfgang Klee, Ludwig v. Welser: Bayern Report. Volumes 1–5, Fürstenfeldbruck 1993–1995.
- Siegfried Bufe: Railway station for the Bavarian Forest. In: Railway history. No. 49, ISSN 1611-6283 , pp. 4-15.