Saarbrücken Railway Directorate

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The Saarbrücken Railway Directorate was a railway directorate of the Prussian State Railways and for the Saar area .

Prussia

The Saarbrücken Railway Directorate was one of 10 newly founded railway directorates that were reorganized in 1895 as part of a reorganization of the Prussian state railway .

Division 1920

After Germany lost the First World War , its territory to the left of the Rhine was under Allied occupation. In 1920 the Saar area became a mandate area of ​​the League of Nations . The boundaries of the responsible railway directorate had to be adjusted accordingly. This was done initially through a division of the Prussian Railway Directorate Saarbrücken on March 10, 1920 into a Railway Directorate Saarbrücken 1 and a Railway Directorate Saarbrücken 2 .

The Saarbrücken Railway Directorate 1 was responsible for the routes that lay within the boundaries of the Saar area. It was mainly about 305.5 km Prussian and 80.5 km Palatinate-Bavarian routes. The Palatinate-Bavarian routes had previously belonged to the Ludwigshafen Railway Directorate . August 31, 1920, was Eisenbahndirektion Saarbrücken 1 in Directorate of the Saar railways renamed.

The Saarbrücken Railway Directorate 2 was responsible for routes that were outside the Saar area. On April 1, 1920, their office was relocated to Trier and their name was changed to the Saarbrücken Railway Directorate in Trier . It was later renamed the St. Johann / Saarbrücken Railway Directorate.

Management of the Saar Railways

The Directorate of the Saar railways possessed in their independence over 359 locomotives , 780 passenger and 20,000 freight cars . All vehicles were marked with the lettering "SAAR". The redrawing of the vehicles was completed in late summer 1921. At the same time, the management resigned from the German State Car Association. On January 1, 1921, the mathematical separation of traffic between the former Prussian and Palatinate-Bavarian parts of the company was also abolished.

In 1921 the management of the Saareisenbahnen was renamed the railway management of the Saar area . On May 1, 1921, the accounting system was converted to francs . From 1935 the Saar area belonged again to the German Empire. With effect from March 1, 1935, the Trier Reichsbahndirektion was relocated to Saarbrücken and the lines in Saarland were added.

After the Second World War , the Saarland railways were established .

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Kurt Harrer: Railways on the Saar. Alba, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-87094-210-X
  • Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007466-0
  • Helmut Schmidt: German railway directorates. Basics I = Development of the directorates 1835–1945 . Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-933254-85-6
  • Hansjürgen Wenzel, Gerhard Groß: Railways in Saarland = Eisenbahnkurier Special 86. EK Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klee, p. 179.
  2. ↑ Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from April 6, 1920, No. 22. Announcement No. 289, p. 145.
  3. ↑ Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of September 4, 1920, No. 54. Announcement No. 870, pp. 481-485.
  4. ↑ Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from April 6, 1920, No. 22. Announcement No. 289, p. 145.
  5. ^ Schmidt: German Railway Directorates , p. 66.
  6. ↑ Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 20, 1921, No. 50. Announcement No. 938, p. 545.
  7. ↑ Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of September 4, 1920, No. 54. Announcement No. 870, pp. 481-485.
  8. ↑ Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz from January 1, 1921, No. 1. Announcement No. 23, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of April 2, 1921, No. 17. Announcement No. 282, p. 206.
  10. ↑ Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of June 18, 1921, No. 35. Announcement No. 723, p. 394.
  11. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of March 9, 1935, No. 11. Announcement No. 114, p. 45.