Mansfeld electric small train

Mansfeld electric small train
The small train in Eisleben
Route length:	31.845 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Top speed:	30 km / h
Legend 0.0 Helfta war memorial (end point) 1.2 Eisleben station (transition to the Halle-Kassel railway ) 3.3 0.0 Eisleben plan 2.045 Eisleben cemetery ? Eisleben broad way (switch) 6.3 Wimmelburg 7.7 Circle field 9.5 Hergisdorf 11.1 Ahlsdorf (switch) 12.0 Ahlsdorf Ziegelrode 13.1? Helbra municipal office ? Helbra monument (switch) 14.2 Helbra Bad Anna ? Benndorf Depot 15.7 Mansfeld Bahnhof (today Klostermansfeld Bhf.) 16.9 Klostermansfeld (switch) 20.1 Mansfeld city 21.8 Leimbach 22.2 Leimbach Ratskeller 24.1 Großörner (switch) 25.9 God's reward hut 27.0 Burgörner-Neudorf 28.6 Hettstedt market (end point)

The small electric railway in Mansfeld was an electrically operated 1000 mm small railway in the Mansfeld mining district , which belonged to the small electric railway in the Mansfeld mountain district AG . During the short operating time, the company Kramer & Co. in Berlin initially ran the business. From January 1, 1901, this task was taken over by Allgemeine Deutsche Kleinbahn AG and, from January 1, 1920, by the Saxony-Anhalt electricity company .

history

Catenary mast erected as a memorial in Eisleben Bahnhofstrasse

As early as 1896 there were first efforts to build a railway , on June 27, 1898 the electric small railway in the Mansfelder Bergrevier AG received the concession for a narrow-gauge electrified small railway from Hettstedt to Eisleben . After construction work began at the end of 1898 with a capital of 4.5 million marks , the small railway was gradually able to start passenger traffic between April 10 and October 7, 1900 (freight traffic was only approved in October 1906).

As a result of the First World War , the city route to the Eisleben cemetery was closed in August 1914, followed by the Eisleben Plan – Eisleben station section in June 1916. As the war progressed, traffic later had to be further restricted. In 1919 the second class was canceled without replacement.

On January 1, 1920, the Provincial Association of Saxony-Anhalt took over the small railroad and commissioned Elektrizitätswerk Sachsen-Anhalt AG (ESAG) with the management. This company now dissolved the unprofitable railway operations, in 1922 there were debts of approx. 4 million marks from the profitable power station and on December 2, 1922, the remaining main line was shut down. Initially, a Lauterwald omnibus line was set up as a replacement, and in 1929 Kraftverkehr Mansfeld GmbH took over the omnibus traffic along the small railway. Although there were again various attempts to reactivate the railway, ESAG u. a. In 1928 the concession was converted into an intercity tram , but no result could be achieved by July 1929, the latest date for resumption of operation, so the concession expired.

In Eisleben and Mansfeld, catenary masts and memorial plaques remind of the small train.

See also

• Mansfeld mine railway

literature

• Gerhard Bauer: Tram archive GDR: Erfurt / Gera - Halle (Saale) / Dessau area , transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-71281-4 .

Web links

Commons : Elektro Kleinbahn Mansfeld  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Electric small train Hettstedt-Helfta. Archived from the original on February 5, 2009 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 . 
• Electric small train in the Mansfeld mountain area. Archived from the original on January 8, 2013 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ track info Regional - Saxony-Anhalt. Archived from the original on July 6, 2009 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Small electric train in the Mansfeld mining district. In: lok-report.de. August 24, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 .