Light railways of the Nákó manors
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 Feldbahn in the model estate 'Eszter' near Nero
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The railways of Nako-farms were three narrow gauge - light railways in space Porgau - Tschanad - Keglewitschhausen - Nero ( Romanian Pordeanu - Cenad - Cheglevici - Nerău ) in Timiş County , in the region Banat , in south-western Romania .
history
In 1782 the brothers Christoph and Cyrill Nákó acquired extensive pastures and land in the area of what was then Szerb-Szentmiklós (German: Serbian-Sanktnikolaus, today Romanian Sânnicolau Mare ) from the Viennese court chamber as pastures and for the cultivation of crops such as sugar beet, hemp, tobacco, Cotton and medicinal herbs.
Keglewitscher Feldbahn
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A descendant of the Nákó brothers laid a Decauville railway from the Keglewitscher “Mayerhof” in Keglewitschhausen next to the paved road to the “Mayerhof” near Tschanad (Nagy-Csanádimajor).
The train was colloquially called Lóré or Lori, probably a transcription of the English word Lowry for Lore . A trip to the terminus was colloquially called “to the Zveti!” Or “to the Zvetko!” Because it led to the farm of the Serbian farmer Milivoi Zvetkov from Tschanad. His farm was at Gyulamajor, the later agricultural experimental station "Sămânţa" (German "seeds") near Tschanad.
The Decauville railway led to all essential facilities of the manor near Tschanad. The entire network was 30 km long. The tracks were very low-maintenance as they were graveled with sandstone. The Decauville railway connected the meadows and fields with the stable, the feed depot, the dairy and the hemp processing plant.
If necessary, there was also passenger transport on the field railway: visitors and in particular the students of the agricultural college in Herestrău could continue their journey on eight Decauville wagons, which were equipped with comfortable benches and a sun protection roof like a tram and were pulled by a mule.
The railway became the property of Prodaliment and later, in the 1960s, that of the agricultural household of the Cenad region. Until 1962 it was used to transport stones, while fodder was already being transported by road. It was then shut down and dismantled.
Eszter light railway
A second field railway was colloquially called Neroer "Eszter-Lori". It led from the model estate "Eszter" (Esztermajor or Nagy-Bertamajor) near Nero over the Nero– Großsanktnikolauser Landstrasse, circled the Romanian-inhabited district including the orthodox cemetery of Nero in the north, then ran west, curved around the German district and its cemetery south and ended at Nero train station.
Pordeanu light railway
Another route led from Pordeanu to the road to Chad . In the 1940s, hemp was transported to the hemp processing plant in Pordeanu on a dirt road along the light rail tracks.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hans Haas and Werner Kremm: The Decauvilles on the Nákó domains. Agricultural transports between and from the Meierhöfen in the Tschanad-Keglewitsch-Nero area. In: Banater Zeitung and Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania , April 1, 2020.
- ^ Production of cotton in the Banat. In: Janos Csaplovics and Anton Doll: Topographical-statistical archive of the Kingdom of Ungern, Volume 1. 1821. P. 357.
- ↑ a b c d Páll Margit: Trenulețul Lóré, între Pordeanu și drumul Cenadului. In: Cenăzeanul - Periodic de opinie şi informare socio-culturală. Volume XXI (2013), No. 1. pp. 5 and 11.
- ↑ a b Dușan Baiski: Cenad - Studii monografice - Ediția a II-a. 2015. pp. 294-295.
Coordinates: 45 ° 57 ′ 49 ″ N , 20 ° 33 ′ 14 ″ E