Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft

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The Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft operated a railway network in northern Hesse that was created in several sections .

society

founding

The stock corporation was mainly supported by the banking houses Gebrüder Bethmann , Frankfurt am Main , and Bernus du Fay , Hanau , and founded in 1844 with the aim of realizing several railway lines in the northern Electorate of Hesse .

The states of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , Prussia and Kurhessen had been negotiating an east-west railway connection between Westphalia and Halle an der Saale since 1840 . Between Gerstungen in the east and Haueda on the border with Westphalia, this route should lead via Bebra and the then state capital Kassel through the Hessian region. Negotiations came to an end in autumn 1841.

In 1844, the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft received the concession to build the line on the territory of the Electorate of Hesse. It was initially determined that the company had to build a horse-drawn tram branching off the main line to Karlshafen . This route was later called the Carlsbahn . In 1846 it was decided to branch off the line 32 kilometers north of Kassel in Hümme and to use locomotives instead of horses as a means of traction . Construction began on July 1, 1845. The Carlsbahn , particularly overestimated by the state because of the connection to the Weser port in Bad Karlshafen, but also completely overestimated, was - together with the section of the main line leading to the south - to Grebenstein on March 30, 1848 as First line of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft opened. But it was not until November 8, 1848 that the Kassel - Karlshafen route was open to traffic.

Surname

The Friedrich-Wilhelms-North Railroad Company was after the regent and later Elector of Hesse Frederick William I named. In 1853 she added the sovereign title of Elector Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft to her name . After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia as a result of the German-Austrian War in 1866, it was renamed again, now in the Hessische Nordbahn-Gesellschaft :

The End

From April 1, 1867, the Prussian state took over its administration, for which a separate railway directorate was established in Kassel . In 1868 the northern railway became the property of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which from 1873 also took over the administration of the northern railway lines. This meant the quick end of the Kassel Railway Directorate. On 1 January 1882 finally took place the nationalization of the Bergisch railway company.

network

stretch

Whereabouts

The part of the network of the former Kurfürst-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft, which is still in operation today, is distributed over three Deutsche Bahn AG routes :

  • Route 2550 Aachen - Warburg - Kassel
  • Route 3900 Kassel - Guntershausen - Frankfurt (Main-Weser-Bahn)
  • Route 6340 Halle - Gerstungen - Guntershausen (Thuringian Railway)

Today, the sections of the route belong to the so-called Central-Germany-Connection and are continuously used by IC trains and , in sections, ICE trains.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the data for the commissioning of the individual sections, cf. Tölle, p. 105f.