Guhrau circular path

Lissa – Guhrau – Krehlau
Route length:	59.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Poznan-Wroclaw 0.0 Lissa (Leszno) small train station 2.8 Zaborowo 7.6 Heinrichshof 8.57 State border 1920–1945 13.1 Heinzendorf-Kraschen 16.5 Little from Glogau 19.0 Schlabitz (small train station) 22.0 Guhrau (small train station) to Bojanowo 24.7 Alt-Guhrau 27.1 Neuguth 29.7 Great East 30.51 Bartsch 30.73 Flood bridge 33.4 Oderbeltsch (1939: Waldvorwerk) 35.2 Herrnlauersitz 38.1 Crazy singing 41.4 Luebchen 43.9 Köben (ferry across the Oder) 46.7 Neuheidau 49.7 Lower Gimmel 51.8 Neuvorwerk (freight traffic only) 53.4 Rayschen 54.9 Krischütz 58.7 Wischütz from Rawitsch 59.8 Krehlau LRE to Liegnitz

The Guhrauer Kreisbahn AG crossed the district of Guhrau in Silesia and established the connection to the neighboring districts of Lissa and Wohlau.

history

The Lower Silesian district town of Guhrau received a connection to the railway network from Bojanowo in the province of Posen in 1885 . This route was continued to Glogau in 1906 . However, there was no north-south connection to the Lissa and Liegnitz junctions .

On June 11, 1914, the Prussian State, the province of Posen, who founded circles Lissa , Guhrau and Steinau and the towns Guhrau, Steinau and Köben with a large number of other interested parties, including the railway construction company Lenz & Co. was one that Lissa- Guhrau – Steinauer Kleinbahn AG based in Guhrau. The name LiGuSte came up in the vernacular .

Due to the First World War, which began a short time later, the line could only be opened for freight traffic on September 15, 1916 and for passenger traffic on May 24, 1917. As on the subsequent Liegnitz-Rawitscher Railway (LRE), the company was run by Lenz & Co. the operating contract was extended in 1931 and existed until January 1945. The vehicles had already been delivered in 1915. In Guhrau there was a possibility of transition to the state railway.

When the province of Poznan fell to Poland after the First World War in 1920, the part of the line east of the border (about ten kilometers) was shut down; the last day of operation was January 17, 1920; the trains in the direction of Guhrau now began in Heinzendorf-Kraschen. In 1932/33 the tracks on the German side were demolished and used on other Lenz railways. Nothing changed during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The name of the company was changed to Guhrauer Kleinbahn AG on March 25, 1939.

The Guhrau – Krehlau route was initially served three times a day in the twenties, and from April 1, 1927 five times a day, three pairs of which were railcars, fewer on Sundays; of these, some trains continued on the LRE route to Steinau so that travelers could reach this junction for the main Glogau – Breslau line without changing trains. During the Second World War, only three to four trains were used a day. The service on the section from Guhrau to the border town of Heinzendorf-Kraschen was always considerably less, two pairs of trains drove here every day, and from April 15, 1927 an additional pair of railcars.

In 1928 the company had four steam locomotives, a diesel railcar, five passenger cars and two baggage cars; In 1939 there were three locomotives, two railcars, seven passenger cars, two packing cars and 32 freight cars. Four three-axle steam locomotives were purchased from Orenstein & Koppel in 1915 . The first two-axle railcar came in 1927 as a rental vehicle from AEG ; it was bought in 1928. A second four-axle railcar bought in 1930 was sold in the same year, and in 1931 a two-axle railcar was acquired from WUMAG .

On January 22, 1945, the city of Guhrau was evacuated. The last train on the circular railway left Hainichen-Kraschen on January 23 at 11 a.m. and reached Steinau before the Oder bridge was blown up. On April 14th, three locomotives arrived at the Luckau station of the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn. Two locomotives were still taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

The AEG railcar VT 1021 was used as the Cmot 348 on the Hungarian State Railways after the war . It drove there until 1959 and was scrapped in Budapest in 1964.

After the Second World War, the Guhrau – Krehlau section was slowly put back into operation. In July 1946 it was still out of service, in 1950 two pairs of trains were running. It was used for passenger traffic until 1960 and for freight traffic until 1964. The line was closed. The Guhrau – Heinzendorf-Kraschen section had already been closed in 1945.

route

The originally almost 60 kilometers long standard-gauge line began in the small train station of the district town of Lissa (Leszno), which was part of the Prussian province of Poznan at the time, and led south across the provincial border to Silesia to the district town of Guhrau, crossed the state railway line that it had already followed from Schlabitz, and turned to the Oder, which she ran along for a few kilometers; then it reached the Liegnitz – Rawitscher railway (LRE) in Krehlau, which led via Steinau to Liegnitz.

• 0.0 Lissa (Leszno) small train station
• 2.8 Zaborowo
• 7.6 Heinrichshof
• --- State border from 1920.
• 13.1 Heinzendorf-Kraschen
• 16.5 small
• 19.0 Schlabitz Kleinbahnhof
• 22.0 Guhrau Kleinbahnhof
• 24.7 Alt-Guhrau
• 27.1 Neuguth
• 29.7 Great East
• 33.4 Oderbeltsch (1939: Waldvorwerk)
• 35.2 Herrnlauersitz
• 38.1 Irrsingen
• 41.4 Lübchen
• 43.9 Köben (ferry across the Oder)
• 46.7 Neuheidau
• 49.7 Nieder Gimmel
• 51.8 Neuvorwerk (freight traffic only)
• 53.4 Rayschen
• 54.9 Krischütz
• 58.7 Wischütz
• 59.8 Krehlau LRE

literature

• Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia. (= East German railway history. 4). Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 .
• Ryszard Stankiewicz, Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. E4
• Jörg Petzold, Jochen Fink: The Lissa-Guhrau-Steinauer Kleinbahn. In: The Museum Railway. No. 1, 2016, pp. 18-25. ISSN  0936-4609

Web link

• Description of the route on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The museum railway. No. 3, 2016, 8.