Höxtersche Kleinbahn

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Höxtersche Kleinbahn
Route length: 3.8 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 by Kreiensen ⊙
   
 Höxter ⊙
   
 to Altenbeken ⊙
   
 0.0 Small train station ⊙
   
 1.3 Paper mill / gas works ⊙
   
 2.0 Cement factory Schmidt ⊙
   
 3.8 Eichwald cement factory ⊙

The Höxtersche Kleinbahn was a small train in the East Westphalian district town of Höxter .

history

Soon after the Prussian Small Railway Act was passed, a small railway commission was formed in the Höxter district that planned to open up the district with a meter- gauge small railway. The route network should connect the railway lines touching the district area. The following route network was planned:

Although the financing was secured and there were offers for construction, it was not carried out.

Two cement factories west of Höxter then took the initiative themselves and planned to connect their factories. On July 1, 1898, the license was granted by the Minden regional council. The line was built in 1898 by the AG for Railway Construction and Operation (BBB) based in Frankfurt am Main as a standard gauge railway. It led from Höxter train station in the north around the town's buildings at that time and ended on Lütmarser Strasse at the Eichwald cement factory. A further development in the district area was taken into account in the planning. On April 27, 1899, the line was removed and operations began the following day. The construction costs amounted to 320,000 marks. Only goods traffic was carried out, although passenger traffic to serve the city from the station outside would have been possible. The Industriebahn AG in Frankfurt became the owner of the Höxterschen Kreisbahn on January 1, 1901 by buying shares. The management remained with the BBB. Freight traffic developed so well that additional sidings were built as early as 1901. The transport of cement from the cement factories to the port was important. In 1904 83,138 tons and four years later 73,442 tons were transported. There were dividends paid between 2% and 4.7%. The plans to continue building in the district, now in standard gauge, were taken up again and again, but it was not implemented. As a result of the economic crisis at the end of the 1920s, cement sales fell. One consequence was the concentration of the cement works, the plant in Höxter was closed in 1931. The most important customer was missing. Since there were also declines in the other connections, rail operations were discontinued at the end of 1932. In 1933 the operating license was revoked and the tracks were then dismantled.

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 11: Lower Saxony. Part 3: South of the Mittelland Canal. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-670-4 , pp. 82-86.

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