Hamburg-Bergedorfer Railway
The Hamburg-Bergedorfer Railway , opened in 1842, was one of the first railway lines in northern Germany .
It connected the Bergedorf station in Hamburg , which was near the Deichtor , with the (old) Bergedorf station on the Neuer Weg in Bergedorf .
The citizens of Hamburg saw the connection to the Baltic Sea port of Lübeck as the most important rail connection . However, this route would have led through Holstein territory, which was administered in personal union by the Danish king. Denmark took a stand in the concession negotiations, but could not raise any objections to the connection to Bergedorf, as it ran solely through Hamburg. The route was planned and measured by William Lindley in 1838 . As the route ran through the low-lying and often flooded marshland of the Hammerbrook , Lindley developed his plan for draining the site through a network of canals that still exist today. The managing director of the railway company was the businessman Emil Müller .
The opening of the railway was scheduled for May 7, 1842. Two days earlier, the " Great Fire " broke out in Hamburg , which largely destroyed the city center. The first trips actually took place before May 7th: They were used to transport fire extinguishers and fire fighters to Hamburg and to evacuate the homeless. There was no celebration.
An extension via Geesthacht and Lauenburg to Berlin was already considered when planning the route . For the Berlin-Hamburg Railway , which opened on December 15, 1846, a route further north via Büchen was chosen, where from 1851 there was a connection to the Lübeck-Büchener Railway . A new station was built in Bergedorf and the old Bergedorf station lost its function. The Bergedorf Süd station of the Bergedorf-Geesthacht Railway , which began operating in 1906 , was later built near it .
In Hamburg, the Bergedorf train station was expanded after 1846, and from then on it was called the Berlin train station . The operating company of the Hamburg-Bergedorfer Eisenbahn went into the Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft .
literature
- Harro Bruns: On the history of the Hamburg-Bergedorfer railway . In: Lichtwark-Heft No. 55. Ed. Lichtwark Committee, 1991. See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, ISSN 1862-3549 .
- Emil Müller: Use and purpose of the Hamburg-Bergedorfer-Eisenbahn , Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1840, digitized
Individual evidence
- ↑ Müller, Emil . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 262 – Lorenz Steinke .