Hanover-Altenbekener Railway Company

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The Hanover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HAE) belonged to the enterprise of the "railway king" Bethel Henry Strousberg . After the first construction phase (until 1872), your route network consisted of the two routes Hannover – Altenbeken and Weetzen - Haste ( Deisterbahn ). In addition, there was the branch line Linden Küchengarten - Linden-Fischerhof for freight traffic. In a second construction phase up to 1875 the line Löhne - Hameln - Hildesheim - Vienenburg was built (today on the section to Hildesheim: Weserbahn , east of the Hildesheim - Goslar line ). The network thus extended from the Weser Uplands to the Harz Mountains .

history

Former hall of the HAE in Hanover, Große Düwelstraße 12 (photo taken around 1900 shortly before the renovation for C. Louis Weber )
Site of the former Hanover local train station, later the southern train station; In 2013 the area was largely fallow; few remains of track can still be seen.
former HAE railway bridge over the Ihme in the Ricklinger Masch

This route network was already being planned during the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , but the projects could only be carried out after its end. The main purpose of the railway construction was the connection of Hameln to the railway as well as the better transport of the Deister coal. The driving force behind Strousberg, however, was the idea of ​​connecting its route network in the east ( Silesian industrial area , East Prussia ) with the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . With the route to Altenbeken , he tried to get a connection to the route network of the Royal Westphalian Railway Company .

The concession for the routes in the first construction phase was granted on November 25, 1868. The construction of the line began in 1869 and was interrupted in 1870 due to the labor shortage due to the Franco-German War . For this reason, the concession was extended by one year. The first section Hanover – Hameln was opened on April 13, 1872, followed by the Weetzen – Barsinghausen section on May 1, 1872 and Barsinghausen – Haste on August 15, 1872. The entire route to Altenbeken was completed on December 19, 1872. The starting point for the routes was the Hanover local train station , later the Südbahnhof , near Bismarckstrasse. This was connected to the Lehrte –Braunschweig line via a connecting railway to today's horse tower .

In 1873 the civil engineer Rudolph Berg became the technical director of the Hanover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.

The track wages -Hildesheim-Vienenburg was because of the financial decline of Strousberg-Kozerns already in cooperation with the Magdeburg-Halberstadt Railway built (MHE), which had now taken over the management of HAE. It was opened in May / June 1875. The Grauhof –Vienenburg section was operated jointly.

In connection with the HAE, Strousberg planned further routes, but these were abandoned after his financial ruin or only later carried out by the Prussian state, such as the Hildesheim – Braunschweig railway .

The HAE was bought in the course of the nationalization of the MHE, although the Prussian state had no particular interest in the railway. On February 1, 1880, the HAE passed into the administration and operation of the Prussian State Railways and on April 1, 1881 into their possession.

literature

  • Erhard Born: One Hundred Years of Hanover-Altenbeken Railway 1872–1972. Rösler and Zimmer, Augsburg 1972.
  • Michael Krienert, Klaus Feesche: Railway. Progress comes on rails. In: Thomas Backhauß, Klaus Feesche: Program reading book. Iron, steam and velvet. (Ed. by the Geschichtswerkstatt Hannover eV with the support of the state capital Hannover) Hannover 1991, pp. 31–39; here: p. 35 ff.
  • Eberhard Landes, Horst Moch, HW Rogl: It began in 1843. Railways in Hanover. A chronicle. Self-published, Hanover 1991, ISBN 3980279405 .
  • Alfred B. Gottwald: Hanover and its railways. Alba, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-87094-345-9 , pp. 22-25 ( Die Hannover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn 1872-1880. ).
  • Wolfgang Klee: Railways in Westphalia. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-05260-1 .
  • Sabine Meschkat-Peters: Railways and Railway Industry in Hanover 1835–1914. (= Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 119.) Hahn, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-7752-5818-3 , pp. 127–175 ( The private railway Hannover-Altenbeken (HAE). )
  • Michael Bahls: The Hanover-Altenbeken Railway. Kenning, Nordhorn 2006, ISBN 3-927587-77-X .
  • Thorsten Hamacher: In the footsteps of the Hanover-Altenbeken Railway. In Dieter Tasch , Horst-Dieter Görg (Hrsg.): It began in Hanover ... biscuits - commissary bread - calculating machines. About personalities, traditional companies and milestones in the history of technology. Leuenhagen & Paris, Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-923976-84-3 , pp. 82-85.

Web links

Commons : Hannover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Knocke : Berg, Theodor F. Rudolph. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 51, etc. ( limited preview for Google Books)