Hildesheim-Peiner District Railway Company
| Hildesheim-Peiner District Railway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book section (DB) : | ex 204f | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 31.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Hildesheim-Peiner Kreis-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HPKE) was founded on September 23, 1895. On July 31, 1895, she received a Prussian concession for a railroad for general traffic. The main shareholder has always been the AG for Transport .
history
On November 30, 1896, the standard gauge line from Hildesheim via Hohenhameln , where the management was based, to Hämelerwald Ost was opened with a length of 31 kilometers for freight traffic. Passenger traffic was started on December 21, 1896, initially to Clauen , and on October 1, 1897 on the entire route. The list of German railways published in 1935, however, mentions November 14, 1896 for the beginning of goods traffic to Clauen; Only on April 18, 1897 was the total traffic to Hohenhameln, on June 29 to Equord and on October 1 to Hämelerwald added.
The operation was led by the United Railway Construction and Operating Company until March 31, 1902 , then the HPKE itself. On April 1, 1906, this task was taken over by the Allgemeine Deutsche Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft AG and its legal successor, most recently the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft .
The railway was supposed to open up the Hildesheimer Börde, which is predominantly agricultural. Especially the sugar beet transports - u. a. to the sugar factory (still in operation today) in Clauen - used the full capacity of the railway. Heavy limestone trains from Banteln to Ilseder Hütte also used the route for years until 1961 . When the lime works in Marienhagen ceased to exist , the steady decline in income began. This ultimately led to the liquidation of the company on December 31, 1964.
The passenger traffic was particularly noteworthy on the southern section, i.e. in the catchment area of the city of Hildesheim. In the north, the connection to the district town of Peine was not made because the necessary land could not be procured, so that one had to change trains at the insignificant Hämelerwald station on the Hanover – Braunschweig line. In the years after the Second World War there were a few trains that ran to Peine or Lehrte . Finally, on September 30, 1956, passenger traffic between Hohenhameln and Hämelerwald ended and on May 31, 1964 between Hildesheim and Hohenhameln. It gradually passed to the omnibus company founded on September 21, 1963, which traded as Kraftverkehr Hohenhameln .
Freight traffic was officially suspended from Bavenstedt on February 28, 1965. The city of Hildesheim acquired the remaining three-kilometer stretch as an industrial track. There were still a few freight trains running on the rest of the route. At the beginning of 1966, however, all the tracks there were dismantled. In the meantime, the city of Hildesheim has also largely dismantled the remnants it owned by removing the track systems, so that there are only a few tracks between Hildesheim and Bavenstedt.
literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, part 2: Lower Saxony . Zeunert, Gifhorn 1973, ISBN 3-921237-17-3
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 11: Lower Saxony 3 - South of the Mittelland Canal . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-670-4 .
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Hildesheim-Peiner Kreis-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
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