Hanau industrial railway
The Hanauer Industriebahn was a narrow-gauge railway that established the rail connection to the state railway for various industrial companies in downtown Hanau .
history
The line was built in 1919/1920 by the city of Hanau, which also owned it, in meter gauge. The construction costs amounted to 1.1 million marks. Main concern was a railway terminal for the gas plant of Stadtwerke Hanau obtain. This had previously been without its own railway siding , on the local train yard top Viennese been supplied and the road. Other industrial companies that were on the planned route received an offer from the city to use the railway. The industrial railway was largely destroyed along with the vehicles in the air raid on the city on March 19, 1945. Operations were no longer started after the war. The last tracks that were still on Freigerichtstrasse were torn out at the end of the 1960s.
route
The route went from the standard gauge siding company Dunlop , which was in turn connected to the state railway, to Dunlop Street and through this, the free court road and the Leipziger Strasse to the Convention therein municipal gasworks. The tracks were laid in the street like a tram, in the middle. On the way there were various branches that served sidings, for example for the companies Weiß and Weller (metal processing), CA Traxel (wood processing), G. Siebert , a cigar box factory . A connection to Hofbrauhaus AG , formerly G. Ph. Nicolay , is said to have at least been planned. The Barthmann company ( pickled preserves ) later also used the railway, but operated its shop without its own siding, by having the wagons intended for it placed on the through track in Leipziger Strasse in front of the company's gate.
business
The standard gauge wagons of the state railway were loaded onto trolleys at the siding of the Dunlop, where there was also a municipal storage area . These were pulled by a locomotive that ran on gasoline , a by-product of gas production. The coal wagons were moved individually onto a swiveling platform in the gas works and emptied backwards into a coal bunker. The emptied wagons were loaded with the coke obtained from gas production for the return journey .
literature
- Walter Bernges: The Hanauer Industrial Railway . In: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte 9, 2 (1988), pp. 144–148.
- Ulrike Heilmann: Energy and drinking water for quality of life. The development of the Hanau municipal utilities = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 36 (1998), p. 200f.