Jesteburg brick factory

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Jesteburg brick factory
Remains of the bucket chain excavator
Remains of the bucket chain excavator
Route of the Jesteburger Ziegeleibahn
Route
Route length: 3 km
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )

The Jesteburger Ziegeleibahn was a 3 km long field railway with a gauge of 600 mm, which was operated near Jesteburg around 1925 .

history

In 1899 the Harburg building contractor Heinrich Körner founded a brick factory in the area of ​​today's Seevetal settlement. This company quickly developed into the largest employer in Jesteburg with 42 employees in 1925. The tiles, roof tiles and drainage pipes were delivered throughout the Jesteburg area to Hamburg , where they were used, among other things, for the construction of the Chilehaus .

The brick factory was temporarily shut down in 1940 and the chimney was blown up for the first time. In the post-war period it was put back into operation and a 51 m high chimney was built in 1950. The brick factory finally ceased operations in 1957 and was abandoned in 1959/60.

Route

The Lorenweg ran from the clay pit, in which today (2019) the remains of rails and parts of a bucket chain excavator are still lying, along the Cameroon Bach (also known as Brettbach) with a slight gradient on a route to the left of the Tanneneck-Weg. It crossed the country road to Asendorf, led over the grounds of the Parkhotel to today's youth center, ran below the embankment of the sports fields on the path Am Alten Moor , turned left at a right angle from this, led in a straight line about 300 m over Marxener Weg , over today's pedestrian bridge (the so-called "Lorenbrücke"), on which there is still a tipping lore from 1923, to the brickworks on Ziegeleiweg near the Hamburg – Bremen railway line .

Locomotives

Horses and probably the following locomotives were used on the railway line:

  • Krauss , works no. 3364/1896, type XIV dd, Bn2t, 600 mm, delivered new to GT Körner, Hamburg (probably for Jesteburg)
  • O&K , works no. 368/1899, type 20 PS, Bt, 600 mm, delivered new to Körner, Harburg (probably for Jesteburg)
  • Deutz , works no. 1650/1914, Type C XIV F, B, 600 mm, November 17, 1914 delivered to Jesteburger Tonwerke, H. Körner, Jesteburg, confiscated for the Heeresfeldbahn on March 27, 1915
  • Krupp , B-dm, 600 mm, delivered new in the 1930s to Jesteburger Tonwerke, sold around 1940
  • Jung , works no. 11350/1950, type EL 110, B-dm, 600 mm, delivered new to Jesterburger Tonwerk KG, formerly Heinrich Körner, Jesterburg / Kr. Harburg, later in Kalksandsteinwerk Molbath, Peek & Dankelmeier KG, Molbath in Uelzen used

Web links

Commons : Jesteburger Ziegeleibahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jesteburger Arbeitskreis für Heimatpflege e. V .: The brick factory in Jesteburg.
  2. ↑ Old brickworks bridge.
  3. ↑ Historical lorry - hiking highlight.

Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 36.2 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 49.1 ″  E