Kaumi-Hantschuang Railway
The Kaumi-Hantschuang Railway was a project for the construction of a railway line in the south of the Chinese province of Shantung to connect the area with the German colonial city of Tsingtau on the Pacific Ocean .
history
According to the concession of the Schantung Railway Company , founded in 1899, the company was able to build a railway from its main line, the Schantung Railway , to Itschoufu and the coal area there.
On December 23, 1913, the German Reich and China signed a contract that from 1914 provided for the construction of two railway lines by German companies and with German capital. One of the two new lines was to depart from the existing Shantung Railway from Kaumi, coming from Tsingtau, to the south and run via Itschoufu and the coal area there to Hantschuang. Hantschuang, in turn, was connected to Tientsin , the port city of Beijing , by a railway. This was intended to open up southern Schantung for the German port and industrial city of Tsingtau.
Hardly was in the area of the neutral zone that surrounded the German protected area Kiautschou and in which the German Reich had jurisdiction. The preparatory work for the railway construction was in progress when the First World War broke out.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 17. Leipzig 1909, p. 696
- ^ Editor FW Mohr: HANDBUCH for the Kiautschou Protected Area , printing and publishing company of the German-Chinese Printing and Publishing House, Tsingtau 1911
- ^ Franz Baltzer : The colonial railways with special consideration of Africa. GJ Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, Berlin and Leipzig 1916, pages 284–285
- ↑ CHRONIK 1913, Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1987, pages 202 and 206