Kleinbahn Grünberg – Sprottau

Route length:

50.7 km

Top speed:

30 km / h

	0.0	Grünberg Hatzfeldstrasse (formerly Staatsbf)
		to the state railway
		Grünberg Fließweg / Grünstraße / Schützenplatz
		Löbtenzweiche
	3.3	Grünberg Upper Town
	7.0	Heinersdorf (Kr Grünberg) ( Jędrzychów )
	11.5	Ochelhermsdorf ( Ochla )
	16.0	Hartmannsdorf (Kr Freystadt) ( Jarogniewice )
	19.7	Seiffersdorf (Kr Freystadt) ( Radwanów )
	22.2	Brunzelwaldau ( Broniszów )
	26.3	Eichvorwerk
	27.9	Weichau ( Wichów )
	31.8	Hertwigswaldau village ( Chotków )
		Freystadt – Sagan railway line
	34.4	Herwigsdorf ( Stypułów )
	38.8	Rückersdorf (Kr Sprottau) ( Siecieborzyce )
	42.0	Wittgendorf (Kr Sprottau) ( Witków )
	47.3	Kortnitz ( Kartowice )

	50.7	Sprottau Kleinbahnhof

The Kleinbahn AG Grünberg Sprottau operating a 51-kilometer standard gauge railway line in Lower Silesia.

history

In the north of the former province of Silesia , the district towns of Grünberg and Sprottau , whose railway connections tended mainly in an east-west direction, were to be connected by a north-south route.

On May 31, 1910, a large group of shareholders founded the Kleinbahn AG Grünberg – Sprottau, based in Grünberg. The Kingdom of Prussia, the district of Grünberg i. Schles. and the railway construction company Lenz & Co GmbH, around a third of the capital went to the districts of Freystadt , Sagan and Sprottau , the cities of Grünberg and Sprottau, the municipality of Weichau and 46 companies and private individuals.

The company Lenz & Co. built the standard gauge railway line and took over the management; it crossed four districts and was opened on October 1, 1911.

There was a connection to the state railway at the endpoints Grünberg and Sprottau. In addition, the light railway crossing in Herwigsdorf the railway Frey City Sagan .

The traffic volume did not meet expectations. In 1913/1914 113,164 people and 64,886 t of goods were transported, with the main volume of goods traffic in the urban area of Grünberg with several sidings. While the entire route was served by three pairs of trains in 1914 and two pairs of trains in 1927, Sunday traffic ceased entirely in the 1930s; on weekdays only one pair of trains was left. In Grünberg, the trains began and ended at Grünberg-Oberstadt station ever since. Additional journeys were only made on sections of the route, such as two train pairs on Saturdays between Grünberg and Weichau in 1944. In 1938/39 only 10,239 people were transported, but still 46,928 t of goods.

Vehicles were available in 1939; three steam locomotives, four passenger cars, two pack wagons and forty freight cars.

In 1945, Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP) took over the route. Passenger traffic was not resumed. Freight traffic from Grünberg to Heinersdorf continued until 2003, the rest of the route had already been canceled in the 1950s.

literature

Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3