Kleinbahn Wolmirstedt – Colbitz
| Kleinbahn Wolmirstedt – Colbitz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 8.05 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kleinbahn-AG Wolmirstedt – Colbitz opened on September 9, 1910 a nearly nine kilometer long standard gauge railway line , which branched off from the Magdeburg – Wittenberge railway line in Wolmirstedt and led north to Colbitz in the south of the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide . The AG had acquired a forest railway from the railway construction company Becker & Co in Berlin , which transported wood on the same route from late 1902 / early 1903 to the summer of 1908.
When it was founded on November 23, 1909, capital shares had taken over:
- the Kingdom of Prussia and the Province of Saxony
- the Prussian domain and forest treasury
- District and city of Wolmirstedt and the communities of Colbitz and Dolle
- Individuals and companies
In 1928 the management moved its headquarters from Wolmirstedt to Colbitz.
Mainly agricultural products, wood, fertilizers and coal were transported in freight transport. In 1913, 26,881 t of goods and 51,074 people were transported.
From January 15, 1943, the company was called "Eisenbahn-AG Wolmirstedt-Colbitz". The modest vehicle fleet in 1911 included two two-axle steam locomotives from the Henschel locomotive factory , five passenger cars, one packing car and ten freight cars, in 1939 one steam locomotive, a two-axle motor car from Gottfried Lindner AG , four passenger cars, one packing car and six freight cars.
The small railway department of the Provincial Association of Saxony in Merseburg ran the business until 1945/46 , after the turn of the year 1946/1947 the Saxon Provincial Railways GmbH and from April 1, 1949 the Deutsche Reichsbahn . This stopped passenger traffic on January 31, 1961 and all traffic on December 31, 1965 and dismantled the tracks. All that remains is a siding of the Wolmirstedt substation , the area of which was previously crossed by the small railway.
Lore
The records of Kleinbahn AG Wolmirstedt - Colbitz are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
literature
- Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archive of German Small Railways and Private Railways. Saxony-Anhalt. (Routes, vehicles, operations) . transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71087-0 .