Kleinbahn Guttentag – Vosswalde
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| Course book range : | 148e (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 10.94 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kleinbahn AG Guttentag-Voßwalde closed the Upper Silesian district town Guttentag on to the rail network.
history
The small Upper Silesian town of Guttentag, which belonged to the Lublinitz district before the First World War , had no connection to the railway network until 1913. On April 23, 1913, the Prussian state, the district of Lublinitz, the city of Guttentag as well as the Saxon King Friedrich August and a chief forester from Oels founded the Kleinbahn AG Guttentag – Vossowska , based in Guttentag. On December 2, 1913, it opened a standard-gauge line from Guttentag to the Vossowska railway junction in the Groß Strehlitz district, eleven kilometers away . The company Lenz & Co.
When in 1920 most of the Lublinitz district including the district town fell to Poland, the administration for the rest of the district was transferred to Guttentag, who had also had this name since 1927. After the renaming of the place Vossowska in Vosswalde, the company of the Kleinbahn was from March 16, 1937 Kleinbahn AG Guttentag-Vosswalde. As a result of the occupation of Poland by German troops, the previous Lublinitz district was restored at the end of 1939 and renamed the Loben district; the administration moved from Guttentag back to Lublinitz (Loben) in 1941.
In 1945 the Polish State Railways (PKP) took over the line and continued to operate it. Passenger traffic ceased on October 1, 1991, freight traffic in June 1992.
The timetable for 1914 contained five pairs of passenger trains a day; in the later period up to 1944/45 there were only four. In 1939, two steam locomotives, three passenger cars, one packing car and seven freight cars were available for this purpose.
The two locomotives arrived in 1945 on an escape train to Luckau on the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn , they were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and given the numbers 98 6008 and 89 6005.
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 ( East German Railway History 4).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Petzold: Small Railway Anniversaries . In: Die Museums-Eisenbahn 1/2013, p. 29