Celle – Wittingen small railway

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The Kleinbahn Celle-Wittingen AG on 21 June 1902 by the Prussian State , the city of Celle founded and 33 municipalities. On August 15, 1904, it opened the 51 km long, standard-gauge line Celle Stadt (North) - Beedenbostel - Hankensbüttel - Wittingen West ( Celle – Wittingen railway ). This route is also called the Lachtalbahn , as it partially runs along the Lachte . The travel time for the Celle – Wittingen route in 1906 was around two hours and 20 minutes. In 1908, Wittingen West station was relocated to the east side of the state station to enable a joint station with the Wittingen – Oebisfelde Kleinbahn , which opened in 1909, and the Bismark-Gardelegen-Wittingen railroad , later known as the Altmärkische Kleinbahn AG . The new route made it necessary to build dams and a bridge over the state railway.

From Beedenbostel resulted from 22 July 1912, the salt track , a 7 km-long branch line, go north on Mariaglück after Habighorst were where emerged in both places potash and salt mines. Already after 1924, Mariaglück became the end of the trains.

The Kleinbahn Celle-Wittingen already had joint operations management with the Kleinbahn Celle-Garßen-Bergen before 1914 . From 1910 this company was called Kleinbahn Celle-Soltau, Celle-Munster GmbH . On November 8, 1940, the Celle-Wittingen small railway became a general traffic railway.

From February 23, 1940 it changed its name to Eisenbahn Celle-Wittingen AG . This took over on March 27, 1944 the Kleinbahn Celle-Soltau, Celle-Munster GmbH , with which it was already connected in the operating group of the Celler Kleinbahnen, and from then on it was called Celler Eisenbahnen AG .

On July 10, 1944, these and other railway companies were merged to form Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE).

literature

  • Klaus-Peter Sebastian (editor): The history of the small railways in Isenhagener Land; The OHE railway operations in the Gifhorn district . District of Gifhorn, Museum Association Gifhorn e. V. and Heimatverein Brome e. V., Gifhorn 2001, ISBN 3-929632-50-0
  • Hans Wolfgang Rogl: The East Hanoverian Railways . alba-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87094-232-0