Kleinbahn Goldbeck – Werben (Elbe)
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 Edge of the platform in Möllendorf with a bike path on the old route
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The Goldbeck-Werben-Elbe Kleinbahn GmbH with a share capital of 1 million marks belonged one hundred percent to the manor owner Philipp Freise zu Iden in the Altmark; he was a sugar beet farmer and the main shareholder of the Goldbeck sugar factory in the Osterburg district . As a connection between the estate and the sugar factory, he had initially built a horse-drawn tram from April 1, 1886 and later had it extended to Giesenslage.
After the Prussian Small Railway Act came into force in 1892, Freise founded the GmbH and converted the horse-drawn railway into a standard-gauge small railway on October 1, 1898, which now also connected the small town of Werben on the Elbe with the main line from Wittenberge to Stendal . In 1906, an extension to the port was added in Werben, which only served freight traffic. The operational management of the 21 km long small railway was the responsibility of the Halle operations department of Lenz & Co GmbH until 1927 .
After the Second World War , the railway was subordinated to the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH in 1946. On April 1, 1949, it became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , which maintained traffic until September 25, 1971.
On the section from the northern outskirts of Goldbeck to Iden, a cycle path runs along the old route.
particularities
In Goldbeck station, the small train crossed the main line at the same level . As a safeguard, rare cover signals , referred to as "Sh 2b" in the Deutsche Reichsbahn signal book , were set up. They looked like an ordinary safety stop signal and, in contrast, were mobile. For unknown reasons, two different versions were used - one signal had a perforated signal disc.
Lore
The tradition of Goldbeck-Werben (Elbe) Kleinbahn GmbH is in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
Web links
- Altmarkschiene.de - Homepage of Wolfgang and Jörg List
- Railway stations in the Altmark - Homepage of Klaus-Dieter Tröger
- Tradition of Goldbeck-Werben (Elbe) Kleinbahn GmbH in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ^ Date of nationalization of almost all private railways in the GDR
- ↑ The model railroader issue 2/84
literature
- Wolfgang List: Steam over the Altmark Wische. Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-933254-84-9
- Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archive of German Small Railways and Private Railways: Saxony-Anhalt . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-613-71087-0 .