Gommern – Pretzien small railway

Gommern – Pretzien small railway
99 4301 in Gommern
Route length:	12 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Route map
Legend Gommern ( standard gauge ) Gommern reloading station Dannigkow turnoff Sand pits IG Dümling Sand pit Plötzky junction Chr. Ballerstedt / IG Dümling 600 mm track Pretzien depot Lintel bridge on the Old Elbe

The Kleinbahn Gommern – Pretzien was founded on March 15, 1886 by several quarry owners, the Gommern-Pretziener Kleinbahn EGmuH cooperative. It was only intended to transport stones from the quartzite quarries in the Gommern area to the Elbe port in Pretzien . As a result, the routes and the scope of the network changed frequently, which with all branches covered a maximum of twelve kilometers.

history

The Gommern-Pretziener Eisenbahn, as it was called, received approval in 1888 to operate a lorry railway with a gauge of 600 millimeters, which was moved by prisoners.

After the tracks had been re-gauged to 750 mm gauge, on December 5, 1890, steam operation was introduced on the line from the quarries near Gommern, Plötzky and Pretzien to the Old Elbe at the Pretziener weir. Since June 26, 1900, there was a 2.4 kilometer connection to the Gommern State Railway Station.

After the Pretzien power plant had taken over the railway, the company was called Kleinbahn und Kraftwerk Pretzien GmbH from May 14, 1908 . On October 12, 1911, this was granted the concession as a branch line-like small railway, but after that there was no public transport.

In 1914, the route from the Gommern state train station to the quarries and to the Old Elbe at the Pretziener Wehr with a branch to Galgenfeld, Neuland and Dannigkow had a total length of 5.8 km. According to the statistics for 1928 and 1939, the main line had shrunk to 4.2 kilometers, 0.9 kilometers of which was double-track. The business had declined sharply due to the economic crisis and could not recover until the end of the Second World War . After all, there were eight steam locomotives and 280 freight cars in 1939.

After an interruption due to the war, the railway started up again at the turn of the year 1945/46 and was placed under state administration in 1946. On October 1, 1947, it belonged to a company called Kleinbahn und Kraftwerk Dümling & Ballerstedt, which had been called Ballerstedt Transport KG Pretzien (Elbe) since 1949. It transported more and more gravel instead of sand and in 1972 it was incorporated into the state-owned company VEB Welsleben, and from January 1, 1975 into the VEB Sandgruben Pretzien (Elbe).

On December 31, 1976, the railway was finally shut down and then dismantled.

vehicles

Steam locomotives

designation	Axis formula	Manufacturer	Serial number	Construction year	annotation
MOLTKE	B n2t	Krauss	2193	1889	last boiler test 1924, deadline 1927, +1927 ?; Whereabouts unknown
BISMARCK	B n2t	Krauss		1889-1900	Whereabouts unknown
ROON	B n2t	Krauss		1889-1900	Whereabouts unknown
BLÜCHER	B n2t	Henschel		1902	Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown
EMPEROR	B n2t	Henschel		1912	Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown
number 1	B n2t	Hagans		1890	Whereabouts unknown
No. 2	B n2t	Hagans		1890	Whereabouts unknown
No. 3	B n2t	Hagans		1890	Whereabouts unknown
No. 4	B n2t	OK		1921-1925	Whereabouts unknown
No. 5	B n2t	OK		1921-1925	Whereabouts unknown
No. 6	B n2t	OK		1921-1925	Whereabouts unknown
No. 7	B n2t	Henschel		1925-1935	Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown
No. 8	B n2t	Henschel		1925-1935	Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown
No. 9	B n2t	Henschel		1925-1935	Type Monta ; Whereabouts unknown
without designation	B n2t	LKM		1951	Whereabouts unknown
99 4301	C n2t	OK	9418	1920	KJI No. 23, bought in 1965 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn; Monument locomotive Bf Gommern

Diesel locomotives

designation	power	Axis formula	Manufacturer	Serial number	Construction year	annotation
black	75 hp	Bo	The MA	1185	1944	DR Ko 6004 ; 1959 renovation; Bought by the DR in 1967; +1976 ++ 197x
dark green	40 hp	Bo	Young		1961	Type ZL 114
blue	30 hp	Bo	ČKD		1961
yellow	30 hp	Bo	Škoda		1965
brown	30 hp	Bo	LKM		1959	Type Ns 2h
green	60 hp	Bo	LKM	249161	1955	Type Ns 3f / d; Conversion with driver's cab and factory plate of LKM Ns 3d 249259/1959

literature

• Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archives of German small and private railways: Saxony-Anhalt . Transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-613-71087-0 .
• Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow Gauge Railway Archive. Transpress, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71405-2 (reprint of the 2nd edition 1982), pp. 226-229.
• Wolf-Dietger Machel : Gommern - Pretzien (Elbe). In: Wolf-Dietger Machel: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then & now. Basic work. Munich 1994, ISSN 0949-2143.

Web links

• Olav Fabricius, Klaus Lehnert, Peter Sommer: History of the Gommern-Pretzien Kleinbahn, pretzien.de (accessed March 6, 2018)
• Reinhard Taege: The historical picture: Pretzien depot of the "Gommern-Pretziener Kleinbahn", reinhard-taege.de (accessed on March 6, 2018)
• Martin Wollmann: Gommern-Pretziener Eisenbahn, shutdown.de (accessed on March 6, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolf-Dietger Machel: Gommern - Pretzien (Elbe). In: Wolf-Dietger Machel: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then & now. Basic work. Munich 1994, ISSN 0949-2143, p. 6
2. ↑ Traditionsverein Kleinbahn des Kreis Jerichow I eV: 99 4301, kj-1.de (accessed on March 6, 2018).