Liegnitz-Rawitscher Railway

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Liegnitz-Rawitscher Eisenbahngesellschaft
preference share A from 1898

The Liegnitz-Rawitscher Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (LRE) was founded on May 25, 1897 by the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and the banker Bleichröder . The AG for Transport , which belongs to the Lenz Group, was also involved, in 1940 with 38 percent of the capital.

history

The purpose of the company was to build and operate a full-gauge secondary railway from the Lower Silesian district capital Liegnitz (66,000 inhabitants) in a north-easterly direction via Steinau, where the Oder was crossed, to the district town of Rawitsch with 11,500 inhabitants in the south of the then Prussian province of Posen . Here the Lissa – Breslau railway was crossed ; Then it went further east until the main Ostrowo – Lissa line was reached in Kobylin in what was then the district of Krotoschin .

The company run by Lenz & Co GmbH was opened on February 5, 1898 on the 113 km long route. From May 17, 1898, two short branch lines branched off from the Görchen station between Rawitsch and Kobylin, one south to Pakoswalde and the other north to Gostkowo, from where the trains continued on the Gostyner Kreisbahn via Kröben to Gostyn . The LRE and thus Lenz & Co were also responsible for the operation of the circular railway.

Passenger traffic was only started on the two branch lines on October 1, 1898. The LRE network thus covered 129 km. The LRE was particularly important for the transport of agricultural products. From September 1, 1900, a three-kilometer freight railway to the railway's own Oder harbor in Steinau also served this purpose.

After the First World War, the Poznan Province fell to the Republic of Poland. The seat of the LRE was moved from Rawitsch to Liegnitz and in 1932 to Berlin. From then on, their trains ended at Wehrse station, almost four kilometers from the new border at Rawitsch. The total length of the routes was now only 75 km.

The eastern part and the two branch lines - a total of 54 km - lay on Polish territory from 1920 and were sold to Poland by contract dated February 12, 1925, where they were taken over by a new company - the Rawicz – Kobyliner Railway. After a temporary interruption, an LRE train crossed the border to Rawitsch once a day. Lenz & Co was also involved in the management on the Polish side. During the Second World War, the LRE again ran continuous passenger trains from Liegnitz to Rawitsch. The subsequent line to Kobylin now belonged to the Reichsbahn.

stretch

a) Liegnitz – Rawitsch – Kobylin

  • 0.0 Liegnitz Nord (formerly: secondary station)
  • 1.8 Pfaffendorf (near Liegnitz) (freight traffic only)
  • 5.0 pant
  • 9.0 Bienowitz (1939: Bienau)
  • 11.3 post signs
  • 16.3 Parchwitz (Kr Liegnitz)
  • 22.7 Bielwiese
  • 26.2 Porschwitz
  • 33.0 Steinau (Oder)
  • 36.9 Ibsdorf
  • 40.9 Krehlau
  • 45.7 Kaschewen (Kr Wohlau) (freight traffic only)
  • 49.4 tiny
  • 53.2 Piskorsine (1939: Kirchlinden)
  • 54.2 Akreschfronze (Kr Guhrau) (freight traffic only)
  • 56.9 Groß Tschuder (1939: Steinbrück / Silesia)
  • 60.7 Herrnstadt
  • 62.8 Gurkau b. Herrnstadt (freight traffic only)
  • 65.6 Tscheschkowitz-Bienowitz (1939: Eichenhag)
  • 71.0 weirs
  • 74.1 Woidnig (freight traffic only)
  • 74.5 Wehrse state border (no stop)
  • 79.9 Rawitsch State Railway Station
  • 83.2 Rawitsch Ostbahnhof
  • 86.7 Sarne (Sarnowa)
  • 90.2 Görchen (Miejska Gorka)
  • 94.3 Sobialkowo (1941: Altrecht)
  • 97.2 Oczkowice (1944: Osthofen / Wartheland)
  • 99.9 Dlonie (1941: free hooves)
  • 105.4 Jutroschin (1941: Orlahöh) (1944: Horlen)
  • 109.0 Smolitz (1944: Zietenfelde)
  • 113.0 Kobylin (1944: Koppelstädt)

b) Gostkowo – Görchen – Pakoswalde

  • 0.0 Gostkowo (1941: Bitterfelde; 1944: Bittershof)
  • 3,6 Roszkowko (1941: Kleinraschkau; 1944: Raschhof)
  • 7.1 Görchen (Miejska Gorka)
  • 11.8 Chojno (1941: Kiefernrode)
  • 16.1 Pakoswalde (1941: Pakswalde) (1944: Packswalde)

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