Mülheimer Kleinbahnen

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Mülheimer Kleinbahnen AG
legal form AG
resolution 1933
Seat City of Mülheim am Rhein , Germany

The Mülheim Kleinbahnen AG had a transport company, which has risen in the tracks of Cologne 1,933th

history

The city ​​of Mülheim am Rhein , which was incorporated into the city of Cologne (then still spelled Cöln) on April 1, 1914, had around 50,000 inhabitants at that time. Public transport served - except the railroad - from 10 September 1879 a horse tram line to Deutz, the railway companies equine Cologne Ernst Hardt & Co. for operation.

When this became the property of the city of Cologne on January 1, 1900, this hindered the city of Mülheim's intention to build its own tram network.

The plans of the city of Mülheim were supported by a consortium in which the Elektrizitäts-AG formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. (EAG) from Frankfurt am Main and the local construction company Kitterle had merged. EAG founded Mülheimer Kleinbahnen AG on May 1, 1908, together with Bernhard Salomon , the longstanding General Director of the Lahmeyer Group .

The corporation built and operated trams in the city of Mülheim am Rhein, which had been largely leased to the city of Cologne since 1910. The AG only had two suburban railways that ran beyond the city limits to Schlebusch and Opladen.

Although Mülheim was incorporated into Cologne in 1914, the private Mülheimer Kleinbahnen AG was initially able to maintain its independence. It was not until August 13, 1933 that it became the property of the city of Cologne's railways . The company was liquidated on March 27, 1934.

Further details on the development of the tram network can be found in the article Cologne-Mülheim .

statistical data

  • Statistics of the small railways in the German Reich for 1914. Berlin 1916.
  • Handbook of German trams, small railways and private railways. Berlin 1928.

Route network 1928: 25. km (18.5 km single-track and 6.6 km double-track)

1. City lines in Mülheim (born August 14, 1903)

    • a) Danzierstrasse - Dammstrasse - Gladbacher Strasse 2.3 km
    • b) Deutzer Freiheit - Berliner Straße - Schlachthof - city limits 3.7 km
    • c) Wilhelmstrasse - Höhenberg 4.3 km
    • d) Circuit 3.3 km

2. Tram Mülheim - Dünnwald (2.5 km) - Schlebusch (11.6 km - 4.3) = 7.3 km

  • July 5, 1913 to Dünnwald / September 15, 1928 to Schlebusch

3. Kleinbahn Mülheim, Rheinwerft - Leverkusen - Wiesdorf - Opladen 13.1 km

  • March 19, 1906 to Wiesdorf / October 1, 1907 to Opladen

Vehicle fleet: 1928: 20 railcars, 25 sidecars and 8 special cars

Small train of the community of Schlebusch

Small train of the community of Schlebusch
Route length: 3.5 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Mülheimer Kleinbahnen AG was also the owner and operator of the Schlebusch small electric railway, which was opened for passenger transport on December 20, 1903, and of which the Schlebusch community held the license. The standard-gauge line connected the center of Schlebusch with the Schlebusch train station on the Manfort area on the Cologne – Opladen railway line . The Reich Course Book of 1914 (209 S) names the following stations:

  • 0.0 Schlebusch train station
  • 0.2 Schlebusch-Manfort
  • 3.5 Schlebusch Odenthaler Strasse,

which were served by 19 pairs of trains on weekdays and by 22 train pairs on Sundays.

Freight traffic has also been served since January 5, 1906: Freight wagons from long-distance traffic (Troisdorf - Mülheim - Speldorf line of the former Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ) were taken over at the newly created transfer station of the Schlebuscher Kleinbahn west of Morsbroich station . Since the transport of goods was mainly based on the operation of a carbonite factory, it almost came to a standstill after the end of the First World War and the entire operation was shut down on November 1, 1922. Two electric locomotives, three railcars and three sidecars were available for him.

literature

  • Friedhelm Ernst, Gerhard Boisserée: The Cologne suburban railways until 1939. In: Tram magazine , No. 5 (May 1972), p. #.
  • 100 years of the Cologne Transport Company 1877–1877. In: Tram Magazine , No. 24 (May 1977), p. #.
  • Dieter Höltge, Axel Reuther: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 7: Cologne - Düren - Aachen. Freiburg 2001.