Muldenthal Railway Company
The Muldenthal Railway Company was a private railway company in Saxony . She was the owner and operator of the Muldental running railway Glauchau Wurzen .
history
As early as 1860, a central committee was founded in Penig with the aim of building a railway from Glauchau to Wurzen. In 1864 the Saxon assembly of estates granted permission to build a railway from Leipzig via the Mulde valley to Chemnitz. Since there was no private company for this, a permit was granted in 1868 to build a railway from Glauchau via Wurzen to the Saxon- Prussian border.
On March 12, 1872, the Muldenthal Railway Company was founded, which on April 29, 1872 received the concession to build and operate the railway between Glauchau and Wurzen. The concession for the section from Wurzen to the state border was not granted because the continuation of the line in Prussia was not guaranteed.
The line was commissioned in several steps:
- May 10, 1875: from Glauchau to Penig
- December 9, 1875: from Rochlitz to Großbothen
- May 29, 1876: from Penig to Rochlitz
- June 30, 1877: from Großbothen to Wurzen
Due to financial difficulties, the railway company was taken over by the Royal Saxon State Railways on August 1, 1878 .
literature
- Manfred Berger: The Muldenthal Railway. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70907-0 .
- Steffen Kluttig: Railway history in the Muldenland. The Rochlitz railway junction and its sand railways . Bildverlag Böttger, Witzschdorf 2003, ISBN 3-9808250-4-3 .