Lower Ore Mountains State Railway
The Niedererzgebirgische Staatsbahn was a state railway in Saxony that existed from 1851 to 1858. It included the Riesa – Chemnitz line and its extension to Zwickau with the branch line to Gößnitz .
history
The Niedererzgebirgische Staatsbahn goes back to the Chemnitz-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which was taken over by the state on December 30, 1850 due to insolvency. The state took over the construction of the unfinished route and put it fully into operation on September 1, 1852. The administration was taken over by the Royal Directorate of the Chemnitz-Riesa State Railroad , initially based in Döbeln, and later in Chemnitz. Railway director was Woldemar von Biedermann .
Under the direction of the Saxon state, the line was extended to Zwickau from 1855 in order to establish a connection to the Zwickau and Lugau-Oelsnitz coalfields . When the new line went into operation on November 15, 1858, the previous Royal Directorate of the Chemnitz-Riesa State Railway was dissolved. Their tasks were taken over by the Royal Directorate of the Saxon-Bavarian State Railways in Leipzig, which from then on was run as the Royal Directorate of the Western State Railways . The Niedererzgebirgische Staatsbahn thus ceased to exist as an independent organizational unit. For a while, the routes were still referred to as the Niedererzgebirgische Linie, until the Chemnitz – Zwickau section was included in the new, continuous Dresden – Werdau main line ("DW Line") with the completion of the Freiberg – Flöha line.
Locomotives and wagons
In 1851 the Niedererzgebirgische Bahn took over six double-coupled locomotives from the Chemnitz-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, which had been delivered by Stephenson in England in 1846. They were named STEIGER, ELBE, MULDE, RIESA, FREISCHÜTZ and CHEMNITZ . In 1869 they were classified as St III, and from 1871 into St II. They were retired by 1880.
In 1853 the State Railroad acquired another locomotive of a similar design from Borsig in Berlin , which was named WALDHEIM . Further locomotives came from the local supplier Hartmann in Chemnitz, who delivered a total of 12 locomotives of various types to the Lower Ore Mountains State Railways from 1852 to 1858.
literature
- Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .