Upper Silesian Railway

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Map of Upper Silesia 1905

The Oberschlesische Eisenbahn AG (OSE) was a private railway founded in Prussia in 1841 . They built the standard-gauge main line Breslau - Kosel - Myslowitz , which was completed in 1847 .

From 1851–1855, a narrow-gauge network was built by it with the 785 mm gauge used previously by several works railways in the Upper Silesian coal mining area.

Main line

Railway map of Germany and neighboring countries 1849. Thinly marked routes were only planned or under construction.

Operating history

At the former Upper Silesian train station in Wrocław (Breslau)

The section from Breslau to Ohlau went into operation on April 1, 1842, the Kosel train station in Kandrzin was reached in November 1845, Gleiwitz in October 1846, Myslowitz on October 18, 1847.

From 1855 Albert Maybach was employed as State Commissioner for the Upper Silesian Railway.

In 1856 the OSE opened an additional line from Breslau to Posen (Poznań) and took over the management of the Stargard-Poznan Railway to the north .

In 1857 the Prussian state took over the railroad operations on all full-gauge lines of the OSE on their account, on July 1, 1886 it became its property.

Historical meaning

In the middle of the 19th century, the line was a core part of the European railway network. On the one hand, it had a connection to Berlin and the north-western European rail network via the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway, which was completed in 1846 . On the other hand, it was connected to the Austrian Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn to Vienna via the Kraków-Oberschlesische Eisenbahn (October 13, 1847) and the Wilhelmsbahn's Cosel – Oderberg line (September 1, 1848) . From 1848 the Warsaw-Vienna Railway in the Russian Congress Poland was also connected to the Kraków-Upper Silesian Railway .

Route

Timetable of the Upper Silesian Railway shortly after the connection to Austria opened

In 1847 the trains took 6½ hours to cover the 196.3 km route. Today the section between Wrocław and Opole is part of the PKP route No. 132 ( Bytom ( Bytom ) (interrupted) - Pyskowice (Peiskretscham) - Opole - Wrocław) and the main European axis E 30. The section from Opole to Kędzierzyn-Koźle forms the Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Opole railway , the section from Kędzierzyn-Koźle to Katowice is part of the PKP route No. 137 (Katowice - Legnica ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ottmann: Albert von Maybach . In: Men of the German administration. Cologne 1963, pp. 181-194 (184).