Ohlauer Kleinbahn

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Ohlau grove
Course book range : 154f (1944)
Route length: 29.88 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
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from Wroclaw
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0.0 Ohlau district station
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1.4 Upper Silesian Railway
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3.0 Jätzdorf
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5.1 Giesdorf
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7.3 Göllnerhain / Goy
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8.7 Marschwitz
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11.5 Polwitz
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6.6 Weisdorf- Höckricht
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4.0 Wrinkles
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14.0
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15.3 Thomaskirch
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18.3 Cookers (Kr Ohlau)
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19.2 Raduschkowitz
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21.7 Large castle
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from Strehlau
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24.9 Small forest station
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to Wroclaw

The Ohlauer Kleinbahn AG opened up the middle of the Ohlau district in Silesia with its route and established a cross connection to the neighboring district.

history

Share over 1000 marks in Ohlauer Kleinbahn-AG from October 15, 1911

The former Prussian district of Ohlau and its district town were connected to the main line Breslau – Brieg – Opole by the Upper Silesian Railway Company in 1842 . After that, the railway network in the district was not expanded for almost seventy years. However, the state railway lines that were only opened in 1909 and 1910 only marginally affected the district.

In order to open up the west of the district, the Prussian state, the district and the city of Ohlau as well as a large number of communities, companies and private individuals founded a small railway company on February 26, 1910 . The railway construction company Lenz & Co GmbH also took part in it, which then built the line and took over the management. Passenger and freight traffic was opened on October 1, 1910.

Passenger traffic Ohlau-Wäldchen was discontinued in 1966, the lines closed on May 23, 1973.

route

The standard-gauge line began in the small train station Ohlau in a southerly direction and then turned west. Via Marschwitz it reached the operating center Thomaskirch, west of Kochern it left the district and after 25 kilometers in the district of Strehlen reached the small station Wäldchen, where the connection to the main line Breslau – Strehlen – Glatz was made. 1.3 kilometers from the Thomaskirch train station, a route to the south-east, mostly only used by freight traffic, branched off from November 15, 1910. It ended after five kilometers at the charging point Weisdorf-Höckricht; the planned extension to Wansen on the Brieg – Strehlen state railway and on to Grottkau was not implemented.

Before the First World War, the Ohlau – Wäldchen route was used by four pairs of trains every day; after that it was only two or three. In the 1930s and 1940s, operations were closed on Sundays. In the 1927 summer timetable, there was even a daily pair of trains between Thomaskirch and Höckricht, otherwise only freight trains ran there. The freight traffic was on the whole modest; only the sugar beet harvest brought a considerable volume of freight. In 1913/14 110,878 t of goods and 70,995 people were transported, the dividend was 4.5 percent. In the 1930s, only just under 20,000 people were transported, and due to the good volume of goods of around 100,000 t per year, dividends between four and five percent could be paid even then.

On January 23, 1945, the last train of the Kreisbahn, which brought employees and their families to Wäldchen, drove to Herzberg / Elster on the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn . Part of the route was blown up by German troops. After the end of the war, the Polish State Railways PKP took over the operation. Passenger trains were still running until 1966, and freight traffic continued for a few years.

In 1911, the Kleinbahn fleet comprised three three-axle steam locomotives ( Lenz type c ), four two-axle passenger cars, a mail / baggage car and 23 freight cars, and in 1939 three steam locomotives (one Lenz type c, one four-axle ELNA 6 , one three-axle ELNA 2 ), four passenger cars, one pack car and twenty freight cars. The Lenz type c steam locomotives with the numbers 1 to 3 were manufactured by the Vulcan locomotive factory and sold in 1931, 1937 and 1941. The ELNA 6 was built by BMAG in 1929 and came to the Ohlauer Kleinbahn in 1931. In 1949 it was given the number 92 6484 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the two ELNA 2 locomotives were built by Henschel in 1938 and 1941 . The 141 was given the number 91 6780 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1949. The 142 came to the PKP and was possibly listed as TKi 100-9.

Ohlauer Hafenbahn

Share over 1000 marks in Ohlauer Hafenbahn- und Lagerei-AG from July 1921

Independently of the Ohlauer Kleinbahn, the Ohlau district founded the Ohlauer Hafenbahn und Lagerei AG on November 24, 1917 together with a bank and several commercial, industrial and agricultural companies .

The Oderhafen in Ohlau and the port railway there, as well as a sand-lime brick factory, belonged to it.

The main shareholder in 1943 was the Schlesische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG in Beuthen with 60%.

literature

  • Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia . Bufe, Egglham 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3
  • Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8

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