Coal railway in partnership

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Coal railway in partnership
Route length: 5.6 km
Gauge : 900 mm ( narrow gauge )
Top speed: 12 km / h
Legend
   
 0.0 Coal mine "Alt-Zscherben" in partnership
   
 Loading station for the Halle-Hettstedter Railway
   
 Wild Saale
   
 Port railway hall
   
 Pawn workshop at the wood yard
   
 former manure ditch (today partially piped and filled in)
   
 5.6 Saltworks

The Coal Railway was in Halle (Saale) . The coal railway once supplied the fuel required for boiling the brine in Halle's saltworks in the form of lignite from the “Alt-Zscherben” pancake mine. The pit (today Friedhofsteich ) was then about halfway between the place Zscherben and Nietleben (today Halle-Neustadt ). The narrow-gauge railway (900 mm) was built from 1875 to 1876, was approx. 5.6 kilometers long and overcame a height difference of 37 meters. The maximum speed was limited to 12 km / h.

description

The route ran along the border between Nietleben and Passendorf . West of the Saale, it had a loading facility for the regular-gauge line of the Halle-Hettstedter Railway . After crossing the Wild Saale, a tributary of the Saale, the route crossed the Halle port railway . Unloading was also carried out at the Pfängenösslichen Kohlenplatz, a storage area in the area of ​​today's wood yard. On the way to the saltworks island, the route crossed the now partially piped and filled-in manure ditch, which at that time made the saltworks an independent island. Their end point was near the salt works.

Locomotives from Krauss & Comp. one, which was nicknamed "coffee funnel" because of their characteristic funnel-shaped chimneys.

Witnesses in kind

Memorial to the memory of the coal railway (not historical)

After the “Alt-Zscherben” mine, located southwest of today's Halle-Neustadt, had been decarburized, it was shut down and the daytime facilities demolished because the original condition had to be restored according to the construction contract. Today three wagons and a diesel locomotive (not historically) to the west of the saltworks are reminiscent of the former coal railway. You stand on a flood bridge over the former ditch. A steel lattice bridge, which is now used as a pipe bridge, has been preserved from the line structures .

literature

  • Partly printed map in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of January 21, 2012, p. 8.
  • Map in Olaf Thomsen: How Halle got rolling. Fly Head Verlag, Halle 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition texts from the special exhibition "175 Years of the Railway in Halle an der Saale" in the Technical Halloren and Saline Museum . Halle (Saale) 2015.
  2. ^ Association of the Lower Saale Valley Nature Park eV (ed.): Hiking routes in the Lower Saale Valley Nature Park, Dölau-Nietleben . Halle (Saale) - (no year).

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