Patzetz – Breitenhagen horse-drawn tram

Patzetz-Breitenhagen

Route length:

11.5 km

		from Leipzig
	0.0	Sachsendorf train station
		to Magdeburg
		from Bernburg-Dröbel
	2.3	Patzetz , place
		Goods connection
		Groß Rosenburg , Mühlhäuser
	6.9	Groß Rosenburg, depot
		depot
		Alte Zerbster Straße (junction)
		Klein Rosenburg
	11.5	Breitenhagen , entrance to the village

The horse tram Patzetz-Breitenhagen was a horse-drawn tram company in the districts of Patzetz , Groß Rosenburg and Breitenhagen in what is now Barby in Saxony-Anhalt .

history

The transport links for the municipalities of Patzetz, Groß Rosenburg, Breitenhagen and the Klein Rosenburg domain, which were independent in the 19th century, consisted of a post office and a forwarding agency. In order to improve the connection, the state train station Patzetz - today's Sachsendorf train station - was opened in 1883. Groß Rosenburg, seven kilometers away, and the Klein Rosenburg domain nine kilometers away, as well as the municipality of Patzetz, voted in early 1884 for the construction of a railway line between the villages, which was to be designed with a gauge of 600 millimeters and operated as a horse-drawn tram. Construction work began in the spring of 1884 and on October 3 of that year the line from Patzetz train station via Patzetz and Groß Rosenburg to Klein Rosenburg was opened. The railway belonged to the domain Klein Rosenburg. In addition to goods, people in demand traffic, mainly agricultural workers of the domain and employees of the neighboring communities, were transported.

Around 1900 a line from Groß Rosenburg to Breitenhagen was built. A brick loading ramp was built at the terminus at the entrance to Breitenhagen. In 1907 a depot was set up in Groß Rosenburg on the property at Alte Zerbster Strasse 5, which was connected by a turntable . In the same year, the freight forwarder Reicherdt began regular public passenger and freight traffic on the route. Every day there were two trips from Patzetz station to Breitenhagen and two more trips to Groß Rosenburg, depot. The travel time for the 11.5 kilometers long route was 70 minutes. A trip cost 20 pfennigs per person.

On October 1, 1922, horse-drawn tram traffic was stopped. The Dröbel sugar factory, whose steam-powered factory railway had already been using the horse-drawn railway tracks since September 1920, took over the track systems and vehicles and continued to operate the railway as a light railway for goods traffic until 1954. In 1954, the last systems of the former horse-drawn railway were dismantled and scrapped. The section from Groß Rosenburg to the brickworks in Klein Rosenburg continued to be operated as a separate field railway from 1921/22 with benzol locomotives from the brickworks and was not shut down until 1935.

vehicles

Initially, the railway owned a horse-drawn tram for transporting people in need, a baggage car and freight carts. In 1907, a combined passenger and baggage car with eight seats was procured for regular passenger traffic. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the vehicles after 1950.

literature

Helmut Franz, Joachim Mensdorf: Groß Rosenburg. In: Bauer (Hrsg.): Tram archive volume 6. transpress VEB Verlag für Eisenbahnwesen, Berlin 1986, pp. 77-80.