Polkwitz-Raudtener Kleinbahn
The Polkowice-Raudtener Kleinbahn AG closed the Silesian town of army ways , which until 1937 was called Polkwitz on to the rail network.
history
At the end of the 19th century, the small town of Polkwitz in the south of the Glogau district was still without a rail link. Therefore, the Prussian state founded a small railway company with the city and the United Railway Construction and Operating Company on May 3, 1899 under the name Polkwitz-Raudtener Kleinbahn AG.
On April 13, 1900, this opened a standard-gauge railway line 17 kilometers in length. It began at Raudten station (later: Raudten-Queissen) in the Lüben district on the main Glogau – Breslau line and ran west to Polkwitz, where the line ended on the eastern edge of the city.
Until the end of 1909, the company was run by the United Railway Construction and Operating Company from Berlin, which still owned 70 percent of the share capital in 1940. Then the Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft took over the management itself.
After the town of Polkwitz was renamed Heerwegen in 1937, the Kleinbahn company was called Heerwegen-Raudtener Kleinbahn AG from November 17, 1938 .
Passenger traffic was always modest. In 1914 three pairs of trains were still on the route every day, but since the 1920s only two have remained in service; In addition, traffic was idle on Sundays in the 1930s and 1940s. The cause was a postal service that ran twice a day from Polkwitz / Heerwegen directly to Glogau.
In 1939 the vehicle fleet comprised three steam locomotives as well as two passenger, pack and freight cars.
route
- 0.0 Raudten-Queissen (until 1935: Raudten)
- 2.5 Raudten halt (1914: Raudten city)
- 5.5 Polach
- 8.4 Barschau
- 11.1 Tarnau-Küßenick (1939: Eichbach)
- 17.6 Polkwitz (1937: Heerwegen)
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 ( East German Railway History 4).