Pozsony Országhatárszéli Helyiérdekű Villamos Vasút
The Pozsony Országhatárszéli Helyiérdekű Villamos Vasút , abbreviated POHÉ.V. , was a railway company founded in the Kingdom of Hungary with its headquarters in today's Slovak capital Bratislava , called Pozsony in Hungarian until 1919 .
history
In the course of the detailed planning for the Pressburger Bahn it turned out that the Austrian company Lokalbahn Wien-Pressburg (LWP), founded in 1904, could not operate a railway in Hungary for legal and political reasons. Then as established licensee occurring City Pozsony on 23 December 1909 under Hungarian law the corporation Pozsony Országhatárszéli Helyiérdekű Villamos Vasút to German Electric local railway Bratislava-border . The Austrian subsidiary in turn operated from then on as the Electric Local Railway Vienna-State Border near Hainburg .
So that the operation could be organized uniformly, both companies concluded an operating agreement, on the basis of which the entire route could ultimately be operated by the Austrian company. Ultimately, however, it did not take over the operation on the line opened in 1914 itself, but instead commissioned the Niederösterreichische Landesbahnen (NÖLB) to do so .
As a result of the assignment of Upper Hungary to the newly founded Czechoslovakia was renamed the POHÉ.V. from 1920 as Lokálnej Elektrickej Železnice Bratislava-Zemská Hranica , BZH for short After the NÖLB also got into financial difficulties due to the aftermath of the First World War , the municipal Bratislavská mestská elektrická železnica (BME Elektrická úč.) took over on May 1, 1921 - from 1922 Bratislavská elektrická úč spoločnosť (BEÚ.S.), the operation of the Czechoslovak section of the Bratislava Railway.
In 1928, the BZH was renamed again and from then on operated under the name Elektrická lokálna železnica Bratislava-krajinská hranica , or BKH for short.From 1935, BEÚ.S. Majority shareholder of the BKH After the Sudetenland became part of the German Reich in autumn 1939, the suburb of Petržalka also belonged to it. The business basis of the BKH ceased to exist, which is why it decided to liquidate it on December 12, 1940, which took place on December 31, 1942.