Annaburg – Prettin railway line
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| Route number (DB) : | 6828 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | DR: 178q | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 12.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Annaburg – Prettin line was a standard-gauge small railway in eastern Saxony-Anhalt , in what is now the Wittenberg district . In Annaburg , the railway had a connection to the Węgliniec – Roßlau line (State Railway Falkenberg (Elster) –Annaburg– Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Dessau-Roßlau ) and led to the town of Prettin, twelve kilometers away . The line was opened by the Prettin-Annaburger Kleinbahn AG on June 15, 1902 with an operating length of 12.5 kilometers.
Prettin-Annaburger Kleinbahn AG
The Prettin-Annaburger Kleinbahn AG , which operated as the Prettin-Annaburger Eisenbahn AG from 1943 , was founded on February 7, 1901. Co-founder and main shareholder was the company Paul Löser & Co in Berlin, which took over 77.4 percent of the shares. The remaining shares were held by the city of Prettin. Five years after the First World War (1923), 95 percent of the shares were in the hands of the Province of Saxony.
History and operation of the Prettin-Annaburger Kleinbahn
Freight traffic was opened on June 15, 1902 on the 12.5 km long, standard-gauge line; passenger traffic began on April 17, 1903. In Annaburg on the main line Falkenberg (Elster) –Rosslau (Elbe) , the Annaburg West small train station was about 600 meters from the state train station. From here the route led west to the small town of Prettin on the Elbe. There, a 1.7 kilometer long siding, which was only used for goods transport, connected the station with the port.
From July 12, 1920, operations were carried out by the small railway department of the Provincial Association of Saxony in Merseburg . After the nationalization in 1946, the Saxon Provincial Railways followed at the beginning of 1947 , on August 15, 1948 the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises (VVB) of the Saxony-Anhalt Transport System and finally, from April 1, 1949, the Deutsche Reichsbahn . This stopped the passenger traffic on May 27, 1961; the freight traffic was served - officially - until May 27, 1995. The shutdown took place on June 1, 1996.
In 1939, a steam locomotive, a diesel railcar, three passenger cars, a pack car and nine freight cars were available for the modest volume of traffic. On weekdays in 1944, five pairs of passenger trains ran every day and only carried the third class of car.
From 1983 a strategic railway to the Elbe branched off the Pratau – Torgau railway line at Dommitzsch : There the NVA practiced the pioneering construction of railway bridges over the Elbe until 1989 - the connection to the Prettin-Annaburg small railway was practiced.
Lore
The records relating to the Prettin-Annaburger Kleinbahn are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
literature
- Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archives of German small and private railways. Saxony-Anhalt. (Routes, vehicles, operations). Transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71087-0 .